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Awkward Guests: The Walton Case

2023-11-28T00:09:08-05:00

Vendor: Megacorpin Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 40.95

Designer	Ron Gonzalo García
Publisher	Megacorpin Games
Players	1-8
Playing Time	45-75 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Honor	2022 Geek Media Awards Midcore Game of the Year Nominee
Additional Info	188866/awkward-guests http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/188866/awkward-guests/forums/63

Awkward Guests / Incómodos Invitados is a one of a kind deduction game with infinite re-playability. Based on the innovative Brilliant Deck System!

It can recreate Mr. Walton’s murder in so many different ways that you won’t ever play two similar games!

Its engaging Brilliant Deck System will actively involve you in the investigations, allowing you to use genuine detective abilities to solve each case.

To solve a mystery, you will have to interrogate the suspects, question the household staff, examine the crime scene, search for clues around the Walton Mansion, consult the police reports… You will do all of this while exchanging information with your opponents or hiding it from them.

Get ready to use all your gumshoe skills!

WHO killed Mr. Walton?
HOW did the murderer end his life?
WHY did the murderer killed him?
Was there an ACCOMPLICE?

Will you be the first to solve the mystery?

Awkward Guests / Incómodos Invitados base game mechanic is quite simple. Players have a hand of 6 cards. Each card has a value (1, 2 or 3 points, according to the amount of information that it provides) and several references (the matters that the card information is about). During his turn, each player ask for information about two different references he is interested in. The rest of the players can offer him cards which contains the requested references. The asking player can trade those cards by giving the offering players the same amount of points they have offered, with cards of his hand and no reference restriction.

After every round is completed, players can try to solve the mystery. If the mystery is not solved, players discard part of their hands and receive 3 new cards. The player or players who solve the mystery first, win.

ISS Vanguard (Base Game Only)

2023-01-14T14:03:40-05:00

Vendor: Awaken Realms
Type: Board Games
Price: 171.95

Designer	Michał Oracz Krzysztof Piskorski Paweł Samborski Marcin Świerkot
Publisher	Awaken Realms
Players	1-4
Playtime	90-120 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Accessories	ISS Vanguard: Close Encounters ISS Vanguard: Section Pets ISS Vanguard: Section Boxes ISS Vanguard: Playmats ISS Vanguard: Dice Tower
Expansions	ISS Vanguard: Personnel Files ISS Vanguard: Deadly Frontier
Additional Info	325494/iss-vanguard http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/325494/iss-vanguard/forums/63

Note: This is base game only without stretch goals

ISS Vanguard is a 1-4 player co-operative, campaign Board Game. It will bring players right into epic Sci-Fi adventure, as they will play as 4 sections (security, recon, science, engineering) onboard the first human ship with the possibility to reach outer space.
Campaign will introduce the unique story written by Krzysztof Piskorski (Tainted Grail) full of hard player choices, twists and branching storylines.

Gameplay is divided into 2 main stages: Ship phase and landing on planets.

During the Ship phase, players will manage their ship (binder with printed sleeves), where every section will have to make gameplay decisions.

Then, you will prepare your crew for landing on the next planet, in search of answers to humanity's biggest questions. Together you will pick lander and customize it with modules, then each section will choose a crew member to take on a mission ( more experienced crew members will have better ranks ), deck-build skills deck, take equipment and choose dices for his character.
The game will come with over 100 different Crew members, each with unique characteristics.

During all phases of the games players will be directed to Log-book, consisting story encounters, often written in the form of action-packed dialogues between the characters.

War of the Ring: The Card Game

2022-12-27T10:51:33-05:00

Vendor: Ares Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 43.95

Designer	Ian Brody
Publisher	Ares Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	90-120 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Expansion	War of the Ring: The Card Game – Against the Shadow
Additional Info	362944/war-ring-card-game http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/362944/war-ring-card-game/forums/63

Inspired by the best-selling and award-winning War of the Ring board game, War of the Ring: The Card Game allows players to journey to the world of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and create their own version of the dramatic conflict between the Dark Lord, Sauron, and the Free Peoples of Middle-earth.
In War of the Ring: The Card Game, up to 4 players compete in two teams, the Shadow against the Free Peoples, each player using a specific and different card deck representing the strengths and weaknesses of the different factions involved in the war.
The Free Peoples desperately try to complete their quest to destroy the One Ring, while at the same time defending their homelands from the encroaching hordes of Sauron and from his evil allies.

