Capstone Games
Bus Game Compl Ed
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Games & Puzzles
$121.00
Reader Reward Price: $108.90
Bus: Complete Edition is a game about developing a public transport network in a rapidly expanding city. The citizens commute between home, the office, and, most importantly, the pub. Your task as a player is to develop a busline which takes as many passengers as possible to the place they want to be. You do this by expanding your busline, developing new suburbs, luring new potential passengers to the city, and investing in more and more buses! But you can also try to ride just a bit earlier than other companies and steal their passengers away.
Sometimes, something unexpected happens: time comes to a standstill and, all of a sudden, the demand for transportation is completely different. But you cannot let this happen too often, as the space-time continuum will rupture and the universe will collapse, thus ending the game.
Ark Nova Game Zoo Map Pack 2
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Games & Puzzles
$18.00
Reader Reward Price: $16.20
Expand your collection of Zoo Maps in Ark Nova with the Zoo Map Pack 2! Included you will find 5 new Zoo Map layouts that feature new keywords and Animal Abilities. A reference guide is included to explain the new functions on the Maps. These Zoo Maps are also compatible with Ark Nova: Marine Worlds. Includes the 2024 World Series of Board Gaming Tournament Map. Ark Nova is required to use this product.
Black Forest Game
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Games & Puzzles
$95.00
Reader Reward Price: $85.50
In Black Forest, you start out with a small domain in need of new buildings and livestock. You’ll travel from village to village to enlist the aid of the best specialists. Exploiting the abilities of these specialists lets you collect resources, lay out new landscape tiles (e.g., ponds and fields), and build a variety of buildings, which come in four types:
"Immediate" buildings with a one-time effect
Processing buildings and buildings with an ongoing effect
Buildings that provide bonus points at the end of the game for various accomplishments
Choose the right buildings, place landscapes, fire up your glass production, and expand your domain.
Two resource wheels on your tableau help you keep track of your resources and production.
A wide selection of buildings and their different effects offer many different paths to victory.
Uwe Rosenberg’s legendary resource wheels are making once again making their presence, made famous in Glass Road (2013). Black Forest continues the story - as the name suggests — in the Black Forest. Among others, the main difference between the two games is the the action selection (Worker Placement/Black Forest vs. Simultaneous Action Selection/Glass Road).
Designer : Tido Lorenz, Uwe Rosenberg
Artist : Lukas Siegmon
Number of players : 1 - 4
Recommended ages : 14+
Gaia Project Game Lost Fleet Expansion
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Games & Puzzles
$67.00
Reader Reward Price: $60.30
This new expansion of Gaia Project comes with four new factions: Darkanians, Mowyed, Space Giants, Tinkeroids, and corresponding to 2 new planet types: proto planets and asteroids
As well as containing:
- The new layout of the map will feature holes where the ships of the lost fleet and some new planet types will be placed
- There will be new smaller sector tiles (edge sectors)
- Ships of the lost fleet allow access to new action spaces and technolgies to be found on the new board, aswell as special federation tokens and artifacts, no standard Q.I.C. actions anymore, Q.I.C. actions only available on ships
- 6 new adv. techs
- 4 new roundboosters
- 3 new round scorings
- Some faction balancing (start resources, income, additional actions or different costs to explore a ship)
- Lantids get cover up tiles for their PI (1-3 player)
Designer : Jens Drögemüller, Helge Ostertag
Artist : Dennis Lohausen
Number of players : 1 - 4
Recommended ages : 14+
Language : EN
Pirates Of Maracaibo Game
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Games & Puzzles
$81.00
Reader Reward Price: $72.90
Set sail for an adventurous raid...for perhaps it will be your last! Face danger and adventure once more while you search high and low for the most valuable treasures the Caribbean has to offer, then quickly find a safe harbor to stash priceless gold, rare emeralds, and iridescent pearls. Explore, stockpile cargo, hire crew, and commandeer rival ships, but don't forget to bury your loot. As you sail, be on the lookout for a place to settle after your life on the high seas has come to an end, but before you do that, you must outpace your opponents as one trip around the Caribbean won't be enough. You must make three trips in order to retire as the richest and greatest buccaneer of all time.
