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Gaia Project is a new game in the line of Terra Mystica.

As in the original Terra Mystica, fourteen different factions live on seven different kinds of planets, and each faction is bound to their own home planets, so to develop and grow, they must terraform neighboring planets into their home environments in competition with the other groups. In addition, Gaia planets can be used by all factions for colonization, and Transdimensional planets can be changed into Gaia planets.

All factions can improve their skills in six different areas of development — Terraforming, Navigation, Artificial Intelligence, Gaiaforming, Economy, Research — leading to advanced technology and special bonuses. To do all of that, each group has special skills and abilities.

The playing area is made of ten sectors, allowing a variable set-up and thus an even bigger replay value than its predecessor, Terra Mystica. A two-player game is hosted on seven sectors.

Contents:
- 10 Space Sector Tiles
- 1 Research Board
- 7 Double-Sided Faction Boards
- 1 Scoring Board
- 10 Round Scoring Tiles6 Final Scoring Tiles
- 10 Round Boosters
- 36 Standard Tech Tiles
- 15 Advanced Tech Tiles
- 6 Space Stations
- 19 Federation Tokens
- 12 Gaia Planet Tokens
- 1 Lost Planet Tokens
- 15 Record Tokens
- 20 Action Tokens
- 7 Automa Cards
- 1 Terraforming Reference Card
- 17 Decision Cards
- 1 Automa Rulebook
- 1 Automa Player Aid
- 4 Player Aids
- 1 Turn Order Card
- 14 Credit Makers
- 7 Ore Markers
- 7 Knowledge Makers
- 30 Quantum Intelligence Cubes
- 50 Power Tokens
- 1 Brainstone
- 1 First Player Marker

Structures (in each player color)
- 8 Mines
- 4 Trading Stations
- 3 Research Labs
- 2 Academies
- 1 Planetary Institute
- 3 Gaiaformers
- 7 Player Tokens
- 25 Satellites     Designer : Jens Drögemüller, Helge Ostertag Artist : Dennis Lohausen Number of players : 1 - 4 Playing time : 60 - 90 Recommended ages : 14+ Language : EN

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Mists over Carcassonne is a co-operative version of the well-known tile-laying game Carcassonne. Working together, you place tiles and score points while trying to stop the spread of ghosts, contain haunted ground in cemeteries, and use haunted castles to your advantage. If too many ghosts are loose on the ground or you've collected too few points when the tiles run out, you lose the game. If you do manage to survive three days, you can adjust the difficulty level of the game to increase the challenge. Age : 8+ Time : 30-45 min Number of players : 1-5

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Citadels (2000) 2-8 Players 20-60 Min Age: 10+ In Citadels, players take on new roles each round to represent characters they hire in order to help them acquire gold and erect buildings. The game ends at the close of a round in which a player erects his/her eighth building. Players then tally their points, and the player with the highest score wins. Players start with a number of building cards in their hand; buildings come in five colors, with the purple buildings typically having a special ability and the other colored buildings providing a benefit when you play particular characters. At the start of each round, the player who was king the previous round discards one of the eight character cards at random, chooses one, then passes the cards to the next player, etc. until each player has secretly chosen a character. Each character has a special ability, and the usefulness of any character depends upon your situation, and that of your opponents. The characters then carry out their actions in numerical order: the assassin eliminating another character for the round, the thief stealing all gold from another character, the wizard swapping building cards with another player, the warlord optionally destroys a building in play, and so on. On a turn, a player earns two or more gold (or draws two building cards then discards one), then optionally constructs one building (or up to three if playing the architect this round). Buildings cost gold equal to the number of symbols on them, and each building is worth a certain number of points. In addition to points from buildings, at the end of the game a player scores bonus points for having eight buildings or buildings of all five colors. The expansion Citadels: The Dark City was initially released as a separate item, but the second edition of the game from Hans im Glück (packaged in a tin box) and the third edition from Fantasy Flight Games included this expansion and can be recognized by its rectangular box (not square). With Dark City, Citadels supports a maximum of eight players. AWARDS & HONORS 2007 Golden Geek Best Card Game Nominee 2001 Nederlandse Spellenprijs Winner 2001 Nederlandse Spellenprijs Nominee 2001 International Gamers Awards - General Strategy; Multi-player Nominee 2000 Spiel des Jahres Nominee 2000 Meeples' Choice Award 2000 Fairplay À la carte Winner

