Board games

Icarus is a cooperative storytelling game about the collapse of a great civilization. Each game begins in a city-nation known as Icarus at the height of its power, where in celebration the city has decided to erect a huge, ever-growing monument in the center of the city to show its prestige to the world. During the game, you stack dice to represent the construction of this monument, draw cards from a story deck to create the escalating events in the city, and influence the outcome of those events through actions driven by your characters' motives . And when the dice tower finally falls, so does your civilization and the game comes to an end.

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In the depths of Mistwood, the cunning and evil Nightweave plots to take over Everdell with the help of her spiders. Use your wits against Nightweave and her devious plans in solo or two-player games. Recruit heroes of old from the More Legends and Corrin Evertail expansion packs and transform your farms with the new Through Every Season expansion pack!

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Is your relationship comfortable or do you simply have nowhere else to go? Love on Lockdown is an expansion of the critically acclaimed board game Fog of Love. Love on Lockdown tells the story of a couple who are locked up together for months with nothing to do. (How did we ever come up with this idea!?) While you're stuck inside, you have more to sort out than most couples - like your boredom and how recklessly you act about the threat. Dealing with cabin fever can make or break the relationship - if you can stick with it for that long!

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Rallyman: Dirt is the brand new edition of Jean-Christophe Bouvier's classic rally game. Get behind the wheel of a supercharged rally car and race against the clock to achieve the best time through the different stages of a course! Rallyman: Dirt is a roll and move racing game, so if you want to move around the track you have to roll dice! Each player has a mix of Gear, Brake and Coast dice at their disposal to drive their car around the track. Each die can only be rolled once per turn. Each die has a certain number of warning symbols. If you get a three in one roll you will lose control of your car and possibly damage your vehicle! This new edition combines the original Rallyman from 2009 with the expansion: Dirt. It features beautiful new artwork and improved components, while incorporating classic mechanics from the original game such as drifting, jumping and cutting corners. In addition to the new visual design, it replaces the large rectangular map sections of first edition with hexagonal tiles that allow players to recreate iconic tracks or create their own unique designs in a flash.

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The sun is shining, the wind is blowing and you know exactly what to do - gather your friends to fly a kite! In Kites, everyone works together to keep all their kites – represented by colorful hourglasses – in the air. Take turns playing cards, flipping the hourglasses, and coordinating with other players to make sure none of the timers run out. If so, a kite has crashed! Play all the kite cards and everyone wins!

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In Animal Kingdoms, each player takes on the role of house leader and fights to gain control of the five kingdoms. Cards in your hand represent noble beasts who have pledged their allegiance to you. Over the course of three eras, you must deploy your animals in the different areas - making sure you adhere to each kingdom's decree - to try to improve your position of influence in the kingdoms. The house that gains the most influence at the end of the Third Age is declared the one and only leader of the empire.

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The family game with terrible gifts! There are some strange things about the gifts this year. Tuna flavored candy? A wind-up fruitcake? An inflatable birdhouse? They can be terrible. . . but some are exactly what YOU want! Choose your favorites and try to get them as quickly as possible because the game can end at any moment. . . What do you want for Christmas?

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A butterfly garden requires vision and care. It is spring and the country is in bloom. As your garden grows, this attracts caterpillars to transform into beautiful butterflies that crave nectar. Place your flower tiles in your garden but make sure you have the majority of butterflies. Over 8 rounds you bid on flower tiles and expand your garden, attracting butterflies with valuable nectar. And of course every garden looks better with a gnome. The player who collects the most nectar wins Papillion.

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Ares Expedition: Crisis is a new expansion that uses the mechanics of the original game, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, in a new, challenging way. Play alone or team up with up to three friends to save Martian society after a catastrophic collision with an asteroid that destroys nearly all infrastructure. In Crisis Mode, the planet has already been terraformed, but the lingering effects of the collision are lowering temperatures, reducing oxygen levels, and freezing the oceans. Worse still, there is no time to evacuate the entire population. You must act quickly, implement projects to counter the immediate crises and reterraform the planet before it becomes uninhabitable... with billions of people still on it.

