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In “In My Father's Work,” players compete as mad scientists tasked with a page from their father's diary and a vast estate in which to conduct their diabolical experiments. Players earn points by completing experiments, aiding the city in its efforts, upgrading their macabre estates, and hopefully completing their father's masterpiece. But they must balance study and active experimentation, because at the end of each generation all their experiments and resources are lost in time, until their child starts over with only the "Recorded Knowledge and Estate" they left behind. Since the game takes place over three generations, it is inevitable that the players will summon the townspeople to form angry mobs or descend into madness over the ethically dubious works they have created. The player with the most points at the end of three generations wins and becomes the most revered, feared, genius scientist the world has ever known!

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Looking for a party game for small and large groups that your 6-year-old daughter, friendly families with teenagers and your grandmother in her 80s can participate in? Then look no further! For Cards vs Gravity, all you need is a bottle and the play materials in the box. The waterproof cards allow you to place the bottle anywhere: on a table, in the sand on the beach, in the pub or at the edge of the pool. Fun guaranteed! This funny and cheerful party game is fun for anyone who just wants to play something light-hearted. From family gatherings, bachelor parties, children's parties to all together in the pub. Put an empty bottle on the table and you can play. Everyone can participate! In Cards vs Gravity you balance cards on a bottle. A magnetic disk keeps things in balance for a fairly long time. Each turn you take a card and place it in a card of the same color or hang it on it. If nothing falls, it is the next player's turn. If cards fall from the bottle, you will receive penalty points. Whoever has the fewest penalty points at the end of the game not only beats gravity, but also his fellow players! Do you want to introduce Cards vs Gravity at a children's party, with many people in the pub or at a festival, for example? Then you can also skip writing down the penalty points. If cards fall from the bottle, you simply give that player a nice assignment. Get drinks for everyone, do ten push-ups or sing a song. Let your imagination run wild and make Cards vs Gravity an unforgettable evening!

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Birds of a Feather is a quick and easy to learn bird watching card game. You will travel to various habitats along the west coast of North America to admire the beautiful birds that live there. Every time you see a rare bird, a message gets out. Try to anticipate the crowds to see more birds than anyone else to be crowned the best birdwatcher!

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Especially for Everdell's little fans: My Lil Everdell! Join Chip, Sweep and the other kids of Everdell to build the most spectacular fantasy city anyone has ever built. This easy-to-learn worker-placement game provides fun for the whole family while stimulating little ones' brains and improving young children's focus and skills. Climb over the rope bridge, look out for the dragon's lair and head to the fortress for the latest addition to the award-winning Everdell line: My Lil Everdell.

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Choose your favorite Dodo/Dino miniature! Move forward with blue or red cards and perform their wacky effects. Some will test your agility by throwing bananas, dropping dodo eggs or meteors. Red cards are extra powerful, but if too many players play them in the same round, their effects are ignored. Green cards allow the Dodo to react at any time. Damage your rivals so they throw away cards. If they have no cards in hand, their Dodos will stand back and draw some cards as punishment. At the end of each round, the Dodo in the lead moves forward an extra space while the rest can draw a card. The fastest Dodo and Dino is the winner! One to six players compete in Dodos Riding Dinosaurs, a competitive skill game for the whole family!

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Thunder Road: Vendetta is an updated version of the classic 1986 game of tarmac mayhem. Grab your crew, roll your dice, race your cars, shoot your guns and try not to lose. This new version features exciting new additions including random hazard tokens such as wrecks, oil slicks and more. Unfortunately, damage does not just go away. You also have more choices during your turn, assigning one of your dice to your command board to repair damage and provide nitro boosts.

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Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza! Remember those 5 words and their order! As soon as the drawing on a card matches the spoken word, you must hit the pile with the correct side of your hand as quickly as possible. The player who strikes last must take all the cards. Try to get rid of all your cards as quickly as possible. Please note, mistakes will result in penalty cards. Feints are not allowed in this addictive game that is as crazy as its name.

