https://www.booyakajuice.com/collections/all.atom booyakajuice 2024-09-03T11:39:12-04:00 booyakajuice https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/7384264802355 2024-09-03T11:39:12-04:00 2024-09-03T11:39:12-04:00 Bottle Imp *PRE-ORDER* Board Games Matagot

Vendor: Matagot
Type: Board Games
Price: 16.95

Designer Günter Cornett
Publisher Matagot
Players 2-6
Playtime 15-30 mins
Suggested Age 10 and up

ETA Q3 2024

A classic of the trick taking-games makes its return! Bottle Imp is back in a new edition, adding team modes and a 5 to 6 player variant to the usual 2 to 4 players configuration of the title.

In this game inspired by the eponym novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, all players around the table want to acquire the cursed bottle that can grant all wishes... However, they need to get rid of it before the end! Score points by trying to take as many tricks as possible, but make sure to not finish the game with the bottle, or the Bottle Imp will take your points!

This new edition features 54 foil effect cards and two bottles, with art by Maxime Morin (Faraway, Codex Naturalis, Next station Tokyo, Next station London...)

—description from the publisher

]]> Availability_Out of Stock Availability_Pre-order BGG-Discover BGG-Set NewProduct Product Type_Board Games Product-Not-International https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/7384264802355 Default Title 16.95 MATBIM001294 921 https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/6973047603251 2024-09-03T11:30:03-04:00 2024-09-03T11:30:03-04:00 Hey, That's My Fish! (Release Oct 4, 2024) *PRE-ORDER* Board Games Next Move Games

Vendor: Next Move Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 35.95

Designer Günter Cornett
Alvydas Jakeliunas
Publisher Next Move Games
Players 2-4
Playtime 20-20 mins
Suggested Age 8 and up
Hornor 2006 Golden Geek Best 2-Player Board Game Nominee
2006 Golden Geek Best Family Board Game Nominee
2006 Golden Geek Best Kids' Board Game Nominee
2006 Golden Geek Best Light / Party Game Nominee
2006 Japan Boardgame Prize Best Foreign Game for Beginners Nominee
2006 Japan Boardgame Prize Best Foreign Game for Beginners Winner
2006 Juego del Año Finalist
2006 Spiel der Spiele Hit für Familien Recommended
2006 Spiel des Jahres Recommended
2006 Vuoden Peli Family Game of the Year Nominee
2012 Årets Spill Best Family Game Nominee
2012 Lucca Games Best Family Game Nominee


In Hey, That's My Fish!, players want to catch as many fish as possible with their waddle of penguins. Each turn, a player moves one penguin in a straight line over hex-shaped ice tiles with 1, 2 or 3 fish on them. The player then collects the hex from where the penguin started its movement from the table, thereby creating a gap which penguins can't cross on future turns. When a penguin can't move, it's removed from play with its owner claiming the tile on which it stands. The player who collects the most fish wins.

]]> Age 6+ Arrival-New-Sept-22-29-2024 Arrival_Sept 29 2024 Availability_In Stock Availability_Pre-order BGG-Set BoardGameGeek Rank_Top 100 BoardGameGeek Rank_Top 200 BoardGameGeek Rank_Top 300 BoardGameGeek Rank_Top 400 BoardGameGeek Rank_Top 500 Category_Abstract Category_Family INV-0-L Players Maximum_4 Players Players Minimum_2 Players Playtime Maximum_30 Minutes Playtime Minimum_30 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-Not-International Stock_New Stock_Updates Year Published_2000s https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/6973047603251 Default Title 35.95 NMG60120EN 1955 https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/1635721183283 2018-12-12T21:50:17-05:00 2018-12-12T21:50:17-05:00 Canaletto (German Import) Board Games Hans im Glück

Vendor: Hans im Glück
Type: Board Games
Price: 22.95

Designer Günter Cornett
Publisher Hans im Glück
Players 3-4
Playtime 30-45 mins
Suggested Age 12 and up

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

An open auction game, players bid for the heirlooms in Venetian palaces, which then get sold on as groups are completed. A circuit of palaces is seeded with the items, and a marker shows which palace is being auctioned. As players bid, they move a gondola along the circuit, which points which the next auction will be when this one is resolved. Players start with 30 points on the scoring track, and there's a marker to allow debt on the same track. Debt costs double at the game end. There's also a marker to allow you to bribe the auctioneer and take a lot for no cost.

