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Azul Mini: Summer Pavilion (Minor Damage)

2024-09-23T13:56:33-04:00

Vendor: Next Move Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 21.65

Designer	Michael Kiesling
Publisher	Next Move Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	30-45 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Honor	2019 Golden Geek Best Family Board Game Nominee 2019 Meeples' Choice Nominee 2020 International Gamers Award - General Strategy Nominee 2020 UK Games Expo Best Abstract Game Nominee 2020 UK Games Expo Best Abstract Game People's Choice Winner 2021 5 Seasons Best International Strategy Nominee 2021 5 Seasons Best International Strategy Winner 2021 Gra Roku Family Game of the Year Nominee 2021 Gra Roku Family Game of the Year Winner
Additional Info	287954/azul-summer-pavilion http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/287954/azul-summer-pavilion/forums/63

Azul practically needs no introduction! After the success of the original mini edition in 2023, it’s now Azul Summer Pavilion’s turn to get its very own mini edition! In Azul: Summer Pavilion, players return to Portugal to accomplish the task that never began. As a master artisan, you must use the finest materials to create the summer pavilion while carefully avoiding wasting supplies. With only six rounds to draft your tiles and build your masterpiece, only the best will rise to the challenge to honor the Portuguese royal family. This edition is perfect to carry along with you anywhere you go. Now nothing is stopping you from playing Azul anywhere, anytime.

The MINI edition includes plastic trays, clickable tiles, and a points slider so nothing can disturb your game.

A simple mechanic with endless strategic choices

A standalone game. No other Azul product is needed to play.

This multilingual edition includes: English & French

Intarsia PRE-ORDER

2024-09-03T11:39:34-04:00

Vendor: Pegasus Spiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 57.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling
Publisher	Pegasus Spiele
Players	2-4
Playtime	40-60 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	422126/intarsia http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/422126/intarsia/forums/63

ETA Q4 2024

For countless years, the Café de Paris has offered moments of carefree relaxation and a wonderful opportunity to pause and breathe amid a bustling city. Unfortunately, the café must close for emergency renovation to ensure that it continues to attract numerous guests.

In Intarsia, players compete for the contract for the coveted redesign work on the parquet, embellishing it with stylish intarsias. To win the contract, players have to prove their skills by refining the floor with stylish inlays and outdoing their competitors with new tools.

Each floor ornament can consist of one to four filigree wooden elements that are puzzled together from the outside inwards. The more pieces the ornament consists of, the more victory points it scores! During the building phase, wooden elements can be paid for with material cards and built according to the building rules. Whoever fulfills the requirement for a tool receives the tile that scores points. Only the person with the best building skills can secure the contract and give the café a new lease of life!

The B-side of the floor plan offers variation for this clever and high-quality placement game.

—description from the publisher

Jalape-NO! PRE-ORDER

2024-09-03T11:36:13-04:00

Vendor: 25th Century Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 15.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	25th Century Games
Players	3-9
Playtime	45 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	206/jalape-no http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/206/jalape-no/forums/63

ETA Q4 2024

Jalape-NO!, first released as Pepper, is a trick-taking game in which you want to dodge the spiciness to end up with the lowest score possible.

The deck consists of 108 cards (102 number cards and 6 pepper cards), with cards being numbered 1-18 in six colors and with the 1s being peppers. Based on the player count, you use 4-6 colors of cards ranging from 1-9 to 1-18.

At the start of each round, you receive 12 cards in hand, and you must place any peppers on the table in front of you. The lead player in a trick plays any card from their hand or one of their peppers. Each other player must follow suit, if possible, except that you are not forced to play the matching pepper card, should you have it. (However, if you do have it, you cannot play a pepper of another color to this trick.) Whoever plays the highest card in the suit led wins the trick and leads the next trick. If you win a pepper in a trick, place it on the table in front of you; you can play this pepper on a future trick, whether to lead off the trick or to play it on a trick that's already in progress.

As soon as a player has no cards in hand, the round ends. All players add any cards in hand to the cards in front of them, whether peppers or cards claimed in tricks. Each pepper you have is worth 2 points, and each card in the same suit as a pepper you have is worth 1 point. After five rounds, the player with the lowest score wins.

