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Chatuchak (Import)

2024-03-26T23:44:42-04:00

Vendor: Cwali
Type: Board Games
Price: 44.95

Designer	Corné van Moorsel Peter Joustra
Publisher	Cwali
Players	1-5
Playtime	15-30 mins
Suggested Age	9 and up
Additional Info	392371/chatuchak http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/392371/chatuchak/forums/63

Note: This game is in English

Bangkok's Chatuchak market, with its colorful tent booths, is one of the world's biggest markets.

In Chatuchak, players have the task of grouping market booths better by market segments like decoration, cloths, furniture, plants or food. Each player manages a section of the market area, and to group the booths in their section better, players want to rearrange booths — but you can relocate booths only as long as they stay along the same alley!

Your own market section has booths along four horizontal and five vertical alleys, so it has five rows and six columns of booth spots. One of the spots in your 5x6 grid is empty; the other 29 spots have a booth, and each booth belongs to one of five market segments. On each turn, you move one booth horizontally or vertically to the empty spot, i.e., to the spot from where the previous booth was moved.

To earn points, players try to reach goals better than their opponents. The game includes twelve goals, such as having one of the five market segments grouped the best, or having two specific market segments connected the best, or having the longest straight path with one market segment or the biggest rectangular area with one market segment.

These goals earn you a point when you reach them first, when you overtake another player, and when you have the lead at end of the game.

The number of turns players have depends on the progress on the time track, so you can assess how many turns remain in the game, but you can't know for certain.

-description from designer

Roll to the Top: Adventures

2023-05-17T07:32:42-04:00

Vendor: BoardGameTables.com
Type: Board Games
Price: 26.95

Designer	John Brieger Peter Joustra Corné van Moorsel
Publisher	BoardGameTables.com
Players	1-6
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	11 and up
Expansion For	Roll to the Top: Journeys
Additional Info	372775/roll-top-adventures http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/372775/roll-top-adventures/forums/63

In this expansion to the beautifully illustrated roll and write Roll to the Top: Journeys, you'll take on the role of the base-game protagonist's daughter, going on a once-in-a-lifetime journey around the world. Follow the young traveler's journey through postcards sent back home to her mother, recounting her journey and relating to her mother's past travels.

Try to be the first player to fill in enough boxes to make it to the top of the landmark in this roll-and-write.

All players will pull from the same pool of numbers rolled on the active dice, using the values to make their way up from the bottom to the top of each landmark. Numbers must increase as you climb, so combine the values carefully!

Each location card will bring a series of unique rules, mixing up play and adding to the challenge! At the end of each round, use the action die to change the dice pool and continue your race to the top!

This new expansion provides new-and-improved game mechanics plus all-new illustrations by artist Horia Tundrea.

This expansion with 6 maps contains 3 of the 6 maps from the expansion named Roll to the Top!: Special Challenges Pack and 1 of the 2 maps of the expansion named Roll to the Top!: Taj Mahal and Sydney Opera House. Each map with its own special rules.

—description from the publisher

Roll to the Top: Journeys

2023-05-17T07:31:11-04:00

Vendor: Allplay
Type: Board Games
Price: 52.95

Designer	Peter Joustra Corné van Moorsel
Publisher	Allplay
Players	1-6
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	11 and up
Expansion	Roll to the Top: Adventures
Reimplements	Roll to the Top!
Additional Info	370193/roll-top-journeys http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/370193/roll-top-journeys/forums/63

In this beautifully illustrated roll and write, you'll take on the role of a young woman going on a once-in-a-lifetime journey around the world. Travel to incredible landmarks all over the globe - from the Pyramid of Giza to the Matterhorn. Follow the young artist’s journey through her postcards, sent back home to her family to recount the details of her trip.

Try to be the first player to fill in enough boxes to make it to the top of the landmark in this roll-and-write.

All players will pull from the same pool of numbers rolled on the active dice, using the values to make their way up from the bottom to the top of each landmark. Numbers must increase as you climb, so combine the values carefully!

