https://www.booyakajuice.com/collections/all.atom booyakajuice 2017-02-27T17:01:00-05:00 booyakajuice https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/9201946957 2017-02-27T17:01:00-05:00 2017-02-27T17:01:00-05:00 Primordial Soup: Freshly Spiced Board Games Z-Man Games

Vendor: Z-Man Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 27.95

Designer Doris Matthäus
Frank Nestel
Publisher Z-Man Games
Players 3-6
Playtime 90 mins
Suggested Age 12 and up
Expansion For Primordial Soup

The 5-6 player expansion. The new gene cards also may be used to "spice up" the 3 and 4-player game.

Expands:

Primordial Soup




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https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/374207761 2014-11-08T01:51:00-05:00 2014-11-08T01:51:00-05:00 Frank's Zoo Board Games Doris & Frank

Vendor: Doris & Frank
Type: Board Games
Price: 15.95

Designers Doris Matthäus
Frank Nestel
Publisher Doris & Frank
Players 3-7
Playtime 60 mins
Suggested Age 10 and up
Honors


This game is played in several hands. In each hand the players try to be the first to get rid of all of their cards. Their scores are based on how early in the hand they get rid of all their cards. There are two ways to play: you can play where all hands are played the same, or you can play the game with changing partners.

This is a climbing game, similar to The Great DalmutiTichu, and others. The difference here is that the ranks are different kinds of colorfully illustrated animals. Each is scared away only by certain other animals. Players set out one to whatever cards of a particular variety, and someone can play onto that pile only if they have more of that animal or an equal number of some animal that can scare it away. Players get points by playing all their cards, collecting lions, and collecting a hedgehog.

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https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/344633489 2014-07-14T18:01:00-04:00 2014-07-14T18:01:00-04:00 Igel Ärgern + Tante Tarantel Board Games Doris & Frank

Vendor: Doris & Frank
Type: Board Games
Price: 54.95

Designer
Publisher Doris & Frank
Players 2-6
Playtime 45 mins
Suggested Age 8 and up

 
Note: This game is in German.  English rules for both games included can be found here and here.

This new box combines the long lasting classics Igel Ärgern with the long sold out Tante Tarantel

It also contains a new map for Igel Ärgern.

Loosely translated as "Hedgehogs in a Hurry," Igel Ärgern gives players several wooden disks (the hedgehogs) to place in one of six rows. During a turn, you roll a die, optionally move any of your hedgehogs one row left or right, then move any hedgehog (not necessarily yours!) in the row your rolled forward one space. But watch out for black spaces; hedgehogs caught there can't continue moving until they're in last place. The first player to get three of their four hedgehogs to the end of the board wins. Some later versions of this game come with dozens of different variants to keep the game interesting.

Tante Tarantel (Aunt Tarantula) scoots round her web, gobbling up your insects as they try to escape. The web is a spiral, you roll the die and move Auntie, then take turns to move one of your bugs towards the exit space. Initially, Auntie is in a good mood, if she runs into a bug or bugs, they go back to her larder. But as soon as someone escapes, she loses her temper and kills anything she catches! The game has a scoring track, and each time a bug is caught or escapes, a marker moves up, also adding a number to the die roll. So Auntie runs around the web faster and faster. Players can share some spaces, but most of the time, bump each other back and forth. Naturally, nasty bugs push others into Aunty's path to certain death!

Slightly confusing when you start, this is actually a really simple game, easily as good as any D&F game. The original set had wooden pawns for the bugs, but D&F issued a series of neat rubber bugs, which do add to the games' style. ]]>
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https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/344013341 2014-07-13T23:03:00-04:00 2014-07-13T23:03:00-04:00 Urland Board Games Doris & Frank

Vendor: Doris & Frank
Type: Board Games
Price: 39.95

Designer
Publisher Doris & Frank
Players 3-5
Playtime 90 mins
Suggested Age 12 and up


In 
Urland, players compete to get their creatures on land. One player selects which land area is scored in a turn while other players use a number of actions to move their creatures around. At certain intervals on the scoring track, gene modifications are auctioned which offer additional actions to the players.

