New Game Expansions and Small-Box Game

Two new game expansions: Parks Wildlife and Sagrada Glory, along with San Francisco, a standalone Ticket To Ride small-box city version have arrived!

– NEW GAME EXPANSION –

Parks Wildlife is an expansion to Parks, a game that celebrates America’s National Parks. The Parks Wildlife Expansion adds the New River Gorge National Park, new trail sites, fresh canteens, new gear, and more season cards. Additionally, there is a Wild Bison that will roam the parks cards granting bonuses. – – 1 to 5 players – – 40 to 70 minutes game time

In the base game, Parks each player takes on the role of 2 hikers as they trek across different trails during the four seasons of a year to see sites and visit parks all worth victory points. Each journey is unique with gear, canteens, and photos earned along the way.

– NEW SMALL-BOX GAME –

Ticket To Ride San Francisco is another in Days Of Wonder small-box Ticket To Ride City series. Each is a standalone game that is a quick lighter version of Ticket To Ride. You’ll travel to the various iconic locations of that city. – – 2 to 4 players – – 10 to 15 minutes game time

Welcome to the 1960’s San Francisco.  In this fast-paced game, players race one another through the busy streets of San Francisco visiting iconic tourist attractions while completing their destination tickets. During the game, players will draw transportation cards, draw additional destination tickets, claim routes, and collect souvenirs. Points are scored for the value of the claimed routes, completed destination tickets, and for souvenirs collected. Points are deducted for uncompleted destination tickets.

– NEW GAME EXPANSION –

Sagrada Glory is the third and final in The Great Facades Expansion series for the base game Sagrada, a dice drafting and window crafting game. – – 2 to 4 players – – 30 to 45 minutes game time

The Sagrada Glory modular expansion introduces these four modules:

  1. Strife – gray dice that are always in the draft pool. They have restrictions on where they can be placed and how they contribute to scoring that change with each game.
  2. Pioneer – objectives that are awarded during the game to the player who is first to achieve a specific goal.
  3. Flourish Cards – risky private objectives worth points if the player achieves a specific color pattern in their window – negative points if not achieved.
  4. Rivalry Public Objectives – rewards players on how well they achieved a goal compared to the other players.

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Games Back in Stock

Games back in stock this week are: Cascadia, Villagers, Great Western Trail, Above And Below, World’s Fair 1893, and Cardline.

  • Cascadia – A spatial puzzle tile-laying game based on the wildlife and habitats here in the Pacific Northwest. Players are going to build their own play area featuring five different terrain types and populated with five different animal types. Scoring cards will be revealed at the start of the game, one for each different animal. – – 1 to 4 players – – 30 to 45 minutes game time
  • Villagers – A card drafting and village building game. Set during the Middle Ages, players are founders each building a new village of people. You will need to find people that can work together to make a profit, while increasing your food surplus and capacity for building new houses in order to make your village the most prosperous. – – 1 to 5 players – – 30 to 60 minutes game time
  • Great Western Trail (2nd Edition) – Head ’em up move ’em out. It’s time to move those herds along from Texas to the railhead of Kansas City. Create strategic outposts along the way to help you on your future treks through. The 2nd edition includes new artwork, a new breed of cows to sell, dual-layer player boards, 2 new buildings, 4 new master tiles, exchange tokens, and solitaire rules for solo play. – – 2 to 4 players – – 75 to 150 minutes.
  • Above And Below – Blends town-building and storytelling.   You will build your village above ground and explore the cavern below.  You’ll need to manage your villagers, each with a unique identity.  A book of encounters gets you into the storytelling aspect of the game. – – 2 to 4 players – – 90 minutes game time
  • World’s Fair 1893 – Travel back in time to an event that demonstrated what was at the time considered cultural and technological entertainment. With simple mechanics and layers of depths, collect exhibition sets, admission tickets, and control exhibition areas as the Ferris wheel ticks away the game turns. This new edition includes a new group of payable historical figures that include: Ida B. Wells, Frederick Douglass, Irvine Garland Penn, Fannie Barrier Williams, and Susan B. Anthony. – – 2 to 4 players – – 40 minutes game time
  • Cardline Animals and Cardline Globetrotters – Card game played with approximately 100 cards. Both sides of each card depict an image with one side also including traits of the image. In the Animal version the traits are length, weight, and lifespan. In the Globetrotter version the traits of the depicted country are size, population, GDP, and CO2 emissions. Players try to be the 1st to get rid of their cards from their tableau. A random starting card is placed in the central play area with the traits side face-up. One of the traits will be chosen as the trait in play during the game. In turn order, players will place one of their face-down trait cards into the central play area where they think if falls in numerical sequencing with the other cards there. Only after choosing a spot, will they flip it over revealing the traits. If they are incorrect, they discard that card and draw a new card without looking at the trait side and place it face-down in their tableau. Play continues with the next player. – – 2 to 7 players – – 15 minutes game time

