After years of eating earthworms, the chickens in the chicken coop are ready for some variation. They want sushi! Naturally, you prefer to eat the best sushi without bones. But sushi is made from raw fish and fish have bones. Haggling in the Sushi Bar is a cheerful dice game where you have to collect as many sushi tiles as possible. In addition to the sushi tiles, there are also bone tiles, which are worth negative points. Although you would rather not take bone tiles, a sushi tile is only valid if you can link a bone tile to it. So you have to collect bone tiles. In addition to bone and sushi symbols, the dice contain chopstick symbols. With enough dice with chopsticks you can steal tiles from your opponents. You win the game by collecting the best sushi and bone tiles.

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Rediscover the land of Andor with three new legends! In "Shadow Over Cavern", the heroes find themselves in the deep mines of Andor, where they investigate strange events and face a dark opponent. In "Strange Homeland", the heroes return to Andor, but the country no longer resembles how they remember it. New enemies such as the shadow witch and the Tauri medicine man await the heroes. In “The Last Shadow” the heroes stumble upon a secret in the history of Andor that will have far-reaching consequences for the country. The Legends of Andor: The Lost Legends “Dark Times” introduces new elements such as the almost invincible Three Great Trolls and the night mode, which now also requires choices to be made at night. Andor: The Lost Legends “Dark Times” can only be played in combination with the basic game. With the “New Heroes” and “Dark Heroes” expansions, “Dark Times” can be played with a total of 6 players.

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Major expansion of the multi-award winning card game Dominion. The pack contains 26 new kingdom cards. This second edition is no longer a standalone game. Furthermore, compared to the first edition, 6 cards have been replaced and 1 added. In Dominion you try to form the strongest possible deck during the game, so that you have the most points at the end of the game. The cards in your deck always rotate from your draw pile to your hand, after which they go to your discard pile. When your draw pile is empty, shuffle your discard pile so that you have a new draw pile. Each turn you may perform 1 action and make 1 purchase. The different cards in your hand help you with this or can increase this number. Money cards form your capital for that turn. You can't do anything with point cards on your turn, but you ultimately need them to win the game. In Dominion Intrigue! you will find a few new types of cards. There are cards that belong to multiple categories and cards where you can choose from different actions. These actions may be less powerful than actions on cards where you cannot choose, but they do make your deck more flexible. Furthermore, this new version contains spectacular cards to annoy other players and a new defense card, which does not completely nullify the attack, but allows you to better prepare for it. Dominion Intrigue! is recommended for anyone who wants even more variety The Games Friends: " In Dominion: Intrigue you will find victory cards that also have an action or function. We think that is a great addition, because it makes a hand with many victory cards feel less useless. There are also cards with multiple options, which increases replayability. good ones coming. A cool expansion!

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Bonfire is a varied and challenging game that requires planning and flexibility. The magical bonfires have gone out, the cities of antiquity are deserted, the world has sunk into darkness. The female keepers of light who once watched over the bonfires have retreated to remote islands. There they wait for those who prove themselves capable of driving away the twilight. And so it is up to you as a gnome to take on this task: settle in the empty cities and prepare the way to lead the guardians back to their original place. Complete the tasks necessary to light the bonfires again and let your new home shine in full light! With the help of action tokens, you collect assignments from islands that, when completed, give you various benefits. If you best fulfill the wishes of the guardians and the Council, you will win this original game. With this game, the successful author Stefan Feld has managed to offer a lot of variety with few action options. Ideally suited for advanced players who want to introduce less experienced players to this genre. The Games Friends: " A wonderful entry-level expert game. There are many things you can score points on, but basically it is not a very complicated game. You can completely forget about the theme, but the mechanisms are nicely designed. .Recommended!

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The letter game for the real puzzler! Using a selection of 144 plastic letter tiles, you create your own 'crossword puzzle' at the same time as the other players. When you have used all your letters, all players take a new stone from the supply. You can also exchange letters, but then you will receive more letters than you surrender. When all tiles are gone from the stock, the first player to get rid of all the tiles from their own stock wins. The rules of the game contain different variants. You will find a variant to play the game while traveling and it can also be played solitaire.

