New Game: Akropolis

Akropolis is a new easy-to-learn strategic game about building a city, your city, by placing and stacking tiles to create the best scoring acropolis. – – 2 to 4 players – – 20 to 30 minutes game play

Welcome to Akropolis where players build their own city with tiles in a quest to score the most points.  The game is played over 12 rounds with each player starting with a tile made up of four hexes. The central play area comprises of a row of six available city tiles and stacks of the remaining city tiles. On their turn, a player will take one of the available six city tiles and place it in their city. The city tiles are made up of three hexes each with a random combination of quarries, plazas, and districts. Plazas are in one of five colors that correspond to the district buildings and have from one to three stars that are multipliers for points at game end. The districts have 5 different types of buildings/colors: houses, markets, barracks, temples and gardens, each with a different method to score.  In order for a district building to score points it must have a plaza of its matching color.  Quarries have a white background and do not score, but yield stones whenever a player builds over them. Stones are necessary to use in drafting the right tiles. If a player wants a tile further down the line they will have to pay a stone for each tile they pass over. 

Building upwards will be essential for increasing your scoring potential.  Not only does a player gain stones but in addition, buildings on the 2nd layer count as 2 of that type of building.  Buildings on the 3rd layer counts as 3 of that type of building. At the end of the twelfth round points are tallied and the player with the most points is the winner.

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New Game: Star Wars the Deck Building Game

It’s time for a battle between the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance in Star Wars the Deck Building Game.  – – 2-player – – 30 minutes game play

Players will square off in a battle for supremacy.  Each side has its own unique powers.  The object of the game is to destroy 3 of your opponent’s Bases.  Each player starts the game with 10 basic cards.  Deal a hand of 5 for your turn.  There will be 5 cards face up in the middle of the table.  Some will be cards that can be bought and added to your discard pile. Some are cards that your opponent will want to add to their discard pile.  If you have enough attack power, you can destroy those cards before you can destroy them before they purchase them.  In addition, there will be neutral cards you can buy, including capital ships that can be used to shield your bases from attacks.  Those will need to be destroyed before your opponent can come after your bases.  When one of your bases is destroyed you get to go through your deck of bases and choose the one you would like to play next.  Each has different hit points needed to destroy it and different abilities that will come to you as soon as you choose to play it. This game is going to bring a lot of replay value in a relatively small box. It also features great art and a great theme.  May the force be with your faction.  

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Games Back In Stock

Games back in stock this week include: Dungeons, Dice & Danger, Get On Board, Newton, One Deck Galaxy, and The Castles of Burgundy.

Dungeons, Dice & Danger – an easy-to learn roll-and-write game by game designer Richard Garfield. There are four levels of play Annoyed Animals (novice), Clumsy Cultists (easy), Puzzled Pyramid (standard), and Defiant Dinosaurs (expert). 1 to 4 players – – 45 to 60 minutes

Get On Board: New York and London is a clever flip and write game.  The New York side of the board is for 2 or 3 players.  The London side of the board is for 4 or 5 players.  The goal of the game is to more score points than everyone else by picking up and delivering 4 types of passengers to the locations of their choice. Elderly ladies, students, tourists and businesspeople are all looking for a different place to be dropped off. – – 2 to 5 players – – 30 minutes game time

– Newton: Great Discoveries – a worker placement, resources management, and action selection strategy game. Players are scientists who travel the world to visit universities and cities, study to discover new theories, build new tools and work to earn money. The game is played over 6 rounds with 2 phases in each round. In the Action phase, players place cards on their desk (the Study Board) in order to perform various actions. At the end of the round they have to move one of the cards they have played under their desk: this card can no longer be played, but the symbol on it will increase the value of that action when it is performed later in the game. Players receive Victory Points as an immediate bonus, as income during the game, or from Objective tiles and Master cards at the end of the game. At the end, the player with the most points wins. – – 1 to 4 players – – 90 minutes game play

One Deck Galaxy – a cooperative sci-fi follow-up to One Deck Dungeon!  Build up a newly starfaring civilization from one homeworld to an epic Federation, all while confronting a challenging Adversary. Its multi-use cards represent both encounters/locations and the technologies, colonies, or research you can acquire from them. – – 1 to 2 players – – 30 to 60 minutes game play

The Castles of Burgundy A strategy game of building. Roll your dice to reveal your options and find a strategy that will lead you to victory. Whether trading or farming, building or research, many different paths lead to prosperity and prestige. Thanks to many different duchies, the game offers a lot of variation and challenge. – – 1 to 4 players – – 70 to 120 minutes

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    Game Arrivals!

