Windmill Valley is a strategy game of growing tulips and placing windmills in the Netherlands. Players will build and enhance their windmills, look for new tulip bulbs on foreign trades or among local vendors to buy and plant, and try to get an edge with hired help and lucrative contracts. The heart of the game revolves around each player’s two interlocking action gears. The large gear has six action spots and the smaller gear has five action spots. Arrows point to one action spot on each gear every turn as they are rotated. A player will select one of these two actions to take or, in some cases, take both actions. Each time a player’s large action gear completes a full rotation, they move forward on the Calendar track. Game end is triggered when a player has reached the end of the Calendar track. – – 1 to 4 players – – 45 to 90 minutes

There are four steps in a player’s turn. The first step is to adjust the floodgate which determines how far a player rotates their action gears. The second step adjusts the water level which will determine how many points and/or money is earned on a later turn. The third step is to rotate the action gears as many steps as indicated by the floodgate setting. The fourth step is to select one of the two available gear actions and execute that action.

There are seven basic actions. One is to lower the water level for points and/or money. At the start of the game all five actions on the smaller gear are to lower the water level. The six basic actions on the larger gear are: 1) enhance a gear’s action spot with a new action tile, 2) gain a farm enhancement of either a helper for action enhancements or a contract for game end points, 3) build a windmill on the main board to gain actions from adjacent fields and to setup game end scoring, 4) visit the market to obtain and/or plant tulips, 5) plant tulips into your field of 4 rows and 7 columns, and 6) conduct foreign trade by giving up a tulip to activate two actions on a card that was randomly selected at the start of the game, or choosing to take any tulips already on the card without taking the two actions.

Game end is triggered when the first player whose large gear has completed its fourth full rotation. Every player will get to finish the round plus one more round before final scoring takes place. Players score each contract card they have up to three contracts. Empty windmills spaces on your player board scores points based its corresponding tulip color and the number of that tulip in your field. Additionally, each completed row of seven tulips scores points with more points if a row is all one color. And each completed column of tulips scores positive points if it is all of different colors. There are negative points scored for any tulip column, complete or uncomplete, that has more than one of a same color. The player with the most points wins.

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In the Footsteps of Darwin is a light tile-drafting and set collection game where players collect various animal tiles representing the animals encountered by Darwin on the voyage of the HMS Beagle.  Each animal tile lists its class: arthropod, mammal, bird, reptile, its ecosystem: America, Africa, Asia, Oceania, and a bonus for points or icons that could yield points.  Each player has a board representing a naturalist’s notebook, with spots for 16 animal tiles and 3 character tiles. Players will select tiles from the central animal tile board and place them in the appropriate spot on their player board and then move the HMS Beagle marker for the next player. The game will end when every player has placed 12 tiles on their board. Tally your points and the player with the most points wins. – – 2 to 5 players – – 20 to 30 minutes

Turns are straightforward.  There is a central board with a 3 X 3 grid of face-up animal tiles.  The HMS Beagle marker goes around the outside of the grid.  On a turn the active player takes one of the 3 tiles in the row or column alongside where the HMS Beagle marker currently sits.  They place the chosen tile on the appropriate spot in their notebook and take any bonus tokens granted by the placed animal tile.  Refill the central board with another animal tile from a face-down draw pile. Next, they move the HMS Beagle marker around the board to a new location determined by the tile they took. Play continues in this manner until all players have twelve tiles on their board.  After twelve turns the game is over, final scoring takes place and the player with the most points wins.

Final scoring includes points on the animal tiles, animal tiles with a chart icon multiplied by any compass tokens collected, 5 points for each publication token collected. Publication tokens are gained when a row or column filled with 4 animals of the same type or from the same ecosystem.  Points are also awarded from theory tiles.  Theory tiles can be gained only by placing an animal tile over a tile of the same class and ecosystem.  The covered tile counts toward the total number of tiles on your player board, but it will not be scored at game end.  Almost everything else used to score points will come from the various animal tiles.

