Abstract Games, Page 5

It’s a wonderful lazy morning and your stomach is grumbling. What’s that heavenly smell coming from the kitchen? It’s Waffle Time! Draft combinations of fruit toppings and whipped cream to load up your waffle. Create patterns to spread syrup for scoring points. What you draft not only affects your score, but also your turn order and how much syrup you can use. After eight quick rounds, the...

Story Box invites players to share stories together with its theme boxes: Adventure, Dreams & Nightmares, and Polar. Picture cards are played onto a story deck in no particular order. This quickly unfolds a crazy adventure, a nightmare, or a thrilling story set in the ice. There are no limits to the players' creativity when interpreting the cards. In the second phase, the story deck is...

Story Box invites players to share stories together with its theme boxes: Adventure, Dreams & Nightmares, and Polar. Picture cards are played onto a story deck in no particular order. This quickly unfolds a crazy adventure, a nightmare, or a thrilling story set in the ice. There are no limits to the players' creativity when interpreting the cards. In the second phase, the story deck is...

Story Box invites players to share stories together with its theme boxes: Adventure, Dreams & Nightmares, and Polar. Picture cards are played onto a story deck in no particular order. This quickly unfolds a crazy adventure, a nightmare, or a thrilling story set in the ice. There are no limits to the players' creativity when interpreting the cards. In the second phase, the story deck is...

The great cities of the world are challenging each other to present the most beautiful festival imaginable. The closing fireworks ceremony, held in all cities, will be the final rose in the crown of the festivities.  

Do robots dream of electric sheep after a long day of manufacturing widgets and thingamabobs? Or do they sleep at all? Maybe they break off into teams and hop into the machine to blow off a little steam with a race for anodic glory and a chance at upgrading themselves into more skilled bots. Into the Machine is a highly tactical race in which circle-bots race to one end of the machine to tag...

Decorate the magnificent ceilings of the palace. Will the vaults look more beautiful by day or by night? Azul Duel invites you to play with light and pit opposites against each other.

In the game Olives, you will take care of your farm, harvest olives, and press them into oil, which you will sell from Portugal to markets around the world. Olive oil was an important commodity in ancient times, spreading thanks to Arab influence, and Portugal became the largest exporter. Come to sunny lands to expand your olive groves and supply your high-quality olive oil to households around...

Wispwood is a family tile-laying game exploring a magical forest of bright-colored wisps. They each have their wishes and reward you for fulfilling them. Can you place your wisps the best and illuminate the brightest forest for your cat? Light up a magical forest and lure in a curious cat with glowing wisps. Choose from a display of wisp tiles with different spatial goals Combine tiles to...

Hledači drahokamů brings a breath of fresh air to the world of board games. If you used to enjoy Battleship but now find it too simple, this game is for you – instead of ships, you will discover the color and type of your opponent's hidden gems.This abstract game of spatial deduction will really test your imagination. The goal is clear: reveal the position, color, and type of all your...

For eons, the happy Sognae and the sad Incubi have dwelled as opposed but complementary forces in the library-city of dreams. Your task in Urbion is to maintain this delicate equilibrium: Place the dreams in the various districts of the city, and balance their strengths so that neither group becomes more powerful than the other.

A crowd of umbrellas throngs the streets of New York, and seen from the sky, the colors dance... In Umbrella, each player orchestrates a "dance" of umbrellas in a street crossing.

Thousands of plants and animals have been discovered but haven't been seen for decades and could be on the brink of extinction. In order to save these species, we must first find them again. The Search for Lost Species is a game about this real-world search. You are scientists on an expedition to find one of those lost species, focusing on those in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

A wacky family game with a push-your-luck mechanic. Players take on the roles of grandchildren helping Grandma put all her kittens to bed - and she has a lot of them! The cats love to sleep in one place, next to each other (and on top of each other), so it takes a bit of creativity. The first player to tuck all their assigned kittens in wins!

In Paws Up, players become pet influencers competing to collect the most “paws” through clever photo cards and storytelling. It’s a fast-paced, light strategy card game perfect for families and casual gamers.

Knitting Circle is a standalone follow-up to the award-winning Calico. In this cozy tile-laying puzzle game for 1–4 players, you take on the role of knitters crafting the most beautiful assortment of garments. With variable scoring goals and dozens of unique template cards, every game offers a fresh spatial puzzle.

A new invasive species of butterflies are fluttering near your garden. You will lose 2 points for each of these butterflies if they land in your garden bed! A new twist on the classic gameplay of Butterfly Garden from Dr. Knizia.  

What hue do you think of when we say “apple”? Hues and Cues is a vibrant game of colorful communication where players are challenged to make connections to colors with words. Using only one and two-word cues, players try to get others to guess a specific hue from the 480 colors on the game board. The closer the guesses are to the target, the more points you earn. Since everyone...

A simplified version of Ubongo for the youngest players aged 5 and up, which you can take with you anywhere.

On a dark night, your broomsticks drop you quietly to the top of an evil tower. Explore the tower to equip yourself and collect the items you need to defeat the terrible wizards lurking there! Using your magic wands, simultaneously point at one of the tokens in the tower room to collect it. If two players point at the same item, the one with the most powerful wand wins the item, but must...

An elegant game for two players with wooden tiles and changing directions of play. Fast, clever, and surprisingly addictive!

My Very First Games: Let's Be VeterinariansOh no, the animals are sick and need your help ASAP! In "My Very First Games: The Vet," young players take on the role of veterinarians to treat and care for some cute but sick animals. Each animal has its own specific problem: the crocodile has a toothache, the elephant has a cold, the cheetah has a stomachache, and the poor flamingo has a broken leg....