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Cities PRE-ORDER

2024-07-02T10:21:45-04:00

Vendor: Devir
Type: Board Games
Price: 28.95

Designer	Steve Finn Phil Walker-Harding
Publisher	Devir
Players	2-4
Playtime	30-40 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	402676/cities http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/402676/cities/forums/63

ETA Q2 2024

You've been tasked by the city council to put together a plan to transform a whole neighborhood in the city. You have the opportunity to build new housing, office buildings, parks, and leisure areas near the waterfront. It is in your hands to make the city a better place.

Cities is a city-building game in which you draft the best projects and arrange them in your own playing area. Designed by Steve Finn and Phil Walker Harding and illustrated by Jorge Tabanera, it allows games for groups of 2 to 4 players, ages 10 and up, lasting about 40 minutes. With action and resource draft mechanisms, it will give you the opportunity to visit the cities of Sydney, London, New York, Barcelona, Rio de Janeiro, Lisbon, Mexico City, and Buenos Aires. Can you design the most magnificent neighborhood?

The game is played over eight rounds (or four rounds in a two-player game). Each round, players use their workers to collect 1 scoring card, 1 city tile, 1-2 feature tiles, and 2-4 building pieces. City tiles are made up of park spaces, water spaces, and building spaces. Building pieces are placed on building spaces of the same color to form buildings, which can be 1-4 stories high. Whenever a player fulfills an achievement, they place one of their discs on the achievement board. At the end of the game, players add up the points they have gained from all of their scoring cards and achievements.

—description from the publisher

Pass the Party Food

2023-12-03T00:49:12-05:00

Vendor: Joey Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 42.95

Designer	Phil Walker-Harding
Publisher	Joey Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	30-30 mins
Suggested Age	7 and up
Additional Info	361862/pass-party-food http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/361862/pass-party-food/forums/63

Throwback to 1989 and dig in to your all-time favorite party food! There's fairy bread, lamingtons, green snakes, and more.

Working together in Pass the Party Food, players need to collect their favorite treats and share them with their friends at the right time — but watch out because Ziggy, the mischievous puppy, is trying to grab food off the table! If you can outscore him as a team, you will all win the game together.

—description from the publisher

Busy Beaks

2023-12-03T00:48:41-05:00

Vendor: Joey Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 24.95

Designer	Phil Walker-Harding
Publisher	Joey Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	30-30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	361860/busy-beaks http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/361860/busy-beaks/forums/63

Get to know Australia's most fascinating birds in Busy Beaks.

In the game, each player collects bird cards and gathers them into flocks to score points. Whoever makes the most valuable flocks wins! Each bird also has a special ability, like the Powerful Owl who lets you search the deck for the card you really need, or the mimicking Magpie who lets you copy another card. Choose which birds you want to use each game to make every play feel different.

—description from the publisher

Silver & Gold Pyramids (German Import)

2023-10-20T17:17:07-04:00

Vendor: Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag
Type: Board Games
Price: 30.95

Designer	Phil Walker-Harding
Publisher	Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag
Players	2-4
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	402215/silver-gold-pyramids http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/402215/silver-gold-pyramids/forums/63

Note: This game is in German. For a preview, English rule can be found here.

In Silver & Gold Pyramids, you want to explore as many pyramids as possible and locate the tomb within each one.

To start play, each player takes four pyramid cards, then keeps two of them face up in front of themselves. Shuffle the eight exploration cards, each of which shows a different polyomino.

On a turn, reveal the topmost exploration card. Each player then marks off spaces in the shape of this polyomino on one of their pyramid cards. The first space covered on a card must be the entrance square. If you cover gems, torches, or skulls, mark off these spaces on your personal player board; if you cover a potion, erase two covered skulls. If you cover a red X, mark one additional space, either on this pyramid board or your other one; all marked spaces must connect orthogonally.

If you cover the tomb on a pyramid board, set that board aside and take a new board from the four on display or from the deck. When you've completed your second, fourth, or sixth pyramid of the same color — and the deck includes three colors — score the highest color bonus available.

