Board games

The Great Wall is a new asymmetrical worker placement game where you have to build a nice engine and protect yourself against the constantly attacking Mongol Horde. Players control ancient clans in China as they attempt to defend themselves against invading Mongol hordes while attempting to build The Great Wall. Although every player wants to win, sometimes they must work together to defend themselves against the hordes. Each clan will be asymmetrical due to the chosen leader and this asymmetry will increase as the game progresses due to the choices you make. The game is divided into four seasons. In the spring, new barbarian hordes invade the fields before the Great Wall and prepare to launch their attack. Summer is the time when generals prepare for attack and mobilize their troops. During the fall, players take turns playing command cards, resolving their effects and activating locations to gain various benefits. In winter, the last layer of defense is activated, after which the hordes try to attack the walls. Over the course of the game, players create their own unique engines based on their clan strength and interact with other players during all stages of the game, trying to get the most honor points, which can be earned in many different ways. At the end of the game, the player with the most honor wins.

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Marrakesh, “the Pearl of the South” There is work to be done in Marrakech! As wealthy citizens of the city, you use your assistants to increase your influence in the Koutoubia Mosque and Bahia Palace. Wander through the souks and haggle with traders to acquire precious luxury goods. Head to the Djemaa el Fna market square with its water sellers, storytellers, snake charmers and jugglers. Discover oases in the Sahara and sail the Tensift River. But above all, don't forget to pay the population and provide them with enough dates and water. Whoever is the most successful at the end of the game wins this atmospheric game!

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We travel to the heart of a picturesque Italian village, a place where time seems to stand still. Here we find La Casa della Pizza. Locals have been ordering pizzas here for as long as they can remember, because the pizza makers create the perfect pizzas with high-quality, fresh ingredients from the local market. Now the time has come for the current maestro to hand over the reins to the next generation. But... how? The pizza maker has no children; pizzas were his life! Wait... Maybe he can turn to his associates? This is your chance. As a loyal employee, you've watched the maestro at work for years. Could you be the perfect successor for La Casa della Pizza? To prove everyone's worth, the pizza chef has created a culinary competition for all employees. Today, you'll compete with your colleagues for the coveted title of pizza chef. Be quick, deliver quickly, and hone your pizza-making skills while also keeping an eye on the others. Do you have what it takes?

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Welcome to Crime City: the city where crimes are committed on every street corner. Deadly secrets, sneaky robberies and cold-blooded murders are part of everyday life. All In is the third part of the MicroMacro: Crime City series. It is a standalone game and some of the stories from parts 1 and 2 are continued in this part. The 16 crimes in this game can be played without having played part 1 or 2.

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The British Invasion is an expansion that builds on the base game and introduces the Listening Booth and singles (45's). Historically, 45s were purchased to initially encourage buyers to purchase the accompanying LP album or even another album from the band. In British Invasion, players can acquire 45s by matching the band icon. Each 45 has an "A-side" with locked attributes that can be unlocked at the Listening Booth. At the Listening Booth, players discard a magazine card with one matching icon to flip the 45 to the "B side", granting the player more points and the chance to use the 45 to acquire LPs with similar properties in future rounds. British Invasion uses the same collectible rewards system (Pure, Mixed, Double Mixed) as the base game and further integrates with Top Shelf, Publisher Expansion, Clearance Bin or even Masters of Metal memorabilia!

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Make your Wild Serengeti game even more beautiful with these fantastic meeples! NOTE: The extra meeples have no function in the game, but are purely decorative.

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The Masters of Metal is an expansion that builds on the base game and introduces merchandise. Historically, merchandise (such as t-shirts and posters) was purchased for a favorite band. The merchandise added value to the collector's collection. In Masters of Metal, players can acquire merchandise and add it to a collection. The merchandise increases the value of the collection. To add merchandise, they must be arranged so that the merchandise icons are next to the albums. The more albums and merchandise, the longer the collection.

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Big Band is an expansion for Vinyl that builds on the base game and introduces the Window Display, Hits Chart and a new way to build collections. Historically, 78s and 33s were competing formats for sale at the record store. In BigBand, players focus on collecting albums from two genres: Swing and Jazz. Players get albums in two different speeds and with respect to those speeds, there are advantages to collecting 78s as they are worth a little more than the 33s. However, the 33s offer collectible powers to entice players to collect them instead. Furthermore, the rules for collecting albums have changed and how to match just the genres. However, players must visit the front counter to earn collectible rewards. To submit a collection, the player must represent each of four instruments in one genre. Depending on how many similarities there are in the attributes will determine what type of collection reward you will earn. Play continues until all albums have been placed in the store. The player with the most points is ultimately the winner.