The Shadow players must strike quickly and decisively, before the Ring-bearers can complete their quest; or try to slowly corrupt Frodo, burdening him with wounds, toil, and the sorrow for the loss of his Companions.

During the game, players will take turns playing cards representing the characters, armies, items, and events of the War of the Ring. Each card they play will help or hinder the journey of the Fellowship as it progresses on its Path; or be used to defend or conquer the strongholds of Middle-earth, as they fight to control the new Battleground cards activated in each round.

With more than 100 original illustrations from the greatest Tolkienian artists in the world, including an amazing gallery of landscapes from The Shire to Mordor by John and Fataneh Howe, War of the Ring: The Card Game is more than a game – it also a memorable collection for all lovers of the world imagined by J.R.R. Tolkien.

This is your chance to forge the destiny of an age, like you never did before!

—description from the publisher

Vagrantsong Séance Scenario

2022-12-27T10:51:15-05:00

Vendor: Wyrd Miniatures
Type: Board Games
Price: 14.95

Designer	Matt Carter Justin Gibbs Kyle Rowan
Publisher	Wyrd Miniatures
Players	2-4
Playtime	45-120 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansion For	Vagrantsong
Additional Info	368746/vagrantsong-seance-scenario-fox-sisters http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/368746/vagrantsong-seance-scenario-fox-sisters/forums/63

This is a scenario with multiple puzzles and mysteries, many of which the players will not know or understand at the beginning of the game. And that's okay! The goal is to figure out what to do, how to do it, and where to do it. You'll be solving challenges that will provide more context as you push through the Scenario. Focus on what you already know and you'll get there!

It's highly recommended to have a pencil and paper nearby.

Good luck! ...You'll need it.

—description from the publisher

Undaunted: Stalingrad

2022-12-27T10:51:09-05:00

Vendor: Osprey Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 129.95

Designer	Trevor Benjamin David Thompson (I)
Publisher	Osprey Games
Players	2
Playtime	45-60 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Reimplemented By	Undaunted: Normandy
Additional Info	354570/undaunted-stalingrad http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/354570/undaunted-stalingrad/forums/63

Stalingrad, 1942. Before you awaits a grueling conflict in this cornerstone battleground. As the bullets and bombs tear the city asunder, only through wits and valor can you seize the cornerstone of the entire Eastern Front and change the course of history.

A heavy burden rests on your shoulders. Every casualty suffered in battle will weaken your forces for the entire campaign. Every bomb blast and mortar shell leaves the very ground for which you are fighting in further ruin. Every inch lost to the enemy brings you closer to the jaws of defeat. Over the course of up to fifteen branching scenarios, you will decide the fate of Stalingrad and, perhaps, the war itself. Even though the consequences of your actions will persist, the game itself can be fully reset and replayed, allowing you to explore every potential outcome.

Undaunted: Stalingrad is a monumental, platoon-level, standalone game that expands the series' scope and challenge beyond anything that's come before. Featuring more than 300 unique illustrations by Roland MacDonald and 150 evocative mission briefings written by acclaimed author Robbie MacNiven, immerse yourself in this campaign at the heart of the war.

—description from the publisher

Contents:
375 cards
129 map tiles
4 dice
tokens
2 scenario booklets
1 map booklet
1 rulebook

The Great Split

2022-12-27T10:50:10-05:00

Vendor: Horrible Guild
Type: Board Games
Price: 40.95

Designer	Hjalmar Hach Lorenzo Silva
Publisher	Horrible Guild
Players	2-7
Playtime	45 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	366752/great-split http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/366752/great-split/forums/63

In The Great Split, you draft cards to collect riches such as gems, gold, artwork, and tomes, adding them to your collection to make it the most prestigious of all!

