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Discover the futuristic universe of Red Rising, based on the bestselling book series by Pierce Brown. In the future, society is divided into 14 castes. Will your house manage to climb higher? This new hand-management/hand-building game from Stonemaier Games for 1-6 players is a new hit from board game maker Jamey Stegmaier, the creator of Scythe, Viticulture and Tapestry, among others. The Games Friends: " Jamey Stegmaier is at it again, because Red Rising is a lot of fun. The rules are ridiculously easy, but there is still more than enough challenge in the game. Scoring the perfect hand of cards is quite tough and because of the many cards, different in every game. Highly recommended!

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Choose and build an exciting mix of attractions in your own theme park. Upgrade them to match blueprints, or simply to stack towering attractions that attract the crowds and make the most money. Hire staff members and build super attractions as you battle for victory! Funfair is a standalone game in the Unfair universe. It's a lighter and faster introduction to Unfair's ridiculously modular theme park building. You can set up Funfair quickly, the rules are simple and there is only positive player interaction in Funfair. A game for the whole family! However, new objectives, new cards, all new building strategies and tight combos give experienced players and Unfair fans a lot of challenge. The Games Friends: " Funfair is a very fun and easier version of Unfair. The fun elements have all been retained, such as building the most fantastic attractions and selecting the best employees. Highly recommended for the whole family! "

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Decrypto is a communication game in which you are part of a team of code breakers. Your mission: Send secret codes to your teammates without your opponents intercepting them. Therefore, look for a way of communicating in which your teammates understand you, but make sure your communication is well coded to confuse your opponent. At the same time you also try to decipher the codes of your opponents. Your team wins the game as soon as you manage to obtain 2 interception tokens. You receive 1 interception token for every time you manage to intercept your opponents' code. Your team loses the game if you receive 2 miscommunication tokens. You receive 1 miscommunication token for every time your team fails to guess your Encryptor's code. The Games Friends: " Decrypto is a fantastic 'Guess the word' game with a twist. You don't try to guess the words of your opponents, but you try to link the different descriptions together so that you know which of the four words they mean with a description. An absolute must for people who want to go a step further than 30 Seconds, Codenames and Trapwords and that makes it one of our favorite party games ever!

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The king is dead and the kingdom is divided. Three factions - the Scots, the Welsh and the English - try to gain control. On the other side of the sea, others have long tried to take advantage of the chaos. Players must use their limited resources in such a way that they gain as much influence as possible, so that their faction emerges as the most powerful!

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Bonfire is a varied and challenging game that requires planning and flexibility. The magical bonfires have gone out, the cities of antiquity are deserted, the world has sunk into darkness. The female keepers of light who once watched over the bonfires have retreated to remote islands. There they wait for those who prove themselves capable of driving away the twilight. And so it is up to you as a gnome to take on this task: settle in the empty cities and prepare the way to lead the guardians back to their original place. Complete the tasks necessary to light the bonfires again and let your new home shine in full light! With the help of action tokens, you collect assignments from islands that, when completed, give you various benefits. If you best fulfill the wishes of the guardians and the Council, you will win this original game. With this game, the successful author Stefan Feld has managed to offer a lot of variety with few action options. Ideally suited for advanced players who want to introduce less experienced players to this genre. The Games Friends: " A wonderful entry-level expert game. There are many things you can score points on, but basically it is not a very complicated game. You can completely forget about the theme, but the mechanisms are nicely designed. .Recommended!

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In the exciting race to the carrot, the lucky wheel determines how far the rabbits can hop. Things are progressing quickly on the safe fields. But hey! If a rabbit falls into a dangerous hole, he starts all over again!

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Shit happens.... Yes, life is not easy... Shit Happens is a hilarious and disgusting, but lifelike party game. You encounter all kinds of unwanted situations that you have to rank on your “lane of pain” which ranges from 1 to 100. What is worse? “Seeing your father naked” or “wetting the bed every night”? Collect 10 wretched cards and win the game!

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They are unfathomable. They are morbid. They are bizarre. 50 brand new pitch-black riddles are waiting for you to solve! And the terrible thing about this Funny Death Edition is that the stories are true! An accident caused by stupidity, a thoughtlessly executed stunt or a miserably failed test of courage. Stories written down through life – amazement and goosebumps guaranteed! By asking and guessing you will get closer to the cause of the event step by step and you will discover the eerie solution to the pitch-black riddles. The Games Friends: “ Black Stories is always surprising and super fun to play with friends or together on holiday. We have already solved many of them, but we are still looking for the best questions for the Riddle Master. We are fans!”