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007: Specter is a 2-player competitive game for 4 players who take on the role of iconic 007 villains. Each player is a member of the secret organization Specter and competes with each other to become Spectre's number one. No matter how hard they try, 007 is always there, waiting to foil their plans and reveal their secret.

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With Rainbow you have to make rainbow sets of six different colors. You make these by playing cards with colors. But you're not just playing with your own cards. You also play with the backs of the cards of the player opposite you! The backs of the opponent's cards may be used by turning them over on the table. You don't know what kind of backsides you have. If you accidentally turn over a black card or a color card that is double in the row, you must immediately give cards to your opponent. Whoever collects the most rainbows wins! This is a deceptively simple card game for two players, which you win thanks to some luck, a good strategy and, above all, a good memory. How far do you dare to go with turning over cards?

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One of the many space portals left behind by the ancient aliens - known as the 'Nameless One' - has recently been activated. The brightest scientific minds in the galaxy have come to the conclusion that once you enter the gate, you only have a limited amount of time before it closes again. You and your opponents are the chosen captains who bring their spaceships through the mysterious portal and explore the riches beyond. You can choose to be the half-robot, half-insect Hive mind of Tognath, or the cunning and ruthless Maheri tribes, the space-faring tree Sky-Lords of Edda or simply the human of the United Nations Explorer Corps. Each of you will undertake missions to earn expedition points and gain the most prestige. But you can't complete the missions alone. Once through the gate, you must befriend the locals and gather the best crew to overcome the dangers of this unexplored part of space. Explore, recruit crew members, build embassies, acquire resources and get back through the gate before it closes again.

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Your goal in Rival Restaurants is to be the first restaurant to reach 20 popularity points and be crowned "The Wiener!" Players earn popularity points by buying and trading ingredients and using them to "cook" (complete) recipes. The more advanced the recipe, the more points it is worth. Each day, players go through three phases. Players collect their income for the day and decide where they want to go. Turn economy is crucial because players are not allowed to move for the rest of the day once their location is chosen. After that, players have one minute to purchase as much as they want, but only from the location they are in. Players can also trade/swap with anyone in the game, not just the people in their location. Finally, any player who has all the ingredients needed for their recipe can cook it and collect popularity points. Additionally, each player controls a chef equipped with their own "chef power". Chef powers are asymmetrical and allow players to bend the rules to their advantage. The base game of Rival Restaurants features twelve chefs and in addition each player must choose a restaurant to play at at the start of the game, with each restaurant having a unique level-up structure with rewards for reaching 3, 7 and 12 popularity points . Finally, players can also choose to purchase "action cards", that is, development cards that are usually single-use.

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Clint, Joe, Enzo and Judy are four of the Wild West's most feared bandits. Wherever these four appear, trouble is bound to follow. Because these four are trying to rob every bank, every casino and every stagecoach. True to the motto Dollars wanted! they rob everything that is not nailed down. So time to help them out a little and get to work and collect dollars. But be careful: those who take the plunge too early often end up empty-handed and only help their opponents!

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Long ago, a tigress had four cubs. After many days, she instructed her tigers: "Go to the far reaches of the world and seek your fortune. Hunt prey to earn your stripes and become powerful. Have many wonderful adventures." Players are tiger cubs trying to earn their stripes by capturing matching sets of Prey Cards. This is done by drawing cards from the deck and swapping cards from their hand to match gems on the cards. The first player to place seven stripes on their player card is the winner

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Who are you in Mascarade? Whoever you want to be... at least until someone else calls you out! Each character is given a role card face down at the start of the game and in a game with 4-5 players, some role cards are placed in the center of the table. During a turn, you perform one of the following three actions: Announce Your Character: Claim a specific character's power and perform the corresponding action. You don't need to have that character card in front of you to take this action, but if someone else says they are that character and reveals the card to prove it, that player takes the action while you lose one coin to the tribunal. To swap cards or not: take another player's character card along with yours, put them under the table, shuffle them a bit, and then give a card back to the other player while keeping one for yourself. You (presumably) know if you've changed characters and can have an idea of ​​who you are now, but that other player may be in the dark. Secretly look at your character: Look at your character card to make sure who you are. The game continues until a player obtains 13 coins and wins - or until a player has lost all their coins, in which case the player with the most coins wins.

