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Jokkmokk: The Winter Market

2023-09-05T09:35:51-04:00

Vendor: WizKids (I)
Type: Board Games
Price: 33.95

Designer	Henrik Larsson
Publisher	WizKids (I)
Players	1-5
Playtime	45 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	388570/jokkmokk-winter-market http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/388570/jokkmokk-winter-market/forums/63

The tranquil city of Jokkmokk has hosted a world-famous market and folk festival every February for over four hunderd years. Visitors from across the glob don their warmest winter gear to experience the beautiful crafts, delicious treats, and breathtaking scenery Jokkmokk has to offer.

In Jokkmokk: The Winter Market, you gather your family members for a lovely trip around the merchant's stalls of the folk festival. Will you focus on gathering souvenirs and trinkets? Will you enjoy the sights and sounds of winter in northern Sweden?

Gangster City

2018-05-24T22:40:58-04:00

Vendor: HUCH!
Type: Board Games
Price: 16.95

Designer	Henrik Larsson Kristian Amundsen Østby
Publisher	HUCH!
Players	1-6
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	243757/gangster-city http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/243757/gangster-city/forums/63

Can you solve the cases presented to you in Gangster City, preferably before the other detectives do so and show you up? The game includes a deck of 54 case cards, and each case card identifies elements about the case that you must discover; specifically, each case card indicates the suspect's profession (entertainer, scientist, thug), choice of weapon (revolver, knife, syringe), scene of the crime (theater, street, hotel room), and motive (money, love).

At the start of the game, each player takes a card at random and faces it away from themselves in a plastic stand. Three cards are revealed face up. On a turn, you can either take a face-up card or the top card from the deck, or you can attempt to guess your suspect's characteristics. When you take a card, you hold it up next to your case card, then the other players tell you how many characteristics they have in common. You then place this card in front of you, rotating it so that the number on the outer edge of the card shows how many characteristics they share (0-3).

When you guess, if you're correct, you discard the case card and place a new one in the stand; if you're wrong, you continue the game as normal next turn. The first player to correctly solve two cases wins!

DuCo

2014-03-12T23:21:00-04:00

Vendor: Game Salute
Type: Board Games
Price: 15.00

Designer	Henrik Larsson
Publisher	Game Salute
Players	1-5
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	7 and up
Additional Info	141102/duco http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1397956/duco/reviews

In DuCo, players score points by playing cards so that colored icons lie next to one another. If you match color or shape, you score; match both, and you score more; match special symbols, and the bonus points will roll in. Some icons will match any color or shape, giving you more opportunities to score. The options for where to play grow each turn, and the first player to reach 50 points wins!

Too simple for a veteran BGG user? Don't count on it until you've tried the alternative game modes that adds new different strategic elements to the color-matching madness!