You start each round by splitting your cards into two groups, then you pass your wallet to the player on your left — but only one group of cards will be given back to you. You split, they choose! Don't despair, though, because while your opponent is looking at your split, you also receive a similar offer from the player on your right, so choose wisely. When your hand is complete, play your cards to add all those riches to your collection.

Each type of riches awards you prestige points in different ways, so maintain a balanced collection of gems, keep an eye on the value of the art market as it evolves, and pile up priceless tomes. Depending on how each player builds their collection, different riches will take on a different value for each of them. Show off your best haggling skills in crafting your split, and create the perfect offer to push your opponent to take what you want them to take...leaving you with the tastiest loot!

Be prepared for when the mid-game scorings are triggered. Manage your gold reserves sensibly to get additional riches, and make your collection just right!

—description from publisher

John Company: Second Edition

2022-12-27T10:45:03-05:00

Vendor: Wehrlegig Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 137.89

Designer	Cole Wehrle
Publisher	Wehrlegig Games
Players	1-6
Playing Time	90-240 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Accessory	John Company: Second Edition - Metal Coins
Honors	2022 Golden Geek Most Innovative Board Game Nominee 2022 Golden Geek Heavy Game of the Year Nominee 2022 Golden Geek Best Thematic Board Game Nominee 2022 Golden Geek Best Board Game Artwork & Presentation Nominee
Additional Info	332686/john-company-second-edition http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/332686/john-company-second-edition/forums/63

In John Company, players assume the roles of ambitious families attempting to use the British East India Company for personal gain. The game begins in the early eighteenth-century, when the Company has a weak foothold on the subcontinent. Over the course of the game, the Company might grow into the most powerful and insidious corporation in the world or collapse under the weight of its own ambition.

John Company is a game about state-sponsored trade monopoly. Unlike most economic games players often do not control their own firms. Instead, they will collectively guide the Company by securing positions of power, attempting to steer the Company’s fate in ways that benefit their own interests. However, the Company is an unwieldy thing. It is difficult to do anything alone, and players will often need to negotiate with one another. In John Company, most everything is up for negotiation.

Ultimately, this game isn’t about wealth; it’s about reputation. Each turn some of your family members may retire from their Company positions, giving them the opportunity establish estates. Critically, players do not have full control over when these retirements happen. You will often need to borrow money from other players to make the best use for a chance of retirement. Players also gain victory points by competing in the London Season for prestige and securing fashionable properties.

John Company engages very seriously with its theme. It is meant as a frank portrait of an institution that was as dysfunctional as it was influential. Accordingly, the game wrestles many of the key themes of imperialism and globalization in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and how those developments were felt domestically. As such, this game might not be suitable for all players. Please make sure everyone in your group consents to this exploration before playing.

The second edition is extensively revised and is not a reprint.

-description from designer

Grand Austria Hotel: Let's Waltz!

2022-12-27T10:44:03-05:00

Vendor: Lookout Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 45.95

Designer	Virginio Gigli Simone Luciani
Publisher	Lookout Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	60-120 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Honor	2021 Golden Geek Best Board Game Expansion Nominee
Expansion For	Grand Austria Hotel
Additional Info	320780/grand-austria-hotel-lets-waltz http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/320780/grand-austria-hotel-lets-waltz/forums/63

Grand Austria Hotel: Let's Waltz! is an expansion for Grand Austria Hotel that contains five modules.

Caverna: Frantic Fiends

2022-12-27T10:39:41-05:00

Vendor: Lookout Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 40.95

Designer	Uwe Rosenberg
Publisher	Lookout Games
Players	1-7
Playtime	30-210 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Expansion For	Caverna: The Cave Farmers
Additional Info	322816/caverna-frantic-fiends http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/322816/caverna-frantic-fiends/forums/63

Orcs are ravaging the lands and threatening your caves and families! Can you defeat the ravaging orcs and bring back peace and prosperity to your people?

In Caverna: Frantic Fiends, the second large expansion for Uwe Rosenberg's Caverna: The Cave Farmers, you have to face these hostile plunderers. Luckily, you can either use your proven axes to teach them a lesson or build traps to keep them away from the cave entrances altogether. You can even push them into these traps with stone or bribe them with wood to weaken their strength. Defeating orcs will bring precious rewards, but if you fail to drive them off, all your plans might be in jeopardy.

