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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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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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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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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Game Profile: Dominion Hinterlands

The 6th addition to the game, Dominion.



Mechanics Card Drafting, Hand Management, Deck Building
Theme Medieval
Publication Rio Grande Games, 2011
Ages 10+
Time 30
Players 2 – 4
Description

The World is big and
your kingdom small.  Small when compared to the world, that is; it’s
moderate-sized when compared to other kingdoms.  But in a big world like
this one – big when compared to smaller worlds anyway, if such things exist;
it’s moderate-sized when compared to worlds of roughly the same size, and a
little small when compared to worlds just a little larger – well, to make a
long story short – short when compared to longer stories anyway – it is time to
stretch your borders.  You’ve heard of far-off places – exotic countries,
where they have pancakes but not waffles, where the people wear the wrong
number of shirts, and don’t even have a word for the look two people give each
other when they each hope that the other will do something that they both want
done but which neither of them wants to do.  It is to these lands that you
now turn your gaze.

Hinterlands is the 6th addition to the game of Dominion and adds 26 new Kingdom cards.  The
central theme is cards that do something mmediately when you buy them or gain
them.



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Game Profile: Elfenland

A Game Of Travel And Adventure In A Fantasy Land




Mechanics Point-to-Point Movement, Hand Management
Theme Elves
Publication Rio Grande Games, 1998
Ages 10+
Time 60
Players 2 – 6
Description
In Elfenland, young elves
must pass a very special test to be accepted as grown-ups. All young elves
receive a map of Elfenland, and try to visit all the towns in Elfenland,
using the common types of transportation: dragons, unicorns, giant pigs,
elfcycles, troll wagons, magic clouds, ferries, and rafts. These types of
transportation are available in limited numbers and can only be used in
specific regions. The one to visit the most towns wins the game.

AWARDS: Spiel des Jahres 1998




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Game Profile: Fluxx

The Card Game With Ever-Changing Rules!



Mechanics Hand Management

Theme Good Clean Fun
Publication Looney Labs, 1997
Ages 8+
Time 15
Players 2 – 6
Description

An ideal fun and
relaxing game that the whole family can play. Fluxx is all about
change. You don’t know what the winning condition is until someone plays a Goal
card. If you don’t like the Goal, play a new Goal card. If you don’t like the
Rules, play a new Rule card. Collect the Keepers and avoid the Creepers. Match
the Keepers to the Goal and win.


The rules are simple.  Begin the game with a hand of 3 cards and one basic rule: draw one card then play one card.  Follow the directions written on the card you chose to play. As cards are drawn and played from the deck, the rules of the game change from how many cards are drawn, played or even how many cards you can hold at the end of your turn. 

Fluxx comes in many themes including: Zombie Fluxx, Eco Fluxx, Pirate Fluxx, Monty Python Fluxx, Oz Fluxx, and more.   Each of these can be played as a stand alone game and can be combined with the other themes for a truly interesting game. 
We have several open copies of Fluxx available in our Demo Games Library for you to come in and try while you are here.




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Game Profile: For Sale

The game of property and prosperity.



Mechanics Auction Bid
Theme Real Estate
Publication Gryphon Games, 1997
Ages 8+
Time 20
Players 3 – 6
Description
For Sale, a game where one man’s castle is another man’s
cardboard box (or maybe his RV, treehouse, igloo, or skyscraper). In this fast
paced game of bidding and bluffing to get the highest-ranking properties. It
isn’t how much you pay for the properties, it’s how much you can sell them for.
Manage your money wisely during the bidding and property acquisition phase. Then
outsmart (or just outguess) your rival tycoons during the selling phase. Be the
riches real estate mogul at the end of the game to win.

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Game Profile: Fresco

Dive into the Renaissance World of the Fresco Painters & Help Restore the Ceiling of the Cathedral!



 
Mechanics Worker Placement, Simultaneous Action
Theme Renaissance
Publication Queen Games, 2010
Ages 10+
Time 60
Players 2 – 4
Description

Fresco is a worker placement game with a unique
beginning. Players are artisans managing their 5 workers. The first step in
each round is to plan the start of the work day. Is it better to rise early and
use the opportunity to buy paints at the market? But then you have to be
prepared for your workers mood to darken. Or would you rather sleep longer and
progress quickly because you’re in a good industrious mood? Make workers too
unhappy and lose a worker; make them happy and you can gain a worker. With your
paints proceed to the cathedral and restore a section or sections of the fresco
as you have the appropriate paints for. And don’t forget to boost your income
by painting portraits in the studio or to obtain special paint colors in the paint
mixing operation. You should also plan for a theater visit one evening – as you
have to keep your workers in a good mood after all! If you’re clever in
planning you can become the most successful fresco painter and gain the most
points.


Here is a game tutorial by Queen Games



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


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Game Profile: Gang Of Four

A game developed on the gambling backstreets of Hong Kong.

Classification Family Card Game
Mechanics Hand Management, Set Collection
Publication Days of Wonder, 1990
Ages 10+
Time 30
Players 3 – 4
Description


Gang of Four is a game where each player tries to get rid of all their cards.  Points are awarded at the end of each round when a player gets rid of their last card.  Each remaining player gets points based on the number of cards left in their hand.  If a player gets caught with too many cards the points can be doubled or tripled, etc.  There are 64 cards in the deck consisting of 3 suits: red, yellow, green, and 4 special cards: red dragon, yellow phoenix, green phoenix, and a multicolored number one.  Each suit has 2 sets of cards, one through ten.


Play begins with whoever holds the multicolored number one. It can be played in any legal combination.  A legal combination consists of things like, pairs, 3-of-a-kind, runs, or a “Gang of Four“.  Each following player must then play a combination that beats the previously played combination or they must pass. The key is that each play must be the exact same number of cards as played in the previous combination but at a higher rank.  Once every player has passed then the last person who played gets to start a new sequence.


The only time an active player can play a different number of cards then previously played is when they play a “Gang of Four”.  A “Gang of Four” is 4-of-a-kind.






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