Each location card will bring a series of unique rules, mixing up play and adding to the challenge! At the end of each round, use the action die to change the dice pool and continue your race to the top!

Featuring many of the classic Roll to the Top landmarks, this new edition provides new-and-improved game mechanics plus all-new illustrations by artist Horia Tundrea.

Combi-Nations (Import)

2022-12-08T22:55:37-05:00

Vendor: Cwali
Type: Board Games
Price: 72.95

Designer	Peter Joustra Corné van Moorsel
Publisher	Cwali
Players	1-5
Playtime	30-40 mins
Suggested Age	9 and up
Additional Info	370649/combi-nations http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/370649/combi-nations/forums/63

Each player transforms a desolate landscape into florishing forests, grasslands, cities and lakes, combined with matching facilities.

Players start with a sandy land shape, built by 7 tiles of 6 hexagons per tile.

During the game you cultivate your desolate landscape by placing tiles with forest and/or grassland and/or city and/or lake and/or a facility.

The tiles contain 1, 2 or 3 hexagons. (There are 3 differently shaped tiles with 3 hexagons.)
Each hexagon is 1 of the 4 land types or 1 of the 24 different facilities.

TURNS:
Each player has an Arrow pawn for selecting Land tiles from the available open tiles around the Market board.
1st: In your turn you move your Arrow, in the direction it points, around the Market board, to 1 of the first 3 tiles in front of your Arrow.
2nd: The number of steps you moved your Arrow, determines which new tile will be placed, open, at the spot where your Arrow came from.
3rd: Take the tile by your ARROW and place the tile (face-up) on SAND spaces in your country, adjacent to at least 1 LAND or FACILITY hexagon.

At the end of the game, players get victory points for forests, grasslands, cities and lakes (the larger the area, the more points it gives), and for each facility according to its specific score rule. Minus remaining open spaces (sand hexagons).

-description from publisher

Habitats (Third Edition)

2022-11-24T01:02:54-05:00

Vendor: BoardGameTables.com
Type: Board Games
Price: 43.95

Designer	Dominique Ramsey, Daniel Profiri
Publisher	BoardGameTables.com
Players	2-5
Playtime	30-50 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Expansion	Habitats: XL Expansion Habitats: Double Expansion (Import)
Additional Info	200853/habitats http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/200853/habitats/forums/63

In Habitats, each player builds a big wildlife park without cages or fences. The animals in your park need their natural habitats: grassland, bush, rocks or lakes. The zebra needs a big area of grass and some water adjacent, for example, while a bat needs rocks and bush and water, a hart needs bush and grass, and a crocodile needs mainly water. There is a snake, baboon, bee, elephant, otter, lizard, turtle, eagle, meerkat, scorpio, hog, catfish, rhino, etc., each with its own landscape requirements — 68 different animals in total.

Each player starts their individual park with an entrance tile, and they are each represented in the marketplace of animal tiles by a ceramic figure. On a turn, a player takes the tile to their left, right or front; moves their figure to the space just vacated; then draws a tile to place where their figure started the turn.

When adding an animal tile in your park, you add its main landscape — the base space for the animal — to your park, too. While placing this new animal, its own piece of landscape can help to fulfill the requirements of your other animals' requirements, e.g., the water on a hippo tile fulfilling the adjacent otter's need for water. Thus, fulfilling every animal's desire for land becomes a more and more difficult task with each tile you add.

Aside from expanding your park with different landscape types, flora and animals, you can improve its profitability by building extra entrance roads, trek spots, and watchtowers.

Habitats lasts three seasons, with each season giving each player 6-9 new tiles for their parks. Whoever has best met the goal of the season receives bonus points, with a smaller number of points for second and third place. At the end of the game, each player scores for each tile in their park based on whether that tile's requirements are satisfied. Whoever scores the most points wins!