A series price tiles show the potential value of the next completed lot. So you might get to sell your pictures for 16 each, but you might be forced to sell when the price is only 4 each.

The game is totally open, and you can do the maths to work out the potential benefits to each player, but the game remains fun and quick. Tying the next auction to the current price is a clever idea too, and it can be worth bidding a bit more to control where the next auction will be. Long out of print, Canaletto stands up well with auction games like Medici.

This later saw incarnations in 1996 as Le Jardin and 2000 as Der Garten des Sonnenkönigs.

]]> Age_9+ Availability_Out of Stock BGG-Set Google-True INV-0-L INV-C Players Maximum_4 Players Players Minimum_3 Players Playtime Maximum_45 Minutes Playtime Minimum_30 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Source_Import Games Stocky-Clearance Year Published_1990s https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/1635721183283 Default Title 22.95 15881441574963 867 https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/8318436801 2016-10-25T06:40:00-04:00 2016-10-25T06:40:00-04:00 Agamemnon Board Games Osprey Games

Vendor: Osprey Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 26.95

Designer Günter Cornett
Publisher Osprey Games
Players 2
Playtime 20-30 mins
Suggested Age 12 and up

None can defy the will of the gods but the gods themselves. Driven by the ambition of their king, the Greeks have arrived on the shores of Troy. Some seek power, some seek revenge, while still others seek the great moment in battle that will define their place in history.

Agamemnon is a fast-paced strategy board game in which two players take on the roles of ancient Greek gods during the Trojan War. By tactically deploying warriors to where they're needed across the board, each player may influence the final outcome of the battles famously detailed in Homer's Iliad. Some areas will be decided by the strength of the warriors, others by sheer weight of numbers, and some by the inspiration your heroes provide.

To begin the game, Strings of Fate tiles are placed on their matching spaces on the board, and each player receives one set of fifteen playing tiles. These tiles come in three varieties: Warriors, with a numerical value marking their strength, Leaders, with both a letter rank and a strength value, and Weavers who have no strength or rank, but instead manipulate the Strings of Fate. Each player will shuffle their tiles face down in front of them.

The first player flips over one of their tiles, and places it on any available space. If it’s a Weaver, its effect immediately comes into play: the Warp Weaver may swap two adjacent Strings of Fate, whilst the Weft Weaver simply splits all strings it’s connected to. After the first turn, each player flips and plays two tiles on their turns.

Once all the tiles have been placed, each string is resolved: each Strength String is won by the player with the highest combined strength contained within it; each Leadership String is won by the player with the single highest ranked tile within the string; and Force Strings are won by the player with the most tiles, including Weavers, in the string. Players claim all the tiles from Strings of Fate they have won, and the player with the most tiles at the end wins.
 

]]> 2-Players-Only Availability_Out of Stock BGG-Set BoardGameGeek Rank_Top 300 BoardGameGeek Rank_Top 400 BoardGameGeek Rank_Top 500 Category_Abstract Google-True INV-0-L INV-A Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20230112_Full_Restock Restock-20240526-Long Year Published_2010s https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/8318436801 Default Title 26.95 OSPGAM008 1019 https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/2392289537 2015-11-03T00:51:00-05:00 2015-11-03T00:51:00-05:00 Old Town Robbery Board Games Clicker Spiele

Vendor: Clicker Spiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 7.95

Designer
Publisher Clicker Spiele
Players 2-7
Playtime 20 mins
Suggested Age 8 and up

Old Town Robbery is a communication-based memory game for families with easy rules.

