Category: Travel

On an uninhabited island in uncharted seas explorers have found traces of a great civilization. Now you will lead an expedition to explore the island find lost artifacts and face fearsome guardians all in a quest to learn the island's secrets.Lost Ruins of Arnak combines deck-building and worker placement in a game of exploration resource management and discovery. In addition to traditional deck-builder effects cards can also be used to place workers and new worker actions become available as players explore the island. Some of these actions require resources instead of workers so building a solid resource base will be essential. You are limited to only one action per turn so make your choice carefully... what action will benefit you most now? And what can you afford to do later... assuming someone else doesn't take the action first!?Decks are small and randomness in the game is heavily mitigated by the wealth of tactical decisions offered on the game board. With a variety of worker actions artifacts and equipment cards the set-up for each game will be unique encouraging players to explore new strategies to meet the challenge.Discover the Lost Ruins of Arnak!—description from the publisher

During the medieval goings-on around Orléans you must assemble a following of farmers merchants knights monks etc. to gain supremacy through trade construction and science in medieval France.In Orléans you will recruit followers and put them to work to make use of their abilities. Farmers and Boatmen supply you with money and goods; Knights expand your scope of action and secure your mercantile expeditions; Craftsmen build trading stations and tools to facilitate work; Scholars make progress in science; Traders open up new locations for you to use your followers; and last but not least it cannot hurt to get active in monasteries since with Monks on your side you are much less likely to fall prey to fate.You will always want to take more actions than possible and there are many paths to victory. The challenge is to combine all elements as best as possible with regard to your strategy.

When all you can identify in the horizon for many long days is the line that detaches the sea from the sky the glimpse of a distant shore appearing before you will make you shiver at the understanding that the adventure is about to begin.You find yourself astonished landing on the shore that will be the origin of an extensive exploration through the Galapagos a magic place of inconceivable beauty and endless biodiversity. There you will gather repertoires and expand your knowledge of the natural sciences. Your eyes will learn how to detect the hidden species in the tropical forest gazing at the countless colors and textures of nature. After inspiring hours spent studying and getting to enlightening conclusions you will rest under a sparkling sky admiring the stunning complexity of the animal realm.Darwin's Journey is a worker-placement Eurogame in which players recall Charles Darwin's memories of his adventure through the Galapagos islands which contributed to the development of his theory of evolution.With the game's innovative worker progression system each worker will have to study the disciplines that are a prerequisite to perform several actions in the game such as exploration correspondence gathering and dispatch of repertoires found on the island to museums in order to contribute to the human knowledge of biology. The game lasts five rounds and thanks to several short- and long-term objectives every action you take will grant victory points in different ways.

In 1271 17-year-old Marco Polo started on a journey to China with his father and older brother. After a long and grueling journey that led through Jerusalem and Mesopotamia and over the Silk Road they reached the court of Kublai Khan in 1275.In The Voyages of Marco Polo players recreate this journey with each player having a different character from history with a special power in the game. The game is played over five rounds. Each round the players roll their five personal dice and take turns performing actions by placing their dice onto the board. Players may choose from a variety of actions each require the use of one or more dice: collecting resources or money acquiring contracts traveling on the map or using a special action granted by a city. When traveling each player begins at Venice and can decide between several routes eastward all the way to Beijing. When a player stops at a city they place a trading post there giving them access to extra actions or resources for the rest of the game. The higher the value of the dice used for an action the better the options that may be chosen but also the more money the player must pay if an opponent has already chosen the same action.After five rounds the game ends with players receiving extra victory points for having trading posts in Beijing fulfilling the most contracts and having trading posts in the cities on secret goal cards that each player gets at the start of the game.This game should not be confused with Marco Polo Expedition which has the same German title.

Across the globe ancient evil is stirring. Now you and your trusted circle of colleagues must travel around the world working against all odds to hold back the approaching horror. Foul monsters brutal encounters and obscure mysteries will take you to your limit and beyond. All the while you and your fellow investigators must unravel the otherworldy mysteries scattered around the globe in order to push back the gathering mayhem that threatens to overwhelm humanity. The end draws near! Do you have the courage to prevent global destruction?Eldritch Horror is a co-operative game of terror and adventure in which one to eight players take the roles of globetrotting investigators working to solve mysteries gather clues and protect the world from an Ancient One – that is an elder being intent on destroying our world. Each Ancient One comes with its own unique decks of Mystery and Research cards which draw you deeper into the lore surrounding each loathsome creature. Discover the true name of Azathoth or battle Cthulhu on the high seas.While the tasks on these Mystery cards (along with the locations of otherworldly gates menacing monsters and helpful clues) will often inform both your travel plans and the dangers you confront you can find adventure anywhere in the world...even where you least expect it. It is during the Encounter Phase of each turn that players resolve combat or alternatively build their investigators' personal stories by reading an encounter narrative from one of several types of Encounter cards. You might go head to head with a monster in Istanbul or find yourself in a tough spot with the crime syndicate in a major city. Maybe you will embark on an expedition to the Pyramids or research a clue you uncover in the unnamed wilderness. You may even find your way through a gate and explore a dimension beyond time and space.Should you fail an encounter the cost is steep. If you are fortunate you will merely incur physical or mental trauma. However you might also be compelled to take a Condition card which represents a specific injury or restriction gained throughout your journey such as a Leg Injury or Amnesia. You could find yourself getting in over your head to acquire assets and receive a Debt condition – or maybe you'll owe a favor to something far more insidious than a debt collector and enter into a Dark Pact! Whatever your condition you would be wise to find a resolution with haste; many conditions have a reckoning effect which if triggered ensure a much more sinister fate.All the while the arrival of the Ancient One approaches. Its malign influence is manifested in Eldritch Horror as you draw Mythos Cards which govern the appearance of otherworldly gates fearsome monsters and other ominous elements. Mythos cards keep your investigators under pressure introducing new threats even as the arrival of the Great Old One draws nearer! Since the investigators draw a new Mythos card each round they're certain to have their hands full battling foul creatures and following up on strange rumors even as they work to solve their three all-important mysteries.With twelve unique investigators two hundred-fifty tokens and over three hundred cards Eldritch Horror presents an epic world-spanning adventure with each and every game.

PARKS is a celebration of the US National Parks featuring illustrious art from Fifty-Nine Parks.In PARKS players will take on the role of two hikers as they trek through different trails across four seasons of the year. While on the trail these hikers will take actions and collect memories of the places your hikers visit. These memories are represented by various resource tokens like mountains and forests. Collecting these memories in sets will allow players to trade them in to visit a National Park at the end of each hike.Each trail represents one season of the year and each season the trails will change and grow steadily longer. The trails represented by tiles get shuffled in between each season and laid out anew for the next round. Resources can be tough to come by especially when someone is at the place you’re trying to reach! Campfires allow you to share a space and time with other hikers. Canteens and Gear can also be used to improve your access to resources through the game. It’ll be tough to manage building up your engine versus spending resources on parks but we bet you’re up to the challenge. Welcome to PARKS!—description from the publisher

The journeys of Marco Polo continue in Marco Polo II: In the Service of the Khan an epic follow-up to The Voyages of Marco Polo. After traveling to Beijing your travels now take you back to the West in the service of the Khan sending you to the farthest reaches of his empire in search of wealth and fame.Marco Polo II is a standalone game based on The Voyages of Marco Polo and you don't need the original game to play this one. This new journey will present unique challenges with new and different actions new scoring rules and a new good: rare and valuable Chinese jade.Retread old paths with renewed purpose or find new ones as you explore farther west continuing to build the immortal legacy of Marco Polo!—description from the publisher

Forgotten Waters is a Crossroads Game set in a world of fantastical pirate adventure. In it players take on the role of pirates sailing together on a ship attempting to further their own personal stories as well as a common goal.The world of Forgotten Waters is silly and magical with stories designed to encourage players to explore and laugh in delight as they interact with the world around them. It's a game in which every choice can leave a lasting impact on the story and players will want turn over every rock just to see what they find.Forgotten Waters features five scenarios and a massive location book that provides players with tons of choices wherever they go.—description from the publisher

The middle of the 17th century was a period of great changes; with the advent of the scientific method came what we now call the Scientific Revolution. Many great scientists with their theories and ideas changed and shaped our perception of the universe: Galileo Galilei Copernicus Kepler Bacon and above all Sir Isaac Newton.In Newton the players take the role of a young scientist who wants to become one of the great geniuses of this era. To reach their ultimate goal they travel around Europe visit universities and cities study to discover new theories build new tools and work to earn money.The game is played over six rounds. Each round every player plays five cards from their hand and each played card allows the player to perform one of the many actions of the game. An action can have a variety of effects which depend on the symbols on the board. At the end of the round a player can take back all the cards except for one. One card has to remain on the board which means that you give up one possibility of doing that action but also that that very action will be carried out with greater strength. Fortunately you can acquire new cards with additional powers to perform more actions.After six rounds you calculate your final score and the player with the most VP wins.The New Edition includes: - Newton: Great Discoveries Expansion - Newton: Robert Hooke Promo Card - Newton: Stephen Hawking Promo Card Any other promos are not included.—description from the publisherUPC 889696009043

