How would you define the Little Mermaid? And what about Captain America? Kissable? Edible? Colorful? But wouldn’t this definition also apply to a unicorn? Or candy? Defining a word is a challenge in itself when you can use all the words you want, so will you succeed with only a handful of random adjectives?

An original components: punch cards and deck shoe 

An innovative collection mechanism 

Quick games in a colorful world full of cute animals 

Almanac: The Crystal Peaks is a game of trade, travel, and adventure through a whimsical fantasy realm! Players will visit strange places, acquire and sell goods, and face an unpredictable set of encounters as they travel from the Trader's Village to either High Frost, the seat of power in the region, or Two Twins City, the center of commerce! In Almanac: The Crystal Peaks, adventure and riches are just a turn of the page away!

Almanac: The Crystal Peaks is the second entry in the Almanac series of games from acclaimed designer Scott Almes. Each round of Almanac is played on a different page in the gamebook. Each page represents a unique location/board with a special twist on worker placement. When combined an innovative bidding mechanism for turn order and a vast array of fantasy encounters, every game of Almanac: The Crystal Peaks is a new experience!

—description from the publisher

This 14-card promo pack introduces new distillers from around the world, as well as premium bottles and customizable flavor cards.

Far away from the big cities lies a mysterious forest. Thousands of years ago, there lived tribes that worshiped the spirits of the woods. Even now, ruins of their sanctuaries, conquered by ivy and amarbel, can be found among the trees. Rumour has it that those spirits have always been benevolent and sometimes leave their guests precious gifts: a piece of amber here, a bluebird’s feather or an ancient figurine of some outwardly stone there… Now it’s your time to head out to the magical forest, earn respect of its guardians and collect all their gifts!

Every player takes the Character card and all 5 Footsteps of their chosen color and places 1 Footstep on the first position of the Dream Path. Assemble the forest board according to the player count.

Players take turns clockwise starting with the first player.
When a players has all 5 different gift tokens (no matter how many of each kind), the game immediately ends and that player wins.

During your turn you must move first, and then perform an action.

Movement:
Place one of your Footsteps onto a hex without your Footstep.
You can’t place your Footstep onto a hex where you already have a Footstep.
You can’t place your Footstep onto a hex if there are no adjacent hexes with your Footsteps.

Action:
After the movement phase you must perform an action on the hex where you’ve just placed the Footstep. You have two options:
Perform that hex’s action — but first you must pay Leaves for all Footsteps there, except yours.
Gather Leaves — take 2 Leaves from the supply.

Players continue taking turns until one of them wins.

In Oath, one to six players guide the course of history in an ancient land. Players might take the role of agents bolstering the old order or scheme to bring the kingdom to ruin. The consequences of one game will ripple through those that follow, changing what resources and actions future players may have at their disposal and even altering the game's core victory condition.

If a player seizes control by courting anarchy and distrust, future players will have to contend with a land overrun by thieves and petty warlords. In a later game, a warlord might attempt to found a dynasty, creating a line of rulers that might last generations or be crushed by the rise of a terrible, arcane cult.

In Oath, there are no fancy production tricks, app-assisted mechanisms or production gimmicks. The game can be reset at any time and doesn't require the same play group from one game to the next. A player might use the fully-featured solo mode to play several generations during the week and then use that same copy of the game for Saturday game-night with friends. There are no scripted narratives or predetermined end points. The history embedded in each copy of Oath will grow to be as unique as the players who helped build it.

—description from the publisher

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

The Powering Up! expansion takes Tesla vs. Edison gameplay to a whole new level by infusing exciting new systems and introducing both a sixth player and a solitaire variant!

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.

Dice Town is in full effervescence, the first derricks, make their appearance around the city. Will you be ready for this new adventure? The titles of exploitation are rare and only the smartest or luckiest, will become The new Baron of the black gold.

Dice Town is in full effervescence, the first derricks, make their appearance around the city. Will you be ready for this new adventure? The titles of exploitation are rare and only the smartest or luckiest, will become The new Baron of the black gold.

Gorus Maximus is a bloody trick-taking game of gladiatorial combat in which the trump suit can change mid-trick! The game can be played "player vs. player" or in teams.

Dispatch your strongest gladiators and most ferocious beasts to earn crowd favor! Match the rank of the last gladiator played, and the trump suit changes immediately!

Players are dealt a hand of ten gladiator cards and must contribute one gladiator to each bout (trick). There is a preferred school (trump suit) and the strongest gladiator from this school wins the bout. If no preferred gladiator entered the fight, then the strongest initiating gladiator (suit called for) wins. Players must follow the initiating school if possible, or they may "challenge" by matching the strength of the last gladiator played, immediately changing the preferred school to that of their gladiator!

Players compete to collect gladiators with positive crowd favor and avoid those with negative favor. The player with the highest favor at the end of the round earns 1 crowd support. The first player to earn 3 crowd support has won the support of the masses and earns the title: Champion of Gorus Maximus!