Pirates of Maracaibo is a standalone game in the same franchise as 2019's Maracaibo, and players who are familiar with that game will recognize some beloved concepts from the original. However, new players can jump right in with no prior knowledge of the original game as Pirates of Maracaibo is an independent game with a more accessible rule set. The game plays over three rounds in which you sail the Caribbean, hire crew, ally with other ships, explore the shore, amass the most treasure, and (ideally) retire to a secluded island as the most revered pirate in history. Cast off sailors and swashbucklers, cast off!
Designer : Ralph Bienert, Ryan Hendrickson, Alexander Pfister
Artist : Christian Fiore, Odysseas Stamoglou
Number of players : 1 - 4
Playing time : 60 - 90
Recommended ages : 12+
Language : EN
Butterfly Garden Game
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Games & Puzzles
$54.00
Reader Reward Price: $48.60
Butterfly Garden is a tile-laying game along the lines of Metro, Tsuro, and Linie 1 in which players build paths bit by bit, with no player owning the individual paths and everyone trying to exploit the paths already present. Unlike those earlier games, however, your goal is to move butterflies from their starting locations on the board to your designated flowerbeds, with the player who scores the most points winning the game.
Terra Mystica
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65
$99.00
Reader Reward Price: $89.10
In the land of Terra Mystica dwell 14 different peoples in seven landscapes, and each group is bound to its own home environment, so to develop and grow, they must terraform neighboring landscapes into their home environments in competition with the other groups. Terra Mystica is a full information game without any luck that rewards strategic planning. Each player governs one of the 14 groups. With subtlety and craft, the player must attempt to rule as great an area as possible and to develop that group’s skills. There are also four religious cults in which you can progress. To do all that, each group has special skills and abilities. Taking turns, the players execute their actions on the resources they have at their disposal. Different buildings allow players to develop different resources. Dwellings allow for more workers. Trading houses allow players to make money. Strongholds unlock a group’s special ability, and temples allow you to develop religion and your terraforming and seafaring skills. Buildings can be upgraded: Dwellings can be developed into trading houses; trading houses can be developed into strongholds or temples; one temple can be upgraded to become a sanctuary. Each group must also develop its terraforming skill and its skill with boats to use the rivers. The groups in question, along with their home landscape, are: Desert (Fakirs, Nomads) Plains (Halflings, Cultists) Swamp (Alchemists, Darklings) Lake (Mermaids, Swarmlings) Forest (Witches, Auren) Mountain (Dwarves, Engineers) Wasteland (Giants, Chaos Magicians) Proximity to other groups is a double-edged sword in Terra Mystica. Being close to other groups gives you extra power, but it also means that expanding is more difficult…
Ark Nova Game Zoo Map Pack 1
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Games & Puzzles
$13.00
Reader Reward Price: $11.70
ABOUT ARK NOVA: ZOO MAP PACK 1 EXPAND YOUR COLLECTION OF ZOO MAPS IN ARK NOVA WITH THE ZOO MAP PACK 1! Containing 2 double-sided Zoo Maps, each side features all-new game mechanics and zoo layouts for you to explore. Zoo Maps #9 (Geographical Zoo) and #10 (Rescue Station) included. Ark Nova is required to use this product. Designer : Mathias Wigge Artist : Steffen Bieker Loïc Billiau Dennis Lohausen Christof Tisch Number of players : 1 - 4 Playing time : 120 - 180 Recommended ages : 14+ Language : EN
Renature Game
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Games & Puzzles
$59.99
Reader Reward Price: $53.99
Renature is a majority game with dominoes for 2-4 players. Each player gets a board with large pieces of wood in the form of turf, bushes, pines and oaks. These plants are used for the majorities on the large valley board and are available in a neutral color and in the respective player color. In addition, each player gets a stack of dominoes with two out of ten animal motifs on each of them. On your turn, place one of the three dominoes in your hand on two brook spaces of the valley board. Of course, the domino must be adjacent to another domino that shows the same animal. If the placed domino borders a free space of a brown area, you can decide whether a tuft of grass or any other of your plants should be placed on that space. Tufts of turf have a value of 1, bushes of 2, pines of 3 and oaks of 4. After placing the plant, you score points for it and every plant piece that is already in this brown area and has the same or a lower value. Once a brown area is framed with dominoes, the majority is scored and the player with the highest total plant value in the area gets the points that are printed as a large number on that area's flower token. Whoever has the second highest value gets the lower number. Two things make this especially tricky: The neutral pieces count as their own color and not among the majority of the player who has used them. Also, if colors are tied, they a treated as though they are not present at all in the area. After the area has been scored, the player who framed the area receives its flower token, which will give them extra points at game end. In the course of the game, you may run out of plants, but these can be bought back from the game board with clouds. Clouds can also be used to buy another turn and to appoint a new joker animal. This animal then counts as all animals and makes it easier to put on. At the end of a player's turn, a domino is drawn and it is the next player's turn. Once all players have run out of dominoes, the game ends with a final scoring.