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How do I get out of here? Rely on the help of the fairy tale characters and your memory to be the first to get out of the enchanted forest. You walk through the forest where the paths are always changing due to your friends who have the same plan as you...

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In Circle the Wagons, both players try to develop their own city, but only one of them will build the best in the West! In this game by authors Steven Aramini, Danny Devine & Paul Kluka, you each build a landscape in the Wild West. Lay out the cards in a smart way and form the largest areas possible. This game uses a unique selection mechanism, where every skipped card goes to the opponent.

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New edition of the popular, economical game High Voltage. Beautiful logistics and commercial board game. Earn money by connecting cities to the electricity grid. To this end, purchase power stations and the necessary fuels, such as fuel oil and biowaste. Over the course of the game you replace your old-fashioned power stations with more modern ones, including windmills and nuclear power stations. Each round the players auction the available power stations, with a maximum of one purchase allowed. You then buy raw materials from the market and connect cities to your network. Whoever is in the worst position can start with that, so that he or she gets the cheapest deal. At the end of a round, you supply your cities with energy if you have the necessary resources to do so. You then earn money with that. Whoever can power the most cities at the end of the game wins this exciting game. This updated edition contains 2 different game boards, each with their own character. The manual also contains various rule additions and special rules for 2 players. As a result, High Voltage Recharged offers even more challenge and fun than its classic predecessor! High Voltage is winner of the Dutch Games Prize 2010! The Games Friends: “ High Voltage is already a real classic and is one of the first expert games we played. Yet High Voltage still holds up very well today! So do you fancy a tactical puzzle with a cool theme? Then we highly recommend High Voltage!"

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Holidays are dangerous! The Black Stories Holiday Edition is all about the most wonderful time of the year! Fatal accidents along the way, disastrous misunderstandings with the locals, deadly souvenirs and, above all, relationships that become a little more explosive when you are close to each other for weeks. By asking questions and thinking logically, you will come step by step closer to the macabre solution to these pitch-black riddles. The Games Friends: “ Black Stories is always surprising and super fun to play with friends or together on holiday. We have already solved many of them, but we are still looking for the best questions for the Riddle Master. We are fans!”

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In the Adventure by Book series, your choices determine how the story continues. Each comic book is its own story in itself. Hidden in the pictures are numbers that represent the options your character can take. Along the way you will solve puzzles, collect items and avoid dangers to tell the best story possible. There are several routes available before you reach the final goal. So after playing once you are far from done. And besides, just like in any other game, if you make the wrong choices, you will lose and have to start over. 'Captured!' is a thrilling thriller for players with nerves of steel. Your daughter has been kidnapped and only you can save her. In a mysterious mansion, you must make the right choices to outsmart the kidnappers and get her to safety. Be on your guard, because nothing is as it seems and time is running out!

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During a forest walk, the world around you suddenly transforms into a magical Christmas wonderland! And what is that green fur on your hands? This advent calendar is an EXIT game and adventure story in one: to find out what happened to you and the forest, you open a door of the calendar every day. Behind each door, you'll find a new, exciting riddle, the solution of which will help you get a step further. Puzzle and count down to Christmas in the most enjoyable way with this exciting and atmospheric advent calendar.If you want to bring the joy of puzzling together, the warmth of Christmas, and the thrill of a real escape room into your living room, then this EXIT Advent Calendar is perfect for you! Puzzle daily alone or together on the most unique riddles connected by a beautiful story that will warm you up completely in the cold winter. If you get stuck, you can always use the hints, so you'll never be completely stuck. In short, 24 days of fun for everyone!Just like regular advent calendars, you'll find 24 compartments on the front. However, there are no numbers on them! Only the compartment for day 1 can be opened, and after reading the accompanying story, your adventure begins. Solve the puzzle for day 1 and find the next compartment using the decoding board. The next day you can read that story, solve the riddle, and find another compartment. This way, you'll get closer to the truth behind the magic of Christmas piece by piece and have 24 days of enjoyable puzzling fun at the table!

