New in is Tree-Lined Avenue, a small box game where everyone builds a beautiful 6×6 city park together. Players take on the role of a landscaper in Tokyo and compete to craft the most beautiful city park through careful placement of park tiles, plants, and animals. There is a limited of trees each round and the best spots can fill up fast, so there’s competition for being the first gardener to choose your spruces. Aim for the highest score by collecting the same type of trees to place in the rows and columns on which your gardeners stand. You must choose your trees wisely, as the card you choose affects the turn order n the next round. – – 2 to 4 players – – 20 to 30 minutes

CONTINUE TO CHECK IN FOR THE LATEST IN BOARD GAMES AND JIGSAW PUZZLES.

• Located at 30 NW 2nd Street 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.  Additionally, for the jigsaw puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, Cobble Hill, White Mountain, Dowdle, Pomegranate, and New York Puzzle Company.

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

More new games arrived in this week: Azul: Queen’s Garden, Creature Comforts, and Tiny Epic Dungeons.

– NEW GAME –

Azul Queen’s Garden is the fourth standalone game in the Azul series. In Queen’s Garden, players are tasked to arrange a magnificent garden for the King’s lovely wife by arranging beautiful plants, tree, and ornamental features. Using innovative drafting mechanism, players must carefully select colorful tiles to decorate their garden. During 4 rounds, your objective is to create the most beautiful garden by arranging patterns and colors that will score you points and lead you to victory. – – 2 to 4 players – – 45 to 60 minutes

In Queen’s Garden the drafting mechanism is different from the other three games (Azul, Azul Stained Glass of Sintra, and Azul Summer Pavilion). The game starts with one face-up stack of tile fountain boards. The top one will be populated with four random tiles. Tiles are made up of six different colors with each color set having six different patterns.

The active player chooses to take all the tiles with the same pattern without duplicating color or all the tiles of a single color. When at least one tile is taken off of the top fountain board, this fountain board will get set aside keeping the remaining tiles on it. The newly revealed top fountain board is then populated with four random tiles. The next player will take all the tiles in either color or pattern from all of the fountain boards. Again, if a tile is taken off of the top garden board, it is set aside revealing another fountain board to be populated. Players may only choose tiles for which they have room for all of them on their storage board. Players will place tiles from their storage board into their garden following cost and placement rules. Empty fountain boards become available for players to add to their garden thus expanding scoring opportunities. Additionally, if you surround any of the preprinted garden structures in your garden you receive a bonus.

Each round continues until all players have passed at which time there will be a round scoring phase. The first person to pass will receive one negative point. After the fourth round, a final end of game scoring takes place. Only groups of three or more tiles in your garden will be scored. Score for both color groups and pattern groups. Groups of six will get a bonus.

– NEW GAME –

Creature Comfort is a delightfully cozy game where you play as a family of wooden forest critters. Head out to the countryside to gather and harvest, use your goods to craft all sorts of comforts, and collect stories to fill you den with happiness. There’s plenty of room for everyone in all of t he spots in and around the village. The tricky part is that every location needs certain dice for a successful visit.. and you only know some of you dice before you send your workers out on errands.

publisher description

Creature Comfort plays over eight rounds called months. The gameboard features a variety of locations that provide differing benefits (such as gaining resources, Comfort cards, or Improvement cards). To gain a location’s benefit, you’ll need to send a worker there, hoping to later assign the dice needed to make the visit a success. Each player rolls two private Family dice before sending their workers out (so everyone will have a little advance knowledge of their own potential). Once all workers are placed, the four shared Village dice are rolled to set them for the month, and turns begin.
On your turn, you assign dice from your unique dice pool (2 Family and 4 Village) to your workers so they can do stuff. You’ll use the resources you gather to craft useful Improvements and valuable Comforts, trying especially to fashion items that work together to improve your score. The family that crafts the coziest collection of Comforts before the first snowfall wins the game!

– NEW GAME –

Tiny Epic Dungeons is the next the Tiny Epic series of big games in a small box. Tiny Epic Dungeons is a cooperative game split into two acts. In both acts, players struggle against the waning torchlight as it decreases each turn. When the torch goes out, the heroes are forever lost in the darkness. – – 1 to 4 players – – 30 to 60 minutes game play

In Act 1, explore the dungeon, fight enemies, and evade traps in effort to find boss’s lair. In Act 2, engage in an epic battle against the boss. Can you brave the dungeon and overcome the boss’s fury?

