Why did her beauty become his fate? Why did a man have to die just because he was working seriously? And why did no one help Ruud, even though everyone heard him die? It's 5 past 12 - one beat earlier...and her fate might have been different, less gruesome. For her, all help comes too late and so there is no happy ending. Instead, there are many pitch-black riddles with goosebumps guaranteed! 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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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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In the exciting board game Deception: Murder in Hong Kong you solve a murder with three to eleven fellow players. A forensic investigator, a murderer, eight investigators, an accomplice and an eyewitness all play a role in the murder case. The killer chooses two pieces of evidence and tries to hide his role and identify a scapegoat. The forensic investigator is the leader and keeps the evidence in hand. His or her goal is to provide the eight investigators with hints that will lead to the killer. Will the murderer be able to get away with his crime, or will justice prevail?

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Dice Realms, a new and innovative variant on 'dice customization', is the latest game from Tom Lehmann (designer of Race for the Galaxy). In Dice Realms, each player rules a small realm, represented by two customizable dice. Each round, players roll their dice simultaneously to collect grain, victory points and coins. Then they must decide whether they can upgrade their planes to improve their empire. But the players have to be careful; each round the Fate Die is rolled and to determine fate... The future of your empire is in your hands...

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It is 1919 on the Langford estate. Lady Leona has passed away and absolutely no one is sad about it. She always threatened to write people out of her will. Now that she's finally gone, her closest family and favorite servants have gathered to read her will, but Leona always loved two things: puzzling and making life difficult. Crimes & Capers: Lady Leona's Last Wishes is a cooperative game where you and a group of friends take on the roles of polished high society people and hard-working servants who must work together to solve the mystery and find Leona's treasure. No special skills or prior knowledge are required. Read the notes, solve puzzles and unlock the answers to find out where Leona hid her fortune!

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How do you take the perfect photo of a group of people when you only have one try? Each character has different wishes. Some want to be at the front of the photo; some want to stand next to another; and some don't want to be next to that one person in any way. Do your best to make everyone happy - even if you don't know all the characters' preferences... In Picture Perfect you have to arrange fourteen characters to take the perfect photo. Each of them has three specific wishes that you want to fulfill. Unfortunately, these desires are hidden in envelopes. During the game, players try to take a look inside these envelopes to figure out how to place the characters correctly. To do this, they trade their information with others - or perhaps try to hide it... Whoever earns the most points at the end of the game has fulfilled the most wishes and becomes the master photographer. The Games Friends: We played this game for the first time on Spiel and we were immediately enthusiastic: this is such a funny idea. On the one hand it is a deduction game because you have to put all the people in the right place and on the other hand it is also just a fun gimmick. Thematically it is great and the artwork is also beautiful. Recommended!

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This expansion contains material for a 5th and 6th player. Includes new screens and special trading cards designed specifically for multiple players.

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Bardwood Grove is a tableau-composition euro game in which each player takes on the role of a fantastic bard. Set in the universe of The Five Realms (Merchants Cove, Rise to Nobility, Cavern Tavern), players will adventure into the Halfling Realm, home to the best, highly talented and most legendary bards in the entire land. As Bards, players will manage a unique tempo-turning mechanic to build temporary Song tableaus from their deck as they explore and activate locations around the lush forest city. Each bard starts with asymmetrical skill decks that suit their style, such as the Bardbarian, Sword Dancer, and Wardrummer. Learn new Bardic skills, tell stories and perform, pacify the dissonant creatures invading the Grove, and compete with other bards for the most Glory and Fame. Once all the glory is collected, the bard with the most combined glory and fame wins! Each turn, players draw two cards from their unique ability deck and play one to their Story (discard pile) for immediate benefits, while the other is added to their Song (tableau). Bardwood Grove challenges players to carefully compose their Song tableaus and coordinate them with their composition cycle that determines how often they sing. As players strategically use resources to upgrade their decks, Songs will unlock powerful combos and allow players to interact with multiple locations. This creates a unique ebb and flow to the game, as players build their songs and then decide where and when to sing them. Rumor has it that Bardwood Grove is full of hidden secrets. As the game is played and decisions are made, players will unlock content and develop the game naturally. An achievement system tied to each game's choices and achievements guides players through a series of unlockable content. As new content emerges during each playthrough, the game offers players new things based on unique outcomes and player decisions. Grove locations will change, additional Bardic abilities can be unlocked, Bard decks become more powerful, new Bards arrive in town, and a variety of characters (both good and evil) can enter the game. Unravel the mysteries of Bardwood Grove!

