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QE: Commodities (Minor Damage)

2024-09-28T17:52:50-04:00

Vendor: BoardGameTables.com
Type: Board Games
Price: 23.95

Designer	Jonathan Gilmour
Publisher	BoardGameTables.com
Players	3-5
Expansion For	Q.E. (Quantitative Easing)
Additional Info	360699/qe-commodities http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/360699/qe-commodities/forums/63

Q.E. Commodities now presents new investment opportunities for each country! As an expansion to Q.E., you will now have the ability to diversify your portfolio by investing in gold, oil, and crypto. Each commodity adds additional variable victory points to bolster your score. The biggest element of the expansion however is that it now enables you to lower your total spend throughout the game, providing extra layers of strategy and unexpected twists!

-description from publisher

Catch the Moon (Box Damage)

2024-09-28T16:14:29-04:00

Vendor: KOSMOS
Type: Board Games
Price: 31.95

Designer	Fabien Riffaud Juan Rodriguez
Publisher	KOSMOS
Players	2-6
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	6 and up
Honors	2018 Cardboard Republic Socializer Laurel Nominee
Additional Info	218129/catch-moon http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/218129/catch-moon/forums/63

All you need in Décrocher la Lune are a few skillfully placed ladders, a good sense of balance, and a touch of imagination. The moon waits impatiently for your arrival, but she's a sensitive lady and the smallest mistake can make her cry. The right mix of skill and luck will help you become the most agile dreamer...

Ierusalem Anno Domini (Minor Damage)

2024-09-28T16:07:45-04:00

Vendor: Devir
Type: Board Games
Price: 53.95

Designer	Carmen García Jiménez
Publisher	Devir
Players	1-4
Playtime	90 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	371972/ierusalem-anno-domini http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/371972/ierusalem-anno-domini/forums/63

Jerusalem, spring 33 AD. A crowd gathers at the city gates to welcome Jesus of Nazareth as he prepares to celebrate Easter with his apostles and followers. With a revolutionary message, he has garnered supporters everywhere but also looks of suspicion among religious authorities. The Last Supper will soon be celebrated and the fate of one of the most influential characters in human history will be sealed.

In Ierusalem Anno Domini, each player represents one of the communities of followers of Jesus of Nazareth who, coming to Jerusalem from nearby towns and villages, want to approach the place of the Last Supper and position themselves as close as possible to the seats of Jesus and his apostles.
Designed by Carmen G. Jiménez and illustrated by L.A. Draws, Ierusalem Anno Domini can be played alone or with up to 4 participants. The goal of the game is to gain points sitting your followers at the table of the Last Supper. The closer they are to the apostles and to Jesus himself, the more victory points they will provide at the end of the game. The parabola tiles that we have accumulated, or the offering tokens will also give us points.

Different locations are shown on the board: the market, the desert, the mountain, the lake and the temple. After sending our followers to one of these locations, we will obtain stones, bread and fish, as well as denarii or cards that will allow us to do more than one action. Among these actions, players will be able to choose between listening to a parable, going to the table, changing seats or doing a favor, among others. All this will happen while the patience of the Sanhedrin runs out. When this happens, symbolized by a tile moving in a marker, the endgame is triggered.

However, the main element of the game is the cards. Each card has a symbol corresponding to one of five key locations in the game. As you play them, combinations will be formed that will allow us to bring the apostles to the table of the Last Supper. The optimal placement of our followers around Jesus and the apostles will also be done through the management of letters, as well as various resources at our disposal.

Behind a very immersive theme, Ierusalem Anno Domini will not disappoint lovers of good challenges. Players will have a wide range of possibilities at their fingertips and multiple ways to earn victory points. Preparing the best strategies to get the most out of your followers will be one of the keys to victory. Devout gamers don’t need to look further: Here is your game!

-description from publisher

Galaxy Trucker (New Edition) (Minor Damage)

2024-09-28T16:07:17-04:00

Vendor: Czech Games Edition
Type: Board Games
Price: 34.95

Designer	Vlaada Chvátil
Publisher	Czech Games Edition
Players	2-4
Playing Time	20-30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Expansion	Galaxy Trucker: Keep on Trucking
Additional Info	336794/galaxy-trucker http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/336794/galaxy-trucker/forums/63

In the fast and goofy family game Galaxy Trucker, players begin by simultaneously rummaging through the common warehouse, frantically trying to grab the most useful component tiles to build their spaceship — all in real-time.