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The well-known family game to take with you everywhere. Qwirkle can really be played anywhere with this edition. Thanks to the handy bag and the smaller dimensions of the tiles, the game now even fits on the camping table. The rules are the same as those of the basic game. The players still form series of symbols to score the most points. The Qwirkle Travel Edition makes holidays even more fun!

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Simplified variant of the smooth dice game Earthworms. In this updated version of Earthworms, which has been specially developed for children, players no longer have to calculate. They simply count the number of symbols collected. This popular dice game is also great for the little ones. Because the game contains fewer tiles, Earthworms Junior does not take as long.

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999 Games has been publishing 'Catan' since 1998. This game was updated in July 2012 in terms of playing material and artwork. For example, the wooden playing pieces were replaced by detailed plastic playing pieces. Unfortunately, the wooden and plastic editions of the basic game and the many expansions that the game has had were not always easy to combine. 999 Games therefore comes with this adjustment set, so that the biggest stumbling blocks regarding combining the different editions of 'Catan' are solved.

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Expansion of the popular laying game Carcassonne The circus travels around the Carcassonne area and wherever it pitches its tent, meeples flock to it. You try to place your meeples near the circus tent to earn extra points, depending on a face-down animal token under the tent. You can now also use your meeples as an artist and earn 5 points each during special scoring. Ringmasters are regular meeples, but get extra points if they do their work in the immediate vicinity of the circus or performers.

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Reprint of "Princes of Catan" with card holders and new packaging. Build your kingdom and endure the hardships and golden times that the colonists of Catan encountered on their path. The basic game "The First Inhabitants of Catan" familiarizes you with the game. Furthermore, this box contains 3 theme sets with extra cards, which offer many possibilities for variable strategies. In this way you take a journey through 3 eras, as it were: "The Golden Age", "A time of conflict" and "The great progress". Ultimately, all cards can also be used together in the ultimate version of the game, the "Duel of the Princes". Relive Catan with this exciting game for 2!

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Spectacular reaction game. Anyone who can count to 5 can participate! Each player receives a face-down pile of cards. Each card contains one or more fruits. Each player takes turns turning over a card and placing it on top of any previously turned over cards. This way, only one card is always visible to each player. If exactly 5 of a particular fruit are visible, all players try to ring the bell as quickly as possible. Whoever does this first gets all the open cards. Anyone who runs out of cards is eliminated. Who is the last one left? Halli Galli is not only educational for young children, but also excellent entertainment for students or families who just want to play a simple, fun game in between.

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The third major expansion to Catan. Merchants & Barbarians contains 4 variants on Catan and 5 new challenging scenarios, which can be combined to a greater or lesser extent with each other and with The Mariners and Cities and Knights. This expansion set can only be combined with the latest edition of the base game (the 2012 edition with the plastic parts). For example, we find a harbor master who rewards players with settlements at harbor locations with points. Or a friendly highwayman who, à la Robin Hood, only robs the rich. For those who are less lucky, there is the 'Events on Catan' variant, in which the dice are replaced by a balanced pack of cards. At the request of players all over the world, there is also a variant where you can play the basic game with two players. However, the bulk of the manual consists of describing five completely new scenarios, sorted by difficulty. From the simple 'Fishermen of Catan', via 'The Trek' to the final scenario 'Merchants & Barbarians', which in terms of level is not inferior to the spicy 'Cities & Knights'. Merchants & Barbarians offers a collection of new elements to make Catan a completely new gaming experience.

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Intarsia is a building and planning game for people who like to do a lot in a round and find it important that a game looks nice. With the wooden parts you actually build decorations on your tableau, which makes the result look beautiful in the end. Because you can score points in many different ways, there are many moments of success. This makes this game suitable for both occasional and advanced players.

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Challenging card game with relatively simple rules. Your hand cards are both buildings and currency. Each round you build 1 building (and sometimes 2 buildings) from your hand and pay the costs in other cards from your hand. Each building generates income in the form of cards and/or points. Slowly but surely, a city will emerge for you. Many buildings influence each other or are a prerequisite for building other buildings. This creates interesting options and chain reactions. Whoever has scored the most points with their buildings at the end of the game is the winner. Metropolis only takes 20 minutes and is therefore ideal for a short break.