Beer & Bread

2022-12-27T10:39:03-05:00

Vendor: Capstone Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 36.95

Designer	Scott Almes
Publisher	Capstone Games
Players	2
Playtime	30-45 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	369880/beer-bread http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/369880/beer-bread/forums/63

Beer & Bread is a multi-use card game for two players. Its clever structure of alternating rounds puts a fascinating twist on player interaction, card drafting, and resource management.

Founded on the fruitful lands of an erstwhile monastery, two villages have held up the dual tradition of brewing beer and baking bread. While sharing fields and resources, they still find pride in their friendly rivalry of besting each other’s produce.

Each of you represents one of these villages. Over the course of six years - which alternate between fruitful and dry - you must harmonize your duties of harvesting and storing resources, producing beer and bread, selling them for coins and upgrading your facilities.

However, in order to win, you must maintain the balance between your baked and liquid goods. Because, after the sixth year, you only score the coins collected from the type of good - beer or bread - for which you earned less. The village with the higher score wins.

—description from publisher

Atiwa

2022-12-27T10:38:42-05:00

Vendor: Lookout Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 64.95

Designer	Uwe Rosenberg
Publisher	Lookout Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	30-120 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	362452/atiwa http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/362452/atiwa/forums/63

The Atiwa Range is a region of southeastern Ghana in Africa, consisting of steep-sided hills with rather flat summits. A large portion of the range comprises an evergreen forest reserve, which is home to many an endangered species. However, logging and hunting for bushmeat as well as mining for gold and bauxite are putting the reserve under a lot of pressure.

Meanwhile, in the nearby town of Kibi, the mayor is causing a stir by giving shelter to a large number of fruit bats in his own garden. This man has recognized the great value the animals have in deforested regions of our planet: Fruit bats sleep during the day and take off at sunset in search of food, looking for suitable fruit trees up to 60 miles away. They excrete the seeds of the consumed fruit, disseminating them across large areas as the fly home: A single colony of 150,000 fruit bats can reforest an area of up to 2,000 acres a year.

Just like that mayor, in this game, you will develop a small community near the Atiwa Range, creating housing for new families and sharing your newly gained knowledge on the negative effects of mining and the importance that the fruit bats have for the environment. Acquire new land, manage your animals and resources, and make your community prosper. The player who best balances the needs of their community and the environment wins.

Wingspan Asia

2022-11-29T09:31:36-05:00

Vendor: Stonemaier Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 45.95

Designer	Elizabeth Hargrave
Publisher	Stonemaier Games
Players	1-2
Playtime	40-70 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Integrates With	Wingspan (New Edition)
Additional Info	366161/wingspan-asia http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/366161/wingspan-asia/forums/63

In this third expansion to Wingspan, we welcome new species to our habitats by exploring the vibrant, intriguing, and magnificent birds of Asia. These birds were chosen from the over 2,800 species that live in Asia.

This is both a stand-alone game for 1 player or 2 players (Duet mode that can be used with any bird/bonus cards), an expansion to the original Wingspan (any bird/bonus cards across any Wingspan game or expansion can be combined), and a 6-7 player expansion via the new Flock mode (for which the player components from the core game are necessary).

—description from the publisher

Summoner Wars (Second Edition): Sand Goblins Faction Deck

2022-11-29T09:29:41-05:00

Vendor: Plaid Hat Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 15.95

Designer	Colby Dauch
Publisher	Plaid Hat Games
Players	2
Playtime	40-60 mins
Suggested Age	9 and up
Expansion For	Summoner Wars (Second Edition) - Master Set Summoner Wars (Second Edition): Starter Set
Additional Info	370268/summoner-wars-second-edition-sand-goblins-faction http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/370268/summoner-wars-second-edition-sand-goblins-faction/forums/63

From deep within the desert wastes, the Sand Goblins ride into battle! Take the wheel with Krusk, who’s chaotic driving allows him to transport gangs of goblin riders across the battlefield. Soup up your rides with various vehicle upgrades, cruise into battle, and detonate them for maximum mayhem!

