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Planet Unknown

2022-11-29T09:28:06-05:00

Vendor: Adam's Apple Games, LLC
Type: Board Games
Price: 79.95

Designer	Ryan Lambert Adam Rehberg
Publisher	Adam's Apple Games, LLC
Players	1-6
Playing Time	60-80 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	258779/planet-unknown http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/258779/planet-unknown/forums/63

Our planet has run out of resources, and we are forced to move. We have discovered a series of planets and sent our rovers to test their environment with the hope of colonization. Our rovers have confirmed 1-6 viable colonization options. Planet Unknown is a competitive game for 1-6 players where players build and develop the best planet to win!

Each player has a goal of developing the best planet in Planet Unknown. Each round, each player will place one dual resourced tile on their planet, which is a polyomino shape. Each resource represents the infrastructure needed to support life on the planet. Every tile placement is important to cover your planet efficiently and also to build up your planet's engine. After placing the tile, players do two actions associated with the two infrastructure types on the tile. Be careful because some tile placements will trigger "meteors" that make all planets harder to develop and prevent it from scoring points in its row AND column.

Planet Unknown innovates on the popular polyomino trend by allowing simultaneous yet strategic turn-based play via the Lazy S.U.S.A.N. space station in the center of the table. The game also condenses a 3-hour medium weight game into about 70 minutes for 1-6 players no matter the player count.
Curious how we do it, follow along until launch!

—description from the publisher

Truck Off: The Food Truck Frenzy Roll And Write

2020-04-22T22:30:06-04:00

Vendor: Adam's Apple Games, LLC
Type: Board Games
Price: 20.95

Designers	Ryan Lambert Adam Rehberg
Publisher	Adam's Apple Games, LLC
Players	1-99
Playing Time	25-35 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	283790/truck-food-truck-frenzy-roll-and-write http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/283790/truck-food-truck-frenzy-roll-and-write/forums/63

AS FOOD TRUCK TITANS…
Send your food truck team to score sales at various venues throughout town. You can only visit each venue once and will need to carefully plan your route and take sales opportunities when they are arise. Drive efficiently and score bonuses, or race to the finish and hit the big-time payouts on the way. Plan your route but expect the unexpected in your path to food truck infamy!

Truck Off: The Food Truck Frenzy Roll and Write is a stand alone game and follow-up to the original Truck Off: The Food Truck Frenzy. It throws navigation, risk mitigation, and press your luck into the same meal pack for you to digest.

In Truck Off Roll and Write, all players are driving their food trucks around a grid system town map, and marking off venue locations in a secondary location called a route tracker for each venue they visit. All players will visit a new venue each turn and then mark the value of their corresponding venue dice directly scoring them points. If you mark three venues in one row or one column of the route tracker, you gain a bonus. Bonuses help you navigate around town, allow you to reroll your dice more, drive farther, drive faster, and promote venues to make them more valuable.

Each turn, the active player rolls the set of polyhedral dice. The active player may reroll up to one die to help the sales on their route or hurt the sales on their opponents route. Then all players select one open venue to drive to if possible up to 4 spaces away following a grid movement system. Each player then marks the value of the die on the corresponding location of their route tracker always progressing their route tracker.

Route Tracker: The route tracker is made up of six columns, one for each of D4, D6, D8, D10, D12, and D20 venues. However, the route must always progress forward from D4 to D20 and snake back to D4. If you skip a venue in your route, then you may not return to that venue on the route tracker. The route tracker will play a big role in your pathing around the town and also allows you push the game toward end quicker than your opponents expect.

To win the game and score the most sales, you'll need to plan your efficient route, take high sales opportunities when they present themselves, and figure out how to reroute your food truck if you deviate from your plan.

-description from designer

Swordcrafters

2018-10-28T10:25:31-04:00

Vendor: Adam's Apple Games, LLC
Type: Board Games
Price: 34.95

Designer	Ryan Lambert Chris Neuman (II) Adam Rehberg
Publisher	Adam's Apple Games, LLC
Players	1-5
Playtime	20-30 mins
Suggested Age	6 and up
Additional Info	243994/swordcrafters http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/243994/swordcrafters/forums/63

The realm is defended, but the sword of protection is broken! The king has called on the best Swordcrafters to forge a replacement.

In Swordcrafters, players compete to forge the best sword scoring based on length, quality, and magic. Each round each player makes one cut in a grid of sword tiles to create a separation. After separations phase, each player selects one grouping of sword tiles and assembles them into their sword. When there are not enough sword tiles to form a new grid, scoring occurs.

Players hold their swords in the center of the table to score based on length. Sword quality scoring is based on the highest number of adjacent matching gems on one side of the sword. Sword magic scoring is based on the highest sum of two gem types.

A innovative 3D sword-building game where the player builds and holds their sword as they play.

—description from the publisher

Truck Off: The Food Truck Frenzy

2018-01-10T22:57:34-05:00

Vendor: Adam's Apple
Type: Board Games
Price: 18.71

Designer	Ryan Lambert
Publisher	Adam's Apple Games, LLC
Players	2-6
Playtime	20-30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	217020/truck-food-truck-frenzy http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/217020/truck-food-truck-frenzy/forums/63

Truck Off is a lightweight food truck card game that packs some serious bite! In Truck Off, you send your food truck team hoping to score a sweet parking spot at a lucrative venue. Your timing and game plan will be critical to your success while your opponents will look for the perfect opportunity to get you to, ahem, truck off!

Truck Off is played over five rounds, after which the player with the most money earned wins. Each round, players simultaneously select, then reveal which venue they will park at placing their food trucks next to that venue. A die is then rolled at each venue to determine how many people actually showed up at each venue. Each player then simultaneously selects which special action(s) they choose to execute this round. Starting with the first player token, players play and execute one action in a clockwise manor until all actions have been played and executed. After players are done executing actions, profits are split between each truck at the venue.

Truck Off game-play mechanically captures the ups and downs of food truck owner by rewarding both long-term planning and short-term tactics as well as throwing many curve-balls such as low venue attendance, competition, and crazy weather.