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One of the most celebrated games in the world can now be experienced with only two players! 7 Wonders Duel takes the game play and excitement of the original and adapts it for one-on-one battles. Take control of your civilization and invest in science, military or prestige. Two new ways to win will keep you on your toes and watching every move your opponent makes. If you fail to build defenses your capital city may be destroyed, but ignore technology and your people may be left in the dark ages. It's a constant tug of war. 7 Wonders Duel is an exciting new way to play the game that took the world by storm. Recent winner of the Golden Geek Awards for Best Card Game and Best Two-Player Game. Ages 10 & up. Playing time 30 minutes.

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Agricola (2007) Build your farmstead by sowing fields and raising livestock. But don't forget to eat! 1-5 Players 30-150 Min Age: 12+ In Agricola, you're a farmer in a wooden shack with your spouse and little else. On a turn, you get to take only two actions, one for you and one for the spouse, from all the possibilities you'll find on a farm: collecting clay, wood, or stone; building fences; and so on. You might think about having kids in order to get more work accomplished, but first you need to expand your house. And what are you going to feed all the little rugrats? The game supports many levels of complexity, mainly through the use (or non-use) of two of its main types of cards, Minor Improvements and Occupations. In the beginner's version (called the Family Variant in the U.S. release), these cards are not used at all. For advanced play, the U.S. release includes three levels of both types of cards; Basic (E-deck), Interactive (I-deck), and Complex (K-deck), and the rulebook encourages players to experiment with the various decks and mixtures thereof. Aftermarket decks such as the Z-Deck and the L-Deck also exist. Agricola is a turn-based game. There are 14 game rounds occurring in 6 stages, with a Harvest at the end of each stage (after Rounds 4, 7, 9, 11, 13, and 14). Each player starts with two playing tokens (farmer and spouse) and thus can take two turns, or actions, per round. There are multiple options, and while the game progresses, you'll have more and more: first thing in a round, a new action card is flipped over. Problem: Each action can be taken by only one player each round, so it's important to do some things with high preference. Each player also starts with a hand of 7 Occupation cards (of more than 160 total) and 7 Minor Improvement cards (of more than 140 total) that he/she may use during the game if they fit in his/her strategy. Speaking of which, there are countless strategies, some depending on your card hand. Sometimes it's a good choice to stay on course, and sometimes it is better to react to your opponents' actions... AWARDS & HONORS 2012 MinD-Spielepreis Nominee 2011 MinD-Spielepreis Nominee 2010 MinD-Spielepreis Nominee 2009 Nederlandse Spellenprijs Winner 2009 Nederlandse Spellenprijs Nominee 2009 Lys Passioné Winner 2009 Lys Passioné Finalist 2009 Ludoteca Ideale Official Selection Winner 2009 Lucca Games Best Game Mechanics Winner 2009 Juego del Año Tico Nominee 2009 Japan Boardgame Prize Voters' Selection Nominee 2009 Gra Roku Player's Award 2009 Gra Roku Game of the Year Winner 2009 As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année Prix Spécial du Jury Winner 2009 As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année Nominee 2008 Tric Trac Nominee 2008 Tric Trac d'Or 2008 Spiel des Jahres "Complex Game" Winner 2008 Spiel der Spiele Hit für Experten Recommended 2008 JUG Game of the Year Winner 2008 Juego del Año Winner 2008 Juego del Año Finalist 2008 Jogo do Ano Winner 2008 Jogo do Ano Nominee 2008 Japan Boardgame Prize Voters' Selection Nominee 2008 International Gamers Awards - General Strategy; Multi-player 2008 Hra roku Winner 2008 Hra roku Nominee 2008 Golden Geek Board Game of the Year Winner 2008 Golden Geek Best Gamer's Board Game Winner 2008 Golden Geek Best Gamer's Board Game Nominee 2008 Golden Geek Best Family Board Game Nominee 2008 Golden Geek Best Board Game Artwork/Presentation Nominee 2008 Golden Geek Best 2-Player Board Game Nominee 2008 Deutscher Spiele Preis Best Family/Adult Game Winner 2007 Meeples' Choice Award

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Art Society is a brand new art collection game with easy to learn rules for 2 to 4 players! The game is coming to retail in November. In Art Society, you are an art connoisseur trying to impress your peers by putting together the most fashionable art collection of them all! Bid on the hottest works of art, then arrange them on your drawing room wall into a tastefully curated gallery that's the envy of the local art scene. But beware! Fashion is fleeting, and trends are difficult to predict. The paintings that you and your fellow collectors do not buy will eventually make their way to the museum, changing the worth of your collection. In the end, whose wall will be the talk of town? Ages: 10+ Number of players: 2 - 4 Playing Time: up to 60 minutes

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Azul practically needs no introduction! This now classic game of tile-collecting and wall-decorating returns in a new MINI edition. This edition is perfect to carry along with you anywhere you go. Now nothing is stopping you from playing Azul anywhere, anytime.