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

Dans la Rome Antique, l’apparition des tavernes changea le mode de vie des classes sociales, suite à un jeu nommé DRINKING WAR, qui devint rapidement populaire. Paysans, chevaliers, nobles, tous en profitaient pour régler leurs comptes à l’aide de ce jeu stratégique à boire ! L’engouement de ce jeu fit cependant apparaitre une maladie jusqu’alors inconnue « la Gueule de Bois » en l’an 17 après JC.
Un an plus tard, un sommet exceptionnel tenu par l’Empereur Tatoubu interdit le jeu pendant 2000 ans en isolant les règles au fin fond de la cave du Vatican.
Aujourd'hui, il revient après une éternelle attente pour révolutionner nos soirées !

Dans la Rome Antique, l’apparition des tavernes changea le mode de vie des classes sociales, suite à un jeu nommé DRINKING WAR, qui devint rapidement populaire. Paysans, chevaliers, nobles, tous en profitaient pour régler leurs comptes à l’aide de ce jeu stratégique à boire ! L’engouement de ce jeu fit cependant apparaitre une maladie jusqu’alors inconnue « la Gueule de Bois » en l’an 17 après JC.
Un an plus tard, un sommet exceptionnel tenu par l’Empereur Tatoubu interdit le jeu pendant 2000 ans en isolant les règles au fin fond de la cave du Vatican.
Aujourd'hui, il revient après une éternelle attente pour révolutionner nos soirées !

size of the tray once set up =) 74 cm x 19cm 

Orléans Stories is based on the bag-building mechanism known from Orléans, with this mechanisms having been further developed into a storytelling experience in which players go through different eras and face different challenges. Broadly speaking, instead of focusing on the city of Orléans and trade with the surrounding villages, player are now settling the Loire Valley. Players must farm and produce, found villages, and build fortresses and churches. They will experience times of prosperity and success, but also times of deprivation; they must defy hunger and plague, fight for their land, and perhaps conquer foreign lands to secure the lives of their settlers. In the end, however, there is peace and the joint administration of territories and villages.

The game includes two stories: "The First Kingdom" and "The King's Favor". "The First Kingdom" is an epic story that spans eight so-called eras, and each era features different conditions and emphases. Sometimes knights settle down, with whose help you can conquer foreign territories, sometimes the plague threatens to decimate the population of settlers unless all have worked together to develop medicine.

"The King's Favor" is shorter, simpler, and more suitable as an introduction to the game. Over five eras, certain tasks have to be fulfilled by the end of each era, and those who fail to do so will drop out mercilessly. The threat of having to end the game prematurely provides a constant thrill, but all tasks are achievable, so that (usually) all players experience the end of the fifth era — but those who have concentrated only on the tasks will be punished because at this point everyone's achievements will be compared in the king's castle, and you will receive victory points for territory size, buildings, goods, and coins.

The different eras affect the parameters of play as well as the rules of the game, creating new strategic possibilities. This challenges players to constantly adapt to current conditions, giving you the impression of experiencing a story, but unlike in legacy games, these stories can be repeated as often as you like. The changes from era to era require a new way of looking at things from a distance, but this is made easier for players by a story booklet in which players will find not only all relevant information and rule peculiarities, but also hints of how to prepare for the upcoming game in the form of a narrated story.

—description from the publisher

Egizia: Shifting Sands is an updated version of the beloved strategy game Egizia. Players travel down the Nile, placing boats as they go, to collect resources that will help them construct some of Egypt's most famous monuments. With new monuments to build, new cards to collect, and a constantly shifting river, Egizia: Shifting Sands Edition is a streamlined, modern update that both longtime fans and new players can easily pick up and enjoy.

In Egizia, players must place their pawns following the course of the Nile, moving northwards. In this way, each placement not only blocks the opponents from choosing the same square (except monuments, where multiple players are always allowed), but also forces the player to place their remaining pawns only on the squares below the one they just occupied.

When the placement phase is over, the workers of the players (which are separate from the pawns) must be fed with the grain produced in the fields. The production of each field is based on the floods of the Nile, so some fields may not give grain each turn. If a player doesn't have enough grain for all their workers, they must buy it with victory points. After that, stones are received from the owned quarries and used to build the monuments (if the right to do so was reserved earlier) along with the workers.

In this new edition, players each get a chance to build across the Colonnade, a new monument. The more columns you build, the better powers you unlock to help you on the river. Perhaps once per turn you can place boats on occupied river spaces or upstream, or gain an extra point each time you place bricks in monuments. With randomized rewards from game to game, the Colonnade is a dynamic new monument to shake up traditional gameplay.

Below the Colonnade, where the graves once stood, lie the mysterious statues — a new monument unlike anything else in Egizia. These tiny build sites are cheaper than any other monument, but they hold the potential for high reward if you fulfill their requirements. Players must plan early as they can place only one brick in a statue per round, and each level they build has more strenuous requirements for endgame bonuses.

Egizia: Shifting Sands keeps all the painstaking risk/reward decisions of the original Egizia and adds new depths of strategy, balance, and gameplay for a fresh twist on a timeless classic.

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!

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!