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Planet Unknown

2022-11-29T09:28:06-05:00

Vendor: Adam's Apple Games, LLC
Type: Board Games
Price: 79.95

Designer	Ryan Lambert Adam Rehberg
Publisher	Adam's Apple Games, LLC
Players	1-6
Playing Time	60-80 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	258779/planet-unknown http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/258779/planet-unknown/forums/63

Our planet has run out of resources, and we are forced to move. We have discovered a series of planets and sent our rovers to test their environment with the hope of colonization. Our rovers have confirmed 1-6 viable colonization options. Planet Unknown is a competitive game for 1-6 players where players build and develop the best planet to win!

Each player has a goal of developing the best planet in Planet Unknown. Each round, each player will place one dual resourced tile on their planet, which is a polyomino shape. Each resource represents the infrastructure needed to support life on the planet. Every tile placement is important to cover your planet efficiently and also to build up your planet's engine. After placing the tile, players do two actions associated with the two infrastructure types on the tile. Be careful because some tile placements will trigger "meteors" that make all planets harder to develop and prevent it from scoring points in its row AND column.

Planet Unknown innovates on the popular polyomino trend by allowing simultaneous yet strategic turn-based play via the Lazy S.U.S.A.N. space station in the center of the table. The game also condenses a 3-hour medium weight game into about 70 minutes for 1-6 players no matter the player count.
Curious how we do it, follow along until launch!

—description from the publisher

Thrive: Pond Life

2020-11-10T03:29:21-05:00

Vendor: Adam's Apple Games, LLC
Type: Board Games
Price: 14.95

Designers	Martin Grider Adam Rehberg
Publisher	Adam's Apple Games, LLC
Players	2-4
Playing Time	25 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansion For	Thrive
Additional Info	283032/thrive-pond-life http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/283032/thrive-pond-life/forums/63

With nightfall, the lotus sinks underwater to rest until the new day. However, the pond does not rest and new creatures begin to emerge.

Thrive: Pond Life offers players new ways to play Thrive. More colored pegs allow a 3rd and 4th player to the pond, variable power cards "bend" the normal rules of play, and variable setups keep your pond fresh. The Pond Life also includes a brand new variant to discover a completely new way to play inside.

—description from the publisher

Swordcrafters Expanded Edition (Expansion Only)

2020-07-29T09:34:49-04:00

Vendor: Adam's Apple Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 20.95

The enemies are growing stronger and the King has asked you to craft an enhanced sword of protection using Sword Relics, Sword Mastery, and Sword Tips.

Contains three modules to mix and match with base Swordcrafters for amazing replay value (Requires base Swordcrafters to play).

Features:

Slay monsters with your sword
Dice Tower and Rhado Seal of Approval
Double Exposure Envy Member

Truck Off: The Food Truck Frenzy Roll And Write

2020-04-22T22:30:06-04:00

Vendor: Adam's Apple Games, LLC
Type: Board Games
Price: 20.95

Designers	Ryan Lambert Adam Rehberg
Publisher	Adam's Apple Games, LLC
Players	1-99
Playing Time	25-35 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	283790/truck-food-truck-frenzy-roll-and-write http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/283790/truck-food-truck-frenzy-roll-and-write/forums/63

AS FOOD TRUCK TITANS…
Send your food truck team to score sales at various venues throughout town. You can only visit each venue once and will need to carefully plan your route and take sales opportunities when they are arise. Drive efficiently and score bonuses, or race to the finish and hit the big-time payouts on the way. Plan your route but expect the unexpected in your path to food truck infamy!

Truck Off: The Food Truck Frenzy Roll and Write is a stand alone game and follow-up to the original Truck Off: The Food Truck Frenzy. It throws navigation, risk mitigation, and press your luck into the same meal pack for you to digest.

In Truck Off Roll and Write, all players are driving their food trucks around a grid system town map, and marking off venue locations in a secondary location called a route tracker for each venue they visit. All players will visit a new venue each turn and then mark the value of their corresponding venue dice directly scoring them points. If you mark three venues in one row or one column of the route tracker, you gain a bonus. Bonuses help you navigate around town, allow you to reroll your dice more, drive farther, drive faster, and promote venues to make them more valuable.

Each turn, the active player rolls the set of polyhedral dice. The active player may reroll up to one die to help the sales on their route or hurt the sales on their opponents route. Then all players select one open venue to drive to if possible up to 4 spaces away following a grid movement system. Each player then marks the value of the die on the corresponding location of their route tracker always progressing their route tracker.

Route Tracker: The route tracker is made up of six columns, one for each of D4, D6, D8, D10, D12, and D20 venues. However, the route must always progress forward from D4 to D20 and snake back to D4. If you skip a venue in your route, then you may not return to that venue on the route tracker. The route tracker will play a big role in your pathing around the town and also allows you push the game toward end quicker than your opponents expect.

