Board Games Arrival: 1.30.2021

Our latest shipment includes a new game and a new game expansion.

New!

GLASGOW – new from Lookout Games, a city building game with tile placement and rondel game mechanisms. – – 2-player – – 30 minutes game play.

Glasgow

Glasgow is a light 2-player strategy game. Players move around a rondel gathering resources to collectively build Scotlands largest city. There are seven different building types and three resources to manage, along with one whiskey barrel. With multiple ways to score and a random setup, this game packs plenty of replay value in the construction of a 4×5 grid in the city.

7 WONDERS DUEL: AGORA is the newest and second expansion to the 2-player game 7 Wonders Duel.

7 Wonders Duel: Agora

Agora brings a new board into play. The board features six senate chambers. The chambers can be claimed with a senate card. Each chamber provides a benefit. Claim enough chambers and get an automatic win.

Restocks

  • MARACAIBO – An economic and exploration game from designer Alexander Pfister. Immerse yourself in a colorful world full of adventures and clever opportunities. 1 to 4 players – – 30 to 120 minutes game play.
  • SMALL WORLD OF WARCRAFT –  Take charge of the fantasy races of Azeroth to eliminate foes and occupy lands. – – 2 to 5 players – – 40 to 80 minutes game play.
  • DICE FORGE – A development game featuring innovative mechanics based on dice with removable faces. In this dice crafting game, players build their own dice. Roll your dice, manage your resources, complete ordeals before your opponents and explore multiple winning strategies. – – 2 to 4 players – – 45 minutes game play.
  • CAT LADY – 1 set collection card game for 2 to 4 kitty loving players. – – 2 to 4 players – – 15 to 30 minutes game play.
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Game Profile: Isle Of Cats

  • Publisher:  City of Games, 2019
  • Players:  1 – 4
  • Time:  60 – 90 Min.

The Isle of Cats is under attack!  Our competing goal is to rescue as many cats as possible and get them on our ship before it is too late.  We each have a ship with seven rooms to fill with cats.  The cats come in five varieties in various shapes and sizes.  We need to keep in mind that cats prefer to stay in close knit families.

The game is played over five days with five phases per day.  Each day, the fields are filled with cats and players 1) gather fish, 2) explore – draft cards, 3) read lessons (goal cards), 4) rescue cats, and 5) gain rare treasures.  Each phase is easy to teach and to play.  Phase 1 provides players with 20 fish.  Fish is how you pay for things.  Phase 2: draft cards two at a time until each player has a hand of 7, pay for any you want to keep and play and discard what you don’t pay for.  Phase 3: from your hand, place any lesson cards labeled private face down in your player area and any labeled public face up for everyone to see.  Private lessons are secret goals to achieve and score at game end.  Public lessons are goals that anyone can achieve and score at game end.  Phase 4: rescue cats.  Use the baskets on your rescue cards to claim a cat from the fields.  Pay for that cat and place it in your ship.  You’ll want to cover the rats, completely fill each room, and not forget to keep those cat families together in order to maximize your points.  Phase 5 is an opportunity to play any wild cat cards and treasure cards you have.  The Oshax cat cards gain you a wild cat to place in your ship. It belongs to any cat family you choose.  Treasure cards gain you a treasure tile to be placed in your ship.  These help to fill those empty rooms and can gain end of game points.

Scoring happens after 5 rounds.  Uncovered rats score negative points as do unfilled rooms.  Cat families are scored based on their size.  A cat family consist of at least three cats of the same variety and are horizontally or vertically adjacent to each other.  The bigger the family the bigger the points.  All other cats not making up a qualified family do not score.  Add in points for rare treasures and points gained through private goals and public goals to see who is the winner.

Isle of Cats

With great artwork, Isle of Cats adds together a puzzle of how to get those various shaped cats into a family grouping along with a variety of mechanics that include card drafting, resource management, and goal achievement into a smooth and fun family level game.  It plays well at 2, 3, and 4 players.

