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|  Nuns on the Run | | | | | |
| CAT AND MOUSE GAME OF HIDING
Fréderic Moyersoen presents a new take on the us-versus-them genre with Nuns on the Run, published by Mayfair Games. Most of the players are novices who are eager to secretly explore the grand abbey at night in order to fulfill their “secret wish.” They sneak through corridors searching for keys and treasures. (What treasures could a novice be searching for? Forbidden cookies? A soft mattress? Or narcotics? Or a book of witchcraft?)
While sneaking through the abbey, they must remain watchful for the abbess or prioress who are on patrol to ensure that pure novices remain that way. These characters are controlled by other players who want to nab the novices before they can make it back into bed.
Nuns on the Run is a like a reverse of Scotland Yard. Players play either as a novice, or as the Abbess or Prioress. The Novices move in secret and avoid being seen or heard by the Abbess or Prioress. The goal is to make it to the location on the board where the novice can get her secret wish and return to their room without being detected. All of the novices move in secret by marking their movement and locations on hidden sheets. The Abbess and Prioress move on regulated paths around the board, but can diverge and chase down novices that they see or hear. The player or players who complete their secret wishes and return to their rooms win, or the Abbess and Prioress win if they catch a certain number of novices.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 8
Age & Difficulty: 10
Category1: Hidden Moves
Category2:
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2010 |
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| Power Grid | | | | | |
| STRATEGIC BIDDING AND MONEY MANAGEMENT TO VICTORY
Power Grid is the updated release of the Friedemann Friese crayon game Funkenschlag. It removes the crayon aspect from network building in the original edition, while retaining the fluctuating commodities market like Crude: The Oil Game and an auction round intensity reminiscent of The Princes of Florence.
The object of Power Grid is to supply the most cities with power when someones network gains a predetermined size. In this new edition, players mark pre-existing routes between cities for connection, and then bid against each other to purchase the power plants that they use to power their cities.
However, as plants are purchased, newer, more efficient plants become available, so by merely purchasing, youre potentially allowing others access to superior equipment.
Additionally, players must acquire the raw materials (coal, oil, garbage, and uranium) needed to power said plants (except for the renewable windfarm solar plants, which require no fuel), making it a constant struggle to upgrade your plants for maximum efficiency while still retaining enough wealth to quickly expand your network to get the cheapest routes.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6
Age & Difficulty: 12
Category1: Worker Placement
Category2: Resource Management
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2004 |
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| flash point: Fire Rescue | | | | | |
| COOP GAME WITH A FIRE RESCUE THEME
The call comes in... 911, what is your emergency? On the other end is a panicked response of FIRE! Moments later you don the protective suits that will keep you alive, gather your equipment and rush to the scene of a blazing inferno. The team has only seconds to assess the situation and devise a plan of attack – then you spring into action like the trained professionals that you are. You must face your fears, never give up, and above all else work as a team because the fire is raging, the building is threatening to collapse, and lives are in danger.
You must succeed. You are the brave men and women of fire rescue; people are depending on you. This is what you do every day.
Flash Point: Fire Rescue is a cooperative game of fire rescue.
There are two versions of game play in Flash Point, a basic game and expert game.
In both variants, players are attempting to rescue 7 of 10 victims from a raging building fire.
As the players attempt to rescue the victims, the fire spreads to other parts of the building, causing structural damage and possibly blocking off pathways through the building. Each turn a player may spend action points to try to extinguish fires, move through the building, move victims out of the building or perform various special actions such as moving emergency vehicles. If 4 victims perish in the blaze or the building collapses from taking too much structural damage, the players lose. Otherwise, the players win instantly when they rescue a 7th victim.
The expert variant included in the game adds thematic elements such as flash over, combustible materials, random setup, and variations on game difficulty from novice to heroic. The game includes a double sided board with two different building plans and several expansion maps are available.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6
Age & Difficulty: 10
Category1: Cooperative
Category2:
Rating: 2
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2011 |
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| Eclipse | | | | | |
| GALAXY WAR GAME WITH ECONOMY MANAGEMENT
The galaxy has been a peaceful place for many years. After the ruthless Terran–Hegemony War (30.027–33.364), much effort has been employed by all major spacefaring species to prevent the terrifying events from repeating themselves. The Galactic Council was formed to enforce precious peace, and it has taken many courageous efforts to prevent the escalation of malicious acts. Nevertheless, tension and discord are growing among the seven major species and in the Council itself. Old alliances are shattering, and hasty diplomatic treaties are made in secrecy. A confrontation of the superpowers seems inevitable – only the outcome of the galactic conflict remains to be seen. Which faction will emerge victorious and lead the galaxy under its rule?
A game of Eclipse places you in control of a vast interstellar civilization, competing for success with its rivals. You will explore new star systems, research technologies, and build spaceships to wage war with. There are many potential paths to victory, so you need to plan your strategy according to the strengths and weaknesses of your species, while paying attention to the other civilizations endeavors.
The shadows of the great civilizations are about to eclipse the galaxy. Lead your people to victory!
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6
Age & Difficulty: 14
Category1: Resource Management
Category2: War Strategy
Rating: 5
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2011 |
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| Mascarade | | | | | |
| THE GAME OF BLUFFING
Players in Mascarade start with six coins and a randomly dealt character card. Characters stay face up just long enough for players to more or less memorize them, then are turned face down. Your goal is to be the first player to hold 13 coins, and while you start nearly halfway to that goal, you can go down just as surely as you can go up!
On a turn you take one of three actions:
1) Announce your character: Claim the power of a certain character and take the associated action. You dont have to have that character card in front of you to take this action, but if someone else says that theyre that character and reveals the card to prove it, that player takes the action instead while you lose one coin to the tribunal.
2) Swap cards or not: Take another players character card along with yours, place them under the table, shuffle them around a bit, then give one card back to the other player while keeping one for yourself. You (presumably) know whether you changed characters and can have some idea of who you are now, but that other player might be in the dark.