To win the game and score the most sales, you'll need to plan your efficient route, take high sales opportunities when they present themselves, and figure out how to reroute your food truck if you deviate from your plan.

-description from designer

Swordcrafters Expanded Edition (Includes Base Game)

2019-01-14T14:03:40-05:00

Vendor: Adam's Apple Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 48.95

Designer	Chris Neuman (II) Adam Rehberg
Publisher	Adam's Apple Games, LLC
Players	1-5
Playtime	25-35 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Additional Info	254138/swordcrafters-expanded-edition http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/254138/swordcrafters-expanded-edition/forums/63

Swordcrafters Expanded Edition includes the Swordcrafters base game and expands on the game with three exciting new modules that can be played singly or combined. The sword of protection has broken again. The king has opened up the forgotten tomb granting you access to Sword Mastery, Sword Relics, and Sword Tips.

In Swordcrafters, players compete to forge the best sword scoring based on length, quality, and magic. Each round, each player makes one cut in a grid of sword tiles to create a separation. After the separations phase, each player selects one grouping of sword tiles and assembles them into their sword. When there are not enough sword tiles to form a new grid, scoring occurs.

Players hold their swords in the center of the table to score based on length. Sword quality is based on the highest number of adjacent matching gems on each side of the sword. Sword magic scoring is based on the relevant gems required by each of three sword magic cards.

The Expanded Edition layers in three exciting new modules: Relics, Tips, and Mastery. Relics add new tiles to the grid creating more importance on your set collection expertise. Tips grant players two additional goals that score based on their sword. Mastery challenges players to complete mini-goals throughout the game.

The enemies are growing stronger and the King has asked you to craft an enhanced sword of protection using:
- Sword Mastery: claim each round to hone your blade
- Sword Relics: Add fragments of the past to the grid to keep your slices and selections intense
- Sword Tips: personal goals test how sharp you truly are
Contents include the full base game plus three modules to mix and match for amazing replay value:

Swordcrafters

2018-10-28T10:25:31-04:00

Vendor: Adam's Apple Games, LLC
Type: Board Games
Price: 34.95

Designer	Ryan Lambert Chris Neuman (II) Adam Rehberg
Publisher	Adam's Apple Games, LLC
Players	1-5
Playtime	20-30 mins
Suggested Age	6 and up
Additional Info	243994/swordcrafters http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/243994/swordcrafters/forums/63

The realm is defended, but the sword of protection is broken! The king has called on the best Swordcrafters to forge a replacement.

In Swordcrafters, players compete to forge the best sword scoring based on length, quality, and magic. Each round each player makes one cut in a grid of sword tiles to create a separation. After separations phase, each player selects one grouping of sword tiles and assembles them into their sword. When there are not enough sword tiles to form a new grid, scoring occurs.

Players hold their swords in the center of the table to score based on length. Sword quality scoring is based on the highest number of adjacent matching gems on one side of the sword. Sword magic scoring is based on the highest sum of two gem types.

A innovative 3D sword-building game where the player builds and holds their sword as they play.

—description from the publisher

Brewin' USA

2018-01-10T22:39:16-05:00

Vendor: Adam's Apple Games, LLC
Type: Board Games
Price: 42.95

Designer	Adam Rehberg
Publisher	Adam's Apple Games, LLC
Players	2-5
Playtime	60 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Additional Info	164627/brewin-usa http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/164627/brewin-usa/forums/63

Brewin' USA is a thematic Eurogame in which players control a start-up brewery at the inception of the craft beer revolution. Players will need to collect key ingredients, launch a product line of "liquid gold" craft beer, and strategically compete for regional control across the nation.

A game turn consists of three phases: Ingredient Auction, Launching Beers, and Resolving any Brewfests. During the Auction Phase, players compete for the ingredient cards needed to launch their beer via a turn-based bidding system. Any bids entered are then turned into craft beer "market demand" that is dispersed at the discretion of the players making each play through unique and delivering many interesting decisions. Each beer card has an ingredient recipe that must be satisfied before the beer can be brewed and one of six different beer styles that tailor better to certain cities which will be key when competing for regional control. When a player brews a beer, they must choose to control an open city location or challenge an controlled city to a brewfest where the winner of the brewfest will control the city. If any player controls the most cities in a region at the end of the game, then they control the region. The game ends when the first player brews three beers, and points are then totaled counting beer quality and reputation on cities and any regions you control.

Brewin' USA aims to deliver a quick strategic euro experience paired with a very approachable theme and thrives on its player interaction. The game play revolves around Beer Coaster tiles delivering new twists on fun mechanisms and components including 105 Bottle caps to be used for both money and victory points. The player interaction comes from the Brewfest event in the game, which ramps us as more players grow their craft beer product lines and are chomping to establish their control in the regions.