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We’ve built cities on the ground. Now it is time to build a city in the sky. In Skyrise, players are visionaries sought out to aid in the creation of a magnificent city in the sky dedicated to the arts, science, and beauty. During the course of the game, players will design and direct the construction of buildings of their own design, as well as works inspired by artists from their homeland. Over the course of two eras, players will need to win sites to build on, earn favor across islands, accomplish public and secret goals, and build their own unique wonders. At the end of the game the player with the most points wins. – – 2 to 4 players – – 30 to 60 minutes

Each player starts the game with one randomly drawn secret objective card, three wonder cards, twelve buildings, and one wonder. The buildings come in three heights: small, medium, and tall. The bottom of each building has a unique number. In Era 1, players will have two small, four medium, and one tall building to work with. In Era 2, they will add another two small, one medium, and two tall buildings, as well as their wonder structure.

Skyrise is a bidding game where players will use the numbers on the bottom of their buildings to bid. All building numbers are place so they can be seen by all players. The main board is made up of a small central island surrounded by a number of larger islands equal to the number of players. Each island has a number of neighborhoods of four different types. Each neighborhood will have a disc (neighborhood, patron, wild, or commission) randomly drawn and placed during setup. All discs can be used to score points at game end.

A turn begins when the active player puts one of their buildings on a neighborhood with the bidding number facing up. The next player can now outbid them by placing a higher numbered building on a neighborhood adjacent to the first player’s building (numbered side up). Players in turn order can now continue in this same manner to outbid or pass. Once all players have passed, the last player to place a bidding building (the highest numbered building), will turn theirs over and collect that location’s disc. All other buildings will be returned to the respective players. This player becomes the active player for the next round. Play continues until one player has constructed all of their Era 1 buildings at which time scoring for area control on each island will occur. Era 2 begins with the rest of the buildings becoming available and each player selecting a Wonder card. Era 2 plays out just like Era 1 with one exception. When a player decides to use their Wonder, they automatically win that location and its corresponding disc. Auctions continue until all players have constructed all of their buildings and their wonder. Scoring for area control on each island will then occur.

There are panorama cards, randomly drawn at the beginning of the game, that will also be scored at the end of both Eras. These award points for a particular configuration of a player’s buildings. At game end there is additional scoring for secret objectives and collected discs. Paton discs score based on the type of patron it is. Neighborhood discs are a points multiplier for how many buildings a player has occupying that type of neighborhood. Ten points is awarded to the 1st player to construct all of their buildings and four points to the 2nd player. The player with the most points wins.

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Sand is a pick-up and deliver strategy game where players ride their giant worms across the desert. They will pick up goods in various cities and deliver them to the camps that need them. Delivering goods to camps will earn money. Delivering the right set of goods will earn more money and a bonus as well. The player with the most money at the end of the game will be the winner. 1 to 4 players – – 120 minutes game time.

Sand is played over 5 to 6 rounds depending on player count. A round consists of three turns for each player. On a turn each player will take up to four actions. Each player has four action tokens: black, blue, red, and white. These colors match the colors of the four basic goods that need to be delivered. when one of those goods gets picked up, it blocks the use of that action token until that good is delivered or stored in a player’s shelter. The more goods on your worm, the less actions you can take.

At the start of each round four dice, in the same colors as the action tokens and goods, are rolled. All players will work with these dice as rolled. All dice can be used for movement of the worms. The blue die can be used to hydrate your worm. The red die can be used to feed your worm. A combination of black and white dice can be used to generate worm health points. If your hydration, feed, or health gets too low your worm cannot move. Movement cost hydration, food, and health. If you worm can’t move , you can’t pick up or deliver goods. Keep your worm healthy, hydrated, and well fed.

Money is earned on each delivery. Additional money is ear at game end for additional things accomplished during the game. A set of mission cards is available at the end of each round. Players select them in turn order. They can be used as a one-time benefit or a game-end scoring goal. Specialization seals are awarded to the first player to deliver four goods of the same color. Each good of that color they deliver during the game is worth one coin. There are minor tribe tokens that can be obtained during the game for delivering a set of less desirable goods to a camp. The player earns less for deliver, but the player who earns the most support points gains twelve coins at game end. As players move to the various cities they can use an action to sing in that city. The player with the most songs sung gains three coins for each location they sing in.

Sand features eight special characters with special abilities. Each player gets one to start the game. they are powerful. Each player has four companions that can be activated to additional abilities. This game is an intricate puzzle that unravels in a different way every time you play. Using the different characters and gaining different goal cards will drive players to take a different approach in game after game. One last thing, make sure to keep you worm healthy, hydrated, and fed.

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