Board games

City of the Great Machine is a strategy game set in a grim universe of technocratic Victorian steampunk. The game is about the conflict between the Great Machine, an artificial intelligence network and an alliance of Heroes. The Great Machine is either player controlled or automated, which completely changes the gameplay. The Great Machine controls the city built on mobile platforms in the sky. The player controlling the Great Machine commands an army of sophisticated servants and mechanical guardians. The Great Machine's ultimate goal is to quell social unrest and complete its grandiose Master Plan to perfect humanity. The other players are heroes who band together against the Great Machine to start a revolution. They encourage discontent in the city, enlist the support of famous citizens and cause riots. They also try to prevent the Great Machine from completing the Master Plan, as it leads to the enslavement of humanity.

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In Polynesia, players must save their tribe members from the dangers of the volcano by taking them to the islands that will earn them the most points. At the same time, players must try to achieve the goals set by the tide cards, which can vary from game to game. To succeed, players must collect resources in the form of fish and shells that will allow them to explore new sea routes, use other players' routes, and sail from one island to another. Polynesia is played in rounds and each round is divided into two phases. In the action phase, each player has three turns during which he can perform one of three actions: sailing, exploring or populating, and fishing. In the maintenance phase, volcano activity is controlled and each player can collect resources depending on the islands where they have tribe members.

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In Dogfight! Two rival pilots from the First World War duel each other in the air. To defeat your enemy, you must maneuver yourself so that you get behind him and shoot at just the right moment! Dogfight! is played over a maximum of three rounds or until one of the biplanes is shot down. If a biplane is shot down, the game ends immediately and the surviving player is declared the winner! If the third round ends and neither biplane has been shot down, the player who has scored the most hits is the winner. Both players choose a tile to play from behind their player screen and reveal them at the same time. Each player then moves his or her biplane by the number of spaces equal to the value of the tile played. The game contains nine biplanes and they all have different tile layouts. There are also several scenarios included in the box. The biplanes must follow the direction of the arrows around the white path. Each circle counts as one square and the colors on some squares affect the game. Biplanes can move past each other and even end up in the same space, but be careful: one wrong move and your enemy will fly after you and shoot you!

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In Tiwanaku, first announced as Pachamama, you lead your tribe into uncharted territory in search of new places to cultivate. Your goal: Explore and draw regions so you can develop cultures according to the customs and legacies of Pachamama. If you honor Her, Nature will reward you; otherwise you will suffer his wrath. In this race you have to take risks, deduce and have a good sense of timing to win. Each scenario disc represents a unique arrangement of terrain tiles and crop tiles. Terrain tiles lie in regions of 1-5 spaces, and a region of one color does not touch a region of the same color, not even diagonally. Crop tokens have a value from 1-5 and each value has a different size and color (level 1 is brown, level 2 is green, etc.). A region of size 1 will contain a crop token of value 1, a region of size 2 will contain crop tokens of value 1 and 2, and only a region of size 5 will contain crop tokens of any value. Two identical values ​​can never be adjacent, not even diagonally. Perform an Exploration or Divine Action during a turn: At the end of an Exploration or Divine Action, you can surrender 1-5 cubes for 0-10 points. You can make a maximum of one offering of each color. When the last terrain tile is placed on the game board, the end of the game is triggered. Starting with this player, each player can take turns performing a single divine action or passing. If you succeed, you take no further actions and see who has collected the most points.

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Each player controls colored mice and tries to collect pieces of cheese in Chateau Roquefort. During their turn, players spend action points to bring new mice into play, reveal passageways in the castle, move their mice around the castle, or push a tile into play, which changes the maze below. If two of a single player's mice reach a spot with the same type of cheese, the player receives a piece of that cheese. The first player with 4 different pieces of cheese wins the game.

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Something has changed in the valley of Renature: mushrooms are suddenly springing up everywhere! And they completely change the way the game is played. A mushroom makes it possible to connect areas and thus enlarge them. It is even possible for another player to take over an area. Turn the polluted valley back into an intact ecosystem. Bring the animals back here and plant the adjacent areas to score points. Use the advantages that the mushrooms offer you and with their help expand individual territories or join the occupied territories of other players. Where Renature is a challenge, it becomes even more difficult at Renature Valley.