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This pack contains five Range Tools that allow players to supplement their Star Wars: Shatterpoint games with more distance estimation capabilities.

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From the design team that created the big hit Point Salad. Point City is a fast and fun building game for the whole family! There are over 150 unique building cards, so you can create a completely different city every time you play! The rules are simple: take two adjacent cards from the dynamic city grid and add them to your ever-growing city. Use your resource cards and bonuses to build building cards that require specific combinations. Build special general buildings to multiply your city's points and become the best urban planner! Point City uses the same simple game concept of selecting cards and building the best combinations. The game then adds new layers of resource management and building construction to the mix – making the game easy to learn, but still challenging for everyone!

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Sounds Fishy contains no fewer than 200 special questions, so the game guarantees many hours of hilarious fun. Furthermore, Sounds Fishy includes an advanced variant, which slightly changes the point scoring system. Sounds Fishy is a hilarious party game, in which players can have three different roles. The guesser reads out a question and tries to unmask the red herrings. The red herrings give the wrong answer to the question, but pretend that it is the right one. Finally, the true blue tipper gives the right answer, but pretends it is the wrong one. Each round a different player is the guesser. He draws a card. There is a question on the front, which he reads out loud. The other players see the correct answer on the back. Every other player now draws a face-down fish. One of them is the real blue tipper, while all the others are the red herrings. These players now have a short period of time to think of their answer. Red herrings must give the wrong answer and the true blue tipper must give the correct answer. The aim of the guesser is to pick out the red herrings one by one and finally identify the true blue tipper. The red herrings score points if they are not identified before the true blue tipper is identified. The true blue tipper scores points if he is not selected last.

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You can now enjoy even more epic games of The Warp by adding up to 2 additional players! The expansion adds all the components for a fifth and sixth player. This way you can enjoy a fully competitive game with 5 or 6 players or you can play the 2 vs 2 vs 2 team mode.

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In Raptor, players use their cards to move their pawns - with the scientists on one side, mother and baby birds of prey on the other - around the board. Each round, the player who played the lowest-ranked card can use the corresponding action, while his opponent has movement or attack points equal to the difference between the values ​​of the two cards. The scientists can use fire, can travel by jeep and can even call for reinforcements, while the mamma raptor can hide in the bushes, scream to scare the scientists and call for her babies.

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Unmatched is a very asymmetrical miniature game for two or three players. Each hero is represented by a unique deck. During the game you have to throw a punch every now and then and play your cards smartly. Unmatched: For King and Country features three characters from the Marvel Universe: Black Widow, Black Panther and the Winter Soldier. The Games Friends: We really doubted whether Unmatched would be something for us, but we were positively surprised. There is a lot of interaction and it is nice that each character plays differently. Recommended!

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Oh no, an adventurer has washed up on the island! You must work together to hide Morris' eggs at the base of the waterfall, far away from the pesky intruder. During your turn, let Morris slide down the waterfall. If his egg is still whole, place it in one of the hiding places. Once the egg is broken, it leaves a trail for the adventurer, who slowly approaches the nest! Empty the nest before the adventurer discovers it!

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Catherine: The Cities of the Tsarina takes 2-4 players to the Tsarist Empire of 1762 to win the Tsarina's favor using an innovative card mechanic. As is often the case, different strategies can lead to different goals: will you devote yourself to the development of fine arts or trade, or perhaps you prefer to secure weapons and thus defend the realm? With each card you hold, you must decide whether to gain the resources and use the action on that card or discard it to activate another action.

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The battlefields of Star Wars: Shatterpoint become even more thematic with this terrain pack! Featuring a variety of different terrains, including a Swoop Bike, a GNK Power Droid and a Generator, the pieces players find here will help clear the way for their battles while also giving their troops plenty of places to take cover .

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Unmatched is a very asymmetrical miniature game for two or three players. Each hero is represented by a unique deck. During the game you have to throw a punch every now and then and play your cards smartly. Unmatched: Teen Spirit features three characters from the Marvel Universe: Ms. Marvel, Squirrel Girl and Cloak and Dagger. The Games Friends: We really doubted whether Unmatched would be something for us, but we were positively surprised. There is a lot of interaction and it is nice that each character plays differently. Recommended!

