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Mandragora (German Import)

2024-01-27T16:15:43-05:00

Vendor: Game Factory
Type: Board Games
Price: 27.95

Designer	Bruno Cathala Florian Sirieix
Publisher	Game Factory
Players	2-4
Playtime	25-30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Hornor	2022 5 Seasons Best International Family Game Nominee
Additional Info	328535/mandragora http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/328535/mandragora/forums/63

Note: This game includes French, German.

The school of magic is buzzing with excitement. It's almost time for the final test.
The apprentice witches go from shop to shop to find the magic items to demonstrate their skills in casting spectacular spells. Mandragores, a kind of Swiss Army knife of witchcraft, are particularly sought after.
Be careful with cursed scrolls, as the terrible curse they contain could very well cost you the victory!

How to play:
Each round, you can move between the different stalls and collect the ingredients and grimoires on sale.
Beware, each shop not visited will see new merchandise accumulating, sometimes face-down, which your rivals will be able to recover. As soon as you have collected enough items, you can use them to prepare your spells, offering points and spectacular effects!

— Description from a retailer.

Number Drop

2023-12-27T14:50:56-05:00

Vendor: AEG
Type: Board Games
Price: 22.95

Designer	Florian Sirieix Benoit Turpin
Publisher	Alderac Entertainment Group
Players	1-6
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	337784/number-drop http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/337784/number-drop/forums/63

Number Drop is a Tetris-style roll-and-write game played with shapes and numbers.

Players use 4 number dice and 1 shape die to determine the way they must fill in their grid, by creating the shape with the numbers. Players also have 5 block tiles they can use to block the other players' grid.

In this game, you must drop shapes in the right places to create combinations of identical or consecutive numbers on your grid. You aim at being the most efficient and being able drop penalties onto your opponents !
As soon as a player reaches the Game Over line, the game ends and whoever has the most points is the winner.

Will you reach the ultimate score of 100 ?

The A.R.T. Project

2023-09-05T09:43:08-04:00

Vendor: Lumberjacks Studio
Type: Board Games
Price: 51.95

Designer	Florian Sirieix Benoit Turpin
Publisher	Lumberjacks Studio
Players	1-6
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	378356/rt-project http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/378356/rt-project/forums/63

You are part of the Art Rescue Team, with the aim of fighting against "The White Hand", an organization responsible for many thefts of priceless works across the planet. Your team of specialists, the best in their field, will travel from Japan to Rio de Janeiro via Scandinavia in order to recover stolen works of art. Will you manage to gather, together, enough clues in the allotted time to stop this cultural looting?

In the co-operative game The A.R.T. Project, you play together against the game. Each player draws two mission cards at the beginning of each round, then all players decide the order of the round. Your jerrycan reserves, weapons, allies, and clues are all held in common, and their management is essential. When you play a mission, you spend common resources and find clues that will be useful to everyone. Try to save seven works before the end of the mission deck...

—description from the publisher

After Us

2023-09-05T09:26:12-04:00

Vendor: Pandasaurus Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 54.95

Designer	Florian Sirieix
Publisher	Pandasaurus Games
Players	1-6
Playtime	40-60 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	369548/after-us http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/369548/after-us/forums/63

2083. Humankind died out decades ago, leaving behind mere vestiges of its time on Earth. As time went by, nature reclaimed land all over. In this resurgent world, apes have kept evolving. They've been gathering in tribes, growing, mastering human items, and advancing in their quest for knowledge. As the leader of such a tribe, you need to guide it towards collective intelligence.

After Us is a deck-building and resource management game featuring an original and intuitive combo system in which players are each leading a tribe of apes. Starting only with tamarins, they combine their cards each turn to collect resources and gather victory points, attracting new apes into their tribe along the way: powerful gorillas, resourceful orangutans, versatile chimpanzees, and wise mandrills. The first player to obtain 80 points prevails in the race to collective intelligence — and wins the game.

