Game Profile: A Game Of Thrones: The Card Game

When you play the Game of Thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.

Classification 2-Player Strategy Game
Mechanics Hand Management, Card Drafting
Theme Fantasy, Novel-Based 
Publication Fantasy Flight, 2008
Ages 13+
Time 60
Players 2 – 4
Description
A Game of Thrones: The Card Game, is a card game of conquest, battle, intrigue, and betrayal based on George R.R. Martins’ bestselling A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novel series.

In the game each player represents 1 of the 6 Great Houses of Westero vying for control of the Iron Throne and power over the people of the Seven Kingdoms.  Power is gained by winning challenges against an opponent’s house.  There are 3 types of challenges: military, intrigue, and power.  The 1st player to gain 15 power wins the game.

A Game of Thrones: The Card Game can be played in a multi player melee format with 3-4 players, or in a one-on-one joust format with 2 players.  Whichever format you choose, the game has only just begun!

Game Profile: Agricola

The 17th Century: not an easy period for a farmer.

Mechanics Worker Placement
Theme Economic Farming
Publication Z-Man Games, 2007
Ages 12+
Time 120
Players 1 – 5
Description
In Agricola players start
the game with two family members living in a two room wooden hut. In each
round, each member of their family may choose one action. If they collect wood
and reed, they can extend their hut and then add to their family. Family growth
allows additional actions, but has the disadvantage that more food must be
produced. And to get food, the players plow fields and plant seeds. The planted
grain and vegetables are harvested during the harvest, when animals breed as
well. To raise animals, pastures must be fenced to allow sheep, wild boar, and
cattle to graze. Occupations or Improvements can ensure a family’s upkeep. Each
of these cards allows the player a small advantage in the game. Victory points
are earned when players renovate their wooden hut to a clay hut and later even
a stone house. But everything else to do with balancing food requirements or
making everyday life a little more comfortable can earn victory points –
especially Family growth. Each game uses a different group of the 166 different
Occupation cards and 146 different Improvements, ensuring that no two games are
exactly alike.


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

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Game Profile: Alien Frontiers

Do You Have What It Takes To Colonize A New
World?


Mechanics Area Control, Dice Rolling, Worker Placement
Theme Science Fiction
Publication Clever Mojo Games, 2010
Ages 13+
Time 90
Players 2 – 4
Description

The Alien civilization
that once ruled here vanished long ago, leaving traces of their technology and
a terrain ripe for settlement.  Now the race is on to see who can take
control of this abandoned planet!

In Alien
Frontiers, players use dice as space ships to explore and colonize
an alien planet.  Dice can be placed to gather resources, additional
ships, and alien technologies, and eventually colonies to be placed on the
planet’s surface.  Each of the eight areas of the planet grants a special
ability to the player who colonizes and controls it.  Those abilities
relate to the orbital facility above that section of the planet.

The object of the game
is to score points by placing colonies, controlling territories by having a
majority of colonies in a territory, and by possessing certain alien technology
cards.  Each of the location for dice placement has a different way the
can be used.  Sometime it takes two or three dice to use an orbital
facility.  Strategic play of the dice will be critical to a player’s
success.



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



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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, Cobble Hill, and
Dowdle.

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


Game Profile: Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer

An inter planar war has begun!



Mechanics Deck-Building, Hand Management, Card Drafting
Theme Fantasy
Publication Gary Games, 2010
Ages 13+
Time 30
Players 2 – 4
Description

Ascension is
a fast-paced deck-building game.

It is the Age of Man, a time without gods or magic.
 After a thousand years of peace and prosperity, the barrier that
separates your world from the multiverse has been broken, and demonic forces
threaten to destroy your home.  But not all hope is lost: the benevolent
gods of the Old Realms have also returned, bringing with them mighty heroes and
powerful constructs that are yours to command.  Only through your courage
and leadership can the forces of light fight off the incoming hordes.  Only
by defeating the Fallen One can you save your world.  Let
the Ascension begin!

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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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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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.