3) Secretly look at your character: Look at your character card to make sure of who you are.
Play continues until one player obtains 13 coins and wins!
Mascarade includes more character cards than the number of players, so not all characters will be used in each game. The rules suggest that you use certain characters in your first games, but once you know the game, you can try many other distributions. The first edition of Mascarade contains 13 characters. The beggar (woman) has no special ability. Bruno Faidutti says on his blog: ...she has no ability so far. I always like to find blank cards in a game, for which I can imagine my own effects. Here, the card is not blank – it has a picture and a name, but you can devise its effect, and Im sure therell be some prize for the best idea.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 15
Age & Difficulty: 10
Category1: Bluffing
Category2:
Rating: 5
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2013 |
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| Race for the Galaxy | | | | | |
| RACE TO BUILD THE BEST GALAXY CARDS
In the card game Race for the Galaxy, players build galactic civilizations by playing game cards in front of them that represent worlds or technical and social developments. Some worlds allow players to produce goods, which can be consumed later to gain either card draws or victory points when the appropriate technologies are available to them. These are mainly provided by the developments and worlds that are not able to produce, but the fancier production worlds also give these bonuses.
At the beginning of each round, players each select, secretly and simultaneously, one of the seven roles which correspond to the phases in which the round progresses. By selecting a role, players activate that phase for this round, giving each player the opportunity to perform that phases action. For example, if one player chooses the settle role, each player has the opportunity to settle one of the planets from their hand. The player who has chosen the role, however, gets a bonus that applies only to him. But bonuses may also be acquired through developments, so one must be aware when another player also takes advantage of his choice of role.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6
Age & Difficulty: 12
Category1: Cards
Category2: Race
Rating: 4
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2007 |
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| 7 Wonders | | | | | |
| REACT TO YOUR OPPONENTS FOR YOUR OWN SUCCESS
You are the leader of one of the 7 great cities of the Ancient World. Gather resources, develop commercial routes and affirm your military supremacy. Build your city and erect an architectural wonder which will transcend future times.
7 Wonders lasts three ages. In each age, players receive seven cards from a particular deck, choose one of those cards, then pass the remainder to an adjacent player, as in Fairy Tale or a Magic: the Gathering booster draft. Players reveal their cards simultaneously, paying resources if needed or collecting resources or interacting with other players in various ways. (Players have individual boards with special powers on which to organize their cards, and the boards are double-sided as in Bauzas Ghost Stories.) Each player then chooses another card from the deck they were passed, and the process repeats until players have six cards in play from that age. After three ages, the game ends.
In essence 7 Wonders is a card development game along the lines of Race for the Galaxy or Dominion. Some cards have immediate effects, while others provide bonuses or upgrades later in the game. Some cards provide discounts on future purchases. Some provide military strength to overpower your neighbors and others give nothing but victory points. Unlike Magic or Fairy Tale, however, each card is played immediately after being drafted, so youll know which cards your neighbor is receiving and how his choices might affect what youve already built up. Cards are passed left-right-left over the three ages, so you need to keep an eye on the neighbors in both directions.
Though the box of earlier editions is listed as being for 3-7 players, there is an official 2-player variant included in the instructions.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 7
Age & Difficulty: 10
Category1: Resource Management
Category2:
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2010 |
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| Letters From Whitechapel | | | | | |
| CAT AND MOUSE GAME OF DEDUCTION
Get ready to enter the poor and dreary Whitechapel district in London 1888 – the scene of the mysterious Jack the Ripper murders – with its crowded and smelly alleys, hawkers, shouting merchants, dirty children covered in rags who run through the crowd and beg for money, and prostitutes – called the wretched – on every street corner.
The board game Letters from Whitechapel, which plays in 90-150 minutes, takes the players right there. One player plays Jack the Ripper, and his goal is to take five victims before being caught. The other players are police detectives who must cooperate to catch Jack the Ripper before the end of the game. The game board represents the Whitechapel area at the time of Jack the Ripper and is marked with 199 numbered circles linked together by dotted lines. During play, Jack the Ripper, the Policemen, and the Wretched are moved along the dotted lines that represent Whitechapels streets. Jack the Ripper moves stealthily between numbered circles, while policemen move on their patrols between crossings, and the Wretched wander alone between the numbered circles.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6
Age & Difficulty: 13
Category1: Hidden Moves
Category2: partnership
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2011 |
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| Kanzume | | | | | |
| CARD FIGHTING GAME WITH FEMALE GODS
It was the age of gods and goddess. Zeus (King of the Gods), Poseidon (Lord of the Seas), and Hades (God of the Underworld) had agreed to separate the sky, the ocean, and the underworld. Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom, would take over the rest of the earth. But the Norse gods were displeased by the decision. They called warriors and disciples to take the world from the Greek gods. The gods atop Mt. Olympus also called their warriors to defend them. During this war of the gods, a mass of warriors died, and their souls were sealed in a jar.
And now they are waiting for you to release them.
In the deck-building game Kanzume Goddess, you will be one of the Gods of mythology. Each God in the game has its own special powers which players can use to their benefit. Players will purchase cards from the center of the table to add to their decks. They will use these cards to purchase more cards and to do battle with the other players. These cards can be used to damage other players, to gain more cards, to draw more cards from your deck, and to protect yourself from damage. The last player with energy left is the last God standing and the winner of the game.
