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Pixies

2024-09-02T02:08:21-04:00

Vendor: Bombyx
Type: Board Games
Price: 12.95

Designer	Johannes Goupy
Publisher	Bombyx
Players	2-5
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	411875/pixies http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/411875/pixies/forums/63

In Pixies, you move through the seasons to meet little creatures emerging from a flower or sheltering in the hollow of a tree. Choose one of the revealed cards, but be careful which ones you leave to your opponents!

Place that card in your playing area according to its number. Cards placed one on top of another are validated and earn you points at the end of the round, as do your largest color zone and your spirals. Easy...yet you'll find that the other players won't be short of bad advice.

—description from the publisher

Elawa

2024-03-07T22:11:16-05:00

Vendor: Bombyx
Type: Board Games
Price: 22.95

Designer	Johannes Goupy Corentin Lebrat
Publisher	Bombyx
Players	2-4
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	379625/elawa http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/379625/elawa/forums/63

In Elawa, you have to assemble your prehistoric tribe while collecting the elements necessary for its development, but the opposing chiefs will do you no favors, and your choices around the campfire are already full of dilemmas...

Each turn, pick one card from those surrounding the campfire on the table, add it to your tribe face up, and get a resources from the central display based on the number in the lower right of the card. Take these resources in order from where you picked up the card, getting a bonus if you take the last resource from a stack, after which the resource is re-filled. With these resources, you can build cards from your hand, whether for an immediate effect, resource storage, or endgame scoring.

When the central resource pile is empty, players tally their scores.

Cardline: Dinosaurs

2023-12-27T14:45:54-05:00

Vendor: Bombyx
Type: Board Games
Price: 19.95

Designer	Frédéric Henry
Publisher	Bombyx
Players	2-8
Playtime	15 mins
Suggested Age	7 and up
Additional Info	163277/cardline-dinosaurs https://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1544862/cardline-dinosaurs/reviews

Diplodocus is clearly heavier than Tyrannosaurus, but what about Brachiosaurus? I imagine the Stegosaurus is lighter than those three, but is it lighter than a woolly mammoth? Not easy, I think I'll just place the saber-toothed tiger, at least I know where to put it… Well, I think? This box contains 110 cards on the theme of dinosaurs and prehistoric animals. It can be played alone, or combined with the other titles of the Cardline series.

Knarr

2023-09-05T09:36:05-04:00

Vendor: Bombyx
Type: Board Games
Price: 26.95

Designer	Thomas Dupont
Publisher	Bombyx
Players	2-4
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	379629/knarr http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/379629/knarr/forums/63

In Knarr, you are the leader of a band of Vikings that you send to new destinations. Manage the recruitment of your crew, and choose the best territories to explore. Depending on the destinations reached (for trading or influence) and the Vikings who accompany you, you can increase your reputation to gain even more wealth. Each turn, you:

Place a new member in your Viking crew, activate the effects of all of them with the same icon, and get another one from those available under the matching color on the central board, or

Explore new destinations, with the opportunity to trade with those places and get more gains or reputation.

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!

Nicodemus

2022-07-04T07:11:47-04:00

Vendor: Bombyx
Type: Board Games
Price: 35.95

Designer	Bruno Cathala Florian Sirieix
Publisher	Bombyx
Players	2
Playtime	45-60 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	334644/nicodemus http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/334644/nicodemus/forums/63

Nicodemus Gideon is retiring! To take his place, two assistants of the Dream Factory — that is, you and one other — will face off in a duel in which you repair machines and complete projects as quickly as possible in order to score 20 or more points first.

In Nicodemus , you can return to the universe of Imaginarium in a game in which the two players must block one another repeatedly, with advantages swinging one way, then the other, with the slightest mistake possibly being fatal to your chances. On a turn, you have a choice of two actions:

Play a machine card from your hand to the Bric-a-brac to earn charcoalium, produce a resource, or apply the effect of the machine.
Repair a machine from the Bric-a-brac to score points and place this machine in your workshop.

Each resource indicated in the production zone of machines in your workshop reduces the number of resources needed to repair subsequent machines. Additionally, repairing a machine can help you complete specific projects and win points.

Garden Nation

2021-10-05T14:34:44-04:00

Vendor: Bombyx
Type: Board Games
Price: 39.95

Designer	Rémi Saunier Nathalie Saunier
Publisher	Bombyx
Players	2-4
Playtime	60-75 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	341245/garden-nation http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/341245/garden-nation/forums/63

Note: This game is in English

In Garden Nation, the four clans wish to build a city on the seven territories of the garden, but each is trying to gain the upper hand.

In the game, you construct buildings by rearranging coffee pots or bird feeders to complete official projects and secret missions. Each new floor costs more and more inhabitants. However, once the goal is reached, the colors of these people float there, thus validating these common projects. The other leaders might not let this stand, however, and will invade the buildings of opponents to try to take them back. To impose your choices on others, you must master the art of this war, deciding who will play after you and where they will have to go.

Your main actions during play are to build or abandon a building; validate a common project; and move the "Torgrue", then choose the next player. Over the course of play, the 3D city progressively grows on the board, with the location of your action determining where the next action will be carried out, and with you deciding who will act.