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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

Stardew Valley: The Board Game PRE-ORDER

2024-09-03T11:25:47-04:00

Vendor: ConcernedApe
Type: Board Games
Price: 62.95

Designer	Eric Barone Cole Medeiros
Publisher	ConcernedApe
Players	1-4
Playtime	45-200 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Additional Info	332290/stardew-valley-board-game http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/332290/stardew-valley-board-game/forums/63

A cooperative board game of farming and friendship based on the Stardew Valley video game by Eric Barone. Work together with your fellow farmers to save the Valley from the nefarious JojaMart Corporation! To do this, you'll need to farm, fish, friend and find all kinds of different resources to fulfill your Grandpa's Goals and restore the Community Center. Collect all kinds of items, raise animals, and explore the Mine. Gain powerful upgrades and skills and as the seasons pass see if you're able to protect the magic of Stardew Valley!

The goal of the game is to complete Grandpa's Goals and restore the Community Center, which requires you to gather different types of resources represented by tiles. You have a fixed amount of turns to accomplish this. This is driven by the Season Deck of 20 cards, one of which is drawn each turn to trigger certain events. Cooperatively the players decide each turn where they will focus their individual actions and place their pawn in that part of the Valley. Using their actions, they visit specific locations, trying to gather resources to complete their collective goals. Actions include things like: watering crops, trying to catch fish, rolling dice to explore the mines, and many more. When the Season Deck is exhausted, the game ends.

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.

Camel Up (New Edition) (Minor Damge)

2024-05-15T21:25:03-04:00

Vendor: eggertspiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 41.95

Designer	Steffen Bogen
Publisher	eggertspiele
Players	3-8
Playtime	30-45 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Honors	2020 Gra Roku Best Party Game Nominee
Additional Info	260605/camel http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/260605/camel/forums/63

In Camel Up, up to eight players bet on five racing camels, trying to suss out which ones will place first and second in a quick race around a pyramid. The earlier you place your bet, the more you can win — should you guess correctly, of course. Camels don't run neatly, however, sometimes landing on top of another one and being carried toward the finish line. Who's going to run when? That all depends on how the dice come out of the pyramid dice shaker, which releases one die at a time when players pause from their bets long enough to see who's actually moving!

This 2018 edition of Camel Up features new artwork, a new game board design, a new pyramid design, engraved dice, and new game modes, including crazy rogue camels that start the race running in the opposite direction! You never know how a race will end!

Tainted Grail: Age of Legends & Last Knight Campaigns (Stretch Goals)

2023-10-04T21:16:37-04:00

Vendor: Awaken Realms
Type: Board Games
Price: 89.95

The stretch goals, Age of Legends and Last Knight are packaged together in one box.

Last Knight:
Set 400 years after the main story, the Last Knight is brimming with new interactions, choices, secrets, and long-term consequences of actions made 400 years ago, during the previous campaign. You will now travel a cold, desolate landscape of apocalyptic Avalon in search of answers and - perhaps - salvation.

Age of Legends:
Go back 1,000 years, and be one of the first humans to set foot on Avalon. Discover the truth behind the legends. Join the Knights of the Round Table in their quests and trials. This time, you will join the first humans to set foot on Avalon, 600 years before the events of the first campaign, and see the Fore-dweller empire at the height of its power.

What's in the box?

Tainted Grail: Age of Legends campaign:

4 miniatures
4 Double-layered character boards
30 small cards
250 standard cards
64 oversized cards
220 pages of the Exploration Journal
4 intro letters
20 save sheets

Tainted Grail: The Last Knight campaign:

4 miniatures
4 character boards
30 small cards
250 standard cards
64 oversized cards
220 pages of the Exploration Journal
4 intro letters
20 save sheets

Jekyll & Hyde vs Scotland Yard (Import)

2023-09-26T15:36:04-04:00

Vendor: Mandoo Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 39.95

Designer	Gaëtan Beaujannot Olivier Cipière Geonil
Publisher	Mandoo Games
Players	2
Playtime	20-20 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	377793/jekyll-hyde-vs-scotland-yard http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/377793/jekyll-hyde-vs-scotland-yard/forums/63

Jekyll & Hyde vs Scotland Yard is a co-operative trick-taking game for two players that's a standalone spin-off of Jekyll vs. Hyde.