After seven exploration cards have been revealed, the round is over. Shuffle all eight cards, then start a new round. After four rounds, players count their scores, earning 10 points per tomb reached, 5 points per pair of colored gems found, 5 points for each round in which they covered at least one torch, and their color bonuses, after which they lose points based on the number of skulls covered. Whoever has the highest score wins.

Tanis

2023-09-05T09:42:53-04:00

Vendor: Eagle-Gryphon Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 48.01

Designer	Phil Walker-Harding
Publisher	Eagle-Gryphon Games
Players	2
Playtime	20-30 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	379241/tanis http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/379241/tanis/forums/63

TANIS, named after the ancient city in Lower Egypt, is a unique tile-digging game for 2 players. The game begins with 40 beautiful wooden domino-sized tiles randomly placed in the custom-made box. These tiles represent pieces of scrolls that the players are trying to reassemble in this fast-playing competitive game. The players also have cards that provide special powers that may be used to enhance their actions. A single game takes under 20 minutes to complete.

-description from graphic designer

SpellBook

2023-09-05T09:41:29-04:00

Vendor: Space Cowboys
Type: Board Games
Price: 48.95

Designer	Phil Walker-Harding
Publisher	Space Cowboys
Players	1-4
Playtime	45 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	391834/spellbook http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/391834/spellbook/forums/63

Become the greatest wizard of the Annual Grand Rite by collecting and managing your Materia to feed your familiar and learn your spells. Act quickly to use your powers early...or wait to unleash them at full strength. Your path to victory is full of choices and combined tactics!

In SpellBook, each player, accompanied by a familiar, possesses a grimoire and collects Materia to master spells and feed their familiar. The game provides pre-drawn spell sets for use in the early rounds, but soon players start drawing spells randomly or create their own spell combinations that are common to all players. Each spell combination gives an effect that lasts the rest of the game, and the more ingenious the combination, the more powerful the effect. As the rounds progress, the game becomes a different experience every time, with more than 2,100 spell combinations being possible.

The game ends as soon as a magician's grimoire is complete or a familiar is fully fed, then the player with the most points wins.

SpellBook includes a solo mode that closely mirrors the multiplayer experience, offering a high level of challenge and an excellent way to learn the game's rules.

—description from the publisher

Planted: A Game of Nature & Nurture

2023-09-05T09:39:23-04:00

Vendor: Buffalo Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 50.95

Designer	Phil Walker-Harding
Publisher	Buffalo Games
Players	2-5
Playtime	20-30 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	365104/planted-game-nature-nurture http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/365104/planted-game-nature-nurture/forums/63

In this game of nature & nurture, make your house beautiful by caring for your very own collection of houseplants! In this easy-to-learn board game, collect your favorite plants and they try to feed them every round with the right combination of light, water, and plant food.
Planted features 42 varieties of popular and exotic houseplants, each with their own requirements to grow. Discover various planting tools and decorations to help you raise beautiful, thriving plants, and score bonus points. The player, or plant parent, that ends up scoring the most points from growing their plants is declared the game’s biggest green thumb - and winner!

Some features:

Easy to learn mechanics for all ages strategy
Collect resource tokens to care for your nursery (water drop, sun chip, plant food, etc.)
Features 42 popular and various plant varieties for all levels of plant parents including the fiddle leaf fig, philodendron, ZZ plant, monstera, croton, and more!
Created by famed game designer Phil Walker-Harding

—description from the publisher

Tetris

2023-05-21T22:16:26-04:00

Vendor: Buffalo Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 32.95

Designer	Phil Walker-Harding
Publisher	Buffalo Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	20-30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	342016/tetris http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/342016/tetris/forums/63

Now play Tetris head-to-head against your friends in an all-new tabletop strategy game for up to 4 players designed.