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Board Games Arrivals

Here are the latest games to arrive:

  • Azul – a colorful tile drafting and placement game. Score points based on how you’ve filled in your player board. – – 2 to 4 players – – 30 to 45 minutes game play.
  • Castles of Burgundy: Anniversary Edition – Strategically create the most prosperous estates in the region in this dice rolling, tile placement, set collection strategy game. The anniversary edition includes ten expansion options. – – 1 to 4 players – – 70 to 120 minutes game play.
  • Minecraft: Builders & Biomes – Explore the Overworld, mine rare resources, build fabulous structures, and collect weapons to defeat mobs lurking around every corner. – – 2 to 4 players – – 30 to 60 minutes game play.
  • Disney Villainous: The Worst Takes It All – Take on the role of one of six Disney characters, each one a villain in a different Disney movie. Each player has their own villain deck, fate deck, player board, and 3D character. Includes Maleficent, Jafar, The Queen Of Hearts, Prince John of Robin Hood, Ursula, and Captain Hook. – – 2 to 6 players – – 40 to 60 minutes game play.
    • Villainious: Wicked to the Core – Purple box expansion to the base game Villainous. This can also be played as a standalone game. Includes The Evil Queen, Hades, and Dr. Facilier.
    • Villainious: Evil Comes Prepared – Brown box expansion to the base game Villainous. This can also be played as a standalone game. Includes Scar, Yzma, and Ratigan.
    • Villainous: Perfectly Wretched – Red box expansion to the base game Villainous. This can also be played as a standalone game. Includes Cruella DeVil, Pete, Mother Gothel.
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Kids Games Arrival

Adding more games to our kids section with this latest shipment of Thinkfun and Ravensburger games.

  • Disney Hocus Pocus: The Game – Work together to protect Salem’s children and stop Winifred, Mary and Sarah Sanderson from completing their wicked potion! Play ingredients in the cauldron. Binx will lend a helping hand, while the Sanderson sisters’ spells will set you back. Ruin the potion 3 times before the sun rises to win. – – 2 to 6 players – – 30 minutes game play.
  • Memory: Foodie Favorites and Memory: Space – Flip over colorful tiles. Pick up the most matching pairs to win. – – 1 or more players – – 15 minutes play time.
  • Labyrinth – A race for treasures in a moving maze. Choose from 3 themes: Classic, Ocean, and Harry Potter. – – 2 to 4 players – – 20 to 30 minutes game play.
  • Rush Hour – A sliding block game. Select a challenge card and place the cars and trucks on the traffic grid as indicated. Your goal is to get your red card through the exit. Slide the blocking cars and trucks out of your way until the path is clear. – – Solo player.
  • Gravity Maze – A gravity powered logic maze to put visual perception and reasoning skills to the test. The towers can be arranged in a wide variety of visually stimulating structures, but for each challenge, you’ll have to think carefully to build a path that will carry your marble to the Target Tower. – – Solo player.
  • Harry Potter Strike! Dice Game – Roll, match, and win in this easy-to-learn dice game. Throw your dice into the arena, striking other dice to chang3e their faces, and collect matching sets. Each match has a magical effect. As the game progresses, players lose dice. The last player with dice remaining wins. – – 2 to 5 players – – 15 minutes game play.
  • Math Dice – A fast and fun game of mental math. Roll two 12-sided Target dice and multiply them to get a target number. Next roll the three 6-sided Scoring dice. Combine these numbers using addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, or powers to build an equation that is equal to or closest to the target number. – – any number of players.
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New Game: Castles of Tuscany

Adding to the line of great games designed by Stefan Feld comes Castles of Tuscany, a family game of region building in the Italian Renaissance, 15th Century Tuscany. Compete to build the most prosperous realm as a powerful Tuscan noble in the heyday of the Italian Renaissance. Build, trade, harvest, and quarry to bolster the towns, villages, and monasteries surrounding your “castello”. – – 2 to 4 players – – 45 to 60

Over the course of three rounds, players will expand and develop their regions. They will build additional castles and support their cities, villages, and monasteries. They will have to quarry marble and farm the lands. Each turn players have the option to draw new cards, choose a hex tile, or place a hex tile to expand their region. Players can gain victory points, new abilities, and additional options. Scoring occurs after each round. The player with the most victory points at the end of the game is the winner.