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Thanks to this expansion, Boonanza can also be played with three to seven players. New bean types and a variant with assignment cards greatly expand the tactical possibilities. PLEASE NOTE: Boonanza the Expansion is only playable in combination with the basic Boonanza game.

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With this expansion you can now also play Catan and the expansion The Seafarers of Catan with 5 or 6 players! This expansion set can only be combined with the latest edition of the base game and seafarers (the 2012 edition with the plastic parts).

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The world is big and your kingdom is huge. It is actually no longer a kingdom, but an empire. That makes you an emperor, which gives you the right to your own chair, and you can name a salad after yourself. It's not easy being emperor. The day starts early when you light the sacred fire, after which you have to meet for hours to find out why the sacred fire keeps going out. Sometimes your armies take over a continent, but you have no idea where to put it. And there is always the risk of assassination: you have a food taster, who tastes everything before you eat it, and an arrow tester, who gets stabbed before you get stabbed. You've decided to stay home when it's the Day of Almost Everything. But overall it's a great profession. You wouldn't trade it for the world, especially when you realize how much of that world you already own. Major expansion of the popular deck building game This interesting expansion contains 96 chips and no less than 300 cards. This includes cards that you buy now and pay for later, stacks with 2 different types of cards, and sights that offer new opportunities to score points. Furthermore, events from previous sets return. With Dominion: Empires, Dominion becomes completely different again! The Games Friends: " Dominion: Empires is a wonderfully extensive addition, including debt cards and attractions. You can already buy cards with the debt cards, even though you don't actually have the money yet. Of course you have to pay it back as quickly as possible. And With the events and sights you get different rules every game, which is good for replayability. This all makes Dominion: Empires a very cool expansion.

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Expansion of the popular laying game Carcassonne. Now with new artwork! Use your shepherd to pull sheep tokens from the bag. Do this carefully, because if you draw a wolf token, you immediately lose your sheep. Meeples on land tiles with hills decide a tie in your favor. And monks at monasteries earn extra points for vineyards in their immediate vicinity. This constructive expansion gives you the opportunity to score points in other ways. The sheep tokens and vineyards are examples of this, but a meeple on a hill actually counts for 2! Carcassonne: Sheep & Hills offers several new challenges for the avid Carcassonne player. And because of the sixth shepherd you can easily combine this expansion with Carcassonne: Cathedrals & Inns!

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Join a forgotten civilization and brave the harsh conditions of Antarctica in Nunatak, where you will build humanity's greatest icy masterpiece. Sharpen your tools, summon your beasts of burden and raise the giant ice temple in this strategic building game. This game is designed for 1 to 4 players who enjoy planning and tactics. In Nunatak you have to place your ice blocks carefully to earn the most points. Due to its attractive appearance and accessible way of playing, Nunatak is ideal for families, but Nunatak will also be enjoyed by the more strategic board gamer who likes a challenge. Moreover, Nunatak also has a solo variant. So this game has something for everyone. Build an impressive ice temple and collect points by cleverly placing ice blocks. Choose strategically from building cards, place your ice blocks and earn the corresponding points. Complete rows, add support blocks and complete squares to get maximum points. The game ends when the 4th ice block is placed on the bottom tile of the top layer. After the scoring, the ruler of the icy art is crowned!

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"The Red Cathedral" is a strategy board game in which players lead construction teams to build St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow. Lead your team, assign sections, send resources and complete construction while bypassing your rivals. The Tsar is watching and only the most skilled builder will win his favor. With a beautiful tribute to the art of Ivan Bilibin, this game offers accessible rules and deep strategy for hours of fun. This game is perfect for lovers of strategic games with accessible rules. Due to the many random factors, the game is different every time. Furthermore, the game contains rules for playing solo. During the game, players can take one of three actions on their turn: claim a portion of the cathedral, send resources to build it, or go to the market to obtain more resources. Each action has its own mechanic and requires players to pay close attention to what the other players are doing. Once the parts of the cathedral have been allocated, the players take possession of their share. The more parts a player builds and completes with their own tower, the more points they receive at the end of the game. Players can send resources to the parts of the cathedral they have claimed. When they send enough resources to complete a section, they receive rewards in the form of money and prestige points. They can also install decorations on the finished parts to gain even more recognition from the Tsar. This part of the game also acts as a clock, because once a player completes the construction of their sixth part, the game ends. The Red Cathedral is accessible with simple rules and in-depth strategy. It will certainly appeal to those who are more interested in the challenge of strategically optimizing their position than in the complexity of the rules.