Wandering Towers: Playmat PRE-ORDER

2024-09-03T11:34:55-04:00

Vendor: Capstone Games
Type: Accessories
Price: 27.42

ETA Q3 2024

The official playmat for Wandering Towers!

The playmat features locations for all 8 spells, draw card and discard stacks, and locations around the game map in a charming fantasy landscape.

Constructed of thick 2mm neoprene with stitched edges, this playmat will stand the test of time.

Sized at 19.7×19.7-inches, the playmat comes in a cardboard display box.

Pueblo (New Edition)

2024-08-29T22:25:17-04:00

Vendor: Mojito Studios
Type: Board Games
Price: 69.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	Mojito Studios
Players	2-4
Playtime	60-60 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Hornor	2002 Japan Boardgame Prize Best Advanced Game Nominee 2002 Japan Boardgame Prize Best Foreign Game for Beginners Nominee 2002 Nederlandse Spellenprijs Nominee 2002 Spiel der Spiele Game of the Year Winner 2002 Tric Trac Nominee 2003 International Gamers Awards - General Strategy; Multi-player Nominee
Additional Info	3228/pueblo http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3228/pueblo/forums/63

Pueblo - the ultimate building challenge! Work with the other players to create a mighty home for the Chieftain, stone by stone. You are a craftsman, but you cannot let the Chieftain see your trademark stones, or you will be penalized. The longer you play, the more difficult this task becomes! Take on your opponents and become the Chieftain's Master Builder.

The theme setting is the Native American Pueblos of the Southwest tribes of the Zuni and Hopi. The board is a fairly small square. Each player gets a number of building blocks in their own color, and also some neutral colored blocks (1 fewer than the colored). Starting with the odd colored block, the player places it on the board, and then gets to move the "Chieftain" around the outer track surrounding the board. If the Chieftain can look straight across and see any colored blocks, those players gain points -- but points are bad. And when the Chieftain lands on the corners of the track, he looks down on the Pueblo from above, and all visible player's blocks gain them more points. Now, on each subsequent pair of turns, you have a choice of a colored block and a neutral block. Once all players' blocks are played, the Chieftain makes one last trip around the board, players gaining points all along the way. The player who has gained the fewest number of points is the Master Builder and the winner of the game.

There are also some extra components for making the game more challenging by adding an element of bidding for turn order, and from 1 to 4 sacred sites that cannot be built upon.

Original description from box.

Azul Mini: Summer Pavilion

2024-07-02T10:28:07-04:00

Vendor: Next Move Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 22.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling
Publisher	Next Move Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	30-45 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Honor	2019 Golden Geek Best Family Board Game Nominee 2019 Meeples' Choice Nominee 2020 International Gamers Award - General Strategy Nominee 2020 UK Games Expo Best Abstract Game Nominee 2020 UK Games Expo Best Abstract Game People's Choice Winner 2021 5 Seasons Best International Strategy Nominee 2021 5 Seasons Best International Strategy Winner 2021 Gra Roku Family Game of the Year Nominee 2021 Gra Roku Family Game of the Year Winner
Additional Info	287954/azul-summer-pavilion http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/287954/azul-summer-pavilion/forums/63

Reworld

2024-03-20T14:44:16-04:00

Vendor: eggertspiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 55.24

Designer	Michael Kiesling Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	eggertspiele
Players	2-4
Playtime	50-90 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	225163/reworld http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/225163/reworld/forums/63

In Reworld, players attempt to terraform a newly discovered planet, and to do that they need to use terrabots to establish new cities and shuttles to deliver materials that will populate those locations.

In game terms, over five rounds players fill the five levels of their spaceship with tiles featuring terrabots, shuttles, material vessels, and satellites. Each round twenty of these tiles are placed at random around the perimeter of a large ship, and each player receives a hand of cards. On a turn, a player can play one or more cards to claim a tile following these rules:

If neither tile adjacent to the desired tile has been claimed, the player can lay down any card next to this tile, claim it, then place it in the leftmost space of the level of their spaceship that matches the number of the card played. If you play a 4, for example, then you must place that tile in the leftmost position of your fourth level.

