Newly added: Week 36 (2024)

A threat hangs over Nevermore Academy and chaos breaks out. The students must work together to defend themselves! As one of your favorite characters, you will attempt to thwart a monstrous threat that has terrorized locations around Nevermore Academy. Work together to prevent Hyde's attacks and protect the rest of the students in this exciting game.

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Designer Paul Salomon (Honey Buzz, Genotype) brings stamp collecting to life on the gaming tables with Stamp Swap! Draw from a public pool of open and closed tiles (along with some bonus cards), then simultaneously divide them into 2 groups. You choose one group from another player and keep the group of yours that wasn’t selected. Organize your growing collection each round to score 1 of 4 goals – choose wisely, as you can’t re-score that goal. The art of stamp collecting lies not only in collecting lots of stamps, but also in collecting high-quality stamps (including rare gold foil stamps). This 3-round game for 1-5 players is your chance to meet other participants, create a beautiful and well-focused stamp collection, and display it in a series of competitions. Do well and you could win the grand prize at this year's Stamp Swap!

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The game Resafa takes place in the 3rd century AD in the area of ​​the present-day Middle East. Resafa now lies in ruins in modern-day Syria, but at the time it was a fortified desert outpost that flourished as a stop along important caravan routes. In the game, players represent merchants who are on a business trip, buying and selling goods in the various cities in the region. Resafa had no local water sources, so it relied heavily on large cisterns to collect spring and rain water to make the area habitable. Players build water tanks and canals to distribute that water where it is needed. In the cities, they build workshops to grow their businesses, which will allow them to gather resources and camels. They also construct gardens between the businesses, which gives them more resources and also victory points. The game is played over six rounds. In each round a player performs only three actions by playing action cards in this tight and exciting game.

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Hurry, we need you! At Oktoberfest, a lot of guests are waiting for their food and drinks. Use a team of servants, the heroes of Oktoberfest, to make the people happy. May the best team of servants win!

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In LATA (Portuguese for can), your job is to produce canned sardines, sardines in tomato sauce, and mackerel in olive oil and deliver them to different international markets. Bid for the right production cards, sell the requested goods to the markets and invest your money wisely to increase your chances of winning. Bid to get the cards you want to use, earn money by delivering produced goods to the markets, increase your production capacity and buy objective cards. Make the best choice for deploying your action points, optimize your production engine and invest money in end goals.

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Four unknown descendants of the Emperor of Oshra have managed to decipher the forgotten legends. They have summoned the Guardians of Oshra and asked these powerful spirits for help. But at a high price! Greed ignites in many hearts. Will one of the newcomers become the new Emperor or will the power remain with the established order? This expansion for Hidden Leaders consists of 3 modules: Guardians, Corruption and Artifacts. You can add them to the base game separately. Guardians: A new faction, four leaders, and 20 new heroes. The Guardians are a powerful faction. Anyone can use them, but use them sparingly or one of the Guardian leaders will win. This adds a new layer of deduction, a new win condition, and many powerful new actions to the game. Artifacts: Artifacts can upgrade your leader. Each artifact gives the player a unique ability that can be used 2-3 times during the game. This asymmetry gives each player a unique playstyle and exclusive strategic options. Corruption: A bag full of nasty corruption coins. Twice during the game, a wave of corruption allows you to secretly switch your team or your opponents' heroes to a different faction. But be careful: some of these changes are dangerous traps that players can use to protect their heroes from attacks from their friends. This expansion to Hidden Leaders is only playable in combination with the Hidden Leaders base game. Also contains rules to combine with the Queens & Co expansion. Please note: cannot be combined with the Compact Edition.

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Shifting Seasons is a beautifully abstract game in which players carefully push season tiles off a community board to gain the valuable tile for their own boards. Each turn, a player takes a tile from the display and slides it into one of the four rows on the community board, freeing up a single tile at the end of that row. Since each row is numbered, the active player must place the newly acquired tile on their board in the matching numbered quadrant. By choosing wisely where to place each collected tile, players can unlock valuable bonuses and fulfill the requirements of the four scoring cards randomly dealt at the start of the game. Look for the precious tiles in each of the four seasonal colors to score even more points at the end of the game.