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The Brain consists of 1 or more attempts to solve a puzzle until the players succeed or give up. The game is played clockwise. On your turn, you must place a card in the middle and perform the corresponding action. You can then take a card from the draw pile. You win the game when all the cards in your hand have been played away and the draw pile is empty. But once a predetermined number of cards are in the middle at the end of a turn, you all lose. You can then discuss how you can make it happen the next time you try. Due to the different starting situations and the many levels of difficulty, this card game of our own making always remains challenging! Can also be played solitaire!

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New edition of the popular, economical game High Voltage. Beautiful logistics and commercial board game. Earn money by connecting cities to the electricity grid. To this end, purchase power stations and the necessary fuels, such as fuel oil and biowaste. Over the course of the game you replace your old-fashioned power stations with more modern ones, including windmills and nuclear power stations. Each round the players auction the available power stations, with a maximum of one purchase allowed. You then buy raw materials from the market and connect cities to your network. Whoever is in the worst position can start with that, so that he or she gets the cheapest deal. At the end of a round, you supply your cities with energy if you have the necessary resources to do so. You then earn money with that. Whoever can power the most cities at the end of the game wins this exciting game. This updated edition contains 2 different game boards, each with their own character. The manual also contains various rule additions and special rules for 2 players. As a result, High Voltage Recharged offers even more challenge and fun than its classic predecessor! High Voltage is winner of the Dutch Games Prize 2010! The Games Friends: “ High Voltage is already a real classic and is one of the first expert games we played. Yet High Voltage still holds up very well today! So do you fancy a tactical puzzle with a cool theme? Then we highly recommend High Voltage!"

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The Mandala is an ancient Tibetan symbol. Buddhists use colored sand to create a symbolic map of the world and then destroy it. In this card game, players also build and destroy a mandala together, taking turns playing cards. The linen play mat shows two mandalas with the aim of obtaining the majority of a color. Once all the colors are present in a mandala, it is 'destroyed' and players take turns choosing a color from the mountain to add to their 'river' which gives points at the end of the game. The player with the most points in their river wins the game.

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At the start of the game you have nothing more than a wooden house with 2 rooms, in which 2 family members live. You have a range of options to build a comfortable life through house expansion, agriculture and livestock farming. You collect raw materials such as wood and clay, expand your family and ensure enough food for everyone. You plow fields and plant them with grain and vegetables. You also keep sheep, pigs and cattle. You also get 14 unique crafts and small investments, which give you small advantages in the game. Because the game contains 96 of those cards, no game is the same! Have you developed your yard best? Then you score the most points and win! The Games Friends: “ Agricola is another highlight from Uwe Rosenberg. The theme is super fun and the game material looks fantastic. Perfect for lovers of Odin and De Friesche Velden!"

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Pirate variant of Catan for children who find the basic game a bit too difficult. You are a pirate who tries to conquer the island by building forts and ships there. This requires raw materials, which you can earn with dice rolls. If you don't have the right resources, you can trade with other players, ports, the bank and on the market. However, the ghost pirate can really throw a spanner in the works. Fortunately, you can regularly call on the help of Coco, the parrot! You win the game when you have built all your forts. This simplified version of the most popular trading game of recent years also offers enough challenges to keep adults interested.

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It's the 21st century and Catan is at a crossroads. The agricultural society of the island's Viking ancestors is long gone. Today's Catanians need energy to keep society moving and growing, but pollution is wreaking havoc on the island. You must decide: invest in clean energy sources, or opt for cheaper fossil fuels, which could have potentially disastrous consequences for the island? CATAN: New Energy is a new standalone game that still has the classic Catan mechanics such as harvesting, trading and building. New gameplay elements have been added, including power plants, energy tokens and environmental events that add new strategies and stories to a familiar base.