Once the ships are launched, players encounter dangerous situations while vying for financial opportunities, each hoping to gain the most valuable cargo and finish with as much of their ship still intact as possible. Of course, that's easier said than done since many hazards will send pieces of your ship, your cargo, and your crew hurling into the depths of space.

The goal is to survive the trek — hopefully with at least some of your crew and ship intact — and have at least one credit by the end of the game. (Profit, yay!) Players earn credits by delivering goods, defeating pirates, having the best-looking ship, and reaching their destination before the others.

This version of Galaxy Trucker is a relaunch of the original 2007 release by Vlaada Chvátil that features new art, more ship tiles, tweaked card effects, and streamlined gameplay that consists of only a single flight through space. That said, should you want a longer, more challenging experience, you can play a three-flight campaign known as the "Transgalactic Trek".

Hollywood 1947 (Box Damage)

2024-09-28T16:07:08-04:00

Vendor: Facade Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 22.95

Designer	Travis Hancock
Publisher	Facade Games
Players	1-9
Playtime	20-40 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	370621/hollywood-1947 http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/370621/hollywood-1947/forums/63

The year is 1947 and you are a member of the thriving movie-making industry of Hollywood. However, it is suspected that there are communists hiding among your small production studio slipping “un-Patriotic” messages, themes, props, and lines into your movies! Will you be able to find all the communists before your studio is shut down? Or will you be suspected yourself and banned from the industry?

In the game each player will secretly be a Patriot, Communist, or Rising Star. Each round every player will have a unique Job to perform (such as the Screenwriter, Gaffer, Director, Actor, Editor, etc). These jobs will affect what kind of movie is getting made that round, what cards are in players’ hands, and who will receive special information. Players can choose to skip their jobs to instead re-roll any two of the dice in the game. At the end of each round the players with stars showing on their dice will get to add a card into the movie.

The added cards will be shuffled, one will be removed, and the rest will be revealed. The team with the majority of revealed symbols (including the symbols on that round’s movie poster) wins the round! Indicate the winning team for the round by placing that team’s matching film-strip over the movie poster. The first team to win 4 rounds wins the game! The Rising Star plays both sides by trying to make the game go to 7 rounds and making the 7th round a tie.

Hollywood 1947 is a social deduction game. You must never show your cards or loyalty to anyone, but you may say whatever you’d like about the cards you put into a movie, or about your true allegiance. Open discussion about which cards were added into a movie is encouraged. However, if you are a Communist or the Rising Star, lying will often help you accomplish your goals since the majority of players will be Patriots.

That’s a wrap. Most players get the hang of the game after only a few minutes. So let’s go make some movies, but be careful who you trust!

Hollywood 1947 is the 5th standalone game in the Dark Cities Series by Facade Games. Previous games in the series include Salem 1692, Tortuga 1667, Deadwood 1876, and Bristol 1350.

You can follow the Kickstarter at this link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/travishancock/hollywood...

-description from publisher

Mystic Vale: Essential Edition (Box Damage)

2024-09-28T16:06:59-04:00

Vendor: AEG
Type: Board Games
Price: 86.95

Designer	John D. Clair
Publisher	Alderac Entertainment Group
Players	2-4
Playtime	45-60 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	308762/mystic-vale-essential-edition http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/308762/mystic-vale-essential-edition/forums/63

Mystic Vale - 2 to 4 players take on the role of druidic clans trying to cleanse the curse upon the land. Each turn, you play cards into your field to gain powerful advancements and useful vale cards. Use your power wisely, or decay will end your turn prematurely. Score the most victory points to win the game!

Mystic Vale - Big Box is a great edition containing the basic version of the game and 3 additions:

Mystic Vale: Vale of Magic (2016)
Mystic Vale: Vale of the Wild (2017)
Mystic Vale: Mana Storm (2017)

—description from the publisher

World Wonders (Minor Damage)

2024-09-23T13:47:31-04:00

Vendor: Arcane Wonders
Type: Board Games
Price: 47.95

Designer	Zé Mendes
Publisher	Arcane Wonders
Players	1-5
Playtime	50-70 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Expansion	World Wonders: Mundo Wonders Pack
Additional Info	365258/world-wonders http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/365258/world-wonders/forums/63

Take on the role of the great leaders of the past to build your own Ancient City.