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https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/338600533 2014-07-03T17:46:57-04:00 2014-07-03T17:46:57-04:00 Arche Opti Mix (aka Ark) (German Import) Board Games Doris & Frank

Vendor: Doris & Frank
Type: Board Games
Price: 29.95

Designer Doris Matthäus
Frank Nestel
Publisher Doris & Frank
Players 3-5
Playtime 45 mins
Suggested Age 8 and up
Honors 2006 Fairplay À la carte Winner

Note: This game is in German, based on BoardGameGeek, the game is language independent.  English rules can be found here.

Noah is tearing out his beard as he doesn't have much time left to finish loading his ark. After all, the clouds are gathering and the rain could come at anytime. Meanwhile, the animals are gathering before the ark and waiting to be told who goes in which stalls. A handful of people have showed up to offer help, but they look like gamblers and game players!

In Ark, the players need to help load animals and supplies into Noah's ark in preparation for the rains to come – but you can't just shove animals into stalls willy-nilly. If the meat eaters are boarded with plant eaters, you won't have those plant eaters around by the time the water recedes. Animals from cold and warm climates also need to be bunked separately so that they can all be comfortable. On top of all that, you have to worry about the weight of the animals; load too many on one side of the ark and you'll all be treading water for the next forty days and forty nights...

The game consists of cards, animal tokens, and "action" discs. Your goal is to place your animal tokens (as victory points) based on characteristics of the animal and provision cards loaded on the "ark". Each player takes turns either placing cards or drawing cards from a face-up draft pile (Card Drafting) and the supply stack. Each card has characteristics (such as the animal size, diet, climate, scoring category, and special ability). Animals and provisions must be placed according to rules that prevent animals from eating each other, eating the supplies, or tipping the "ark" with their combined weight. When a card is played, the player may place a "victory point" animal token on one of the 5 scoring category cards. In this way, the game combines Tile Placement of the cards with Set Collection for types of victory points. The game ends when a fifth "Rain Card", somewhat randomly shuffled into the deck, is drawn. Players then score points for their animal tokens, and bonus points for having the most or second most tokens per category.

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https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/280795833 2014-04-03T00:37:00-04:00 2014-04-03T00:37:00-04:00 Frank's Zoo (Import) Board Games Doris & Frank

Vendor: Doris & Frank
Type: Board Games
Price: 13.95

Designer Doris Matthäus
Frank Nestel
Publisher Doris & Frank
Players 3-7
Playtime 60 mins
Suggested Age 10 and up
Honors


Note: This game is in German, English rules can be found here.

This game is played in several hands. In each hand the players try to be the first to get rid of all of their cards. Their scores are based on how early in the hand they get rid of all their cards. There are two ways to play: you can play where all hands are played the same, or you can play the game with changing partners.

This is a climbing game, similar to The Great DalmutiTichu, and others. The difference here is that the ranks are different kinds of colorfully illustrated animals. Each is scared away only by certain other animals. Players set out one to whatever cards of a particular variety, and someone can play onto that pile only if they have more of that animal or an equal number of some animal that can scare it away. Players get points by playing all their cards, collecting lions, and collecting a hedgehog.

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https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/266018193 2014-03-16T00:19:00-04:00 2014-03-16T00:19:00-04:00 By Golly! Board Games Rio Grande Games

Vendor: Rio Grande Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 17.95

Designer Frank Nestel
Publisher Rio Grande Games
Players 2-6
Playtime 20 mins
Suggested Age 5 and up

 

A children's memory game. A hand of colorful cards depicting birds, worms, etc are dealt to every player, and around 20 cards that match the cards in the player's hands are scattered face down around the table. Players must match cards from their hand with cards on the table to clear out their hand. First to do this wins.

