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Maui

2022-07-04T07:11:24-04:00

Vendor: Next Move Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 24.95

Designer	Frank Crittin Grégoire Largey Sébastien Pauchon
Publisher	Next Move Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	361279/maui http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/361279/maui/forums/63

Locals and tourists in Maui are heading to the beach for a chance to find a nice spot to lay their towels and enjoy the amazing view of the Hawaiian ocean. In Maui, you want to find and place beachgoers on your sand so that they create pleasing patterns, while also placing their towels close to the ocean or under the shade of trees or umbrellas to earn the most points. However, getting too close to either of these areas is risky and might ruin their plans!

In the game, you have your own beach board with room for 13 towels, the board has seven rows in which towels can be placed, and during set-up, you randomly place eight umbrellas in designated locations on your board. Each player places one random towel in the left most column of their board; each towel has three different patterns on it. Place six random tiles in the two rows of the market and one sand dollar in each row.

On a turn, either take all the sand dollars from either row of the market or take a towel from the market; towels cost 0, 1, or 2 sand dollars, with those dollars being placed in the market row. When you place a towel, you must match at least one pattern with the towel that's rightmost on your beach board and you want to match as many patterns as possible. For each match you make, you advance that pattern's scoring marker 1-3 spaces on the score board; the closer to the ocean or the shade the more points you score, but if you place part of a towel outside the play area, you're penalized.

If you cover an umbrella, you receive its bonus, whether that's advancing a pattern's scoring marker or receiving one of two types of pearls.

When someone places a towel in the final column of their beach board, you complete the round, then see who's scored the most points from patterns, pearls, and leftover sand dollars, which are each worth a point. Instead of playing with umbrellas, you can flip your beach board to find a septet of sand crabs. Whenever you cover a crab with a towel, the crab crawls onto that portion of the towel, costing you both that pattern and a few points.

A Fistful of Daisies

2022-07-04T07:04:56-04:00

Vendor: Space Cow
Type: Board Games
Price: 27.95

Designer	Frank Crittin Grégoire Largey
Publisher	Space Cow
Players	2-4
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	6 and up
Additional Info	316623/fistful-daisies http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/316623/fistful-daisies/forums/63

In the valley of Herens in A Fistful of Daisies, cows fight one another to win succulent flowers, then get back to the cowshed first.

Each cow player starts with a board showing flowers that they want to eat. On a turn, one player rolls the dice, then each player drafts a die in turn. Players then take turns moving their cows, and if they end their movement in a flower field matching a color they want to eat, then they take a token and cover one of those colored spaces on their board. If they land where another cow is located, they must duel! Roll the cows to see who ends up showing more spots; whoever wins collects clover tokens equal to the number of spots you rolled, and as soon as you have at least four clover, you had in four to cover a flower of your choice.

Whoever first covers all their flowers, then returns to the cowshed from which they started movement on this circular board wins.

Botanik

2020-12-27T00:06:06-05:00

Vendor: Space Cowboys
Type: Board Games
Price: 25.95

Designers	Frank Crittin Grégoire Largey Sébastien Pauchon
Publisher	Space Cowboys
Players	2
Playing Time	20 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	271529/botanik http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/271529/botanik/forums/63

Develop the most effective network of mecha-botanics, the combination of plants and science! Botanik offers fluid mechanics (one action per turn), in addition to an ingenious exchange system, associated with tiles of different groups/colours.

Hagakure

2020-08-11T13:46:02-04:00

Vendor: Studio H
Type: Board Games
Price: 4.95

Designers	Frank Crittin Grégoire Largey
Publisher	Studio H
Players	3-5
Playing Time	25 mins
Additional Info	293836/hagakure http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/293836/hagakure/forums/63

"Hagakure", a term meaning "in the shadow of the leaves" or "hidden in the foliage", is a practical and spiritual guide for Japanese warriors that's also known as "The Book of the Samurai".

The game Hagakure is a trick-taking design for 3-5 players in which you try to score more points than any other player. The deck consists of thirty cards: villagers numbered 1-17, samurai numbered 18-27, and three "old fools" who have no numbers. (With 3-4 players, you remove cards 1-5 and 23-27 from the game.)