China 1570. China is under the reign of the Longqing Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. He inherited a country in disarray after years of mismanagement and corruption. He resided in the Forbidden city which was the seat of many emperors under the Ming Dynasty. Constructed from 1406 to 1420 the complex consists of 980 buildings and covers 72 ha (over 180 acres). It is also under the Ming Dynasty that the Great Wall of China was rebuilt fortified and expanded. Around this period China was under heavy attack from the Mongols so maintaining the Great Wall was essential. Most of what we now have left of the Great Wall we owe to the Ming dynasty.The country was already famous for its very intricate bureaucracy but this also led to a lot of corruption. Even though the penalties for corruption were very high the highest Officials of the Forbidden City would pretend to uphold the ban on corruption by accepting gifts of petitioners and returning one of seemingly lower value.Gùgōng uses this extraordinary custom as its basis. Players take on the role of powerful Chinese families trying to gain influence and power by exchanging gifts with Officials. The gift cards you offer as a player have to be of a higher value than the one you receive forcing you to make strategic choices regarding which actions you want to take each turn. You will travel around China sail down the Grand Canal purchase precious jade help construct the Great Wall secure advantages through decrees influence the game through intrigue and ultimately receive an audience with the emperor. If only 1 player succeeds in doing so he wins. If several players succeed the player with the most VPs among those players wins the game.—description from the publisher

Players begin with a ship and travel from planet to planet hiring crew purchasing ship upgrades and picking up cargo to deliver (jobs) all in the form of cards. Some crew and cargo are illegal and can be confiscated if your ship is boarded by an alliance vessel. Travelling from planet to planet requires turning over full burn cards one for each space moved. Most do nothing but you can also encounter an Alliance ship have a breakdown or even run into Reavers. Completing jobs gets you cash. First player to complete the story goals wins.Game description from the publisher:In Firefly: The Game – based on the popular Firefly television series created by Joss Whedon – players captain their own Firefly-class transport ship traveling the 'Verse with a handpicked crew of fighters mechanics and other travelers. As a captain desperate for work players are compelled to take on any job — so long as it pays. Double-dealing employers heavy-handed Alliance patrols and marauding Reavers are all in a day's work for a ship's captain at the edge of the 'Verse. Firefly: The Game is a high-end thematic tabletop boardgame from Gale Force Nine (GF9) and the first in a series of tabletop hobby board games and miniatures games from GF9 set in the Firefly Universe.

In Let's Go! To Japan you are a traveler planning then experiencing your own dream vacation to Japan.The game consists of thirteen rounds in which players draw activity cards illustrated by Japan-based artists and strategically place them in different days in their week-long itinerary. These can't-miss tourist attractions will have you bouncing between Tokyo and Kyoto as you try to puzzle out the optimal activities to maximize your experience while balancing your resources. The game ends with a final round in which you ultimately go on your planned trip activating each of your cards in order along the way.The player who collects the most points by the end of their trip wins!-description from designer

In Tokaido each player is a traveler crossing the East sea road one of the most magnificent roads of Japan. While traveling you will meet people taste fine meals collect beautiful items discover great panoramas and visit temples and wild places but at the end of the day when everyone has arrived at the end of the road you'll have to be the most initiated traveler – which means that you'll have to be the one who discovered the most interesting and varied things.The potential action spaces in Tokaido are laid out on a linear track with players advancing down this track to take actions. The player who is currently last on the track takes a turn by advancing forward on the track to their desired action and taking that action so players must choose whether to advance slowly in order to get more turns or to travel more rapidly to beat other players to their desired action spaces.The action spaces allow a variety of actions that will score in different but roughly equal ways. Some action spaces allow players to collect money while others offer players a way to spend that money to acquire points. Other action spaces allow players to engage in various set collections that score points for assembling those sets. Some action spaces simply award players points for stopping on them or give the player a randomly determined action from all of the other types.All of the actions in Tokaido are very simple and combined with a unique graphic design Tokaido offers players a peaceful zen mood in its play.

In Santa Monica you are trying to create the most appealing neighborhood in southern California. Will you choose to create a calm quiet beach focused on nature a bustling beach full of tourists or something in-between to appeal to the locals?Each turn you draft a feature card from the display to build up either your beach or your street. These features work together to score you victory points. The player with the most points wins!—description from the publisherGerman: In Santa Monica versuchst du den attraktivsten Strandabschnitt in Südkalifornien zu schaffen. Entscheide dich für einen ruhigen stillen Strand der sich auf die Natur konzentriert einen belebten Strand voller Touristen oder etwas dazwischen das die Einheimischen anspricht?In jedem Zug ziehst du eine Spielkarte aus der Auslage um entweder den Strand oder die Straße in deinem Abschnitt zu erweitern. Aber nur wenn Straße und Strand aufeinander abgestimmt sind bekommst du genügend Siegpunkte um das Spiel zu gewinnen!—Beschreibung des Herausgebers

It is the late 1930s and the world is in turmoil. Humanity is on the brink of war as imperialist nations in the Far East and Europe work aggressively to expand their domination. The Nazis have taken control of Germany and now spread darkness across the globe in their hunt for powerful occult artifacts that can give them the upper hand in the days to come. But the spirit of adventure and freedom won't be stamped out so easily. Heroic adventurers from around the world answer the call racing against time to hunt down ancient artifacts explore deadly temples and fight back the powers of darkness from engulfing the world in flames. It is a race of good versus evil and only a cunning and agile explorer can claim the ultimate prize of... Fortune and Glory!Fortune and Glory: The Cliffhanger Game is a fast-paced game of high adventure vile villains edge-of-your-seat danger and cliffhanger pulp movie action. Players take on the role of a treasure hunter traveling the globe in search of ancient artifacts and fending off danger and villains at every turn in a quest for the ultimate reward of fortune and glory! So strap on your adventure boots and goggles fire up the engines on the seaplane and grab some extra ammo for your revolver...the Nazis already have a head start and in this race for fortune and glory and there's no prize for second place!

You're living the dream. You're in a band and they’re about to go on tour. It's your job to schedule the band's stops over your 100-day tour visiting as many states as possible.Each turn in On Tour two ten-sided dice are rolled to make two two-digit numbers. For example a roll of 3 and 7 creates the numbers 37 and 73. All players write each of those numbers in a state on their map. The regions they can write in are restricted by three cards turned up in the middle of the table.At the end of the game each player draws a route on their map starting with a low number and visiting adjacent states with higher and higher numbers. Players get a point for every state they visit.There are also some bonus points available a way to get wilds and a variable set-up step that makes every game different.Note: The second edition supports 8 players out of the box and the map boards are double sided featuring the US map on one side (the one from the first edition) and On Tour: European Expansion of the other side.—description from the publisher

Take a hike in TRAILS exploring iconic sites and national parks across the U.S. gathering resources observing wildlife and earning wilderness badges. TRAILS is a standalone adventure in the PARKS series with artwork from the Fifty-Nine Parks Print Series.In TRAILS players hike back and forth along the trail collecting rocks acorns and leaves; taking pictures; and encountering wildlife to gain bonuses. At trailhead and trail end you can turn in resources to earn badges after which you start back in the other direction.As players visit the trail end the sun sets over the trail. As night falls trail sites grant more powerful actions but they won't last forever. When the sun leaves the trail the last round of play takes place then the player with the most points from collected badges photos taken and bird sightings wins.—description from the publisher

We designed Trekking the World for gamers and non-gamers to play together. The goal was to make a game inviting for non-gamers but with a little subtlety under the hood for gamers.Gleaming monuments and sunrise vistas await your arrival as you traverse the globe to experience its many wonders. Will you explore ancient ruins deep in the jungle or go wild on a savanna safari? Build your bucket list of destinations and take a whirlwind tour to visit them all - but hurry your fellow travelers might just beat you there!In Trekking the World 2-5 players compete to be the ultimate globe trotter by racing to visit world-renowned locations and collect rare souvenirs along the way. The game spotlights 48 real-world destinations each beautifully illustrated and accompanied with educational passages to inspire your next getaway.—description from the publisher

The Arte di Calimala — the guild of cloth finishers and merchants in foreign cloth — was one of the greater guilds of Florence who arrogated to themselves the civic power of the Republic of Florence during the Late Middle Ages. The woolen cloth trade was the engine that drove the city’s economy and the members of the Calimala were the elite of Florence.Throughout its long history the Arte di Calimala supervised the execution of artistic and architectural works. Most Florentine guilds performed such activities but the Calimala distinguished itself from other guilds through the number and prestige of the projects and the sites administered including the construction and decoration of some of the major churches of the city.Players of Calimala are cloth merchants in medieval Florence with a number of trusted employees that they assign to various streets within the city to carry out actions. (Each street connects two places where particular actions can be taken.) While taking these actions players produce and deliver cloth and contribute to the construction and decoration of various buildings across the city. Employees stay on their assigned places for a while carrying out their actions whenever the street is activated and eventually are promoted into the city council triggering a scoring phase.Depending on the number of players each player has a number of action discs. In turn order they can put one on a space between two actions performing both actions and activating all other discs on the same space. When the fourth disc is placed on an action space the lowest one is promoted to the city council which triggers a scoring. After the last action disc is placed or the last scoring phase in the council is triggered the game ends. The positions of the action spaces and sequence of scoring phases vary from game to game making each game very different. Secret scoring objectives and action cards add uncertainty.