Factory Funner

2022-02-07T20:27:03-05:00

Vendor: BoardGameTables.com
Type: Board Games
Price: 45.95

Designer	Corné van Moorsel
Publisher	BoardGameTables.com
Players	1-5
Playtime	20-40 mins
Suggested Age	11 and up
Additional Info	183284/factory-funner http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/183284/factory-funner/forums/63

In Factory Funner, players are factory managers who select and install machines in their factory. They try connect all machine input and output pipes to the right reservoirs or to other machines in order to build the most profitable configuration. A new machine brings revenue. Other things you build (reservoirs and connectors (pipelines)) cost 1K money each.

In each game round, players may select one machine (from a number of machines equal to the number of players) simultaneously, which means players try to quickly determine possible connections, then grab the tile they want. But by choosing too quickly, you risk taking a machine that doesn't fit well... When fitting in a machine, a key tactic is to keep the most and best options for connecting future machines!

After eight rounds, the player with the most money wins.

The second edition of this game — Factory Funner&Bigger — features the same gameplay as the original release, but with a deeper box, more connectors, and slightly different colors for better usability, and without the "jump" machine as it had a high luck factor and created rules difficulty during play.

Roll to the Top!: Taj Mahal and Sydney Opera House (Import)

2022-01-22T11:09:24-05:00

Vendor: Cwali
Type: Board Games
Price: 9.95

Designer	Peter Joustra Corné van Moorsel
Publisher	Cwali
Players	2-5
Playing Time	15-25 mins
Suggested Age	9 and up
Expansion For	Roll to the Top!
Additional Info	308359/roll-top-taj-mahal-and-sydney-opera-house http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/308359/roll-top-taj-mahal-and-sydney-opera-house/forums/63

2 Special Challenges, with buildings voted on by backers:
5 Taj Mahal laminated A6 sheets
5 Sydney Opera house laminated A6 sheets
(also available as 25 sheet pads)

These Challenges include rule variants, one with SUBTRACTING dice and one with MULTIPLYING&DIVIDING dice. The variants can be used with these and other Challenges.

Roll to the Top!: Duel (Import)

2022-01-22T09:24:33-05:00

Vendor: Cwali
Type: Board Games
Price: 11.95

Designer	Peter Joustra Corné van Moorsel
Publisher	Cwali
Players	2
Playing Time	15-25 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Expansion For	Roll to the Top!
Additional Info	351530/roll-top-duel http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/351530/roll-top-duel/forums/63

In this 2-player variant of Roll to the Top!, the players start at opposite sides.
Instead of playing turns simultaneous, one player fills in first (the player who didn't roll the dice) and the other second.
Goal of the game is to fill the most spaces.

The sheet has 2 sides:

BATTLEFIELD: Move crisscross through the landscape to your opponent.
NAVAL BATTLE: Attack your opponent straight forward.

—description from the publisher

Habitats: Double Expansion (Import)

2022-01-22T09:17:30-05:00

Vendor: Cwali
Type: Board Games
Price: 14.95

Designer	Corné van Moorsel
Publisher	Cwali
Players	2-5
Playtime	30-50 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Expansion For	Habitats
Additional Info	351528/habitats-double-expansion http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/351528/habitats-double-expansion/forums/63

Note: This game includes English, French, Dutch and German.

This 12 tiles expansion contains 6 special park tiles and 6 new goal tiles.

The 6 DOUBLE LANDSCAPE park tiles don't bring victory points themselves, but contain 2 landscape types to connect to each adjacent tile.

This makes it even possible to cross landscape type areas, to fulfill the demands of your animals better.

The 6 goal tiles add variety to the YEARLY GOALS. It brings you more victory points if you beat your opponents by:
Getting a good variation in animal types.
Meeting other rangers in the market.
Pleasing your visitors with watchtowers, routes and views.
Creating the most mysterious secret spot.
Building spots where animals/visitors can move in each direction.
Being close to a market corner.

