Michael Kiesling, the author of Azul, invites you to put yourself in the shoes of talented marqueters called upon to renovate with classicism and taste the damaged parquet floor of a famous café, the "Café de Fleur".

A game of Café de Fleur is played in 3 rounds. At the start of each round, collect a card which gives you 10 color cards and jokers. These cards will then be used to pay for the different ornaments that you wish to place on your board.
These cards are the backbone of the game: in fact, the pieces that you are going to place require to be paid for with cards corresponding to the color of the outer frame of your rosette (the first piece that you place). Whatever piece you place, the cost will always be one and only one card.

Depending on the piece you place, you will have to discard a certain number of cards (between 1 and 4) and will always recover a corresponding number of cards which will balance the final cost to one card. For example, when you pay 1 card, you get nothing back. When you pay 2 cards you get 1 card back and so on... However, the cards you get from the draws must neither be jokers nor cards of the same color as those you used to pay for your ornament!

As soon as you no longer have any cards in your hand or no longer wish to place them (you can keep up to three cards for the next round), you can pass your turn. The round ends when all players have taken their turn.

Will you succeed in renovating the floor of the Café de Fleur brilliantly and winning the game?

Il est midi pile ! Il est grand temps de montrer ce que vous avez dans le ventre ! Enfer et damnation, vous ne savez pas comment la situation en est arrivée là... Peut-être que cette ville est trop petite pour vous tous. Vous jetez un dernier regard à la bande de trouillards devant vous et « Trois ! Deux ! Un ! DÉGAINEZ ! » Les pisto-doigts sont dégainés ! Cowboys du dimanche et bandits amateurs s’écroulent, frappés en plein cœur par des balles factices. Il est midi pile et c’est l’heure de montrer que vous avez du cran !

Fill your house with cats, mice and dice!

Form rooms using numbers. Then use the rooms' special abilities to score the most points.

There are 4 unique levels (each with their own rules), and every time you play you use a random set of 4 out of 12 possible abilities. This ensures new challenges every game.

House of Cats is a quick and clever roll-and-write game, and the first collaborative design by veteran designers William Attia and Kristian A Østby.

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HOW TO PLAY:

Each turn, one player rolls the dice and all players use the results to fill in spaces on their individual playing sheet. Keep taking turns until one player has filled every space on their sheet.

Try to group equal numbers together. A room is formed if you make a group with size equal to the number that makes up the group (i.e. groups of two 2's, three 3's, four 4's or five 5's). Each completed room scores points and gives you access to a special ability.

Cats and mice will score depending on the level you are playing.

As the Count of the small territory of the Nine Estates, you must build up the county into a powerful economic and cultural center. However, limited nearby resources force you to make difficult decissions. Can you earn the favor of the King?

Count of the Nine Estates is a 18-card reimplementation of Count of Nine.

Search your land for resources to build basic structures that will provide more resources. Use these structures and resources to build up your estates into a powerful economic force.

—description from the publisher


For Count of the Nine Estates, I did want to focus more on the experience. Looking back on Count of Nine, it seemed the player experience was a bit "on rails": once you pick a major structure to build, you are going to find the stuff you need to build that major structure. For Count of the Nine Estates, the player will have more freedom, and will have to make a couple strategic decisions during a match. So, I guess the "experience" I was going for CotNE is: a more strategic and "free" feeling compact, solo euro game.

—description from the designer


Count of the Nine Estates is a solo city building game played with 18 cards. Nine Estate cards are your targets to build: City Walls, a Cathedral, a Castle, and more. The other 9 cards make up the Structures deck which contains resources plus structures to be built. Play through the Structures deck in multiple rounds to build the structures needed that will enable you to build one or more of the Estates. The goal is to score the most victory points in the game, which is made up of 2 separate eras.

Victory points are awarded several ways:

Victory points marked on the Estate cards and some of the structure cards

+ 1 victory point for each structure built

+1 victory point for each duplicate structure built
-2 victory points for each round played

The party game you can play anywhere

Guess the number - but don't go too high!

Lighten up the mood at any game night, dinner party or couples therapy session. Play it during business meetings, datenight your uncle's funeral - or all three at once!

—description from the box

Gameplay:
One player reads a question (all answers are numbers). The active player must guess a number that is close to - but not higher - than the correct answer. Players take turns either making a guess that is higher than the previous player, or calling out a DARE if they believe the previous player guessed too high. When a Dare is called the answer is checked and the player who was wrong must keep the card for "Silly goose points". Once a player has collected a certain number of cards, the game ends, and the player with the most silly goose points loses. Everyone else wins.
Nearly no table space is required, and the game therefore works well as a party game in nearly any setting.

"How Dare you?" comes with 2 optional advanced rules that spice up the gameplay:

"Doubling": If you guess a number that is at least twice that of the previous player, you gain a doubling card. This card negates one "silly goose point". This variant tempts players to make higher guesses.