Burano is a beautiful island of Venice in Italy known for its colorful houses. Walking through the island you will see these vibrant houses on both sides of the canal as well as the personal décor placed by the inhabitants of these houses and shops. Tourists always linger on the street to appreciate and enjoy the view. The colorful houses of Burano need a fresh coat of paint in order to stay beautiful and vivid. Use your creativity to refurbish and decorate the houses and amaze the tourists and local people with your masterpiece!Walking in Burano is a family game. Players place the Floor Cards in order to receive a visit from different characters. They will score points based on the various symbols on the houses. To be the player with the most points at the end of the game.•••Burano ist eine hübsche Insel in Venedig die für ihre bunten Häuser bekannt ist. Wenn man auf der Insel spazieren geht sieht man diese strahlenden Häuser auf beiden Seiten des Kanals außerdem die Verzierungen die die Einheimischen an ihren Häusern und Läden angebracht haben. Immer wieder verweilen Touristen hier auf den Straßen um den Anblick zu genießen. Die bunten Häuser von Burano brauchen neue Farbe um hübsch und strahlend zu bleiben. Nutzt eure Kreativität um die Häuser zu renovieren und zu schmücken und versetzt Touristen wie Einheimische mit euren Werken ins Staunen!Legt Etagenkarten aus um Besuch von verschiedenen Leuten zu erhalten. Dafür erhaltet ihr Punkte die von verschiedenen Symbolen auf den Häusern abhängen. Wer am Ende des Spiels die meisten Punkte hat gewinnt.—description from the publisher...In Walking in Burano players draft up to three cards to complete the five houses in their section of Burano. The more cards drafted the less money earned to build floors of the houses. The player then pays to play up to three of their cards. When a three-story house is complete a scoring card is added underneath the completed house.Tourist cards score points for things like the number of cats visible on the house the number of potted plants or other similar conditions. The resident cards will score points for larger areas like for the number of pedestrians walking up and down the street; for the number of different shops along the canal; or other horizontal sections of the player's tableau.There are point penalties if houses are mismatched colors if two neighboring houses are the same color or if there are boarded up windows on a card.When a player completes all five houses in their section of Burano the game ends after all players have had an equal number of turns. The player with the most points wins.

Welcome to Fireball Island! You may have heard stories. You may have visited when you were younger. Perhaps you even saw a fireball engulf a fellow traveler in a hellscape of horror that makes you afraid to close your eyes at night. Whatever the case welcome back! Turns out that Vul-Kar didn't like having his gem stolen way back when so there has been some volcanic upheaval an explosion in our snake population feral tigers new types of trees bent on ending human life and swarms of bees everywhere. But don't worry — we have top people working on it.Start your day of adventure at the helipad. Be sure to sign the waiver which legally obligates you to take snapshots across the island. You'll race down the many paths avoiding hazards all the while. On the plus side you get to keep all the treasure you find.Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar is a restoration of the classic 1986 game Fireball Island that features a unique 3D island and a host of marble mayhem. This new version boasts an island that is even bigger than the original (and yet fits in a smaller box) and more marbles. It is a family-weight game for 2-4 players (5 with an expansion) that plays in 30-45 minutes. Simple card play replaces the random roll-and-move of the original and the set collection for the treasures offers some interesting choices for players.Remember you don't have to outrun the fireball — just the other players.—description from the publisherCore Game Components: 1 Island 1 Vul-Kar Figure 5 Red Fire Balls 6 Ember Balls 4 Player Figures 1 Die 1 Heart of Vul-Kar Crystal 1 Ladder 2 Bridges 7 Trees 30 Action Cards 12 Snapshot Cards 12 Souvenir Cards 4 Player Reference Cards 36 Treasure Tokens 1 Lucky Penny Token 2 Tokens of the Two Player Game 1 Cataclysm Tracker 2 Scrims 1 Maw ( 4 card board parts ) 1 Hello-CopterBienvenue sur l'Île Infernale ! Vous avez peut-être entendu des histoires. Vous l'avez peut-être visité quand vous étiez plus jeune. Peut-être avez-vous même vu une boule de feu engloutir un compagnon de voyage dans un paysage d'horreur qui vous empêche de fermer les yeux la nuit. Quoi qu'il en soit bon retour sur l'Île! Il s'avère que Vul-Kar n'a pas apprécié qu'on lui vole sa gemme ... alors il y a eu des bouleversements volcaniques une croissance de notre population de serpents des tigres sauvages de nouveaux types d'arbres pour mettre fin à la vie humaine & des essaims d'abeilles partout. Mais ne vous inquiétez pas — nous avons des gens de haut niveau qui travaillent dessus.Commencez votre journée d'aventure à l'Hélipad. Assurez-vous de signer la renonciation qui vous oblige légalement à prendre des instantanés à travers l'île. Vous dévalerez les nombreux chemins en évitant tout le temps les dangers. La bonne nouvelle : vous gardez tous les trésors que vous trouvez.Fireball Island : La Malédiction de Vul-Kar est une restauration du jeu classique L'Île Infernale datant de 1986 qui présente une île 3D unique & des billes chaotiques. Cette nouvelle version dispose d'une île encore plus grande que l'original (tout en tenant dans une boîte plus petite) & plus de billes. C'est un jeu de type familial pour 2-4 joueurs (5 avec une extension) durant 30-45 minutes. Un jeu de Cartes remplace le rouler-déplacer aléatoire de l'original & la collection de trésors offre des choix intéressants pour les joueurs.Rappelez-vous vous n'avez pas à distancer la boule de feu — juste les autres joueurs.

From the Spine of the World Mountains to the bustling fishing villages of Earthquake Fish Bay flows a river where fortunes can be made and lowly traders can brush shoulders with Rokugan's elite. Will your clan become the dominant force along this River of Gold?In River of Gold players take on the role of river merchants allied with legendary samurai clans each vying to exploit the river to earn wealth glory and wisdom. Will you invest in developing ports markets shrines and more along the banks of the busy river? Or will you rely upon sailing the river of gold growing your wealth and influence through delivery contracts visiting the nobility and garnering a bit of divine favor during tough times?River of Gold features a stunning embossed metallic gold game board illustrated by master fantasy cartographer Francesca Baerald. In addition to looking beautiful the gameplay is fast and clever with minimal downtime and a playtime of just one hour. Fans of Eurogames will enjoy this mid-weight game and with easy-to-learn intuitive rules you’ll be able to get River of Gold to your table quickly.—description from the designer

HEXplore It is a hero building adventure board game. Enter a realm teeming with fantasy creatures heroes and villains.Select your hero by combining two character options: your Role and Race. Your Role is your profession and your Race is your heritage and species. This combination drives your Hero's strengths weaknesses and defines their special abilities. You'll use dry erase markers to keep track of your hero's strength.Travel across the map earning power ups by completing quests and battling opponents of several different types. Move carefully to avoid multiple dangers and travel from city to city visiting shrines and ruins along the way.Gain power quickly for the Dead King also moves... He takes away your cities as you play the game. For each city he destroys he gains more power.The object of HEXplore It is to power up your heroes as quickly as possible to eventually defeat the Dead King himself. The game is won if you confront and defeat him bringing light back to the Valley.

You are sloths — cuddly lazy and oh well slothful.All animals (including humans) like to take vacations so everyone is together at a country resort. We sloths are sitting around of course while all the other animals are running throughout the resort. We want to look around too and traveling around the resort to pick up tasty leaves would be great — but running around ourselves is just too tedious. All the other animals are having fun and we want that too but...we are so slothful.And then we have an idea: We'll let ourselves be carried around by the other animals thus getting around nicely. The other animals have so much energy that they'll even gladly carry us. They aren't slothful! Which of us sloths will be the first to get through the entire country and be victorious? We are ambitious but so lazy!Fast Sloths (a.k.a. Faultier in German) is a race game that at its core is a classic pick-up-and-deliver game — except that we ourselves are the cargo being delivered. We are being carried along the whole way and never take a single step on our own!You always play with six out of twelve different animal species and you can place the giant game board in four different combinations. On a turn you draft 2-3 cards of different animal types from the top of their face-up decks then you play as many animal cards as you like of a single type. Each animal provides a different type of movement or interaction with you with ants carrying you along in a chain and the elephant throwing you with its trunk.Fast Sloths is a game free from randomness that evolves only through the interaction between the players doing so without any take that mechanisms — except for you snatching an animal from under the other players' noses because you need to use it yourself.Each race offers new challenges for you to get to the different trees faster than the other sloths. Enjoy all 256 different combinations each with countless starting positions of the animals on the game board...and we are already working on new game boards and more animals for even more fun combinations!

After Journeying the Tokaido road it is now time to discover the island of Shikoku in Tokaido Duo!In Tokaido Duo 2 players pace the fourth biggest isle of the Japanese archipelago. You will discover its many sceneries through the eyes of three different characters and will thus experience a threefold spiritual journey.You will earn points through all three characters' adventures as you slowly become one with their endeavours.

A new threat lurks in the land of Arzium. Ember zombies swarm from volcanic lands to the south their charcoal bodies the walking hives of evil fire fairies. The closest haven is the city of Eastrey where a powerful artifact protects the inhabitants. You must travel across the desert and the plains over mountains and through red canyons helping wandering creatures of every shape and size to the safety of the city.In Creature Caravan players build a card tableau of creatures while traveling through a magnificent and dangerous land. Players take turns simultaneously placing dice on actions on their cards moving their caravan on the map and playing new creature cards. Players also compete to trade goods and rare coins in a shared market search the mysterious white towers and fight ember zombies as they travel. The game ends when one player reaches Eastrey. The player with the most points wins.The game includes 134 cards each with a unique illustration and combination of actions and abilities. Simultaneous gameplay allows one to four players to play together without increasing the game's length with the Wanderers expansion (sold separately or comes inside the Deluxe Edition) allowing for up to six players.—description from the publisher

In Namiji you are fishers from the Japan of yesteryear navigating south of the Japanese archipelago a few kilometers from the famous Tokaido road. You will need to have a fruitful day at sea to win the game.To do this you will have the opportunity to contemplate magnificent marine species to fish with a line or a net to fill your racks with colorful fish and haul in your crustacean traps.You can benefit from stops to improve your fishing equipment and you will also have to contend with the gods of the sea by setting offerings afloat or by fulfilling their wishes that they express during your contemplation with the Sacred Rocks for which they will reward you.Namiji features gameplay similar to Tokaido. The action spaces are laid out on the game board in a linear track with players advancing down this track to take actions. The player who is currently last on the track takes a turn by advancing forward on the track to their desired action and taking that action so players must choose whether to advance slowly in order to get more turns or to travel more rapidly to beat other players to their desired action spaces. What players are doing on the track differs from what they do in Tokaido.