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In Perfect Numbers you take groups of cards from the 'market', sort them by color and add them to your own collection. By taking a perfect number from the market you can complete a colored row. All cards in this row go to your point pile and represent one point per card. However, it's better to make longer lines because you get bonus points. But this increases the risk of having to discard cards. The winner has collected the most points (cards) at the end of the game. Perfect Numbers is produced in an environmentally friendly way, meaning it is made from FSC materials, biodegradable plastic, ink, and resin instead of glue. The entire carbon footprint is also compensated. To emphasize the environmentally friendly character, the cards have been placed in different climate zones and the animals are made from waste.

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Far north, in a remote winter country, rivers are frozen most of the year. When the villages along the river are eventually accessible, a small river cruise company offers exotic tours such as polar bear safaris, reindeer rides, ice fishing and more. Lucky tourists might even get the chance to see the Northern Lights. You work as a tour guide and try to attract tourists to your guide boats for spectacular excursions. Riverside is a different kind of roll-and-write game: the game comes with a modular board, which puts together the route for the game. On a river cruise boat, everyone follows the same route, but you can take your tourists on different tours. You can plan ahead, but be careful, the dice may force you to change your plans. You start each round by rolling dice into a common pool. At the same time, each player chooses a die of a specific color (without physically taking it) and fills the seats on the matching companion boat on their own player sheet. Each time they completed a row of seats, they sold a group ticket in the corresponding color (excursion). The longer the line, the more points they get. In addition, this ticket is valid for the rest of the game: every time they go on an excursion to a village of this color, they take this group with them to earn even more points. The player with the most points wins the game. Each dice color represents tourists with a preference for a certain type of excursion. The transparent green die is "wild" and represents the Northern Lights, something everyone wants to see. Riverside offers tough decision-making within a short playing time: some rows are short with low points and bonuses, while other rows are long with higher points and bonuses. Which one do you start filling? Within each guide boat you have to score higher and higher, so taking too many tourists on your first excursions can be fatal. Players are rewarded if they manage to please all five types of tourists, so maybe you should score a new color instead of scoring really high in another color? Higher dice represent tourists that freeze and cost fire symbols to get. The "wild" green die always costs fire symbols! You have a limited number of fire symbols to use, so when is the right time to use them?

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Wayfarers of the South Tigris is set during the height of the Abbasid Caliphate, circa 820 AD. As brave explorers, cartographers and astronomers, players set out from Baghdad to map the surrounding lands, waterways and skies above. Players must carefully manage their caravan of workers and equipment, while regularly reporting their findings to the House of Wisdom. Will you be able to impress the Caliph, or will you get lost and succumb in the wilderness? The goal of Wayfarers of the South Tigris is to be the player with the most Victory Points (VP) at the end of the game. Points are mainly earned by mapping the land, water and air. Players can also earn points by upgrading their caravans, drawing inspiration from nobles, and influencing the three guilds of science, trade, and exploration. As they make discoveries, players will want to quickly track their progress. The game ends once a player's marker reaches the far right column of the journal track.

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On Mars is played over several rounds, each consisting of two phases: the colonization phase and the shuttle phase. During the colonization phase, each player takes a turn performing actions. The available actions depend on the side of the board they are on. When you're in orbit, you can take blueprints, buy and develop technologies, and get supplies from the warehouse. When you are on the surface of the planet, you can build buildings with your bots, upgrade these buildings using blueprints, hire scientists and new contracts, welcome new ships and explore the surface of the planet with your rover. In the Shuttle phase, players can travel in orbit between the colony and the space station. All buildings on Mars are dependent on each other and some are needed to grow the colony. Building shelters for settlers to live in requires oxygen; plants are needed to generate oxygen; growing plants need water; extracting water from ice requires electricity; generating power requires mining minerals; and mining minerals requires settlers. It is vital to upgrade the colony's ability to provide each of these resources. As the colony grows, more shelters are needed so that the colonists can survive the inhospitable conditions on Mars. During the game, players also try to complete missions. Once a total of three missions have been completed, the game ends. To win the game, players must contribute to the development of the first colony on Mars. This is reflected during the game by players receiving Opportunity Points (OP). The player with the most VP at the end of the game is declared the winner.