Each player will use their Gold each round to build tiles that will increase their city's economy. A city that produces more food and generates commerce brings more population. Make your city grow!

There are 5 types of buildings, and each of them provides a type of resource that will make your city evolve from a simple settlement to the largest city in the world. If your buildings are completely enclosed from all sides, you've created a very well-planned city block. This will earn you a lot of points.

To place new buildings to your city, you will also need a lot of roads. Adjacency with roads will allow you to place buildings further away from the map. This will reach natural resources, which in addition to other benefits, bring victory points.

As important as the buildings, are its monuments and wonders tokens. This will bring you a lot of victory points, but will consume all your Gold. Be wise in choosing when and where to place it. Each monument requires buildings, roads, natural resources or even water in its adjacency to be placed. It won't be easy to fit them into your city, but the benefits will be great.

If your Gold runs out, your turn is also over. Once all players have spent their Gold, a new round will begin and new buildings and roads will be available to everyone.

In the end, as soon as a player reaches the maximum population limit, the leader of the best city in the ancient world will be the winner of World Wonders!

—description from the publisher

My City (Minor Damage)

2024-09-21T21:20:15-04:00

Vendor: KOSMOS
Type: Board Games
Price: 32.95

Designer	Reiner Knizia
Publisher	KOSMOS
Players	2-4
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Honors	2020 Spiel des Jahres Nominee 2021 International Gamers Award Two-player Nominee 2021 International Gamers Award Multi-player Recommended 2021 Gioco dell’Anno Winner 2021 Gioco dell’Anno Nominee 2021 Bulgarian Board Game Awards International Game of the Year Nominee 2021 Årets Spel Best Family Game Winner 2021 American Tabletop Strategy Games Recommended 2020 Golden Geek Most Innovative Board Game Nominee 2020 Golden Geek Medium Game of the Year Nominee 2020 Golden Geek Best Zoomable Game Nominee 2020 Cardboard Republic Architect Laurel Nominee 2020 Board Game Quest Awards Best Family Game Nominee
Reimplemented By	My City: Roll & Build My Island
Additional Info	295486/my-city http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/295486/my-city/forums/63

My City is a competitive legacy game in which you develop a city on your own playing board through the ages.

The game consists of 24 episodes, beginning with the development of a city in its early preindustrial stages and progressing through industrialization. During each game, players customize their experience by adding elements to their personal boards and adding cards to the game. Players' choices and action made during one session of gameplay carry over into the next session, creating a personalized gaming experience.

For players who do not want to experience My City as a legacy game, a double-sided game board offers an alternate set-up for repeatable play (some elements from the legacy experience are needed for the repeatable play game, players can unlock these elements by playing through the first 4 episodes).

The Pursuit of Happiness (Minor Damage)

2024-09-21T21:20:11-04:00

Vendor: Stronghold Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 52.95

Designer	Adrian Abela, David Chircop
Publisher	Stronghold Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	60-90 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Expansions	The Pursuit of Happiness: Community The Pursuit of Happiness: Experiences The Pursuit of Happiness: Nostalgia
Additional Info	181687/pursuit-happiness https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/181687/pursuit-happiness/forums/63

We all have one common desire: the desire for happiness. As we build our life, taking steps towards the pursuit of happiness, we come closer to the realization that happiness lies in the pursuit.

The Pursuit of Happiness is a game in which you take a character from birth and you live the life you always wanted. Using a worker-placement mechanism with time as your workers, you take on projects, you get jobs, you buy items, you establish relationships, you raise families. The possibilities are endless as you live the life you have always wanted.

How much will you be able to achieve in just one lifetime during The Pursuit of Happiness?

Beast (Minor Damage)

2024-09-21T16:52:01-04:00

Vendor: Pegasus Spiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 66.95

Designer	Aron Midhall Elon Midhall
Publisher	Pegasus Spiele
Players	2-4
Playtime	60-120 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	281549/beast http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/281549/beast/forums/63

Welcome to the Northern Expanse, a place where nature is still unexplored, mystical and dangerous. When the humans first arrived, they thought they found an unspoiled paradise, filled with bountiful forests, lakes swimming with fish and cold freshwater flowing from the mountains. But as their settlements expanded and the surrounding forests grew thinner, nature itself pushed back. Great creatures known as Beasts emerged, and with their fangs, claws and mystical powers, they proved an incredible threat to the humans. In order to protect the settlements, humans enlisted specialised hunters, tasked with tracking and killing the Beasts before too many of their kin perish.

