Boonlake is a strategy game by designer Alexander Pfister whose other games include Great Western Trail, Maracaibo, Isle of Sky, and Mombasa. In Boonlake, you are pioneers settling an unexplored territory. On a central gameboard you will be placing landscape tiles and habitants in order to build houses and settlements, raising cattle, producing raw materials, and developing your infrastructure. Driving all of this is the action selection system. The speed of the game is determined by how fast players’ boats move down the river. – – 1 to 4 players – – 40 minutes per player game time

The object of the game is to score more points than the other pioneers.  Points come from a variety of sources.  The main source, and most important is from the 4 public scoring tiles revealed at the start of the game. These are chosen by the players. Each player gets to select 1 and discard 1 from their 2 randomly drawn tiles.  Regardless of the number of players, there will always be 4 scoring tiles.  In a 2 and 3-player game, the other slots will be filled by random draw.  These are all 2-part public scoring goals. The top section depicts a special project that can be completed for points anytime during the game. The bottom section indicates conditions for interim and final scoring that escalate in difficulty over the 4 scoring rounds.  Additional points come from cards purchased, houses and settlements built, plus cattle you have pastured throughout the settlements.

A player’s turn involves selecting an action tile from the 7 available on an action board.  These actions will rotate to the bottom as they are selected. Choosing one from either of the 2 bottom slots will cost you victory points. Each tile gives the active player 2 actions, while providing 1 action for all players. The slot from which the tile was taken determines the maximum number of spaces you will move your boat along the river. Like almost every other action, when you place your boat on a location, you get a bonus.  It seems like every action in the game triggers more resources or bonuses.  The movement of boats is the game timer.  When a boat passes a lock on the river it triggers a scoring round.  When the fourth lock is passed it will trigger the last round and final scoring.  Players will score final round points to determine the winner. This game puts a capital S on strategy!

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Vivid Memories is a tile drafting and network building family game with colorful components and interesting game play. The theme and game play represent childhood memories and the collecting of fragments to weave a tapestry of colorful threads in your mind.

Players will collect and arrange memory fragment tokens on their player board, scoring points for connecting and completing core memory slots along the edges, matching moment tile conditions and for matching their secret aspiration (goal) tile. The player with the most points after 3 rounds wins! – – 2 to 4 players – – 30 to 45 minutes game time

Vivid Memories is played over three rounds. At the beginning of each round a number of two-sided moment tiles will be revealed with the action side face up and populated with a number of random fragment tokens creating a memory line. The reverse side of the moment tile indicates its scoring requirements. During a round players will take turns taking fragment tokens from the memory line. These fragments must then be placed in one of the hex squares on a players’ board. When the last fragment token is taken from a moment tile the player receives that moment tile. Play continues until the last fragments and moment tile has been taken from the memory line. Players will then place any moment tiles they have received during the round into slots provided on their player board with the action side up. Next, players perform up to four actions as indicated on their board and on their moment tiles to add, swap, move fragment tiles, etc. on their board to create an arrangement that will score them the most points. Moment tiles are flipped over to the scoring side once the actions have been taken.

The interim scoring phase is next. Players will score their moment tiles as indicated on the tile. Next, score points for creating a connecting line of the same color fragment tokens to the ones printed on the edge of the player board. For each scoring line one fragment token will be moved from each end of the line into empty core memory slots. Core memories are clusters of 1, 2, or 3 slots on the edge of the player board. If all the slots in a cluster are filled with fragment tokens, the core memory is complete and scores. This round is now over. Begin and play the next round in the same manner. At the end of the third round, players will also score their secret aspiration (goal) tile that they received at the start of the game. The player with the most points is the winner.

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Red Dragon Inn 8: Pub Crawl is the latest in the The Red Dragon Inn series, a hilarious game of fantasy adventurers in medieval times drinking each other under the table in order to steal their gold and hard won treasures. Each player takes the role of a different character at the party at the tavern as they drink, gamble and roughhouse with each other. The last one standing during this evening of fun is the winner. Each in the series is a standalone game that can also expand on the others in the series. – – 2 to 5 players – – 15 to 20 minutes game time

Cast of Pub Crawl characters:

1. Samantha the Bookie – Throw back an ale, or throw a punch! Either is good, and its owner, Samantha is ready to set the odds for the inevitable barroom brawl.
2. Father Farai – A high-ranking official at the Great Temple of Greyport, but his first love is brewing. Come by the temple’s own brewery, The Harmonious Cup, and try a sip of Farai’s latest concoction!
3. Lucky the Scofflaw – The sort of person who always seems to be there when a barrel of Dwarven Firewater falls of the back of a warehouse. If you’re fortunate enough to stumble down the right alley, you may find some of it.
4. Phyll Startusk – What’s a beleaguered acolyte to do during finals week at the Mages’ Collegium? Study with a coffee and snack from Startusk’s! Phyll is ready to serve up some high-end potions and brews, and they’re worth every coin you’ll pay for them!
5. Nerodia the Petrifier – A clever and devious gorgon with boundless energy and business savvy – just the right owner for a dark tavern. Descend to the depths to hire nefarious minions or just to grumble about adventurers ruining your stuff!

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Stella is a family game set in the Dixit universe.  In other words, it uses similar Dixit-type cards that are artsy and creative.  However, Stella is a different game. It is word-images association and risk management. – – 3 to 6 players – – 30 minutes game play

Image cards will be laid out and face up in a 3 X 5 grid in the center of the play area.  A common word card will be drawn randomly from the deck.  Every player will then secretly mark spots on their individual erasable player boards any of the face up image cards that they associate with the word drawn.  In turn order, a player will select one of the cards they marked to see if anyone else has that one marked as well.  Anyone who has it marked will score a point.  If no one else has it marked that player is eliminated from additional scoring that round.  The next player then picks a card they had selected. The player that selects the most cards that are unmatched will receive negative points.  In other words, check as many as you think others will match, but don’t get carried away.  The player with the most points after 4 rounds is the winner.

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Corrosion is a game about running a factory.  Players will hire engineers, build machines, and build more complex chrome machines.  The game begins with each player having a simple factory.  There will also be a pool of victory point chips.  When that pool of chips is exhausted the game will end.  Points will be scored for chrome machines, and rewards gathered throughout the game.  The player with the most points wins.  – – 1 to 4 players – – 60 to 120 minutes game play

Each turn a player will get a chance to use one of their engineers or spin the dial in the middle of their factory one spot.  There are 4 spots total.  When the dial points to a specific side of a player’s board, resources will be generated from machines in that section, engineers played in that section on previous rounds will be put back in a player’s hand to be used again to trigger actions.  The downside to turning the dial to a location is that it causes Corrosion.  Resources in that location that have not been used will be lost.  Chrome machines will be fine.  Other machines will be lost to Corrosion. 

Corrosion is a game of resource management where simple machines and one-time-use machines are resources to be used and then discarded due to Corrosion.  This game is going to be an interesting puzzly game with the twist that machines are not permanent.  They must be replaced.

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