    What’s new this week: Tiny Epic Vikings and TRAILS. Get ready to lead a clan of Vikings to raid the frigid Runic Isles in Tiny Epic Vikings and take a hiking adventure to explore iconic US landmarks and National Parks in TRAILS.

    Tiny Epic Vikings is the next in Gamelyn’s Tiny Epic series of small box but big game. In this game, you will lead a clan of Vikings over 3 eras (with 3 phases each) in hopes of claiming the icy lands in the Runic Isles. Play Viking cards that represent your clan’s leaders, choosing the best builders, harvesters, explorers, and warriors. Raid and conquer the islands with settlers, build boats and temples to gain influence, and battle for the favor of the gods. – – 1 to 4 players – – 45 to 60 minutes

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    Featuring the artwork from the Fifty-Nine Parks Print Series, TRAILS invites you to take a hiking adventure in the beautiful outdoors. Enjoy a relaxing hike collecting acorns, spotting wildlife, and earning wilderness badges. – – 2 to 4players – – 20 to 40 minutes

    In TRAILS, players hike back and forth along the Trail. Each turn, you move your Hiker on the Trail to gather resources or take Photos. Along the way, you may gain bonuses from encountering Wildlife. At Trailhead and Trail End, you can turn in resources to earn Badges and begin your journey back in the other direction. Each time a player visits Trail End, the Sun will set over the Trail. As night falls, Trail sites grant more powerful actions, but they won’t last forever. When the Sun leaves the Trail, the last round will occur.

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    Jigsaw puzzles: Cobble Hill

    Come in and check out the fresh batch of Cobble Hill jigsaw puzzles that have arrived!

    We have an excellent selection in a variety of brands that include Ravensburger, Cobble Hill, White Mountain, and Dowdle.

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    New Game: Mobile Markets

    Mobile Markets is the next game in the Smartphone Inc series. It is a stand-alone economic game where players are CEO’s of consumer electronics companies competing for the new mobile technologies generation. – – 1 to 4 players – – 40 to 80 minutes game play

    Get ready to compete for customers by planning research technologies, marketing campaigns, production and sales.  The winner will be the CEO who makes the most money over the 5 rounds of the game.  Those CEOs will have to create products to satisfy 3 types of customers, variety seeking, regular and complex.  Some customers will pay more for a phone as long as it has the right features.  Each round starts with the drawing of an event card.  The first phase of the round is planning.  Players have 2 tiles with 5 symbols on each side.  Planning involves placing those tiles face up with some overlap.  The symbols left face up will affect the following phases of pricing, technology, marketing and production.  The number of symbols covered up will also affect production.  The second phase is pricing.  All phones are priced at $5 at the start of the round.  Symbols revealed in planning can cause prices to go up or down. Pricing will determine player order for the rest of the round.  Phase 3 is technology.  In this phase players can use the technology symbols exposed to add abilities and phone features.  In the 4th phase of marketing exposed symbols will be used to acquire additional abilities and possibly to lure private customers that no one else can sell to.  The number of phones that can be built in the 5th phase of production is determined by the number of production symbols face up plus the number of symbols covered up during planning.  Phase 6 is sales.  In turn order CEOs will sell to the available customers any phones that meet their demands for price and features.  Players featuring the lowers price will go first in turn order.  Profits are determined by price less cost.  All phones have a base cost of $1.  Costs will increase based on the additional features a CEO is adding to this run of phones.  Profit is determined by price less cost and the number of phones sold.  After 5 rounds the player with the most profit will be the winner.  

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    New Game: Rebuilding Seattle

    Rebuilding Seattle is an economic city building game centered around Seattle’s Great Fire of 1889. Each player will be responsible for managing the zoning and expansion of a major Seattle neighborhood. Each round your population grows, and you can either build a new building, expand into a new suburb, activate an event, or build an iconic landmark, before earning profit based on your neighborhood’s commerce. At the end of the game, the neighborhood with the highest victory points will be the winner. – – 1 to 5 players – – 60 to 120 minutes game play

    The game is all about taking one of the neighborhoods of Seattle and adding suburbs, buildings, and iconic landmarks as well as managing your population growth in order to gain profit and points.  It is played over three rounds with four phases to each round: increase population, build, profit, and clean up. Each player starts the game with one of the asymmetrical neighborhoods and a suburbia tile.

    Each round starts with a designated population increase. During the game, players will need to work to reduce their population as overpopulation will adversely affect their scores during three of the event scoring opportunities that happens each round.

    During the Build phase there are three types of actions players can do.  Most likely they will buy suburbs and/or buildings from a shared market, looking to find shapes and types that will fit well into their city.  The second is to enact one of the 3 laws in their neighborhood.  The third is to activate an event.  There are 6 different events.  Each event will be activated once in each of the 3 rounds of the game.  The event cards can be triggered by any player on any turn.  These events can lead to actions being taken by the person who triggered it and all other players as well.  Timing when to activate is key. When all 6 have been activated that round is complete. Three of the 6 event cards trigger scoring opportunities.