Kanzume Goddess can be played as an individual match with 2-6 players or as a team match if you play with 4 or 6 players.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6
Age & Difficulty: 10
Category1: Cards
Category2:
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2012 |
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| ThinkBlot | | | | | |
| PARTY GAME THAT ENCOURAGES IMAGINATION
To play, each player looks at a picture of Inkblots on a page (similar to ones on the box lid) of which there are 75 pages of them to choose from. A special die is rolled which tells you the category to look for eg Food, Creatures, People, Wearables etc. You now have a time limit to look at the picture and write down as many things in that category that you see. At the end of the time each player reads their picture list and shows which inkblot the picture relates to. To score a point, the majority of the other players must agree that they see what you see
and you must persuade them if you can. This often leads to amusement, as you find out rather quickly that what you see clearly is not what the other players are seeing.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6
Age & Difficulty: 10
Category1: Party
Category2:
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 1997 |
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| Three Kingdoms Battle | | | | | |
| 三国杀是主要流行于中国大陆與台灣的桌上纸牌游戏。该纸牌游戏以杀人纸牌（Bang!）为原型，以三国时代为背景，拥有不同类型的身份牌、武将牌、体力牌、游戏牌（包括基本牌、锦囊牌、装备牌）等。游戏玩家数量为2-10人。三国杀游戏由游卡桌游（Yoka Games）开发，于2008年9月18日在北京、上海和厦门三个城市同步面市。三国杀游戏的核心为三国杀标准版1，可以配合各种扩展包以增加游戏性。
三国杀游戏现有两种标准版：2008年发售的“三國殺標準版”，与2013年发售的“三國殺標準版（2013新版）”。
目前官方已发行「神话再临」扩展包（包括「軍爭篇」2、「風」3、「火」4、「林」5、「山」6），由玩家设计武将组成的「一將成名」7、「一將成名2012」8、「一將成名2013」9扩展包以及通过杂志《桌游志》赠送的部分SP武将。
在2010年游卡桌游还推出过无障碍入门的“初出茅庐”版本10。
2011年推出了新包装的标准版11、神话再临合集以及珍藏版12，对游戏说明、卡牌描述进行改良，并更改了游戏牌的背面图案。2013年推出了“三国杀2013新标准版”，其中更换了3名武将的技能与插画，并新增了2个新武将。13
2012年通过代理商在台湾地区发售了繁体中文标准版14。同年7月发行了「国战」版本15。其在线游戏版本为《三国杀Online》。
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 10
Age & Difficulty: 10
Category1: Secret Roles
Category2: Party
Rating: Not Rated
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2008 |
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| Hanabi | | | | | |
| THE COOP GAME OF HIDDEN CARDS
Hanabi—named for the Japanese word for fireworks—is a cooperative game in which players try to create the perfect fireworks show by placing the cards on the table in the right order.
The card deck consists of five different colors of cards, numbered 1–5 in each color. For each color, the players try to place a row in the correct order from 1–5. Sounds easy, right? Well, not quite, as in this game you hold your cards so that theyre visible only to other players. To assist other players in playing a card, you must give them hints regarding the numbers or the colors of their cards. Players must act as a team to avoid errors and to finish the fireworks display before they run out of cards.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 15
Age & Difficulty: 8
Category1: Cards
Category2: partnership
Rating: Not Rated
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2010 |
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| Hegemonic | | | | | |
| DEEP STRATEGY WITH MULTILATERAL CONFLICT
It is a momentous time for the Post-Human Assembly. Having fully populated the Milky Way Galaxy, the Great Houses turn their eyes towards a neighboring galaxy – endeavoring to venture across the inter-galactic void to stake claim among uncharted stars. Each Great House seeks to dominate this new galaxy, for in the race to achieve hegemony, only one can be victorious.
Hegemonic is a fast-paced game of galactic expansion, empire-building, conflict, and intrigue. As the leader of a Great House, you must expand your control over the sectors of the galaxy, build up your industrial, political, and martial capability, develop awe-inspiring technologies, and carefully time your actions to outmaneuver the other empires.
Deep Strategy
The players are in control, shaping the unexplored galaxy to support their strategic plans instead of having choices dictated by chance.
Rich Tactics
Card-driven conflict mechanics and technology development focus on tough, tactical choices and timing, minimizing luck-based gameplay.
Multilateral Conflict
A player’s industrial, political, and martial systems can all be used offensively and to control regions of the galaxy.
The stars await: can you lead your Great House to victory?
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6
Age & Difficulty: 13
Category1: Abstract Strategy
Category2: Area Control
Rating: 5
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2013 |
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| Disc Duelers | | | | | |
| FLICKING DISCS WITH SPECIAL CHARACTER POWERS
In Disc Duelers, players control a team of 3-5 characters, which are drafted during the initial set-up. Each of the 52 characters is represented by a card and a disc. The card shows ratings for movement and attacks, plus a special ability. The game can be played on any flat surface, although a four-foot-square table is recommended. Players place everyday objects on the table to act as terrain.
On his turn, a player activates a character. He may then move and attack by flicking the corresponding disc. A moving disc that hits terrain suffers no damage, but hitting other discs causes one damage to the active character. An attacking disc suffers a point of damage if it hits terrain and causes a point of damage to another character if it hits its disc. Knocking a disc into terrain or off the table inflicts an additional point of damage. A character is eliminated when it takes five points of damage. A characters ratings determine how many times it can move and attack each time it is activated. Optional item cards, if used, can be acquired during play and provide additional actions.
Disc Duelers includes several play options, including classic elimination, point capture (points scored for eliminating a character, but that character returns to action), soccer or volleyball with a neutral disc representing the ball, and a race.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 21
Age & Difficulty: 10
Category1: dextility
Category2: partnership
Rating: Not Rated
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2013 |
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| Duel of Ages II | | | | | |
| MELEE, RANGE SHOOTING, LINE OF SIGHT, REAL BATTLE GROUND
Duel of Ages II is a time-scramble board game played between two opposing sides each having 1 to 4 players, with uneven size allowable. Each side controls a selected team of 8-12 characters from different ages of time: Ancient, Colonial, Modern and Future. The goal is to win greater glory in overcoming adventures and in tactical combat than the opposing team.
