Game Profile: Baker’s Dozen

Name Baker’s Dozen
Byline The Deliciously Exciting Card Game With Baked In
Fun
 Mechanics Memory, Math, Hand Management
Theme Donuts
Publication Playroom Entertainment, 2008
Ages 8+
Time 30
Players 3 – 6
Description

Sort the different kinds of donuts to form a Baker’s
Dozen, but don’t let the total value go over 13!  If you do,
you’ll have to take all the donut cards in that pile, which may include moldy
donuts, too!

Be the player with either the most or none of any type of donut
and you’re safe – otherwise, take the risk of eating the old yucky donut in
this clever family card game!

AWARDS: Dr. Toy 100 Best Childre’s Products Winner

Keywords: Baker’s Dozen,
Family Game, Card Game, Game Profile

Game Profile: Belfort

Name Belfort
Byline Become The Master Castellan of Belfort
Mechanics Area Control, Hand Management, Worker Placement
Theme Fantasy
Publication Tasty Minstrel Games, 2011
Ages 13+
Time 90 – 120
Players 2 – 5
Description

You’ve got 3 Dwarfs, 3
Elves, No Gnomes, a handful of supplies, and 7 months to prove that you’re the
best builder in Belfort. Now get out there and win!

Put your Elves, Dwarfs,
and Gnomes to work in the Village and Guilds of Belfort to
collect resources and build up a city. Construct buildings in the five
districts of the pentagonal city and hire Gnomes to run them and gain their
special abilities. Belfort is a worker placement game
with area majority scoring in each district as well as each type of worker. 

Game Profile: Bohnanza

To Bean or Not to Bean



Mechanics Set collection, Trading, Hand Management
Theme Beans
Publication Rio Grande Games, 1997
Ages 8+
Time 45
Players 2 – 7
Description

Bean farming was never
so much fun! In Bohnanza, you have two or three bean fields and a handful of
bean cards to plant in those fields. When you sell beans, you earn more for
growing more of one variety than a few of several. Thus, you want to plant as
many of your favorites as you can. But you must plant the beans in your hand in
the order you got them. To get rid of the beans you don’t want to plant, you
trade them to other players for those you want. With clever trading, you get
the cards you want without helping the other players too much. In the end, the
player who earns the most gold is the winner!




We have an open copy of Bohnanza  available in our Demo Games Library for you come in and try out.


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Come and visit us at 30 NW 2nd Street in Historic Downtown Gresham. We have a full range of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, dice games and more. Also for the puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.

We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area.

Game Profile: Bridgetown Races

Name Bridgetown Races
Byline A Race Across The Bridges Of Portland, Oregon
 Mechanics Point-to-Point Movement
Theme Bridges of Portland
Publication Gryphon Games, 2010
Ages 13+
Time 45
Players 2 – 4
Description
Each year, the
international bridge Racing Association selects a city with lots of bridges to
host its annual Bridgetown Race. This year they have chosen Portland, Oregon,
USA. Players, using bicycles, motorcycles, taxis, buses, automobiles, the
street car sometimes their own two feet, try to cross each bridge and capture
its flag. Be the first to cross every bridge and you win the race.
Keywords: Bridgetown
Races, Portland Bridges, Family Game, Game Profile

Game Profile: Castle Panic

Can You Defend Your Castle?


Mechanics Cooperative Play, Hand Management
Theme Monsters, Medieval
Publication Fireside Games, 2009
Ages 10+
Time 60
Players 1 – 6
Description


Castle Panic is a family fun, lite strategy cooperative game for 1 to 6 players.  Players must work together to defend their castle located in the center of the board, from monsters that attack out of the forest at the edges of the board.   Players trade cards, hit and slay monsters (i.e. orcs, goblins, & trolls), dodge boulders and even plague; do whatever it takes to keep the castle towers intact.


Collectively, players either win or lose against the monsters, but only the player with the most victory points is declared the Master Slayer.  Players must balance the survival of the group with their own desire to win.

We have an open copy of Castle Panic available in
our Store Demo Library for you come in and try out.

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in Historic Downtown Gresham. We have a full
range of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games,
dice games and more. Also for the puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles
from Ravensburger, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.

We
proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver
area.

Game Profile: Civilization, The Board Game

A game of culture, politics, and warfare.