At the start of each round, you deal 4-5 cards to each player, then place the remaining 4-5 cards in a pile called "Goze". Each player starts with five "Nobori" tokens, each of which has a special power, and a player can choose to play exactly one of these tokens after looking at their cards. These tokens let you look at another player's hand, swap your hand with the Goze, double your points, etc.

The lead player plays a card from their hand, then each player follows, with the highest card played winning the trick, then leading to the next trick. If a samurai (a red card) is played, then each other player must play a samurai, if possible. Otherwise the game has no required plays. An "old fool" played on its own is worthless, but if a second or third "old fool" is played into a trick, then the player of the last such card wins the trick.

Players earn 1 point for each trick won and 1 point for capturing the 16. A player who took no tricks loses 2 points. After 5-9 rounds, depending on the player count, whoever has the most points wins.

The Way of the Bear

2019-11-22T15:57:51-05:00

Vendor: Rio Grande Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 42.95

Designer	Frank Crittin Grégoire Largey Sébastien Pauchon
Publisher	Rio Grande Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	25-35 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	245382/way-bear http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/245382/way-bear/forums/63

Long long time ago, before age of human, there were four bear clans who help the king to reign over Northeast Asia. The time has come for the king to decide who will be the heir to the throne. The clans send their princes to the world to acquire all the qualifications to be the next king. They travel from town to town and build sacred bear statues; they inherit knowledge of religion, education, military, and commerce in return. The new journey is about to begin. Who will succeed to the throne?
—description from the publisher

Summary of Game Play
1. Place the bear steles to acquire a knowledge token.
2. Pay the equivalent in number and color to the temples.
3. If a player has completed to collect tokens, the game ends.

Ankhor

2019-05-25T17:14:11-04:00

Vendor: Space Cowboys
Type: Board Games
Price: 25.95

Designer	Frank Crittin Grégoire Largey Sébastien Pauchon
Publisher	Space Cowboys
Players	2-4
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	271530/ankhor http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/271530/ankhor/forums/63

Ankhor is a quick-playing resource management game in which each player on their turn either collects three types of tokens (with an ankh being a supplemental resource) or buys a tile from a marketplace and adds this tile to their structure, trying to connect tiles of the same color or bearing the same scarab while doing so. By spending an ankh, you can shift tiles in the marketplace and change the cost and type of goods needed to purchase them.

Each player's structure will have at most thirteen tiles, so don't wait too long to start building!

8Bit Box

2018-10-06T23:28:21-04:00

Vendor: IELLO
Type: Board Games
Price: 40.95

Designer	Frank Crittin Grégoire Largey
Publisher	IELLO
Players	3-6
Playtime	15-40 mins
Suggested Age	6 and up

8Bit Box is a board game that will remind you the golden age of video games as each player has a gamepad to program their actions, using three wheels: direction, symbol, and value.

The base game contains three different games influenced by classic old-school video games.

Helvetia Cup

2013-11-04T20:47:37-05:00

Vendor: Asmodee
Type: Board Games
Price: 44.95

Designer	Frank Crittin Grégoire Largey
Publisher	Asmodee
Players	2
Playtime	45 mins
Suggested Age	6 and up
Additional Info	128218/helvetia-cup http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1276868/helvetia-cup/reviews

Helvetia was created not only from diplomatic relations, but also out of war. There is no longer bloodshed amongst the people of Helvetia, though, as they now prefer to express their rivalry another way. They do it by way of a new sport: the Helvetia Cup.

HELVETIA Cup is a game of simulation football that blends tactical skill, strategy and luck and is set in a fantasy world, with each player acting as a coach in epic games and titanic championships. HELVETIA Cup has both a family version and a geek version.

Short rules description

In Helvetia Cup two fantasy teams compete against each other
You play the coach of a soccer team composed of 9 players. For each game you choose 1 goalkeeper, 4 players and 2 substitutes.
Each player is defined by its abilities, as for example dribble, shoot, tackling, pressure, clearance
Each turn you can move all your players. One hexagon movement is free, if you want to move more you need to spend boost. If a player has no more boost then all its abilities are divided by two.
After the movement, if the defender has a player in the same hex as the ball, he could try some actions; For example, to steal the ball or tackle. If the offense still has the ball, he can try to shoot or pass.