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At the turn of the 16th Century, King Manuel I commissioned Portugal's greatest artisans to construct grandiose buildings. After completing the Palaces of Evora and Sintra, the king sought to build a summer pavilion to honor the most famous members of the royal family. This construction was intended for the most talented artisans — whose skills meet the splendor that the royal family deserves. Sadly, King Manuel I died before construction ever began. In Azul: Summer Pavilion, players return to Portugal to accomplish the task that never began. As a master artisan, you must use the finest materials to create the summer pavilion while carefully avoiding wasting supplies. Only the best will rise to the challenge to honor the Portuguese royal family.

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Build a mosaic fit for a monarch! Azul is a tile-placement game in which players compete for the highest score by claiming tiles and arranging them on their board to score points. Extra points are on offer for collecting sets of the same color of tile, or for creating particular patterns, while there are penalties for taking tiles that you’re unable to use. But every tile that you claim affects what your rivals can take next. You’ll have to make choices that help you without helping them too much!

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The artwork is awesome in Sagrada! I love the dice rolling and drafting mechanics used to build the stained glass windows. It is a very simple game with a lot of depth to your strategy. Awesome entry-level game for newer board gamers!                                                                                     - Will (Marketing Manager) As a skilled artisan, you will use tools-of-the-trade and careful planning to construct a stained glass window masterpiece in the Sagrada Familia. Players will take turns drafting glass pieces, represented by dice; carefully choosing where to place each one in their window. Windows have unique color and shade requirements, and similar dice may never be adjacent so placing each die is more challenging than the last. Fortunately, you’ll have just the right tools to help you through. Gain prestige by adapting to the preferences of your fickle admirers, and of course, by adding your own artistic flair while completing your glass masterpiece in Sagrada. Sagrada - A Game of Dice Drafting and Window Crafting for 1 to 4 players that plays in about 30 minutes. Carefully designed by Daryl Andrews & Adrian Adamescu with graphic artistry by Peter Wocken.

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After more than 2 million copies sold, Azul is back in a mini format. With this new edition, players can now play this classic anywhere they want! Azul is a tile-placement game in which players compete for the highest score by claiming tiles and arranging them on their board to score points. Extra points are on offer for collecting sets of the same color of tile, or for creating particular patterns, while there are penalties for taking tiles that you're unable to use. But every tile that you claim affects what your rivals can take next. You'll have to make choices that help you without helping them too much! Contains: 100 Resin Tiles, 4 Player boards, 9 Factory displays, 4 Scoringmarkers, 1 Starting player marker, 1 Linen bag

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Created by Michael Kiesling, Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra challenges players to carefully select glass panes to complete their windows while being careful not to damage or waste supplies in the process. The window panels are double-sided, providing players with a dynamic player board that affords nearly infinite variability! to carefully select glass panes to complete their windows while being careful not to damage or waste supplies in the process. The window panels are double-sided, providing players with a dynamic player board that affords nearly infinite variability!"

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Join the best chocolate makers in the world in Azul - Master Chocolatier by creating the most desired chocolate selection ever!This unique edition of the multiple award-winning game Azul includes 5 new special factory variants for a new, and delicious, twist on the original game!

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Azul: Crystal Mosaic offers players 2 newly designed player boards to compete over and a set of 4 overlays to keep Azul tiles neatly organized. Offering the best of both worlds - beauty and new game elements - Crystal Mosaic is a must-have expansion for Azul fans!

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In the past, patchwork piecing was a way to make use of leftover pieces of cloth to create clothing and quilts. Today, patchwork is a form of art, in which the designers use precious fabrics to create beautiful textiles. To create a beautiful quilt, however, requires effort and time, In Patchwork, two players compete to build the most aesthetic (and high-scoring) patchwork quilt. Choose your patches carefully and keep a healthy supply of buttons to not only finish your quilt, but to make it better and more beautiful than your opponent‘s.

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Return to the famous Sagrada Familia cathedral in Sagrada: Glory, the third and final of the Great Facades expansions.This modular expansion explores the thrill of competition and rivalry.Sagrada: Glory introduces new options to test your artisanal skills!★ All New Strife dice with placement restrictions.★ Pioneer Objectives reward the first to achieve their goals.★ The Flourish Module encourages specific and unique placement.

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Azul: Glazed Pavilion offers players 2 newly designed player boards and matching scoring boards to compete over and a set of 4 overlays to keep Azul: Glazed Pavilion tiles neatly organized. Offering the best of both worlds — beauty and new game elements — Glazed Pavilion is a must-have expansion for Azul fans!

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So many pieces of cloth and eyeballs lying around – time to make a spooky, Halloween-themed quilt out of them! This requires significant effort and time and a steady supply of eyeballs, of course. The player who picks the best patches and combines them the most skillfully into a patchwork quilt wins the game.

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Includes more objectives, more window patterns, and more dice to allow up to six players to compete in Sagrada.