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Congratulations! After decades of hard work, scientists have opened a portal to another dimension full of alien life. You are one of the few brave enough to enter this exciting but dangerous new land to research and record new species. The world is watching to see the discoveries that will be shown. The media has dubbed you and your comrades the "Darwinauts" because you dare to go further to document the new origins of species. You must work quickly to bring back notes of the most exotic lifeforms to secure your place in history, but be careful: the portal is unstable and won't stay open for long... The Rift is coming! During Darwinauts, a player performs two actions during their turn, choosing from five possible actions: placing an explorer, placing a tile, replenishing tiles and removing explorers, discovering a species, and registering a species. When registering a species, a player immediately takes one of five possible bonus actions that allow the player to prepare themselves for future turns or change the landscape. Players continue to take turns until The Rift tile is revealed, making the portal to the new world unstable. Once The Rift begins, players add an extra phase to their turns and take part in dismantling the landscape they've opened up for exploration. When the game ends, players receive prestige points for their registered species and bonuses are earned for specializing in specific sets of species. The Darwinaut with the most points wins the game and goes down in history as a pioneer in this new era of discovery.

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Just after you and your team have found gold in the mine, you feel an earthquake. Everything collapses! Your team of dwarves is now trapped deep underground. Only by working together can you escape the dark cave. Together you have to take as much gold as possible while trying to avoid all the monsters. But there's more… can everyone in your team be trusted? Saboteur: The Dark Cave is a sequel to the well-known card game Saboteur. In this version there are two teams of dwarves who compete against each other in their escape. But Saboteur wouldn't be Saboteur if there weren't any traitors in your team! A saboteur is someone from your team who secretly works for the opponent and thwarts their own team as much as possible. Unlike the original Saboteur, you get your own player figure in The Dark Cave with which you walk through the caves. You can also encounter monsters that take gold or cards from you and which you have to chase away with an axe. In short, Saboteur: The Dark Cave gives an original twist to the well-known cooperative card game. Will your team see the light of day again?

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Players compete to build the best resort that can welcome fantasy heroes and tourists looking for fun and relaxation. The more people you have inside, the more likely monsters will attack! Hire and train your workers, build and upgrade your attractions and convince your warrior heroes to fight one more time, without eating too many tourists! Earn victory points by upgrading attractions and giving heroes the rest they need. The player with the highest score when all monsters have been defeated is the winner.

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Organize everything you need on the journey to defeat Lord Voldemort with the Harry Potter Hogwarts Battle Playmat! This flexible, reusable mat replaces the game board of the cooperative deck-building game for a faster set-up and clean-up experience! Start every game and expansion by laying down the cards to battle alongside the best Hogwarts heroes!

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Hide yourself! People are coming! In the fun and exciting family game Spokenchaos, mischievous ghosts sneak through a hotel at night. However, they cannot resist getting into mischief and make a lot of noise in the process. The hotel guests wake up and take turns peeking through the keyhole of the hotel room to catch the ghosts. Players try to get their ghosts to cross the lobby unnoticed. Move the furniture and hide your ghosts behind it, but be careful: your fellow players will try to ensure that your ghosts are caught. Try to let your ghosts slip out by escaping people's attention! For more variety you can add extra cards and merge ghosts. The player who has released the most ghosts after 5 rounds wins the game. The bigger the ghost, the more points you score.

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As the empires expand into space, they encounter mysterious alien artifacts. Meanwhile, Imperium factions provoke other worlds to ally and rebel as the galaxy drifts toward war. Can you build the most prosperous space empire in these challenging times? Expansion and Brinkmanship bundles 3 previously published expansions, The Gathering Storm, Rebel vs Imperium and The Brink of War into one product, compatible with 2nd Edition Race for the Galaxy.