Mechanics Modular Board, Variable Powers
Theme Civilization Building
Publication Fantasy Flight, 2010
Ages 13+
Time 180
Players 2 – 4
Description
Civilization: The Board
Game brings the bestselling
computer game to the tabletop. Players explore the world, research new
technologies, build an empire, and conquer their enemies in this struggle of
diplomacy and warfare. Two to four players race to become the first civilization
to leave their mark on history. Civilization features a unique map every game,
six different civilizations, and almost forty different technologies to learn.
With an innovative tech pyramid system to allow each civilization’s technology
to advance at its own pace, four different ways to win, and a fast addictive
combat system, no two games play the same.

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in Historic Downtown Gresham. We have a full
range of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games,
dice games and more. Also for the puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles
from Ravensburger, White Mountain, and Cobble
Hill.

We
proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area.

Game Profile: Claim It!

The claim-jumping game.

Classification Press Your Luck Family Game
Mechanics Dice Rolling, Area Control
Publication Wattsalpoag, 2006
Ages 8+
Time 20 – 40
Players 2 – 5
Description



Stake your claim!  It’s gold fever and you want to have the best patch of land in these gold-filled hills.  Roll the dice to mark a spot as your own.  Steal claims from other players, or double your claim to make a location permanently yours. You can keep rolling as long as you want, claiming more and more spots on each roll.  But watch out!  If you make a bad roll and can’t place a marker then you lose all of the markers you placed this turn.  End up with the biggest grouping and you win.






We have an open copy of Claim It!  available in our Store Demo Library for you come in and try out.

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We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area.

Game Profile: Cowabunga

The radiacal card game of surfin’ steers!

Classification Family Card Game
Mechanics Math, Memory
Theme Surfing Cows
Publication Playroom Entertainment, 2007
Ages 8+
Time 30
Players 2 – 5
Description

Catch a wave
in Cowabunga, the card game of ups and downs!

Ride high on the wave,
dodging obstacles as you play number cards to raise or lower the water level.
 Once the tide gets too high, it starts dropping.  Too low, and it
goes back up again.  Each time the tide changes, somebody gets an obstacle
card.  If you crash on someone else’s obstacle, it’s wipeout city for you,
dude! and you get a surfin’ cow.  If you can finish the game with the
least amount of wipeouts (i.e. surfin’ cows), you’ll be the big Cow-huna!



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We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area.

Game Profile: D and D: The Legend of Drizzt Board Game

Live The Adventure Of The Greatest Heroes In The
Realms!



Mechanics Cooperative Play, Dice Rolling, Modular Board,
Role Playing
Theme Fantasy, Adventures
Publication Wizards of the Coast, 2011
Ages 12+
Time 60
Players 1 – 5
Description

 The Legend
of Drizzt Do’Urden leaps from the pages of the New York Times best-selling
novels of R.A. Salvatore!  Play the legendary drow ranger or one of his
powerful companions as you battle monsters and explore fantastic locations such
as Neverwinter, Mithral Hall, and the mysterious Gauntlgrym.  Are you
ready for adventure?

The Legend of
Drizzt features exciting quests designed for a single player or a
cooperative group of 2-5 players, as well as team adventures and quests that
pit players against each other.  Each adventure can be played in an hour
or less.

After escaping from the
Underdark, look for other Dungeons & Dragons Adventure System cooperative
games, including the terror-filled Castle Ravenloft board
game and the furious Wrath of Ashardalon board game.
 Try combining one or more games for a new experience!  We carry all
three of these D&D board games.



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We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area.

Game Profile: Dominant Species

A titanic struggle for global supremacy between animal species.




Mechanics Area Control, Modular Board, Worker Placement
Theme Evolution
Publication GMT Games, 2010
Ages 12+
Time 180
Players 2 – 6
Description
War game specialists,
GMT Games, has something really new. Dominant Species is a game that
abstractly recreates a tiny portion of ancient history: the ponderous
encroachment of an ice age and what that entails for the living creatures
trying to adapt to the slowly-changing earth.

Each player will assume
the role of one of six major animal classes – mammal, reptile, bird, amphibian,
arachnid or insect. Each begins the game more or less in a state of natural
balance in relation to one another. But that won’t last; It is indeed the
“survival of the fittest”.
Through wily action pawn
placement, players will strive to become dominant on as many different terrain
tiles as possible in order to claim powerful card effects.  Players will also want to propagate their
individual species in order to earn victory points for their particular
animal.  Players will be aided in these
endeavors via speciation, migration and adaptation actions, among others.

All of this eventually
leads to the end of the game – the final ascent of the ice age – where the
player having accumulated the most victory points will have his animal crowned
the Dominant
Species.
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We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area.