On the roster of The Wild & Aerial Show, the new act for Meeple Circus, you'll find a bear and wild lion, along with breathtaking aerial acts starring Otto the tumbler and Luna the tightrope walker!

Remember Our Trip is a board game in which players recreate a map of a city they visited together. After returning to your own country, you and the other players have gotten together to try to recall the map of either Kyoto or Singapore (depending on the game board you choose). You need to piece together the scenery of the map using fragments of your memories, with you earning bonus points if your memory matches that of the main board and other players.

In the game, each player has an individual image board, while everyone shares a common map board. Each of the twelve rounds of the game starts with the revelation of a "memory card", which shows one of six patterns that players can build on their image board with image tokens that they draft. Over multiple rounds, you'll compile image tokens next to one another, and if you have the right tokens in the right shape, you suddenly "remember" the building that matches the shape and image, placing that building on the shared common map and scoring points for it. You can additionally score points for completing buildings with image tokens that match buildings remembered by others, i.e., that they placed on the common board earlier. You've now remembered that building, too!

Each player also has objective cards and photo memory cards, and you can score points for satisfying them. If you can't fit all of your image fragments into play, you lose points for scattered thoughts. For more difficult play, you can use the 7x6 area on the Kyoto or Singapore game board instead of the regular 7x7 area.

Guardians Chronicles is a superhero-themed miniatures game in which you play as one of the members of the Liberty Patrol or as the group's archnemesis, Professor Skarov.

To set up, the Skarov player arranges the nine double-sided game board tiles into a 3x3 grid, with his control room in the center space. Each player takes her character sheet, miniature and 7-10 action cards. These characters enter the grid on one of the side tiles and need to advance around the square – confronting minions and traps along the way – in order to achieve whatever objectives are in place for this game, such as thwarting a nuclear missile attack.

Each turn, the hero players play 1-2 action cards; each card shows both a special power and modifiers to that hero's inherent statistics – movement, attack, defense and mental – and the played cards can be used for either the special power or the modifiers. Each hero player has four actions in a round, and the players can play in any order they wish; the actions are move across the base, attack an enemy, or use a special power on a played action card or the hero's character sheet.

Professor Skarov then receives a number of action points based partially on the heroes' actions, and he uses these to activate himself, his minions, or his robots, with these figures also performing move, attack, or special power actions.

As the players complete (or fail to complete) objectives, the newspapers report on who did what, and the sum of those reports determine who comes out on top.

Game description from the publisher:

Under the oceans, the revolt is growing! Aquarion, son of the deposed dictator, is determined to regain his throne! Can you prevent the rein of a dictatorship?

Guardians' Chronicles: True King of Atlantis, an expansion for Guardians' Chronicles, introduces a new threat to fight: Aquarion and his elite troops. The tiles included in this expansion allow you to ally Aquarion with Doktor Skarov, or to plunge into the depths of Atlantis.

Build your own gang and customize it to suit your plans. Gather resources to complete heists and money to recruit new gang members. And make sure you escape the police! A unique and fun game from the award-winning designers of Automania and Trails of Tucana.

Bad Company supports up to 6 players with very little downtime. It also includes a solo mode where you try to outsmart the police.

Each player has a player board with 11 gang members. You may upgrade them by placing overlapping cards onto them. This way, the visual appearances of your gang members change as they gain more abilities.

Each round, the active player rolls four dice and divides them into two pairs (pay coins to reroll). Each pair of dice activates one gang member on the active player's board. All other players may use one of the pairs to activate a single gang member on their own boards.

Activating a gangster provides resources needed to complete heists, money to upgrade your gang members, or advance your car through the city.
You want to advance your car, because you need to stay ahead of the police in order to collect loot along the city route.

You gain points by completing heists, upgrading your gang and by driving your car through the city.
Some completed heists provide special abilities which you can build your strategy around.

The game ends when a player completes their 6th heist, or when any car reaches the dock on the city track, and the player with the most points wins.

—description from designer

The war is not over! Reap the most alien artifacts to build your worm gate and crush the enemy factions in this expansion for the asymmetric area control card game, Lost Empires!

This expansion for Lost Empires: War for the New Sun, provides players with all the content required to play the game at higher player counts. Now, Lost Empires can be played with 3-4 players, or in 2v2 teams.

Note that the Kickstarter edition of Crown of Ashes also includes the components to play solo (listed separately).

A version of the game with a small printing error on the back: 126 cards are indicated instead of 132. Most of the boxes are in good condition.

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Aim of the game

    To win Drinking War, you must be the player at the end of the game with the most Health Points (HP).
    Your objective is to attack your opponents by giving them sips from the various cards.
    When you receive sips you have the choice of drinking them or not drinking them by losing one Health Point.

The game includes 3 different game modes (packs). The difficulty and strategy increases from Pack 1 to Pack 3.
It is also possible to play without drinking.