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Lisboa is a game about the reconstruction of Lisboa after the great earthquake of 1755. On November 1, 1755, Lisbon was struck by an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 8.5-9.0, followed by a tsunami and three days of fires. The city was almost completely destroyed. The Marquis of Pombal - Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo - was the then Minister of Foreign Affairs and the King put him in charge of rebuilding Lisbon. The Marquis of Pombal assembled a team of engineers and architects and you, the players, are members of the nobility; members who will use your influence in the reconstruction and business development of the new city. You work with the architects to rebuild Lisbon, with the Marquis to develop trade and with the King to open all the buildings, but the real reason you do all this is not for grandeur or fame or even fortune, but for the most important thing at that time: wigs. Lisboa is played on a map of central Lisbon. When planning the downtown project, it was determined in advance what type of business is allowed on each street. The economic engine is powered by the wealth of the royal treasure and this treasure is controlled by player actions during the game, making each game a completely different experience. The game ends after a fixed number of rounds and whoever has collected the most wigs at the end of the game wins. Lisboa is played in rounds. Each round, all players play one turn. They may place one card on their display or replace one card from this display. During the game, players schedule hearings to gain character favors such as trading, construction, and openings. Players must manage influence, building permits, shop permits, church power, workers, and money, with the cost of workers depending on the players' prestige.

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You are responsible for the economic and social development of a city. However, with Rise you must always keep the well-being of your citizens in mind. Because industrial progress often goes hand in hand with environmental pollution, and the income needed for further development is often derived from tax or rent increases, this quickly leads to discomfort among the population... Variable tracks, actions and events - all this leads to a multitude of possibilities that can trigger chain reactions. All this makes Rise an exciting and ever-changing gaming experience that is difficult to calculate even for absolute strategy fans!

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Welcome to the Rococo era. Louis In just a few weeks, Louis You soon realize that it's not just about your tailoring anymore; it is about creating a presence at the most prestigious ball of the time and the opportunity to gain eternal fame and prestige. In Rococo: Deluxe Edition you are the owner of a renowned tailoring company that strives to increase your prestige. Each turn you play an employee card that allows you to complete a task, such as hiring a new employee for your staff, tailoring beautiful dresses and making clothes to rent or sell, or financing some of the many decorations. However, employees are not always able to complete all tasks, so you need to carefully plan how to manage them, especially since each employee gives a unique bonus, including some that generate prestige. The Grand Ball ends after seven rounds with a big fireworks display and the final score. You'll earn prestige points for the lavish dresses and frock coats you rented to prom guests, certain employee bonuses, and the festive decorations you financed. Whoever has collected the most prestige at the end of the game wins. Rococo: Deluxe Edition includes the previously released Jewelry Box expansion, the Festivity Dresses expansion and the Fancy Dresses promo, as well as a new solo mode expansion "Madame du Barry". This version of Rococo includes changes from the previous edition of the base game, along with premium components including custom poly-resin tokens; gold foil stamped wooden player markers; velvet bags for clothing, silk tokens and jewelry; and improved signs for the clothes, silks and coins.

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Take a walk in Trails, explore iconic locations and US national parks, collect resources, observe wildlife and earn badges. Trails is a standalone adventure in the Parks series with artwork from the Fifty-Nine Parks Print Series. In Trails, players walk back and forth along the path collecting rocks, acorns, and leaves; they take photos and encounter wildlife to earn bonuses. At the beginning and at the end you can hand in resources to earn badges, after which you start again in the other direction. As players visit the end of the path, the sun sets. As night falls, trail sites offer more vigorous actions, but they won't last forever. When the sun leaves the path, the final round of play takes place, after which the player with the most points wins.

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The king is coming to town and will feast at the inn where the most tempting banquet is offered. Send your followers into the cursed forests to collect the rarest ingredients for your recipes. Mushrooms, wild plants, dragon eggs... nothing is too dangerous for the king! Sharpen your knives and heat your pans! Taverns & Dragons combines placing dice with walking on the game board, in an adventure game full of heroes and dragons. At the start of each round, players roll their dice. Then each player plays one die, either to move a meeple, gain resources, or cook a recipe. Your followers can also collect ingredients, visit locations to get bonuses, and take part in a risky (but rewarding) dragon hunt. Brave heroes wait in the marketplace, willing to offer their skills in exchange for a few shiny coins... To win the game, you must have the highest prestige points at the end of the game. These points are earned by cooking recipes, completing missions and hunting dragons.