Orleans Game 2nd Ed W/ 5th Player Exp
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Games & Puzzles
$74.00
Reader Reward Price: $66.60
During the medieval goings-on around Orléans, you must assemble a following of farmers, merchants, knights, monks, etc.
You need followers and their abilities to expand your dominance, putting them to work as traders, builders, and scientists. Knights expand your scope of action and secure your mercantile expeditions. Craftsmen build trading stations and tools to facilitate work. Scholars make progress in science, and last but not least it cannot hurt to get active in monasteries, wince with monks on your side you are much less likely to fall prey to fate.
You will always want to take more actions than possible, and there are many paths to victory. The challenge is to combine all elements as best as possible with regard to your strategy.
Contents:
- 1 Large Game Board
- 1 Small Game Board
- 5 Player Boards
- 5 Cloth Bags
- 5 Merchant Tokens
- 50 Trading Stations
- 35 Wooden Cubes
- 125 Character Tiles
- 90 Goods
- 20 Technology Tiles
- 14 Citizen Tiles
- 86 Coins
- 20 Building Cards
- 18 Event Cards
- 2 Overview Cards
- 1 Start Player Tile
- 1 Rule Book
Designer : Reiner Stockhausen
Artist : Klemens Franz
Number of players : 2 - 5
Playing time : 90 - 120
Recommended ages : 14+
Language : EN
Iberian Gauge Game
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Games & Puzzles
$54.00
Reader Reward Price: $48.60
The morning stretches over the tops of the tall, rugged mountains that dominate the Iberian Peninsula. Hammers ring, iron on iron, fighting stubbornly for every inch of new track against the unforgiving and unyielding terrain. The age of the railroad is coming to Iberia, but it won’t be easy…
In Iberian Gauge, you will invest in railroad companies during Stock Rounds. In the Operating Rounds, each share of stock allows the shareholder to build track for that company, in the order those shares were purchased. But building in such hostile terrain is expensive! Leasing track from other companies reduces cost and keeps your railroads expanding. Failure to expand will sink your stock values, leading to ruin!
Designer : Amabel Holland
Artist : Ian O'Toole
Number of players : 3 - 5
Playing time : 60 - 90
Recommended ages : 12+
Corrosion Game
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Games & Puzzles
$67.00
Reader Reward Price: $60.30
In Corrosion, each of you manages a factory and deploys engineers to build up diversified scoring and production engines. In the steam-filled air, however, your biggest enemy is time because most machines and gears rust away quickly, so you are well advised to also produce chrome gears and invest in rustproof and powerful chrome machines.
On your turn, you can either play an engineer card or turn the corrosion wheel of your factory. Playing engineers mostly gains you new machines and qualified engineers. Other players can copy your engineer’s action by playing an engineer of the same suit but a higher grade. Turning your corrosion wheel puts your machines to work and returns engineers to your hand, but also causes old gears and machines to rust.
To be successful, you must cleverly coordinate your engineers and corrosion wheel while smoothly shifting from one efficient engine to the next.