Although multiple styles of play are available, the standard DoA game-play involves seven phases:
Selection of each side’s team of 8-12 characters (kept secret).
Building of the interlocking puzzle map to best suit your character’s skills.
Selection of a Team White and a Team Black based on character Respect.
Revealing and equipping of characters.
Bringing characters onto the map based on Respect.
A sequence of game rounds where characters maneuver on the map to accomplish adventures, hunt enemy characters and avoid dangerous situations.
Counting of total achievements won. The team with the most achievements wins.
The game can end at a certain time or after a certain number of rounds.
Game play is an unusual mix of tactical wargame-style combat, treasure gathering, and non-combat character teamwork and adventuring, and has no close comparison to other games. Differences between characters are significant, with many having poor fighting skills. Game play and winning is therefore an act of balancing fighting, treasure-gathering and adventuring.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 8
Age & Difficulty: 12
Category1: War Strategy
Category2: partnership
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2013 |
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| Geistesblitz - Ghost Blitz | | | | | |
| THE GAME OF SPEED OBJECT RECOGNITION
In Geistesblitz, five wooden items sit on the table waiting to be caught: a white ghost, a green bottle, a cute grey mouse, a blue book, and a comfortable red chair. Each card in the deck shows pictures of two objects, with one or both objects colored the wrong way. With all players playing at the same time, someone reveals a card, then players grab for the right object – but which object is right?
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 8
Age & Difficulty: 0
Category1: Real Time
Category2:
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2010 |
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| Love Jenga | | | | | |
| JENGA WITH LOVE QUESTIONS
On top of the rules for traditional Jenga, each time you draw a brick, you must read whats written on it and answer the question or do what youre told to. As the title let you guess, some of the questions are love-related.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 8
Age & Difficulty: 8
Category1: dextility
Category2:
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2006 |
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| Dominant Species | | | | | |
| DEEP STRATEGY AREA CONTROL WITH RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
90,000 B.C. -- A great ice age is fast approaching. Another titanic struggle for global supremacy has unwittingly commenced between the varying animal species.
Dominant Species is a game that abstractly recreates a tiny portion of ancient history: the ponderous encroachment of an ice age and what that entails for the living creatures trying to adapt to the slowly-changing earth.
Each player will assume the role of one of six major animal classes -- mammal, reptile, bird, amphibian, arachnid or insect. Each begins the game more or less in a state of natural balance in relation to one another. But that won’t last: It is indeed survival of the fittest.
Through wily action pawn placement, players will strive to become dominant on as many different terrain tiles as possible in order to claim powerful card effects. Players will also want to propagate their individual species in order to earn victory points for their particular animal. Players will be aided in these endeavors via speciation, migration and adaptation actions, among others.
All of this eventually leads to the end game -- the final ascent of the ice age -- where the player having accumulated the most victory points will have his animal crowned the Dominant Species.
But somebody better become dominant quickly, because it’s getting mighty cold....
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6
Age & Difficulty: 14
Category1: Area Control
Category2: Resource Management
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2010 |
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| Coup | | | | | |
| BLUFF YOUR WAY TO VICTORY
You are head of a family in an Italian city-state, a city run by a weak and corrupt court. You need to manipulate, bluff and bribe your way to power. Your object is to destroy the influence of all the other families, forcing them into exile. Only one family will survive...
In Coup, you want to be the last player with influence in the game, with influence being represented by face-down character cards in your playing area.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6
Age & Difficulty: 10
Category1: Bluffing
Category2:
Rating: 4
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2012 |
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| Eight-Minute Empire: Legends | | | | | |
| SUPER FAST FUN AREA CONTROL GAME
Eight-Minute Empire: Legends is a standalone sequel to the area control game Eight-Minute Empire and does not require the original game to play. Just like the original game, players take turns selecting a card from six on display. The card has an action that the player takes immediately, and actions help players take over the map – but whats new and different in this version?
Instead of goods, cards now have special abilities, which give players unique advantages and ways to break the rules throughout the game
Each card has a unique, beautiful illustration of a fantasy creature or location
A modular board for increased variety
New variants
Is Eight-Minute Empire: Legends still playable in eight minutes? Yes, but only if you hurry!
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6
Age & Difficulty: 8
Category1: Area Control
Category2:
Rating: 5
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2013 |
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| Iliad | | | | | |
| BATTLE CARDS GAME
The players will lead their Greek characters into a bold action of besieging Troy and rescuing the beautiful Helene.
The first one to reach 12 points will be the winner.
During the game, various stages will unfold and during these, the victory cards are put into play. As it happens, a player can make his own army stronger or weaken those of his opponents by playing the correct cards.
After the siege, the strongest players will receive a victory card of their choice, all cards in play will be discarded, and a new phase will unfold with the cards remaining in each players hand. Each player will then receive 3 new cards and the next battle round will commence.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6
Age & Difficulty: 10
Category1: Cards
Category2:
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2006 |
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| Im the Boss! | | | | | |
| THE MONEY NEGOTIATION GAME
Classic negotiation game in which players take turns being The Boss arranging deals between specific players on how best to divide piles of money. Players can sabotage or kill deals theyre not happy with.
Rarely is a game stripped down to its bare essense as cleanly as Im the Boss! is. Up to fifteen deals can be made over the course of the game, and a player who is part of a successful deal will receive a certain amount of money.
How much money? Well, that depends on whatever deal is made among the players involved, as negotiated by that rounds boss. Complicating matters quite a bit, however, each player has a hand of action cards that can be used to derail negotiations, insert themselves into a deal, take over the role of boss, and otherwise muck with the smooth flow of deal-making that other players had hoped to achieve. Nertz to them! If you want to make a deal, you gotta cut me a share!
Once nine deals have been made, a die is rolled after each subsequent deal to determine whether the game ends (with the odds increasing each time). Victory goes to whoever has the biggest bankroll!