Each player drops tetrimino pieces into their own Matrix tower each turn. You know what to do. Another piece is up. Rotate. Rotate again. Move it and drop it… Score points by completing horizontal rows and racing to fulfill special challenges on achievement cards for bonus points! Place specific pieces to match the icons on your Matrix towers to earn even more. Who will come out on top?!

My Shelfie (Cranio Creations) (Import)

2023-03-26T10:47:43-04:00

Vendor: Cranio Creations
Type: Board Games
Price: 54.95

Designer	Matthew Dunstan Phil Walker-Harding
Publisher	Cranio Creations Edition
Players	2-4
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	366456/my-shelfie http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/366456/my-shelfie/forums/63

You’ve just taken home your new bookshelf and now it’s time to put your favorite items in the display: books, boardgames, portraits... Who will show the best organized shelfie?

During your turn, you must take 1, 2, or 3 item tiles from the living room board (shared by all the players), following these rules:

• The tiles you take must be adjacent to each other and form a straight line.
• All the tiles you take must have at least one side free at the beginning of your turn.

Then, you must place all the tiles you’ve picked into 1 column of your bookshelf (a 3D display) to meet the personal goal cards (they grant points if you match the highlighted spaces with the corresponding item tiles) or the common goal cards (that grant points if you achieve the illustrated pattern). You score points also if you connect item tiles of the same type.

The first player who fills all the spaces of their bookshelf takes the end game token that grants additional points. The game continues until the end of the turn of the player sitting on the right of the player holding the first player token.

The first player who fills all the spaces of their bookshelf triggers the end game and takes the end game token that grants additional points. The game continues until the end of the turn of the player sitting on the right of the player holding the first player token.

The player who scores the most points wins the game.

A game of strategy and glance, different every time thanks to the variety of common and personal goals. The beautiful images of the item tiles will really give you the feeling of tidying up your precious shelf.

-description from designer

My Shelfie

2022-12-27T10:46:47-05:00

Vendor: Lucky Duck Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 37.95

Designer	Matthew Dunstan Phil Walker-Harding
Publisher	Lucky Duck Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	366456/my-shelfie http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/366456/my-shelfie/forums/63

Llamaland

2022-12-25T23:07:43-05:00

Vendor: Lookout Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 43.95

Designer	Phil Walker-Harding
Publisher	Lookout Games
Players	2-4
Playing Time	45 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	330038/llamaland http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/330038/llamaland/forums/63

The plateaus are wild, stunningly beautiful, and...full of llamas?!

Being a farmer in Llamaland isn't exactly easy with all the hills and mountains around, but even so, growing potatoes, corn, and cocoa on the slopes of the mountains is what you love. Luckily the llamas are a big help, too!

By fitting your fields in giddy heights, you gain the necessary crops in order to obtain the desired llama cards. These cards not only provide victory points, but also allow you to place a llama on your farm. After about 45 minutes, you will have an impressive crop-growing area in front of you, including your sweet and cuddly llamas.

Monolyth

2022-10-28T20:32:13-04:00

Vendor: CMON Global Limited
Type: Board Games
Price: 32.95

Designer	Phil Walker-Harding
Publisher	CMON Global Limited
Players	1-4
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	373759/monolyth http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/373759/monolyth/forums/63

Every player builds their own block of stones in Monolyth, using 3D polyominoes to create patches of particular colors, complete levels, and a structure that matches a pattern.

To set up, choose a structure card at random, then place it on the main board, along with the appropriate structure tokens, level tokens, and prophecy tokens based on the number of players. Place the crystal marker next to the main board, then draw twelve random polyominoes from the box and place them in a circle around the main board. The polyominoes come in five colors, and all 1x1 blocks in those colors are placed to the side.

On a turn, move the crystal 1-4 spaces clockwise, then take the polyomino in that space and add it to your 4x4 player board, with nothing placed outside that grid and no part of the polyomino hanging over an empty space; alternatively, you can remove this polyomino from the game and take a 1x1 block of the same color, then add that to your player board. In either case, draw a random polyomino from the box and place it where the crystal started this turn.

