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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.

After the big earthquake of 1755 that tore down Lisbon and most of Portugal's southern coast, it was necessary to rebuild an entire nation. The demand for window glass increased so much that William Stephens, a British businessman, saw the opportunity to expand his business in Portugal by investing in the glass industry.

Rooster Chase is a game set in Barcelos, a northern region of Portugal where King Dinis, Queen Isabel and Princess Constança reside in their castle. The royal family owns a rooster farm which becomes the centre of an exciting adventure. One day, due to the negligence of an employee, the gate of the farm is left open and the Roosters seized the opportunity to escape and invade the nearby village.

Tinco is a fast-paced party game from 3 to 6 players. Each player must change cards between each other to make a set of five cards of the same color. Also, each player must take a token from the center of the board. But there are not enough tokens for all the players. The last one gets without a token and loses one point. The player left with the white card at the end of the round also...

In The Lie, all the cards lie! The cards show numbers from 1 to 4, and they are in four different colors. However, when you turn each card over, you will find something has changed: either its color or number.

It's 1977. You're an up-and-coming musician, dreaming of making it big with your band. Over the next few months you'll rehearse, play gigs, write songs, and promote your band. With careful planning and a little luck, you'll earn the most fame and become the best new artist of the year.

We have finally perfected the power of steam, and we can now use it to our advantage! We live in an unprecedented era of progress, and new steam-powered inventions are developed faster than ever. Cities are growing, trade is flourishing, and we are developing our most ambitious machine ever: a giant contraption that will bring even more progress to the city. Yes, some trees are being cut down,...

In the reimplementation of Witness, exactly four people fight crime together as members of the secret "Witness Agency" organization! A prologue introduces the case, after which each team member receives their own secret clues. In the four Whisper rounds, these are passed on to another person - in the direction of the arrow on the Whisper card. In the first round, only their own clues are...

In the reimplementation of Witness, exactly four people fight crime together as members of the secret "Witness Agency" organization! A prologue introduces the case, after which each team member receives their own secret clues. In the four Whisper rounds, these are passed on to another person - in the direction of the arrow on the Whisper card. In the first round, only their own clues are...

In the reimplementation of Witness, exactly four people fight crime together as members of the secret "Witness Agency" organization! A prologue introduces the case, after which each team member receives their own secret clues. In the four Whisper rounds, these are passed on to another person - in the direction of the arrow on the Whisper card. In the first round, only their own clues are...

40-card Ecosfera Expansion. Face unpredictable situations that will change the rules of the game.

The beautiful pieces of glass in the river here have attracted the most entrepreneurial of woodland creatures.

Enter a Growing Market! Welcome to the Community Hedge Fund where players take on the roles of gardeners dedicated to growing flowers and profits. When the market crashes, the Gardener with the most valuable Stalk portfolio wins. Garden shrewdly to grow your fortune.

In Black Forest, you start out with a small domain in need of new buildings and livestock.  

For over 300 million years, trees have traded nutrients with fungi in a vast underground network. Scientists continue to make new discoveries about this hidden world. In Undergrove, you are a towering evergreen with an ancient symbiotic connection to the fungi in your forest. As new mushrooms appear, your options expand for converting nutrients and helping your seedlings. Using cube...

6 suspects is a game of memory and logical deduction. A crime has been committed. Two hidden evidence cards are assigned to each one of the six suspects. Players look at evidence cards, one after the other, trying to be the first to find the culprit.

Plunge into the modern era, where our planet's vast interconnected ocean scape is one of the last frontiers to discover and explore. Experience a deep new ever-changing adventure in this followup to the smash hit Endeavor: Age of Sail!

Chu Han is a two-player card game of dynastic intrigue set in ancient China before and during the Chu-Han Contention, 206-202 BCE.

Atoll is a winning design of the 1st season of Czech board game design contest turned into reality show called "Den deskovek". It's engine building game in which your goal is to build the best possible ecosystem in which the population of fish and other creatures will thrive, and which will attract new species.A central concern for you in managing Atoll is a variable called fatigue -...