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6
Age & Difficulty: 12
Category1: Negotiation/Diplomacy
Category2:
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 1994 |
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| Fearsome Floors | | | | | |
| ESCAPE FROM THE MONSTERS
The storyline in Friedemann Frieses Fearsome Floors (aka, Finstere Flure) continues the FFF-saga from Frieses earlier game, with players trying to escape from Fürst Fieso. Story aside, what we have is a wonderful race game in which the players must move through a dungeon as quickly as possible – or at least within 14 turns – before it crumbles over their heads.
Players could reach the exit in only seven turns if everything were peaceful and quiet, but unfortunately the dungeon is also the home of a very hungry monster! Each round, players take turns moving one disk at a time, flipping over the disk after moving it to reveal the movement points available for the next round. They can try to lead the monster, who is always after fresh prey, to opponents pieces, but they may find themselves eaten instead! Pieces can slide along blood slicks or might be crushed between a boulder and a wall. You can even try to get the monster to teleport to another part of the board, where it will fall upon its next victim!
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 7
Age & Difficulty: 10
Category1: Race
Category2:
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2003 |
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| The Settlers of Catan | | | | | |
| AWARD WINNING GAME FOR EVERYONE
In The Settlers of Catan, players try to be the dominant force on the island of Catan by building settlements, cities, and roads. On each turn dice are rolled to determine what resources the island produces. Players collect these resources (cards) - wood, grain, brick, sheep, or stone - to build up their civilizations to get to 10 victory points and win the game.
Setup includes randomly placing large hexagonal tiles (each showing a resource or the desert) in a honeycomb shape and surrounding them with water tiles, some of which contain ports of exchange. Number disks, which will correspond to die rolls (two 6-sided dice are used), are placed on each resource tile. Each player is given two settlements (think, houses) and roads (sticks) which are, in turn, placed on intersections and borders of the resource tiles. Players collect a hand of resource cards based on which hex tiles their last-placed house is adjacent to. A robber pawn is placed on the desert tile.
A turn consists of possibly playing a development card, rolling the dice, everyone (perhaps) collecting resource cards based on the roll and position of houses (or upgraded cities - think, hotels) unless a 7 is rolled, turning in resource cards (if possible and desired) for improvements, trading cards at a port, and trading resource cards with other players. If a 7 is rolled, the active player moves the robber to a new hex tile and steals resource cards from other players who have built structures adjacent to that tile.
Points are accumulated by building settlements and cities, having the longest road and the largest army (from some of the development cards), and gathering certain development cards that simply award victory points. When a player has gathered 10 points (some of which may be held in secret), he announces his total and claims the win.
The Settlers of Catan has won multiple awards and is one of the most popular games in recent history due to its amazing ability to appeal to experienced gamers as well as those new to the hobby.
Minimum Players: 3
Maximum Players: 6
Age & Difficulty: 8
Category1: Resource Management
Category2: Luck driven
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 1995 |
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| War of Kings | | | | | |
| WAR STRATEGY GAME FOR 6 PLAYERS
It is a dark time. The once mighty empire of Arowyth has fractured, and the feudal lords have crowned themselves kings, each bent on expanding their realms and laying claim to the ancient imperial title. Alliances have worn thin, and the thirst for power has driven them to war with each other. But they are not the only forces vying for power. The Malador, foreign marauders, have taken advantage of the chaos to satisfy their lust for conquest and plunder by ravaging the land.
In War of Kings, you will assume the role of one of the rival kings. Immediately, you will be faced with decisions on every round of play about how best to expand your realm. During the Construction Phase, in which all players play simultaneously, you will generate resources, collect gold, build settlements, fortify them, and raise armies. The combat system provides many opportunities for tactical and strategic decisions. Wage war with our custom combat dice using a mechanic that engages both the attacking and defending player. You must also contend with the Maladorian Marauders, an evil horde controlled by a card-based mechanic that allows the players to decide how best to wreak havoc on the other kingdoms of Arowyth.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6
Age & Difficulty: 13
Category1: War Strategy
Category2:
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2014 |
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| Armymals | | | | | |
| MULTI PLAYER TANK BATTLES
It is a game of critters in tanks and they do pew pew pew. Our armymals are very special creatures: they drive tanks and have strong personalities just like the noble leaders of the past. In Armymals you will meet dozens of characters like Narwhaleon Bonaparte, Abrahamster Lincoln or Lionidas – each with its own unique artwork and thematic abilities. The game is an action packed, fast strategy experience. Brightly coloured tanks move across a hexagon-tiled battlefield filled with three-dimensional scenery representing trees, barns etc. The colourful board and the cute animals with a twist of historical characters make the game accessible to kids and hilarious to adults. We used the same principle while creating the rules, they have an increasing complexity to ensure fun for both beginners and hardcore players.
Armymals use an intuitive system based on a set of unique dice and cards to generate a different choice of actions each turn. Animals in tanks are able to carry out many orders: moving, shooting, accumulating energy, using character skills and more. To win players will have to collect Victory Points. They come from completing Operations, which are chosen at the beginning of the game and can be different each time. Depending on active Operations players will have to destroy enemy tanks, capture the flag, control strategic locations, complete crazy tasks from mission deck and more.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 8
Age & Difficulty: 8
Category1: War Strategy
Category2: Party
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2014 |
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| Coup Reformation | | | | | |
| 10 PLAYERS BLUFFING KILLING GAME
Coup: Reformation, an expansion for the original version of Coup: City State from La Mame Games, adds new cards to the game and rules for factions and team play that increases tension in the early stages for four or more players and (thanks to 15 additional character cards) allows Coup to be better played with up to ten players.
With Coup: Reformation, each player must declare himself either Catholic (Loyalist in the second edition) or Protestant (Resistant) and can target only members of the other faction. Conversion is possible, however, for yourself or for another player by paying a charitable donation to the Almshouse (Treasury). Like all factions, once you have eliminated or converted the other group, you just descend into in-fighting, so theres still only one winner and no second place.