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221b Baker Street is in mourning. World famous detective Sherlock Holmes has been murdered! He was strangled in a carriage last night on his way home from his favorite opium den. Of course, there is only one possible murderer: Sherlock's arch-enemy, Professor Moriarty! But who is this mysterious criminal mastermind? After Sherlock's death, Her Majesty Queen Victoria personally invites a group of people to a high tea at Buckingham Palace: Dr. Watson and his wife Mary, Mrs. Hudson, Mycroft Holmes, Porky Johnson and Irene Adler. But one of them is cheating... which of them is Moriarty?

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Suspects is a series of detective games with simple rules in the style of Agatha Christie's novels. The first part features the ingenious and fearless Claire Harper, completely in the style of the great classics of detective literature! Claire Harper was one of the first women to graduate from Oxford in 1927. She specializes in criminal law and is also an adventurous traveler. Every mystery is an opportunity for her to test her formidable mind of deduction and her unwavering determination! In this first episode, follow her on her investigation that will take her from grand mansions to shady theaters and from Scotland to... Egypt! There are three cases in the box. The Games Friends: "What a fun detective Suspects is. The game itself does not do anything new in terms of rules or setting, but all the cases are still very fun and the difficulty is also completely fine. Highly recommended for all fans of Chronicles or Crime, Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective and Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game.”

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Bardwood Grove is a tableau-composition euro game in which each player takes on the role of a fantastic bard. Set in the universe of The Five Realms (Merchants Cove, Rise to Nobility, Cavern Tavern), players will adventure into the Halfling Realm, home to the best, highly talented and most legendary bards in the entire land. As Bards, players will manage a unique tempo-turning mechanic to build temporary Song tableaus from their deck as they explore and activate locations around the lush forest city. Each bard starts with asymmetrical skill decks that suit their style, such as the Bardbarian, Sword Dancer, and Wardrummer. Learn new Bardic skills, tell stories and perform, pacify the dissonant creatures invading the Grove, and compete with other bards for the most Glory and Fame. Once all the glory is collected, the bard with the most combined glory and fame wins! Each turn, players draw two cards from their unique ability deck and play one to their Story (discard pile) for immediate benefits, while the other is added to their Song (tableau). Bardwood Grove challenges players to carefully compose their Song tableaus and coordinate them with their composition cycle that determines how often they sing. As players strategically use resources to upgrade their decks, Songs will unlock powerful combos and allow players to interact with multiple locations. This creates a unique ebb and flow to the game, as players build their songs and then decide where and when to sing them. Rumor has it that Bardwood Grove is full of hidden secrets. As the game is played and decisions are made, players will unlock content and develop the game naturally. An achievement system tied to each game's choices and achievements guides players through a series of unlockable content. As new content emerges during each playthrough, the game offers players new things based on unique outcomes and player decisions. Grove locations will change, additional Bardic abilities can be unlocked, Bard decks become more powerful, new Bards arrive in town, and a variety of characters (both good and evil) can enter the game. Unravel the mysteries of Bardwood Grove!