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Terra Futura is an engine-building game in which you build the country of tomorrow. By placing and activating cards in your territory, you gain resources and goods. Try to be more effective than your opponents and you will win the game. There are many ways to build your economy. You can take a fast route that results in pollution, or you can do it slow and clean. Each turn you choose a card from the display and place it in your territory in front of you. This activates all cards in a column and a row where you placed the new card. So think twice about where you put each card. Pollution is an essential part of the game. Using international transportation and speeding up your production may help you get the raw materials you need faster, but it creates pollution, which can block your cards and even prevent you from scoring some of your raw materials. But if you use it carefully, it can lead to victory. The game ends when all players have built up their territory of 9 cards (3 × 3 grid). At the end, they reactivate their territory based on their secret scorecard. Players receive victory points based on resources and goods obtained during the game and they score bonus points with their secret cards. Before the winner is announced, they deduct points for each fouled card.

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Sinister Circus is a fast-paced strategy game from Bruno Faidutti (The Citadel, Diamant). It takes us to a mysterious world somewhere in the depths of our minds. As ringmasters we will try to organize an unforgettable evening of shows, fighting with each other to attract the attention of the largest audience.

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City of the Great Machine is a strategy game set in a grim universe of technocratic Victorian steampunk. The game is about the conflict between the Great Machine, an artificial intelligence network and an alliance of Heroes. The Great Machine is either player controlled or automated, which completely changes the gameplay. The Great Machine controls the city built on mobile platforms in the sky. The player controlling the Great Machine commands an army of sophisticated servants and mechanical guardians. The Great Machine's ultimate goal is to quell social unrest and complete its grandiose Master Plan to perfect humanity. The other players are heroes who band together against the Great Machine to start a revolution. They encourage discontent in the city, enlist the support of famous citizens and cause riots. They also try to prevent the Great Machine from completing the Master Plan, as it leads to the enslavement of humanity.

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In Polynesia, players must save their tribe members from the dangers of the volcano by taking them to the islands that will earn them the most points. At the same time, players must try to achieve the goals set by the tide cards, which can vary from game to game. To succeed, players must collect resources in the form of fish and shells that will allow them to explore new sea routes, use other players' routes, and sail from one island to another. Polynesia is played in rounds and each round is divided into two phases. In the action phase, each player has three turns during which he can perform one of three actions: sailing, exploring or populating, and fishing. In the maintenance phase, volcano activity is controlled and each player can collect resources depending on the islands where they have tribe members.

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In Dogfight! Two rival pilots from the First World War duel each other in the air. To defeat your enemy, you must maneuver yourself so that you get behind him and shoot at just the right moment! Dogfight! is played over a maximum of three rounds or until one of the biplanes is shot down. If a biplane is shot down, the game ends immediately and the surviving player is declared the winner! If the third round ends and neither biplane has been shot down, the player who has scored the most hits is the winner. Both players choose a tile to play from behind their player screen and reveal them at the same time. Each player then moves his or her biplane by the number of spaces equal to the value of the tile played. The game contains nine biplanes and they all have different tile layouts. There are also several scenarios included in the box. The biplanes must follow the direction of the arrows around the white path. Each circle counts as one square and the colors on some squares affect the game. Biplanes can move past each other and even end up in the same space, but be careful: one wrong move and your enemy will fly after you and shoot you!

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In Tiwanaku, first announced as Pachamama, you lead your tribe into uncharted territory in search of new places to cultivate. Your goal: Explore and draw regions so you can develop cultures according to the customs and legacies of Pachamama. If you honor Her, Nature will reward you; otherwise you will suffer his wrath. In this race you have to take risks, deduce and have a good sense of timing to win. Each scenario disc represents a unique arrangement of terrain tiles and crop tiles. Terrain tiles lie in regions of 1-5 spaces, and a region of one color does not touch a region of the same color, not even diagonally. Crop tokens have a value from 1-5 and each value has a different size and color (level 1 is brown, level 2 is green, etc.). A region of size 1 will contain a crop token of value 1, a region of size 2 will contain crop tokens of value 1 and 2, and only a region of size 5 will contain crop tokens of any value. Two identical values ​​can never be adjacent, not even diagonally. Perform an Exploration or Divine Action during a turn: At the end of an Exploration or Divine Action, you can surrender 1-5 cubes for 0-10 points. You can make a maximum of one offering of each color. When the last terrain tile is placed on the game board, the end of the game is triggered. Starting with this player, each player can take turns performing a single divine action or passing. If you succeed, you take no further actions and see who has collected the most points.