Coup: Reformation adds a new fluid team dynamic to Coup as players jostle with their allegiance to take advantage or seek protection in the early stages of the game.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 10
Age & Difficulty: 10
Category1: Bluffing
Category2: Cards
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2013 |
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| Trans Europa | | | | | |
| CONNECT THE CITIES AS FAST AS POSSIBLE TO WIN
Now it is time to go railroading in Europa. Just like TransAmerica, players work together building a railroad network, but this time it is across Europe instead of the United States. The first to have their five cities connected wins the round - the others lose points for being too slow! After 3-4 rounds, the player with the most points wins the game!
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6
Age & Difficulty: 8
Category1: Abstract Strategy
Category2:
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2005 |
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| Chicago Poker | | | | | |
| BLUFFING WITH POKER HANDS
Players are notorious gang bosses in the heyday of organized crime in Chicago during the 1920s. The goal of the game is to take control of the main legal and illegal sources of profit, meaning bars, game rooms, jazz clubs and revue theaters. To do this, each player sends his men to intimidate the owners of these businesses and gain them to their cause. Most of the businesses even change ownership at the game table! The winner is the first player who, by playing poker combinations with his cards, takes control over 3 businesses of the same kind, 4 different ones, or any 5.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6
Age & Difficulty: 10
Category1: Bluffing
Category2: Cards
Rating: 4
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2007 |
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| Nox | | | | | |
| PRETTY HAND MANAGEMENT CARD GAME
As soon as one player has six separate stacks in front of herself or all players have no cards left in hand, the round ends. Any player without stacks topped by cards of all three colors scores zero points for the round; all other players sum the numbers shown on the uppermost card of each stack they have. Rounds continue until at least one player has scored at least 150 points. In this case, the game ends and the player with the most points wins.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6
Age & Difficulty: 10
Category1: Cards
Category2:
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2012 |
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| Age of War | | | | | |
| QUICK CARDS CONQUERING WITH BATTLE DICE
Age of War is a quick-playing game of conquest. Fourteen cards are laid out at the start of the game, each showing one castle and the symbols required to conquer this castle, with the symbols separated into battle lines. Each castle belongs to a clan, with some clans having only a single castle and some having up to four castles.
A player starts his turn by rolling seven dice, the six sides of which show archery, cavalry, daimyo, and 1-3 infantry. He then selects a card and uses the symbols rolled to conquer exactly one of the battle lines on this card (by placing the appropriate dice on that line). If he can do this, he then rolls the remaining dice, ideally conquering another line; if he cant conquer a line, he removes one die from play, then rolls again. His turn ends when either he conquers every line on the card (in which case he claims it) or he no longer has dice available to roll.
Each card is worth a number of victory points. You can conquer cards owned by other players, but you need to conquer an additional daimyo line in the process. If a player owns all the castles of one clan, however, those castles are secure and cannot be stolen. Whats more, these castles are now worth more points because youve united the clan under one ruler (you) and strengthened your hold over Japan.
When the last card is claimed, players tally their points, and whoever has the highest score wins.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6
Age & Difficulty: 14
Category1: Luck driven
Category2:
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2014 |
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| Diamonsters | | | | | |
| COLLECT SETS TO WIN
In the card game Diamonsters, each player starts the game with an identical hand of cards, each of which has a cartoonish picture of a monster and a value from one to five. Each round one card is dealt from the deck face up. Some monsters are more valuable than others, and some eat the diamonds found on other cards. Players attempt to win the round by playing the highest card in front of them, but cards of equal value cancel out. The winner of each round adds his winning card — plus the face-up card — to his collection of cards won. The first player to collect three cards of the same value or five diamonds wins the game.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6
Age & Difficulty: 6
Category1: Cards
Category2:
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2013 |
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| Bolide | | | | | |
| REALISTIC RACING SIMULATION
Bolide presents itself as a revolutionary car racing game since no cards or dice move the cars.
Each driver can take total control of his own car by applying a move mechanism based on a second pawn, able to reproduce the real accelerations, decelerations and inertial movements of the cars during the races.
To learn such a mechanism means to learn driving a racing car and to experience a very high simulation level: the drivers can work out the best routes along the squares of the track and push their car at the speed they want, racing opponents and making breathtaking over-takings or extreme braking.
They really play with their driving style. But they should make sure they preserve their engine and tires for the last part of the race...
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 8
Age & Difficulty: 10
Category1: Race
Category2:
Rating: 4
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2005 |
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| Spin Monkeys | | | | | |
| MULTIPLAYER MONKEY PATH TO VICTORY
In Spin Monkeys, one of four winners in Rio Grande Games 2009 game design competition, you are a monkey in the jungle when one day a wayward carnival makes a stop. You and your fellow monkeys jump in the bumper cars and away you go. You have no idea why there is fruit all over the arena floor, but you aim to grab as much of it for yourself as possible!
Game synopsis:
Spin Monkeys has each player starting on a junction at the edge of the board with a hand of 5 cards. The cards have 8 possible degrees of rotation from 45 to a full 360 degrees. On each turn players choose a card, rotate their monkey clockwise to the degree, then move one junction per played card in front of them. On the first turn you only go one junction, but as the game goes you can travel more junctions as you play more cards, picking up all the fruit you glide over, apples, oranges and bananas, leaving peels. Some cards have text that let you do special actions, like taking more fruit, or rotating during your movement. As you go faster, traveling more junctions per turn, it becomes harder to avoid running into the sides of the board or other monkeys. When you bump into the side of the board you lose cards, slowing you down. If you crash into another monkey you get to spin them, and steal a piece of fruit. After you play your hand, you get 5 new cards to direct your monkey with. Game goes until only one kind of fruit is left on the board. Most points in fruit wins!