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In the oceans around the equator, a beautiful habitat shines in bright colors. Coral reefs are underwater ecosystems and are home to many species. However, due to global warming, reefs have declined enormously in recent decades, and it is up to us to protect them and keep them alive! In Lumicora, players collect colorful coral tiles and use them to build new reefs that grow in all directions. They must strategically stack their coral tiles and also take into account the sea creatures that live in the reef. Limestone serves as the base of their reef, so it is important to ensure that there is always enough limestone available. The game lasts for 10 rounds. At the end of each round, players can score points for a single type of coral. Lumicora is a fascinating three-dimensional tile-laying game that relies on clever planning and timing. Alternate sides with new challenges increase the replayability even more.

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Cryptic Nature is a competitive strategy board game where you take on the role of cryptozoologists, searching for traces of cryptids — extraordinary creatures that hide from humans. Your task is not only to track down these rare species, but also to build a unique nature reserve for cryptids to provide them with a safe habitat. Gain reputation points and become the most renowned cryptozoologist!

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The Café de Paris is in dire need of renovation to ensure it continues to attract guests from all over the world. In Intarsia, players take on the role of craftsmen competing for the coveted contract to reimagine the café’s beautiful parquet floor. To win the contract, they must first demonstrate their mastery of working with these stylish intarsias, while also trying to outdo their competitors with new tools. Each floor ornament can consist of one to four ornate wooden elements that are carefully assembled, working from the outside in. The more pieces an ornament contains, the more victory points it is worth! During the building phase, wooden elements can be obtained by playing material cards and then added to a player's personal board, following a set of simple building rules. In addition, players can attempt to follow specific pattern requirements to obtain tools that increase the number of points scored in a round. Only the craftsman with the best skills can secure the contract and give the café a new future! The B-side of the floor board offers variation for this clever and high-quality tile laying game.

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In Spectacular you are busy creating and developing your own zoo for vulnerable species. In order to preserve the species, you must ensure that breeding takes place within each habitat. During the game, you select animal tiles and dice, with the dice representing the food for the animals. The color of the dice must match the habitat color of the animal tiles. Each turn requires crucial decisions, where you must consider whether to choose a die of a certain value or to secure an animal tile that may no longer be available. At the end of the game, you score points for each area of ​​connected tiles of the same habitat, based on the sum of your dice of that color. However, points are only awarded if dice with values ​​of 1 or 2 are placed on certain “family” tiles within the habitat! During the game, you also build lookout towers, which earn you points for all three dice adjacent to them. To make your park even more spectacular, you also try to collect as many different species as possible, with increasing points for more variety. The player with the most points wins the game. After a few games you can challenge yourself by playing with three (out of 18) mission tiles. While they offer the opportunity for a higher score, they also increase the difficulty of the puzzle. Spectacular offers simultaneous play and allows for interaction between players, as your opponents’ decisions will affect which tiles and dice are available to you. The game also comes with asymmetrical player boards (on the back). Spectacular offers simple rules, quick setup, short playing time, engaging puzzles and can be played by 1 to 6 players with little waiting time, even with a larger number of players.

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Founded around 3100 BC and located south of the Nile Delta, the city of Men-nefer (Memphis in Greek) was the capital of ancient Egypt for nine dynasties and the most populous city in the world. In 1979, the city was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, mainly for its world-famous necropolises and pyramid complexes, such as Abusir, Saqqara, Dahshur and Giza. In Men-Nefer, you will relive one of the greatest periods of Ancient Egypt and perform tasks characteristic of Egyptian culture: acquire knowledge in the Houses of Life, navigate and trade on the Nile, make offerings in the Great Temple of Ptah, embalm the corpses of nobles to send them to a better afterlife, erect magnificent sphinxes, and contribute to the construction of the Great Pyramids. In addition, you must carefully navigate this earthly world to ensure that Osiris grants you access to Aaru, the long-awaited heavenly paradise of the afterlife.

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