Nidavellir, the Dwarf Kingdom, is threatened by the dragon Fafnir. As a venerable Elvaland, you have been appointed by the King. Search through every tavern in the kingdom, hire the most skillful dwarves, recruit the most prestigious heroes, and build the best battalion you can to defeat your mortal enemy! Each turn in Nidavellir, bid a coin on each tavern. In descending order, choose a character and add this character to your army. Each dwarf class has its own scoring way: blacksmith, hunter, warrior, explorer, and miner. A meticulous recruitment will allow you to attract a powerful hero to your army. You will also be able to increase the value of your gold coins thanks to the smart "coin-building" system, and get the best of the other Elvalands.

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Mandated by the King, visit every tavern in the kingdom, hire the most skillful dwarves to save Nidavellir, and rely on Queen Dagfid who has called for help brave mercenaries and their precious artifacts. Now, the Elvaland can instead of recruiting a Dwarf card or Royal Offering card in the tavern, choose to go to the Camp to take a Magic Artefact or recruit a Mercenary card. In the event of a tie to determine the highest bet on a current tavern, refer to the gem values as in the basic game. Only the Elvaland with the highest bet can go to the Camp and take a card. The other Elvalands must, in order of resolution, take a card from the tavern being resolved. If the Elvaland who played first chooses to take a card from the Camp, the remaining Dwarf card from the tavern must be discarded before proceeding to the next tavern Resolution. The Camp consists of Artifacts and Mercenaries. Thingvellir, the trumps : - New Hero cards, Mercenary cards with two classes and Artifact cards with unique powers.- An innovative coin building system.- Numerous and varied strategies.

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A Reiner Knizia classic reimagined! Featuring The Dice Tower Seal of Excellence! Nightmare Productions puts you in charge of a movie studio that specializes in horror films. To be a box office success, you need to successfully compete with other players in auctions for tokens representing creatures, directors, props, scary locations, musical scores, and cameo’s (more monsters!) of varying values. The auction is a basic rising offer with passing until one winning bid remains. Winners pay into the pot with money tokens, and the rest of the players share the pot each turn. So, it's a closed economy with players trying to time their bid for what they really need to complete films.When won, the tiles get placed on blank spaces on players' studio film-strips, to complete the movie’s production. As films are completed, the points value is scored and new film-strip is taken. There are bonus awards for first films completed (in each of the Supernatural, Creature, and Slasher categories), best film of each of the four seasons (rounds), best monster, and even worst film! Whoever scores the biggest movie ratings, and most awards will win the game!

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Design the best Animal Sanctuary!Nimalia is a game of drafting and simultaneous action selection. Each round you’ll draw 3 cards, place one, and pass the others. Each card contains 4 biomes, and each biome contains an animal. When you place a card, you have to cover AT LEAST one previously placed biome. Thus the whole Sanctuary must fit in a 6 by 6 grid.Nimalia will appeal to anyone who likes animals, drafting games, and visual puzzles.CONTENTS:• 4 Player Tokens• 4 Color Reminder Tokens• 11 Double-Sided Objective Cards• 60 Animal Cards• 5 Score Track Cards• 1 Round Card

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It's the "Extreme" version of "Nine Tiles" - now more chaotic than ever before!After having sold over 200,000 copies, the popular board game "Nine Tiles" has received an advanced version that is available now! Move and flip your 9 tiles to get them to match a given pattern.While the basic rules of arranging tiles to match a theme card are the same as in the regular "Nine Tiles", this version introduces multi-purpose patterns that can be matched by either color or shape. Will you have to match the shapes this time? Or is it the colors? Here comes the speed puzzle game that will confuse your brains even more!

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Get slapping in this exciting, fast-paced game where Ninja Cats battle and Cucumbers attack. Play against others to control the deck as you flip and slap your way to victory.  Win cards by battling weapon wielding Ninja Cats, and be the first player to slap card combos as they appear. Watch out for sneaky Cucumbers and Attack Cards as they can change a player’s fate at any time! 

