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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.

There is a bomb full of wires and the countdown has started... Who are you gonna call? YOU, the Bomb Busters! To clear the bomb, you need to collaborate with your team of bomb disposal experts! Using the wires on the tile holder in front of you, try and figure out your teammates’ wires. Find and cut identical wires, but watch out, if you cut a red wire: BOOM! Use your equipment wisely to meet...

You've been tasked by the city council to put together a plan to transform a whole neighborhood in the city. You have the opportunity to build new housing, office buildings, parks, and leisure areas near the waterfront. It is in your hands to make the city a better place.

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.

The tea ceremony lies at the heart of Japanese culture, giving life the most essential and elemental concepts of hospitality, respect, and Zen philosophy. There, they believe that tea, which came from China in the 13th century, resolved the health problems of the Buddhist monks who drank it. Over the years, the tea ceremony evolved to offer the samurai a place of calm, far from the chaos of the...

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,...

Secretly wager dice behind a player screen. Then, all players reveal their dice simultaneously. If you bid less dice, you get to go first! But, it's easier to catch fish with more dice.Will you play risky to go early, or be patient and catch the big one? Don't forget to use your special dice and lure tokens.Most points (from caught fish) wins!

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...

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.

Tea Garden is a game of talented debuting designer Tomáš Holek, who is also working on his designs for the biggest Czech publishers. The key elements of the game are deck-building and worker-placement, Maybe the most intriguing is the resource management part though. In Tea Garden, you will pay with tea leaves. Those can be either green or black (fermented) – the value of green leaves...

Explore space like never before in Wandering Galaxy, the newest addition to Plaid Hat's "Crossroads Game" universe.

Jovian Moon Base - Callisto, 22nd Century AD: Tensions have arisen between the conglomerate of Earth's leading corporations that funded the base and the mining collective tasked with operating it. Protests have erupted, strikes been called, and contracts broken. Private security forces have been hired, industrial mining vehicles repurposed for combat, and long-disused military mechs reawoken....