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When death lurks in the dishwasher, it's time for the meanest and most original storyteller of all: reality. 50 brand new puzzle stories about accidents, catastrophes and fiascos that are guaranteed to have really happened - absurd, disgusting, often unimaginably stupid and thoroughly true. The Games Friends: “ Black Stories is always surprising and super fun to play with friends or together on holiday. We have already solved many of them, but we are still looking for the best questions for the Riddle Master. We are fans!”

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Ahoy is a slightly asymmetrical game in which two to four players play the role of fighter and soldiers seeking fame on the high seas. One player controls the Bluefin Squadron who patrol these waters and maintain order with shot and sword. Another player controls the Mollusk Union, an alliance of undersea creatures and their comrades-in-arms, fighting to reclaim their ancestral home. In multi-person games, some players control Smugglers, maverick captains who run blockades to smuggle supplies and deliver them to those with the most coins. As you play, you create a unique map full of treasure, dangerous wreckage and mighty ocean currents, using luxurious double-layered region tiles. Developed by the same team that brought you Root and Oath, Ahoy offers deep, interactive gameplay in a quick-to-play and easy-to-learn game with a colorful setting brought to life by Kyle Ferrin's beautiful illustrations.

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In Tiletum, you and your fellow players take on the role of wealthy merchants traveling through Europe, from Flanders to Venice, during the Golden Age of the Renaissance. You travel to various cities to acquire trade contracts for wool and iron, as well as a collection of their coats of arms. You must gather the necessary resources to fulfill contracts, invest in the construction of monumental cathedrals, and participate in important fairs. You will also avail the services of remarkable people who will be welcomed into your homes. This way you gain prestige that will make you the most famous merchant of the Renaissance. Tiletum is a dice management game in which dice have a dual function: obtaining resources and performing actions. A certain number of dice are rolled each round. On your turn, choose a die to get the number of corresponding resources equal to the value of the die, then perform the corresponding action. The power of the action has to do with the value of the die: the fewer resources you win, the more powerful the actions you take and vice versa.

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Trapped at Sea is an escape game full of riddles and puzzles that consists only of cards. After their first night on board the historic sailing ship Enigma, the players discover: all doors are locked with cryptic riddles. And the crew has disappeared without a trace. As a team, they must decipher the clues to open all the locks on board. This is the only way they can free themselves. Together as a group, players must first figure out which crew member lives in which cabin. Then they have to solve the corresponding riddle for each hut. In this way, they gradually find clues to what happened on board. Can the players solve the mystery of where the crew disappeared to? Several puzzles are waiting to be solved by the team to decipher the codes. The players can check if they are right with a hidden solution on the back of the cards, which only becomes visible when the cards are placed side by side. By the way: the game material remains intact and can therefore be used again and again.

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Use your deduction and reasoning skills with this compendium of three different mystery games. With over 150 riddles, puzzles and enigmas, this collection of games and quizzes will put your brain under closer scrutiny than a magnifying glass! The Case of the Double Agent: Ask the right questions to uncover your new alter-ego, or use your deduction skills to sort out tricky anagrams. The Cryptic Clue Case: Far from elementary - follow the clues to crack the case. The Case of the Curious Riddles: Summon your inner detective to solve these test riddles.

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Roll the dice, find the right combination of color and number as quickly as possible and ring the bell. If you have not made any mistakes, you can cross the combination off your score sheet. Once you have crossed off a column or row of 5 combinations, shout “ZINGA!” and you win the game. Zinga is a cheerful dice game that combines roll & write with a reaction game. To win you have to be fast, but watch out for mistakes! Mentioning a combination that does not exist, waiting too long before mentioning something or correcting yourself after a slip of the tongue is already considered a mistake. Zinga is very simple, but also has some room for tactics. For example, with the combination BLUE NINE you can use the blue pawn, with which you can stop someone else's turn or ignore your own mistake once. You can also choose to repeat previously crossed-off combinations. If you do this for the third time, you can cross off a box of your choice.