—description from the designer

Exhibition: 20th Century – Variation Showcases (Import)

2022-01-22T09:08:28-05:00

Vendor: Cwali
Type: Board Games
Price: 14.95

Designer	Peter Joustra Ron van Dalen Corné van Moorsel
Publisher	Cwali
Players	2-5
Playtime	20-50 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Expansion For	Exhibition: 20th Century
Additional Info	351491/exhibition-20th-century-variation-showcases http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/351491/exhibition-20th-century-variation-showcases/forums/63

Add 1 or more of these VARIATION SHOWCASES to the players' exhibition halls. Possibly on top of base game showcases, to replace those.

The 6 new showcases are:

Showcase ANTIQUITY (2 spots) for 5/4/3/2/1(0) victory points: Who has the oldest year in the right side spot?
Showcase UNIQUE DECADES (2 spots): Each decade must differ from the earlier placed decades of all players (including yourself) in this showcase. (With 4, 3 or 2 players, only the respectively middle 8, 6 or 4 decades are allowed. (So with 2 players only the 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s.)
Showcase SHORT ERA (3 spots) for 5/4/3/2/1(0) victory points: Who has the smallest difference in years between the left and the right side spot.
Showcase ONE DECADE (3 spots): All cards in this showcase must have the same decade.
Showcase SPREAD THE YEARS (4 spots): The difference between neighboring cards must be 20 years or more.
Showcase LINKS (4 spots): Each 2 neighboring cards must have OR the same continent OR maximum 5 years difference. (or both)

—description from the publisher

Exhibition: 20th Century (Import)

2022-01-22T09:08:08-05:00

Vendor: Cwali
Type: Board Games
Price: 63.95

Designer	Peter Joustra Ron van Dalen Corné van Moorsel
Publisher	Cwali
Players	1-5
Playtime	20-50 mins
Suggested Age	9 and up
Expansion	Exhibition: 20th Century – Variation Showcases
Additional Info	299544/exhibition-20th-century http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/299544/exhibition-20th-century/forums/63

Goal of the game: Each player tries to make the best exhibition about the 20th Century.

100 20th century objects (each object at 1 of 100 cards, 1 card for each year (1900-1999)) are available to place in your exhibition.
Objects varying from the first Oscar award statue (1929) to Rubik's Cube (sold worldwide since 1980), the first bikini (1946) or flight recorder (1956), Euro coins (1999) or the last Tasmanian Tiger (1936), etc. etc.
Each object belongs to 1 region:
19x North America
18x Europe
17x Asia
16x Africa
15x South America
14x Oceania
1x world (1945) (Kind of a "Joker" card, but that has positive and negative effects with placing, scoring and moving your zeppelin.)

The available objects for your exhibition are placed in the center of the table in 6 groups of 3, each group placed at 1 of the 6 continents (colors).

In your turn you take 1 of the 3 object cards at the continent where your zeppelin stands.
You move your zeppelin to the continent equal to the continent of the card you took.
You place a new random card from the stock to refill the open spot.
Then you place the object in 1 of the 5 showcases in your exhibition hall (or in your depot).

Each player tries to place the objects in their own showcases in accordance to general and showcase-specific requirements.

The game ends if no player can fit a card in their exhibition anymore.

For the victory points players try to fulfill goals the best, during the game and for the endscore. Some goals are individual, for other goals the players compete.

—description from the publisher

Roll to the Top!: Special Challenges Pack (Import)

2021-02-19T00:21:34-05:00

Vendor: Cwali
Type: Board Games
Price: 14.95

Designers	Peter Joustra Corné van Moorsel
Publisher	Cwali
Players	2-5
Playing Time	15-25 mins
Suggested Age	9 and up
Expansion For	Roll to the Top!
Additional Info	255963/roll-top-special-challenges-pack http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/255963/roll-top-special-challenges-pack/forums/63

5 Special Challenges pads:
- 30 Wooden House sheets: With long or wide squares.
- 30 Art to the Top sheets: Long, wide and both longer&wider squares.
- 30 Heydar Center sheets: Partly Increasing mode and partly Decreasing mode.
- 30 Roll Your Own sheets: Make your own Challenge, random or by own choice, by striking out some of 60 squares.
- 30 Cube House sheets: With start spaces at different heights

Habitats: XL Expansion (Import)

2021-02-18T05:37:54-05:00

Vendor: Cwali
Type: Board Games
Price: 16.95

Designer	Corné van Moorsel
Publisher	Cwali
Players	2-5
Playing Time	30-50 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Expansion For	Habitats
Additional Info	282709/habitats-xl-expansion http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/282709/habitats-xl-expansion/forums/63

Note: This game includes English, French, Dutch and German.