"Double Dare": If you are dared, you can either accept the dare and check the answer like normal, or you can reply with a "Double Dare". The player who is wrong will now get double punishment (two cards instead of one). But the player who initiated the dare, now has the option to chicken out and withdraw their dare. If they do, they must instead guess a higher number before the round continues as normal.

You've had your first encounter with these bugs, but now you've got to find a way off this rock. It'll be 17 days before any rescue mission is called, and you'll be lucky to survive 17 hours!

Aliens: Get Away From Her, You B***h! contains four double-sided game boards, five miniatures, tokens, dice, cards, and rules to adds more ways to play the Aliens: Another Glorious Day In The Corps! co-operative survival game. You can even play as the alien hive!

Aeon's End: Shattered Dreams is an expansion for the cooperative deckbuilding game Aeon's End: The New Age. This expansion features one new nemesis and one new breach mage, as well as new gems, relics, spells, and minions.

The cards from this expansion are numbered SD-001 through SD-106.
This includes:

- Nook
- The Wailing nemesis + Divider
- 56 Player Cards
- 12 Randomizer Cards
- 5 Treasure Cards
- 33 Nemesis Cards
- 5 Power Tokens
- 1 Target Token

Skytear Horde: Monoliths is stand-alone expansion to Skytear Horde, the lane-based card battler in which one or two players fight against the horde of monsters controlled by the game.

Players say Skytear Horde gives them the feeling of playing a solo or cooperative version of competitive card battlers such as Keyforge, Hearthstone, or Magic: the Gathering.

In the six lanes of the battlefield monsters attack your castle while beyond the enemy line smaller minions pillage your resources, forcing you to discard cards from your deck each turn.

You lose the battle if your castle is destroyed or your deck runs out of cards.

You win if you destroy the portal spawning the monsters and the epic monster leading the horde.

There are many interesting choices on the tactical and strategic level: strike a balance between defending and counter-attacking but also fighting the minions pillaging your deck and the monsters destroying your castle.

While you juggle all these decisions you also have to be careful not to run out of cards, as the principal way to draw new cards is to destroy monsters!

Skytear Horde is really quick to setup, play, and store away.
There are 3 difficulty levels suitable for complete beginners and veterans alike.

In just a few seconds you can restart a new game giving it a strong “just one more try” aspect.

Out of the retail box there are 3 ready-made alliance decks with different play styles and 3 horde decks with their own boss.
All decks can be mixed and customized to provide additional combinations.

Monoliths features a revised rulebook and streamlined gameplay that improves upon the original thanks to the direct interaction between the designers and thousands of players.

In Monoliths there are many new themes and mechanics refreshing the game on all the fronts.
For the horde, the "Charge" keyword brings the minion into the lanes for one turn threatening your castle while "Reinforce X" makes the weaker minions stronger. The 4 new hordes also features unique strategies and play-styles: for instance the Sinklings conceal themselves entering play face-down, while the Broods will fill the backline with Brood tokens that are essentially additional minions!

For the alliance, not even contemplating the four new pre-made decks, one fundamental change is that you must exhaust an ally in order to move it, giving even more meaning and depth to the positioning of your allies.
Cards are also designed with more potential combo's than ever, allowing for the power level to reach higher ceiling... something that you absolutely need given the brand new difficulty system that is designed around 3 variations of every single horde card, at 3 different power levels.

—description from publisher

The Resistance: Avalon pits the forces of Good and Evil in a battle to control the future of civilization. Arthur represents the future of Britain, a promise of prosperity and honor, yet hidden among his brave warriors are Mordred's unscrupulous minions. These forces of evil are few in number but have knowledge of each other and remain hidden from all but one of Arthur's servants. Merlin alone knows the agents of evil, but he must speak of this only in riddles. If his True identity is discovered, all will be lost.

The Resistance: Avalon is a standalone game, and while The Resistance is not required to play, the games are compatible and can be combined.

Aeon’s End: Outcasts continues the Expedition system that was introduced in Aeon’s End: New Age, which allows players to replay all of the content they own in a short campaign format. After each game, players will receive new treasures and player cards that allow them to become more powerful. However, the nemeses that players will face grow stronger and stronger with each battle.

Hello, student beings! The cosmic faculty of the Technical Academy of Creation is delighted to welcome you to your Civolution, the final exam in Civilization Design!

For this occasion, we prepared a humanoid scenario on an isolated continent. Here, each of you holds the rank of a local deity which is closely linked to its very own civilization and must lead it to success over the other civilizations. Your developmental possibilities are endless and reach from cultural and technical progress to evolutional adaptations. For example, what would you consider more beneficial to your tribes: inventing the wheel or growing wings? Demonstrate your ability to operate your civilization console and show us how well you can adjust to changeable environmental conditions and mild creational chaos.

When the exam ceases after four eras, whoever managed to gather the most success points will not only pass the exam but will become a full member of the Technical Academy of Creation and garner the opportunity to be promoted to the next instance.