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Welcome back to the palace of Sintra! King Manuel I has commissioned the best garden designers of Portugal to construct the most extraordinary garden for his wife, Queen Maria of Aragon. In Azul: Queen's Garden, players are tasked with arranging a magnificent garden for the King's lovely wife by arranging beautiful plants, trees, and ornamental features. Using an innovative drafting mechanism, the signature of the Azul series, players must carefully select colorful tiles to decorate their garden. Only the most incredible garden designers will flourish and win the Queen's blessing.

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  Add a 6th player, puzzles with new upgrade mechanics, and ghost pieces with their own special action. LARGER PUZZLES: Experience bigger puzzles that will challenge your brain even further with this expansion. LEVEL-5 PIECES: Unlock the power of larger level-5 pieces to complete intricate puzzles with ease. NEW REWARDS: Discover over 20 new puzzles, each offering unique rewards like instant level-ups and level-5 pieces. STRENGTHEN YOUR CHOICES: Enhance your gameplay options with larger level-5 pieces that introduce the new Ghost action. UNIQUE GAMEPLAY: The Ghost Piece expansion adds depth and excitement to Project L, making each game feel more unique than ever.

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Named after the Sagrada-Familia facades, Sagrada: The Great Facades is a series of expansions to be released in three parts: Passion, Life, and Glory. Each part of the expansion contains modules of content that players can add individually or together to their games of Sagrada. Sagrada: Passion introduces inspiration cards, rare glass dice and cards, rare glass private objectives, and symmetry public objectives. The Sagrada: Passion expansion components require the original Sagrada to play.

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  Adjust your strategy to earn Credits, a new resource that you can pay for extra actions ENHANCED STRATEGY: Elevate your Project L experience with strategic goals that test your finesse. EARN CREDITS: Perform finesses to earn valuable credits and gain an advantage during your turn. EXPAND YOUR GAME: The Finesse expansion adds depth to Project L by introducing new ways to play and score points. COMPROMISE OR DEVIATE: Completing goals may require strategic compromises or deviations from your original strategy. FAST-PACED FUN: Enjoy the same fast-paced gameplay of Project L with added strategic depth. .

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Quixo bears a superficial resemblance to Tic-Tac-Toe – with one player being crosses and the other circles, and with both trying to create a line of their symbol – but that's where the resemblance ends. The pieces in the game are cubes that have a circle on one side, a cross on another, and blank faces on the other four; to set up the game, players place the 25 cubes with blanks face-up on the 5x5 grid in the game board. On a turn, the active player takes a cube that is blank or bearing his symbol from the outer ring of the grid, rotates it so that it shows his symbol (if needed), then adds it to the grid by pushing it into one of the rows from which it was removed. Thus, a few pieces of the grid change places each turn, and the cubes slowly go from blank to crosses and circles. Play continues until someone forms an orthogonal or diagonal line of five cubes bearing his symbol, with this person winning the game.

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Katamino is a building game that helps children to understand basic geometric concepts as well as spacial awareness. It is a solitaire puzzle game with quick rounds for players of all ages and skill levels

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Return to the famous Sagrada Familia cathedral in Sagrada: Life, the second of the three Great Facades expansions. This modular expansion explores the journey of life through hardships and helpers. Add everything inside or handpick modules to enhance your crafting experience. Sagrada: Life introduces new challenges to test your artisanal skills. Gain helpful abilities through apprentice cards, draft masterwork dice to gain prestige for tackling tricky new restrictions, and reap the rewards of rising to the challenge of toil public objectives. Will your stained glass window be a true masterpiece? This expansion adds 3 new modules, each interchangeable and compatible with other Sagrada expansions.

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Last Light is a fast-paced 4x game with 3D planets and a rotating board in which players playing asymmetrical alien factions simultaneously gather light right before the heat death of the universe.Each turn, players select an action card, then all players take their actions simultaneously, exploring planets, mining for resources, gaining new technologies, and commanding fleets all while racing to the center of a rotating board to the last known white dwarf star to gather light for their civilization to survive.