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El Grande is finally back! After nearly 30 years it was time to give the game a complete overhaul! El Grande is set in 15th century Spain, at the end of the Reconquista. The players send out their caballeros to gain control over the 9 regions and become “El Grande”. However, everything depends on the location of the king - and majorities may shift in the blink of an eye. Players take turns depending on which power card they play. Each turn, players choose 1 of 5 action cards, allowing them to place caballeros on the map and perform a special action. After 3 rounds, they gain points depending on the majorities in the different regions - and extra points for the majority in the current kingdom and their home region. After 9 rounds total, somebody will be the new ruler of medieval Spain. What’s new? - A complete rework of the artwork, cover and pieces in the game. - Overhauled and updated rules, including minor improvements. - New variant for 2 players, 3 players, and experienced players. - 2 new mini expansions.   Language : English Hobby type : Intermediate Age : 12+ Time : 60-120 min Number of players : 2-5

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Infinity Gauntlet: A Love Letter Game (2020) A one-versus-many rendition of Love Letter, with Thanos taking on the Avengers. 2-6 Players 15 Min Age: 10+ The Mad Titan Thanos seeks the Infinity Stones to bend the universe to his indomitable will, but courageous heroes are assembling to stand in his path to ultimate power. Based on the beloved card game and set in the Marvel Universe, Infinity Gauntlet: A Love Letter Game features the elegant mechanics of the original, re-imagined in a one-vs-many twist for thrilling team play. While one player takes on the role of Thanos on a crusade to change the universe as we know it, 1-5 other players must deploy iconic heroes to defeat him before he can achieve his aims. Throughout the game, players take turns drawing a card and playing a card, then executing its effect. Hero players can call upon the likes of Iron Man, Spider-man, Thor, and Scarlet Witch for their abilities to battle and gather intel about their opponent's schemes. A worthy adversary, Thanos plays with a two-card hand, drawing from his own deck of minions and powerful Infinity Stones. The heroes will have to use their abilities in strategic combinations to knock his health down to zero before he can do the same to them--or find all six Infinity Stones and win with a snap of his fingers. Who will prevail in this battle for the universe? AWARDS & HONORS 2020 Golden Geek Best Card Game Nominee

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Star Wars: Jabba's Palace - A Love Letter Game (2022) Danger and deception await you in the lair of the galaxy's most notorious gangster. 2-6 Players 20 Min Age: 10+ The lair of Jabba, the Hutt is a place of danger and deception. Players compete using members of the Rebel Alliance and denizens of Jabba's Palace in a game of rebel bravery and vile deceit. Based on the beloved card game and set in the Star Wars galaxy, Star Wars: Jabba's Palace - A Love Letter Game retains the simple and fun mechanics of the original as you utilize the talents of iconic characters from Return of the Jedi. Players take turns using the elegant "draw a card, play a card" gameplay and then executing the card's effect. Cards include characters like Luke Skywalker, Boba Fett, Salacious Crumb, Jabba the Hutt, and many more, with each card offering different effects, such as Boba Fett allowing you to take a card from another player, or Salacious Crumb allowing you to look at another player's hand. Players use abilities from members of both the Rebel Alliance and Jabba's crew to outwit and outlast the others. On top of the classic mechanics from the original Love Letter game, Star Wars: Jabba's Palace - A Love Letter Game also introduces Agenda cards. This offers new win conditions, adding another level of strategy to the game. Agenda cards like Exalted One awards the player with the highest number in hand the win. However, cards like Jabba's Court and Rescue Mission switch it up and award the victory to the player with the most Palace or Rebels cards, respectively, in the play area. These and other Agenda cards ensure varied strategies will be needed with every game beyond simply eliminating other players. In a quick card game of rebel bravery and vile deceit, can you carry out your agenda while outthinking your foes?