You're Dr. Jekyll, the kind doctor and valuable friend — but you're also the infamous Mr. Hyde, who is hunted by Scotland Yard for the many misdeeds committed in the City of London. Your objective is to maintain the balance in the duality of your personality, while staying ahead of Scotland Yard's investigation.

This is a story-based game in which you have to achieve the objectives of every chapter of the story to complete the game.

—description from the publisher

Dracula vs Van Helsing (Import)

2023-09-26T15:35:38-04:00

Vendor: Mandoo Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 39.95

Designer	Maxime Rambourg Théo Rivière
Publisher	Mandoo Games
Players	2
Playtime	20-45 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	381278/dracula-vs-van-helsing http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/381278/dracula-vs-van-helsing/forums/63

Many years after the confrontation with Van Helsing, Dracula landed in Whitby, England once again. The citizens of Whitby sought help from the vampire hunter, Professor Van Helsing. Will Van Helsing defeat Dracula before he transforms all the inhabitants into vampires?

In Dracula vs Van Helsing, each player controls one of the title characters. Van Helsing must remove all of Dracula's life points to win, but if Dracula turns all four inhabitants of the same district into vampires first, Dracula wins.

The game lasts at most five rounds. Each round, players play in turn (starting with Dracula), drawing a card, then discarding that card or swapping it with one of the five cards on their rack to trigger the discarded card's ability. Cards come in eight types, each with its own effect. Instead of drawing (and discarding) a card, a player can call for the end of the round. In order to choose this action, at least six cards need to be in the discard pile. After the opponent plays one last turn, the round ends; otherwise, the round ends when the deck is empty.

At the end of a round, players compare the five cards on their rack. Each card corresponds to one of the five districts on the game board. If Dracula has the higher-valued card, one of the humans in this district is converted into a vampire; if Van Helsing is higher, Dracula loses a health point. If one of the game-winning conditions is met, the game ends immediately.

—description from the publisher

Point City (Standard Edition)

2023-09-11T00:54:38-04:00

Vendor: AEG
Type: Board Games
Price: 26.95

Designer	Molly Johnson Robert Melvin Shawn Stankewich
Publisher	Alderac Entertainment Group
Players	1-4
Playtime	15-30 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	368017/point-city http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/368017/point-city/forums/63

From the team that brought you the smash hit Point Salad, Point City is a fast and fun card-drafting engine-building game for the whole family! There are over 150 unique building cards, so you can create a completely different city each and every time you play!

The rules are simple: Take two adjacent cards from the dynamic city grid and add them to your expanding city. Use your resource cards and bonuses to construct building cards that require specific combinations. Build special civic structures to multiply your city's points and be the top urban planner!

Point City takes the same simple concept of drafting cards and building the best combinations, then adds new layers of resource management and engine building to the mix — making the game easy to learn, but challenging for everyone!

—description from 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

Noobs in Space

2023-09-05T09:38:31-04:00

Vendor: KOSMOS
Type: Board Games
Price: 15.95

Designer	Johannes Krenner Markus Slawitscheck
Publisher	KOSMOS
Players	3-5
Playtime	15 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	376472/noobs-space http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/376472/noobs-space/forums/63

You are a team of newbie astronauts sent on an actual mission in an actual spaceship in actual outer space! Exciting, right? It would be...if any of you actually knew what you were doing. Would have been nice to have at least one experienced pilot on board, but now that you're here, you'll just have to figure it out as you go along.

In Noobs in Space, a team of two to five players must complete a series of tasks and challenges together, using what little knowledge you have. Not all hope is lost because each of you has a small part of the solution; you just need to figure out how to put it all together. While one player may know the task at hand but not have the resources to implement it, those resources may be shared among three other players. They, on the other hand, do not know what is necessary based on the information they have. Since players cannot show cards to each other, there must be a lot of clear communication and interaction by describing or reading out cards in order to gradually find out what should be done — and all of this must be done as quickly as possible.

The story leads through several levels, and each level consists of several tasks, so the whole game is an action-packed event from beginning to end.