    There are several tracks that players are working to enhance throughout the game.  Scoring will depend on how well a player has managed to move on the various tracks.  There is an amenity track and three quality tracks.  The quality tracks represent entertainment buildings, shopping buildings and restaurants. There is a profit phase after all players have finished their building actions.  The various buildings will include a polyomino building that needs to be placed on your city and suburbia tiles.  Those buildings will provide money during the profit phase of each round, or movement on the quality tracks, or set a player up for additional scoring opportunities at game end.  After the events cards have all been used for the third time, the player with the most points will be the best builder in all of Seattle.

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    Jigsaw Puzzles: Pomegranate

    Stocking back up on our line of Pomegranate jigsaw puzzles with your favs and some new images. We have both 1000-piece and 500-piece sizes. Pomegranate is a Portland based company whose jigsaw puzzles feature the artwork of numerous artists.

    Come in and check out our great selection in all of our jigsaw puzzle lines.

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    Games Back In Stock

    Back in this week are: Sleeping Gods and an updated classic, Puerto Rico.

    • Sleeping Gods – a co-operative campaign game with an atlas of connecting maps (26 pages) and hundreds of quests each with multiple outcomes. Each new location holds wild adventure, hidden treasures, and vivid characters. Your choices affect the characters and the plot of the game, and may help or hinder your chances of getting home! Cooperative play allows players to jump in or out with ease, and the flexible game system allows you to stop and save your game at any time. Become Captain Sofi Odessa and her crew, lost in a strange world in 1929 on your steamship, the Manticore. Work together to survive, exploring exotic islands, meeting new characters, and seeking out the totems of the gods so that you can return home. 1 to 4 players – – 60 to 120 minutes game time
    • Puerto Rico 1897 – a classic strategy game with still the original great gameplay. Updated to make it historically and culturally more accurate, and moved two hundred years later after slavery was abolished. Players take different roles including industrious builder, clever trader, stalwart captain, opportunistic prospector, and more. Bolster your wealth and reputation by carefully building your city, harvesting goods, and strategically governing the island of Puerto Rico. The player with the most prosperous island wins. This is one of those strategy games where you not only have to plan ahead, it is also critical to be aware of what your opponents are up to. 2 to 5 players – – 70 to 120 minutes game time
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    New Games!

    These new games arrived in this week: Motor City, Solar Sphere, One Deck Galaxy.

    Motor City is a strategic roll-and-write game about running an auto plant in the heyday of Detroit. – – 1 to 5 players – – 45 minutes game play.

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    In Motor City, you have two player sheets, each with multiple areas. These areas are represented by tracks that you will mark off as you make progress. Many of the tracks are interconnected with other elements in the game, giving you bonuses along the way and opportunities to unlock more points. Advancing on all of these tracks offers various amounts of points, advancements, and bonuses.

    The game lasts eight rounds. Each round, roll colored dice based on the number of players, then place them on spaces on the blueprint table based on value and color. Each player drafts one die and uses it. Once everyone has drafted a die twice, all players get to use the remaining die on the blueprint table.

    After eight rounds, you score points for your progress in engineering, assembly, testing, and more. Whoever has the most points wins.

    Solar Sphere is a dice placement/manipulation game with elements of engine building, resource management, and set collection. The players’ task is to build a dyson sphere and become the savior of mankind. – – 1 to 4 players – – 60 to 90 minutes game play

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    In Solar Sphere, you will command a mothership and compete with your fellow Captains. You will use your ships and drones to gain resources, hire crew members, fight the Resistance, and ultimately build the Sphere. The game is played over a series of rounds. Each round consists of the following 4 phases: Dock, Deploy, Battle, and Recover. Players can manipulate their dice using drones. However, players have a limited supply of drones, which are also used to upgrade dice placement spots or to support in fights against aliens. Players can always recycle used drones to get them back into their supply. Or, spend them for instant benefits.

    By building the Sphere, hiring crew members, and attacking the Resistance fleet, you will gain Faction icons that can be worth points at the end of the game. The player with the most points at the end of the game is the winner.

    Take a journey to the stars in One Deck Galaxy, a solo or 2-player cooperative sci-fi follow-up to One Deck Dungeon!  Build up a newly starfaring civilization from one homeworld to an epic Federation, all while confronting a challenging Adversary. Its multi-use cards represent both encounters/locations and the technologies, colonies, or research you can acquire from them. – – 1 to 2 players – – 30 to 60 minutes game play

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