The Beast uses a deck of direction cards to move over forests, swamps and caverns, using guile and deceit to hide its track from the hunters. However, whenever a hunter moves over a location where the Beast has previously been, a trail appears. Only when a hunter searches a location or the Beast itself attacks an unsuspecting target is the Beast's actual position revealed. More so, each hunter has but one chance of searching each round, making it a tense and difficult decision. Hunters seldom have full information whether the trail they’re pursuing contains the Beast’s actual location, or if the trail has already gone cold.

Each action you perform in this game is done by playing a card from your hand (up to a maximum of two cards per turn). This means that if a player wants to search, attack or move, they need to have a card in their hand that lets them do that. Before each round, both hunters and Beast participate in a draft for the most important cards. All action cards can be used by both Beast and hunters alike.

In order to win this game, you either need to cooperate every step of the way if you play as a hunter, or skillfully outmaneuver your opponents if you play as Beast. On their own, hunters are never stronger than the Beast. Only when hunters communicate, strategize and combine their actions can they bring down the Beast before it’s too late.

—description from the designer

Great Western Trail: Argentina (Minor Damage)

2024-09-21T16:41:31-04:00

Vendor: eggertspiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 72.95

Designer	Alexander Pfister
Publisher	eggertspiele
Players	1-4
Playtime	75-150 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Reimplements	Great Western Trail (Second Edition)
Additional Info	364011/great-western-trail-argentina http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/364011/great-western-trail-argentina/forums/63

In Great Western Trail: Argentina, you own a vast estancia in Argentina at the end of the 19th century, and you will need to travel the plains of the Pampas with your cattle to deliver them to the main train station in Buenos Aries.

Great Western Trail: Argentina features gameplay elements similar to Great Western Trail such as deck management, the rondel mechanism, and the ability to upgrade your player board, along with twists on these elements and new features.

The player board features a new type of worker — farmers — and different paths await on the game board to confront you with more choices. Will you take the road with buildings or a path past farmers? Maybe you'll have the chance to use your cows — well, the strength on your cow cards — to help farmers, getting them on your side and adding grain, a new type of resource, to your income, with grain being used for boat and city tiles.

Perhaps you can unlock shortcuts that allow you to deliver your herd to Buenos Aires more quickly. Sure, you'll forfeit the use of action buildings, but maybe you can catch others unaware, with the ships leaving before they deliver. The timing of reaching the central train station to deliver your herd has never been so crucial, and valuable bonuses await on the city's port tiles.

Money is easier to get in Great Western Trail: Argentina, but you have more to manage in terms of action options, shortcuts, and cards (including the new exhaustion cards), so the challenges won't let up.

Great Western Trail: Argentina also includes a solitaire challenge in which Pedro is waiting for you to try to beat his score.

Sky Team PRE-ORDER

2024-09-03T11:29:16-04:00

Vendor: Hachette Boardgames USA
Type: Board Games
Price: 29.95

Designer	Luc Rémond
Publisher	Hachette Boardgames USA
Players	2
Playtime	15 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	373106/sky-team http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/373106/sky-team/forums/63

Sky Team is a co-operative game, exclusively for two players, in which you play a pilot and co-pilot at the controls of an airliner. Your goal is to work together as a team to land your airplane in different airports around the world.

To land your plane, you need to silently assign your dice to the correct spaces in your cockpit to balance the axis of your plane, control its speed, deploy the flaps, extend the landing gear, contact the control tower to clear your path, and even have a little coffee to improve your concentration enough to change the value of your dice.

If the aircraft tilts too much and stalls, overshoots the airport, or collides with another aircraft, you lose the game...and your pilot's license...and probably your life.

From Montreal to Tokyo, each airport offers its own set of challenges. Watch out for the turbulence as this could end up being bumpy ride!