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New Game: Trekking The World

New from Underdog Games

2 to 5 players – – 30 to 60 minutes game play.

Trekking The World sounds like a good idea any time. Now players can trek around the world on their tabletop at home in this light strategy game. This is the second trekking game from Underdog Games. The first is Trekking The National Parks: 2nd Edition.

In Trekking The World, there are 48 destinations that clearly need to be visited. Players use trek cards for movement points and to claim destination cards when they arrive. Along the way, there are souvenirs to be collected and bonuses to be claimed. Players are always on the move using trek cards, airlines, or journey cards. It’s a long ways from Banff to Timbuktu to the Great Barrier Reef, but it will be fun all along the way.

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New Game: Aquatica

New from Cosmodrome Games / Arcane Wonders

1 to 4 players – – 30 to 60 minutes game play.

Aquatica is a card driven, engine building game that moves quickly. Your layered player board accommodates an interesting card sliding mechanism for utilizing bonuses and scoring.  

publisher description –

“In the game you will become one of the mighty ocean kings, struggling to bring glory to his realm. To win the game, you need to capture and buy locations, recruit new characters, and complete goals; each of these actions gives you victory points at the end of the game. To do so, you need to play cards from your hand (each with a unique set of actions) and combine them. Don’t think it’s simple! With a good strategy during your turn, you can take up to ten actions in a row. You will encounter plenty of mysterious ocean creatures and take them to your hand. With their help you will explore the unknown locations and rise found resources from the ocean depths to your kingdom. Mechanically this is represented with the help of three-layered player board and the unique mechanism of card-rising.”

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Game Arrivals: 1.14.2021

The games just keep rolling in. Here is today’s shipment of games:

New!

MUNCHKINS & MAZES new from Steve Jackson games. Includes 168 cards, rules, and a custom six-sided die. – – 3 to 6 player – – 60 to 120 minutes play time.

Munchkin is back in a whole new addition! Munchkins & Mazes is the most elf-referential Munchkin game yet, with cards inspired by the most popular roleplaying game ever, the latest live streaming crazes, the gaming hobby in general, and even by Munchkin itself! We’ve updated some of our favorite cards and created a whole lot of new ones.”. . . .publisher description

FANTASY FLUXX – New theme in Looney Labs’ series of Fluxx card games, the game of ever-changing rules. – – 2 to 6 players – – 10 to 40 minutes game play.

“Gather your friends for a party – an adventuring party, that is! Set off on a classic quest with your faithful companions: the Helpful Elf, the Dwarven Warrior, the Gallant Swordsman, and, of course, the Wise Old Wizard. Learn from the Cranky Magic Teacher how to use your Wand to cast spells like Invisibility or Fireball! You may need them as you encounter the Dreaded Pirate, or when you find out esthat the Captured Princess is actually the Mother of Dragons! Will you and your fantasy favorites survive the Final Showdown with the Dark Lord? Find out when you play Fantasy Fluxx!”. . . .publisher description

Restocks:

  • DRAGONREALM – A fantasy card and dice game. – – 2 to 4 players – – 20 to 30 minutes game play.
  • FLOOR PLAN – a Roll and Write game of house building. – – Any number of players – – 20 to 40 minutes game play.
  • FORBIDDEN ISLAND – A cooperative game where teamwork is everything.  You will all play as a team trying to defeat the perilous conditions of a sinking island. – – 2 to 4 players – – 30 minutes game play.
  • GLOOMHAVEN – a cooperative game of tactical combat in a unique, evolving fantasy world. – – 1 to 4 players – – 60 to 120 game play.
  • POINT SALADA card drafting, set collection card game that’s easy-to-learn, and quick to play. – – 2 to 6 players – – 15 to 30 minutes game play.
  • ROLL PLAYER – a dice rolling, card drafting, set collection fantasy game. – – 1 to 4 players – – 60 to 90 minutes game play.
  • SUSHI GO PARTY – Its a party platter of mega maki, super sashimi, and endless edamame in this expanded version of the card game Sushi Go. – – 2 to 8 players – – 20 minutes game play.
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Game Arrivals: Restocks 1.13.2021