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Cross Clues is a cooperative game about making connections between clues. Work together to complete the grid of code words by providing clues that represent the intersection of two different code words in the grid. Think carefully about your clues and think as a team to fill in as much of the grid as possible! Thousands of different combinations guarantee endless fun. The Games Friends: Cross Clues was a pleasant surprise. It plays a bit like Codenames, but because you are always looking for a different combination of words, it is a bit more tactical than that. In our opinion, an absolute must for fans of word guessing games!

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The stakes have been raised. Imagine living in a place so miserable that it is plagued not by one, two, or even three monsters - but seven of the most horrific devils! In this game, you'll face them all as you work together to rid the city of the maniacal or misunderstood creatures...before it's too late. Horrified contains high quality sculpted miniatures (Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, Dracula, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, Creature from the Black Lagoon). The innovative, easy-to-learn, cooperative gameplay lets players work together against the monsters of varying difficulty levels. Just as each monster is unique, they require different strategies and tactics to be defeated.

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To win Yu-ca-tan you need nerves of steel and a dose of luck. Choose a card point with a dice result and try your luck. You receive points for every appropriate result. And the more risk you take, the more points you earn! If you dare, try it again right away. But be careful: as soon as a roll fails, you lose all points collected! Whoever dares wins, but dare too much and lose everything...

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Catan 3D brings the world-famous trading game to life with three-dimensional land tiles. The forests, meadows and mountains now consist of miniatures, making the island of Catan a unique experience. The miniatures were personally designed by Catan creator Klaus Teuber. So much attention has been paid to detail in the new design that even the exchange ports have now been given a fully-fledged, three-dimensional look. The cards also have new illustrations. Building roads, establishing villages and creating cities has become even more fun thanks to this 3D world!

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With a group of pioneers, you have left civilization behind to settle on the shores of Boonlake, a long-forgotten region inhabited by humans long ago. This unexplored area beckons to you! Become part of a new community and work for the common good. Explore the landscapes, build houses and settlements, breed livestock, produce resources and develop infrastructure. Do your best to automate these processes. Take the opportunity to make the most of your new life in Boonlake. Boonlake is an expert game where you'll find yourself improving your life - and that of your group - in this new area... but how you do this is entirely up to you! Thanks to a new action mechanism, every game is different. Each action must be carefully considered, as the other players also benefit from the action you choose. In addition, the action determines how far you can move your ship - the further and faster, the better! The Games Friends: "Boonlake is once again a strong game by Alexander Pfister. It may not beat Maracaibo and CloudAge, but it is also cleverly put together. We think the coolest element is the processing of raw materials, which you can use with a boat to collect. Highly recommended for the expert player!"

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Mysterium is a cooperative game where everyone has the same goal, namely to discover the truth behind the strange circumstances surrounding the death of the ghost, in order to grant him eternal rest. One player takes on the role of spirit while the other players take on the role of mediums. The spirit cannot speak and tries to communicate by sending visions to the mediums. They try to reconstruct the events of that fateful evening by correctly interpreting these messages. Cooperation is required to unmask the culprit, but beware: time is running out! The team is given just seven hours to contact the ghost and solve this ongoing mystery. The Games Friends: “ Mysterium is a fantastic game, because it has beautiful artwork, nice playing materials and a very nice theme. The rules are simple and everyone can participate. Highly recommended for Dixit fans!"