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Each player controls colored mice and tries to collect pieces of cheese in Chateau Roquefort. During their turn, players spend action points to bring new mice into play, reveal passageways in the castle, move their mice around the castle, or push a tile into play, which changes the maze below. If two of a single player's mice reach a spot with the same type of cheese, the player receives a piece of that cheese. The first player with 4 different pieces of cheese wins the game.

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Something has changed in the valley of Renature: mushrooms are suddenly springing up everywhere! And they completely change the way the game is played. A mushroom makes it possible to connect areas and thus enlarge them. It is even possible for another player to take over an area. Turn the polluted valley back into an intact ecosystem. Bring the animals back here and plant the adjacent areas to score points. Use the advantages that the mushrooms offer you and with their help expand individual territories or join the occupied territories of other players. Where Renature is a challenge, it becomes even more difficult at Renature Valley.

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Welcome to Wayback Tours! You are about to go on a 3-day tour through history, a journey of thousands of years in a time machine to experience great moments from the past. Trekking through History consists of 3 rounds, each representing a day of your journey. Every day you visit a series of historical events and spend several hours at each event. Along the way, you'll earn points if you stick to the itinerary and visit historical events in chronological order. Come on, let's leave!

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The sun is shining and a gentle breeze is blowing. It's perfect weather for a picnic: distribute the food and tablecloths! Mix the tablecloths and food items in front of you and try to group like types together. This is how you make this picnic as tasty as possible!

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A fast card game for 2-4 players where you include Rail Road Shares in your Portfolio, and play Rail Yard cards that anyone can score. Each player starts with a hand of 8 cards containing a city, a company and a commodity. Each player chooses one card to place face up in his or her portfolio and one card to place face up in the railway area (center of the table). All players reveal these cards at the same time and if a player ever has 3 cards of the same city and company in his or her portfolio, then these three cards are "over-invested" and are discarded. This ends the round. After rounds 2 and 3, each player scores companies and goods in their portfolio multiplied by the number of matching companies and goods in the center of the table. The player with the highest score after round 3 wins!

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The Solar Sphere Expansions box contains the White Dwarf and Corporation Robots modules and additional components to support a fifth player. With construction of Solar Sphere #1 underway, The Corporation has set its sights on a nearby White Dwarf. You can now choose to explore the White Dwarf to gain valuable resources and opportunities. The White Dwarf expansion adds a unique rondel mechanic, where you can choose to move a meeple, or if you have upgraded the White Dwarf location, you can move two meeples for extra rewards! The Corporate Robots expansion adds a set of cards and meeples that act as remote access to work locations. Install the maps in your command center and deploy the meeple robots to locations to fully upgrade that location's power! You can then access that location from your command center.

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You are a member of a cult and are trying to establish the power of your faction. Battle rituals and mythical monsters as you seek victory and control of the cult. A player takes a turn by first rolling his dice up to 3 times. Then you decide where to use your dice: in rituals to gain altar effects to temporarily strengthen yourself, or you can finish a ritual to gain its powerful effects permanently, you can stab cult members, gain life, or give life to other cult members. If a player is killed, he is not eliminated. Instead, you become a shadow. Shadows will still roll dice on their turn, just less.

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What will your friends fall for? We took the most revealing searches on the Internet and removed the last few words - can you guess the most popular ending? Players take turns reading the opening lines of popular searches and then try to complete them with the most credible answer. They don't have to be right; they just have to fool their friends! However, the right ending always gets mixed up, so you have to be smart with your entry...

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Sound Box is a cooperative party game for 4 to 7 players where you listen to your friends make strange noises as they try to get you to guess all kinds of things! At the start of each round, place Sound Cards on the board and draw a numbered token from a bag to discover which token is assigned to you. Take the time to think of the perfect sound: you will have to imitate that sound to present your concept to the guesser. If you are the guesser, your job is to listen to the sounds output by the Soundmakers. At the start of the round, all Soundmakers start performing their sounds...at the same time! Prepare for 13 seconds of hilarious acoustic extravaganza! Have you ever heard the sound of a giant monster fighting a guitar hero during a tennis match on a stormy night? Well, something like that could definitely happen to you! When the timer runs out, the guesser tries to find as many sound cards as possible one by one! There are more cards on the board than sounds made by the Soundmakers. Will you manage to find them all? Each correct guess earns you 1 point, but if you make a mistake the round ends immediately.