—description from the publisher

Wizards of the Grimoire PRE-ORDER

2024-09-03T11:26:58-04:00

Vendor: Grimoire Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 25.95

Designer	Cole Banning Joe Banning
Publisher	Grimoire Games
Players	2
Playtime	20-40 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	340541/wizards-grimoire http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/340541/wizards-grimoire/forums/63

Years of tutelage under the late Archmage Andor have culminated in this moment; his two protégés must now become rivals and battle to determine who will become the next Keeper of the Grimoire. As protection from your rival, you have only your magical gifts, your mastery of the Grimoire, and a select few spell pages ripped from its binding. Pick carefully; the spells you choose will allow you to counter your opponent, twist the fabric of time, and deal devastating damage, but only if you’re able to find synergies between spells and manage your mana reserves carefully.

In this two player strategy card game, you must fulfill your destiny and become the Keeper of the Grimoire. Defeat your opponent by drafting new spells from the magical Grimoire, casting them, managing your cooldowns, and dealing massive damage.

Each turn, draft one new spell to be added to your spell repertoire. But be warned! Your opponent has access to the same spells as you do, so choose the spells you want before your opponent does! Continue updating your spell repertoire throughout the game to optimize your deck and counter your opponent.

Cast spells. Deal devastating damage or confuse and trip up your opponent. More expensive spells will have a larger impact on the game, but be careful, they’ll cost you more mana and will have a longer cool down. You can cast as many spells as you like on your turn so long as you have enough mana and the spells aren’t in cooldown. Find spell combinations that work together and time them correctly, to increase your damage or counter your opponent.

Be the first wizard apprentice to eliminate your opponent's life points to become Keeper of the Grimoire.

Get It! (Import) (Box Damage)

2024-08-29T14:46:27-04:00

Vendor: KENDi
Type: Board Games
Price: 22.95

Designer	Steffen Benndorf
Publisher	KENDi
Players	3-6
Playtime	20-30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	388427/get-it http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/388427/get-it/forums/63

Note: This game includes English, French, Italian, and German.

Your goal as a team in Get It! is to play all of your cards in ascending numerical order. Sounds easy, doesn't it? However, you have only one minute to do so, and you are not allowed to speak...and you can't see your own cards — only the cards of the other players! Can you give the right signals and interpret your teammates' signals correctly to play everything in time?

To win, you need to complete six levels of play. For level 1, deal out ten cards from a deck numbered 1-40 as evenly as possible. Sort the cards face down (without showing anyone else) to stack the cards from low to high. Each player picks up their topmost card facing away from themselves so that it's visible to everyone else, then someone starts the timer. Whoever has the lowest card must play it. How will they know? Tell them with your eyes! If they play the card correctly, they pick up their next card, then you all figure out who plays next; if not, restart the level, losing the game if you fail a second time.

If you complete the level by playing all cards correctly, add the special cards for level 2 — smile cards — and deal 13 cards. Special cards can be stacked anywhere in a player's pile other than the topmost card. When a player holds a special card, that's considered the lowest card in play. Each level adds new special cards, such as the mirror and a second copy of some number cards, and more cards dealt to players. Make it through 25 cards in one minute at level 6, and you win!

Deckscape: Test Time (Minor Damage)

2024-08-28T14:59:03-04:00

Vendor: DV Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 12.95

Designer	Martino Chiacchiera Silvano Sorrentino
Publisher	dV Giochi
Players	1-6
Platyime	30-90 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	218311/deckscape-test-time http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/218311/deckscape-test-time/forums/63

Description from the publisher:

Deckscape: Test Time is the first title in a series of cooperative games inspired by real escape rooms in which a group of people is "trapped" inside a room full of puzzles and odd items. The goal of the game is to solve puzzles, understand the plot of the story, and make intelligent use of the items provided in order to exit from the room as quickly as possible.

In Deckscape: Test Time, you have been selected from Doctor Thyme's most brilliant students for a special project. He'll test your skills, and if you succeed, you'll get a unique chance to help him on his newest and greatest invention. While he's explaining his project, he distractedly pushes a button: an alarm cries loudly and heavy gratings shut all the windows and the exit door. The laboratory is locked! Doc Thyme falls through a trapdoor below his feet and the lights turn off. Will you be able to pass Doctor Thyme's exam and exit his laboratory? Using just sixty cards, you will take part in a hectic adventure, without leaving home.

