Holy Grail Games

Welcome to Encyclopedia! The year is 1739 and as aspiring naturalists and adventurers, you have been hired by the Comte de Buffon - Darwin's predecessor - to help him create the first encyclopedia of natural history. To do this, conduct research, organize ambitious expeditions, and publish studies of the world's most fascinating creatures! Encyclopedia is a dice-based worker placement game. At the start of each round, you draw dice, roll them and place them on your player board. These dice can then be used to perform an action each turn, depending on their color and value. Your action can be to prepare your expeditions by going to the embassy, ​​visiting the bank to raise funds or hiring your research team at the university. When you're ready to go, choose the animal maps you want to study and organize expeditions to observe them in their natural habitat. When your research is complete, you can publish your findings in an effort to contribute to Buffon's Encyclopedia. With each publication you make you earn victory points and at the end of the game you score points based on collections of animals and research collected during play. The naturalist with the most points wins! Encyclopedia was designed by Olivier Melison and Eric Dubus, the authors of Dominations: Road to Civilization and Museum. This expert worker-placement game brings some fascinating new twists to the genre and offers multiple paths to victory. The game also offers a variety of ways to counteract the random element of your dice rolls. Not only can players spend different tokens to change the value or color of a die, but they have more than just their own dice to choose from, as other players' dice can be used too! Taking a die from another player's board costs nothing, but the target player gets a bonus. The game's theme - with beautifully illustrated animal cards - ties in closely with the mechanics, making the rules easy to understand so you can start devising the perfect strategy straight away.

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The GT5 expansion includes 6 new colored plastic car models, 32 dashboards, 6 driver cards, a new die and a rulebook. Includes: Brand new set of dashboards for both asphalt and rain tires. 6 new cars that only have 5 black Gear dice. However, they more than make up for this with the addition of a new Boost die! This green die works just like a brake die, except you can skip a gear when accelerating instead of decelerating! New dashboards for the GT6 cars to race against GT5 cars. These new boards slightly modify the cars, balancing them out so they can race on equal terms with each other, but still retain their unique characteristics.

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Hit the road and challenge your opponents on new tracks inspired by famous tracks from around the world! The World Tour expansion brings 12 new tiles to use when creating 10 new tracks or giving you even more options when creating your own tracks!

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The GT 4 expansion includes 6 new colored plastic car models, 24 dashboards (plus 6 extra for your KS exclusive Soft Tires), 6 driver cards, a new Coast die and a rulebook. GT 4 are lighter, classic cars, and while they may not have the horsepower of the GT 5s and GT 6s, they more than make up for it in agility! GT 4 cars only have 4 Gear dice. However, they have 3 Coast dice instead of 2, giving them a big advantage on tricky track sections where your speed is limited. As with GT 5, GT 4 is fully compatible with Solo mode and has been added to the score sheet. The GT 4 expansion also includes GT 6 BoP (Balance of Performance) dashboards, allowing you to race in the 2 different categories at the same time! These new dashboards slightly modify the GT 6 cars so that they can race on par with the GT 4 cars, while retaining their unique characteristics.

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The pack contains 6 additional cars (identical models as those in the base game) giving you even more exciting possibilities for your races! Team Challenge features an all-new racing mode: Pursuit! Use the double starting tile and watch up to 12 cars race in two packs, providing intense action as one group overtakes the other! The expansion also includes new dashboards and speed sheets so you can easily distinguish one car from another. With so many cars on the track, this expansion also includes all new 4-lane tiles that you can use to replace straights and gentle curves, turning any existing track into a 12-car track! Mix these with all the other tiles in your collection to create some really exciting races! Another new addition with this expansion is the Figure of 8 track! Create scary moments with a track that crosses itself! You can choose to use the bridge instead if you don't want to risk a collision at the crossing. Contents: 6 car models, 12 dashboards, 12 track tiles, a rulebook and a host of new tokens needed to play with that many cars!

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Come take a stroll through Sydney's famous Royal Botanic Garden, in this little sister game of "The Gardens"! Follow the paths through the gardens and see how many statues, ponds and ibises you can spot. Catch a glimpse of a famous Sydney landmark for extra ways to score points and gain special skills. Once a player has seen 6 landmarks, or 6 ibises have landed on the grass, the game ends. A Walk in the Park is a stroll-and-write souk. Each turn, a die is rolled to show players which feature they should draw in their park. Players race to different points of interest as they try to find the best way to explore the parks. The player with the most points (depending on the scoring methods they have unlocked) wins!

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Rallyman: Dirt is the brand new edition of Jean-Christophe Bouvier's classic rally game. Get behind the wheel of a supercharged rally car and race against the clock to achieve the best time through the different stages of a course! Rallyman: Dirt is a roll and move racing game, so if you want to move around the track you have to roll dice! Each player has a mix of Gear, Brake and Coast dice at their disposal to drive their car around the track. Each die can only be rolled once per turn. Each die has a certain number of warning symbols. If you get a three in one roll you will lose control of your car and possibly damage your vehicle! This new edition combines the original Rallyman from 2009 with the expansion: Dirt. It features beautiful new artwork and improved components, while incorporating classic mechanics from the original game such as drifting, jumping and cutting corners. In addition to the new visual design, it replaces the large rectangular map sections of first edition with hexagonal tiles that allow players to recreate iconic tracks or create their own unique designs in a flash.

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