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Everdell Emerland is the third installment in Everdell’s 'Edge of the Map' series. This standalone title brings the familiar, beloved, and cozy city-building gameplay to the new challenges of the vibrant jungles west of the Everdell Valley. You’ll help your critter workers build a new city, befriend countless new critters, explore untouched territories, dig up lost artifacts, and delve deep into ancient ruins in search of a legendary, lost city brimming with treasures.

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The seas are no longer safe, especially when the Kraken lurks beneath the waves! Captain Flip: In the Jaws of the Kraken is a mini-expansion for the award-winning game Captain Flip (Spiel des Jahres 2024). This expansion adds a new set of five adventure boards featuring the deadly Kraken, challenging players to collect treasure while evading the monster. The Kraken's presence adds tension and tactical twists. Players must carefully weigh risk and reward as they attempt to fill their columns with crew members, earn coins, and potentially retrieve the Treasure Map. Completing identical or varied crew columns yields new bonuses, allowing for bolder strategies. For those who prefer to sail alone, the Solo variant offers a scoring challenge where you try to earn as many coins as possible to climb the ranks from Landlubber to the legendary Legend of the Sea. The expansion adjusts the way columns are scored and introduces a race against time, with the Kraken's shadow growing with each move.

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Heave the anchor, the final privateer race begins! After playing the role of a pirate or privateer in Pirates of Maracaibo and sailing your ship across the Caribbean in search of treasure, this expansion presents a new challenge. You now play the role of an infamous ship commander or a feared captain, whose special abilities make the game even more tactical. What's more, you can now equip your ship with cannons to access the fortifications of certain islands - because riches await you there too! New exploration boards, maps, and the rum trade take Pirates of Maracaibo to a whole new level. NOTE: Requires Pirates Of Maracaibo base game

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Created as a clone of Wolverine, Laura Kinney - aka the heroine X-23 - shares her "father's" claws and healing abilities. As a child, she was exploited by the evil Facility, but now she has become a fierce protector of the young and innocent, and she is tearing her way into your games of Marvel Champions: The Card Game! Fighting alongside her adopted sister, Gabby, X-23 is an offensive powerhouse with unprecedented momentum. In this Hero Pack you'll find X-23, her sixteen signature cards and a full range of Aggression cards that invite you to tear through the villain's forces. The X-Force team wouldn't be complete without the X-23 Hero Pack! This expansion comes with a pre-built deck of 40 cards, so you can start playing as soon as you open the box.

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New rivals have entered the fray and the only way to beat these throne contenders is by working together. Form a strong alliance, defeat your rivals and gain the vote of some factions. The gameplay in Claim: Alliances is unchanged, but now you have a different goal with difficult assignments. Will you be able to save the kingdom and change the situation back to the way it was before? Please note: this is an extension. You need Claim or Claim 2 to play.

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With Detective Club Noir the fun continues with 84 new beautifully illustrated cards.

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Raised in the seedy underworld of New Orleans as part of the Thieves Guild, Remy LeBeau left a life of crime to join the X-Men. Now he uses his mutant power to charge items with explosive energy as he fights evil as the hero Gambit. This Cajun card thrower charms his way into the game with this expansion pack, which introduces Gambit as a new playable hero along with his fifteen signature cards. With a ready-to-play Justice deck from the start, you can ruin the villain's plans with Gambit's tricks and wit from the moment you open the box. With his ability to thwart in alter ego form and his powerful charged attacks, Gambit is a great all-rounder who can fit into any team. This hero pack also includes a bonus modular encounter set featuring Exodus, Magneto's herald!

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Expert Tailoring introduces 6 new garments, 2 of which can only be used with the Jewelry Box extension. Each of these items of clothing gives you a special bonus when you rent them out and place them on the game board.

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Need allies? Come and have a look downstream! Discover unique strategies and make the forest wilder by adding mercenaries. Perfect for games with fewer players! Mercenaries can be added to games at any number of players. With fewer players, the mercenaries add new pieces to the map, increasing the tension and giving you more tactical options. As there are more players, you will flip over Mercenary cards to reveal new special abilities you can acquire, allowing you to explore unique and powerful strategies.