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Game Profile: Sagani

  • Publisher: Eagle-Gryphon Games
  • Players: 1 to 4
  • Time: 45 minutes

Sagani is an abstract tile placement game with simple rules. Each player will create their own tableau of nature tiles that are one of four basic colors: blue for water, green for earth, red for fire, and white for air. Tiles are taken in turn order from the central play area. Up to five will be available on each round. Each tile has a number on it that represents its scoring value and anywhere from 1 to 4 arrows that point in different directions with each arrow one of the basic colors. For example, a blue tile could have three arrows, a white, a red, and a blue or any combination including repeat colors. You’ll place discs from your supply on the tile equal to the number of arrows. At any point during the game when an arrow points to another tile of the appropriate color, you cover the arrow with a disc from the center of its tile. When all of the arrows on a tile have been covered the tile is scored and flipped to the reverse side to indicate it is completed and scored, and the discs are returned to your supply.

If your supply of discs runs out or you don’t have enough to fill a tile you must take red discs from a common supply. Each red disc costs you a one-time 2 points on the scoring track. These can then be reuse them for the remainder of the game. This can work to your advantage in getting higher valued tiles scored when your disc supply is running low.

The end of the game is triggered when a player reaches or exceeds the set number of points as determined by the number of players. You’ll finish the round with each player having a turn. The player with the most points at the end of the round is the winner.

The tiles are colorful, and the artwork is great. Now if we could just get those arrows to point at the right tiles.

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New Game: Wormholes

Wormholes is a pick-up and deliver game paced at light speed where players will connect the galaxy one wormhole at a time and use those wormholes to pick-up and deliver passengers. – – 1 to 5 players – – 45 to 60 minutes game time

Players build a system of Wormholes across the galaxy to deliver passengers to the planet of the passenger’s choice.  On their turn, a player has a variety of actions they can take. They can use energy tokens to move their ship one space at a time up to three times, place wormholes, use their or an opponent’s activated wormholes to make free jumps, collect additional passenger cards, and deliver passengers to their assigned planet. They may take these actions in any order and some as many times as they choose. If you are the first person to place a wormhole next to a planet you earn an exploration token worth victory points.

Points are awarded for discovering planets, delivering passenger, and having other players use your strategically placed Wormholes.  Additionally, you could earn a Galactic Tour Bonus of three points each for your 6th, 7th, etc., different planet that you delivered a passenger to.

Wormholes comprises of a modular board made-up of double-sided space tiles, player color miniature ships, wormhole tokens, 100 passenger cards, and more.  The universe could change on each play of the game.

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Games Back In Stock

Games back in stock are: Root, Betrayal At House On The Hill, Fleet The Dice Game, Pastiche, Take It Easy, Lords & Ladies, Guillotine.

  • Root – Players attempt to rule a fantastic forest kingdom in the ultimate asymmetric game of adventure and war. Play one of these four factions: Marquise de Cat, Eyrie Dynasties, Woodland Alliance, or Vagabond each with their own specialty. – – 2 to 4 players – – 60 to 90 minutes game play
  • Betrayal At House On The Hill  – A cooperative haunted house tile laying game with a traitor element. Players take on a character roles and explore a haunted mansion that they will create room by room. As a team they will encountering spirits and frightening omens that foretell their fate. But be forewarned at some point one of you will become a traitor and work against the team. – – 3 to 6 players – – 60 minutes play time
  • Fleet The Dice Game – A strategic roll and write dice game from the creators of Fleet! The Game takes place over 10 rounds, with each round having two phases, the Boat Phase and the Town Phase. In the boat phase, players will select one die to check off the matching boat type on their sheet – unlocking license powers and boat launches to catch fish. In the town phase, each player selects one die to use to unlock special buildings in the Wharf that grant bonuses, ships in the harbor to earn points and catch more fish, or go to the market and gain income to generate bonus actions. Fishing occurs between phases in the even rounds, and the player with the most points at the game end wins. – – 1 to 4 players – – 30 minutes game play
  • Pastiche – Recreate the world’s masterpieces with beautiful colors in this tile placement game. Players will choose commission cards picturing 34 of the finest European and American art worlds of the past six centuries. Players score their commissions by mixing primary colors through clever tile placement, recreating the palette of colors used by the masters who created these works. – – 2 to 4 players – – 45 to 60 minutes game play.
  • Take It Easy – A quick-playing tile placement family game. Place your tiles, when they are called, to form as many complete, continuous-color lines as you can on for the highest score. All players have the same tiles , so placement is everything as you fill your board. – – 1 to 6 players – – 20 minutes game play
  • Lords & Ladies – –  A fast paced card game of family legacy, gossip, and intrigue – – 2 to 5 players – – 60 minutes play time.
  • Guillotine – An easy to learn and fun to play revolutionary card game where you win by getting a head. Each round, twelve nobles are lined up for the guillotine. The nobles are worth varying points, depending on their notoriety. During your turn, you play action cards to change the order of the line so you can collect the best nobles. – – 2 to 5 players – – 30 minutes play time
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New Game: Sagani