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Stardew Valley The Board Game is a cooperative board game about friendship and farming, based on Eric Barone's Stardew Valley video game. Work together with your fellow farmers to save the valley from the nefarious JojaMart Corporation! To do this, you'll need to fish, make friends, and find various resources to fulfill your grandpa's dreams and restore the community center. Collect items, raise animals, and explore the mine, gain powerful upgrades and skills, and as the seasons pass, see if you can restore the magic of Stardew Valley! Together, the players decide which actions they will perform each turn and place their pawn in that part of the valley. Using their actions, they visit specific locations and try to gather resources to achieve the goals. Actions include: watering crops, catching fish, rolling dice to explore the mines, and much more. When the season deck runs out, the game ends.

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In the regular Pandemic game you normally try to save the world from the worst outbreaks of diseases. But this time the diseases are fighting back and humanity doesn't stand a chance! Pandemic Contagion turns the tables on the Pandemic game: grow into one of the worst diseases and try to destroy humanity this time! Are you the disease that will kill humanity?

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Jinja is a colorful worker placement game about shrine construction in Japan. You must place workers in key locations around Japan to activate one of thirteen different actions or build in one of seven different areas. To earn top honors, you'll need to plan your strategy wisely and have a bit of luck. Jinja features beautiful artwork and high-quality components, with plastic miniatures representing the shrines, painted meeples, screen-printed score trackers, and a custom multi-colored die. The game board is an illustrated map of Japan, divided into areas with a limited number of temple locations. Over five seasons, players place workers in one of thirteen actions or seven areas as they work toward their various goals. Building a shrine deserves honor and special skills Jinja has high replayability due to variable goals and events. Omikuji, or "fortune," are secret objectives that allow you to earn bonus points if your shrines are in key locations. Kitsune cards are randomly chosen for each game and offer various discounts, bonuses and abilities that change with the seasons. With its breathtaking art, stunning appearance and complex yet accessible thematic gameplay, Jinja is sure to be a game night hit.

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In Tenpenny Parks you have five rounds (months) to transform the modest town of Fairview into the home of the world's largest theme parks. Each month, players take turns placing workers on the game board to perform actions such as removing trees, building concessions and attractions, and purchasing more property to make their growing theme parks as attractive as possible to visiting people (VP- tokens). Build attractions in the Stone Age, the American Old West, the Age of Fantasy, the cosmos of space and the depths of the sea! At the end of each month, rewards are given to the player with the park that best represents raw emotions (Thrill, Awe and Joy). After five months, the player with the most VP tokens wins!

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Explorers is a card game that is easy to get to the table, providing smooth rounds with plenty of player interaction.Thanks to its compact size, it's easy to take with you and is suitable for a game night, holiday, or as a quick filler.Please note: this product is in English.

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In Unmatched you compete as a legendary hero and duel each other. The legendary heroes come from films, books or age-old legends. You can combine fighters from different Unmatched games. Each hero has a set of action cards with unique abilities associated with that hero's fighting style. But remember, there can only be one winner at the end of the game! In this set you will find 4 new characters: Dracula, Jekyll & Hyde, Invisible Man and Sherlock Holmes. 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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Chronicles of Avel is a cooperative board game for the whole family. Take on the role of brave heroes and heroines and try to save the magical land. Create your character and give it a unique name. Gather your equipment and get ready for battle. But think carefully about everything you want to take with you on an adventure, because your backpack has limited space. In Chronicles of Avel, players explore the world of Avel and move around a modular board. On their journey you will encounter dangerous monsters and the dice will determine your success.

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In Savannah Park you have your own wildlife park and you try to organize it as best as possible. Fortunately, the rules for this are very easy, because when it is your turn you name a tile and then each player must move that tile on his or her player board. You try to create groups of animals with this, but be careful of the fire. If you place the wrong animals next to the fire, you will lose them and they will not count at the end of the game. Do you know how to organize your Savannah Park as smartly as possible? The Games Friends: A game couldn't be much easier in terms of rules: you choose a tile that has not yet been chosen and each player moves that tile. In this way you try to make groups of the same animals, using as many waters as possible. The player who does this best (and who best takes the flames into account) is the winner. Super simple, yet surprisingly fun to do. Recommended!