Zug um Zug: Deutschland is a stand-alone game in the Game: Ticket to Ride (Official) series. Over the course of the game players collect cards in order to then claim routes on the game board between two cities. Ideally the players create a network of routes that connect the cities showing on their secret ticket cards. Players score points both for claiming routes and for completing tickets with incomplete tickets counting against a player's score. Whoever has the most points at the end of the game wins.Zug um Zug: Deutschland published solely for the German and Austrian market consists of the same map as Ticket to Ride: Märklin – with the game now set at the turn of the 20th century – but the game does not include the passenger mechanism from Märklin in which players scored additional points by moving passengers from city to city. In addition the numbers of destination tickets and train cards differ slightly between the two games.Part of Ticket to Ride series.

Remember Our Trip is a board game in which players recreate a map of a city they visited together. After returning to your own country you and the other players have gotten together to try to recall the map of either Kyoto or Singapore (depending on the game board you choose). You need to piece together the scenery of the map using fragments of your memories with you earning bonus points if your memory matches that of the main board and other players.In the game each player has an individual image board while everyone shares a common map board. Each of the twelve rounds of the game starts with the revelation of a memory card which shows one of six patterns that players can build on their image board with image tokens that they draft. Over multiple rounds you'll compile image tokens next to one another and if you have the right tokens in the right shape you suddenly remember the building that matches the shape and image placing that building on the shared common map and scoring points for it. You can additionally score points for completing buildings with image tokens that match buildings remembered by others i.e. that they placed on the common board earlier. You've now remembered that building too!Each player also has objective cards and photo memory cards and you can score points for satisfying them. If you can't fit all of your image fragments into play you lose points for scattered thoughts. For more difficult play you can use the 7x6 area on the Kyoto or Singapore game board instead of the regular 7x7 area.

Imagine yourself staring down a giant grizzly in Katmai National Park. Take a canoe ride alongside alligators in the swampy waters of the Everglades. Trek the trails that define our nation's most valuable public resource — the National Parks!Trekking the National Parks is an award-winning family board game that celebrates the U.S. national parks in a fun and competitive way. Players compete for points by claiming park cards and collecting trail stones as they travel across the map experiencing the wonders at each of these magnificent landscapes.The second edition of Trekking the National Parks features a more accessible rulebook simplified movement rules to create a more streamlined play experience new Major Park locations and wooden campsites that award special abilities to players and a change to stone majority bonus points with both the first- and second-place players now receiving points.

Explore the amazing lands of Australia in the new version of this draft & write game! Visit the most beautiful places of Australia. While touring you will meet local animals and enjoy tourist activities such as hiking swimming or simply taking beautiful pictures! But don't forget that this trip is not only for pleasure — you all compete to be the best visitor and discover the most of Australia!Boomerang: Australia features a unique blend of set collection and card drafting with the approachable feel of a roll-and-write game. Draft locations from across the Australian continent as you collect sets of activities and animal sightings to gain the most points.—description from the publisher

Come Sail Away! is a board game for 1-4 players in which you compete to board passengers upon your luxury liner bringing them to their favorite cabins and facilities. Players can enjoy a deliciously thoughtful and brightly illustrated game that is simple to learn yet always challenging.The aim of Come Sail Away is to guide passengers into your cruise ship as smoothly as possible earning points in the process. In addition to earning points for filling each room on the ship you can earn bonus points for filling certain rooms faster than other players. Further by guiding passengers with luggage to their cabins players can advance on the luggage track allowing you to place additional small cabins gain additional passengers and earn bonus points. As the game progresses it is also important to think ahead and make sure your ship has room for passengers or else you will have a crowd of disgruntled passengers at hand!---from the publisher

Vienna Connection is a standalone game inspired by the game mechanisms of Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game. In this game players take on the roles of CIA agents sent to Europe in 1977 during the Cold War to investigate the mysterious death of James Werner an American citizen murdered in Vienna.The international plot involves various secret agencies and players will travel around Europe visiting a dozen destinations and discovering secrets.Vienna Connection although inspired by Detective is a standalone game with new rules and game mechanisms that bring the spy theme to life. Players will manage resources (such as informants bribes and pieces of information) decode reports (including secret messages codes and wiretapped conversations) and will have to outsmart enemy spy agencies.—description from the publisher

Battle the elements in Waypoints as you hike through a landscape of mountains valleys lakes and woodlands. Climb vast summits or take to the rivers marking your route and recording your experiences as you go.Each turn a die is rolled which determines the weather for that hike and how much time is left of the day. Clear skies mean good hiking while snow or rain will slow you down. With the weather set all players simultaneously mark a route on their player sheet moving from waypoint to waypoint. Mountains and valleys are harder to traverse but the rewards may be worth it.After four days each player will have a unique map of their hike scoring points for animals and features they have encountered.-description from publisher

Imagine yourself staring down a giant Grizzly in Katmai National Park. Take a canoe ride alongside alligators in the swampy waters of the Everglades. Trek the trails that define our nation’s most valuable public resource – the National Parks!Trekking the National Parks is a spirited family board game that lets players experience the U.S. National Parks in a fun and competitive way.Up to six players compete in a cross country race to visit the National Parks and collect the most points. Gathering colored trek cards allows players to move across the map and claim valuable park cards. If a player is the first to visit a National Park they collect that park's colored stone which award bonus points at the end of the game. Players must jockey for position and make tough tactical decisions at every turn to emerge victorious!

In Africana players travel through Africa taking part in expeditions and trying to be the first to reach various destinations. With the money they earn they can buy adventure cards that earn them precious antiques. Africana features the Book of Adventures game system from Schacht's Valdora in which players can acquire cards that are laid out like books with players turning the pages to find the adventure cards they most want.The game board in Africana shows the continent divided in half at the equator with the cities in the north half colored brown and the cities in the south white. Adventure cards with a brown border can be acquired only in the south and must be delivered to the north while white-bordered adventure cards take the opposite route. Five expedition cards – each showing the starting and ending location and a reward for completing the expedition – are laid face-up on the game board.Each player has one researcher token that will travel around the board and on a turn a player takes one of three possible actions:When a player reaches the destination shown on an adventure card that player scores that card by placing it under his player mat. Some cards show helpers which are represented by helper cards in a player's hand. These cards allow travel on the color shown on the card and return to the player's hand after use but a player who employs many helps will lose points at the end of the game.Once the expedition cards run out the game ends and players score for the expeditions they completed sets of identical and different adventure cards money in hand and a few other things. The player with the most points wins!

Around the end of the 19th century a growing network of railway lines was built in Europe allowing people to travel to the major cities to visit beautiful structures influenced by Art Nouveau and Historicism.In Free Ride you are one of several people in charge of building railway lines connecting the cities in Europe and carrying passengers to those cities. The game board shows 45 cities connected by a network of potential routes and all railway lines built will be one of three types: lines owned by you lines owned by fellow players and state-owned lines. When you travel along railway lines you pay nothing to travel on your lines and state-owned lines. To travel on a fellow player’s line however you must pay them 1 coin which converts their line to state-owned. From then on traveling on that line is free for all players. As coins are limited you should carefully balance the building of your lines with the conversion of fellow players' lines to state-owned lines.Where do you want to build? At the start of play each player drafts part of a travel route. Multiple travel routes are available for choosing and each travel route consists of three cards. When you choose a route you take either the first and second cards or the second and third cards as your starting and ending point (in that order). Return the unchosen card of that route to the box.Once the third deck is empty you can either withdraw from the game with uncompleted routes (returning those cards to the box) or keep taking turns until you finish all your routes at which point you immediately gain 1 coin and withdraw. In either situation you earn 1 coin (and do nothing else) on each subsequent turn. Once all players have withdrawn you tally your score earning 3 points for each coin 5 points for the first card you have of a city and 2 points for each other card you have of a city. (Each of the 45 cities appears once in each of the three decks.) Whoever has the most points wins.Free Ride also offers a difficult solo challenge!

In TOKYO METRO players take on the role of private investors looking to build up stations across Tokyo speculate on train lines and comprise a shared network to benefit multiple parties. The core of the game is built around worker placement which opens up three possibilities:With route planning investing speculating area control and a real replication of the Tokyo area TOKYO METRO brings a heavy economic twist to the TOKYO series!—description from the publisher

Sunlight glaring through the windshield. Your favorite songs blasting through the speakers. Candy bar wrappers piled next to a warm drink in the cheap plastic cupholder. Your companion riding in the passenger seat snapping pictures of landmarks as you settle into the hypnotic rhythm of the road. But be careful as this fun road trip could get dangerous as you drive through Death Valley.Death Valley is a pocket-sized push-your-luck tableau-building game for 1-2 players with each traveler striving to assemble the best mix of cards in their journey and scrapbook in order to win the game.Each turn players choose whether to assign a card to their journey or move cards from their journey to their scrapbook. Cards feature stars (points) special abilities (which affect the value and position of cards) and some interesting facts about Death Valley. Each card also lists a hazard: heat terrain flood or animals. Having three of the same hazard visible in their tableau causes the player to bust and lose all the progress in their journey.At the end of the game players sum the stars in their journey and any additional points from card abilities to determine who wins.Death Valley was a top-three finalist in Button Shy's 18-Card Challenge: Design a game about a real life location.