New is Sagani, an abstract tile placement game by designer Uwe Rosenberg (Nova Luna, A Feast For Odin, Fields of Arle, Cottage Garden, Agricola, Bohnanza, and more). Players will try to lure nature spirits out of their vessels. The spirits strive to maintain harmony between the elements of fire, water, earth, and air. As you and your opponents create this colorful, harmonious world by employing your Sound discs, the spirits become fully visible. Every spirit that shows itself also brings you a step closer to victory. – – 1 to 4 players – – 45 minutes game play.

Each turn, you will choose a Spirit of Nature tile and place it in your personal display. The arrows on the tiles placed indicate the needed alignment of other tiles so that they match in color. As soon as you have aligned together all the arrows on the tiles with the proper colored tiles, you will be rewarded with points for completing the task. However, the pressure is on, because if at any point too many tasks remain unfulfilled, you will receive Cacophony discs and negative points.

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New Game: Gutenberg

Gutenberg is a mid-level strategy game where players take on the role of printing pioneers. Based on the person who invented the printing press, the game uses tracks for typesetting, wood cutting, binding and illuminating. During the game, players will acquire and fulfill orders for valuable volumes, develop their specialties, improve their printing houses, and obtain the support of a powerful patron. Through these actions, players will earn fame points, which will determine the winner. – – 1 to 4 players – – 50 minutes game play

Each player starts with a character with a special ability and two letters, (A, E, I) etc.  Each turn will consist of 5 possible actions.  Players will go behind a screen and place cubes on their own bidding board to see which actions they will do this round and in which turn order they will get to go.  There are 5 action slots to bid on: take orders, take pigments, increase technologies, take gears for their player board, and hire a patron to give them points at game end.  Players have enough cubes to bid on all 5 actions, but the player who places the most cubes on an action spot will go first to take that action.  The actions allow players to increase one of the 5 things.  The actions will be determined by face up tiles or cards for each.  Going first will be an advantage for each action.  Once the actions are completed every player has the opportunity to fulfill orders.  Each player can be working towards no more than 4 orders at one time.  Points are awarded for orders completed during the game.  At game end points are also earned for any patrons taken and for reaching certain heights along the tracks for each of the four technologies.  The player with the most points will win. 

   

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New in a Series: Star Wars Villainous

Newest in the Villainous series is Star Wars Villainous: Power of the Dark Side. In this edition, you’ll play as an iconic Star Wars™ Villain. Choose Darth Vader™, Kylo Ren™, General Grievous™, Asajj Ventress™, or Moff Gideon™. – – 2 to 4 players – – 50 minutes game play

Others in the Villainous line is the Disney series, each that can be played as a standalone game or mixed and matched with the others in the Disney series.

Each Star Wars Villain has a unique objective and abilities based on their story and abilities. You’ll also meddle with your opponents by playing forcing them to face off against Jedi and heroes like Luke Skywalker™, Han Solo™, Princess Leia™, the Mandalorian™, and Ahsoka Tano™.

Each player has their own Star Wars villain deck, fate deck, player board, and 3D character.

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Jigsaw Puzzles: Cobble Hill

This week’s shipment of Cobble Hill jigsaw puzzles includes these new images in the 2000-piece size. Come in and shop our large selection and variety of puzzles.

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Jigsaw Puzzles: White Mountain

New images for White Mountain jigsaw puzzles have arrived! Come in and check out our great selection of jigsaw puzzles. We carry a variety of brands.

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