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https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/8462118925 2014-02-06T23:35:00-05:00 2014-02-06T23:35:00-05:00 Ursuppe (aka Primordial Soup) (Import) Board Games Z-Man Games

Vendor: Z-Man Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 69.95

Designer
Publisher Z-Man Games
Players 3-4
Playtime 90 mins
Suggested Age 12 and up
Honors
Expansion Primordial Soup: Freshly Spiced

Note: This game is in German, and does not come in shrink wrap 


The Primordial Soup is supposedly where all life came from. Players take charge of a tribe of amoeba as they struggle to survive. In order to help their quest, tribes will take various genetic advantages, which allow them to 'break' the rules of life. For instance, instead of going hungry, your amoeba could learn to attack foreign amoeba for food. Or perhaps your amoeba could be taught to need less food to survive. Either way, this is a very interesting take on the game of life.

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https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/234143057 2014-02-06T23:35:00-05:00 2014-02-06T23:35:00-05:00 Primordial Soup Board Games Z-Man Games

Vendor: Z-Man Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 34.95

Designer
Publisher Z-Man Games
Players 3-4
Playtime 90 mins
Suggested Age 12 and up
Honors
Expansion Primordial Soup: Freshly Spiced


The Primordial Soup is supposedly where all life came from. Players take charge of a tribe of amoeba as they struggle to survive. In order to help their quest, tribes will take various genetic advantages, which allow them to 'break' the rules of life. For instance, instead of going hungry, your amoeba could learn to attack foreign amoeba for food. Or perhaps your amoeba could be taught to need less food to survive. Either way, this is a very interesting take on the game of life.

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https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/215742373 2014-01-16T18:50:00-05:00 2014-01-16T18:50:00-05:00 Mü & Lots More Board Games Rio Grande Games

Vendor: Rio Grande Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 27.95

Designer Günter Burkhardt
Stefan Dorra
Doris Matthäus
Frank Nestel
Karl-Heinz Schmiel
Publisher Rio Grande Games
Players 2-6
Playtime 30 mins
Suggested Age 10 and up
Honors 2008 Golden Geek Best Card Game Nominee


While the game  and much of the card art will be familiar to players of Mü & More, this release of "the best trick-taking games" has a different lineup of games (some revised) and their components, plus more cards.

This edition includes these previously-released games:

  • Njet!, revised
  • Was sticht?
  • Meinz
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https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/168109300 2013-10-27T00:23:38-04:00 2013-10-27T00:23:38-04:00 Mü & More (German Import) Board Games Doris & Frank

Vendor: Doris & Frank
Type: Board Games
Price: 15.95

Designer Doris Matthäus
Frank Nestel
Publisher Doris & Frank
Players 2-8
Playtime 60 mins
Suggested Age 12 and up
Honors

Note: This game is in German.  The game itself is language independent.  The English rule can be found here.

While the headline game, , is the main attraction, this deck of custom cards comes with rules for several games:
  •  - A complex trick-taking game. For 3-6 players, ages 12 and up.
  • The Last Panther - A trick-taking game similar to Hearts, where players try to avoid negative points. For 3-8 players, ages 10 and up.
  • Wimmüln - A trick-taking game where players must estimate how many tricks they will take, akin to Oh Hell!. For 3-6 players, ages 8 and up.
  • Rummü - A Rummy-like card laying game where players try to get rid of their hands by playing high-scoring combinations of cards. For 3-6 players, ages 8 and up.
  • Safarü - A card "catching" game using basic adding skills. For 2-4 players, ages 10 and up.
  • Calcory (only in the original 1995-1998 edition) - A memory and calculation game, where players push their luck to uncover the most cards. For 2-4 players, ages 7 and up. Calcory uses wooden markers that were not packaged in subsequent releases, so the game was dropped from the set.

 is regarded by many as one of the best offerings in the trick-taking genre. Players reveal cards to declare their bids: the highest bidder becomes the Chief and the second highest bidder is the Vice. Both the Vice and Chief choose a trump (either number or suit), and then players try to capture tricks to score the most points. The Chief chooses a partner and tries to cover the bid to score bonus points, while the Vice and remaining players seek to stop the Chief from reaching his goal.

The deck consists of 60 cards in 5 different colored suits. Each suit contains cards numbered from 0 to 9, with two of each the 1 and 7 cards. Cards also have 0, 1, or 2 triangles printed on them to show the point value of that card.

Mü & Lots More includes a a tweaked version of  and a different set of games.

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