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Help Frodo save Middle-Earth! Gandalf needs your help. By solving riddles you can buy time for Frodo, who must bring The One Ring to Mount Doom deep in the dark land of Mordor. The mysteries are not without danger! But every riddle you solve tells the story of the One Ring. Exit: Dark Shadows Over Middle-Earth is based on The Lord of the Rings by HRR Tolkien. In addition to well-known elements such as the decoding disk, this new part of the Exit series has something new: a continuous story that is told through the riddles. This way the history of the One Ring comes to life in a completely new way! Exit: Dark Shadows Over Middle-Earth can only be played once, because the play materials must be written on, folded or torn off. But just like in a “real” escape room, we guarantee a very intense puzzle and playing experience!

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From your personal cave you travel across the vast world of prehistory. You look for valuable land, such as fertile plains and locations with spring water. Along the way you tame wild animals, allowing you to jump through the world, fly over mountains and even attack your opponent. In this game you win points by claiming the largest number of spaces per grass area with your own stamp pawns. Each turn you place a stamp pawn on an empty space next to one of your own cave tokens or previously placed pawns. As soon as you place a pawn on a space with an animal symbol, you take a token with that symbol. You may use this token on your next turn. That turn, your pawn may jump one square further with the knight, fly over a mountain with the eagle or push away the other player's pawns with the bear. Great Plains is an accessible and fast game for two players. The modular board ensures that every game is different. Who will rule the Great Plains plains?

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Every 100 years, witches and wizards come together to compete for the title of Master of the Witch's Stone. Whoever holds the Witch's Stone will be rewarded with prestige and honor, not to mention the stone's immense powers. But who will be the best magician this time? In Witchstone you have to collect points by performing actions. These actions come in different types. For example, you have actions to connect locations on the playing field with energy lines, actions to deploy your personal witch army at the same locations and actions to collect crystals for bonuses. All these different actions are initiated in the same way. You do this by placing a tile with action symbols on a cauldron tableau. If your current tile with its action symbols connects to previously placed tiles with the same symbols, the relevant action is triggered multiple times. By playing smart you can cause enormous chain reactions of magic!

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Life is a challenging adventure or nothing. You're not sure which of the two, but you've narrowed down the choices. You are rich in life experience, but have always had difficulty exchanging this for goods and services. It's time to seek your fortune, or indeed anyone's, whoever is closest. To the west lies the land of milk and honey, full of giant bees and gigantic cows. In the east the land of eggs and licorice. There are treacherous swamps in the north and alluring jungles in the south. But these have all already been expertly looted. You have heard legends that tell of a fifth direction that has never been explored. Where treasures are still hidden in the earth. You have your sword and your survival kit, inherited from your ancestors. You've recruited recruits and hired mercenaries, you've polished your armor and reassured your partner. You hang up a sign that says “On an adventure”. And then another sign with the text “Beware of the dog”, in case some people had the wrong ideas. You saddle your stallion and set off. This expansion contains 400 cards, 6 tableaus and 60 tokens. 30 new kingdom cards are introduced, including some "durable ones", which are also active in subsequent turns. There are also reserve cards, which you can save for later, and event cards, which allow you to buy things other than cards, such as tokens that change the effects of cards. Dominion: Adventures can only be played in combination with Dominion. You need the victory and money cards from there.

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Saddle the camels and prepare for another great journey in Marco Polo II: By Order of the Khan. Roll the dice and devise your strategy in this sequel to the classic board game In the Footsteps of Marco Polo. Marco Polo II is not an expansion but a completely new, standalone edition. The game is broadly similar to its predecessor: each round starts with the rolling of 5 dice, which largely determine what options you have. The higher the dice, the more valuable your actions are, but you also have to pay more for them if you choose an action that is already taken. This time your tour does not start in Venice, but in Beijing. And with new characters, jade as an extra commodity and a new distribution of the different options, this game plays essentially differently. All new, often variable, choices make this sequel once again recommended for lovers of a strategic challenge. The Games Friends: "Marco Polo II is secretly even better than its predecessor. Traveling is more important in this part and that, in our opinion, makes it even more fun to play. As far as we are concerned, that makes Marco Polo II indispensable for the fans. of the first part, but also a perfect game to dive into the world of Marco Polo for the first time."