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The Brain consists of 1 or more attempts to solve a puzzle until the players succeed or give up. The game is played clockwise. On your turn, you must place a card in the middle and perform the corresponding action. You can then take a card from the draw pile. You win the game when all the cards in your hand have been played away and the draw pile is empty. But once a predetermined number of cards are in the middle at the end of a turn, you all lose. You can then discuss how you can make it happen the next time you try. Due to the different starting situations and the many levels of difficulty, this card game of our own making always remains challenging! Can also be played solitaire!

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Frankenstein or your grandma? Who's counting on their fingers? And Beyoncé or Darth Vader, who eats kiwis with their skin on? In Champions! 8 participants compete against each other each round in a tournament full of bizarre and unpredictable duels. In each match, vote for the participant you think will win and predict who will be the final winner of the tournament. Can you predict who will ultimately become champion?

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Happy Salmon is an interactive party game for all ages. During a game of Happy Salmon you try to get rid of your cards as quickly as possible by finding another player who has to perform the same action. Once you have found it, you carry out the action together. Then you can discard the cards. This way you give each other high fives, the fist bump, the one and only Happy Salmon move or you switch places with each other. Whoever gets rid of their cards first in this chaos wins! Happy Salmon is a simple and fun party game that you will learn in seconds, but keep playing for hours. Everyone can and wants to participate!

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Flowers and bees. In Happy Bee you have to pollinate as many flowers as possible. Choose the bee cards you want to play to win the majority and obtain flowers. FR: Des fleurs et des abeilles. Dans Happy Bee, votre but sera de polliniser le plus grand nombre de fleurs. Choisissez bien les cartes abeilles que vous souhaitez jouer pour remporter la majorité et insi récupérer des fleurs.

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Liar Liar is the hilarious new game about tricking your friends, sharing crazy stories and finding out who is the Best Liar. Each round, players share a short, personal statement related to one of their topic cards. If you get the secret role of liar, you have to lie! Everyone else must tell the truth. You win by identifying the liar and making your friends think you are the liar.

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Thanks to the invention of the time machine, we can explore our planet's past in real life. A new generation of explorers is ready to find lost wealth. They collect treasures from the past with their time hologram device. They are called Time Collectors. Combine dice, collect cards, complete achievements and win with the most beautiful collection... of all time!

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Oh no, the mine is collapsing! Hurry, get into the wagon and rush to the exit! Infernal Wagon is an intensely fun cooperative game where players must work together to create a route to the exit... before time runs out! But be careful: every card played has a high chance of causing devastating effects! A game of Infernal Wagon lasts a maximum of 7 minutes or until one of the endgame conditions is met. In this cooperative game, all players win or lose together. At the beginning of the game, place the 3 starting cards and place the wagon on the last one. There is no turn order: The player with the best card plays at the right time, and activates the corresponding effect. The player who played the card draws a new card, while the other players see if they can also add a card. (in the 2-player variant you can play 2 cards in a row). Once a card has been played, place the wagon on it. Place the end card within the time (7 minutes) to win the game!

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This expansion is a set of 80 wooden meeples representing buildings (15 mm thick, varying in height and width), with 18 large buildings (12 different shapes) and 62 small buildings (23 different shapes), to be placed on cardboard building tiles from the basic game. The miniatures just enhance the overall impression you get when you play with the game. This expansion is purely aesthetic and does not affect the mechanics of the game in any way. The meeples have double-sided color printed images on them (each side of the meeple has a different image). The contents are packed in a luxurious cardboard box.

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In Hickory Dickory, players control a team of mice as they compete in a royal quest organized by Lord Cuckoo! The mice ride on the hand of a cuckoo clock as they search for items that match their hunting card. The cute mice try to collect item tiles and perform various actions to earn berries, or victory points. Once the clock strikes midnight, the hunt is over and the mice show their quest cards to Lord Cuckoo. Berries are earned for rows and columns completed on their hunt map, and the mouse team with the most berries wins!

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The Voting Game After Dark Edition is a game that exposes the sometimes disturbing, sometimes daring, but always hilarious truths behind your friendships. The Voting Game NSFW begins when the first question card is turned over. For example: "Who would you least trust with your nude photos?". Players then vote anonymously for the player who best fits the question. The results are counted and revealed to the group! Each player must guess who voted for him or her. Players get one try for each vote given for them. If they guess correctly, the truth will come to light. This is an adult game and not suitable for work. Sample question cards are: "Who should be in jail?; "Who will be the coolest when drunk?"; "Who would you ask for help if you had to flee the country?" and "Who refuses to have sex when the light is on?"