If one tile adjacent to the desired tile has been claimed, then you must lay down a card of the same number used to claim that previous tile or any two cards of your choice (with those two cards thus serving as a joker). Whatever number is topmost indicates the level of your spaceship on which you must place this tile.

If both tiles adjacent to the desired tile have been claimed and the cards used to claim them show the same number, then you do the same as described above. If the cards have different numbers, however — e.g., 1 and 3 — then you must lay down the same two numbers (1 and 3), one matching number and any other two cards, or any four cards. You place this tile on your spaceship in the same manner previously desired.

Once everyone has no cards in hand or cannot play further, the round ends. Any remaining tiles are thrown away, then you reset the board and deal out a new hand of cards. After five rounds, players now deploy these tiles onto the new planet, each turn playing 1-3 of the leftmost tiles from the row of their choice to create their personal terraformed world. If you deploy a terrabot, which are labeled A-E, you start a new city with this letter or extend an existing city of yours. Material vessels, which come in five colors, can be delivered to the planet's surface only if attached to shuttles, and each city can have vessels of only a single color. Satellites provide bonus scoring when added to a city. Shuttles and satellites can also be used for shields to protect your newborn planet.

Players earn points during the first half of the game for picking up terrabots and having cards left in hand. During the second half, players score for deploying satellites and for meeting targets set at the start of the game, e.g. having a city with eight tiles in it, having a city of each letter, emptying a level on your spaceship, having a certain number of shields, etc.

Once all the spaceships are empty, players score their final points for how well they've developed each city and their shields in comparison with their fellow terraformers. Whoever scores the most points wins.

Wandering Towers: Mini-Spell Expansion #3

2024-03-08T06:57:10-05:00

Vendor: Capstone Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 6.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	Capstone Games
Players	2-6
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Expansion For	Wandering Towers
Additional Info	402302/wandering-towers-mini-spell-expansion-3 http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/402302/wandering-towers-mini-spell-expansion-3/forums/63

This expansion includes 2 New Magic Spells for Wandering Towers. New Spells included are Fill a Potion Bottle and Extra Die Roll.

FILL A POTION BOTTLE: If you use this magic spell, you may flip one of your own empty magic potion flask to the full side.

EXTRA DIE ROLL: If you use this magic spell, you may roll a new movement value with the die after a movement card is played, instead of moving the value indicated on the card. If the movement card shows a die or dice, you may roll the die again. In both cases you have to move the result of the roll.

- description from publisher

Wandering Towers (English Edition) - Mini-Spell Expansion #2

2023-10-18T02:00:12-04:00

Vendor: Capstone Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 5.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	Capstone Games
Players	2-6
Expansion For	Wandering Towers (English Edition)
Additional Info	392106/wandering-towers-mini-spell-expansion-1 http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/392106/wandering-towers-mini-spell-expansion-1/forums/63

Includes 2 new Magic Spells to help your wizards get to Ravenskeep!

New Spells included are Close Ravenskeep and Draw 2 Cards.

Promo Punchboard with cover sheet and shrink wrapped

Sanssouci (New Retail Edition)

2023-09-05T09:40:24-04:00

Vendor: Imperial Publishing, Inc
Type: Board Games
Price: 46.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling
Publisher	Imperial Publishing, Inc
Players	2-4
Playtime	30-45 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Hornor	2014 Spiel des Jahres Recommended
Additional Info	146816/sanssouci http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/146816/sanssouci/forums/63

Your task in the tile-laying game Sanssouci is to create a flower garden for the world-famous Sanssouci Palace. Competing against up to three other landscape architects, you'll have your own garden layout game board on which you'll build rose gardens and vineyard terraces, labyrinths and fountains – but not just anywhere, mind you. No, the landscapers must meet certain building requirements, and unfortunately you won't always have at hand everything that you might need.

In game terms, each player has a personal garden that's divided into rows and columns; each row shows a color, while each column shows one of nine garden elements, such as the wells or a pavilion. Players start with one noble at the top of each column. A shared tile supply board has five rows – with colored spaces matching the colors on each player board – and two columns, which are unlabeled. At the start of the game, ten tiles are placed on this supply board; each tile depicts one of the nine garden elements.