This tiny box is packed with 8 hero miniatures, 25 wooden game pieces, 13 wooden monster tokens, 4 dice, 28 dungeon cards, 26 loot cards, 14 spell cards, 6 goblin cards, 8 minion cards, 8 hero mats, 6 boss mats, and 1 torch mat.

CONTINUE TO CHECK IN FOR THE LATEST IN BOARD GAMES AND JIGSAW PUZZLES.

• Located at 30 NW 2nd Street 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.  Additionally, for the jigsaw puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, Cobble Hill, White Mountain, Dowdle, Pomegranate, and New York Puzzle Company.

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

Flourish is a beautiful, card-drafting, garden-building game where players plan and build the garden of their dreams throughout the growing season. This easy-to-learn game offers both competitive strategy and cooperative game modes, and a 1-7 player count provides a high level of accessibility and replayability. – – 1 to 7 players – – 20 to 60 minutes

publisher description

In Flourish, you will be creating a beautiful garden of vibrant flowers, majestic trees, alluring paths, and eye-catching features. You must carefully choose which cards to keep for yourself, and which to pass over the walls to your neighbors.

The game is played over four rounds. During each round, you will play a total of three cards, then score any Endo of round Abilities played in the current round. At the end of the game, you will score all cards in your garden with End of Game abilities.

CONTINUE TO CHECK IN FOR THE LATEST IN BOARD GAMES AND JIGSAW PUZZLES.

• Located at 30 NW 2nd Street 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.  Additionally, for the jigsaw puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, Cobble Hill, White Mountain, Dowdle, Pomegranate, and New York Puzzle Company.

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

Allies is the latest expansion to the classic medieval deck-building game, Dominion. This is a 400-card expansion with 31 new Kingdom card piles.

There are Allies that will do Favors for you, and split piles you can rotate. – – 2 to 4 players – – 30 to 60 game time

CONTINUE TO CHECK IN FOR THE LATEST IN BOARD GAMES AND JIGSAW PUZZLES.

• Located at 30 NW 2nd Street 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.  Additionally, for the jigsaw puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, Cobble Hill, White Mountain, Dowdle, Pomegranate, and New York Puzzle Company.

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

First Empires is an easy-to-learn civilization game with area control and dice rolling. The game has really cool components from custom dice to dual layer player boards that will hold your cubes and are also beautifully illustrated, to a colorful ancient world map. Also nicely included are individual player boxes that hold all your cards, cubes, wooden explorers, and city tokens. – – 2 to 5 players – – 30 minutes

In First Empires, each player takes command of a rising nation of ancient times. The object of the game is to score more points than the other players.  Points are awarded for moving up on the 5 different tracks represented in colors, accumulated city tokens, and fulfilling objective cards. Each track yields increased abilities as you move up such as the number of dice you roll, your movement on the map, additional objective cards, and additional explorers. The dice tell you which tracks you will move up on. When you reach a city token level on a specific track you will be able to place a city token in a country that you control. City tokens can be captured by your opponents.

CONTINUE TO CHECK IN FOR THE LATEST IN BOARD GAMES AND JIGSAW PUZZLES.

• Located at 30 NW 2nd Street 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.  Additionally, for the jigsaw puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, Cobble Hill, White Mountain, Dowdle, Pomegranate, and New York Puzzle Company.

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

Familiar Tales is the new story telling game from designer Jerry Hawthorne who also did Stuffed Fables, Aftermath, and Mice & Mystics. This one is a co-operative fantasy game with a deck-building mechanic. – – 1 to 4 players – – 45 to 120 minutes

In Familiar Tales, players take on the roles of wizard familiars trying to save and raise the heir to the throne of Principalia.  Players will explore the nooks and crannies of an enchanted world. They will fight off enemies, collect resources to craft powerful items, weapons, and armor, keep the princess safe and raise her to reclaim her throne. 

An innovative card play system allows players to level up their familiars by building and customizing their skill decks. Players will use their skill cards to perform all manner of exciting actions throughout their campaign.

Be prepared to weave a fascinating story using a downloadable app, a location book and a campaign journal.  Let the stories begin.  

CONTINUE TO CHECK IN FOR THE LATEST IN BOARD GAMES AND JIGSAW PUZZLES.

• Located at 30 NW 2nd Street 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.  Additionally, for the jigsaw puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, Cobble Hill, White Mountain, Dowdle, Pomegranate, and New York Puzzle Company.

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