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Don't go to that scary house... or do... we can't tell you what to do. But Stabby the Unicorn is waiting for you! Unstable Unicorns Nightmares Expansion Pack is designed to be added to your Unstable Unicorns card game (or Unstable Unicorns NSFW card game). Terror awaits you in this expansion, with new characters, Magic cards, Upgrade cards and Nightmare Downgrade cards. Unstable Unicorns was one of Kickstarter's 100 most backed projects of all time and won the 2019 People's Choice Award for Toy of the Year.

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Expansion set for the board game Pandemic. State of Emergency offers three new challenges: the Hunterlands Challenge, the Emergency Events Challenge and the Superbug Challenge. In the Hinterlands Challenge, the virus spreads to people from animals. In the Emergency Events Challenge you make smart use of quarantine to prevent the global spread of the disease. The Superbug Challenge introduces a fifth disease that threatens the world and is untreatable. Find a cure and produce enough vaccination to overcome this superbug disease.

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Small World: Sky Islands expansion expands Small World: Sky Islands with new game components, new possibilities and extra variation for players who are already familiar with the base game.This expansion gives you more choices during gameplay and ensures that each game feels a little different. You need the base game to use this expansion.Please note: this product is in English.

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Little Factory is an exciting card game all about development and resource management in the world of Little Town! Start with just a few coins, produce or trade resources to obtain more valuable resources. Build buildings to obtain new resources, and earn influence points as proof of your hard work. Choose wisely to become the player with the most influence points and win the game! Including Solo variant! The Games Friends: Little Factory is a fun little card game, with quite a lot of tactical choices. Because you have to use raw materials wisely, you have to think carefully about every exchange action. Highly recommended for in between.

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2212: Ginkgo Biloba, the oldest and strongest tree in the world, has become the symbol of a new method of building cities in symbiosis with nature. Humans have exhausted the resources the Earth offered them, and humanity must now develop cities that maintain a delicate balance between resource production and consumption. However, habitable space is scarce and humanity must now take up the challenge of continuing to build. To develop this new type of city, gather a team of experts around you and try to become the best urban planner for Ginkgopolis. In Ginkgopolis, the city tiles come in three colors: yellow, which awards victory points; red, which provides resources; and blue, which produces new city tiles. Some tiles start in the game surrounded by letter markers indicating where new tiles can be placed. During a turn, each player simultaneously chooses a card from their hand. Players reveal these cards, adding new tiles to the edge of the city in the appropriate location or placing tiles on top of existing tiles. Any card in your hand that you don't play will be passed to your left neighbor, so keep in mind how your play might set up theirs! When you add a new tile to the city, you take a "power" card of the same color, and these cards grant you additional abilities throughout the game, allowing you to scale up your building and scoring efforts.

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Peoples, gods and monuments! Try to gain the favor of gods and demigods of the Pantheon and build its pillars. This is how you score points. The player with the most points wins the game. The game lasts 6 eras. One nation is played in each era. The order in which the nations appear varies per game, making Pantheon always different. On his/her turn, he/she then performs 1 action each time: move, buy, buy a god token by making sacrifices or draw 3 action cards. With this he tries to put feet and pillars on the game board. Pillars score points in a scoring process. Along the way he can pick up bonus and loot tokens, which give him temporary benefits, demigods or points. He can also buy sacrifice tokens, which he can use together with special action cards to buy god tokens. These also provide benefits and points. The game ends after the second scoring. The player with the most points wins. Pantheon is a game for the real enthusiast, but a family with older children can also have a lot of fun with it.