Each turn, a player plays one of his two cards in hand, which determines the tile he can take from the supply, e.g. take a pavilion tile, take a tile from the red or gray spaces, etc. The player has only a single card that lets him take any tile – but if he plays a card showing a garden element that isn't present, then he can instead take any tile! The player must place this tile on his player board in the column that matches the image on the tile and the row that matches the color from which the tile was taken. If this space is already filled, he flips the tile to show the gardener on the other side, then places this tile on any free space in the same row or the same column. After placing the tile, he may move one of his nobles along a path of placed tiles as long as the noble ends up in the same column in which it started, but on a lower row. The player scores points equal to the row reached.

The player then refills the supply and draws a new card. The game ends after 18 rounds. Each player then receives bonus points for each completed row and column. Furthermore, each player has received two order cards at the start of the game, each of which shows one of the nine columns; each player receives bonus points for the row reached by the noble in that column. The player with the most points wins.

Renature: Valley

2023-09-05T09:39:42-04:00

Vendor: Capstone Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 22.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	Capstone Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	45-60 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Expansion For	Renature
Additional Info	387369/renature-valley http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/387369/renature-valley/forums/63

Something has changed in Renature valley: mushrooms are suddenly shooting up everywhere, completely changing the way the game is played! A mushroom allows areas to be connected and enlarged, allowing another player to take over an area!

Transform the polluted valley back into an intact ecosystem, let the animals move in again, and plant adjacent areas to get points. Use the advantages that the mushrooms bring to expand individual areas with their help or join areas occupied by other players. While Renature is challenging, it gets even trickier in Renature Valley.

CONTENTS:

1 double-sided game board
8 Mushroom tokens
2 Cloud tokens

-description from publisher's website

Amygdala

2023-09-05T09:26:43-04:00

Vendor: Game Brewer
Type: Board Games
Price: 54.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	Game Brewer
Players	2-4
Playtime	60-90 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	360879/amygdala http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/360879/amygdala/forums/63

Life is full of emotion, and the region of the brain primarily associated with processing these emotions is the amygdala.

In the abstract strategy game Amygdala, players vie for control of different regions, each associated with an emotion. They must collect and store emotional resources in their memory bank which they will use to unlock emotions from their mind, then place these emotion tiles on the main game board.

Emotion tiles can be connected in networks of like emotions to score points. The player with the most emotions in each region can score big points at the end of the game, but only if they manage to unlock and place a claim tile belonging to the region they wish to score.

—description from the publisher

Wandering Towers (English Edition) - Mini-Spell Expansion #1

2023-04-06T18:14:46-04:00

Vendor: Capstone Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 6.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	Capstone Games
Players	2-6
Expansion For	Wandering Towers (English Edition)
Additional Info	392106/wandering-towers-mini-spell-expansion-1 http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/392106/wandering-towers-mini-spell-expansion-1/forums/63

This expansion contains 2 spells: Retrieve A Card and Movement Swap.

Retrieve A Card Effect: Take the top card from the discard pile, even if it is the card you just played. Note: you will not draw to fill your had to 3 cards at the end of your turn until you have less than 3 cards. This is the same spell as the previously released "Re-Use A Card".

Movement Swap Effect: Swap the movement values on the movement card you play. this has the following effect: For a card that can move either a tower or a wizard, their movement values are swapped. For a card that can only move a tower, it moves a wizard instead. For a card that can only move a wizard, it moves a tower instead.

Wandering Towers (English Edition)

2023-04-06T18:10:30-04:00

Vendor: Capstone Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 47.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	Capstone Games
Players	2-6
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Expansions	Wandering Towers (English Edition) - Mini-Spell Expansion #1 Wandering Towers (English Edition) - Mini-Spell Expansion #2 Wandering Towers: Mini-Spell Expansion #3
Additional Info	355483/wandering-towers http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/355483/wandering-towers/forums/63

Each year, the graduating classes of the Ravenrealm Magic School compete to demonstrate their mastery of magic. For the final exam, all the wizards of each class must assemble at the legendary Ravenskeep… but every last one of them has procrastinated, distracted by learning new spells. They’ve also used all their potions—they can’t show up unprepared, with empty potion bottles!