The MINI edition includes plastic trays, clickable tiles, and a points slider so nothing can disturb your game.

Also contains a plastic tray for the Factories so they stay put!

A simple mechanic with endless strategic choices

A standalone game. No other Azul product is needed to play.

This multilingual edition includes: English & French   Language : Multilingual Age : 8+ Time : 30-45 min Number of players : 2-4

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The anagram game that will drive you bananas! Bananagrams is the first in the bunch, the game that started it all. Players race against each other to build crossword grids and use all their letter tiles. There's no turn-taking to be found here—it all happens at once and it’s a race to the finish. No matter how old you are and how many anagram games you’ve played, Bananagrams is sure to drive you absolutely bananas ... in the best possible way!

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Addictively simple, and simply addictive, Bananagrams is the fast and frantic word game enjoyed by millions! Players and their opponents aim to use all of their letters to build a word grid in a race to the finish. The first player to use all of their tiles is crowned "Top Banana"!Bananagrams requires no pencil, paper, or board, and comes in a small portable banana-shaped pouch that's perfect for ages 7 and up --at home or on the go.    Ages: 7+ Number of players: 1-8 Playing Time: up to 30 minutes

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5-­Minute Dungeon is a chaotic, co-­operative, real-­time card game in which players have only five minutes to escape the randomized dungeon. Communication and teamwork are critical to survival because there's no time to form a carefully considered plan — and no predicting what dangers lie ahead.

In more detail, players assume the role of one of ten heroes, each with special cards and abilities. Once the five-minute timer starts, the race is on to defeat all the monsters inside the dungeon. In order to defeat a monster, players must match symbols from their hand with ones on the monster's card. At the end of each dungeon is a powerful dungeon boss — and after the first boss is defeated, the campaign continues to the second boss. Each boss, and each randomized dungeon, gets harder until players reach the fifth and final boss.

Players 2-5
Playtime 5-30 Min
Ages 8+

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The station is jam-packed full of excited people ready to ride the rails. Mason is off to Chicago, Ashley to Denver, and Hunter is going all the way to San Francisco. The train arrives, and passengers start detraining the sleeper cars with the red-capped porters expertly loading their luggage onto the baggage carts. Enthusiastic travelers crowd the doors, anxiously anticipating their adventure cruising across America in style!

In Ride the Rails, you will invest in railroad companies, build railway track across the United States, and deliver passengers to as many cities as possible. Each round, a new railroad company is introduced to the game, and each railroad company has its own special placement rules! Deliver passengers to as many cities as possible to earn the most points. Be cautious in your travels as shareholders of railroads that you use will also earn points!   Designer : John Bohrer Artist : Ian O'Toole Number of players : 3 - 5 Playing time : 60 - 90 Recommended ages : 12+

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Good Puppers (2021) Amass an adorable pile of dogs and the bones that they bury. 2-5 Players 15-30 Min Age: 9+ You have an important mission: Amass an adorable pile of dogs who will bury valuable, valuable bones that are worth points! The deck contains 100 dogs split across 10 different breeds, each with beautiful watercolor art. The rules are very simple to teach, and the game can be running within minutes. You'll create stacks of dogs of the same breed - the larger the stack, the more powerful each played doggo's effect will be! These effects will mostly help you bury lots and lots of bones, and each breed has its own unique rule for increasing the value of bones at the end of the game.

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On the 11th of July, 1899 at 10 am, the Union Pacific Express has left Folsom, New Mexico, with 47 passengers on board. After a few minutes, gunfire and hurrying footsteps on the roof can be heard. Heavily armed bandits have come to rob honest citizens of their wallets and jewels. In Colt Express you are a bandit! Dodging the marshal, competing with your fellow desperadoes and grabbing the loot. Your opponents can be punched or shot as you maneuver through the cars and on the roof of an actual 3-D train as your game board. Clever card mechanics mean injuries are real without any player elimination and the train changes length for 2-5 bandits to enjoy a frantic scramble. Try the 2015 German game of the year now! For 2 to 6 players, ages 8 & up. Playing time 30-40 minutes.