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The card game Wizard is already a classic. Now there is also Wizard: The Dice Game. As a true magician, you try to predict before each round what the outcome of the throw(s) will be. Can you choose the right color and predict the correct number? The starting player (seer) is the first to indicate which of the four colored symbols he wants to predict. The seer also determines which color the wizards take on each stone, the Wizard color. Which player sees his prediction come true most often? Advanced magicians can use magic cards that change the rules of the game every round, for even more challenge. The Games Friends: " We found Wizard: The Dice Game surprisingly fun. Every throw is exciting because you try to predict the correct number. A fun dice game with a refreshing twist. "

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CloudAge is a strategy game by Alexander Pfister and Arno Steinwender. The award-winning authors have created a dark and dystopian world for 1 to 4 players. Fifteen years ago, the mysterious secret society "Cloud" set fire to numerous oil production sites and burned down large forests to destabilize the world. The resulting environmental disaster had disastrous consequences for the entire planet. Now, years later, you travel in your airships above the parched landscape in search of a better life. You visit cities, send out drones to collect resources and fight Cloud militias. An innovative sleeving mechanism enables a new, more immersive form of resource collection. Players try to predict which (cloud-covered) terrain will contain the desired amount of resources or where additional actions are possible. Resources allow players to develop useful upgrades for their airships or recruit new crew members. CloudAge is a mix of engine building, deck building and resource management. The campaign system makes it easy to get started playing quickly, as new elements are introduced into the game all the time. As you play, you experience and help guide the story. If you want, you can also play standalone story spin-offs as separate scenarios. The Games Friends: " Alexander Pfister has done it again. He has once again come up with a super cool game that plays wonderfully smoothly and offers enough variety. The ongoing story is a nice addition and keeps you coming back for a new chapter. A big, big tip! ”

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A small strategic card game for two players. As a general you must divide your army into three places: in the air, on land or at sea. If you manage to control two of those spots, you win the current battle. But winning just one battle is not enough to win the game. In fact, sometimes it's smart to surrender in the small battles so that you can win more in the next fight. At the start of each battle you are dealt six cards. You won't draw more cards, so you have to determine your complete strategy with those cards. On your turn, you play one card until all cards have been played or a player surrenders. The order in which you play the cards is very important. You can play a card face up or face down. Open cards give you special powers, but must be played in the correct battle (for example, 'air' cards can only be played in an air battle). Closed cards are a bit easier and you can play anywhere, but they do not provide special powers. At the end of the battle, the winner receives points based on the number of cards he or she has left in his or her hand. The fewer cards you have left, the more points you win. This makes longer battles more important, because you can win more points there. Sometimes surrendering is the best option, because then you give your opponent few points. Can you win this epic battle?

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Barrage is an epic strategy game that uses the worker placement mechanism. The game takes place over five rounds, during which you will build different buildings and dams to take full advantage of the flow of water. This way you can build at the top of the mountains, so that you benefit from the ice water that comes down there first. But of course those popular places are not cheap... Can you build the best possible infrastructure? Then you will be the winner of Barrage! The Games Friends: " Yes! Barrage is a hit! This game plays incredibly smoothly and there are so many tactical choices to make, while the rules remain manageable. In our opinion, an absolute winner!"

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The City of Kings is a cooperative adventure game, set in a fantasy world with puzzle elements. In The City of Kings you take on the role of a leader and must ensure that you defeat the army of Vesh in a 7-game epic story. Each game offers you a unique puzzle and has varying objectives. But there is much more in The City of Kings, such as building your character, discovering the board and a strategic battle system without dice. The replayability is also good, because you can compete against millions of possible opponents on a board that can be put together in thousands of ways. In addition, you can build your character by choosing from more than 100 options.

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A Game of Cat & Mouth is a fast-paced and competitive 2-player action game from the makers of Exploding Kittens. The players try to shoot the colorful balls through the cat's mouth to their opponent's side as quickly as possible. It's like playing pinball, but with a cat's claw! The box is used as a board; open the box and you can play immediately. Players use the magnetic cat claws (Cat Paw Flickers, which are held by a magnet under the playing arena) to shoot yellow balls through the center part of the cat head (Cat Head) as quickly as possible. There are three ways to win a round: knock out the black ball (which forms the cat's nose), knock out all three white balls (teeth) or shoot all eight yellow balls to the opponent's side through the mouth of the cat. Play five rounds (or as many as you like) and the person who wins the most rounds wins the game.

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All passengers want to get the best seat on the plane. They all have their wishes and preferences. It is your job as a service desk employee to keep as many passengers satisfied as possible. Strategy is very important in this puzzle game. Nominated for the toy of the year 2020!