—description from the publisher

Scout

2022-11-29T09:28:53-05:00

Vendor: Oink Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 24.95

Designer	Kei Kajino (梶野桂)
Publisher	Oink Games
Players	2-5
Playing Time	15 mins
Suggested Age	9 and up
Honor	2022 Spiel des Jahres Nominee 2022 Japan Boardgame Prize Voters' Selection Nominee
Additional Info	291453/scout http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/291453/scout/forums/63

SCOUT is a ladder-climbing game in which cards have two potential values, players may not rearrange their hand of cards, and players may pass their turn to take a card from the current high set of cards into their hand.

More specifically, cards are dual-indexed, with different values on each half of the card, with the 45 cards having all possible combinations of the numbers 1-10. During set-up, whoever is shuffling the cards should randomize both the order of the cards in the deck and their orientation. Once each player has been dealt their entire hand of cards, they pick up that hand without rearranging any of the cards; if they wish, they can rotate their entire hand of cards in order to use the values on the other end of each card, but again they cannot rearrange the order of cards in their hand.

On a turn, a player takes one of two actions:

• Play: A player chooses one or more adjacent cards in their hand that have all the same value or that have values in consecutive order (whether ascending or descending), then they play this set of cards to the table. They can do this only if the table is empty (as on the first turn) or the set they're playing is ranked higher than the set currently on the table; a set is higher if it has more cards or has cards of the same value instead of consecutive cards or has a set of the same quantity and type but with higher values. In this latter case when a player overplays another set, the player captures the cards in this previous set and places them face down in front of themselves.

• Scout: A player takes a card from either end of the set currently on the table and places it anywhere they wish in their hand in either orientation. Whoever played this previous set receives a 1 VP token as a reward for playing a set that wasn't beaten.

Once per round, a player can scout, then immediately play.

When a player has emptied their hand of cards or all but one player have scouted instead of playing, the round ends. Players receive 1 VP for each face-down card, then subtract one point for each card in their hand (except if they were the player scouted repeatedly to end the game). Play as many rounds as the number of players, then whoever has the most points wins.

Obsession: Wessex Expansion

2022-11-29T09:27:40-05:00

Vendor: Kayenta Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 25.95

Designer	Dan Hallagan
Publisher	Kayenta Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	30-90 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Expansion For	Obsession
Additional Info	245392/obsession-wessex-expansion http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/245392/obsession-wessex-expansion/forums/63

Note: For US customer, please check with Kayenta Games for ordering info.

The Wessex Expansion adds a fifth family board to the mix that gives the advantage of a larger starting country estate. A player selecting the Family Wessex player board will have their choice between the Breakfast Room and Tennis Court—second level improvements—in his or her manor house at the beginning of the game. The expansion also adds five additional Starter Guests, five additional Casual Guests, five additional Prestige Guests, and six new Solitaire opponents.

- description from the publisher

Dune: Imperium – Immortality

2022-11-29T09:23:35-05:00

Vendor: Dire Wolf
Type: Board Games
Price: 39.99

Designer	Paul Dennen
Publisher	Dire Wolf
Players	1-4
Playtime	60-120 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Expansion For	Dune: Imperium
Additional Info	367466/dune-imperium-immortality http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/367466/dune-imperium-immortality/forums/63

The Bene Tleilax advance their own agenda by trading in genetic innovations. Will you hire Face Dancer spies of unmatched skill? Regrow damaged tissue and organs? Or dare to employ people restored to life as gholas?

Make shadowy deals with the Tleilaxu to harvest genetic specimens. Unlock the potential of scientific research. Graft cards together to empower your Agents.

Explore a universe of possibilities with Dune: Imperium – Immortality.