Help your wizards get to Ravenskeep as quickly as possible. Using their magic they could even move the very towers atop which they stand to get there more easily! But how can they refill their potion bottles along the way? Well, here’s a little secret: Trapping wizards allows you to capture some of their magical essence in a bottle…

The Wandering Towers: Fill The Magic Potion Flask

2023-03-02T16:36:19-05:00

Vendor: ABACUSSPIELE
Type: Board Games
Price: 4.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	ABACUSSPIELE
Players	2-6
Playtime	30-30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	372448/wandering-towers-fill-magic-potion-flask http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/372448/wandering-towers-fill-magic-potion-flask/forums/63

Originally available as a bonus for purchasing the game at Spiel 2022.

Extra magic spell: Use two potions to flip an empty potion to the full side.

The Wandering Towers: Re-Use A Card (Import)

2023-02-27T10:41:21-05:00

Vendor: ABACUSSPIELE
Type: Board Games
Price: 3.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	ABACUSSPIELE
Players	2-6
Playtime	30-30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	372447/wandering-towers-re-use-card http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/372447/wandering-towers-re-use-card/forums/63

Originally available as a bonus for purchasing the game at Spiel 2022.

Extra Magic spell: Use one potion to get the top card from the discard pile.

Azul Mini

2023-02-22T11:28:20-05:00

Vendor: Next Move Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 22.95

Azul practically needs no introduction! This now classic game of tile-collecting and wall-decorating returns in a new MINI edition. This edition is perfect to carry along with you anywhere you go. Now nothing is stopping you from playing Azul anywhere, anytime.

The MINI edition includes plastic trays, clickable tiles, and a points slider so nothing can disturb your game.

Also contains a plastic tray for the Factories so they stay put!

A simple mechanic with endless strategic choices

A standalone game. No other Azul product is needed to play.

This multilingual edition includes: English & French

Linko! (aka Abluxxen) (Amigo English Edition)

2023-02-18T12:38:26-05:00

Vendor: AMIGO
Type: Board Games
Price: 15.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	AMIGO
Players	2-5
Playtime	20-20 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Honor	2014 Essener Feder Best Written Rules Winner 2014 Fairplay À la carte Winner 2014 Golden Geek Best Card Game Nominee 2014 International Gamers Award - General Strategy: Multi-player Nominee 2014 Meeples' Choice Nominee 2014 Spiel der Spiele Game of the Year Winner 2015 Origins Awards Best Card Game Nominee 2018 Juego del Año Recommended
Additional Info	153065/linko http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/153065/linko/forums/63

In Linko! (a.k.a. Abluxxen), you take turns playing number cards, and the more cards of the same number you play, the better as cards score points at the end of the game. If someone else plays the same amount of cards with a higher number, however, your cards get nicked! Stealing cards can be good, but if you can't use them later, and end the game with cards in hand, they'll cost you points.

In more detail, the deck contains 104 number cards (1-13 x8) and five joker cards. Each player starts with a hand of 13 cards, and six cards are laid face-up next to the deck. On a turn, a player lays down one or more cards of the same value, adding jokers if desired; if she already has cards on the table, she lays these cards so that previously played cards are still visible. If any opponent has most recently played the same number of cards and those cards are of a lower value, then the active player "abluxxes" those opponents — that is, the active player can take the abluxxed cards into her hand and the opponent then draws the same number of cards, either from the display or the deck; if she doesn't take these cards in hand, then the opponent either returns these cards to his hand or discards them and draws that many cards. Refill the display only after someone finishes drawing cards. (Jokers can be played on their own, and they are considered to be higher than all values.)

As soon as the deck runs out of cards or a player has no cards in hand, the game ends immediately, even if the player would normally abluxx an opponent. Each player scores one point for each card on the table in front of him, then loses one point for each card in hand. Whoever has the highest score wins. If players wish, they can play multiple rounds and sum their scores over the rounds to determine a winner.