Instead of moving the crystal, you can choose a prophecy token from the main board and add it to a side of your player board. Each player board has four different colors around the four edges, e.g., blue, orange, black, and teal.

When you fill all the spaces of a level on your player board, take the largest level token from the main board. If your construction fits the guidelines of the structure card, then you claim the highest available structure token.

Keep taking turns until someone has completed their 3D monolith, which is 4x4x3 in a 3-4 player game and 4x4x4 in a 1-2 player game, after which you finish the round. If a prophecy has been fulfilled, e.g., if you placed a 12 on the orange side of your player board and you have at least 12 orange blocks on that edge of your player board, then you score points equal to that prophecy token.

Sum the points of your structure token, level tokens, and valid prophecy tokens to see who has the highest score and wins.

Neoville

2022-08-17T21:15:39-04:00

Vendor: Blue Orange Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 33.95

Designer	Phil Walker-Harding
Publisher	Blue Orange Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	30-45 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Honor	2021 5 Seasons Best International Family Game Nominee
Additional Info	340040/neoville http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/340040/neoville/forums/63

Neoville is looking for architects to build a city that is a combination of human habitation and the natural world. Are you up to the challenge? Position tiles strategically to build skyscrapers and utilities in your 4×4 city. Skyscrapers will be worth harmony points at the end of the game based on their value and district size. Utilities will be worth harmony points when their position in the city fits their own requirements. However, skyscrapers or utilities that do not meet their requirements will count as negative points! Who will design the most harmonious city with nature?

—description from the publisher

Museum Suspects

2022-08-17T21:12:57-04:00

Vendor: Blue Orange Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 25.95

Designer	Phil Walker-Harding
Publisher	Blue Orange Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	20-25 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	353546/museum-suspects http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/353546/museum-suspects/forums/63

DRRRiiiiiiiiinnnnng! Hurry, close the doors, a museum piece has been stolen! The director calls in a number of highly skilled investigators to find the thief or thieves amongst the 16 suspects held inside the building. Some clues are more valuable than others. Find the best ones to solve the case while obstructing your competitors' investigations!

The culprit and his possible accomplices may still be around!

Look for a clue in one of the museum's rooms.
Cover your tracks to deceive your opponents.
Accuse a suspect by deduction.

What will be the outcome of this case? Will you find the culprit(s), unless they have escaped before the closing of the doors?

—description from the publisher

Adventure Games: The Gloom City File

2022-07-04T07:04:54-04:00

Vendor: KOSMOS
Type: Escape Games
Price: 27.95

Designer	Kayleigh Anderson Matthew Dunstan Hauke Gerdes Phil Walker-Harding
Publisher	KOSMOS
Players	1-4
Playtime	90 mins
Suggested Age	16 and up
Additional Info	317365/adventure-games-gloom-city-file http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/317365/adventure-games-gloom-city-file/forums/63

Explore places, combine items, and experience stories in Adventure Games, a series of co-operative games from German publisher KOSMOS. In each of these titles, players are presented with a mysterious story that they must unravel over the course of play. Working together, players explore common areas, talk to people, look for clues, and combine various items to reveal the secret of the story. Depending on what decisions the players make, the course of history changes and there is no going back!

Unlike the co-operative EXIT: The Game series, titles in this series focus on the telling and discovery of the story with no time pressure. That said, many different paths can be experienced during play, with more than one correct resolution to the story waiting to be discovered. Each title consists of three chapters, each taking about 75 minutes to play. Nothing is destroyed, so the games can be played multiple times.

In Adventure Games: The Gloom City File, you get to experience crime noir first-hand, exploring places together, combining objects, searching for and finding clues, and talking to people you meet.

Snakesss

2022-04-14T17:13:23-04:00

Vendor: Big Potato Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 27.95

Designer	Phil Walker-Harding
Publisher	Big Potato
Players	4-8
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	337389/snakesss http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/337389/snakesss/forums/63

The group has a multiple-choice question and only two minutes to work it out. The snakes amongst you already know the right answer — and they'll stop at nothing to keep you away from it.