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Welcome to Wayback Tours! You are about to go on a 3-day tour through history, a journey of thousands of years in a time machine to experience great moments from the past. Trekking through History consists of 3 rounds, each representing a day of your journey. Every day you visit a series of historical events and spend several hours at each event. Along the way, you'll earn points if you stick to the itinerary and visit historical events in chronological order. Come on, let's leave!

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The sun is shining and a gentle breeze is blowing. It's perfect weather for a picnic: distribute the food and tablecloths! Mix the tablecloths and food items in front of you and try to group like types together. This is how you make this picnic as tasty as possible!

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A fast card game for 2-4 players where you include Rail Road Shares in your Portfolio, and play Rail Yard cards that anyone can score. Each player starts with a hand of 8 cards containing a city, a company and a commodity. Each player chooses one card to place face up in his or her portfolio and one card to place face up in the railway area (center of the table). All players reveal these cards at the same time and if a player ever has 3 cards of the same city and company in his or her portfolio, then these three cards are "over-invested" and are discarded. This ends the round. After rounds 2 and 3, each player scores companies and goods in their portfolio multiplied by the number of matching companies and goods in the center of the table. The player with the highest score after round 3 wins!

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The Solar Sphere Expansions box contains the White Dwarf and Corporation Robots modules and additional components to support a fifth player. With construction of Solar Sphere #1 underway, The Corporation has set its sights on a nearby White Dwarf. You can now choose to explore the White Dwarf to gain valuable resources and opportunities. The White Dwarf expansion adds a unique rondel mechanic, where you can choose to move a meeple, or if you have upgraded the White Dwarf location, you can move two meeples for extra rewards! The Corporate Robots expansion adds a set of cards and meeples that act as remote access to work locations. Install the maps in your command center and deploy the meeple robots to locations to fully upgrade that location's power! You can then access that location from your command center.

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A fika is a Swedish coffee break. You drink a cup of coffee or tea together with a delicious pastry. With a fika it is not about what you eat or drink, but about the fun: you consciously take the time between activities to be with your friends, colleagues or family. In FIKA you compete with the café across the street. Tactically place your cards in your own café and influence the café across the street. The winner is the café owner who is the first to win two rounds. You play FIKA in rounds. The first player to win 2 rounds wins the game. So you play a maximum of 3 rounds. In a round, you take turns placing cards (snacks and drinks) at the tables in your own café. You then perform the action associated with that card. At the end of a round you count the points. Each card has its own purpose and depending on its difficulty you get more or fewer points. Whoever has the most points wins the round.

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You are a member of a cult and are trying to establish the power of your faction. Battle rituals and mythical monsters as you seek victory and control of the cult. A player takes a turn by first rolling his dice up to 3 times. Then you decide where to use your dice: in rituals to gain altar effects to temporarily strengthen yourself, or you can finish a ritual to gain its powerful effects permanently, you can stab cult members, gain life, or give life to other cult members. If a player is killed, he is not eliminated. Instead, you become a shadow. Shadows will still roll dice on their turn, just less.

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What will your friends fall for? We took the most revealing searches on the Internet and removed the last few words - can you guess the most popular ending? Players take turns reading the opening lines of popular searches and then try to complete them with the most credible answer. They don't have to be right; they just have to fool their friends! However, the right ending always gets mixed up, so you have to be smart with your entry...

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Sound Box is a cooperative party game for 4 to 7 players where you listen to your friends make strange noises as they try to get you to guess all kinds of things! At the start of each round, place Sound Cards on the board and draw a numbered token from a bag to discover which token is assigned to you. Take the time to think of the perfect sound: you will have to imitate that sound to present your concept to the guesser. If you are the guesser, your job is to listen to the sounds output by the Soundmakers. At the start of the round, all Soundmakers start performing their sounds...at the same time! Prepare for 13 seconds of hilarious acoustic extravaganza! Have you ever heard the sound of a giant monster fighting a guitar hero during a tennis match on a stormy night? Well, something like that could definitely happen to you! When the timer runs out, the guesser tries to find as many sound cards as possible one by one! There are more cards on the board than sounds made by the Soundmakers. Will you manage to find them all? Each correct guess earns you 1 point, but if you make a mistake the round ends immediately.

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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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Frankenstein or your grandma? Who's counting on their fingers? And Beyoncé or Darth Vader, who eats kiwis with their skin on? In Champions! 8 participants compete against each other each round in a tournament full of bizarre and unpredictable duels. In each match, vote for the participant you think will win and predict who will be the final winner of the tournament. Can you predict who will ultimately become champion?