—description from the publisher

Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition

2022-11-29T09:22:25-05:00

Vendor: Bézier Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 29.95

Designer	Muneyuki Yokouchi (横内宗幸)
Publisher	Bézier Games
Players	2-5
Playtime	20-40 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Additional Info	345972/cat-box-deluxe-edition http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/345972/cat-box-deluxe-edition/forums/63

Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition is the quintessential quantum trick-taking card game for 2 - 5 cool cats, where your card’s color isn’t defined until you play it! Hypothesize how many tricks you will win, and record your bid. Place tokens on the community research board as you play your hand, and connect large groups of tokens to score even more points. Plan your tricks carefully as you cannot claim the color of a card with the same number that has already been declared. Doing so would be pawsitively catastrophic as you have just created a paradox!

New Deluxe Edition features:

Supports 2-5 players
High quality geekbits-style plastic tokens
Recessed player boards
Recessed Center Research board
Score pad
And a custom plastic insert to keep Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition tidy!

—description from the publisher

boop.

2022-11-29T09:21:57-05:00

Vendor: Smirk & Laughter Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 40.95

Designer	Scott Brady
Publisher	Smirk & Laughter Games
Players	2
Playtime	20-30 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	355433/boop http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/355433/boop/forums/63

A deceptively cute, deceivingly challenging abstract strategy game for two players.

Every time you place a kitten on the bed, it goes “boop.” Which is to say that it pushes every other kitten on the board one space away. Line up three kittens in a row to graduate them into cats… and then, get three cats in a row to win.

But that isn’t easy with both you AND your opponent constantly “booping” kittens around. It’s like… herding cats!
Can you “boop” your cats into position to win?
Or will you just get “booped” right off the bed?

Approachable but challenging abstract game and a worthy follow up to SHOBU. Plays in 20 to 30 minutes.
Features a quilted, fabric board that lays over the back of the box, completing the minature bed playing surface. 8 molded kittens and cats per player - 32 adorable cat figurines in all!

Sea Salt & Paper

2022-11-24T00:22:40-05:00

Vendor: Bombyx
Type: Board Games
Price: 15.95

Designer	Bruno Cathala Théo Rivière
Publisher	Bombyx
Players	2-4
Playtime	30-45 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Honors	2023 Spiel des Jahres Recommended 2022 Tric Trac Nominee 2022 Tric Trac Famille Nominee 2022 Tric Trac d'Argent Famille 2022 Golden Geek Light Game of the Year Nominee
Expansion	Sea Salt & Paper: Extra Salt
Additional Info	367220/sea-salt-paper http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/367220/sea-salt-paper/forums/63

During their turn, you assemble your hand, maybe place cards for their effect, and decide if you want to end the round. But do you think you are the one with the most points in hand?
You will have to choose: stop the round immediately or give the others an extra turn to try to extend the gap? Is it worth taking the risk?
The game ends when you reach 30/35/40 points (4/3/2 players).

The excitement of ending the round to catch your opponents off guard

The pleasure of playing your effect cards and making combos

Origami created especially for the game!

Gang of Dice (Import)

2022-10-16T08:12:41-04:00

Vendor: Mandoo Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 39.95

Designer	Reiner Knizia
Publisher	Mandoo Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	366129/gang-dice http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/366129/gang-dice/forums/63

The boss is going to retire. As one of his lieutenants, you need to take over the reins of the family. But you're not alone in this race... Gather as many minions as possible to show that you are a true leader. Don't be too power-hungry though, as it would displease the boss-he could even get rid of you with a bomb! How far will you go to take his place?

Each round, players reveal a Warning card that displays a particular dice combination or threshold. Each player chooses any number of their dice and rolls them. Your goal is to obtain the highest result without triggering the combination indicated on the card. The player who manages to do that wins the round and gains the dice rolled by all players. At the end of the game, the player with the most dice wins.

—description from the publisher

Magic: The Gathering - Innistrad: Crimson Vow Draft Booster Pack

2022-09-22T08:10:55-04:00

	Vendor: Wizards of the Coast Type: Trading Card Games Price: 3.45
Each Draft Booster contains 15 Magic cards, 1 token or ad card, and 1 Helper card, with a combination of 1 Rare or Mythic Rare, 3 Uncommons, 10 Common cards, and 1 Eternal Night Full-Art Basic Land card. A traditional foil double- or single-faced card of any rarity replaces a Common in 33% of Innistrad: Crimson Vow Draft Boosters.