In the first part of the game, the robber wanders through the city, and the players construct a story based on the places he visits. In the second part, players take turns playing the sheriff who is trying to retrace the steps of the robber, visiting the same places as the robber has before. The story element helps players do just that, and they earn points by correctly guessing the next building.

]]> Age 6+ Availability_Out of Stock BGG-Set Discount_On Sale Google-True INV-M-Z INV-O Players Maximum_7 Players Players Minimum_2 Players Playtime Maximum_30 Minutes Playtime Minimum_30 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20230112_Full_Restock Restock-20240526-Long Sale Type_Regular Source_Import Games Year Published_2010s https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/2392289537 Default Title 7.95 8007031745 301 https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/859363329 2015-05-18T13:26:00-04:00 2015-05-18T13:26:00-04:00 Down Under Board Games Bambus Spieleverlag

Vendor: Bambus Spieleverlag
Type: Board Games
Price: 24.95

Designer Günter Cornett
Publisher Bambus Spieleverlag
Players 2-4
Playtime 30 mins
Suggested Age 10 and up

Down Under is a tile placing game where players place their tiles trying to increase their route. The player with the longest route at game end is the winner. As tiles also contain animals, players score or lose extra points for having groups of specific animals in their route. ]]> Availability_Out of Stock BGG-Set Category_Abstract Category_Family Google-True INV-0-L INV-D Players Maximum_4 Players Players Minimum_2 Players Playtime Maximum_30 Minutes Playtime Minimum_30 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20230112_Full_Restock Restock-20240526-Long Source_Import Games Year Published_2000s https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/859363329 Default Title 24.95 2410282881 943 https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/349371945 2014-07-25T01:27:00-04:00 2014-07-25T01:27:00-04:00 Kahuna (Import) Board Games Rio Grande Games

Vendor: Rio Grande Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 24.95

Designer Günter Cornett
Publisher KOSMOS
Players 2
Playtime 30 mins
Suggested Age 10 and up
Honors


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

Originally published in 1997 as Arabana-Ikibiti by the designer's own publisher Bambus Spieleverlag, then reprinted by Funagain in the U.S., Kosmos' Kahuna – part of its Kosmos two-player series – is the best known implementation of this design.

In this simple two-player game, players use cards to place or remove bridges from a collection of islands. If you get the majority of bridges around an island, you place one of your marker stones on it and also remove any of your opponent's bridges to that island – which might cause them to lose a bridge majority on an adjacent island and lose a marker stone there. The Kosmos edition has excellent graphics and nice wooden pieces and plays very well.

    ]]>     2-Players-Only Age_9+ Availability_Out of Stock BGG-Set BoardGameGeek Rank_Top 100 BoardGameGeek Rank_Top 200 BoardGameGeek Rank_Top 300 BoardGameGeek Rank_Top 400 BoardGameGeek Rank_Top 500 Category_Abstract Google-True INV-0-L INV-K Players Maximum_2 Players Players Minimum_2 Players Playtime Maximum_45 Minutes Playtime Minimum_30 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20230112_Full_Restock Restock-20240526-Long Source_Import Games Vintage-Exclusion Year Published_1990s https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/349371945 Default Title 24.95 100890 943     https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/294537289 2014-04-19T16:39:42-04:00 2014-04-19T16:39:42-04:00 The Bottle Imp (Stronghold Edition) Board Games Stronghold Games

    Vendor: Stronghold Games
    Type: Board Games
    Price: 19.95

    Designer Günter Cornett
    Publisher Stronghold Games
    Players 3-4
    Playtime 30 mins
    Suggested Age 10 and up
    Honors


    In this trick-taking game based on the short story by Robert Louis Stevenson of the same name, the goal is to gain the most points over a series of hands (usually the goal is set to 200 pts). Cards are numbered 1-37 and are found in three colors, red (comprising largely the highest numbers), blue (mostly in the middle) and yellow (mostly the lowest numbers) with colors being analogous to the suit in a standard deck. There is one neutral card, the 19, that sets the "price of the bottle."