In The Cave a board game from K2 author Adam Kałuża players take on the role of a speleologist team tasked with exploring a newly discovered cave. Players start from a base and explore a cave tunnel after tunnel effectively building the board (the cave). They have to overcome steep descents underground lakes and tight squeezes. They will be given a chance to admire the wonders of the underground like halls full of stalactites. To make it all possible they must take the right supplies with them like ropes oxygen and batteries.Each turn players have five action points to use for moving discovering new cave tiles exploring them and packing their backpacks when they go back to the starting base. They need ropes for descents oxygen to explore underwater parts and a camera to photograph underground wonders. Planning what to take with them is one of the most important things in the game. Each turn that their pawn is not in the starting base players must use (i.e. throw out) one basic supply from their backpack; these costs along with the expenditure of other supplies during exploration forces them to return to the starting base a few times during the game. To keep them from having to carry everything though players can raise a camp somewhere in the tunnels where they can store some of the equipment.The cave differs every game so players have to be prepared for everything or they will lose time. Players earn points for exploring different tiles: underwater wondrous descents and so on – but to win they'll need to acquire bonus prizes for exploring the most tiles of each type. This make decision-making during trips very difficult.When the cave is fully explored the player who made the biggest effort in the most spectacular way wins the game.

Italy late Middle Ages: The fabric merchants need to write down their contracts in a language that everyone can understand and the literates are looking for an alternative to the elite of the traditional Latin language so the Volgare the language spoken by the common people taken from the dialects spoken in the various Italian regions starts to gain relevance. During this period Francesco D'Assisi writes his famous Canticle of the Sun and Dante writes the Divine Comedy both written in Volgare.In De Vulgari Eloquentia players have to do their part in the creation of this new language! But who will provide them the proper knowledge to understand the manuscripts in the different dialects? Who will successfully uncover the secrets of the books inside the Papal Library? Who will embrace the religious life and who will remain a merchant? Some of the players can become a famous banker someone else can climb the church's hierarchy to be the next Pope! But in the end who will be the most appreciated and respected for their status and culture?The aim of the game is to obtain more Volgare points. The players gain VP from reading manuscripts and looking for important documents like the Canticle of the Sun or The Riddle from Verona. Players can also gain VP by improving their social status for example if the merchant becomes a banker or the Friar becomes a Benedictine Monk or the Cardinal becomes Camerlengo or Pope. Moreover VP can be gotten with money and with the support of Politicians Noblemen Abbesses and the Amanuensis.This is a totally new re-designed edition of De Vulgari Eloquentia which features new mechanisms and new elements. The game has totally new layout and iconography.—description from the designer

Game description from the publisher:Europe at the start of the 20th century: Foreign cultures and their artifacts have a strong appeal for archeologists and its in that role that players try to increase their knowledge in order to equip and conduct expeditions to Egypt Mesopotamia Crete and Greece. Glory and esteem are waiting!Thebes: The Tomb Raiders is a card game version of the Thebes board game from designer Peter Prinz and Queen Games. The game dispenses with the map of Thebes but retains many of the main aspects of the game. The main turn-order play of the game is based on the time-track; players must spend time to take actions with varying amounts of time spent dependent on the nature and benefits of the action. The player who is furthest back in time is the active player. Players use actions to gain knowledge about five civilizations and then use this knowledge in different actions to dig to pull cards from a civilization's deck that contains treasures and dirt. The more knowledge a player has about a civilization the more efficient the player is at searching for treasures.The game plays over a certain span of time and when all players can no longer take any actions because they are out of time the game is at an end and the player with the highest score from their accumulated treasures wins.

You are part of the Art Rescue Team with the aim of fighting against The White Hand an organization responsible for many thefts of priceless works across the planet. Your team of specialists the best in their field will travel from Japan to Rio de Janeiro via Scandinavia in order to recover stolen works of art. Will you manage to gather together enough clues in the allotted time to stop this cultural looting?In the co-operative game The A.R.T. Project you play together against the game. Each player draws two mission cards at the beginning of each round then all players decide the order of the round. Your jerrycan reserves weapons allies and clues are all held in common and their management is essential. When you play a mission you spend common resources and find clues that will be useful to everyone. Try to save seven works before the end of the mission deck...—description from the publisher

Description from the publisher:Elfenroads (or Elfenland Deluxe) combines the previously released Elfenland and Elfengold along with the new Elfensea.In Elfenland young elves have to pass a very special test before they are accepted as grownups. All elf girls and elf boys receive a map of Elfenland and they have to visit as many famous towns in Elfenland as possible using the common types of transportation: dragons unicorns giant pigs elfcycles troll wagons magic clouds ferries and rafts. These types of transportation however are available in limited numbers and can be used only in specific regions. Thus an exciting race starts among the elves to find out who will make the best use of the available transportation. The one who visits the most towns wins.Elfengold an expansion for Elfenland adds gold coins to the game that players use to bid for the Travel Counters and other new items. It also adds Gold Value Tokens to the towns that indicate how much gold players earn for visiting a town. Two magic spells and a new obstacle — a Sea Monster — are included as well as two round cards to allow for longer games up to six rounds.In Elfensea as in Elfenland young elves have to pass a special test before they are accepted as grownups. The same rules apply in Elfensea as in Elfenland except as described in the rules. The game board map is different and the common types of transportation — dragons unicorns giant pigs magic clouds whales and rafts — differ somewhat as well. As in Elfenland these types of transportation are available in limited numbers and can be used only in specific regions. Thus an exciting race starts among the elves to find out who will make the best use of the available transportation. The player with the most points wins.

The Witcher Adventure Game takes players on a journey across the world of The Witcher a detailed world rich in lore and characters fleshed out by Andrzej Sapkowski's famous series of novels and honed by The Witcher video game trilogy.Players assume the roles of four distinct characters from this series: Geralt of Rivia monster slayer; Triss Merigold cunning sorceress; Yarpen Zigrin dwarven warrior; and Dandelion roguish bard. Each character has unique skills and multiple ways of overcoming obstacles but you decide what to do during the game: Do you fight your way to victory call on your charm or try your hand at diplomacy? You can bring enemies around to your point of view with a sword as Geralt - or bribe them with gold and threaten to call on powerful friends as Dandelion. If a situation calls for strength in numbers Yarpen has his own fellowship of dwarves to command and Triss can rely on her expert skill with magic to save the day.Each character has its own deck of Development Cards so each time you play you can discover something new by trying out varied characters and experimenting with different builds. For example when playing as Geralt of Rivia the main hero of the Witcher franchise you can develop your character either by specializing in brewing and utilizing combat Elixirs or else by growing your ability to cast powerful Witcher Signs.A variety of quests invite players to hunt monsters earn gold and interact with the characters they meet in a web of alliances and treachery. Decide whether you’ll help the other players or look after your own interests first and keep an eye on the progress of your friends while you carefully work your way towards victory.

Boomerang: Europe like its sister games Boomerang: Australia and Boomerang: USA is a draft-and-write game. It features a unique blend of set collection and card drafting with the approachable feel of a roll-and-write game. Draft locations from across the European continent as you collect sets of activities and try delicious food to gain the most points.Boomerang: Europe is a stand-alone game in the Boomerang family that plays similarly to the original Boomerang but has some rules differences and new ways to score.—description from the publisher

Boomerang: USA like its sister games Boomerang: Australia and Boomerang: Europe is a draft-and-write game. It features a unique blend of set collection and card drafting with the approachable feel of a roll-and-write game. Draft locations from across the continental US as you collect sets of activities and see amazing sights to gain the most points.Boomerang: USA is a stand-alone game in the Boomerang family that plays similarly to the original Boomerang but has some rules differences and new ways to score including giving players the opportunity to connect the east and west coasts.—description from the publisher

The frequent tremors the looming clouds over the crater and the ever-increasing smell of sulfur make it clear that it is time to escape. Direct your tribe through the waters of the Pacific in search of a new home safe from the impending eruption of the volcano. Explore new sea routes that lead to unvisited islands collect resources on those islands to offer to other tribes in exchange for their knowledge and continue sailing in search of a safe place — all this being done to save as many of your tribe members as possible and lead them to new lands where they can prosper. The most successful individual through this difficult mission will be appointed the supreme chief of the Polynesian tribal group.In Polynesia players must save their tribe members from the dangers of the volcano by taking them to the islands that will give them the most points. At the same time players must try to reach the objectives set by the tide cards which will vary from one game to another. To succeed players must collect resources in the form of fish and shells that will allow them to explore new sea routes use the routes of other players and sail from one island to another.Polynesia is played in rounds and each round is divided into two phases. In the action phase each player has three turns in which they can perform one of three actions: sail explore or populate and fish. In the maintenance phase the volcano activity is checked for activity and each player can collect resources depending on the islands where they have tribe members.—description from the publisher

Despite covering less than 1% of the ocean floor coral reefs are estimated to be home to about 25% of all marine species. Unfortunately these vibrant underwater cities are dying. Climate change and its effect of rising sea temperatures is devastating the colorful algae that give coral reefs their brilliant hues resulting in coral bleaching. Furthermore other threats like pollution—in its various insidious forms—and overfishing are disrupting the delicate balance of reef ecosystems.And so scientists from various fields along with the researchers studying the ecological complexity and significance of the reefs are collaborating to address the myriad challenges facing these ecosystems. Your assignment is to take command of a scientific vessel and embark on a journey of reef conservation. Hire the best crew clean the ocean and restore the reefs to their former glory.During the game players take on the role of researchers and saviors of the oceans. You will sail the seas hire crew explore the coral reef clean the ocean sectors of any pollution and try to accomplish as many missions as possible.On their turn players may choose to RECHARGE or TRAVEL. If they RECHARGE they gain the rewards from the VP track. If they TRAVEL they may deploy Reef Balls move their Ship play Mission cards and perform various actions. The game is played for a variable number of rounds. When a player has crossed the 45 VP threshold the end of the game is triggered. After an additional round the final scoring takes place and the player with the most victory points is the winner.—description from the publisher

Adventure intrigue and flowers! Botany is a strategy board game where you take on the role of a Victorian Era flower hunter as you explore the world to gather fortune and fame and be named the Royal Botanist. In Botany each player takes on the role of a character whose abilities will shape the way they play the game. Will you focus on exploring the globe in search of the most valuable specimens? Will you make quick and efficient trips to gather reputation quickly and build your estate?Each player begins the game with a set of randomized goals that they then use to plot their path to victory. When players set out from their estate they have access only to the coins they can carry with them. They can use these coins to traverse the globe and gain crew members and items to improve their odds of surviving the unknown enhance their abilities and increase the efficiency with which they traverse the map. However there is danger in spending too freely and players must ensure they have enough wealth on hand to return to England with their specimens intact.Turns in Botany are streamlined in order to minimize downtime and keep players engaged. Players will move around the map build their character and experience the story of their rise to fame all with an eye for efficiency. Points are gained by improving the quality of your garden retrieving live specimens from around the globe and adding preserved flowers to your botanical press. The specimens that players hunt the goals they focus on to achieve victory and the events they experience create a unique feel across each game.—description from the publisher

In Boomerang the come-back-again card game players travel round the great south land trying to see and do as much as possible — but will the cards you want to see come back to you?Boomerang could be described as a card-drafting game (like 7 Wonders or Sushi Go!) mixed with a roll-and-write game (like Yahtzee or Qwixx).Each turn players select one card from their hand to play then pass the rest of their cards to the next player. Will you take what you really want or a different card so as to deprive another player of something cool?At the end of each round players mark different things off on their score sheets corresponding to what they earned from the cards they selected. Players earn points for seeing sights collecting Australiana seeing animals and so on. After five rounds the player with the most points wins.