Meadow

2023-09-05T09:37:43-04:00

Vendor: Asmodee
Type: Board Games
Price: 49.95

Designer	Klemens Kalicki
Publisher	Asmodee
Players	1-4
Playing Time	60-90 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Honors	2021 Gra Roku Prettiest Winner 2021 Gra Roku Family Game of the Year Nominee 2021 Golden Geek Medium Game of the Year Nominee 2021 Golden Geek Best Board Game Artwork & Presentation Nominee 2022 Graf Ludo Best Family Game Graphics Nominee
Expansions	Meadow: Downstream Meadow Downstream: Cards & Sleeves Pack
Additional Info	314491/meadow http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/314491/meadow/forums/63

Meadow is an engaging set collection game with over two hundred unique cards containing hand-painted watercolor illustrations. In the game, players take the role of explorers competing for the title of the most skilled nature observer. To win, they collect cards with the most valuable species, landscapes, and discoveries. Their journey is led by passion, a curiosity of the world, an inquiring mind, and a desire to discover the mysteries of nature. The competition continues at the bonfire where the players race to fulfill the goals of their adventures.

In this medium-weight board game for 1-4 players, you take turns placing path tokens on one of the two boards. Placing a token on the main board allows the player to get cards, but playing them requires meeting certain requirements. Playing a token on the bonfire board activates special actions (which helps to implement a chosen strategy) and gives the opportunity to achieve goals that provide additional points. Throughout the game, players collect cards in their meadow and surroundings area. At the end, the player with the most points on cards and on the bonfire board wins.

Meadow also includes envelopes with additional cards to open at specific moments...

Lost Ruins of Arnak: The Missing Expedition

2023-09-05T09:36:46-04:00

Vendor: Czech Games Edition
Type: Board Games
Price: 28.95

Designer	Elwen Mín
Publisher	Czech Games Edition
Players	1-4
Playtime	30-120 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Expansion For	Lost Ruins of Arnak
Additional Info	382350/lost-ruins-arnak-missing-expedition http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/382350/lost-ruins-arnak-missing-expedition/forums/63

Follow a trail to learn the fate of Professor Kutil and other missing explorers in Lost Ruins of Arnak: The Missing Expedition.

In this expansion, you can test the strategies offered by two new leaders, explore new paths to knowledge on two new research tracks, and build your expedition team with new artifacts, items, and assistants.

This expansion can simply be added to the Lost Ruins of Arnak base game, or it can be discovered as part of a solo or two-player co-operative campaign that consists of six chapters, each with a different set of rules, goals, and achievements.

This expansion requires the Lost Ruins of Arnak base game and is fully compatible with the Expedition Leaders expansion.

—description from the publisher

Life of the Amazonia

2023-09-05T09:36:24-04:00

Vendor: Bad Comet
Type: Board Games
Price: 67.95

Designer	Jamie Bloom
Publisher	Bad Comet
Players	1-4
Playtime	60-150 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Accessories	Life of the Amazonia: Meeple Set Life of the Amazonia: Upgraded Base Components Life of the Amazonia: Upgraded Resource Tokens Life of the Amazonia: Wooden Waterfall of Life Life of the Amazonia: Mini-Expansion
Additional Info	368305/life-amazonia http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/368305/life-amazonia/forums/63

Build your very own thriving jungle by discovering various wild animals, insects, and plants in this beautiful board game.

Life of the Amazonia is a strategic meeple placing game that combines bag building and pattern building. Players will restore land, place various animals, and plant trees and flowers to enrich their jungles and create the most ecologically rich jungle. Various lives must be placed in the jungle taking into account each unique characteristic of the plants and animals in order to create synergies within one another. To carry out these actions, bag building that fits in with the player’s strategy is crucial. With 60,000+ various ways to set up the animal cards and diverse strategic options, every game of Life of Amazonia will differ from the next.

—description from the publisher

Knarr

2023-09-05T09:36:05-04:00

Vendor: Bombyx
Type: Board Games
Price: 26.95

Designer	Thomas Dupont
Publisher	Bombyx
Players	2-4
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	379629/knarr http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/379629/knarr/forums/63

In Knarr, you are the leader of a band of Vikings that you send to new destinations. Manage the recruitment of your crew, and choose the best territories to explore. Depending on the destinations reached (for trading or influence) and the Vikings who accompany you, you can increase your reputation to gain even more wealth. Each turn, you:

Place a new member in your Viking crew, activate the effects of all of them with the same icon, and get another one from those available under the matching color on the central board, or

Explore new destinations, with the opportunity to trade with those places and get more gains or reputation.