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One Night Ultimate Werewolf is a fast-paced game where everyone gets to be a different role. In the course of only one night and the following morning, the players will determine who among them is a werewolf...hopefully. One Night Ultimate Werewolf is a microgame of the party game Ultimate Werewolf that doesn't need a moderator. There's no elimination, and each game lasts about 10 minutes. Ages: 8+ Number of players: 3 - 10 Playing Time: up to 15 minutes

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Achieve Victory in the Theaters of Combat to Win the War! In the midst of the greatest conflict humanity has ever known, victory will be claimed by the military that can overcome their enemies in every battleground. Do you have the skills to lead your nation’s best and bravest in the Air, Land & Sea? Supreme Commander! The enemy is upon us and it is up to you strategically deploy our available forces into the Air, Land, and Sea. Engage the opposing force and lead our forces to victory! As Supreme Commander of your country’s military forces, it is your objective to win the war by being victorious in a series of Battles! To win a Battle, you must either control two of the three Theaters of war after both players have played all of their Battle cards, or convince your opponent to withdraw! To control a Theater, the total strength of all Battle cards on your side of the Theater must exceed the total Strength of the Battle cards on the opponent’s side of the Theater. At the start of each battle, you will be dealt a hand of six cards. You will not draw additional cards during the Battle, so you must formulate your strategy based on only these cards. Players take turns playing Battle cards one at a time, until all cards have been played, or one player decides to withdraw. The order you play your Battle cards is critical, and so is how you play them. All cards can either be played face-up or face-down. Playing a card face-up triggers its Tactical Ability, but the card must be played in its corresponding theater. Face-down cards are wild and can be played to any theater, but only have a strength of 2 and do not grant Tactical Abilities. You do not have to continue a Battle to the very end. Sometimes, it may be best to withdraw in order to deny your opponent complete victory! In Air, Land, & Sea, a strategic withdraw may lose you the battle to ultimately win the war! Victory points are awarded at the end of each Battle based on the results, and the first player to 12 victory points wins the war! Number of Players: 2
Playing Time: 20 Minutes
Recommended Ages: 14+

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Arboretum Arboretum is a strategic card game that challenges players to create the most beautiful path through the garden. Choosing the correct cards and placing them in the most efficient orientation will score you the most points at the end of the game. With elegantly simple rules, Arboretum offers players surprisingly complex choices.

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Carcassonne (2000) Shape the medieval landscape of France, claiming cities, monasteries and farms. 2-5 Players 30-45 Min Playing Time Age: 7+ Type: Family Carcassonne is a tile-placement game in which the players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape on it. The tile might feature a city, a road, a cloister, grassland or some combination thereof, and it must be placed adjacent to tiles that have already been played, in such a way that cities are connected to cities, roads to roads, etcetera. Having placed a tile, the player can then decide to place one of their meeples on one of the areas on it: on the city as a knight, on the road as a robber, on a cloister as a monk, or on the grass as a farmer. When that area is complete, that meeple scores points for its owner. During a game of Carcassonne, players are faced with decisions like: "Is it really worth putting my last meeple there?" or "Should I use this tile to expand my city, or should I place it near my opponent instead, giving him a hard time to complete their project and score points?" Since players place only one tile and have the option to place one meeple on it, turns proceed quickly even if it is a game full of options and possibilities. First game in the Carcassonne series. AWARDS & HONORS 2012 Ludo Award Best Board Game Editor's Choice Winner 2011 Jocul Anului în România Best Game in Romanian Finalist 2004 Vuoden Peli Family Game of the Year Winner 2004 Vuoden Peli Family Game of the Year Nominee 2004 Hra roku Nominee 2002 Årets Spel Best Family Game Winner 2001 Spiel des Jahres Winner 2001 Spiel des Jahres Nominee 2001 Spiel der Spiele Hit mit Freunden Recommended 2001 Nederlandse Spellenprijs Nominee 2001 International Gamers Awards - General Strategy; Multi-player Nominee 2001 Deutscher Spiele Preis Bes