The Wandering Towers: Extra Die Roll Promo (Import)

2023-02-16T02:10:22-05:00

Vendor: ABACUSSPIELE
Type: Board Games
Price: 3.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	ABACUSSPIELE
Players	2-6
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Expansion For	Die wandelnden Türme
Additional Info	377145/wandering-towers-extra-die-roll-promo http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/377145/wandering-towers-extra-die-roll-promo/forums/63

Promo from the SPIELBOX magazine 7/22

Effect:
If you use this magic spell, you may roll a new movement value with the die after a movement card is played, instead of moving the value indicated on the card. If the movement card shows a die or dice, you may roll the die again. In both cases you have to move the result of the roll.

This promo has printed German and English rules, but the tile itself has no text. Other rule languages will available online later.

Tikal

2022-12-27T10:50:46-05:00

Vendor: Keep Exploring Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 62.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	Keep Exploring Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	90-90 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Honor	1999 Deutscher Spiele Preis Best Family/Adult Game Winner 1999 Spiel des Jahres Nominee 1999 Spiel des Jahres Winner 2000 International Gamers Awards - General Strategy; Multi-player 2004 Hra roku Nominee 2017 Juego del Año Finalist
Additional Info	54/tikal http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/54/tikal/forums/63

Tikal is a game of exploration within the Central American jungles in search of lost temples and the treasures within. Players send their team of explorers into the jungle, exposing more and more of the terrain. Along the way, you find temples that require further uncovering and treasures. Players attempt to score points for occupying temples and holding onto treasure.

Tikal is the first game of the Mask Trilogy.

Sequel:

Tikal II: The Lost Temple

Caldera Park

2022-12-27T10:39:30-05:00

Vendor: Pegasus Spiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 24.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	Pegasus Spiele
Players	1-4
Playtime	30-40 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	367047/caldera-park http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/367047/caldera-park/forums/63

Welcome to the wilderness of North America! Breathtaking mountain views and spectacular geysers await you. Vast forests and prairie provide habitats for native animals. Your task is to group animals of the same species together in families as large as possible. But large families are only half the battle: to score a lot of points, they also need access to watering holes and must avoid bad weather.

A turn comprises two simple steps: First, one player chooses a feature (species or watering hole) and a terrain requirement from a limited selection. Then, each player must place one of their tokens showing that feature onto one of their park spaces obeying that terrain requirement. What seems no trouble at first grows more and more challenging and exciting as the available spaces become fewer and fewer. But it’s not only the choices of your fellow players that can disrupt your plans. There are also unpredictable weather tokens that you must take into account.

After five rounds, the game ends. Then you score your most valuable family of each species and the terrains you completely populated.

Caldera Park is an interactive puzzle-game that achieves a perfect balance between strategic planning and luck. This, and its accessible ruleset, make it a great next step for anyone who enjoyed Savannah Park.

—description from the publisher

The Palaces of Carrara (Second Edition) (Deluxe Edition)

2022-10-19T12:44:34-04:00

Vendor: Game Brewer
Type: Board Games
Price: 172.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	Game Brewer
Players	2-4
Playtime	60-90 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Accessories	The Palaces of Carrara - Retro Pack
Additional Info	348070/palaces-carrara-second-edition http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/348070/palaces-carrara-second-edition/forums/63

Note: Deluxe version includes Bigger Box, Insert, metal coins, printed decorations and thicker cardboards

In The Palaces of Carrara, players want to buy the marble from this famous region of Italy as cheaply as possible – but any reduction in price will benefit your opponents as well. Maybe you'll find it profitable to instead invest in the buildings created from this exclusive marble? Maybe it'll be more worthwhile to grab the expensive raw material when bigger buildings in town turn out to be not as lucrative as you'd hoped?

This second edition includes a revised set of rules, as well as a completely new advanced version that will include many new strategies and ways of scoring. This new advanced mode of play introduces statues, which will allow you to score your buildings in a multitude of new ways. So come and revisit this classic game by famous designers Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling.

Product description

You are the head of a noble family who has received orders from the Royal Palace to beautify 6 cities in the region. Utilizing valuable blocks of marble from the famed quarries in Carrara, you will construct buildings, add decorations, and place statues to fill the cities with marble wonders.