In Snakesss, you deal out the cards and try to answer a multiple-choice question with the rest of the players. The more people who get it right, the more points you cash in — unless, of course, you get one of the snake cards. All the snakes already know the answer, so their job is a bit simpler. To score points, they have to sabotage the discussion and mislead the other players.

—description from the publisher

Fjords (Standard Edition)

2021-12-27T09:08:25-05:00

Vendor: Grail Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 58.95

Designer	Franz-Benno Delonge Phil Walker-Harding
Publisher	Grail Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	30-45 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	322564/fjords http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/322564/fjords/forums/63

Explore a landscape so stunning that even a Viking would hold their breath in awe...

Fjords is a tile-laying game that takes place in two phases. First, the players explore the fjords around them by laying hexagonal landscape tiles. Second, beginning from the encampments placed during phase one, players will walk the landscape, claiming as much of the plains and cliffs as possible.

The winner of the game will be the player who has claimed the most land. Savvy placements and the ability to plan ahead yet act tactically will be your most important tools.

This new edition of Fjords differs from the original release in the following ways:

The game now plays up to four players.
The game contains five new variants/modules designed by Phil Walker-Harding. These add optional variety and flavor to the game.

-description from publisher

Super Mega Lucky Box

2021-08-30T21:34:29-04:00

Vendor: Gamewright
Type: Board Games
Price: 22.95

Designer	Phil Walker-Harding
Publisher	Gamewright
Players	1-6
Playing Time	20 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	341530/super-mega-lucky-box http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/341530/super-mega-lucky-box/forums/63

Your goal in Super Mega Lucky Box is to score as many points as possible, and you'll do that mostly by crossing off the nine numbers printed in a 3x3 grid on the cards in front of you.

During each of the four rounds, you shuffle 18 cards (numbered 1-9 twice), then reveal nine of those cards one by one. For each number revealed, you cross off a matching number on one of your cards, with you starting the game by choosing three out of five cards. Each time you complete a row or column, you receive the printed bonus next to it:

• A lightning bolt, which you can spend to raise or lower the number that you're crossing off on a turn; spend three lightning bolts, for example, and you can change a 7 into either a 4 or a 1 (because the numbers "wrap")
• A moon, with the player who has the most moons scoring 6 points at game's end, while the player with the fewest loses 6 points (except in a two-player game)
• A star, with you scoring 1, 4, or 9 points for collecting 1, 2, or 3 stars in a single round
• A number, which you immediately cross off on one of your cards; if doing so completes another row or column, you score that bonus, too!
• A question mark, which allows you to cross off any number.

At the end of a round, you score points for each card that you've completely marked off, with the points diminishing each round from 15 in round one to 8 in round four. Each player then draws three new cards and keeps one of them.

After four rounds, you score 1 point for each two spaces Xed on unfinished cards, then tally your points from completed cards, stars, and moons to see who has the highest score and wins.

Adventure Games: The Grand Hotel Abaddon

2021-07-06T11:36:40-04:00

Vendor: KOSMOS
Type: Escape Games
Price: 20.95

Designers	Matthew Dunstan Phil Walker-Harding Ute Wielandt
Publisher	KOSMOS
Players	1-4
Playing Time	75 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	295949/adventure-games-grand-hotel-abaddon http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/295949/adventure-games-grand-hotel-abaddon/forums/63

Explore places, combine items, and experience stories in Adventure Games, a series of co-operative games from German publisher KOSMOS. In each of these titles, players are presented with a mysterious story that they must unravel over the course of play. Working together, players explore common areas, talk to people, look for clues, and combine various items to reveal the secret of the story. Depending on what decisions the players make, the course of history changes and there is no going back!