The HABITATS XL expansion adds 16 tiles (and 3 game turns per player) :

- 8 animal tiles that need a larger habitat than any of the base game animals, and bring you more victory points if you fulfill their requirements.

- 4 camp site tiles, for your adventurous park visitors to spend the night. You score the victory points if the camp has all the indicated park connections satisfied. The better base it is to walk to different areas of your park, the more points it is worth.

- 4 flower tiles.

Roll to the Top! (Import)

2020-05-15T01:19:37-04:00

Vendor: Cwali
Type: Board Games
Price: 24.95

Designers	Peter Joustra Corné van Moorsel
Publisher	Cwali
Players	2-5
Playing Time	15-25 mins
Suggested Age	9 and up
Expansion	Roll to the Top!: Special Challenges Pack Roll to the Top!: Duel Roll to the Top!: Taj Mahal and Sydney Opera House (Import)
Reimplemented By	Roll to the Top: Journeys
Additional Info	240225/roll-top http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/240225/roll-top/forums/63

Note: This game includes English, French, Dutch and German.

The goal of the game is to complete your 'Challenge' sheet by filling in numbers in all the squares of your sheet.

Each game round some of the 4, 6, 8, 12 and 20 sided dice get rolled for all players.
Write the rolled numbers from the bottom to the top at your sheet, with each new number higher than or equal to each number underneath.
Your squares can contain:
- a number from 1 die, or
- the sum of 2 or more dice
You can also skip 1 or more dice.

Before each next round, the special white die tells the next player (clockwise) to add, remove or swap a die before rolling.

Key tactic is creating the best opportunities. The 4, 6, 8, 12 and 20 sided dice are capricious, so try to anticipate on chances!

Nova Luna

2019-11-20T15:39:09-05:00

Vendor: Pegasus Spiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 40.95

Designer	Uwe Rosenberg Corné van Moorsel
Publisher	Pegasus Spiele
Players	1-4
Playtime	30-60 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Honor	2020 MinD-Spielepreis Short Game Nominee 2020 Spiel des Jahres Nominee 2021 Gioco dell’Anno Nominee 2021 MinD-Spielepreis Short Game Nominee
Reimplemented By	Framework
Additional Info	284435/nova-luna http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/284435/nova-luna/forums/63

The new moon is a symbol for a new beginning, the perfect time to start something new and to plan your future — and that is what Nova Luna (lat. for new moon) is all about. In each round of this abstract tile-laying game, you have to plan your future anew, developing a new strategy to cope with what the moon wheel has to offer you.

On each turn, you have to decide which new tile from the moon wheel to place in front of you. Every new tile brings a new task you have to fulfill. In order to do so, you need to place tiles of the correct color adjacent to the task you want to complete, but these of course again bring you new tasks. Each time a task is solved, you may place one of your markers on it. So decide wisely and be the first one to place all your markers.

—description from the publisher

Beasty Borders

2019-10-25T18:35:06-04:00

Vendor: Cwali
Type: Board Games
Price: 0.00

Designer	Peter Joustra Corné van Moorsel
Publisher	Cwali
Players	2
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	284862/beasty-borders http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/284862/beasty-borders/forums/63

Both players want to make the biggest groups with their animals in the landscape.
Each player has 3 different animals: 5, 7 and 8 of these.

First make a random landscape with the 9 tiles. Each tile has 4 or 5 spaces to place an animal, and 1 or 2 lake spaces which stay empty the whole game.