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Based on the universe of the Northgard video game, Northgard: Uncharted Lands is a game of conquest and exploration set in the age of vikings. Each player controls a Viking clan, looking to achieve victory by reaping glory in various ways or controlling the most prized territories of this new continent. The game focus is on streamlined rules and mechanisms, allowing for a fast-paced and smooth rhythm of play. Each turn, players alternate their actions to adapt their strategies to their opponents' moves and the expansion of the board. Fame (i.e., points) can be earned by exploring, fighting, and controlling and developing territories. The various corresponding actions are played through the cards that the players have in hand. At the end of each turn, they have to choose a new card to improve their personal deck as their clans develop new tactics and technologies. The pace of the game is set by the players as the game ends after seven turns, but can also be cut short at any time if one of them is in control of three closed territories hosting certain types of buildings.

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Warchiefs are the valiant heroes of Northgard! This optional module reinforces the asymmetry between the clans, as each one is granted one new character with a unique ability to lead them, represented by a special miniature. The Kaija miniature, modular Player and Clan boards, and new Clan upgrade cards can be integrated to your core games of Northgard: Uncharted Lands, without requiring other materials from the Warchiefs module.

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The Wilderness expansion introduces 8 advanced creatures in addition to the existing ""classic"" creatures like wolfs or the brown bear. Creatures from this expansion have higher strength values and more exotic powers than those found in the core game, representing a tougher challenge for the players. We recommend playing the core game before adding this extra content. Beside the new creatures, you will find a module of 11 special environmental tiles. Introducing tiles with special effects. Like geysers - they increase your happiness and resilience to winter. In Uncharted Lands, it allows you to place one extra viking for free in the Geyser’s territory at the end of the turn, as your units reap its benefits to invigorate themselves and get ready to jump into the fray!"

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  It is the 25th century. You are a member of an intergalactic expedition shipwrecked on a mysterious planet named Artemia. While waiting for the rescue ship, you begin to explore the planet but an alien entity picks up your scent and begins to hunt you. You are NOT ALONE! Will you survive the dangers of Artemia? NOT ALONE is an asymmetrical card game, in which one player (the Creature) plays against the stranded explorers (the Hunted). If you play as one of the Hunted, you will explore Artemia using Place cards. By playing these and Survival cards, you try to avoid, confuse or distract the Creature until help arrives. If you play as the Creature, you will stalk and pursue the shipwrecked survivors. By playing your Hunt cards and using the mysterious powers of Artemia, you try to wear down the Hunted and assimilate them to the planet forever. NOT ALONE is a immersive, thematic card game, where you use guessing, bluffing, hand management, and just a pinch of deck-building to achieve your goal, which is survival for the Hunted... or total assimilation for the Creature!

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  In On the Road, you play music bands that want to reach the Skudde Festival with the most fans. During the game, you travel throughout the land in order to gather the highest number of fans. To win, you need to make sure they will also make it to the Festival to see you on stage — and won't get stuck in line at the toilet. On your turn, play your movement cards to visit new places or travel back to beloved areas. Each tile represents a different landscape. The more often you visit a type of landscape, the more fans you will get there, i.e., wooden stars you place in a bag. On some tiles, you get a chance to draw from the bag. Your fans will be invited to watch you play, whereas other bands' fans will be sent to queue for the toilet. The game ends when all the tickets for the Festival are sold. The winning band is the one with the most fans on the final stage. FAMILY FRIENDLY GAMEPLAY: Engage the entire family with On The Road, a delightful board game where players become music bands trying to gather fans and reach the Skudde Festival first. UNIQUE GAME MECHANICS: Utilize a novel majority mechanic where visiting various landscapes allows you to gather fans, represented by wooden stars. Strategic tile and card plays influence your band's success and interaction with other players. CREATIVE ILLUSTRATIONS: Admire the artwork of renowned artist Miguel Coimbra, known for his work on popular games like 7 Wonders and Small World. His vibrant and thematic illustrations enrich the game's music festival atmosphere. QUICK AND EASY SETUP: Enjoy a swift setup with a game that plays in approximately 30 minutes. Ideal for game nights, parties, or as a lively family activity. Simple rules ensure that you spend more time playing and less time preparing. HIGH-QUALITY COMPONENTS: Includes 54 cards, 33 tiles, 33 tokens, 80 wooden stars, 4 wooden van pawns, and a draw bag. All materials are crafted to enhance the tactile and visual pleasure of game play, ensuring durability and long-lasting fun.