— description from the designer

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.

What's Missing: Purple Version

2022-01-11T22:05:14-05:00

Vendor: Ludonaute
Type: Board Games
Price: 25.95

Designer	Florian Sirieix
Publisher	Ludonaute
Players	3-6
Playing Time	20 mins
Suggested Age	7 and up
Additional Info	336345/whats-missing-purple-version http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/336345/whats-missing-purple-version/forums/63

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

What’s Missing? Purple version is a drawing game that contains 240 cards with line drawings, sorted by difficulty (level 1: a belt, level 4: Pegasus for example).

In a round, each player takes a card, places it under a transparent paper - making sure to hide it behind the cardboard screen - and draws on it things that would help other players to guess what's on the card.

After finishing the drawing, the drawer removes the card and shows only the transparent paper to others. The other players have to guess what's missing on the transparent paper, in other words, what was on the drawer's card. The player who first guesses correctly earns 1 point, with the drawer losing 1 point if no one guesses.

To win, being clever is more important than being a good artist. Young drawers can give other players a clue based on what kind of things are on the card.
For those who own the first yellow version of What’s Missing?, you can double the number of cards up to 480, the number of players up to 12 and the fun with this second version!

—description from the publisher

Imaginarium: Chimera

2020-12-27T00:09:16-05:00

Vendor: Bombyx
Type: Board Games
Price: 35.95

Designer	Bruno Cathala Florian Sirieix
Publisher	Bombyx
Players	2-6
Playtimes	80-120 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansion For	Imaginarium
Additional Info	314501/imaginarium-chimera http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/314501/imaginarium-chimera/forums/63

Dreams are central to the Imaginarium: Chimera expansion. To every machine is added a dream, its "soul". Once a turn, instead of doing one of the two actions you chose, you can spend some time dreaming — and if your dreams are persistent, you can win extra resources or victory points (VPs) — or even end the game earlier than normal.

In addition to new projects and assistants, this expansion includes components to allow for play with up to six players, but only in the new "team play" mode in which teammates share resources, VPs, and broken machines. Good communication allows for combined actions...

Montmartre

2020-04-22T22:27:11-04:00

Vendor: BLAM !
Type: Board Games
Price: 18.95

Designer	Florian Sirieix
Publisher	BLAM !
Players	2-5
Playing Time	20-30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	265681/montmartre http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/265681/montmartre/forums/63

Montmartre takes you on an immersive trip back to the artistic movements of the beginning of the 20th century, highlighting the sweet nostalgia of the narrow alleyways of Paris. In this game of numbers, you will take on the role of a painter and you'll let your muse inspire you to become a famous artist! With this card game where tactics are key, you will experience a wide range of emotions and colors!

Cowboy Bebop: Space Serenade

2020-04-16T11:26:12-04:00

Vendor: Don't Panic Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 58.95

Designers	Johan Benvenuto Florian Sirieix
Publisher	Don't Panic Games
Players	2-4
Playing Time	30-90 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	283642/cowboy-bebop-space-serenade http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/283642/cowboy-bebop-space-serenade/forums/63

Cowboy Bebop: Space Serenade is a competitive deck-building game with 2 to 4 players in which you play one of the four members of the famous Bebop crew.

Each player tries to prove that he is the best bounty hunter by getting the most reputation points at the end of the game. To do so, they will have to capture the criminals wanted by the ISSP, in a spirit of limited collaboration.

During the game, players will be able to buy cards that will allow them to improve their personal deck, in order to better manage the resources necessary for their victory. They will also be able to move from planet to planet with gas or use their special abilities and even those of other players if they have in the same place as them.

The game ends when the terrible Vicious is captured or has fled.