Space Base (Minor Damage)

2024-08-20T16:13:58-04:00

Vendor: AEG
Type: Board Games
Price: 45.05

Designer	John D. Clair
Publisher	Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG)
Players	2-5
Playtime	60 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansions	Space Base: The Emergence of Shy Pluto Space Base: Command Station Space Base: The Mysteries of Terra Proxima Space Base: Dreadnaught Pack
Accessory	Sleeve Kings Sleeve Bundle - Space Base
Honors	2020 Fairplay À la carte Runner-up 2019 Origins Awards Best Board Game Nominee 2018 Meeples' Choice Nominee 2018 Golden Geek Best Family Board Game Nominee
Additional Info	242302/space-base http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/242302/space-base/forums/63

In Space Base players assume the roles of Commodores of a small fleet of ships. Ships begin docked at their stations and are then deployed to sectors as new ships are commissioned under your command. Use cargo vessels to engage in trade and commerce; mining vessels to build reoccurring base income; and carriers to spread your influence. Establish new colonies for a new Commodore in a sector to gain even more influence. Gain enough influence and you can be promoted to Admiral!

Space Base is a quick-to-learn, quick-to-play dice game using the core "I roll, everyone gets stuff" mechanic seen in other games. It's also a strategic engine builder using a player board (your space base) and tableaus of ship cards you can buy and add to your board. The cards you buy and order you buy them have interesting implication on your engine beyond just the ability on the card you buy, making for a different type of engine construction than seen in similar games. Players can take their engine in a number of directions; long odds and explosive gains, low luck and steady income, big end-game combo's to launch from last to first, or a mix and match approach. Ultimately, Space Base is a game you can just start playing and teach everyone how to play in the first round or two and has a satisfying blend of dice chucking luck and challenging strategic choices.

The Castles of Burgundy: Special Edition (without Sundrop)

2024-08-12T17:17:06-04:00

Vendor: Ravensburger
Type: Board Games
Price: 298.95

Designer	Stefan Feld
Publisher	Ravensburger
Players	1-4
Playtime	70-120 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	363622/castles-burgundy-special-edition http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/363622/castles-burgundy-special-edition/forums/63

Includes both Core and Stretch Goals

Castles of Burgundy is a legendary Board Game design created by Stefan Feld. In this 1-4 players tabletop experience, you will take on the role of an aristocrat controlling a small princedom. Trying to build a settlement with powerful castles, practice trades, exploit silver mines, and use the knowledge of travelers.
Now, this timeless game is coming back with an extremely polished, high-end special edition resulting from a collaboration between Ravensburger and Awaken Realms.

In this special edition, you can expect a complete re-design of art and layout to ensure that every piece will have great art and enhance in-game usability. Only the best materials (cardboard, cart paper, box, insert, etc.) will be used to provide endurance, and a premium feel. Many extra components will bring the gaming experience to the next level, such as double-layered player boards, special bags for hexes, 30% bigger tiles, or metal coins.

The Castles of Burgundy is set in the Burgundy region of High Medieval France. Each player takes on the role of an aristocrat, originally controlling a small princedom. While playing, they aim to build settlements and powerful castles, practice trade along the river, exploit silver mines, and use the knowledge of travelers.

The game is about players taking settlement tiles from the game board and placing them into their princedom, which is represented by a Duchy board that is placed in the Player board.

Ubongo (English) (Minor Damage)

2024-08-09T13:51:21-04:00

Vendor: KOSMOS
Type: Board Games
Price: 36.95

Designer	Grzegorz Rejchtman
Publisher	KOSMOS
Players	2-4
Playtime	30mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Family	Ubongo Extreme Ubongo: Das Würfelspiel Ubongo 3D
Honors	2003 Årets Spel Best Family Game Winner 2005 International Gamers Awards - General Strategy; Multi-player Nominee 2005 Japan Boardgame Prize Best Foreign Game for Beginners 2005 Kinderspielexperten "8-to-13-year-olds" Nominee 2005 Kinderspielexperten "8-to-13-year-olds" Winner 2005 Spiel der Spiele Hit für Familien Recommended 2007 Vuoden Peli Family Game of the Year Nominee 2007 Vuoden Peli Family Game of the Year Winner 2008 Årets Spill Best Family Game Nominee 2008 Årets Spill Best Family Game Winner 2008 Juego del Año Finalist 2009 Årets Spel Best Family Game Winner 2011 Guldbrikken Best Family Game Nominee 2016 Gouden Ludo Nominee
Family	Ubongo: Duel
Additional Info	16986/ubongo https://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1801/ubongo/reviews

The board of this game consists of six rows. On each row, twelve gems (of several colors) are arranged. Each player places his pawn in front of one of those rows.