Unlike the co-operative EXIT: The Game series, titles in this series focus on the telling and discovery of the story with no time pressure. That said, many different paths can be experienced during play, with more than one correct resolution to the story waiting to be discovered. Each title consists of three chapters, each taking about 75 minutes to play. Nothing is destroyed, so the games can be played multiple times.

In Adventure Games: Grand Hotel Abaddon, you want to discover what strange events are happening in the old building, slipping into your role on the team to follow tracks and decide how the adventure game should proceed.

Cacao (German Import)

2021-07-06T05:01:55-04:00

Vendor: ABACUSSPIELE
Type: Board Games
Price: 62.95

Designer	Phil Walker-Harding
Publisher	ABACUSSPIELE
Players	2-4
Playtime	45 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Honors	2017 Hungarian Board Game Award Nominee 2017 Boardgames Australia Awards Best Australian Game Nominee 2016 JUGuinho Children Game of the Year Finalist 2016 Gra Roku Game of the Year Nominee 2016 Boardgames Australia Awards Best Australian Game Nominee 2016 Årets Spill Best Family Game Nominee 2015 Vuoden Peli Strategy Game of the Year Nominee 2015 Spiel des Jahres Recommended 2015 Spiel der Spiele Hit für Familien Recommended 2015 Juego del Año Recommended 2015 Jocul Anului în România Beginners Finalist 2015 Guldbrikken Best Adult Game Nominee 2015 Golden Geek Best Family Board Game Nominee
Expansions	Cacao: Chocolatl Cacao: Diamante Cacao: Chocolatl – New Huts (German Import) Cacao: Big Market (Import) Cacao: Chocolatl – New Storage Spaces (Import) Cacao: Golden Temple (Import) Cacao: Volcanoes (Import)
Additional Info	171499/cacao http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1571674/cacao/reviews

Note: This game is in German. The game itself is language independent. English rules can be found here.

Cacao is a tile-placement game that immerses players in the exotic world of the "fruit of the Gods". As the chief of your tribe, you must lead your people to prosperity through the cultivation and trade of cacao — and to do that, you'll need to put them to work in the best way possible.

In the game, each player has an individual deck of square worker tiles, with the number of workers on each side of the tile varying from tile to tile. The playing area starts with only a couple of jungle tiles in play: a cacao field and a small market; two jungle tiles are laid face up, and the remaining jungle tiles stacked as a draw pile.

On a player's turn, she places one of her worker tiles on the board adjacent to one or more jungle tiles already in play, then (if two worker tiles are next to an empty space) adds one of the jungle tiles to the playing area in this space. Her workers then get busy and deliver the results of their effort: If you placed workers next to a cacao field, you receive one or two cacao markers per worker; if they're next to a market, you can choose to sell one cacao marker per worker at the listed price; if next to a well, you receive water; if next to a temple, they stand and look good until the end of the game; and so on. She then refills her hand from her personal deck to three worker tiles.

Once all players have used all of their worker tiles, the game ends. Players score (or lose) points based on their water supply, and each temple rewards whichever players sent the most workers to it. In the end, whoever has collected the most gold wins.

Explorers

2021-04-21T16:11:45-04:00

Vendor: Ravensburger
Type: Board Games
Price: 27.95

Designer	Phil Walker-Harding
Publisher	Ravensburger
Players	1-4
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	330174/explorers http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/330174/explorers/forums/63

At the beginning of Explorers, you and each other explorer place four landscape tiles — grasslands, bodies of water, desert or mountains — and three different scoring tiles in your game frame. Then from your starting village, you go on an exploratory tour.

The exploration cards, each of which shows two landscapes, indicates which landscapes you are allowed to cross (off). On your turn, you reveal an exploration card, chooses one of the two types of terrain, then cross off three spaces ahead of your current location. Your fellow players must then decide whether to place only two crosses on the same landscape, or choose the other landscape and tick off three crosses. All of your crosses must be orthogonally adjacent, so you need to plan well to avoid being stuck due to "bad" landscape choices.