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In Cascadia: Landmarks, players create vast habitats and place beautiful natural landmarks within them. Landmarks give each environment its own look and feel, while also providing dynamic end-of-game scoring bonuses! In addition to the Landmarks module, this expansion includes more unique animal scorecards and enough components to play Cascadia with 5-6 players.

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The family-friendly version of Pick Your Poison. Three or more players compete to create the most difficult scenario possible by combining two poison cards. Everyone "anonymously chooses their poison" and after the revelation you find out who was "right" and who is just as confused as you thought. Combine with the NSFW Edition for even more fun!

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Roll your meeples, build the city. It's the 1920s and your career as a contractor is about to begin. You've just started your business in a fast-growing city. In Rolling Heights, players roll workers in the form of meeples. Standing meeples work hard that day and provide special promotions and building materials, while lying meeples yield nothing. You can always push your luck for better rolls, but you can also lose valuable materials that you need to build new buildings. Completing buildings earns you prestige and new workers to help you build even bigger buildings, including skyscrapers.

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Bad Choice is the perfect combination of all your favorite board games. Think of it as part 'Never Have I Ever', a bit of UNO and of course making fun of your friends... The latter is of course hilarious and you can play this game thousands of times: the gameplay changes every time based on who you play with. Bad Choices is the hilarious new party game for adults that forces you to choose a question card and then strategically identify the player most likely to answer yes. Internet-friendly sample question: "Would you rather win $50,000 than have your best friend win $500,000?" Plus other questions that we can't even write in the description... The best stories come from our worst choices! Invite your worst friends, leave your feelings outside and die laughing about the craziest things you've done.

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Light, camera, escape! No movie is as mysterious as Idle Gossip, the latest film to be released by the infamous Escape Pictures studio. As an aspiring film journalist, you snuck onto the set to take a photo so you can post it on your blog to kick-start your career. Your dreams are quickly shattered when the muscular head of security sees you. You have to find an exit - and quickly! There are 12 different puzzles in this game. Each solution yields a letter from a coded note. Only when all 12 puzzles are solved and the message is revealed can you escape safely!

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In the tactical card game Bull Seeks Beer 2.0, the bulls look for a cozy pub. The players are pub owners and pour a lot of beer that attracts the thirsty bulls. But who has purchased beer the smartest? Warning: enjoy, but play with sizes!Upgrade with several advantages. Bull Seeks Beer has been a very popular card game for over 10 years. In fact, its popularity continues to increase every year! With the 4th print run coming out in spring 2023, The Game Master thought it was time to make some improvements . In this latest edition of Stier searches Beer 2.0 you will find: 1) Improved game rules: shorter, clearer, more dynamic and simpler; 2) Smart pub rules: the beer manager determines how the beer is distributed; 3) Two bonus cards: for the games Decorating Bulls and Balls with Bulls. Bull seeks Beer 2.0 contains simple rules, is very quick to get on the table and doesn't take too long. The game is flavored with a number of fun dilemmas. Which beer do I buy? Do I want to have the most drafts or do I buy tactically and store beer in my cellar for the next round? Do I choose beer cards that I need myself, or do I try to thwart my "colleague pub owner"? Which bull(s) do I want in my pub? Which bull do I serve my beer to get the most points? Do I go for Taurus on Taurus or not? How do I limit my drinking (washing down draft beer)? In short: a game to consume quickly!

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Hoboken, New Jersey, 1954. You are a powerful leader of one of the largest criminal organizations in the city and you compete with your rival for territory and support, shying away from any means to expand your influence. District Noir is located in the center of Hoboken. Control over that neighborhood makes the big difference in seizing power over the entire city. In this tactical card game for 2 players you try to get the majority of different card types in order to score the most points. But you can also try to gain control of the city's 3 strategic locations. In that case you win immediately. The rules of the game are very simple. You get 5 cards. On your turn, you place a hand card in the row or you take the last 5 cards placed in the row. The other player always has the same choice. However, taking 5 cards is only allowed once per round. After that you always have to put a card in the row. The game continues until the face-down pile is empty and all cards have been played. Then the points are counted. You get points for having the most cards of a certain suit and for complete sets of different suits. There are also cards that immediately give plus or minus points. If you manage to acquire all 3 strategic locations, you win immediately and you do not have to count any points. District Noir is a very accessible card game for 2 players. The simple rules ensure that you get started playing quickly, but you will soon discover that the choices you have to make during the game are a lot more difficult!

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