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    The massive network of London Underground stations make up one of the most complex transportation systems in the world, and On the Underground challenges you to develop it. Build the most successful lines, connect them to landmarks and attract passenger traffic. Players build the Underground lines in London or the U-Bahn lines in Berlin.

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  In On the Underground: Paris/New York, players build the Paris Métro lines or the New York City Subway lines. Each player controls 2-4 different lines, depending on the number of players.On each turn, four destination cards are available, corresponding to stations on the map. You can take up to four actions; an action is either building track by placing one of your track tokens on the board or taking a branch token. A player may use two branch tokens to branch out of an existing line (whereas normally lines can be extended only at the endpoints). After each player's turn, a passenger token is moved along players' lines, avoiding walking as much as possible, to reach one or two destinations determined at the beginning of the turn. Destination cards corresponding to the visited stations are then replaced by new ones, then the next player takes their turn.

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Of the billions of planets in existence, none are as perfect or as beautiful as our home planet we call Earth. But Earth is in danger. Human advancements are threatening her ability to sustain life. How can we balance between our need for advancement and our planet’s ability to sustain our ambitions? One Earth is a fun climate change game for 2-5 players. You and your friends play as one of Earth’s mighty nations, competing with one another to ensure your citizens prosper and maintain the highest living standards. However, in doing so, you must also ensure you work together to ensure the sustainability of Earth and its survival. There is only One Earth, and it is our duty to protect it.

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The Key is missing, and it is up to the players to find it! The team leader tries to communicate with the other players, proposing clues by indicating their degree of affinity — strong medium/weak — with the object that the team must find. With good team-play, the other players remove the wrong cards, step by step, until the Key is all that remains. Removing the Key results in instant defeat, so be careful! One Key is a family game for all kinds of players, a light game that offers a co-operative experience based on the association of ideas and deduction. All the objects are like little universes of their own. Find the right one to solve the enigma! One Key is best played with an app with a three-minute timer and background music to add tension to your games.

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Onitama is an elegant and simple two player abstract strategy game where you take on the role of a Master, guiding your monk followers, in an attempt to defeat your opponent. Armed only with a handful of moves, your cunning, and your wits, have you the skill to be victorious?

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The third expansion for the hit abstract strategy game arrives from both the LIGHT and the SHADOW!

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The Onitama: Sensei's Path expansion consists of sixteen new movement cards that can be shuffled together with those of the Onitama base game in order to have more variety during play.

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Once again, rival schools have come to Onitama to see who has the dominant Art — but something is different this time: Their activity has attracted the attention of a wind spirit! This indomitable force will interfere with the students, but it may on occasion grant an unforeseen benefit as well! Onitama: Way of the Wind, an expansion for Onitama, includes a wind spirit, a neutral game piece that creates a new layer of interaction in the game. Two new move cards are included, as well as eight wind spirit cards. Includes 8 New Wind Spirit Cards:BatEagleHawkLionOctopusRhinocerosScorpionSpider 2 New Move Cards:GoatSheep 1 Wind Spirit Miniature

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   You and your fellow players work in a coffee shop in Order Overload: Cafe, and to keep your jobs, you need to keep a handle on all the orders coming in. Will you be able to make the right drinks? In a round, you deal a certain number of cards face up and read them aloud so that everyone knows all the orders placed, then you deal these cards out face down to the players. On a turn, you need to name an order that's in someone else's hand. Fail to do so, and you're eliminated from play! If you collectively reveal a set number of drinks before everyone is eliminated, then you clear the level and are ready to take on tougher challenges... What's the highest level you can clear?