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In Mice & Mystics players take on the roles of those still loyal to the king - but to escape the clutches of Vanestra, they have been turned into mice! Play as cunning field mice who must race through a castle now twenty times larger than before. The castle would be a dangerous place with Vanestra's minions in control, but now countless other terrors also await heroes who are but the size of figs. Play as nimble Prince Colin and fence your way past your foes, or try Nez Bellows, the burly smith. Confound your foes as the wizened old mouse Maginos, or protect your companions as Tilda, the castle's former healer. Every player will have a vital role in the quest to warn the king, and it will take careful planning to find Vanestra's weakness and defeat her. Mice & Mystics is a cooperative adventure game in which the players work together to save an imperiled kingdom. They will face countless adversaries such as rats, cockroaches, and spiders, and of course the greatest of all horrors: the castle's housecat, Brodie. Mice & Mystics is a boldly innovative game that thrusts players into an ever-changing, interactive environment, and features a rich storyline that the players help create as they play the game. The Cheese System allows players to hoard the crumbs of precious cheese they find on their journey, and use it to bolster their mice with grandiose new abilities and overcome seemingly insurmountable odds. Mice & Mystics will provide any group of friends with an unforgettable adventure they will be talking about for years to come. Assuming they can all squeak by... 1 to 4 players. Recommended ages 7 and up. Each game takes 60-90 minutes.

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Onirim (Second Edition) (2014) Find the doors, Dreamwalker! Escape sleep's labyrinth or remain trapped forever. 1-2 Players 15 Min Age: 10+ You are a Dreamwalker, lost in a mysterious labyrinth, and you must discover the oneiric doors before your dreamtime runs out - or you will remain trapped forever! You may wander through the chambers of dreams, hoping that chance will reveal the doors, or you can linger in each type of room. In both cases, you will have to deal with the slithering Nightmares, which haunt the hallways of the labyrinth. Onirim is a solo/cooperative card game. You (and a partner, if you wish) must work (together) against the game to gather the eight Door cards before the deck runs out; you can obtain those Door cards either by playing cards of the same color three turns in a row, or by discarding (under specific circumstances) one of your powerful Key cards. In both cases you will have to decide the best use of each card in your hand and carefully play around the Nightmares. Those cards are hidden in the deck and will trigger painful dilemmas when drawn... Seven mini-expansions, all standalone and compatible with one another, are included with the second edition of Onirim, including these three that were in the first edition of the game: "The Towers" introduces a new type of card that allows more searching and deck manipulation, while also imposing an additional victory condition. "Happy Dreams and Dark Premonitions" adds evil time bombs that will impede your progress at predictable moments of your quest as well as helpful but unreliable allies. In "The Book of Steps Lost and Found", you must find the eight Door cards in a randomly given order and may remove discarded cards from the game to cast powerful spells that will help you complete this difficult task. In addition to these three variants from the first edition, there are four new modules in the Onirim 2nd edition box. Just like previously, each module consists of something that makes the game easier and something that makes the game harder: "The Glyphs" introduces a fourth symbol on location cards (apart from Key, Sun and Moon), which makes it easier to compose the row of unrepeated symbols. Player must then find one extra door of each color (so 12 doors in total) to win "The Dreamcatchers" are four cards that "guard" the Limbo piles. The Limbo pile stays with Dreamcatcher until some effect allows the player to shuffle the pile back to the deck... if all Dreamcatchers are full and new cards should come to Limbo, a Dreamcatcher is discarded and his cards shuffled back. Also, four new "Lost Dreams" cards are supposed to be in Limbo at the end of the game, as an extra winning condition - so discarding all Dreamcatchers means loss. "The Crossroads and Dead Ends" introduce location cards with a given symbol (3 Sun, 2 Moon, 1 Key), but serving as any color "joker". It also contains 10 "Dead End" cards, that remain in players hand (un-discard-able on its own) and block her 5-cards hand limit... until a player discards the whole hand (=the only way to discard a Dead End). "The Door To The Oniverse" brings several one-time abilities cards as "inhabitants of the Oniverse"... and one extra colorless door to find. Apart from all those, there are a few special rules to use the dark meeple in the game (which interferes with Nightmare cards resolving), making the game easier or harder, depending on the chosen variant. AWARDS & HONORS 2014 Golden Geek Best Solo Board Game Nominee