At the start of your turn you roll the 8-sided die which determines the single empty space where you can now place 1 of your animals or you pass. If you pass, then the other player can place an animal at that spot, or pass too and place a neutral disc to close that space.
When you roll the die and pass, the next turn you roll the die again so can choose first again!! Otherwise the other player rolls the die for the next turn.

Groups of 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8 animals bring respectively 0/1/3/5/7/8/9/10 victory points.

It's much luck, much depth, much drama. Sometimes a no-brainer, sometimes a very tough choice! You often must adapt your plans to new situations. Very light rulewise, but exciting to play smart. The tension for the big points builds up towards the end of the game.

-description from designer

Aloha

2019-05-17T13:50:23-04:00

Vendor: Cwali
Type: Board Games
Price: 19.95

Designer	Corné van Moorsel
Publisher	Cwali
Players	2-5
Playtime	45 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	20018/aloha http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/20018/aloha/forums/63

From the publisher:
"Aloha, Holiday Island. Island tourism grew explosively around 1960 and travel agents searched desperately for new paradise beaches. Your travel office asks you to explore new holiday destinations. Your task is to find the best beaches and the most attractive locations."

Aloha is a nice mix of tile play and push-your-luck. Players are travel reps trying to secure the best beaches by placing sun loungers on beaches as they explore the island. The tiles show a good mix of land and water, with 1-3 golden beaches on most tiles. On your turn, you jump your rep to a new place, then draw a tile. This must be placed adjacent so you can walk straight onto it, otherwise your turn is over. If you walk on, and it has a beach, you have the option of dropping a lounger in your color onto it on its side.

Then you can decide to push your luck and draw another tile. Each time you walk on, you may drop another lounger, but these go onto their sides. When you decide you've done enough or cannot move on anyway, you stop drawing and turn your loungers upright. But if you draw a tile you can't place so that you walk on, you lose all the loungers on their sides back to your pot. The tile still gets placed, and the game has a clever rule. Whenever a tile is placed, it must go where it touches the most tiles. So if the tile is going next to where you stand, sometimes you have no choice, the game forces its placement. But usually you have a few choices and these are crucial to pushing your luck.

Finally, when all the tiles are down, the island is scored. The longest beach gets a 10pt marker, the next a 9pt marker and so on (with rules for tie-breaks). Then, the player with the most loungers on that beach collects to points markers (more tie-breaks). Also, any loungers still in your pot are also worth 1 pt each.

At first, you think you must fight over owning beaches, and try to wrest back control of a beach. But in fact you will only win by occupying several beaches, and often you only need 3 or 4 markers to secure control. Being able to start a beach, get control, then extend it to get most points will win. Players can be unlucky and draw un-walkable tiles a few times, but this means you are not picking the correct places when jumping.

As the game ends, your options reduce, but you should have done your work already. The result is a nice looking island, with lush jungle and bluewater inlets, dotted with lots of loungers.

You have nothing to do till your turn, but if you make the right choices, you should have a winning chance. Knowing when to go one more tile matters, and knowing when to stop. Players with lots of loungers left in front of them can still win, but may have wasted their opportunities.

Factory Funner: Expansion 2 (Import)

2019-05-17T13:49:30-04:00

Vendor: Cwali
Type: Board Games
Price: 11.95

Designer	Corné van Moorsel
Publisher	Cwali
Players	1-5
Playtime	20-40 mins
Suggested Age	11 and up
Expansion For	Factory Funner

Note: This game includes English, Dutch, French and German.

Originally available during the Factory Funner & Bigger and Habitats 3rd edition Kickstarter

Factory Funner: Expansion 2 is a small promo expansion to Factory Funner.

It contains 8 new machines (plus 1 end product reservoir). The mini expansion makes that the game have more machines which improves the randomness. There will be a machine with input/output volumes 3&3/3 (and only 4 vp) and 1 machine with 3 times 1 input volume which should be the "easiest" to place of the 3-input-pipes machines.

