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From the Moon PRE-ORDER

2024-07-02T10:22:56-04:00

Vendor: Hachette Boardgames USA
Type: Board Games
Price: 99.95

Designer	Johannes Goupy Gilles Lasfargues
Publisher	Hachette Boardgames USA
Players	1-4
Playtime	90-90 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	353745/from-the-moon http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/353745/from-the-moon/forums/63

In From the Moon, players are representatives of factions trying to complete missions departing from our Moon in order to help humankind survive elsewhere in the galaxy. Indeed, the fate of the Earth is sealed, and time is running out!

The plan is to launch three survival missions before all life on Earth ends. To do that, each faction will contribute by building parts of the ships and build their own lunar base to store the necessary resources.

In the end, which faction will be most suited to lead the future of our race out there, far away in space?

—description from the publisher (translated).

Pixies PRE-ORDER

2024-07-02T10:20:17-04:00

Vendor: Bombyx
Type: Board Games
Price: 15.95

Designer	Johannes Goupy
Publisher	Bombyx
Players	2-5
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	411875/pixies http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/411875/pixies/forums/63

In Pixies, you move through the seasons to meet little creatures emerging from a flower or sheltering in the hollow of a tree. Choose one of the revealed cards, but be careful which ones you leave to your opponents!

Place that card in your playing area according to its number. Cards placed one on top of another are validated and earn you points at the end of the round, as do your largest color zone and your spirals. Easy...yet you'll find that the other players won't be short of bad advice.

—description from the publisher

Elawa

2024-03-07T22:11:16-05:00

Vendor: Bombyx
Type: Board Games
Price: 22.95

Designer	Johannes Goupy Corentin Lebrat
Publisher	Bombyx
Players	2-4
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	379625/elawa http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/379625/elawa/forums/63

In Elawa, you have to assemble your prehistoric tribe while collecting the elements necessary for its development, but the opposing chiefs will do you no favors, and your choices around the campfire are already full of dilemmas...

Each turn, pick one card from those surrounding the campfire on the table, add it to your tribe face up, and get a resources from the central display based on the number in the lower right of the card. Take these resources in order from where you picked up the card, getting a bonus if you take the last resource from a stack, after which the resource is re-filled. With these resources, you can build cards from your hand, whether for an immediate effect, resource storage, or endgame scoring.

When the central resource pile is empty, players tally their scores.

Faraway

2023-10-20T21:59:24-04:00

Vendor: Îlot 307
Type: Board Games
Price: 24.95

Designer	Johannes Goupy Corentin Lebrat
Publisher	Îlot 307
Players	2-6
Playtime	15-30 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Honors	2024 As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année Initié Nominee
Additional Info	385761/faraway http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/385761/faraway/forums/63

Welcome to Alula, a mysterious continent with ever-changing geography, shaped after the rhythm of the seasons. Beyond the Sea of Mists lies the mysterious continent of Alula. Roam across the land in search of its secrets, meet its inhabitants and list its wonders in order to gain more fame than your opponents.

Throughout a game of Faraway, you will play a row of 8 cards in front of you, from left to right. These cards represent the regions you will come across while exploring the lands. Characters on these cards will grant you victory points if you later fulfil the conditions they demand. At the end of the game, you walk back the same way, scoring cards in the opposite order you played them. There lies the heart of the gameplay. Throughout the game, the cards you play will serve both to set new objectives, and to meet the ones you played previously.

Each turn, you play a card from a hand of 3. Then you pick a new card from a face-up river. As play is simultaneous in Faraway, you must take into account a clever priority system in all of your choices – being last to pick a card leaves you with fewer options and often less profitable choices for the next turns.

—description from the publisher

Nautilus Island

2023-10-18T08:34:19-04:00

Vendor: Funnyfox
Type: Board Games
Price: 29.95

Designer	Johannes Goupy Théo Rivière
Publisher	Funnyfox
Players	2-4
Playtime	20-30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	378568/nautilus-island http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/378568/nautilus-island/forums/63

You are shipwrecked on a mysterious and deserted volcanic island. In the wake of a storm, you come across a grounded and abandoned submarine: The Nautilus. You must explore it from top to bottom, and will need to collect as many objects as you can to ensure your survival, repair the submarine, and leave the island before the other castaways.

During their turn, players move their Castaway marker in a column and then choose between collecting object cards from the column or place down cards from their hand to start a collection. Storing objects allow players to claim bonus and/or porthole tokens before their opponents and get victory points.
When a column is empty, the game ends. Player with the most victory points wins the game.