Each player receives a playing card on which a shape consisting of several squares is depicted. Each player also gets 12 tiles consisting of 2, 3, 4, or 5 squares in some shape. By means of a dice roll, each player is assigned three or four tiles that he has to use to fill the shape on his card.

The players try to solve their own "puzzle." The race is timed by a sand glass. The outcome of this race determines the play on the main playing board.

The player who was the first to solve his puzzle in time gets to move his pawn up to three rows, the player who came second may move two rows, and the player in third may move a single row. The players may collect two gems from the front of the row their pawn is on, so the more rows you can move, the more control you have on what color gems you can collect.

After collecting gems, each player receives a new playing card with a new puzzle to solve, and a new round starts. In total, nine rounds are played.

In the end, the player who has collected the most gems in a single color wins the game.

Re-implemented as:

Ubongo BMM
Ubongo extreme
Ubongo - Das Duell
Ubongo - 3D (2009)

G.I. JOE Roleplaying Game - Ferocious Fighters: Factions in Action Vol. 1 Sourcebook (Minor Damage)

2024-07-20T15:12:01-04:00

Vendor: Renegade Game Studios
Type: RPG
Price: 29.37

Prove You’re the Most Ferocious Force on the Battlefield!

Ferocious Fighters: Factions in Action Vol. 1 introduces seven new factions for the G.I. JOE Roleplaying Game: G.I. Joe’s Tiger Force, Anti-Venom Task Force, Dino Hunters, and Mega Marines teams, along with Cobra’s Python Patrol, Cobra-La, and Mega-Monsters!

Each faction comes with new mechanics, advice for GMs on creating faction-specific stories, and specialized faction equipment. Play wild stories, such as raiding Cobra’s hidden Python Temple or spreading the glory of Cobra-La.

Features

Major Factions: 2 - Tiger Force and Python Patrol
Minor Factions: 5 - Anti-Venom Task Force, Cobra-La, Dino-Hunters, Mega Marines, Mega Monsters
27 new threats
10 new Vehicles
7 new influences, 1 new Origin, and 2 new Role Focus Options (Ranger: Peacekeeper and Infantry: Force Recon)
Factions are teams with special missions, requirements, bonuses, and gear. They’re a great way to tell stories with a tighter focus or specific goal.

At a Glance

For Ages: 14+
Game Type: Roleplaying Game Sourcebook

Mercurial (Deluxe Edition)

2024-07-02T10:21:38-04:00

Vendor: Hyperlixir
Type: Board Games
Price: 60.95

Designer	David Goh
Publisher	Hyperlixir
Players	1-4
Playtime	45-60 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	317940/mercurial http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/317940/mercurial/forums/63

Discover a new age of spell crafting in the fantastic world of Mercurial!

Exert control over chaos in this game of dice-manipulation and magic-making. Draft Alterations to shape your Elements which you'll use to forge Spells. Combine and cast these Spells to generate enough Ruin, Restore or powerfully balanced Myst to perform Heroic deeds that earn you victory points.

This exclusive Deluxe Edition includes everything from the Standard Edition, plus the following:

The Challenger Expansion, adding new content and new play modes (co-operative & automa).
An alternate art slipcase
Gold foil token upgrades
Two metal coin upgrades
Three art prints

Shikoku 1889

2024-07-02T10:18:46-04:00

Vendor: Grand Trunk Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 75.95

Designer	Yasutaka Ikeda
Publisher	Grand Trunk Games
Players	2-6
Playtime	90-210 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	23540/shikoku-1889 http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/23540/shikoku-1889/forums/63

1889, an 18xx game in the series originated by Francis Tresham's 1829, is set in Shikoku Japan. The rules are similar to 1830: Railways & Robber Barons on a smaller and terrain-heavy map.

