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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• 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.

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Dungeon, Dice & Danger is 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

Enter this dungeon at your own peril.  There is treasure to be found, but there are also monsters to be defeated.  The player who manages to stay alive and roll up the most points will be the winner.  The active player rolls 5 dice.  Then each player gets to select 2 sets of dice to make the numbers needed to cross of spots on their adventure sheet leading to treasure and monsters and even some places that grant special abilities. The game comes with 4 different boards with minor rules changes on each.  Sharpen your pencils and your dice rolling skills they will be necessary to be the winner of Dungeons, Dice & Danger.

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Hickory Dickory is a scavenger hunt using 4 different mice to move around on the minute hand of a clock to gather tiles in order to fill your 4X4 hunt board.  Each mouse has a special ability.  They will be able to jump on and off the minute hand as it rotates around the clock.  There is only so much room on the clock hand.  You can always get on, but you may force someone else off.  Each of the 12 hours on the clock have randomly placed tiles and abilities to use when you jump off there.  After 5 rounds scoring will be based on sets of tiles of the same color and sets of tiles with the same symbols.  There will also be points for filling rows and columns on your hunt board.  The title and look of the box cover looks like a game for younger children.  That is misleading.  This one is going to be fairly strategic.  Definitely a family weight game.   1 to 4 players – – 60 to 120 minutes game play

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Floor Plan: The Winchester Mystery House is a themed version of the roll-and-write game Floor Plan. 1 to 6 players – – 20 to 40 minutes game play

The Winchester Mystery House is a landmark architectural wonder. Heiress Sarah Winchester took an eight-room farmhouse and from 1884 until her death in 1922 transformed it into a sprawling 24,000 sq ft, 160-room mansion that included 10,000 windows, 2,000 doors, doors that open to walls, stairways that lead to the ceiling, and many more oddities.

Floor Plan: The Winchester Mystery House gives players the opportunity to construct their very own Mystery House.  This roll-and-write game features 2 floors and 6 randomly selected building requirements.  Originally, the house was continually added to in a perceived effort to confuse the ghosts who haunted the house. Now you can add your own twist to this adventure in construction.  The game ends when one player completes 5 of the building requirements.  Points are awarded for both floors and for spirit bonuses. The player with the most points wins.

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• 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.

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