Designer : Stefan Bauer
Artist : Dennis Lohausen
Number of players : 1 - 4
Playing time : 90 - 120
Recommended ages : 12+
Language : EN
1861 & 1867 Game
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Games & Puzzles
$92.00
Reader Reward Price: $82.80
It is the middle of the nineteenth century and the age of steam is well underway. The Russian and Canadian governments, eager to capitalize on the new rail technology to bring together their vast countries, are sponsoring entrepreneurs to help build their railway networks. You are an investor, seeking to take advantage of their generous offer to make your fortune. However, your governments are not as benevolent as you first thought. They have begun to absorb fledgling rail companies, taking them away from those who worked so hard to build them by regulating impossible standards for new technology. You will have to remain diligent to ensure you are not next. In 2005, Ian D. Wilson released 1861: Railways of the Russian Empire inspired by the railway development of Russia. In 2015, he released 1867: Railways of Canada, which is a standalone game that uses 1861's core rules on a different map with a handful of variations to gameplay. Both are classic examples of the versatile 18xx system of train games. They are straightforward enough to be your 1st 18xx game while still offering the depth you want in your 100th game. 1861 and 1867 are perfect as weeknight games as they can usually be played by experienced players in 3 hours. The games are staples at 18xx gaming conventions often as a palate cleanser after playing a longer title. What makes 1861/1867 in particular great entry points into the 18xx system is that the two games introduce the different game mechanics in phases. The beginning of a game only has Minor Companies running relatively simple operations and as the game progresses, new mechanisms like Merger Rounds and the National Railway are introduced. They are great games to learn, have a steady but ever increasing trajectory and speed, and pack enough of a wallop to keep players returning to them time and time again. Designer : Ian D. Wilson Artist : Karim Chakroun Number of players : 3 - 6 Playing time : 120 - 180 Recommended ages : 12+ Language : EN
Ark Nova Game Marine Worlds Exp
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Games & Puzzles
$41.00
Reader Reward Price: $36.90
Marine Worlds introduces sea animals into your zoo! To accommodate them, you need to build aquariums, a new kind of special enclosure.
A new University allows you guaranteed access to 1 animal icon of your choice.
For the 5 original action cards, there are now 4 alternate versions, each with small bonuses! Replace 2 of your action cards with alternate versions at the start of the game to give yourself a familiar, yet different game.
Marine Worlds includes new Zoo cards, Final Scoring cards, and Bonus tiles to mix with those from the base game.
New wooden components for the Appeal, Conservation, and Reputation tracks and a set of wooden animals to use for supporting conservation projects makes your game of Ark Nova come to life!
Enhance your experience of Ark Nova with Marine Worlds!
Ark Nova is required to play this expansion.
Designer : Mathias Wigge
Artist : Mathias Wigge
Number of players : 1 - 4
Playing time : 90 - 120
Recommended ages : 12+
Language : EN
Juicy Fruits Game
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Games & Puzzles
$52.00
Reader Reward Price: $46.80
You have a small island paradise where you grow delicious fruit, and you want to supply ships with fruit and add businesses to your island so that your place is better than everyone else's.
Your turn in Juicy Fruits works like this: First, you slide one of your fruit collector tokens a number of unblocked spaces and collect that many fruits of the token's type: banana, orange, lime, pomegranate, or mangosteen. Then you may either fulfill the order of a ship on your shores or claim a business from a shared display and place it onto your island (or do nothing). Clever planning and timing is vital because until you supply the ships on your shores, they block valuable island space which could be used to collect more fruit — but if you concentrate too much on the ships, the most promising businesses may get snatched by your opponents. Also, the sooner businesses are claimed, the quicker the game might end.
With each play, Juicy Fruits poses new puzzles of how to move your tokens efficiently and how to balance clearing your island with claiming businesses. The game also includes an additional "juice factory" mode and four modes of solo play.
Designer : Christian Stöhr
Artist : Annika Heller
Number of players : 1 - 4
Playing time : 30 - 45
Recommended ages : 8+
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