In 1889, 2-6 players will use money to purchase shares in railroad companies during Share Dealing Rounds. Between subsequent Share Dealing Rounds, railroad corporations then conduct operations on the game board, with the decisions being made by the player who is the major share holder. The game simulates the progression of railroad development during an historic period on Shikoku. Old trains become obsolete while the revenue earnings from cities grows over time. Players will try to purchase the most profitable shares at the right times of the game to maximize earnings in dividends and stock value gains. In the end, the player with the highest value of personal cash and held stocks is the winner.

The game was originally available in kit form from Wild Heaven, and is now also being published by Grand Trunk Games.

Star Trek: Cryptic – A Puzzles and Pathways Adventure

2024-07-02T10:17:11-04:00

Vendor: Funko Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 37.95

Designer	Funko Games
Publisher	Funko Games
Players	1-99
Playtime	60-90 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	386143/star-trek-cryptic-puzzles-and-pathways-adventure http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/386143/star-trek-cryptic-puzzles-and-pathways-adventure/forums/63

Climb the ranks of Starfleet and explore strange new worlds in Star Trek: Cryptic – A Puzzles and Pathways Adventure, a puzzle-filled, action-packed "escape room" game. Using your PADD as your guide, you'll decipher subspace transmissions, discover alien civilizations, and prevent planetary disaster with logic, deduction, and creative thinking. Prepare to boldly go where no one has gone before!

—description from the publisher

The Quest Kids: The Trials of Tolk the Wise

2024-07-02T10:17:01-04:00

Vendor: Treasure Falls Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 20.95

Designer	Dustin McMillian
Publisher	Treasure Falls Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	45 mins
Suggested Age	5 and up

The Trials of Tolk the Wise is a story driven campaign for The Quest Kids board game. It is an introduction fantasy campaign experience for young heroes 5 years old and up.

In The Trials of Tolk the Wise a mysterious note found at the bottom of an ancient treasure chest sends The Quest Kids on an exciting adventure inside the magical cave of Tolk the Wise.

There are five unique quests included in the campaign that tell an ongoing story and introduce new game mechanics to young players.

During the campaign The Quest Kids will:

Solve mysterious puzzles
Make impactful, story driven choices
Discover new friends with special powers
Unlock unique hero abilities
Open sealed envelopes
Face off against new bad guys

Please note: The Quest Kids base game is REQUIRED to play The Trials of Tolk the Wise Adventure Campaign.

The Trials of Tolk the Wise was included in all original pledges from the initial Kickstarter run in September 2019 but will be sold separate from The Quest Kids base game once the game is shipped later in the summer of 2020.

Pirates of Maracaibo (dlp games Edition) (Import)

2024-05-16T15:37:49-04:00

Vendor: dlp games
Type: Board Games
Price: 79.95

Designer	Ralph Bienert Ryan Hendrickson Alexander Pfister
Publisher	dlp games
Players	1-4
Playtime	25-100 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	397385/pirates-maracaibo http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/397385/pirates-maracaibo/forums/63

Set sail for an adventurous raid...for perhaps it will be your last! Face danger and adventure once more while you search high and low for the most valuable treasures the Caribbean has to offer, then quickly find a safe harbor to stash priceless gold, rare emeralds, and iridescent pearls. Explore, stockpile cargo, hire crew, and commandeer rival ships, but don't forget to bury your loot. As you sail, be on the lookout for a place to settle after your life on the high seas has come to an end, but before you do that, you must outpace your opponents as one trip around the Caribbean won't be enough. You must make three trips in order to retire as the richest and greatest buccaneer of all time.

Pirates of Maracaibo is standalone game in the same franchise as 2019's Maracaibo, and players who are familiar with that game will recognize some beloved concepts from the original. However, new players can jump right in with no prior knowledge of the original game as Pirates of Maracaibo is an independent game with a more accessible rule set. The game plays over three rounds in which you sail the Caribbean, hire crew, ally with other ships, explore the shore, amass the most treasure, and (ideally) retire to a secluded island as the most revered pirate in history. Cast off sailors and swashbucklers, cast off!

—description from the designer

Disney Lorcana: Rise of the Floodborn: Playmat B

2024-05-10T13:26:20-04:00

	Vendor: Ravensburger Type: Playmat Price: 25.95
Protect your collection from wear and tear with these officially licensed accessories!