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Expansion for 5 and 6 players With this expansion to the Toy of the Year 2014, you can now also play the game with 5 or 6 heroes or try the basic game with other heroes. New Heroes contains 4 hero tableaus with associated play materials and interesting special properties. For example, one hero has all kinds of special objects, but not that much strength and willpower, while another is very strong, but cannot carry a large object. You can also choose a number of variants, such as "the brother's shield" and "the black herald" to make the game a little easier or more difficult.

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Times have been tough. To save money, you've left your old castle and taken up residence in a luxurious ravine. You didn't think much of that castle anyway; it was plundered constantly, and never at a decent time. And if they weren't barbarians, it was the plague, or sometimes they even came at the same time and there weren't enough chairs. The ravine is amazing; there is plenty of sunshine and you can dispose of waste anywhere. In your spare time you took up begging again. The concept of begging is brilliant, but in practice it is quite difficult, because no one has any money. You beg twigs from the villagers and they beg them back, but no one seems to get that far. That's how life goes sometimes. You're quietly beating people up, doing your own thing, when suddenly an epidemic or barbarians appear, or everyone suddenly becomes illiterate. The only thing you can do then is retreat to some ruin and wait for the storm to pass. Yet you are convinced that you will also overcome this setback, or at least do a little better than the others. This expansion contains 500 cards and adds 35 new kingdom cards to the game plus several bad cards that you can give to the other players (Ruins), new cards to replace starting estates (Shelter) and cards that you can only get from certain other cards. to acquire. Dominion: The Dark Ages can only be played in combination with Dominion or Dominion Intrige. You need the victory and money cards from there. The central themes in Dominion: The Dark Ages are the "Destroyed Cards" deck and upgrading. There are cards that do something when destroyed, cards that directly affect the "Destroyed Cards" pile, cards that upgrade themselves, and cards with ways to upgrade other cards. Good luck in The Dark Ages! The Games Friends: " Do you regularly manage to play a game of Dominion without destroying a card? Well, those times are now officially over. Destruction is becoming more important than ever, because many cards directly influence it. You can also play cards upgrade, which means that timing can be important. "

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Silencio is a fast card game where you have to play together as many travel cards as possible. As a team you take a journey through a wonderful world full of forests, swamps, savannah and lava. You do this by connecting cards of the same color. But be careful: no one is allowed to make noise! Once someone says something, everyone loses. Each travel card you connect must be higher than the previously played travel card. Each card also has a negative or beneficial effect. A card that connects directly, such as a red five after a red four, gives a disadvantage. You may use the advantageous effect on a card that does not connect directly. If you cannot build a card, you must skip the turn. If no one has been able to lay down a card for a round, the game is over. Because you are not allowed to consult, you have to carefully assess what everyone is doing. Maybe you play a card that bothers everyone? Or do you have a good sense of your team members and do you get a top score? The fewer cards you have left, the better!

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In this smooth card game full of bluff and tactics you are a thief in a big city. You collect as much money as possible, but you also give the other players something every now and then. The police only tackle the richest player. Will you ultimately escape with the most loot? Each round you place a loot card on yourself or another player, or play a police card. You also always draw a card. If a player draws a getaway car, it is immediately placed face up on the table. If there are a certain number of police cars, a raid will follow, with the richest player losing his loot. Then the game continues as usual. If the last getaway car appears, the player with the most valuable loot wins! Thieves is a simple, interactive card game that will appeal to both beginners and advanced players!

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In this exciting two-person game, players take on the role of governors who will do anything to become president. They use the unique actions of their supporters to hack, outwit or even outright eliminate their opponents. Everything is allowed to stop the campaign of their rivals. Outlaws is a fascinating game in which players not only have to use their tactical and bluffing skills, but also use their memory. Who will ultimately become president?

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Major expansion of the Toy of the Year 2014 Sail north on a dilapidated ship and experience fantastic cooperative adventures in 4 new legends. The Journey to the North contains a double-sided game board and lots of new play material, including new monsters and even a new hero: the sea warrior! You can only play The Journey to the North in combination with the basic game. If you also have the "New Heroes" expansion, you can also play this expansion with 5 or 6 heroes. The Journey to the North is part 2 of the Andor trilogy. In this expansion you will also learn the rules of the game during the game. We won't tell you more here, because that would spoil the surprise. Experience it yourself in "The Journey to the North"!

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