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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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On Mars is played over several rounds, each consisting of two phases: the colonization phase and the shuttle phase. During the colonization phase, each player takes a turn performing actions. The available actions depend on the side of the board they are on. When you're in orbit, you can take blueprints, buy and develop technologies, and get supplies from the warehouse. When you are on the surface of the planet, you can build buildings with your bots, upgrade these buildings using blueprints, hire scientists and new contracts, welcome new ships and explore the surface of the planet with your rover. In the Shuttle phase, players can travel in orbit between the colony and the space station. All buildings on Mars are dependent on each other and some are needed to grow the colony. Building shelters for settlers to live in requires oxygen; plants are needed to generate oxygen; growing plants need water; extracting water from ice requires electricity; generating power requires mining minerals; and mining minerals requires settlers. It is vital to upgrade the colony's ability to provide each of these resources. As the colony grows, more shelters are needed so that the colonists can survive the inhospitable conditions on Mars. During the game, players also try to complete missions. Once a total of three missions have been completed, the game ends. To win the game, players must contribute to the development of the first colony on Mars. This is reflected during the game by players receiving Opportunity Points (OP). The player with the most VP at the end of the game is declared the winner.

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Your goal in Bot Factory is to collect projects and parts and then build bots to meet demand goals and improve the value of the bot you create. Sandra, Kanban's factory manager, is here to help! The game uses the same worker placement mechanism, with the order of turns determined by the workers' positions on the board.

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In One Card Wonder, each player receives a card with a wonder of the world and a series of supporting buildings. The multiple stages of the wonder must be built from the ground up, while the buildings can be constructed in any order. Players have four meeples and a personal stock of resources, and there is also a general stock of resources. The supply bag with resources is passed from player to player to indicate who the active player is. During a turn you perform one of four actions. You may draw three cubes from the fabric supply bag, add two to your personal supply and place the others in the general supply. You may take all resources of one type from the general supply. (You may only have eight resources in your supply at a time, so if you have more than eight resources after drawing or taking, you must return some to the general supply.) You may build a level of the wonder or a building by paying from your stock; your workers mark individual buildings as you build them, unlocking skills. Finally, you may sell pairs of matching goods to the supply in exchange for coins. Coins can be used as a wild resource, but they also appear at the cost of some miracles. Resources sold or used to build are returned to the supply bag. In games with four or more players, players may also trade. Trading is done off-turn, that is, it can involve anyone except the active player. You may freely negotiate and trade with other players, but you must stop negotiating once you receive the supply bag and become the active player. The longer you spend on your turn, the more chance your opponents have to make deals.

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Transform and go with that banana! The Autobots are brave robot warriors from the planet Cybertron. Their mission? Prevent the Decepticons from carrying out their evil plans on Earth. In the Transformers Deck-Building Game you take on the role of one of the mighty Autobots. Travel and explore the Matrix and transform between your different modes as you gain allies, find relics and acquire technology to battle the Decepticons. But be warned! As your deck grows, more powerful Decepticons will rise to challenge you. Transformers Deck-Building Game can be played competitively or as a cooperative game. This core set starts your collection with everything you need to play, but the battle is far from over as playable Decepticons are on their way to expand your game.

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You've just started working in a Soviet watch factory that you discovered was a World War II munitions factory. You've been sent there to make gears, which you can sell for money, but you also need those gears to hide the ammo crates you smuggle out. Search the files in the foreman's office to find evidence of government corruption during the aftermath of World War II. Use the surveillance infrastructure in the foreman's office to catch your colleagues in misbehavior and get bribes from them - but be careful, because someone else could be watching you! The artistically composed thematic Eurogame Watch masterfully blends the theme with the game mechanics: as you play, you'll feel the clock ticking as you try to hide your mischievous actions from the other players. To succeed, you must ensure that the gears fall exactly into their specific clockwork place, exactly when and where you need it!

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