We continue with getting inventory on the shelves. Here is today’s restocking shipment of games.
  • SPLENDOR: MARVEL EDITION – The superheroes of Marvel have taken over Splendor. Same easy core rules but a different color structure, a new endgame trigger, and new victory conditions.  – – 2 to 4 players – – 30 minutes play time.
  • SMALL WORLD OF WARCRAFT –  Take charge of the fantasy races of Azeroth to eliminate foes and occupy lands. – – 2 to 5 players – – 40 to 80 minutes game play.
  • SMALL WORLD – Control one race after another as you eliminate your opponents and spread throughout the land. – – 2 to 5 players – – 40 to 80 minutes game play.
  • MYSTERIUM – a cooperative mystery solving game, in which everyone wins or loses together. — 2 to 7 players – – 42 minutes game play.
  • BARENPARK – Takes you into the world of bears, challenging you to build your own bear park. Would you like another polar bear enclosure or rather a koala house? – – 2 to 4 players – – 30 to 45 minutes game play.
  • AGRICOLA (Revised/Advanced Edition) – An updated and streamlined classic worker placement game. Prosper your farm: sowing fields, raising livestock and feed your family. – – 1 to 4 players – – 30 to 120 minutes game play.
  • TICKET TO RIDE: RAILS AND SAILS – By land or by sea connect cities across the entire world or the Great Lakes of America on a railroad adventure. – – 2 to 5 players – – 60 to 120 minutes game play.
  • TICKET TO RIDE – A cross-country train adventure where players collect cards of various types of train cars that enable them to claim railway routes connecting cities in various countries around the world. – – 2 to 5 players – – 30 to 60 minutes game play.
    • UNITED KINGDOM/PENNSYLVANIA MAP BOARD – Expansion that comes with a double-sided game board. Play United Kingdom on one side that introduces the concept of technology or play Pennsylvania on the reverse side that adds a shared mechanism. Requires components from either Ticket to Ride USA or Ticket to Ride Europe. – – 2 to 5 players – – 30 to 60 minutes game play.
    • JAPAN/ITALY MAP BOARD – Expansion that comes with a double-sided game board. On one side zoom across Japan in a bullet train shared network or on your own tracks or ride through the Italian countryside on the reverse side that introduces a new type of ferry route. – – 2 to 5 players – – 30 to 60 minutes game play.
    • INDIA/SWITZERLAND – Expansion that comes with a double-sided game board. On the India side, ferries come into play and require a locomotive to be played on specific ports of ferry routes. There are two end game bonuses awarded. On the Switzerland side, destination tickets can connect city to city, city to country or country to country. – – 2 to 4 player – – 30 to 60 game play.
  • SHERLOCK HOLMES CONSULTING DETECTIVE AGENCY: JACK THE RIPPER & WEST END ADVENTURES – a cooperative game, where you try to solve mysterious cases by interviewing suspects, searching newspapers and walking the streets for clues. – – 1 to 8 players – – 60 to 120 minutes game play.
  • UNLOCK! STAR WARS – a cooperative card game inspired by escape rooms. – – 1 to 6 players – – 60 minutes game play.
  • RIVALS FOR CATAN – A 2-player card version of the classic game Catan. You are in charge of one of the two factions developing newly-settled Catan. Use your unique card mix to create your own principality. – – 2 players – – 45 to 120 minutes game play.
  • JUST ONE – a quick-to-learn cooperative party game.  Players work together to discover as many mystery words as possible. Only one word clues can be given and any duplicate clues are discarded. – – 3 to 7 players – – 20 minute game play.
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Game Arrivals: Restocks 1.12.2021

Restocking some of your favorite games.