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In the puzzle game Railroad Ink, your goal is to connect as many exits on your board as possible. Each round a number of dice are rolled, which determine which types of roads and railways are available to all players. RailRoad Ink is a multiplayer game. The Underground expansion contains 4 dice that you can use in two ways. In Standalone mode you use the dice instead of the regular route dice: you build underground networks of metro routes and water pipes to score points in a completely new way. In Expansion Mode you use the dice together with the regular route dice, but without mixing them! You will need two boards for each player: one for above ground and one for underground. The basic route dice are used on the above ground board (according to the normal rules), while the Underground dice (and rules) are used on the underground board! NB! You need the base game Railroad Ink or Railroad Ink Challenge to play this mini expansion.

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This first expansion consists of 4 modules that you can play separately or combined with the base game. Expect new energy stones, objective cards and harmonization bonuses. This expansion makes it possible to play Chakra with the accents you want: as a real test of strength with your opponents, or more as a Zen puzzle. FR: There is no question about how to choose between the types of energy sources used in multiples… It is necessary to consider the strategies and adjust the difficulty of the proposal for the Chakra, with 4 modules of extension combinations available. The first module of the pierres blanches de nouvelle possibilités stratégiques: permettent en effet de fluidifier et d'accélérer les movements des energies en harmonisant temporairement les Chakras et, si les rencontrent une energie négative, d'obtenir des jetons YinYang, source supplé mentary the plenitude. The second module is a bonus for harmonization by accelerating the jeu et rend chaque Chakra attractif alors que le troisième module accroît le dilemme et l'interaction via a course of objects. Anyway, the next module demands a sense of timing in the profiter of the special capacities available.

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Are you a real Welcome To fan? Then you will eventually need new score blocks. With this score pad you can move forward for the time being, because it contains no less than 100 sheets.

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In the absence of the king's standing armies, everyone relies on mercenaries in the fights for the throne. But are the heroes useful for your plans? And what about the intentions of the Cyclopes, the Elves and the Orc factions? Chaotic times lie ahead. NB! This is an extension. You need CLAIM or CLAIM2 to play.

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The world is big and your kingdom is huge. It is actually no longer a kingdom, but an empire. That makes you an emperor, which gives you the right to your own chair, and you can name a salad after yourself. It's not easy being emperor. The day starts early when you light the sacred fire, after which you have to meet for hours to find out why the sacred fire keeps going out. Sometimes your armies take over a continent, but you have no idea where to put it. And there is always the risk of assassination: you have a food taster, who tastes everything before you eat it, and an arrow tester, who gets stabbed before you get stabbed. You've decided to stay home when it's the Day of Almost Everything. But overall it's a great profession. You wouldn't trade it for the world, especially when you realize how much of that world you already own. Major expansion of the popular deck building game This interesting expansion contains 96 chips and no less than 300 cards. This includes cards that you buy now and pay for later, stacks with 2 different types of cards, and sights that offer new opportunities to score points. Furthermore, events from previous sets return. With Dominion: Empires, Dominion becomes completely different again! The Games Friends: " Dominion: Empires is a wonderfully extensive addition, including debt cards and attractions. You can already buy cards with the debt cards, even though you don't actually have the money yet. Of course you have to pay it back as quickly as possible. And With the events and sights you get different rules every game, which is good for replayability. This all makes Dominion: Empires a very cool expansion.

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Expansion of the popular laying game Carcassonne. Now with new artwork! Use your shepherd to pull sheep tokens from the bag. Do this carefully, because if you draw a wolf token, you immediately lose your sheep. Meeples on land tiles with hills decide a tie in your favor. And monks at monasteries earn extra points for vineyards in their immediate vicinity. This constructive expansion gives you the opportunity to score points in other ways. The sheep tokens and vineyards are examples of this, but a meeple on a hill actually counts for 2! Carcassonne: Sheep & Hills offers several new challenges for the avid Carcassonne player. And because of the sixth shepherd you can easily combine this expansion with Carcassonne: Cathedrals & Inns!

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You have come to the lake hoping to see a rare and beautiful sight. Lake lilies open their flowers only in the rain, and only rarely do all eight species of lilies bloom at the same time. The goal of A Gentle Rain is to place the lake tiles so that all eight types of lilies bloom before you run out of tiles and the rain ends. Place each new tile you draw next to a tile already in play, making sure that the colors of all adjacent tile edges match the tile you place. Every time you manage to complete a square of four adjacent tiles, a flower opens between them. Keep score, or not.