IKI: Akebono

2023-09-05T09:35:27-04:00

Vendor: Sorry We Are French
Type: Board Games
Price: 35.95

Designer	Koota Yamada
Publisher	Sorry We Are French
Players	2-4
Playtime	60-90 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansion For	IKI (New Edition)
Additional Info	375824/iki-akebono http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/375824/iki-akebono/forums/63

IKI: Akebono introduces a new location to discover in Edo: the bridge of Nihonbashi, which expands the main street and offers players new opportunities. Players can stop at the bridge to meet famous personalities from the Edo era (like Hokusai Katsushika, Sanyo Rai or Tokunai Mogami) and to trade with the ships (built by the players) in the river.

The Akebono expansion also adds new character cards, building cards, and new pipe, tobacco, and fish tokens for more strategic depth and decision making.

Great Western Trail: New Zealand

2023-09-05T09:34:30-04:00

Vendor: eggertspiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 73.95

Designer	Alexander Pfister
Publisher	eggertspiele
Players	1-4
Playtime	75-150 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	380607/great-western-trail-new-zealand http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/380607/great-western-trail-new-zealand/forums/63

In Great Western Trail: New Zealand, you are a runholder — that is, the owner of a sheep station — on the South Island of New Zealand at the end of the 19th century. Recent years have seen your family farm prosper by diversifying your breeds of sheep and by increasing the value of your wool.

With the dawn of the new century, new challenges have arisen. You must acquire new and improved breeds of sheep to ensure the prosperity of your family business and the laborers who work for you.

Forbidden Jungle

2023-09-05T09:33:06-04:00

Vendor: Gamewright
Type: Board Games
Price: 33.95

Designer	Matt Leacock
Publisher	Gamewright
Players	2-5
Playtime	45 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	380226/forbidden-jungle http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/380226/forbidden-jungle/forums/63

In Forbidden Jungle, your team has crash-landed on a mysterious jungle planet, and you need to work together to survive. Search the ruins of an abandoned outpost for an elusive escape portal, all while fending off an ever-growing horde of venomous creatures and an escalating chain of collapsing locations. Shift tiles to power up the portal and live to see another day!

Dune: Ecaz & Moritani

2023-09-05T09:31:23-04:00

Vendor: Gale Force Nine
Type: Board Games
Price: 24.95

Designer	Jack Reda
Publisher	Gale Force Nine, LLC
Players	2-6
Playtime	120-180 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansion For	Dune
Additional Info	377511/dune-ecaz-moritani http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/377511/dune-ecaz-moritani/forums/63

This expansion adds House Ecaz and House Moritani, to DUNE: The Board Game.

House Ecaz: House Ecaz is ruled by Archduke Armand Ecaz, who is well respected in the Landsraad and keen to strengthen his standing by forging lasting alliances.

House Moritani: Led by the ruthless and cunning Viscount Hundro Moritani, the Moritanis did not hesitate to use terror tactics to conquer their enemies, resorting to assassination, sneak attacks, and sabotage.

New Game Mechanics:

Homeworlds: These allow you to conduct raids on the homeworlds of other factions and interfere with their advantages.

Nexus Cards: Nexus cards provide players with incentives and special effects for not joining an alliance.

Discovery Tokens: These add new elements to the game on sections of the board that are often bypassed and don’t see much action

Dixit: Disney Edition

2023-09-05T09:31:06-04:00

Vendor: Libellud
Type: Board Games
Price: 44.95

Designer	Jean-Louis Roubira
Publisher	Libellud
Players	3-6
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	381308/dixit-disney-edition http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/381308/dixit-disney-edition/forums/63

Each turn in Dixit, one player is the storyteller, chooses one of the six cards in their hand, then makes up a sentence based on that card's image and says it out loud without showing the card to the other players. Each other player then selects the card in their hand that best matches the sentence and gives the selected card to the storyteller, without showing it to anyone else.

The storyteller shuffles their card with all of the received cards, then reveals all of these cards. Each player other than the storyteller then secretly guesses which card belongs to the storyteller. If nobody or everybody guesses the correct card, the storyteller scores 0 points, and each other player scores 2 points. Otherwise, the storyteller and whoever found the correct answer score 3 points. Additionally, the non-storyteller players score 1 point for every vote received by their card.