The Great Return

In Ancient Rome, the taverns appearance changed the way of life of social classes, following a game called DRINKING WAR, which quickly became popular. Farmers, Knights, nobles, everyone played it to settle their accounts with the help of this strategic drinking game! However, the craze of this game revealed a previously unknown disease "the Hangover" in the year 17 AD.
A year later, an exceptional Summit held by the YouDrankAll Emperor banned the game for 2000 years by isolating the rules in the depths of the Vatican cellar.
Today, it returns after an eternal expectation to revolutionize our parties!

—description from the designer

Cette extension pour OKKO – Voyage Légendaire complique considérablement la tâche d’Okko et de ses compagnons. Seront-ils capables d’accepter ce nouveau défi et de sauver l’Empire du Pajan de la chute entre les mains des forces obscures qui le convoitent ?

Cette extension rend la bataille finale contre les Oni plus riche et parfois plus difficile en introduisant une variété de créatures démoniaques, toutes différentes les unes des autres.

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

Recollect the images from your childhood. All the exciting books, graphic novels and movies full of tireless discoverers and travelers, surprisingly lethal archeologists, secret agents, or crocodile hunters. Now grab your cards and use them to form a unique expedition to find legendary treasures! So, where’s the catch? The heroes we’re talking about are close to immortal – whatever happened they always found a way out, never actually meeting enemies powerful enough to defeat them. You, on the other hand, will have to face your friends, who probably had the same sources of inspiration as yourself… It's time to prepare for a tough competition full of dirty tricks!

When playing Venturesome, you try to gather a group of adventurers able to undertake a chosen challenge while evading any threats. You use the abilities of your expedition members in order to thwart your rivals’ plans. However, bear in mind that your opponents are equally ready to steal, manipulate, or do anything that is necessary to defeat you. If you don’t act quickly and decisively, instead of finding the treasure, your expedition will get into real trouble. So, forget about scruples and compromises. Be smarter, quicker, and meaner that your rivals.

Venturesome is the spiritual successor of the legendary Palastgeflüster. With the updated game mechanics and victory conditions, you can expect hours of gaming full of negative interaction. In this game each move is a risk that might pay off.

Just remember about the most important rule: be RUTHLESS! That’s the only way you can win!

—description from the publisher

In the Pocket Detective game series, players take the role of investigators trying to get to the bottom of tangled cases and mysterious stories. Gather clues, interrogate suspects, perform arrests and identify evidence to successfully solve the case.

On their turn, each player chooses an available card to investigate. These cards can represent a Clue, a Location, Witness Interrogation, Special Action, Arrest of a Suspect, etc. Players will discover what actually happened by investigating leads on these cards. The objective is to solve a case in a minimum number of turns.

Pocket Detective Season 1 includes three cooperative card-based cases which will test your deduction for 1-6 players, ages 10+.
Test your investigative skills with three criminal cases: “Murder at the University,” “Dangerous Liaisons,” and “Time is Running Out.”

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the circus! You have one goal: dazzle your audience with the greatest show on Earth! Your acrobats, circus animals and stars will put on a show-stopping performance that will have everyone on the edge of their seat. But beware, competition is fierce!

Universe:
The ruling house of the empire is in decline & in their weakness and opportunity presents itself. The throne is within the grasp of any rival faction bold & cunning enough to grab power for themselves. In this nuanced conflict where diplomacy cuts just a sharply as the weapons of your army, be aware that neither cuts are deep as the assassin's blade. 
The throne is within your graps!

Réfugié dans son bordel, le Triste Sire est acculé par ses ennemis dirigés par le Rouennais. Parallèlement, dans les bas-fonds, un complot se met en place pour détrôner le Grand Coësre et installer Saïf à sa place. En surface comme sous-terre, la tension est à son paroxysme, les armes ont été sorties de leurs fourreaux, et c’est tout Paris qui tremble sur ses bases…Ce troisième livre clôt de façon magistrale le premier cycle du «  Roy des Ribauds  ».

Tout au long de sa carrière, Jean-Baptiste Andreae a dessiné pour lui-même des centaines de monstres et de jeunes femmes plantureuses. Ce beau livre regroupe les trésors méconnus d’un auteur qui ne cesse de renouveler son art et de peaufiner sa technique à travers ses sujets favoris : les créatures de toutes sortes…

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam.
(I shall either find a way or make one.) — Hannibal the Barcid

In 3 B.C. two genius strategists vied for the fate of the world.
Hannibal: The renowned Carthaginian general; and Scipio: The Roman Hero.
SCIPIO is a two-player strategy board game: players take on the role of military leaders to command the armies of an ancient age to crush your enemy.
Develop a formation and give orders to your armed forces — never be too aggressive nor too passive.
To win in SCIPIO, as in a real battle, read and bluff your opponent, plan a careful strategy, be a daredevil and have courage to get a break.
Gain a victory and claim glory with your leadership!