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"The Red Cathedral" is a strategy board game in which players lead construction teams to build St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow. Lead your team, assign sections, send resources and complete construction while bypassing your rivals. The Tsar is watching and only the most skilled builder will win his favor. With a beautiful tribute to the art of Ivan Bilibin, this game offers accessible rules and deep strategy for hours of fun. This game is perfect for lovers of strategic games with accessible rules. Due to the many random factors, the game is different every time. Furthermore, the game contains rules for playing solo. During the game, players can take one of three actions on their turn: claim a portion of the cathedral, send resources to build it, or go to the market to obtain more resources. Each action has its own mechanic and requires players to pay close attention to what the other players are doing. Once the parts of the cathedral have been allocated, the players take possession of their share. The more parts a player builds and completes with their own tower, the more points they receive at the end of the game. Players can send resources to the parts of the cathedral they have claimed. When they send enough resources to complete a section, they receive rewards in the form of money and prestige points. They can also install decorations on the finished parts to gain even more recognition from the Tsar. This part of the game also acts as a clock, because once a player completes the construction of their sixth part, the game ends. The Red Cathedral is accessible with simple rules and in-depth strategy. It will certainly appeal to those who are more interested in the challenge of strategically optimizing their position than in the complexity of the rules.

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Fliptown is a flip-and-write game where you try to earn stars by exploring a Wild West town. The game uses a standard poker set to encourage an open world style of play, along with whiteboard-style boards that serve as each player's cards. Each turn you turn over three cards and assign one card to indicate your suit, one card to indicate your value, and one card to indicate your poker card. The color determines which of the four regions you activate, the value determines which location within that region you can circle, and the poker card goes to a five-card poker hand that is completed at the end of each round. Each of the four regions - Trail, Badlands, Mine, and Town - offers a different problem to overcome, while each location within a region offers unique rewards such as money, gold, useful items such as pistols, horses and tools, or bonus actions to create powerful combinations. For solo play, you can play to get a high score or compete against one of four "cowbot" robot opponents, each with their own motivation. For multiplayer play, players use "community cards" in the center of the playing field, with players completing each turn simultaneously. Additionally, bounty cards add competitive goals that players race to achieve. In addition to the standard game, you can play as one of 14 characters from the Wild West. Each character has a unique set of starting resources and a unique special ability.

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The Isle of Cats is a fun board game for the whole family. In The Isle of Cats the idea is to choose the right cards so that you can buy the perfect tile for your ship. The tiles have cute drawings of all different cats. With those tiles you have to try to fill as many spaces as possible. But cats are picky, so cats of the same breed like to be placed together. Can you fill your boat as far as possible and collect the most victory points? Then you are the winner of The Isle of Cats! The Games Friends: " The Isle of Cats is a super fun game for fans of Odin and Patchwork. Here too you try to place tiles on your board as best as possible, but there are many more elements that make this game interesting You also have to try to get the right cards and you can play objectives to score extra victory points. "

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2083. Humanity became extinct decades ago, leaving only faint remnants of its time on Earth. As time passed, nature reclaimed the land. In this resurgent world, monkeys have continued to evolve. They have gathered into tribes, growing, mastering human objects and continuing their quest for knowledge. As the leader of such a tribe you must guide it towards collective intelligence. "After Us" is a card game with an original and intuitive combo system, where players each lead a tribe of monkeys. They start alone with tamarins and combine their cards each turn to gather resources and gain victory points, attracting new apes along the way: powerful gorillas, resourceful orangutans, versatile chimpanzees, and wise mandrills. The first player to reach 80 points triumphs in the race for collective intelligence - and wins the game.

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The most special objects are auctioned in Odd Shop. But beware, not all objects are necessarily authentic. Therefore, call in experts to help you.

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The history of humanity has been written down for thousands of years. Our technological achievements, geographical discoveries and the will to move forward are described in several books that tell the story of our time on earth. Now you have the chance to shape this story. Books of Time puts a unique and exciting spin on tableau building, allowing you to create three amazing books, each with their own set of special abilities. The story of a civilization is now truly within reach. There are three types of pages in player books: trade, science, and industry. As you play, you add pages to these books to create powerful combinations of actions that you can activate. You must manage your resources efficiently to create the books that meet your personal goals and earn you the most points.

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