    The entire deck is dealt to the three or four players in the game and then, similarly to hearts, cards are exchanged and a card is played to the bottle. As per the usual elements of a trick taking game, players must follow suit if possible with high card taking the trick (regardless of suit). The unique feature about this game however is how trump is determined. Any card of value lower than the current price of the bottle (starting with 19) is considered "trump" and will win the trick. If multiple cards are less than the current bottle price, the card valued closest to the current price (so highest card below the bottle) takes the trick AND THE BOTTLE, the bottle price is adjusted by the player taking the card that represents the current bottle price and replacing it with the card they used to win the trick. Thus the price of the bottle will decrease with each trump card played, and the bottle is increasingly harder to win/purchase. Ownership of the bottle will pass from player to player and the number of possible trump cards will decrease both as a factor of cards being played and cards being skipped as the bottle price descends. One player will be stuck with the bottle at the end of a hand (when players have played all the cards in their hands).

    Cards have point values from 1-6 (not directly based on numerical value), at the end of the hand players will score points for the cards of tricks they've won, except the player who holds the bottle who will score NEGATIVE points for all the cards played to the bottle at the beginning, scoring nothing for the cards they won during the hand. Play continues until the point goal is reached.

    In the 2003 edition the complete story by R.L. Stevenson https://www.booyakajuice.com/bottlimp.htm is included (in both English & German) and the bottle is a nice wooden piece. Earlier versions had a stand-up cardboard piece that you cut out.

    ]]>     Age_9+ Arrival-Aug 11 2022 Arrival-Feb 3 2023 Arrival-Jun 2 2022 Arrival-Mar-14-20-2022 Availability_Out of Stock BGG-Set BoardGameGeek Rank_Top 500 Category_Family Category_Strategy Google-True INV-B INV-M-Z INV-T Players Maximum_4 Players Players Minimum_2 Players Playtime Maximum_30 Minutes Playtime Minimum_30 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20220307 Restock-20220807 Restock-20230112_Full_Restock Restock-20230205 Restock-20240526-Long StoreFront StoreFront-Family StoreFront-Strategy Year Published_1990s https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/294537289 Default Title 19.95 SG8030 754     https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/168081856 2013-10-26T21:29:00-04:00 2013-10-26T21:29:00-04:00 Kahuna Board Games Rio Grande Games

    Vendor: Rio Grande Games
    Type: Board Games
    Price: 22.95

    Designer Günter Cornett
    Publisher Rio Grande Games
    Players 2
    Playtime 30 mins
    Suggested Age 10 and up
    Honors


    Originally published in 1997 as Arabana-Ikibiti by the designer's own publisher Bambus Spieleverlag, then reprinted by Funagain in the U.S., Kosmos' Kahuna – part of its Kosmos two-player series – is the best known implementation of this design.

    In this simple two-player game, players use cards to place or remove bridges from a collection of islands. If you get the majority of bridges around an island, you place one of your marker stones on it and also remove any of your opponent's bridges to that island – which might cause them to lose a bridge majority on an adjacent island and lose a marker stone there. The Kosmos edition has excellent graphics and nice wooden pieces and plays very well.

      ]]>       2-Players-Only Age_9+ Availability_Out of Stock BGG-Set BoardGameGeek Rank_Top 100 BoardGameGeek Rank_Top 200 BoardGameGeek Rank_Top 300 BoardGameGeek Rank_Top 400 BoardGameGeek Rank_Top 500 Category_Abstract Google-True INV-0-L INV-K Non-TCG Players Maximum_2 Players Players Minimum_2 Players Playtime Maximum_45 Minutes Playtime Minimum_30 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20230112_Full_Restock Restock-20240526-Long Stocky-Restock Vintage-Exclusion Year Published_1990s https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/168081856 Default Title 22.95 THA691806 867