—description from the publisher

Rauha

2023-02-08T11:51:28-05:00

Vendor: GRRRE Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 52.95

Designer	Johannes Goupy Théo Rivière
Publisher	GRRRE Games
Players	2-5
Playtime	45 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	371922/rauha http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/371922/rauha/forums/63

After millennia of sterility, life has sprung again on Rauha. As a venerable Shaman, one of its five worlds has been entrusted to you. Your powers are divine and allow you to shape the environment in order to turn this world into a cradle of life energy, keeper of serenity and harmony for the centuries to come.

Obtain the most victory points, represented as Life Energy, to win the game. You have 2 Ages to turn your world into an energetic core of Rauha. In Age 1, vegetation, terrain, and wildlife will appear. In Age 2, civilizations will thrive.

The game takes place over 4 rounds, each divided into 3 turns followed by a scoring phase. Each turn, you will follow 5 steps:
1. Simultaneously take all Biome cards from the satellite whose symbol matches the one beneath your Avatar on your Player board (moon or star).
2. Choose one card to place on any square of your Player board or discard to the Black Hole.
3. Receive a Divine Entity if you create a row or column of matching symbols on your Player board.
4. Activate your Avatar, plus any Divine Entities in the same row or column as your Avatar.
5. Finally move your Avatar one notch clockwise along the edge of your Player board, changing the row or column that will be activated on the next turn.

During the Scoring Phase, you will activate all your Biomes with Spore tokens and any Divine Entities you may have, gaining crystals and points as shown on the components.

-description from publisher

Orichalcum (English Edition)

2022-11-29T09:27:50-05:00

Vendor: Pandasaurus Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 45.95

Designer	Bruno Cathala Johannes Goupy
Publisher	Pandasaurus Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	45-60 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	355888/orichalque http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/355888/orichalque/forums/63

Orichalque is a tense and fast-pace strategy game – similar to a short 4X. Each player has their own Island board to explore and develop. On each turn, they choose a set of one Exploration tile and one Action : recruit hoplites, produce precious orichalcum (a legendary metal from Greek mythology), construct buildings granting powerful bonuses, or try to get rid of Monsters infesting your island (and preventing you to build new building).

To prevail, you will need to erect majestic temples, forge orichalcum tokens or win the favors of titans (by creating areas of their favorite landscapes. The first to get to 5 victory points while clearing their Island of all Monsters wins the game.

—description from the publisher

Orichalque (French Edition)

2022-10-15T00:22:32-04:00

Vendor: Pandasaurus Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 53.95

Designer	Bruno Cathala Johannes Goupy
Publisher	Pandasaurus Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	45-60 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	355888/orichalque http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/355888/orichalque/forums/63

Note: This game is language independent. The French edition includes the first player token

Orichalque is a tense and fast-pace strategy game – similar to a short 4X. Each player has their own Island board to explore and develop. On each turn, they choose a set of one Exploration tile and one Action : recruit hoplites, produce precious orichalcum (a legendary metal from Greek mythology), construct buildings granting powerful bonuses, or try to get rid of Monsters infesting your island (and preventing you to build new building).

To prevail, you will need to erect majestic temples, forge orichalcum tokens or win the favors of titans (by creating areas of their favorite landscapes. The first to get to 5 victory points while clearing their Island of all Monsters wins the game.

—description from the publisher

Queenz: To bee or not to bee

2019-10-17T05:16:42-04:00

Vendor: Rio Grande Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 45.95

Designer	Bruno Cathala Johannes Goupy
Publisher	Rio Grande Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	265285/queenz-bee-or-not-bee http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/265285/queenz-bee-or-not-bee/forums/63

Players are beekeepers, trying to bloom their fields in order to attract bees and to produce the most valuable honey of the country.

On your turn, you have 2 choices:
1) Taking new flower tokens from the garden and keeping them in your warehouse.

1 any or 2 of a kind or 3 different colors.

2) Blooming one field

Select 1 field from the pool (expanding your own field) and fill the field with flower tokens in your stock and your hive token.
Get 1 VP for each flower of this field.
Fill your personal track with the honey jar of corresponding color.

When a player blooms his 5th field, every players has one last turn. Then, each player will get some extra points for their hives:

Each Hive gives 1 VP for each bee present on the 8 spaces surrounding this Hive.
Player takes his VP for each of it’s Hive token.

The player who has the highest score wins.

—description from the publisher