Champions 2020 (Import)

2019-02-18T07:14:37-05:00

Vendor: Cwali
Type: Board Games
Price: 39.95

Designer	Corné van Moorsel
Publisher	Cwali
Players	2
Playtime	40-60 mins
Suggested Age	11 and up
Additional Info	102159/champions-2020 https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/102159/champions-2020/forums/63

Note: This game includes English. English rule can be found here.

Champions 2020 has the same main mechanisms as StreetSoccer, which was published in 2002. Both games were developed in parallel over a thirty-year period. Why is the game set in 2020? A few soccer rules changed by that year, making the game more fluid.

While StreetSoccer simulates soccer with five players on a side on a small square, Champions 2020 simulates stadium soccer, so the field is bigger. As coach you select 11 players as a starting line-up (goalie, defenders, midfielders, forwards), while the rest of your team starts in the dug-out for possible substitutes (after warming up).

Your professional soccer players are more skilled than street soccer players, which leads to spectacular stadium matches. Players can try to hit passing balls, which can lead to throw-ins, corner-kicks and goalie-kicks. As skilled team players, your players can anticipate on passes. Your goalie is skilled, too. With good positioning he has the best save chances, which depends on the speed of the shot and the distance to the ball. A rebound is possible, but a better save is catching the ball in his hands.

Unfortunately, the players are "skilled" in causing fouls (or "schwalbes"), too. As soccer coach, you can't always control your players – and that leads to free kicks, penalty kicks, yellow/red cards and injuries.

For tournaments the yellow/red cards, injuries, extra time, penalty kicks and stats make the soccer simulation complete.

Gipsy King

2018-03-30T00:35:56-04:00

Vendor: Cwali
Type: Board Games
Price: 44.95

Designer	Corné van Moorsel
Publisher	Cwali
Players	2-5
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	32382/gipsy-king http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/32382/gipsy-king/forums/63

Players build caravan routes across the board—in the free lands near the wonderful lakes—vying to attain the most popular and lucrative caravan spots for their families. When all the lands have been filled with caravans, points are awarded for controlling lakes with gold coins and connected caravans groups. After a second round (which entails some minor changes), the player with the most points is crowned as the Gipsy King. Release: Essen 2007.

StreetSoccer (German Import)

2018-02-08T00:12:37-05:00

Vendor: Cwali
Type: Board Games
Price: 42.95

Designer	Corné van Moorsel
Publisher	Cwali
Players	2
Playtime	20-30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Honors	2003 International Gamers Award - General Strategy: Two-players 2002 Nederlandse Spellenprijs Nominee
Additional Info	3421/streetsoccer http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3421/streetsoccer/forums/63

Note: This game includes English. English rule can be found here.

StreetSoccer is the name in the Netherlands (Dutch: Straatvoetbal) for how soccer is played in parks or squares in cities and villages.
In this game 2 StreetSoccer teams play a 25 'minute' match.
The soccer field is 10 spaces long and 6 wide (plus spaces outside the lines).
The 2 players of this game both are coaches of one team.
Both coaches have 5 StreetSoccer player figures (incl. the goalie).
A die determines your number of spaces to move one of your figures. If you reach the ball you shoot the ball by the unused number of pips on the die plus one, and can make passes between players of your team.
The die makes luck a part of this game. But your choices, like which player you move to which field and where to pass the ball are very important. For the following turns you calculate chances for your opponent and yourself and you try to have your players in good positions for later situations.

Habitats (Third Edition) (Import)

2016-12-06T00:22:02-05:00

Vendor: Cwali
Type: Board Games
Price: 64.95

Designer	Corné van Moorsel
Publisher	Cwali
Players	2-5
Playtime	30-50 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Expansion	Habitats: XL Expansion Habitats: Double Expansion (Import)
Additional Info	200853/habitats http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/200853/habitats/forums/63

Note: This game includes English, French, German and Dutch. For a preview, English rule can be found here.