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The Dead Eye is a single-player adventure card game. Take on the role of a lone thermal bandit brought down on a hostile backwater planet. Your mission? Find the next safe haven before you lose all hope and strength... and maybe, just maybe, you'll find a way out of this desolate rock. Cards in The Dead Eye represent encounters that can have one of two outcomes: good or bad. A bad result is caused by a build-up of dangerous heat, while a good result is caused by a build-up of valuable juice. Your starting Draw Deck contains 6 cards with Juice and 6 cards with Heat. As you play through the deck, some of these cards will increase your Heat and Juice levels, while at other times the cards are used as the Encounter itself. Face dangerous encounters, rescue useful parts and reach safe Haven.

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Number of players: 1 - 4 players Game time: 60 minutes Age: From 12 years Publisher: Ludo Nova Language: English, Spanish The Shinkansen's Tōkaidō Line began construction in 1959 with the fastest train of the time, just before the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. In Shinkansen: Zero Kei, players take on the role of the builders. They will be responsible for the construction of this historic railway line and all associated stations. They can also help the Olympic locations in their preparation for the Games. The player who proves to be the most efficient in his role is declared the winner. In each round of a Shinkansen game you build your own bullet train, each wagon card you add to your train gives you an action or an ability. These actions mainly allow you to build tracks and stations, collaborate in the preparation of the Olympic locations and obtain new carriage cards. The wagon cards are associated with cities through which the line passes. If you manage to build them in the correct order, you will be rewarded with victory points. After five rounds, corresponding to the five-year construction of the line, the player with the most victory points wins.

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New threats have reared their monstrous heads in the land of Valeria! Scouts have reported seeing fiery dogs in the south and beasts that bring winter's deadly bite with them to the north. The king's heralds have been sent to all corners of Valeria to call on new adventurers to recruit as the workers lay the foundations for new domains. Valeria: Card Kingdoms – Flames and Frost adds two new powerful Monster stacks, a new set of Citizens to recruit, and new Domains to purchase.

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An abstract game about time and murder! That Time You Killed Me is a game that introduces new scenarios with unique rules and components as you play. As with any timed game, you must play this content in a strict, unchanging order. Play 4 different chapters, each with its own rules and components and increasing difficulty! You and your opponent are rival time travelers trying to erase each other from history. To prove that you are the one and only inventor of time travel, you must use your invention to find and kill your enemy in time - before they get you! Unfortunately, since your enemy has many copies of themselves spread across the timeline, you may have to do the horrible deed many, many times before it sticks. Just make sure you don't get erased first!

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In Itchy Monkey, several families of lice try to become the dominant type. Each turn you summon new lice and jump to nearby monkeys. Alternatively, you can tickle the monkey, which will make it move and bump into other monkeys. This way more of your little friends can jump over! But beware of your rival families, because no one likes nitpicking. The family lice that can build a colony on three gorillas, four of the same animal or five different species of monkeys wins! Itchy Monkey is an easy to learn, but very strategic and tactical game.

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The Dead Eye is a single-player adventure card game. Take on the role of a lone thermal bandit brought down on a hostile backwater planet. Your mission? Find the next safe haven before you lose all hope and strength... and maybe, just maybe, you'll find a way out of this desolate rock. Cards in The Dead Eye represent encounters that can have one of two outcomes: good or bad. A bad result is caused by a build-up of dangerous heat, while a good result is caused by a build-up of valuable juice. Your starting Draw Deck contains 6 cards with Juice and 6 cards with Heat. As you play through the deck, some of these cards will increase your Heat and Juice levels, while at other times the cards are used as the Encounter itself. Face dangerous encounters, rescue useful parts and reach safe Haven. The Dead Eye includes a 12-page prelude comic book, a 20-page rulebook, a double-sided game board, 2 pairs of stereoscopic 3D glasses, 1 pair of stereoscopic 3D hook-behind glasses, and 54 unique cards.

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Kill your enemies with kindness... or a huge plague. This expansion pack contains 27 cutely destructive cards and 27 full of apocalyptic chaos!

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An expansion to the card game 'Here to Slay' that introduces 2 new classes: berserkers and necromancers.

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