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 8
Age & Difficulty: 13
Category1: Cards
Category2: Party
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2012 |
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| Artificium | | | | | |
| FAST RESOURCES GATHERING DEVELOPMENT GAME FOR 6 PLAYERS
Artificium is a card-driven development game. Some cards produce resources or transform one type of resources into another and award victory points, while others let you perform actions. Carefully planning the chain of cards that you will play during the game turn is the key to success.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6
Age & Difficulty: 8
Category1: Cards
Category2: Resource Management
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2014 |
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| Halli Galli | | | | | |
| SEE WHO IS FASTEST
Halli Galli is a speed action game in which players watch for sets of exactly five fruit. The deck contains 56 playing cards showing four kinds of fruit in groups of 1 to 5 and a bell of the type found at hotel reception desks.
The deck is distributed evenly between the players. All players hold their deck face down and take turns dealing one card face up in front of them. As each player reveals her next card, the instant you see a total of five of one kind of fruit on the table, hit the bell. If youre correct, you pick up all the played cards and put them into your deck; if youre wrong, you pay the other players one card each. When you run out of cards, youre out. When two players are left, they play until the bell is struck once more, then the game ends and the taller deck wins.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6
Age & Difficulty: 6
Category1: Real Time
Category2:
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 1990 |
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| NOIR: Deductive Mystery Game, Black Edition | | | | | |
| KILLER VS INSPECTOR, OR SPY VS SPY
NOIR: Killer vs. Inspector is a two-player game of hidden identities and deduction. Each player receives a secret identity from among 25 suspects and an open role that determines his available moves and victory conditions.
The Killer plays by eliminating players, focusing more on intuition and reading his opponent. The Inspector uses secret information and his ability to accuse suspects to create a play style more focused around logical elimination of possibilities.
The game plays in 5 to 15 minutes, and is contained in a 54-card deck box for easy travel play.
NOIR: Deductive Mystery Game – Black Box Edition includes fifty suspect and fifty innocent cards as well as six game modes — including Killer vs. Inspector, Hitman vs. Sleuth, Spy Tag, Master Thief vs. Chief of Police — to test your mettle!
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 9
Age & Difficulty: 10
Category1: Memory
Category2: Deduction
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2012 |
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| Codenames | | | | | |
| DECODE THE DATA BUT HIDE IT FROM ENEMIES
Two rival spymasters know the secret identities of 25 agents. Their teammates know the agents only by their CODENAMES.
In Codenames, two teams compete to see who can make contact with all of their agents first. Spymasters give one-word clues that can point to multiple words on the board. Their teammates try to guess words of the right color while avoiding those that belong to the opposing team. And everyone wants to avoid the assassin.
Codenames: Win or lose, its fun to figure out the clues.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 8
Age & Difficulty: 12
Category1: Deduction
Category2: Cooperative
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2015 |
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| Empires: The Age of Discovery | | | | | |
| REVISIT ONE OF THE BEST REMAKE OF CLASSIC WORKER PLACEMENT GAME
Designed by Glenn Drover, this boardgame allows you to revisit the age of exploration and discovery. Take on the role of a colonial power seeking fame, glory, and riches in the New World. As you proceed through three ages, you can launch expeditions of discovery, colonize regions, expand your merchant fleet, build capitol buildings that give your nation distinct advantages, develop your economy, and, if necessary, declare war.
Though originally published for 5 players, the game is playable by 6 with the original components and board configuration with addition of a set of figures in another color. This was originally offered as an expansion and an incentive to pre-order the game. A 6 player expansion is also in the Glenn Drovers Empires: Builder Expansion, along with new capital buildings and National Advantage tiles.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6
Age & Difficulty: 12
Category1: Worker Placement
Category2: Area Control
Rating: 4
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2015 |
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| Dudab | | | | | |
| Prehistoric people were fishing, hunting and gathering during their wandering. It was important to carry as many things with them as possible in order to move easily. They couldn’t speak, but Dudab was one among their primitive words meaning sorry. Lead everybody else by the nose, and keep ahead of everyone.
When its your turn in Dudab, you can choose one of the two possibilities: lay down a card or draw a card. Then the next players turn in clockwise order starts. Players need to collect as few cards and as few victory points as possible. For this aim, they have to be very tactical, and say Dudab with proper timing. The player who can lead everybody else by the nose and collect the fewest victory points wins.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6
Age & Difficulty: 8
Category1: Cards
Category2: Party
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2014 |
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| Island Fortress | | | | | |
| BUILDING THE GREATEST FORTRESS
In Island Fortress, you play a master builder chosen by Governor Cortland Hansen to help construct the mighty Fort Aldenford using the penal colony on Alcott Island. Your goal is to become the most distinguished architect with the help of your Taskmaster, Workers, and the Governor himself!
In the game, all players use identical decks of five Role Cards to plot their actions such as purchasing workers, building the wall, collecting money from the treasury, and more. In addition to scoring points for having built the majority of blocks on each row of the fortress wall, players can also gain various bonuses for completing favors for the Governor by building the walls in specific ways, following the Governors preferred patterns.
Island Fortress, formerly known as Huang Di and sporting a Great Wall of China theme, won the first ever ProtoSlam competition held by Cambridge Games Factory in August 2006 and is the first published game by designer Bryan Johnson.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6
Age & Difficulty: 13
Category1: set collection
Category2: Worker Placement
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2013 |
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| Secrets Chamber of Cry | | | | | |
| also called ROOMS, is a social deduction game. A group of people is capture and enclosed in a place with multiple rooms, poisoned. They must find the way out in one of the rooms, but there are bombs, disguised killer among them, while time is running out....
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 9
Age & Difficulty: 10
Category1: Deduction
Category2: Party
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2012 |
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| Going, Going, GONE! | | | | | |
| REAL TIME AUCTION
Can you keep calm while bids are rising? Experience the exhilaration of real life auctions!