The game ends when the deck is empty or if a player has scored at least 30 points. In either case, the player with the most points wins.

Dixit: Disney Edition features 84 cards, with each card representing one of 84 films in the Disney or Pixar catalog from Steamboat Willie to Turning Red.

Challengers! Beach Cup

2023-09-05T09:28:56-04:00

Vendor: Z-Man Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 44.95

Designer	Johannes Krenner Markus Slawitscheck
Publisher	Z-Man Games
Players	1-8
Playtime	45 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	390340/challengers-2 http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/390340/challengers-2/forums/63

Challengers! 2 is an interactive deck-management game for 1-8 players that plays in about 45 minutes independent of player count. With the tournament gameplay style, you meet another opponent every round.

In the Deck Phase, you choose new members and add them to your deck, which might consist of a wizard, alien, cat, gangster and kraken. Dozens of distinct characters with more than forty effects create a unique experience every game. Choose from seven different sets and discover new strategies and synergies every game.

In the Match Phase, stay in possession of the flag to win the trophy of that round. Try to get the most fans and trophies over the course of seven rounds to be able to qualify for the final. If you can best your opponent in the final, you win!

Challengers! 2 contains a 16-card "Trainers" expansion that gives each player a unique power. Some give you bonuses when defending, some when you're on the offensive, and others can extend your bench or even let you rearrange your deck.

Challengers! 2 is a standalone game that can also be mixed with Challengers! to create new set combinations and new experiences.

BOOoop.

2023-09-05T09:28:25-04:00

Vendor: Smirk & Dagger Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 34.89

Designer	Scott Brady
Publisher	Smirk & Dagger Games
Players	2
Playtime	25-35 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	383579/boooop http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/383579/boooop/forums/63

A deceptively cute, deceivingly challenging & SPOOPY abstract strategy game for two players.

Every time you place a kitten on the bed, it goes “boop.” Which is to say that it pushes every other kitten next to it one space away. Line up 3 kittens in a row to graduate them into cats… and then, get 3 cats in a row to win.

But that isn’t easy with both you AND your opponent constantly “booping” kittens around. It’s like… herding cats!
And now, things just got boopier and spoopier -
with NEW Ghost Cats that float between the spaces. And so scary, cats will leap right over each other to get away!

Approachable but challenging abstract game following the incredible success of the original "boop" as a limited seasonal game.
Features a new quilted, fabric board that lays over the back of the box, completing the minature bed playing surface. 34 adorable wood cat and kitten playing pieces!
NEW Ghost Cats can boop cats over other pieces as they move across the board between spaces.

—description from the publisher

Bonsai

2023-09-05T09:28:23-04:00

Vendor: DV Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 37.95

Designer	Rosaria Battiato Massimo Borzì Martino Chiacchiera
Publisher	DV Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	40 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Expansion	Bonsai: Vigorous Growth and Specialists
Additional Info	366994/bonsai http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/366994/bonsai/forums/63

The Japanese term "bonsai" means "planted in a pot".

A bonsai is a living work of art, a perfect miniature plant, identical in all respects to its full-size simile, but several times smaller.

In Bonsai, players take on the role of expert bonsai masters intent on growing their own bonsai.
Whoever grows the best plant will be appointed to show their Bonsai at the Imperial gardens.

On your turn, choose and perform one of these two actions: meditate or cultivate.
If you meditate, choose one of the face up cards on the board and take it, along with any Bonsai tiles represented below the card you draw.
If you cultivate, you can place in your Bonsai the tiles which are in your personal supply. You can place as many tiles as the total symbols depicted on your Seishi tile and any or all of your Growth cards. Each symbol will let you place one tile of the corresponding type.

During the turn in which your bonsai matches or exceeds the requirements of a Goal tile that is still in the middle of the table (i.e., the Goal tile has not been claimed yet by any player), you must immediately choose whether you want to claim that tile or if you want to renounce it in order to try to achieve a harder Goal tile.

When the last card from the deck is revealed, the game end is triggered. Each tile in your bonsai is worth a certain number of points.

In the solo game you can try the Additional Scenarios that change some rules and goals, and eventually try to beat the Emperor Challenge.

