The Ticket to Ride Europe board game takes you on a new train adventure through the largest cities in Europe. Players try to complete train routes on their destination cards. You do this by claiming connections between cities, which you can build via the right card combinations. Have you collected the most points with your train network at the end of the game? Then you are the winner! Ticket to Ride Europe is a Dutch, stand-alone version of the original board game 'Ticket to Ride' with a map of Europe. This game offers excitement and fun for the whole family! The Games Friends: “ Ticket to Ride Europe is a fantastic board game and, in our opinion, a deserved classic for years. The actions are super simple, but you can still make plenty of tactical choices in the routes you choose and the train cards you take. Every family should have this at home!"

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You have been crowned king of a beautiful little country of rolling hills, winding rivers and fertile farmlands. Life could be so beautiful, but unfortunately there are disputes with surrounding states. Various princes try to expand their kingdom at the expense of each other! Only one will win... In Dominion you try to form the strongest possible deck during the game, so that you have the most points at the end of the game. The cards in your deck always rotate from your draw pile to your hand, after which they go to your discard pile. When your draw pile is empty, shuffle your discard pile so that you have a new draw pile. Each turn you may perform 1 action and make 1 purchase. Every turn you buy additional cards, so you can achieve your goal in your own way. Do you go for a constructive method with the Forge, the Village and the Market, or do you try a more aggressive way with the Witch or the Militia? Because only 10 of the 26 kingdom cards are used in each game, Dominion is different every time. The Games Friends: “ If we could only take a few games to a desert island, Dominion would probably be one of them. Due to the enormous number of expansions you can keep rotating and have a different game every time. Highly, HIGHLY recommended!"

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Once a year, the best miracle doctors and proselytizers come together in Kakelenburg to brew drinks against sweaty feet, homesickness, hiccups and heartbreak. However, every quack cooks his own soup here. Each player draws ingredients from his own supply bag, composed during the course of the game, until he thinks his drink is perfect. But be careful: a few popping peas and the whole drink will explode. So it is better to stop in time and cook a smaller portion and use the proceeds to purchase valuable ingredients. In this way, the supply bag fills with more and more useful ingredients, which may make the next drink even better and earn more points. In this game with more than 2000 combination options, the proven deckbuilding system is combined with the popular “push your luck” mechanism. The Games Friends: “ The Kwakzalvers van Kakelenburg is a fantastic game, where you have to make many tactical choices and need a little bit of luck. Normally we would find that element of luck a shame, but because at Kwakzalvers you have plenty of options to avoid it, it doesn't bother us at all. Kwakzalvers is really great!"

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A bird game full of tactics and excitement As a bird lover, you try to create the best living conditions for the birds in your sanctuary. Each bird expands a chain of powerful combinations in one of its habitats. These habitats focus on different growth factors: grabbing food, laying eggs and drawing new bird cards. Who will build the best action motor and score the most points with their birds at the end of the game? Each turn you play a bird, after which you can perform all actions in the relevant habitat. This way you can take food from a “real” birdhouse, place egg miniatures in nests or collect new birds. All options earn points in different ways. The Games Friends: “ Wingspan is absolutely fantastic! The artwork is beautiful, the game mechanics are very good and the rules are simple. As far as we are concerned, Wingspan should not be missing in any games cabinet. Really and truly! ”

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In the beautiful Everdell Valley, beneath the treetops, lies a civilization full of hardworking forest dwellers. For years this place has provided shelter, but now it is time to expand. In Everdell you are the leader of a group of forest dwellers and you are tasked with expanding your empire. You do this by building buildings and adding new characters to your group. Will you have the strongest civilization before the winter moon takes over the valley?

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Build the most prestigious amusement park ever! Buy the most exciting attractions, offer the best services and welcome as many visitors as possible through buses and advertising. Respond to the needs of the audience and success will follow! Make sure you don't neglect any visitors, as unhappy visitors will damage your reputation. Organize your park with new attractions and offer your visitors the best services. When visitors are satisfied, you earn the most prestige points. Choose your attractions carefully and make sure the various paths through your park don't become dead ends, which, like unhappy visitors, will damage your good reputation. At the end of the game, your park is evaluated and the player with the most prestige points is declared the winner.

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In New York Zoo you design your own zoo. In the game you create enclosures for the animals, bring new animals to the zoo and care for their offspring. The game flow is simple: on your turn you can build a new enclosure in your zoo or place new animals in your zoo to fill your enclosures. You will have to make smart choices to complete your zoo as quickly as possible. New York Zoo is a puzzle game by Uwe Rosenberg for 1 to 5 players. When building your zoo, try to find a good balance between the animals and the enclosures and make good use of the attractions. The first player to completely fill the zoo wins the game!

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In Mille Fiori you take on the role of glassblower and trader. You focus on glass production through workshops, trade and own houses. Whoever invests the smartest will score the most points and win this beautifully designed game. The Mille Fiori game board is divided into 5 different categories, each of which awards points in its own way. The five categories represent different phases in the world of glassblowing. Workshops are places where glass is produced. Houses are places where glass is used. Trading houses sell the glass and the port takes care of exports. There is also a category with people containing people who support your work. In each category you will find spaces where you can place diamond tokens, which score points. You get five cards per round. During a turn, you choose one of these cards and pass the rest to the player next to you. Based on the card you play, you place a diamond token in one of the categories on the game board. When four cards have been played and passed in this way, the last card is discarded and the round ends. In the “Workshops” category, you score one point for each token that forms a group with the newly placed token. If you place a token on a pigment field, this score is doubled. In the “Houses” category you get points for the field you place your chip on. If this spot is preceded by other tokens in your color, you gain the points from those tokens again. The “People” category is shaped like pyramids. The higher you place your chip in the pyramid, the more points you get. However, you may not place tokens on higher layers until those below have been completed. If you have already placed chips in one of the previous layers, they will give you points again when new chips are placed in the layers above. The “Trade” category has places for tokens, which show four different types of goods. For each token you place with a certain commodity type, you get points for all tokens of that commodity type. In the “Port” category you can move your ship on the harbor track instead of placing tokens. The further the ship goes, the more points you get. You can also place a token in one of the five rows of the port. Once a row is full, you get points for the goods placed in the “Trade” category next to the rows of the “Port” category. Each category has options to play additional cards from an offer next to the game board. By smartly choosing cards and placing chips, you can cause chain reactions for more and more points. When someone places the last chip from their own supply or when all the cards are gone, the game is over. The one with the most points wins.

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