In Going, Going, GONE!, players try to win items by bidding on five simultaneous auctions while the Auctioneer counts down from 10 to 1! Players bid on these five simultaneous auctions by physically dropping their wooden cubes (known as Bucks) into any or all of the five transparent Auction Cups, each of which represents an auction for one or two Item Cards.
At the end of the countdown, the Auctioneer says GONE! and quickly places the Auction Paddle over the five Auction Cups to close the auctions. The player who has the most Bucks in each Auction Cup wins that auction and takes the Item Cards for that auction. Collections of items may be sold throughout the game for more Bucks, or players can keep building their collections to sell them at the end of the game. The player with the most Bucks at the end of the game wins!
Going, Going, GONE! is a simple-to-learn, exciting and unique game for players of all skill levels! It is ideal for playing in public spaces. Since the players control the pacing of the game and the variants used, the game adapts to the playing style of the players.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6
Age & Difficulty: 8
Category1: Auction/bidding
Category2: Real Time
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2013 |
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| Rise of Augustus | | | | | |
| A BIT OF LUCK AND COLLECT YOUR CARDS TO VICTORY
In Augustus, you vie with your fellow players to complete objective cards for special powers and ultimately for victory points. Each card has 2-6 symbols which you must populate with legionnaire meeples in order to complete the card. These symbols are drawn one at a time from a bag, with all players gaining the benefit equally, but interestingly, the bag contains more of some symbols than others.
So the pivotal skill youll deploy is in making your choice of which three objectives youll start the game with (youre dealt six) — balancing potential difficulty of completion against value of the reward — and then which of five available objectives youll add to your plate each time you complete one of your three. The game ends when someone completes seven objectives.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6
Age & Difficulty: 8
Category1: Luck driven
Category2: Cards
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2013 |
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| Cyclades | | | | | |
| FANTASY WAR
In this latest collaboration between Bruno Cathala and Ludovic Maublanc, players must buy the favor of the gods in their race to be the first player to build two cities in the Ancient Greek island group known as the Cyclades.
Victory requires respect for all the gods - players cannot afford to sacrifice to only one god, but must pay homage to each of five gods in turn. Each turn, the players bid for the favors of the gods, as only one player can have the favor of each god per turn - and each player is also limited to the favor of a single god per turn.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6
Age & Difficulty: 13
Category1: Area Control
Category2: War Strategy
Rating: 4
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2009 |
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| Formula D | | | | | |
| RACING CARS SIMULATOR
Formula D is a high stakes Formula One type racing game where the players race simulated cars with the hope of crossing the finish line first. This is a re-release of Formula Dé with several changes from the original format. Whilst old tracks can be used with the updated Formula D rules, the new game features boards that have an F1 track and a Street Track on the other side. These street tracks each have a novel inclusion or two to add greater theme -
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 10
Age & Difficulty: 8
Category1: Race
Category2:
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2008 |
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| Jungle Speed | | | | | |
| REAL TIME REACTION SPEED THINKING
In Jungle Speed, you must rely on your keen sense of observation and quick reflexes. It requires a steady hand -- which can be hard to maintain during the many fits of maniacal laughter! The wooden Totem sits in the middle of the table, waiting for the player with the fastest reflexes to snatch it up and win the game.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 8
Age & Difficulty: 7
Category1: Real Time
Category2: Party
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 1997 |
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| Treasure Hunter | | | | | |
| COLLECT TREASURE TO WIN
Get as much valuable treasure and coins as you can as everything counts at the end of this five-round game! Watch out for treasure that isnt treasure at all, and draft your team of treasure hunters wisely. Only two treasures are available in each of the three seasons, so get it while you can!
In Treasure Hunter, treasures are placed on the game board first. Then all players are given a hand of nine cards from which to draft, drawing one card and passing to the left or the right depending on which round is being played. At the end of drafting, all players will have a hand of nine cards and a little knowledge of what the other players may have in their hands as well.
All players must play any and all cards from their drafted hand of nine for each season they have cards for, whether they want one of the two treasures or not.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6
Age & Difficulty: 8
Category1: Cards
Category2:
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2015 |
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| Leaping Lemmings | | | | | |
| SURVIVE AND KILL YOUR OPPONENTS
Leaping Lemmings is a humorous game for 2-6 players. Each player controls a cloned clan of lemmings that have been specially trained to compete with the other lemming clans, all trying to scurry down a canyon and hurl themselves over a cliff. Distance and style points are important. One lemming diving with style and élan is worth as many as five of the more mundane divers. But beware the hungry eagles circling overhead or your lemmings might not even make the cliff edge!
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6
Age & Difficulty: 8
Category1: tile placement
Category2:
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2010 |
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| Click Clack Lumberjack 2.0 | | | | | |
| DEXTERITY GAME FOR ENTIRE FAMILY
Toc Toc Woodman Second edition:
A dexterity game where nine plastic tree segments are stacked up. Each tree segment has four bark sections around it. On their turn, a player gets two taps with the axe to try and knock off pieces of bark from the tree segments for one point a piece. But be careful, if a tree segment comes down its minus 5 points! A quick unique dexterity game.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 7
Age & Difficulty: 0
Category1: dextility
Category2:
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2015 |
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| Kabuki | | | | | |
| Have you seen that flower in the garden before? Are you sure? To become a master gardener, you must prove that you can identify all blooms you see and remember where they are located, and Illusion will test those memory and recognition skills.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6
Age & Difficulty: 6
Category1: Memory
Category2:
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2011 |
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| PitchCar Mini | | | | | |
| A mini version of Pitchcar with smaller track pieces. Contains 6 straight and 10 curve track pieces that allow the construction of more than 10 different racing circuits. 8 wooden cars are included as well.
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 8
Age & Difficulty: 6
Category1: dextility
Category2: Race
Rating: 3
New Copy for sale: Can be ordered
In-store Play Copy: In Store
Year Published: 2003 |
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