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Answer questions and match the most popular choice. Only the majority scores – get into the Green Team and stay there, because winners stick together.

Onstage is a "must follow" trick-taking game in which you play as a theater company competing for the best performers to join your troupe. By winning tricks, you claim performers onstage. The trump suit is determined by the most valuable performers currently onstage and will change throughout the game as you recruit and manipulate the line of performers.  

Step into Raas: A Dance of Love, a game on the dance style of Garba Raas where color, rhythm, and tradition come to life.  

In Peanuts Talent Show, 2–4 players compete in a fast and lively card game that combines trick-taking with light deck-building. Each round, you’ll lead your cast of performers like Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Woodstock, and more, into the spotlight. Win tricks to earn Coins, then use them to recruit new acts and expand your deck with bigger talents. Peanuts Talent Show! plays in about 30 minutes,...

Building a teenage-full wizardry college in the middle of a cursed swamp didn't seem a bad idea, somehow. At least, not until the Evil Sorcerer showed up with his little minions, craving total annihilation and with no teachers to defend you in sight!

A collection of 20 new factions for Terra Mystica, 2 each for the 7 colors of the game and 2 multi-color, ice and fire factions, respectively. All ideas submitted by fans of the game.

Welcome to the playground! In Tricky Kids, you and your classmates are trading toys and snacks in a chaotic kid-economy where value is totally made up. It’s a trick-taking game with a twist: you write the numbers on your cards. At the start of each round, you assign values that total 21 across your hand then use those cards to try to win tricks and collect points.

As the captain of a fleet during the Age of Discovery, you have been chosen by your king to explore uncharted lands and map the edges of the known world.

You are the leader of a tribe whose people explore the fabled twelve rivers flowing from a mystical lake high in the mountains. Your goal? To find the magical coloured pearls that roll down the rivers in the current. Perhaps a helpful fairy may help you on your quest! Where the rivers converge there is a village where many people and animals live in harmony. There you can make life-long friends...

Orléans: Big Box — first released as Orléans: Anniversary Box — collects all released materials as of 2025 for Orléans, a game set in the French city of the same name during medieval times in which you must assemble a following of farmers, merchants, knights, monks, etc to gain supremacy through trade, construction and science in medieval France.

Orléans: Ortskarten 6 is a set of three new building tiles for use in the Orléans base game or the deluxe edition of the game. The tiles feature a tinkerer's wagon, a bookbindery, and a flea market.

Immerse yourself in the fascinating world of early 20th century explorers in The Royal Society of Archeology. As the leader of a learned society, you lead a team of adventurers on expeditions around the globe in search of relics and knowledge. London serves as your headquarters, where you secure funding, deepen your expertise at the university, and plan your next bold discoveries. Your...

Based on the best-selling graphic novel about a reluctant monster-hunting pig, Ham Helsing is a co-operative adventure board game. Join Ham, Ronin, Malcom, and Lobos as they attempt to save the world! Using a deck-crafting system with transparent cards, you'll protect locations from endless swarms of minions while improving your skills. Can you power up fast enough to stop the villain...

Celebrate the 20th anniversary with a new edition of Neuroshima Hex.

The Voynich manuscript, named after the bookseller who discovered it in 1912, is an enigma that has resisted human curiosity for over 600 years.Now, the manuscript has fallen into your hands. Will you be able to decipher its secrets and piece together this mysterious puzzle?

In Feya's Swamp, you take on the role of a clan of swamp dwellers aiming to become the most prosperous in the area. To succeed, you need to adapt to your surroundings by finding the best fishing and settlement spots, as well as choosing the right trading partners. You can also venture into nearby abandoned temples where powerful deities lie in wait to be awakened.

Guide one of the seven largest cities of antiquity to prosperity in 7 Wonders Dice. During the game, you will construct a wonder that defies time, make scientific advances, develop commerce, manage your resources, and handle your gold reserve prudently — all while keeping an eye on neighboring cities since ignoring them has a heavy price! A game plays over a series of turns during which you...

The stars shine on the red carpet. Once again, the Academy Awards ceremony is held and as a photographer you have the goal of capturing the best portraits of the most famous figures from the golden age of Hollywood. Get a good spot, find the perfect angle and take the photos that will be on the front pages of all the newspapers tomorrow.

Set off on an adventure to meet the most adorable creatures: Mookies! Mooki Island is a quick, engaging game in which you’ll collect as many Mookies from each family as possible to win Trophies! Can you get the shiny Legendary Mookie cards? And above all: Watch out for that strange-looking Spider who’s just waiting to play a trick on you! The game’s simple rules (each player takes a card and...

A certain something filled the air. While energizing the magic crystal in his wand, Orly suddenly felt a change he couldn’t name. Usually this ritual took only seconds before the crystal power kicked in. Not today … it took him minutes to obtain the desired power required to load his wand for the adventurous travel ahead of him. While waiting for the blessing of the crystal power he noticed...