Plongeant au coeur du monde cauchemardesque orchestré par Guillermo del Toro dans Le labyrinthe de Pan, cette analyse explore les contextes culturels et historiques entourant le film. Elle examine la manière dont il utilise la mythologie et aborde la mémoire et l'oubli, mettant en lumière les techniques, les thèmes et les références qui se combinent pour engendrer de multiples significations.
La collection BFI : Les Classiques du cinéma regroupe des ouvrages finement écrits et joliment illustrés, qui introduisent, interprètent et célèbrent les films marquants du cinéma mondial. Chaque volume offre un argument pour le statut de “classique” du film, ainsi que le récit de sa production et de sa réception, sa place au sein d’un genre ou d’un cinéma national, un compte-rendu de son importance technique et esthétique et, dans de nombreux cas, la réponse personnelle de l’auteur par rapport à son film.

Soixante-dix ans après sa sortie, Chantons sous la pluie (1951) reste l'un des films les plus appréciés jamais réalisés. Pourtant, malgré un succès fulgurant auprès du public, il n'a jamais reçu sa juste part d'analyse critique. Le génie de Gene Kelly en tant qu'interprète est indéniable. Sa contribution innovante en tant que réalisateur est moins souvent reconnue. L'étude éclairante de Peter Wollen rend justice à ce film complexe. Dans sa préface à cette édition spéciale, publiée pour célébrer le 20e anniversaire de la collection BFI : Les Classiques du Cinéma, Geoff Andrew revient sur l'héritage du film et célèbre la passion, la lucidité et l'originalité de l'analyse de Wollen.
La collection BFI : Les Classiques du cinéma regroupe des ouvrages finement écrits et joliment illustrés, qui introduisent, interprètent et célèbrent les films marquants du cinéma mondial. Chaque volume offre un argument pour le statut de “classique” du film, ainsi que le récit de sa production et de sa réception, sa place au sein d’un genre ou d’un cinéma national, un compte-rendu de son importance technique et esthétique et, dans de nombreux cas, la réponse personnelle de l’auteur par rapport à son film.

Dès sa sortie en 1988, Le Tombeau des lucioles d'Isao Takahata a captivé le public avec son drame sans concession, et il est aujourd'hui considéré comme un des plus grands films d'animation de tous les temps.
Pourtant, le sombre chef-d'oeuvre des studios Ghibli reste peu analysé en dehors du Japon, alors même que sa signification est farouchement contestée - Takahata lui-même a déploré que peu de Japonais aient saisi son message. Dans la première véritable étude du film en Europe, Alex Dudok de Wit (réalisateur de LA Tortue Rouge) explore ses thèmes, ses dispositifs visuels et son utilisation révolutionnaire de l'animation, ainsi que le contexte politique dans lequel il a été réalisé. S'appuyant sur des récits non traduits de l'équipe du film, il décrit également sa production mouvementée, qui a failli conduire Takahata et son studio au désastre.

La collection BFI : Les Classiques du cinéma regroupe des ouvrages finement écrits et joliment illustrés, qui introduisent, interprètent et célèbrent les films marquants du cinéma mondial. Chaque volume offre un argument pour le statut de “classique” du film, ainsi que le récit de sa production et de sa réception, sa place au sein d’un genre ou d’un cinéma national, un compte-rendu de son importance technique et esthétique et, dans de nombreux cas, la réponse personnelle de l’auteur par rapport à son film.

L’ouvrage d’Eaton nous guide dans l’histoire de la production de Chinatown. L’auteur y résume également son intrigue complexe et propose des interprétations intrigantes. Eaton s’intéresse particulièrement à la symbolique du titre du film, qu’il considère comme ayant de multiples significations : c’est un état d’esprit, une image du monde, voire une métaphore du cinéma lui-même. Rompant avec la tradition critique, il attribue à Evans, le producteur, et non Polanski, Towne ou Nicholson, la force créatrice majeure derrière le film. Rompant avec la tradition interprétative, Eaton montre de la sympathie à l’égard de Jake Gittes, le héros du film, le décrivant comme un homme piégé dans un complot policier monté à ses dépends, un monde où « il vaut mieux ne pas agir, et mieux encore, ne pas savoir » la vérité.

La collection BFI : Les Classiques du cinéma regroupe des ouvrages finement écrits et joliment illustrés, qui introduisent, interprètent et célèbrent les films marquants du cinéma mondial. Chaque volume offre un argument pour le statut de “classique” du film, ainsi que le récit de sa production et de sa réception, sa place au sein d’un genre ou d’un cinéma national, un compte-rendu de son importance technique et esthétique et, dans de nombreux cas, la réponse personnelle de l’auteur par rapport à son film.