Civolution is a medium heavy to heavy euro-style game that utilizes a dice selection mechanism to trigger actions on a tech tree-like structure. As you figure out how to best use your dice and put your unique cards into play, tons of strategies and paths to victory emerge, though each time you play, you will only explore a fraction of the possibilities that the game’s system and many cards provide.

—description from the publisher

An anthology of detective stories, Crime SuspenStories saw its first issue published in October 1950, under the label of the independent American publisher William Gaines: EC Comics. The stories offered by Crime Suspenstories are not simple police investigations, they have the particularity of highlighting ordinary citizens. But if the police are rarely involved, justice reigns because crimes are almost always punished by the game of fate...

Anthologie bimensuelle de récits d’aventures en haute mer publiée par Bill Gaines et éditée par Al Feldstein, Piracy a fait son apparition en octobre 1954, soit juste quelques mois avant l’annulation des titres d’horreur (Tales from the Crypt, The Vault of Horror et Haunt of Fear).

Le titre a préfiguré la “New Direction” qui surviendra dès le début 1955. Il sera arrêté au bout d’un an, après sept numéros, soit 28 histoires courtes originales et quelques 190 planches superbement illustrées par des grands noms de la BD américaine, tels que Wallace Wood, Reed Crandall, Bernie Krigstein, Jack Davis, Al Williamson, Graham ou Angelo Torres.

Courtney Crumrin a enfin trouvé sa place à Hillsborough... en tant qu'apprentie sorcière ! Installée avec ses ambitieux parents dans la maison de leur oncle, le Professeur Aloysius Crumrin, Courtney fait l'apprentissage de la sorcellerie. Les Choses de la nuit n'ont pas de secret pour Aloysius et il semble apprécier la compagnie de sa nièce. Il l'emmène donc visiter le vieux continent pour les vacances.
Mais Courtney va peu à peu découvrir que ce puissant sorcier lui réserve de nombreuses surprises et peut même se révéler être un adversaire des plus redoutables. Retrouvez Courtney Crumrin dans trois nouvelles histoires, où elle aura pour la première fois bien du mal à reconnaître ses alliés de ses ennemis, tandis que son passé semble bien décidé à la rattraper... Mais, rassurez-vous, la petite sorcière est futée et a plus d'un tour dans son sac !

Cette intégrale reprend les trois derniers tomes de la série, soit : Courtney Crumrin et Les Effroyables vacances, Courtney Crumin et l'Apprentie sorcière et Courtney Crumrin et le Dernier sortilège.

Bientôt la fin de la 2ème année et tout ne cesse de s’enchaîner. Déménagement, rupture, cœurs brisés, os brisés… Esther, Daisy et Susan feraient mieux de s’accrocher si elles veulent arriver à la 3ème, même si ce n’est pas en un seul morceau !

Oyez, mages d’Àereth ! Oubliez tout ce que vous croyez savoir de la magie. La maîtrise des arts occultes dépasse de loin la compréhension des sociétés primitives et des royaumes belliqueux de votre monde. Vos tours de passe-passe et vos sortilèges d’amateur ne sont que de simples charlataneries comparés au pouvoir véritable. Les membres de la Cabale Stellaire, pratiquants accomplis des techniques arcaniques, vous offrent une rare invitation en vous conviant à vous joindre à eux. Projetés dans le cosmos jusqu’à une merveilleuse cité volante, les magiciens sont vénérés comme maîtres de la création par les races de voyageurs des étoiles vivant autour d’un millier de soleils. Élancez-vous parmi les astres et emparez-vous du siège qui vous revient de droit dans le vénérable hall des puissants… si vous l’osez.

Quand une mission à la petite semaine se poursuit bien plus loin que prévu… Quand l'exploration de la lune se transforme en une course-poursuite mortelle… Quand un donjon poussiéreux recèle un cataclysme d'envergure cosmique… Et devinez qui se trouve au pire endroit au plus mauvais moment ? Gagné, vos aventuriers. Mais n'en disons pas plus. Il serait dommage qu'ils refusent cette mission impromptue et manquent l'occasion de se lancer… à la conquête de l'astre nocturne !

Rankster is a wildly different co-operative quiz game where you have to agree how you would rank famous people (and your friends). Simple but hilarious -

1- Turn over three character cards.

2- One player is the Judge who takes a question card, reads it to themselves, and secretly decides how they want to rank the characters on the basis of the question. They then read the question aloud to the other players.

3- The other players chat and have to all agree how they think the Judge has ranked the characters. Reveal the answer. If the players guessed the correct ranking everyone wins the round; if not everyone loses.

EXAMPLE:
Q: Who would you choose as the drummer in your rock band?
—Hermione Grainger
—George Washington
—Shrek

Start a new round, reveal three new characters and the next player becomes the Judge. Play until all players have been the Judge. You all win if you have succeeded more often than failing. It leads to hilarious arguments but it's not easy!