—description from publisher

Save the Meeples

2019-10-23T18:49:53-04:00

Vendor: Blue Cocker Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 27.95

Designer	Florian Sirieix
Publisher	Blue Cocker Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	40-60 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	275800/save-meeples http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/275800/save-meeples/forums/63

The eternal war, the Meeple War, is over for a while now. The meeples are free and live happily in their land. (Note: Its location is being kept a secret as you surely understand.) But that dream world is now troubled... Humans have discovered it and are kidnapping meeples to force them to work in their boardgames. There are only two possible outcomes: Fight the humans, as hard as that would be for the tiny meeples, or build rockets to leave for a new and peaceful planet!

Leading your meeples, you will use trains that lead to different places in which you'll be able to enroll new meeples, repair your wounded foes, acquire resources, build rockets, and fight humans. But be prepared: Your glory will depend on the outcome of the end of the game. If the humans succeed in invading the meeple world before you can escape with the rockets, the one who fought the best will be rewarded; if not, the one who most helped the escape will be. Choose your side wisely!

Save the Meeples is a worker placement game in which placement is disconnected from action, so you have to program your placement in a certain order, but you will take actions in reverse order.
What's more, the winning conditions differ greatly depending on how the game ends ( fight or fly !), under the control of the players, not chance.

Zoo Run

2019-10-10T11:24:19-04:00

Vendor: LOKI
Type: Board Games
Price: 27.95

Designer	Florian Sirieix
Publisher	LOKI
Players	1-5
Playtime	10-20 mins
Suggested Age	4 and up
Honors	2020 Kinderspiel des Jahres Recommended
Additional Info	283073/zoo-run http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/283073/zoo-run/forums/63

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

Line up cards to form animals and help them escape (cooperative mode for ages 4 and up) or win the race of the year (competitive mode for ages 6 and up) ! Two games in one !

The main mechanics of the game is to use specific cards: on the left are 3 animal butts, on the right are 3 heads : of a lama, a panda, a turtle, an elephant or a lynx.

To win, place your cards face up on the table and try to find the best combination of those cards in order to complete the most animals (with matching heads and bottoms). There is always at least one solution, but you goal if to try and find the best solution !

—description from the designer

Imaginarium

2018-05-03T17:49:12-04:00

Vendor: Bombyx
Type: Board Games
Price: 66.99

Designers	Bruno Cathala Florian Sirieix
Publisher	Bombyx
Players	2-5
Playtime	90 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansion	Imaginarium: Chimera
Additional Info	218804/imaginarium http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/218804/imaginarium/forums/63

Imaginarium is a strategy, combination and development game.

From its Kickstarter description:

Through the mist, you can just about see the gigantic form of the factory. This is where the essence of dreams is shaped! We will enter the factory through the grand entrance. Here are the famous machines! You can repair, combine or dismantle them. They will produce the resources needed to repair more powerful machines. I am sure that you will quickly make the best use of your resources and the space available in your workshop to carry out the projects of the design office and gain Victory points!

Oh Captain!

2017-03-22T23:32:00-04:00

Vendor: Ludonaute
Type: Board Games
Price: 33.99

Designer	Florian Sirieix
Publisher	Ludonaute
Players	3-6
Playtime	15-30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	215918/oh-captain http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/215918/oh-captain/forums/63

Our intrepid adventurers have sailed on a journey, finding the hidden cave of a mythic monster. There are so many strange things there! The Captain allows the crew to search through the place and bring back to him what they have found, but by bluffing the Captain, they will try to keep the best part of the loot for themselves...

In Oh Captain!, an asymmetric game of changing roles, an adventurer must offer the loot cards they draw to the Captain, telling the Captain something about what the cards contain but not necessarily speaking truthfully. Indeed, some cursed objects can't be spoken of at all by the adventurers.

The Captain, who is safe from being attacked by objects, decides whether the crew member can keep the loot or not, and if the Captain turns down the offer, the crew member can decide to use an object against another adventurer. The latter player can overcome this by calling out a lie, winning or losing a coin based on who is right. The role of the Captain can be claimed by any adventurer who is richer than the Captain, and in the end the richest adventurer wins the game.