It’s the age of discovery! The British Empire needs to find new naval trade routes to Asia and thus launches many expeditions to the Arctic in order to find The Northwest Passage. In Through Ice and Snow you and your friends journey through the Arctic and vie to become the most prestigious explorer by documenting species mapping treacherous lands and discovering the elusive Northwest passage.As the expedition progresses new map pieces and routes will be revealed and added to the modular board. Each player is in charge of their own ship and the crews include three officers with individual abilities:You can also recruit Inuit - exceptional guides who are experts in finding fuel improving sleds and leading vital hunting parties.Each voyage brings unique challenges and events for your crews to face: Those Arctic journeys faced many tragedies since finding food was extremely hard the overworked crews were prone to mutiny and the weather was merciless. Succeed and become immortalised. Fail and be lost to the ice….forever.—description from the publisher

なつめも (pronounced natsumemo) means summer memo and it's the practice of children keeping a summer holiday diary.Natsumemo is a flip & write game with a summer vacation theme. Each player receives a special calendar sheet and a hidden sheet pencils and dice. Each round the active player flips the card of the week and declares the day on which the event will occur. All players choose to join or not join the event all at once and if they join write them on their calendars. Of course you cannot take part in the events of the day if you already filled that date on your calendar.The biggest feature is the special bond that grows between the characters who participated in the same event. Players plan the events in order to develop friendships and score more points. Oh only Hana and Vivian and I are free on Tuesday so if I suggest going to swim in the sea on Tuesdays and Wednesday maybe only I can deepen the bonds with the two girls ...! This is how boys and girls develop serious feelings and judgments are born one after another. Furthermore I was the only one who went to the sea when I tried to open the lid! These goofy developments the emotions that come from them are the most enjoyable!Another feature is homework. Players must balance having fun with friends and getting their summer homework done too. If you do not reach a certain number of pages by the end of the holidays you get deducted points. You will end up cramming all alone the last week instead of deepening your new friendships. This reality is unbearable.Agony laugh loudly please talk about sweet and sour summer memories by all means after play. It is certain that the calendar and the secret sheet will be important memorial items after the entry!—description from the publisher

A love letter to the city of Lisbon.Lisbon Tram 28 is a game in which you travel through Lisbon with this iconic tram pick up passengers and take them to visit some of the city's monuments.Handle your tickets strategically so that you can move your tram around Lisbon's historical area. Set the best route so you can get the right passengers to the most valuable monuments. Optimize your tram's space unlock bonuses that will improve the way you can play during your turn and connect the tickets from the monuments you will visit.You receive points via the cards from visited monuments and the connected tickets and whoever earns the most points wins.—description from the designer

An Age Contrived is a fantasy euro game of engine building and resource programming. You play as a god in the Eldranic pantheon where you are only as powerful as the mortals of this unstable world believe you are. Your goal is to establish yourself as the pantheon's prevailing god by securing mortal belief as you advance the mortal realm from its age of darkness into civilization.Each player receives a character board and a transmutation device which they use to channel their energy into the mortal realm. Energy is how a god exerts its will and is used to construct monuments claim new tiles and accomplish lasting achievements. Bind your energy for end-game scoring and unlock new energy to replenish your reserves. The game ends when the last monument is complete at which point the player with the most points wins.There are two types of turns with no rounds or phases. On a player's turn they must either charge their transmutation device and program it openly or use its energy to take as many actions as they have already programmed. Information is open and the only luck is in the shuffling of tiles to set up the game. Player choices determine how the game unfolds.The game features unlockable unique player powers a board that players construct differently each game and 5 ways to build your engine. You will be encouraged to plan ahead but required to adapt your strategy in order to come away victorious.

In this beautifully illustrated roll and write you'll take on the role of a young woman going on a once-in-a-lifetime journey around the world. Travel to incredible landmarks all over the globe - from the Pyramid of Giza to the Matterhorn. Follow the young artist’s journey through her postcards sent back home to her family to recount the details of her trip.Try to be the first player to fill in enough boxes to make it to the top of the landmark in this roll-and-write.All players will pull from the same pool of numbers rolled on the active dice using the values to make their way up from the bottom to the top of each landmark. Numbers must increase as you climb so combine the values carefully!Each location card will bring a series of unique rules mixing up play and adding to the challenge! At the end of each round use the action die to change the dice pool and continue your race to the top!Featuring many of the classic Roll to the Top landmarks this new edition provides new-and-improved game mechanics plus all-new illustrations by artist Horia Tundrea.

Trekking the World 2nd Edition is a light gateway strategy game where you race to the world’s most fascinating places draft itineraries collect souvenirs and gain powers that combo.The 2nd edition is a complete mechanical overhaul based on analysis of thousands of online comments about 1st Edition and our evolving design principles.We’ve tried to create a game hobbyists AND their families will like. A tough design challenge.Who It’s For:Who It’s Not For:—description from the publisher

Engines purring goggles down — the seaplane is set for take-off! Welcome to the whimsical world of Wayfinders in which intrepid explorers race to chart new paths through the skies.You will need to think on your feet and outfit your planes with the right gear to arrive safely — but building hangars on islands and stocking them with parts can help you zip around with ease! Be sure to be keen in your planning and you will unlock the charms of the islands. Wheels up — adventure awaits!—description from the publisher

In Touria Princess Tara has decided to marry – but not just anyone of course. She expects a lot from her husband-to-be: Heroic deeds and precious gifts are a must.A group of bold adventurers set out to pit themselves against dragons dig up gems from the haunted mines of the country – and make a good deal from time to time since the father of the bride demands an appropriate price for his daughter's hand. Touria's dancing towers show the heroes the way so the brave men and women go from one adventure to the next. Brave women? Of course – or have we forgotten to mention that Tara's handsome brother Prince Talan is also of marriageable age?

The game Resafa takes place during the 3rd century AD in the area of today's Middle East. Resafa now lies in ruins in modern-day Syria but at this time it was a fortified desert outpost that flourished as a stop along important caravan routes.In the game players represent merchants who travel on business trips and buy and sell goods in the various cities in the region. Resafa had no local sources of water so it depended heavily on large cisterns to collect the spring and winter rainwater to make the area habitable. Players build water tanks and canals to distribute that water where it is needed. In the cities they build workshops to help their businesses grow which will allow them to collect resources and camels. They also construct gardens between the businesses generating more resources and also victory points.The game is played over six rounds. In each round a player takes only three actions playing action cards in this tight and exciting game.—description from the publisher

Expedition: Famous Explorers is an updated version of two award-winning Wolfgang Kramer games – Wildlife Adventure and Expedition – with a new theme: discovery and exploration. Players lead three expeditions to various locations by placing arrows on a map. When an expedition arrives at a location that matches either a location card held by that player or a public location that player scores that card by placing it in front of him.Expedition: Famous Explorers retains all the core rules of earlier versions of the game but adds optional advanced rules that allow players to score additional points based upon purchasable explorer and event cards. Another game mechanism introduces secret locations.

K3 is one of the most dangerous mountains in the world and while many will attempt to climb only a few will make it so plan your steps carefully to be the last climber to survive.To begin play the starting base will be filled with nine pegs drawn at random from those in the supply. Each player has a supply of tokens that varies based on the player count and on a turn you place a token following certain rules; if you cannot play you are eliminated and the last player still in the game wins.

Yin and yang is a concept of dualism in ancient Chinese philosophy representing two opposite principles. Yin is the feminine while Yang is masculine and this concept is embodied in all things around the world such as winter and summer male and female and light and dark.Yin Yang takes players back to ancient China during the Warring State period before the common era. At the time China was divided into seven kingdoms fighting each other constantly and people were living in suffering. To pursue inner peace every kind of fortune-telling method was then developed.One of those fortune-telling methods involves taking a tortoise shell with copper coins inside then shaking it to have indications based on which coins emerge and how they fall. This method is exactly what Yin Yang is based on. Players act as Taoist priests traveling on an ancient Chinese map to retrieve the local specialty of different cities to unlock their own destiny. Additionally players can also build temples in different cities to earn worship from seven kingdoms.—description from the publisher

The tranquil city of Jokkmokk has hosted a world-famous market and folk festival every February for over four hundred years. Visitors from across the globe don their warmest winter gear to experience the beautiful crafts delicious treats and breathtaking scenery Jokkmokk has to offer.In Jokkmokk: The Winter Market you gather your family members for a lovely trip around the merchant's stalls of the folk festival. Will you focus on gathering souvenirs and trinkets? Will you enjoy the sights and sounds of winter in northern Sweden?