Features:

The deluxe game box
Metal Coins
Deluxe Insert Compartments
Game Board with double wheel (NEW!)
36 Building Tiles
6 Monument Tiles
8 Improvement Tiles
4 Player Boards
1 Royal Court Board (NEW!)
42 Wooden Building Blocks
44 Wooden Statues (NEW!)
32 Wooden Scoring Markers
42 Wooden Decorations
8 Wooden VP Markers
1 Wooden Royal Visit Marker (NEW!)
4 Player Screens
1 Cloth Bag

The Palaces of Carrara (Second Edition) (Standard)

2022-08-27T16:37:30-04:00

Vendor: Game Brewer
Type: Board Games
Price: 49.46

Designer	Michael Kiesling Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	Game Brewer
Players	2-4
Playtime	60-90 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	348070/palaces-carrara-second-edition http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/348070/palaces-carrara-second-edition/forums/63

In The Palaces of Carrara, players want to buy the marble from this famous region of Italy as cheaply as possible – but any reduction in price will benefit your opponents as well. Maybe you'll find it profitable to instead invest in the buildings created from this exclusive marble? Maybe it'll be more worthwhile to grab the expensive raw material when bigger buildings in town turn out to be not as lucrative as you'd hoped?

This second edition includes a revised set of rules, as well as a completely new advanced version that will include many new strategies and ways of scoring. This new advanced mode of play introduces statues, which will allow you to score your buildings in a multitude of new ways. So come and revisit this classic game by famous designers Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling.

Die wandelnden Türme (German Import)

2022-08-08T14:45:54-04:00

Vendor: ABACUSSPIELE
Type: Board Games
Price: 99.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	ABACUSSPIELE
Players	2-6
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Expansion	The Wandering Towers: Extra Die Roll Promo
Additional Info	355483/die-wandelnden-turme http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/355483/die-wandelnden-turme/forums/63

Note: This is an import game in German. English Rules can be found here.

In Die wandelnden Türme ("The Wandering Towers"), you want to bring all of your wizards home to the raven castle before anyone else.

To set up the game, place the game board tiles into a circle, the raven castle on its starting space, and the nine towers clockwise from the castle; five towers have a raven shield on them. Distribute the players' wizards — 3-5 based on the player count — on the towers, and deal each player a hand of three cards.

On a turn, play a movement card from your hand, then play a second movement card, then refill your hand to three cards. Cards allow you to move one of your wizards, a tower, or either a tower or wizard. Movement is always clockwise; sometimes movement is a specific number of spaces, and sometimes it's determined by a die roll, with you being able to roll the die up to the number of times shown on your card.

When you a move a tower, any wizards on that tower are carried forward on it — and you can move a tower on top of another tower, trapping any wizards on that lower tower. When you trap one or more wizards, you fill one of your magic flasks; you must fill all of your flasks in order to win. Additionally, you can spend filled flasks to cast one of the magic spells active in the game, with the basic ones allowing you to move a wizard or tower. (Spent flasks still count as filled.) To free your wizard, you must move the top part of the tower away.

If you land a wizard in the raven castle by exact count, your turn ends, then the raven castle advances on the game board to the next unoccupied space or tower with a raven shield. Whoever places their final wizard on the raven castle and has filled all of their flasks wins.

Die wandelnden Türme can be played in teams, with or without a "master wizard" variant that makes lots of spells available.

Azul: Master Chocolatier

2022-07-04T07:05:27-04:00

Vendor: Next Move Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 37.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling
Publisher	Next Move Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	30-45 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Reimplements	Azul
Additional Info	363247/azul-master-chocolatier http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/363247/azul-master-chocolatier/forums/63

In the game Azul, players take turns drafting colored tiles from suppliers to their player board. Later in the round, players score points based on how they've placed their tiles to decorate the palace. Extra points are scored for specific patterns and completing sets; wasted supplies harm the player's score. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins.

Azul: Master Chocolatier includes double-sided factory boards, with these tiles being placed on these boards at the start of each round. One side of the factories is blank, and when using this side the game plays exactly like Azul. The other side of each factory tile has a special effect on it that modifies play in one way or another, putting a twist on the normal game. Additionally, the tiles are modeled to look like chocolates and other treats, despite remaining as inedible as the tiles in the original game.