Over four rounds, you expand your territory, receiving a special action for each checked box with an object in it. You receive points for provisions and gems, with a map you can place crosses on any type of terrain, and lost temples can be explored with keys — but whoever reaches the temple first receives the most points for it...

Explorers contains a solo version as well as additional task tiles for experienced players, with more than a million possible game combinations.

Cloud City

2020-11-12T01:17:09-05:00

Vendor: Blue Orange Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 38.69

Designer	Phil Walker-Harding
Publisher	Blue Orange Games
Players	2-4
Playing Time	30-60 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	313963/cloud-city http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/313963/cloud-city/forums/63

In Cloud City, you compete against other architects to create the best city planning project to be chosen by the city council. Have your project chosen and built for the people of Cloud City to enjoy!

Develop your city with buildings and build walkways to connect buildings to one another. Walkways earn city council votes and the longer the walkway, the more points. Walkways can earn 1, 2, 3, 5, or 8 city council votes. River walkways connect the smallest buildings, forest walkways connect midsize buildings, and ice walkways connect the tallest buildings. The architect with the city plan that features the most and the longest walkways will win the game!

—description from the publisher

Adventure Games: The Volcanic Island

2020-04-22T22:23:31-04:00

Vendor: KOSMOS
Type: Escape Games
Price: 19.95

Designers	Matthew Dunstan Chihiro Mori Phil Walker-Harding
Publisher	KOSMOS
Players	1-4
Playing Time	75 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	284082/adventure-games-volcanic-island http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/284082/adventure-games-volcanic-island/forums/63

Explore places, combine items, and experience stories in Adventure Games, a series of co-operative games from German publisher KOSMOS. In each of these titles, players are presented with a mysterious story that they must unravel over the course of play. Working together, players explore common areas, talk to people, look for clues, and combine various items to reveal the secret of the story. Depending on what decisions the players make, the course of history changes and there is no going back!

Unlike the co-operative EXIT: The Game series, titles in this series focus on the telling and discovery of the story with no time pressure. That said, many different paths can be experienced during play, with more than one correct resolution to the story waiting to be discovered. Each title consists of three chapters, each taking about 75 minutes to play. Nothing is destroyed, so the games can be played multiple times.

In The Volcanic Island, you slip into the roles of four students on a volcanic island who face mysterious events. Like a thriller, you need to solve puzzles, make decisions, track traces, and analyze and use objects. You will experience a story together. Gameplay is variable and different in each group.

Admin note: The first edition of the German edition of The Volcanic Island contains an error for which KOSMOS has released a PDF correction that you'll find in the files.

Silver & Gold

2019-10-11T13:30:51-04:00

Vendor: Pandasaurus Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 20.95

Designer	Phil Walker-Harding
Publisher	Pandasaurus Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Honors	2020 Kanga Best Gameplay Winner 2020 Kanga Best Gameplay Finalist 2020 JUGuinho Families Game of the Year Finalist 2020 American Tabletop Casual Games Nominee 2019 Spiel der Spiele Hit für Familien Recommended
Additional Info	270673/silver-gold http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/270673/silver-gold/forums/63

Distant islands with golden treasures — who hasn't dreamed of that?!

Silver & Gold combines simple rules, fast action, luck, and planning as players try to complete treasure map after treasure map, with the maps being printed on wipeable cards to allow for endless adventures...

Sushi Roll

2019-05-14T13:17:41-04:00

Vendor: Gamewright
Type: Board Games
Price: 28.95

Designer	Phil Walker-Harding
Publisher	Gamewright
Players	2-5
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	271869/sushi-roll http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/271869/sushi-roll/forums/63

Rice and dice! Roll with your favorite Sushi Go! characters in Sushi Roll, a dice-based version of the best-selling card game!

Load up the conveyor belts with savory sushi dice — then pick one and pass the rest! Earn points for winning combos like two tempura or a set of sashimi. Grab a menu to re-roll your dice or use chopsticks to swap with an opponent. And be sure to save room for pudding at the end!

—description from the publisher