—description from the publisher

Ark Nova: Marine Worlds

2023-09-05T09:27:12-04:00

Vendor: Capstone Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 32.95

Designer	Mathias Wigge
Publisher	Capstone Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	90-150 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	368966/ark-nova-marine-worlds http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/368966/ark-nova-marine-worlds/forums/63

Ark Nova: Marine Worlds, an expansion for Ark Nova, introduces multiple new elements to the game, such as sea animals that each have to be played in new special enclosures that must be built adjacent to water.

Roughly half the sea animals are reef dwellers, and whenever you add a reef dweller to your zoo, you trigger the ability of all reef dwellers in your zoo. To deal with the dilution of the deck, naturally caused by adding more cards, all sea cards feature a wave icon, and whenever it is revealed in the display, you discard the first card in the row, then replenish.

A new fourth university is available on the association board, and if you take it, you claim one of six special universities from the reserve that feature one research icon and one of six animal icons. When you take this registry, you reveal cards from the top of the deck and keep the first revealed card with an animal icon that matches your chosen university.

For each of the five action cards, four alternate versions with a little twist will be available. Players draft action cards at the start of play, replacing two of their standard action cards with these new ones, increasing the asymmetry in the game.

New bonus tiles and final scoring cards will also be included.

Also the expansion will include alternate wooden markers for the 3 tracks and cute animals to mark the conservation projects you support instead of using your regular player markers.

Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps – We're in the Pipe Five by Five

2023-09-05T09:26:25-04:00

Vendor: Gale Force Nine
Type: Board Games
Price: 29.95

Publisher	Gale Force Nine, LLC
Players	1-6
Playtime	60-120 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansion For	Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps
Additional Info	383476/aliens-another-glorious-day-corps-were-pipe-five-f http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/383476/aliens-another-glorious-day-corps-were-pipe-five-f/forums/63

"Initiate release sequencer on my mark, three, two, one, Mark!"

"Two-four-oh. Nominal to profile."

"We're in the pipe, five by five. Strap yourselves in boys, we're in for some chop."

This expansion brings the Sulaco's dropship crew to Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps cooperative survival game. Fly the friendly skies as you fight off alien stowaways while attempting to rescue the survivors of the disaster in the air processing plant. On the ground, the two crew members provide technical support for your Marines in Campaign missions and Bug Hunts, along with new pilot and quartermaster experience tracks.

Meanwhile, the marines discover four new Alien variants, The Brute, Guard, Scout and Skulker, which add a new dimension to the Xenomorph hive's urge to absorb the occupants of Hadley's Hope.

3 Ring Circus

2023-09-05T09:25:46-04:00

Vendor: Devir
Type: Board Games
Price: 32.95

Designer	Remo Conzadori Fabio Lopiano
Publisher	Devir
Players	1-4
Playtime	45-75 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	371947/3-ring-circus http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/371947/3-ring-circus/forums/63

The circus has come to town! Under the tent, jugglers, clowns, magicians, strongmen and wild beasts capture the curiosity of a dedicated audience that applauds non-stop. After each performance, your little troupe accumulates fame and may one day pique the interest of P.T. Barnum, the greatest circus mogul of all time.

In 3 Ring Circus, players take on the role of a circus director who tours the United States at the end of the 19th century. Your objective is to hire artists and offer performances in various towns and cities with the intention of gaining fame. In towns, features are easy to set up and give you starting resources to upgrade your cast; small cities are somewhat more demanding, but they allow you to come into contact with better artists; audiences in big cities are even more demanding and want to see very specific numbers, but performing there brings you much more fame!

On their turn, players can hire an artist or host a performance. At the beginning of the game, each player's circuses are empty, so it will be necessary to contract to form the company. The artist cards grant more or fewer benefits depending on the order in which they act, so one of the keys to the game is planning the shows that will be offered.

If they decide to act, the players must move to a free space on the map. If it is a town, they receive the most basic currency cards as a prize. If you perform in a small city, depending on the number of pedestals you have in your company you can claim more or fewer entry cards (the second most valuable) or fame points. In the big cities, you get a lot of fame points, but the public always demands a specific type of artist.

While your little circus tries to survive, the great and splendid Barnum Circus travels across the country, and when it arrives in a big city, a score is held in that region, and the circuses that have given the most performances there will gain even more fame.

-description from the publisher