Board Games, Page 163

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful and kind queen who lived happily in a magnificent castle with three colorful towers. However, after a terrible attack from a neighboring kingdom, her castle was reduced to ruins. Queen Lola summoned the best builders in the kingdom to rebuild her three beloved towers. She promised to reward the best ones with gold!

Set off on a mountain climb! The trip will be long and full of surprises. The first to reach the summit wins the race! Ready, set, go!

Hurry, hurry, there's not a second to lose! The moon is barely shining, and already the Potion Express pilots are taking to the skies to meet the orders of the village witches. Pumpkins, mushrooms, and earthworms—there will be no rest tonight! The goal of the game is to be the first to make 3 potions (4 in a two-player game). Players must remember where the necessary ingredients are hidden...

In City Tour, you and the other players want to pick up passengers in your bus and deliver them to the right stops. How many passengers? That depends on how difficult you want the game to be!

Farm Hand is a fun and engaging 21-card micro game for 1-5 players in 15-20 mins. A game that neatly fits in your pocket or purse and can be played almost anywhere.

Duplik, first published as Portrayal (then Identik) is a funny, fast-paced, family and party game that tests each player's ability to describe, draw, and evaluate wacky images.      

Play cards and create connected clusters that match the colors you've played in your Scoring Pile. Block and disrupt opponents' patterns to tank their scores. Determine player majorities for each color/symbol then reward points based on Clusters in the Center Area.

In this 2-player battle for the Bog, you’ll play Frogs from your hand and move them around on Lily Pads (playing area). Land on flies to draw more cards and on opposing Frogs to earn points. Complete Frog ‘Routes’ and score Frog ‘Formations’ for even more points. The player with the most points at the end of the game is the winner!

Collect acorns and store them in trees in your playing area. You may count each color only once and you'll need squirrels to multiply your sets for big points. You'll go nuts for this tiny set collecting card game!

In this trick-taking game, winning a Trick isn’t always desired because each card has a ‘Science’ (+) and ‘Madness’ (-) side that could challenge the balance of players’ Score Piles. Trick winners take an opponent’s card into one of their matching Score Piles - 2 suits of which are imbalanced from the start - with the goal to reduce each suit to 0. The lowest total score wins!

Players cooperate as a single team to spell words in order to rid their hands of as many letters as possible. The catch? Silent play proves challenging when one doesn't know his teammate's hand. Shh!  

Players begin the game with 5 cards and they choose which number on each card they will use to bluff and win the round. During a round, each player must either make a bid of how many of a certain die they believe are shared amongst all players chosen dice -OR- call the previous player's bluff and say, "LIE!" The loser of the round may only draw back up to 4 cards next round and play continues...

Players assume the roles of ancient rug collectors vying to display their collection in the Taj Mahal. Vote on proposals made by opponents to shift rugs in the display to gain prestige for rugs displaying your secret color scheme.  

Get swattin’ in this exciting dexterity, set-collecting game! Players take turns dropping the fly swatter card on the table to swat flies with like colors and symbols. You'll need at least 3 of the same color or symbol in order for a fly to count.  

Players are jewel collectors in this tense auction game of asset leverage and wit. In the end, the player who is most effective with his money and cunning in his collecting, will amass the most prestigious and valuable jewel collection.  

In this boxing game, players simultaneously choose a punch or a block to gain points. Compete for the TKO Belt as you maneuver around the ring in this clever boxing game. You’ll need more than brute strength to get inside your opponent’s head. Choose from 8 different fighters and keep it clean out there! Fight!  

Secretly choose 3 colors and build the largest color sections in this fast-playing, tile-laying strategy game. Players build an area of color sections together. In the end, the winner is the player who chose the most valuable 3 colors.  

You’ll need absolute effiency in this quick, “Pick up and Deliver” game of balancing speed and maximum capacity. Don’t get too distracted dropping off passengers, because your opponents might beat you to the bus stop or change your route through road construction!  

In this race for time, players race their Airships around a clock, capturing face-up Time Capsule cards for points at the end of the game.

Players try to protect their Hens at the Hen House while also playing their Foxes to gobble up opponents' Hens.

Puer is an expansion for the game Tea Garden. It adds a Solo mode and lots of new options and interactions to the game. Players can now assemble so-called Puer cakes, which are an exclusive type of additionally fermented tea.

Snails, get ready... go! Colorful garden snails line up at the starting line and an exciting race to the finish awaits them. Who will be the fastest and who will crawl so slowly that they will be the last to reach the finish line? Roll the colorful dice and watch the race unfold!        

Between the 8th and 11th centuries, the Vikings kept the world on edge. Always hungry for new land, they didn’t shy away from fighting their own kin. In Small Fjords, two clan leaders clash over the most fertile stretch of Norway’s coast. Villages rise at key locations, and every tool is fair game in the battle for dominance.