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Happy Salmon is an interactive party game for all ages. During a game of Happy Salmon you try to get rid of your cards as quickly as possible by finding another player who has to perform the same action. Once you have found it, you carry out the action together. Then you can discard the cards. This way you give each other high fives, the fist bump, the one and only Happy Salmon move or you switch places with each other. Whoever gets rid of their cards first in this chaos wins! Happy Salmon is a simple and fun party game that you will learn in seconds, but keep playing for hours. Everyone can and wants to participate!

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Flowers and bees. In Happy Bee you have to pollinate as many flowers as possible. Choose the bee cards you want to play to win the majority and obtain flowers. FR: Des fleurs et des abeilles. Dans Happy Bee, votre but sera de polliniser le plus grand nombre de fleurs. Choisissez bien les cartes abeilles que vous souhaitez jouer pour remporter la majorité et insi récupérer des fleurs.

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Liar Liar is the hilarious new game about tricking your friends, sharing crazy stories and finding out who is the Best Liar. Each round, players share a short, personal statement related to one of their topic cards. If you get the secret role of liar, you have to lie! Everyone else must tell the truth. You win by identifying the liar and making your friends think you are the liar.

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Thanks to the invention of the time machine, we can explore our planet's past in real life. A new generation of explorers is ready to find lost wealth. They collect treasures from the past with their time hologram device. They are called Time Collectors. Combine dice, collect cards, complete achievements and win with the most beautiful collection... of all time!

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Oh no, the mine is collapsing! Hurry, get into the wagon and rush to the exit! Infernal Wagon is an intensely fun cooperative game where players must work together to create a route to the exit... before time runs out! But be careful: every card played has a high chance of causing devastating effects! A game of Infernal Wagon lasts a maximum of 7 minutes or until one of the endgame conditions is met. In this cooperative game, all players win or lose together. At the beginning of the game, place the 3 starting cards and place the wagon on the last one. There is no turn order: The player with the best card plays at the right time, and activates the corresponding effect. The player who played the card draws a new card, while the other players see if they can also add a card. (in the 2-player variant you can play 2 cards in a row). Once a card has been played, place the wagon on it. Place the end card within the time (7 minutes) to win the game!

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This expansion is a set of 80 wooden meeples representing buildings (15 mm thick, varying in height and width), with 18 large buildings (12 different shapes) and 62 small buildings (23 different shapes), to be placed on cardboard building tiles from the basic game. The miniatures just enhance the overall impression you get when you play with the game. This expansion is purely aesthetic and does not affect the mechanics of the game in any way. The meeples have double-sided color printed images on them (each side of the meeple has a different image). The contents are packed in a luxurious cardboard box.

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In Hickory Dickory, players control a team of mice as they compete in a royal quest organized by Lord Cuckoo! The mice ride on the hand of a cuckoo clock as they search for items that match their hunting card. The cute mice try to collect item tiles and perform various actions to earn berries, or victory points. Once the clock strikes midnight, the hunt is over and the mice show their quest cards to Lord Cuckoo. Berries are earned for rows and columns completed on their hunt map, and the mouse team with the most berries wins!

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The Voting Game After Dark Edition is a game that exposes the sometimes disturbing, sometimes daring, but always hilarious truths behind your friendships. The Voting Game NSFW begins when the first question card is turned over. For example: "Who would you least trust with your nude photos?". Players then vote anonymously for the player who best fits the question. The results are counted and revealed to the group! Each player must guess who voted for him or her. Players get one try for each vote given for them. If they guess correctly, the truth will come to light. This is an adult game and not suitable for work. Sample question cards are: "Who should be in jail?; "Who will be the coolest when drunk?"; "Who would you ask for help if you had to flee the country?" and "Who refuses to have sex when the light is on?"

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In Cascadia: Landmarks, players create vast habitats and place beautiful natural landmarks within them. Landmarks give each environment its own look and feel, while also providing dynamic end-of-game scoring bonuses! In addition to the Landmarks module, this expansion includes more unique animal scorecards and enough components to play Cascadia with 5-6 players.

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The family-friendly version of Pick Your Poison. Three or more players compete to create the most difficult scenario possible by combining two poison cards. Everyone "anonymously chooses their poison" and after the revelation you find out who was "right" and who is just as confused as you thought. Combine with the NSFW Edition for even more fun!

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