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  Part puzzle, part game. Play as either Land or Sea (or the Cartographer in a 3 player game). Each player plays with 2 double-sided hex tiles containing a mix of land and sea shapes. They take turns placing a tile each to make a map together. Land places tiles trying to complete land areas, and Sea places tiles trying to complete sea areas. Completed areas score a point per tile; land areas for Land, sea areas for Sea. Some tiles score bonus points for whoever completes the area they are in. So players may decide to strategically complete rival’s areas to gain their bonus points. Other tiles allow players to play their second tile, or steal a player’s tile - but not their last one! Using 2 double-sided tiles (one side always revealed and the other always hidden until played) means there is partial information to plan around, and some surprises too. Players replenish back up to 2 tiles from a choice of 2 face-up tile stacks. The strategy of the game involves careful tile placement to score from as many land or sea areas as possible, while minimising your rivals’ opportunities to score from the tiles you play. Watch your rivals’ possible plays, and control tempo strategically with Play Again and Steal tiles. Look out for opportunities to score valuable bonus points in your and your rivals’ areas. Carefully select tiles as you replenish your hand to prepare for your next turn. The game ends once the last tile is placed. The player or team with the most points wins. The basic Land vs Sea game is simple enough for light / family gamers. After you have played the basic game, you can unlock more scoring options on the tiles to add surprising depth:1. Mountain & Coral scoring - score for cumulative chains of connected Mountain (Land) / Coral (Sea) sections.2. Caravan & Ship scoring - score for Caravans & Ships added to Trade Routes on the map, and score each Trade Route you have majority in (more Caravans scores the Trade Route for Land, more Ships for Sea) at the end of the game.3. Waypoints - bonus points you can place on the map to entice cooperation, or score for yourself. 2, 3 & 4 player modes:You can play head to head with 2 players, or with 4 players in teams using the basic rules and any of the additional scoring options. 4 player games use Waypoints to prevent alpha players directly instructing their partner. The challenging 3 player mode uses all of the additional scoring options in a more asymmetric game. The Cartographer scores by connecting Mountain and Coral sections, and all players compete for bonus points and Trade Route scoring.

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Katamino is a building game that helps children to understand basic geometric concepts as well as spacial awareness. It is a solitaire puzzle game with quick rounds for players of all ages and skill levels

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Jingle bells, presents and maybe even Santa Clause can be found on the patches of this special edition for Christmas. A festive box art and a Patchwork cookie cutter complete this perfect gift for all fans, collectors and everyone who missed Patchwork until now! In the past, patchwork piecing was a way to make use of leftover pieces of cloth to create clothing and quilts. Today, patchwork is a form of art, in which the designers use precious fabrics to create beautiful textiles. To create a beautiful quilt, however, requires effort and time, In Patchwork, two players compete to build the most aesthetic (and high-scoring) patchwork quilt. Choose your patches carefully and keep a healthy supply of buttons to not only finish your quilt, but to make it better and more beautiful than your opponent‘s.

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In Stack'n Stuff, a more streamlined version of Patchwork, players are on the move. However, packing all of your stuff into a moving truck is quite tricky, costly, and time consuming - and the day runs out fast! During the game, the last player on the time track chooses one of the next three furniture items. After paying the transportation cost and spending the loading time, the player places the patch on their truck best, as well as earns the most money during the game, is a moving master and wins! 

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The election of the Aztec High Priest is imminent. In order to prove their value and merit, the contenders engage in a race for prestige to win the favor of the gods. Will you be able to make the most beautiful sculptures of feathered snakes (called Cóatl) to stand out and gain access to the coveted title of High Priest? In Cóatl, players work to build the most beautiful and valuable serpents. The serpents, or Cóatl, are constructed with a head, a tail, and a number of body tiles, each made from chunky, colorful plastic. On a turn, players will either take tiles from the central board to their personal board, or work to construct one of their Cóatls with the different tiles they've collected. The game end is triggered when one player finishes their third Cóatl. Players receive points for fulfilling objectives, and the one with the most is named the new High Priest!

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Katamino Tower is a logic puzzle game played with high-end 3D wooden shapes that must be arranged in order to reconstruct a tower. Each shape of the game is unique. In the cooperative mode for two players, each turn, a player chooses one of 15 pieces of the game and they play either around the pillar for the rings, or outside for the pentaminos. Players are allowed to gather. The rings can be rotated as they are played along the pillar. The aim is to round off the perfect cylinder. Each full ring equals 1 point. The game can also be played as a solitaire puzzle. According the the selected difficulty level, the player will have to re-create a 2, 3, 4 or 5 level tower. If the player chooses Beginner Mode, he receives clues about the pieces he/she should use. The Expert Mode comes with Challenge cards and solutions There are more than 45.000 unique solutions in total!

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  SetUp is an innovative new title in the rummy genre with sets in all directions. Players combine familiar suits and numbers on the board, scoring points, to reach the finish first. A simple game of maximizing tile placement while trying to avoid gifting your opponent(s) points. As the tiles stack, combinations you’re planning could be unwittingly spoiled by your opponents! Contains: 1 Game board, 50 Card tiles, 4 Tile holders, 4 Player pieces, 1 Bag, 1 Rulebook

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Flash 8 is a fast-paced sliding-tile game where 1-4 players race to move their colourful electron tokens around their city board (their 'tablet') to re-create combinations and score points, all in real time. The competitive version (2-4 players) has players racing against one another to be the first to claim the cards in the center of the table by sliding their multicoloured electron tokens into the empty space in their city grid tablet in an attempt to re-create the colour combinations on the cards. Every time a combination is completed, the successful player yells "Flash!" and they collect that card while the game keeps going. The game ends when all cards are claimed, and the player with the most cards wins! The solo version of Flash 8 asks you to re-create, using the same sliding-tile mechanism, any combination shown on the grid of electrons laid out in front of you. Be careful, though, because every success comes with a price: every time you complete a combination, the grid changes, and if you don't manage your cards correctly, you could end up stuck

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