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In this well-known card game, two to ten players compete individually or as teams. Have you always thought that two is better than one? Now the time has come! If you love UNO, you'll love UNO DOS! In the game you love, UNO, you (or your team) try to be the first to score 500 points. Score points by being the first player to get rid of all your cards. Play action cards to make things difficult for your opponents. This game puts a fun twist on the family's favorite card game. And don't forget to shout "DOS" when you have two cards left! See for yourself why this game with colored cards has been extremely popular for so many years.

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Why does a snowstorm kill a man while he is sitting in a warm house? Why does a mountain biker die from an encounter with a local resident? Why does someone die of thirst because the sun doesn't shine? 50 brand new, macabre and morbid black stories await their denouement. By asking and guessing, you will discover the event step by step and uncover the creepy secrets. The Games Friends: “ Black Stories is always surprising and super fun to play with friends or together on holiday. We have already solved many of them, but we still continue to search for the best questions for the Riddle Master. We are fans!”

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Zombie Kidz Evolution is the first legacy game made especially for children, with several elements from the game 'Zombie Kidz'. In this game you are at school when the school is attacked by zombies, who block the way out. Players move through the different rooms to eliminate the zombies and ensure that the school is not overrun by the scary guests. To win the game, players must lock all four exits so that no new zombies can enter. After several sessions you can open envelopes with new material and new challenges. This way you also become stronger, because you also unlock new powers and heroes. All that makes Zombie Kidz Evolution super fun for the whole family! As players get better, they can complete missions, track their development through a trophy-sticker system reminiscent of video games, and open envelopes that contain new material for the game, upping the challenge they face while also providing them with new powers and new heroes as well. The Games Friends: "Zombie Kidz Evolution is so cleverly put together. The rules are super easy, but it is still fun to do even for expert players. The power of the game is really in the envelopes, which all add nice surprises Highly recommended for families!"

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Escape Room The Game is the game where you have to work together to solve puzzles and find hidden clues. It's always a race against time; you only have 60 minutes to escape. The Chrono Decoder counts down, creates the right atmosphere and indicates when you can use hints. In this game you win together or you lose together. All players must get the best out of themselves. To solve riddles and puzzles in time, teamwork is the key to success. Unbelievable how quickly an hour passes in the heat of battle... Are you ready for this ultimate challenge?

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In Tikal the players find themselves in the Jungle of Guatemala. The idea is that players will draw tiles and then spend 10 action points. With these action points they try to get their score as high as possible on two components: temples and treasures. If players find a temple, they can dig it out so that the temple becomes worth more points. But be careful, because this can make the temple more interesting for other players. Players can also collect treasures and increase their value by collecting them in sets.

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Castles of Mad King Ludwig is a board game in which players try to build an amazing, extravagant castle for King Ludwig II of Bavaria, room by room. Can you build the most beautiful castle? This second edition features improved artwork, a beautiful new scoreboard, new player markers, a GameTrayz insert and more! The Games Friends: " Castles of Mad King Ludwig is a lot of fun. The rules are simple and you really feel like you are building a castle. A great game that many game enthusiasts will appreciate! "

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Fog of Love plays like a romantic comedy: a rollercoaster of emotions, uncomfortable situations, lots of laughter and difficult compromises. It's almost real life! You can try to change, or not. Or you can secretly choose to become a heartbreaker. It is your choice! One thing is certain: this romantic comedy doesn't necessarily have a happy ending, but it will leave you with a smile on your face! The Games Friends: “ Fog of Love is a wonderful game with a unique theme. The actions are super simple and due to the large number of different scene cards there is a lot of variation in the game. The tutorial ensures that you can start playing immediately. Highly recommended!”

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Following the success of Kronologic - Paris 1920, solve a series of mysteries set in Cuzco, Peru in 1450. Each investigation, of varying complexity, tests your insight and logical deduction skills. Who, where, and when? Your goal is to solve each mystery before the others and uncover the truth.

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