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A hand-picked selection of our favourite tabletop games and puzzles, as recommended by our booksellers and resident game experts.
Citadels Game 2021 Revised Edition
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Games & Puzzles
$36.00
Reader Reward Price: $32.40
The kingdom is in need of a new Master Builder, and you want the job. Recruit local citizens and use their expertise to outwit your rivals. Only the most majestic metropolis will earn its creator the coveted title. This revised edition of Citadels retains the signature bluffing and intrigue of this celebrated classic, condensing all into a travel-friendly box. A game of intrigue awaits!
- The definitive Citadels experience at a travel and shelf-friendly footprint
- Approachable rules, wide player count, and bluffing/backstabbing gameplay makes it an ideal game for casual players
- Contains all published Citadels content, allowing for deep replayability
- Includes popular preset scenarios and countless homebrew combinations
- Includes 27 diverse characters
Age : 10+
Time : 30-45 min
Number of players : 2-8
Unearth Game
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Games & Puzzles
$41.00
Reader Reward Price: $36.90
Long ago, your ancestors built great cities across the world. Now your tribe must explore forests, deserts, islands, mountains, and caverns to find these lost cities. Claim the ruins, build places of power, and restore the glory of a bygone age. Unearth is a bend-your-luck game of dice placement and set collection. Designed by Jason Harner and Matthew Ransom, it plays in under an hour with 2-4 players. Each player leads a tribe of Delvers, represented by five dice (3 six-sided, 1 four-sided, and 1 eight-sided). Players take turns rolling and placing dice in an attempt to claim Ruins. The game's elegant core mechanic is accessible to players of all skill levels. High rolls help players claim Ruins, while low rolls help players collect Stones. This opens two paths to victory: claiming sets of Ruins or using Stones to build Wonders. Delver cards help you affect your dice rolls or dice in play, and Wonders can grant abilities that impact the late game. 2 to 4 players. Ages 8+.
Wingspan
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Games & Puzzles
$76.00
Reader Reward Price: $68.40
Wingspan is a competitive, medium-weight, card-driven, engine-building board game from Stonemaier Games.
You play as bird enthusiasts - researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, and collectors - seeking to discover and attract the best birds to your aviary. Each bird extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your habitats (actions). These habitats focus on several key aspects of growth: Gain food tokens via custom dice in a bird feeder dice tower, lay eggs using egg miniatures in a variety of colors, and draw from hundreds of unique bird cards and play them. The winner is the player with the most points after 4 rounds.
Now includes a Swift-Start Pack (4 guides and 10 new cards) to aid new players!
Race For The Galaxy Game
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Games & Puzzles
$40.00
Reader Reward Price: $36.00
Number of Players: 2-4
Playing Time: 30-60 Minutes
Recommended Ages: 12+
In Race for the Galaxy, players build galactic civilizations by game cards that represent worlds or technical and social developments. Each round consists of one or more of five possible phases. In each round, each player secretly and simultaneously chooses one of seven different action cards and then reveals it. Only the selected phases occur. For these phases, every player performs the phase’s action, while the selecting player(s) also get a bonus for that phase. For example, if at least one player chooses the Develop action, then the Develop phase will occur; otherwise it is skipped. In it, each player may simultaneously select a development from his hand of cards to build. After revealing the cards, each player adds his development to his tableau of cards on the table and then discards cards from his hand equal to its cost. Each player who chose Develop discards one card fewer as his bonus.
Explore allows a player to draw cards and select which of them to add to his hand. Settle allows a player to place a world in his tableau. Some worlds produce goods, represented by face down cards, when Produce is selected. These goods can be discarded for victory points or sold to add cards to the player’s hand by selecting Consume. With cards, players can settle new worlds and build more developments, gaining both victory points and card powers that provide advantages in certain phases.The player who best manages his cards, phase and bonus selections, and card powers to build the greatest space empire, wins.The winner is the player with the most victory points.
The new second edition adds 6 new start worlds (available separately through BGG), 5 cards with small revisions, color-blind support, start world choice, and sample turns).