In Habitats, each player builds a big wildlife park without cages or fences. The animals in your park need their natural habitats: grassland, bush, rocks or lakes. The zebra needs a big area of grass and some water adjacent, for example, while a bat needs rocks and bush and water, a hart needs bush and grass, and a crocodile needs mainly water. There is a snake, baboon, bee, elephant, otter, lizard, turtle, eagle, meerkat, scorpio, hog, catfish, rhino, etc., each with its own landscape requirements — 68 different animals in total.

Each player starts their individual park with an entrance tile, and they are each represented in the marketplace of animal tiles by a ceramic figure. On a turn, a player takes the tile to their left, right or front; moves their figure to the space just vacated; then draws a tile to place where their figure started the turn.

When adding an animal tile in your park, you add its main landscape — the base space for the animal — to your park, too. While placing this new animal, its own piece of landscape can help to fulfill the requirements of your other animals' requirements, e.g., the water on a hippo tile fulfilling the adjacent otter's need for water. Thus, fulfilling every animal's desire for land becomes a more and more difficult task with each tile you add.

Aside from expanding your park with different landscape types, flora and animals, you can improve its profitability by building extra entrance roads, trek spots, and watchtowers.

Habitats lasts three seasons, with each season giving each player 6-9 new tiles for their parks. Whoever has best met the goal of the season receives bonus points, with a smaller number of points for second and third place. At the end of the game, each player scores for each tile in their park based on whether that tile's requirements are satisfied. Whoever scores the most points wins!

SeaSim

2016-11-27T15:22:00-05:00

Vendor: Cwali
Type: Board Games
Price: 32.95

Designer	Corné van Moorsel
Publisher	Cwali
Players	2
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	18266/seasim https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18266/seasim/forums/63

EAT THE MOST FISH!
In the Sharks Sea, a lagoon at the Palantic Ocean, red and yellow sharks compete for the largest fish populations. Maneuver smartly and swim fast to eat the most fish!

(This is paraphrased from the publisher's site)
Both players are a type of sharks. You try to make your 'family' of 3 sharks (yellow or red sharks) the healthiest by having them hunt their desired type of fish (white, grey and brown fish). The goal is to attain a high health level, where health is the number of fish you ate less 1 (for the energy used to hunt). The populations of the 3 different types of fish grow during the game, so one needs to foresee and maneuver towards the larger fish populations to be in the right place at the right time.

Optional rules include a Virus that makes the fish sick (and adds no health to a shark), an Orca which competes with the shark to eat fish, and a Current which sweeps fish around the lagoon.

Re-implements:

Ocean

Samara: Expansion 2 - Winter & Summer Tiles

2016-09-23T22:30:00-04:00

Vendor: Cwali
Type: Board Games
Price: 17.95

Designer	Christof Tisch Corné van Moorsel
Publisher	Cwali
Players	2-5
Playtime	35-50 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Expansion For	Samara
Additional Info	185040/samara-expansion-2-winter-summer-tiles http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/185040/samara-expansion-2-winter-summer-tiles/forums/63

Samara: Expansion 2 – Winter & Summer Tiles consists of three tiles, each with a winter and a summer side. Each tile has the same shape as the time track tiles, but is only one, two or three months wide.

One winter and one summer tile side (randomly determined) become part of the timetrack, with the winter tile placed between December and January and the summer tile between June and July. These tiles limit the options in winter and in summertime, and in the winter work is harder (more strength needed) while during the summer lighter (less strength needed).

Samara: Expansion 1 - Buildings, Goals & Tokens

2016-09-23T22:30:00-04:00

Vendor: Cwali
Type: Tokens
Price: 17.95

Designer	Corné van Moorsel
Publisher	Cwali
Players	2-5
Playtime	35-45 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Expansion For	Samara
Additional Info	183140/samara-expansion-1-buildings-goals-tokens http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/183140/samara-expansion-1-buildings-goals-tokens/forums/63

Samara: Expansion 1 – Buildings, Goals & Tokens contains the stretch goals of the crowdfunding campaign for Samara, specifically:

10 building tiles that play a special role
10 hidden goal tiles
A wooden horse, sword, and professor token that give a special power to one worker