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Captain Obvious is a competitive party game in which players are rewarded for being as obvious as possible. Write sentences with a meaning that's so apparent even a missing word won't confuse the other players. Earn the title of Captain Obvious!

Prey is a 12-trick trick-taking game where 3-4 players play the first six tricks with one side of numbers (predators), then FLIP their cards over to play the final six (prey). You must follow suit if you can. The goal of the game is to be the first player to win your assigned number of tricks(determined by dice roll), twice. Can you manipulate your hand (and, the upside down cards in...

Designer Paul Salomon (Honey Buzz, Genotype) brings stamp collecting to life on tabletops in Stamp Swap! Draft from a public pool of face-down and face-up tiles (along with some bonus cards), then simultaneously divide them into 2 groups. You will select one group from another player and keep the group of yours that isn't selected. Organize your growing collection each round and score...

The last thing you can remember, you were on a tropical island, desperately trying to corral all of those adorable, mischievous, and frankly difficult cats.

After cruising the Caribbean in search for fame and treasure as a privateer in Pirates of Maracaibo a new challenge awaits you with the Commanders expansion!

World Wonders: Mundo Wonders Pack adds nine new wondrous monuments from the ancient world to World Wonders, along with a new gameplay mode. This mode features nine cards that add even more strategy to the scoring of new monuments, allowing for higher scores depending on the objectives.

Magic Maze Tower is a new standalone game in the universe of the Magic Maze range.

Beyond the Horizon is a massive expansion for Waste Knights: Second Edition, a postapocalyptic game of adventure and survival. Now is the time to leave the continent, embark upon a ship and sail to places you only know from legends and myths.

Dorfromantik - Sakura is the stand-alone successor to the Spiel des Jahres 2023 Dorfromantik - The Board Game.

Wabi-sabi is a Japanese aesthetic that celebrates the imperfection of things. When applied to bonsai, the viewer is encouraged to watch with their heart instead of their eyes, to understand the beauty of their constant changing.

Welcome to the Roaring 20s, when you will try to attract the trendiest dinos to your glamorous party.

Will you surpass your teachers' knowledge and grow up to become the best alchemists in the land? Let's find out! It's time to grab your potion ingredients, sharpen your deduction skills, and get mixing! The product is in Czech.

You and your partner have mastered moving in together. You’re totally fulfilled! But wait... Now you have to move out!? How will your relationship hold up when the moving van runs out of room for all your precious curios?! When your smart car can’t carry your boxes, your partner will surely pack them for you... right?? Onto the next adventure - Decorum: Movin’ Out. Let’s get movin’!

A narrative expansion of the game Meadow. In the expansion for In the Meadow: Book of Adventures, you'll embark on a fascinating journey from beautiful flowering fields to an enchanting cave. Each of the six journeys takes place on an interactive board book and rewards you with a lush view of the nature around you. New elements await you in the Adventure Book that will make creating your...

Since the beginning of time, gnomes have been the humble caretakers of nature. In secret, they emerge from their underground homes to maintain meticulous rings of mushrooms known to the human folk as "fairy rings". But the work must be done quickly because as soon as a mushroom path is finished, the mushrooms are ready for picking. Who will be the cleverest gnome and harvest the most mushrooms...

In Power Grid: Outpost, the colonization of the new planet advances quickly. There is a huge demand for electricity that your companies gladly fulfill.  

In Fishing, you try to catch as many tricks as possible over eight rounds, with each card you catch being worth 1 point. You then use your caught cards for the next round — and if you didn't catch enough tricks to fill your hand, you'll draw fresh cards from the ocean stack, which will introduce new cards for you fishers to fight over.

July 1st is "Moving Day" in Québec, Canada. It's no joke as more than 100,000 people (!) move on this special day. Why? Starting in the 1700s, by law all leases would expire on the same day. The law has since been changed, but landlords and renters still stick to July 1st as the universal moving day. And since so many people are moving on the same day, it's of course near impossible to hire...

In Dream you must complete your dream by playing Dream and Rem cards, completing the sequence from 1 to 6 and you will try to hinder the success of your opponents’ dreams, thanks to the Nightmare cards.

Once upon a time there was a pond that hummed and buzzed happily. But then the frogs suddenly appeared. They greedily filled their mouths with everything within reach of their tongues. They even snatched their prey from the mouths of the others.