Ark Nova: Zoo Map Pack 1

2022-08-23T00:05:22-04:00

Vendor: Capstone Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 9.95

Designer	Mathias Wigge
Publisher	Capstone Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	90-150 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansion For	Ark Nova
Additional Info	368158/ark-nova-zoo-map-pack-1 http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/368158/ark-nova-zoo-map-pack-1/forums/63

Ark Nova: Zoo Map Pack 1 contains the two new zoo maps #9 (Geographical Zoo) and #10 (Rescue Station).

Splendor Duel

2022-07-04T10:52:08-04:00

Vendor: Space Cowboys
Type: Board Games
Price: 27.95

Designer	Marc André Bruno Cathala
Publisher	Space Cowboys
Players	2
Playtime	30-45 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Reimplements	Splendor
Additional Info	364073/splendor-duel http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/364073/splendor-duel/forums/63

Splendor Duel is a two-player-only standalone game based on Splendor that retains some of the main gameplay mechanisms of that design, while being a bit more complex, dynamic, interactive, rich, tense, and mean.

The game features a main board shared by both opponents, card powers, and three victory conditions.

The Red Cathedral: Contractors

2022-07-04T07:14:40-04:00

Vendor: Devir
Type: Board Games
Price: 29.95

Designer	Isra C. Shei S.
Publisher	Devir
Players	1-4
Playtime	60-90 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Expansion For	The Red Cathedral
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The construction of St. Basil’s Cathedral is going at a steady pace. The moment has arrived to seek out the best specialists of each guild and to apply their skills and knowledge to turn this monument into something that will even surprise the Tsar himself. It’s necessary to send contractors to the far reaches of Russia to be able to stand out from the competition and achieve victory.

Contractors is the first expansion of The Red Cathedral, the hit game from Shei Santos and Isra Cendrero in which players construct Moscow’s St. Basil’s Cathedral and compete to make the most memorable contribution and win the favor of the Tsar. The expansion is also illustrated by Pedro Soto and Chema Román, two artists inspired by the work of Ivan Bilbin, the Russian artist renowned for his majestic representation of Slavic folklore in his works. The Red Cathedral stands out among recent games for its original rondel mechanism, winning the hearts of thousands of gamers around the world.

The expansion comes in a box that contains almost as much content as the original game and takes the experience into another dimension. In Contractors we find 10 new guilds that can be combined with those from the basic game, 6 additional blueprint cards, and a new card for the solo mode. Many of these new guilds use the Contractors module, which among other things, adds a new board containing a map of Russia. We Will send our contractors throughout Russia to recruit the talent of the best specialists and artisans of the country to aid in the construction of the cathedral.

As in the original game, each of these guilds contains 3 different cards, of which one per guild can be included into the game, meaning that Contractors offers 30 new different ways to play The Red Cathedral. And among other highlights are a black die that can be used alongside the 5 existing dice used to obtain resources, diamonds which serve as a wild-card form of resource, and the contractors, which are Cossack meeples that incorporate a worker placement element into the game.

Obsession: Upstairs, Downstairs

2022-07-04T07:11:51-04:00

Vendor: Kayenta Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 47.95

Designer	Dan Hallagan
Publisher	Kayenta Games
Players	1-6
Playing Time	30-90 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Expansion	Obsession: Promotional Tiles
Expansion For	Obsession
Honors	2020 Golden Geek Best Board Game Expansion Nominee
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Note: For US customer, please check with Kayenta Games for ordering info.

Note: Integration guide to Obsessions 2nd Edition can be downloaded here.

An expansion for Obsession that introduces four new servants—the Hall Boy, Cook, Head Housemaid, and Useful Man—who can be used to mitigate Victorian Fate found in the base game.

It also enables 5 and 6 players and adds the Howard family with their legendary cook.

Upstairs, Downstairs includes new service and improvement tiles along with a ton of new casual and prestige guests. The expansion components empower players to screen guests, work around prestige limitations, find tiles, refresh the market more easily, and enhance favors early in the game.

Finally, there are three new game modes: Solo Estate Challenge, Team Cooperative Play, and Tableau Obsession.