Onitama
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Games & Puzzles
$45.00
Reader Reward Price: $40.50
Onitama is a two-player, perfect information abstract game with a random starting set-up. On a 5x5 board, both players start with five pawns on their side, with the main pawn in the middle.
Each player has two open cards that each display a possible move for any of his pieces. There is a fifth card that cannot be used by either player. On a player's turn, he chooses one of his cards, moves one of his pieces according to the chosen card, then replaces the card he used with the fifth card. The other player then chooses one of his cards, moves accordingly, and exchanges that card with this fifth card — which is, of course, the card the first player just used.
Moving onto one of the opponent's pawns removes that pawn from the game. Taking the opponent's main pawn, or moving your main pawn into your opponent's main pawn's starting space, wins you the game.
Azul Game
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Games & Puzzles
$58.00
Reader Reward Price: $52.20
Introduced by the Moors, azulejos (originally white and blue ceramic tiles) were fully embraced by the Portuguese when their king Manuel I, on a visit to the Alhambra palace in Southern Spain, was mesmerized by the stunning beauty of the Moorish decorative tiles. The king, awestruck by the interior beauty of the Alhambra, immediately ordered that his own palace in Portugal be decorated with similar wall tiles. As a tile-laying artist, you have been challenged to embellish the walls of the Royal Palace of Evora. In the game Azul, players take turns drafting colored tiles from suppliers to their player board. Later in the round, players score points based on how they've placed their tiles to decorate the palace. Extra points are scored for specific patterns and completing sets; wasted supplies harm the player's score. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins. 2-4 Players. 30-45 Min - Playing Time. Ages: 8+ Winner of the 2018 Spiel des Jahres as well as many other awards!
Hive Game
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Games & Puzzles
$54.00
Reader Reward Price: $48.60
Keeping one eye on the Hive and the other on your opponent's reserves, the tension builds as one wrong move will see your Queen Bee quickly engulfed. Choose the best tactics to place the right piece wisely and be the first to block the Queen Bee in the Hive.
Hive is a board-less, strategic game for 2 players ages 8 and up.
Each tile has a unique way of moving (like in chess) and resembles the movement of the insect depicted on the tile. For instance, the grasshopper is the only tile which can jump.
Hive is a fun game to play because of its simple rules, yet challenging for its depth. Hive enhances each player's skills of strategic planning, tactical thinking and spatial vision. To win, you must play both the offense (surround your opponent's bee) and the defense (to protect your queen bee).
A nice decorative storage bag makes it easy to carry, store and play anywhere.
Stardew Valley Board Game
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Games & Puzzles
$79.00
Reader Reward Price: $71.10
A cooperative board game of farming and friendship based on the Stardew Valley video game by Eric Barone. Work together with your fellow farmers to save the Valley from the nefarious JojaMart Corporation! To do this, you'll need to farm, fish, friend and find all kinds of different resources to fulfill your Grandpa's Goals and restore the Community Center. Collect all kinds of items, raise animals, and explore the Mine. Gain powerful upgrades and skills and as the seasons pass see if you're able to protect the magic of Stardew Valley!
The goal of the game is to complete Grandpa's Goals and restore the Community Center, which requires you to gather different types of resources represented by tiles. You have a fixed amount of turns to accomplish this. This is driven by the Season Deck of 20 cards, one of which is drawn each turn to trigger certain events. Cooperatively the players decide each turn where they will focus their individual actions and place their pawn in that part of the Valley. Using their actions, they visit specific locations, trying to gather resources to complete their collective goals. Actions include things like: watering crops, trying to catch fish, rolling dice to explore the mines, and many more. When the Season Deck is exhausted, the game ends.
Botanik Game
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Games & Puzzles
$31.00
Reader Reward Price: $27.90
In a strange world where life mixes mechanics and vegetation, two scientists compete to create a formula made from flowers.
Each players creates a pipe network using tiles placed in a common registry.
A hand-picked selection of our favourite tabletop games and puzzles, as recommended by our booksellers and resident game experts.