Picture 1 Top Row:

  • TERRAFORMING MARS – Your competing corporation must manage many cards and many resources on the way to the creation of cities, green spaces and oceans on Mars. – – 1 to 5 players – – 120 minutes game play.
  • Terraforming Mars expansion: VENUS NEXT – Players can terraform Venus with flying cities and make the atmosphere more hospitable.
  • Terraforming Mars expansion: PRELUDE – Choose between jump-starting the terraforming process or boosting your corporation engine.
  • Terraforming Mars expansion: COLONIES – Lets you visit the outer solar system and build colonies.
  • PHOTOSYNTHESIS – An abstract game with 3-D trees. Plant and shape the ever-changing forest as you cultivate your seeds and your strategy. – – 2 to 4 players – – 30 to 60 minutes game play.
  • POWER GRID – An economic strategy game where you will bid for power plants and manage resources in a race to supply the most cities with power. – – 2 to 6 players – – 120 to 150 minutes game play.

Picture 1 Middle Row:

  • DOMINION – A deck-building game with a medieval theme and 500 cards. Play your action cards to gain treasures cards to obtain victory point cards. – – 2 to 4 players – – 30 minutes game play.
  • Dominion Expansion: ADVENTURES – 400 card expansion that includes Duration cards that do things on future turns, Reserve cards that can be saved for the right moment, and Event cards that give you something to buy besides cards.
  • Dominion Expansion: SEASIDE – 300 card expansion that includes 26 new cards and duration cards that stay in play to do something on your next turn.
  • SPIRIT ISLAND – a cooperative, settler-destruction strategy game set in an alternate-history world around A.D. 1700. – – 1 to 4 players – – 90 to 120 minutes game play.
  • MARACAIBO – an economic and exploration strategy game set in the Caribbean. – – 1 to 4 players – – 30 to 120 minutes game play.
  • CALL TO ADVENTURE – a one to four player hero crafting game that can be played  competitively, cooperatively, or single player. – – 1 to 4 players – – 30 to 60 minutes game play.

Picture 1 Bottom Row:

  • CODENAMES DUET A cooperative press-your-luck word deduction game. – – 2 players – – 15 to 30 minutes game play.
  • MARCO POLO II: In The Service of the Khan – Designers Simone Luciani and Daniele Tascini. Travel from Beijing to seek your fortune throughout the khan’s vast empire establishing trading posts, taking new contracts, and acquiring camels and goods to complete them. – – 2 to 4 players – – 60 to 120 minutes game play.
  • LETTERS FROM WHITECHAPEL – A game of deduction and bluffing. Slip away as Jack the Ripper or track his hidden movements as a team of investigators. – – 2 to 6 players – – 60 minutes game play.

Picture 2 Top Row:

  • CENTURY: GOLEM EDITION – a fantasy game of collecting and converting different colored crystals to meet the requirements on victory point cards. Great golem artwork on the cards. – – 2 to 5 players – – 35 to 45 minutes game play.
  • DOMINION: DARK AGES500 card expansion that 35 new kingdom cards plus bad cards you give to other players – Ruins and Shelters. Overcome the rough times with interactions that involve the trash pile.

Picture 2 Bottom Row:

  • AZUL: SUMMER PAVILION – The third in the Azul series of tile drafting and placement games from game designer Michael Kiesling. You’re an artisan working on striking patterns. – – 2 to 4 players – – 30 to 45 minutes play time.
  • AZUL: STAINED GLASS OF SINTRA – The second in the Azul series of tile drafting and placement games. Create beautiful windows of colored glass. – – 2 to 4 players – – 30 to 45 minutes play time.
  • GREAT WESTERN TRAIL – Head ’em up move ’em out. It’s time to move those herds along from Texas to the railhead of Kansas City. Create strategic outposts along the way to help you on your future treks through. – – 2 to 4 players – – 75 to 150 minutes.
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