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The world is on the brink of disaster. In Pandemic Legacy, your disease fighting team must keep four deadly diseases at bay for a whole year. Each month will bring new surprises, and your actions in each game will have repercussions on the next. Will you let cities fall to the diseases? Will your team be enough to keep the viruses at bay for a whole year? Craft your own unique Pandemic experience with Pandemic Legacy.
• An epic twist on the now classic Pandemic mechanisms.
• Ever-changing elements means that every game will be unique to your group.
• Shape the world, the characters, and even the diseases. Ages: 13 & up. Players: 2 to 4. Play time: 60 minutes. Note: Pandemic Legacy BLUE and RED are the same game, just with different colour schemes. This is to help players determine which set to use when continuing a campaign (important if you have multiple campaigns on the go).

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The Grand Army of the Republic is in continuous conflict with the unending waves of Count Dooku's droid battalions. ln Star Wars: The Clone Wars - A Pandemic System Game, stand together as legendary Jedi against the Sith Lord and his Separatist forces. Utilize each character's unique abilities to eut down swarms of droids, complete missions across the galaxy, and use the power of the Force to battle iconic villains across four exciting scenarios. The next title in the bestselling Pandemic System set during the time of the popular Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Players take on the roles of heroic Jedi, each with powerful and unique abilities, to battle the Separatist forces. Play through 4 different scenarios, each featuring its own main villain. An epic table presence with a large-sized board, illustrated cards, and striking miniatures, including legendary Jedi, iconic villains, and swarms of battle droids and blockade ships. A standalone game inspired by the cooperative classic Pandemic.

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In Rattus, the players settle in the various regions of Europe and Northern Africa, while the plague spreads through all these regions. The players gain help from the various professions of the middle ages. Some of these, like Peasants and Bakers, help the players grow their populations. Some, like the Monks and Nuns, use wisdom and faith to avoid the plague, while the warfare conducted by the Knights and Soldiers spreads the plague to new areas. However, the plague does not make any distinction. When the rats arrive, no one can feel safe. Finally, the plague withdraws and the game ends. Only then it will be clear who was able to keep his population alive, and win the game!   Age : 10+ Time : 45-60 min Number of players : 2-6

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In Stone Age, players are sent back to that arduous period of history. With tools, quite archaic at first, you will be able to collect resources to attain higher levels of knowledge and build sturdier roofs over your head. Though luck plays a part, only those who master their fate will be able to grasp victory. Carve your victory - in stone.

-Engaging and accessible for the entire family

-With limited spaces for each action, setting up a good strategy is key

-The variety of actions available allow for different strategies to develop

-Part strategy, part set collection, with a dash of luck, this game is perfect for all   Age : 13+ Time : 60-120 min Number of players : 2-4

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This Carcassonne Big Box includes the base game of Carcassonne, the 2001 Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year), along with 11 expansions. This is the perfect starter set for Carcassonne fans and anyone looking to jump into this best-selling game.

-All the expansions included in the Carcassonne Big Box can be played in any combination with the base game, ensuring a unique experience every time you sit down to play

The rules have been adapted to the new Carcassonne 3.0 rules formatr

The expansions can be combined for an incredible variety of gameplay options and hours of unique games. Play with only 1 expansion, or all at once, the choice is yours

-The perfect product to add variety to your Carcassonne games   Age : 7+ Time : 30-45 min Number of players : 2-6

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This expansion for Fields of Arle adds tea to energize your workers, as well as new ships for trading and fishing. Choose from a bevy of new features to add to your farm, and, with components to add a third player, more players can enjoy the game than ever before. With new buildings, actions, and abilities, Tea & Trade includes everything you need to become a true 19th century farming magnate!

Not a standalone product, a copy of Fields of Arle is needed to enjoy this expansion.   Age : 14+ Time : 60-120 min Number of players : 1-3