On Tour Paris & New York is a brand-new standalone game based on the original On Tour design and featuring some new opportunities for travel!Your goal is to plot the longest and most efficient route through these two magnificent cities where you are musicians in the 1920's trying to play in as many jazz clubs as possible. Each turn two ten-sided dice are rolled to make two two-digit numbers that determine where you visit (a roll of 3 and 7 creates the numbers 37 and 73). All players write each of those numbers in a location on their map. The regions they can write in are restricted by cards turned up in the middle of the table.New abilities to take riverboats and ferries will help you tour the city and become a jazz legend.At the end of the game each player draws a route on their map starting with a low number and visiting adjacent locations with higher and higher numbers. Players get a point for every venue they visit.-description from publisher

Agents of SMERSH: Epic EditionThe Game: In Agents of SMERSH: Epic Edition the most EPIC Narrative Storytelling game of all time 1-4 players take on the roles of Elite Government Spies traveling the world in search of Dr. Lobo and his Henchmen on an EPIC mission to stop them from taking over the world. Players use their Advanced Skills Top Secret Spy Gear and Allies as they traverse exotic locations in order to locate Dr. Lobo and his Henchmen. A simple dice mechanic is utilized to resolve encounters.Our Epic Edition takes Agents of SMERSH to a whole new level by focusing on the most Epic part of the game - The Story - while giving the graphic design a fresh upgrade and streamlining some of the older mechanics to provide a more focused engaging experience. For example where you travel to on the world map now provides you with different bonuses and upgrades amongst the many hundreds of unique encounters. Instead of collecting Intel just to win the game you now collect it to locate and encounter Dr. Lobo’s Henchmen and eventually Dr. Lobo himself. Henchmen and Dr. Lobo have their own individual “Choose your Own Adventure-like” stories and encounters. Defeat one or all of the Henchmen first and you’ll gain an advantage against Dr. Lobo in the End Game.Did you defeat Dr. Lobo? Are you sure? In the Epic Edition of SMERSH there may be more than one Dr. Lobo. So it seems . . . something strange is going on in the world.The Story Briefing:The Director of the United Nations Intelligence Committee has contacted you through a secure channel. He tells you that hundreds of Secret Government Spies worldwide have been disappearing and turning up dead. Only the best of the best the elite of the elite are still alive: YOU are one of those Spies. He’s putting together a global inter-agency cooperating task force and he needs your help to prevent more death and to stop the world’s most infamous evil mastermind Dr. Lobo. Reports say that Lobo has put together his own force a force for evil and death called “SMERSH” with objectives not only to bring “Death to all Spies” but ultimately to take over the world using his most influential and powerful henchmen.Your mission if you choose to accept it is to work together with our other allied spies to bring down Lobo’s henchmen and force them to lead you to Lobo himself. Once you find Lobo take him down by any means necessary. I will do whatever I can to help from here in the UN all of our resources tech spy gear and Intel are yours for the taking. We have other agents out in the field in hiding now perhaps to meet you on your encounters in the field. Do your best to stay alive and bring down Lobo and his Henchmen as soon as possible. Good Luck. - The Director-description from publisher

Have a crazy race through Belgium and its breweries. Visit as many breweries as you can buy their beers and drink (with moderation) throughout a 3-days competition. Optimise your trips across the country: travel by bike by public transports or hitchhiking. Meet your opponents and drink with them but watch your blood alcohol level: hangovers and other obstacles await you.Ready to start? Go on your own Belgian beers race but do not forget: at the end of the 3 days be back at the Brussels Grand Place to celebrate and declare the winner! Alcohol abuse is harmful to your health drink it with moderation.You play the participant of a race through Belgium. Your goal is to visit as many breweries as possible (the points on the map) enjoy their beers buy them and return to the Grand Place in Brussels on time. Your different actions will earn you Victory Points (VP) and the one with the most accumulated wins.Goals will come to punctuate the game 4 are accessible to the turn of each player 4 others are predictable. Levels 1 will be things to do: visit a brewery in particular enjoy a beer of a certain type do a determined action … Levels 2 will be conditions to fulfill: to have beers of the 4 types in the backpack to have visited a certain number of breweries to have collected some bottles … The levels 3 are when the whole game has been available for all the players and must be filled at the end of the game to win the points: arrive sober arrive at the backpack filled …It is imperative to arrive on the Grand Place of Brussels at the end of the game … any delay will be heavily penalized by negative points in proportion to the accumulated delay.—description from the publisher

You’ll need absolute effiency in this quick “Pick up and Deliver” game of balancing speed and maximum capacity. Don’t get too distracted dropping off passengers because your opponents might beat you to the bus stop or change your route through road construction!In BUS each player controls a bus card and will navigate it throughout the city grid. A player's maximum speed which is the number of street spaces he may move is 5. When a player stops at a Bus Stop he may pick up a customer card which contains 2 different customers. The customer card's point value directly correlates to the speed in which a bus' movement is reduced to when carrying the customer card. Once a bus moves through a space with a customers' destination the customer on the card is considered delivered. Two street tiles may be swapped if the construction space is used and a player may hold several customer cards for maximum efficiency. The end game is triggered once a player has completed 5 customer cards and the bus driver with the most points wins!Number 8 in the Pack O Game series.

You and the other players work at Loop Incorporated the most prestigious time travel agency in the world. Well that’s not entirely true. It’s a mismanaged third-tier agency owned by the slick Mr. Loop who cares more about making a buck than making sure the delicate weave of the time-space continuum stays tight and safe. For you and your coworkers it’s as good as job as any and if you time things just right you may even get a nice bonus at the end of the day. And since you have a time machine you can take multiple cracks at it… assuming things don’t get too chaotic with your past selves running around.Loop Inc. is played over the course of three days with each day actually being the same day but a different time through it. During the first day players will get to perform three actions and send out their one time machine. Actions include gathering components setting up advertising and more. Then at the end of the day players jump into their time machines and return to the beginning to start the day over again. The catch is when players go back in time to try the day again their past selves are still running around. This means they’ll have to perform all the actions from the previous version of the day as well as three new ones. They’ll also have an additional ship to launch. On the third try things compound even further...making timing key. At the end of the third day the player who completed the most profitable trips wins provided they didn’t cause too many tears in the space time continuum.

“All hope abandon ye who enter here. Welcome to the grimdark. Welcome to DAYNIGHTZ™”Dawn breaks on the refuge and the sunrays bring you the feared news…the day has come the day to go back to the city. When this damned thing started you joined a group of survivors that had gathered in the woods fleeing from the city. With tremendous effort you erected a makeshift refuge to fend off the foul creatures waiting for the army to come and save you. However help is not coming you know that now. And so do the traitors who quietly left the refuge last night taking most of the remaining supplies with them. Now you are forced to go back to the city: It’s the only option if you want to survive another day…This is the starting point of DAYNIGHTZ™. You get to pick a group of up to 4 survivors each with its own character sheet that shows its attributes and abilities a backpack and some equipment. Now you’re ready to start your adventure in a nightmare world where the dead rule above the living.That depends on the game mode chosen:-> In campaign mode you will have to brave narrative missions where you will have to fight and take difficult decisions that will determine your progress culminating in one of three possible endings. -> In survival mode you will roam from city to city with complete freedom to do whatever it takes to survive another day on this hell on earth.The game is divided in 3 segments: Adventure Phase Travel Phase and Refuge Phase.1) Adventure Phase: This is the most important phase of the game. In it players will roam the streets and alleys of the city exploring locales suffering encounters and generally trying to keep a low profile while striving to achieve their goals (established by the campaign mission in the campaign mode or by their own interests in the survival mode).One of the many things that set DAYNIGHTZ™ apart from other games is that is played on TWO LEVELS. What does that mean?On one hand there is the City board consisting of a labyrinth of streets alleys surprise zones and locations. On the other hand whenever the players want to explore a certain location or due to the triggering of events and conditions players will lay out tiles to represent that particular location. Each location has its own set of tiles depending on its nature. For example the Firemen Park location consists of the parking tile the locker room tile and the offices tile.2) Travel Phase: Once the Adventure Phase is finished survivors will have to trudge back to their refuge with their meager loot. In this phase survivors will have to face different situations like zombie encounters coming across abandoned structures (farms etc) and being assaulted by other survivor groups.3) Refuge Phase: This is a management phase where survivors will have to handle upgrade and defend their base. While in the refuge survivors can do a lot of stuff: recover from their wounds/infections level up stock supplies farm food upgrade the refuge’s defenses…The refuge though will be attacked regularly by either roamer’s packs or other survivor groups who can also steal and sabotage your base. That is more likely to happen if you’re away for extended periods so try to do your city supply runs as fast as possible…DAYNIGHTZ™ is based on a double profile system for both the zombies and the survivors: during the day zombies use their worse profile while during the night zombie use their better profile and survivors will use their worse profile unless they’re equipped with a light source…which are obviously very scarce and run out very fast! The day and night cycle is controlled through a timetable located on the City board.On top of that other elements can make the brave survivor’s life even more difficult:- Threat Counter: Consists of a counter that increases as a result of diverse things happening like survivors making noise environmental effects zombies amassing etc. The higher the Threat counter the higher the risk the survivors are taking by staying in the city.- Threat Encounters: Each end of turn you will verify the conditions stated in a card. If you meet the conditions you will suffer a Threat encounter. That might not happen very frequently but…beware when it does happen!- The Hunter: The Hunter is the most dangerous zombie in the game. Luckily it only appears at night; unfortunately when it appears it will attack all the survivors who are out in the open (in streets and alleys). So keep this in mind: you don’t want to be wandering around in the open at night!- Survivor’s health and stress: DAYNIGHTZ™ is a very realistic game. Thus the more wounded your survivor is the more difficult it will be for him/her to accomplish actions (in combat or out of it). Also your survivor will be able to do less actions the more wounded he/she is. Stress is also key as your survivor will be affected by events depending on their stress level which can also impact on their attribute checks.- Infection: Survivors can get infected when wounded by a zombies while searching corpses or by other special effects. Once infected the disease will deteriorate the survivor and if not treated will end up killing him/her. Of course the infection will be more easily neutered in its early stages; the more you wait the harder it will be to remove it. While infected your survivor will periodically succumb to its effects which can make them bleed make them slower etc.To help them deal with the situations that they will find themselves in the survivors can use a lot of items that they will find in their city wanderings. However all said items will either need consumables in order to function or will wear away with use…The players will also encounter other survivors and animals during their travels which depending on the decisions previously taken and the success in the encounters can join their group as allies. Allies can give a series of bonuses to the survivors but will not remain with them forever: allies have their own loyalty system which depends on the actions taken by the players. The way you treat them will determine how they treat you!All the points above plus others that you will discover during gameplay set DAYNIGHTZ™ apart from other zombie-themed games. We have worked really hard to achieve an immersive experience exploring the dark themes of the zombie apocalypse and we welcome you.PS: If you want to keep with all the info about the game you can follow us in:

The land you live in has been at war for as long as any of you have been alive. The Queen has decided to undertake a long and perilous journey to broker an alliance with a distant power. The Queen has chosen you and only you to be her retinue and accompany her on this journey. She chose you because she knows that you love her.For the Queen is a card-based story-building game that you and up to five other players can begin playing in minutes. Choose your queen from among fourteen gorgeously varied illustrations—or start from scratch—and use the prompt cards to collaboratively tell a story of love betrayal doubt and devotion.—description from the publisherThis game also has an entry on RPGGeek: For the Queen

Listen pals. We did not fight the Void to make Lumen even brighter. The flying citadel has proven worthless profiting from scrolls and abandoning us to our empty fate. Can't you figure out the Eternals on their terrace eating grapes and enjoying the show we put on against the Seraphs? Guess what? we mortals survived and pushed back the Void. We have shown the Seraphs the door. What about the Eternals now? - Commonly heard in Gon'Mar Taverns -Fall of Lumen is a stand-alone tabletop game based on deck-building and tableau building. It is a follow-up of Legends of Void. The Void battles have ended. The Outer Lands are devastated after years of battles against the Seraphs and the people are happy to return to a peaceful time and rebuild their houses and society. But a small group of rebels is sick of the citadel of Lumen and works in the shadows to free the Outer Lands from its dictatorship. Their plan is as simple as it will be effective. Bring back the Keepers that once saved the world from the Nihil of the Pale Night and sneak them into the flying citadel as incognito agents. You play a rebel Hero, an ex-Keeper banned from the Outer Lands long ago. Now you are back thanks to the dimensional fracture caused by the Void. You'll rescue comrades from the Inner Worlds where the Eternals the founders of Lumen banished all of you. You will infiltrate Keepers into Lumen to take power back until the flying citadel becomes the falling one.  You will be supported by a Faction which shares your cause against the Eternals and compete with the other Heroes to be the most influential Hero the one who has infiltrated the most Agents on Lumen. You will move your Hero across the Outer Lands and spend their skills to gather resources such as Gold Mana Mithril Dark Matter and Genasi. Using these resources you will acquire traits learn spells buy trinkets retrieve artifacts and hire followers to help your cause and improve your skills. Finally with enough skills you can restore the dimensional connection to an Inner World and bring back a Keeper stuck there. To unlock a portal and reach an Inner World you need a different combination of skills: Deception Wit Fighting Wizardry and Void (the most precious and versatile skill). As the game gets closer to the end your interest will switch from rescuing Keepers from the Inner Worlds to sneaking them onto Lumen which is the goal of the game and the greatest source of victory points. You can infiltrate a saboteur in any of the five districts of Lumen: Informers Engineers Fighters Wizards and Voyagers. Each saboteur will grant you a recurring or immediate income and victory points.The game will feature a Solo mode and a 2-player cooperative variant. Fall of Lumen has No Take That elements. The interaction between players is indirect. It mainly comes from solving challenges market acquisitions and timing the infiltration of Agents on Lumen. The more saboteurs are on a District Window of Lumen the higher the cost to send a new one. Our estimated complexity is 3.2 on the BGG scale (max 5.0).—description from the publisher

Join this expedition and you will have the unforgettable opportunity to explore Sumatra from the top of its majestic volcanoes to the depths of its tropical rainforest. Find the most exotic animals and the most exuberant flowers and discover the endless variety of cultures that coexist on the largest island in Indonesia. Your expedition sets out with the mission of writing a travel notebook that will help raise awareness of one of the richest ecosystems in the world. Whoever makes the best contribution to this exciting mission will win.In Sumatra players move around the island to explore its multiple landscapes. On a turn your possible actions depend on where you're located in relation to the travel notebook token that starts the game in base camp with all the players:Thus you're catching up with the group researching with the group to add info to your notebook moving ahead or digging into new tiles ahead of everyone else.Tiles score and have effects in various ways for example with players gaining or losing points for meeting the most or fewest inhabitants. Flora and fauna tiles score only if you have a pair in a column but only the highest-valued of this pair scores. Villages score only if you have more pairs of reception and GPS tiles than the number of villages while the reception and GPS pairs net you no points but allow you to get a tile from the pool of known information. Equipment makes it safe to explore volcanoes on the island and if you don't have enough equipment you might lose other tiles you've collected.Sumatra also includes badges that players can collect. Be the first to collect say three flora tiles or a combination of two inhabitant and two craft tiles and you can claim the badge for this which is worth 3 points at game's end. You can also claim one diversity badge for having at least one tile in at least six rows of your notebook. The more rows you have a presence in the higher the value of the diversity badge but you can claim at most one during the game — and if someone else claims the six-row badge then you'll need to have a tile in at least seven rows for the next one...•••Únete a esta expedición y descubre Sumatra desde la cima de sus majestuosos volcanes hasta las profundidades de su selva. Encuentra los animales más exóticos las flores más exuberantes y conoce la interminable variedad de culturas que conviven en la isla más grande de Indonesia. La expedición parte con la misión de escribir un cuaderno de viaje que ayude a dar a conocer uno de los ecosistemas más ricos del mundo. Aquel que contribuya en mayor medida a esta apasionante misión se alzará con la victoria.En Sumatra los jugadores se irán desplazando por la isla para explorar sus múltiples parajes. En cada uno de ellos encontrarán información útil representada por losetas que deberán registrar en sus cuadernos de viaje colocándolas en su fila correspondiente. El jugador con el cuaderno de viaje e insignias de más valor al final de la partida se alzará con la victoria.—description from the publisher (Spanish)

Globetrotting is a game about traveling the world. Players plot three epic trips to take over the next year. It’ll take careful planning to achieve all your travel goals while staying under budget.Each round three Destination cards are revealed. Each player simultaneously selects one Destination and adds it to one of their three trips by drawing the travel route on their own globe. The globe stands have a built-in circular ruler to measure the distance (and cost) of each flight. The further you fly the more expensive the trip.Players score by accomplishing the objectives on their Bucket List cards. In addition each player has shared Travel Buddy Goals with each neighboring player. Coordinate plans with your travel buddies to meet up in the same place at the same time to score. And everyone is racing to be the first to complete the Global Objectives. The player who checks off the most travel goals wins!—description from the publisher

In Boreal two adventurous women explore the ruins of the ancient world in search of knowledge.On their turn players draft cards from a common river (or reserve a card) to try to get the ruins cards that bring the most knowledge. Depending on how many resources players have they will have access to a limited number of cards possibly all of them.After one or both players have reached ten cards the game ends and whoever has the most knowledge wins.—description from the publisher

Description from the publisher (translated):An investigation game aboard a cruise ship: for 2 to 6 players from age 12. A passenger has been murdered in his suite on board a beautiful cruise ship! The twelve occupants of the VIP cabins on the restricted-access upper deck are the obvious suspects. As a passenger on the ship you along with a few fellow private detectives who happen to be attending a conference on board decide to carry out the investigation putting at stake your reputation!Minuit Meurtre en Mer takes you on board for an unpredictable voyage during which you will need to demonstrate insightfulness to uncover some or all the circumstances of the crime

Rise and shine campers! The bugle is sounding so roll up your sleeping bags break down your tents and get ready for another beautiful summer day. Are you going to scramble up Gemini Peak? Delve deep into Fiddler's Woods? Explore the depths of the Fairy Fire Caves? Or will you take the Canoe out to Lantern Island? Grab your gear and let's get going!You are the leader of a group of Scouts who are exploring the wilderness. To win level up your scouts to the highest rank (Badger). Along the way you will need to collect skill badges which will give your scouts special abilities and allow them to level up to the highest rank in the scout organization.You will manage a hand of cards which can be replenished by drafting new supply cards into your hand. The Supply cards become the currency used to pay for skill badges.—description from the publisher

In Travelin' you're a traveler making your way through Europe using a combination of trains buses and planes. Built to be accessible for non-gamers while at the same time having solid strategy Travelin' uses card drafting hand management set collection and take-that mechanisms to inform gameplay.Turn-based and consisting of draw action and discard phases the goal of Travelin' is to amass the most points before the game ends (which happens once one player has reached five countries). You could go the fast and furious route racing through countries like France and Germany to speed up the end of the game or you could take a long-haul strategy of collecting high-point countries like Cyprus or Iceland. Each player starts with eight cards — countries to be played and actions to be taken.Whatever road you choose you'll be forced to adapt your strategy to opponents and keep a delicate balance between stopping their travels and advancing your own.