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  Let’s face it — nothing simulates the chaos of the current administration like a combination of rotten vegetables and confetti being dropped on a high-speed fan, but this game is the next best thing! In this fast-moving card game, each player takes control of a group of government staffers and wins loyalty for their people while stealing it from others, all while trying to avoid the wrath of the president. People will be fired, transferred, and otherwise totally embarrassed, but there can be only one winner! And it sure won't be the nation! Based on Stephen Colbert’s animated show Our Cartoon President. Provides much needed laugh-out-loud outlet in regards to American Politics! Blank Character cards allow you to keep up with political events!

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Overboss Duel is the new two-player version of the hit tile-laying game, Overboss! In Duel, Players go head-to-head to conquer the Overworld on a shared board. In a new twist on Overboss gameplay, players can draft and place terrain tiles and monster tokens anwhere, even on their opponent’s side of the board! Like the original game, each terrain type has a different point value and unique ability. But watch out! Now some abilities allow players to move tiles and tokens across the Overworld, stealing valuable points from opponents and setting up clever strategies for victory.And don’t get too comfortable once you’ve mastered the board; players also have to contend with a new threat: heroes. Pesky adventurers spawn in towns and reduce your score. But if you squash them, you’ll gain bonus points!

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King Ludwig II of Bavaria has called all great architects to design his greatest achievement: a world-renowned palace. Only the best will do! Gorgeous appointments, white stone, surrounded by water, with swans everywhere. Oh, and the Ludwig touch? All the architects must design the palace together. The designer who shows the strongest influence will receive the order to build it. In The Palace of Mad King Ludwig, each player builds rooms one at a time in a single gigantic palace. As rooms are completed, a moat slowly forms around the outside. Once the ends of the moat connect, the palace is finished, and the player who has contributed the most to the palace wins! In more detail, this sequel to Castles of Mad King Ludwig shares a few similarities to its predecessor, such as tile-laying, room rewards, and the magic of watching a unique palace take shape through the course of the game, but the gameplay is entirely different, with no auction, a clever endgame timer that graphically builds pressure for players as the moat slowly closes in around the palace, and a twist on resource management with multi-colored swan tokens being used as currency, points, and the keys to new abilities.

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You and your team are the only things standing in the way of deadly diseases that threaten the world. The fate of humanity is in your hands. From designer Matt Leacock, Pandemic is a cooperative game of teamwork for two to four players. As members of an elite disease control team, you must keep four deadly diseases at bay. Work together as you travel the globe to treat infections while collecting the cards you need to discover a cure for each disease. But the clock is ticking as outbreaks and epidemics fuel the spreading plagues. As a cooperative game, players win or lose together. Only by working together can you keep the outbreaks in check and find the cures in time!

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Disease threatens Europe and only you can stop it! In Pandemic: Hot Zone – Europe, players work together against the game to discover cures for three diseases that threaten the continent. Travel from city to city treating local populations, preventing outbreaks, and sharing research with your team. Use your character’s unique ability to get ahead of the game and execute the perfect team strategy! For an extra challenge, players can add Mutation cards, or mix and match components with other games in the Pandemic: Hot Zone series for a totally unique experience. Can you discover the cures and win the game together?

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In Pandemic: Iberia, you and your friends are part of the Second Royal Philanthropic Expedition who must find a way to stop the spread of 4 historic diseases across the Iberian Peninsula in 19th century Spain. Team up in Pandemic: Iberia to combat these historic diseases as you treat patients, purify water supplies, and build the most efficient railway network between hospitals in order to ensure the safety of the populace. Can you and your team stop the spread through Iberia?

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Race against time to sequence diseases and test cures in this Pandemic expansion. New medical technology has been developed that will help treat the infectious diseases spreading across the globe. The In the Lab expansion for Pandemic adds more variety and challenge to your mission of containing deadly disease outbreaks. This time, there’s a whole new way to discover cures and get closer to winning the game. Travel around the board collecting samples of each disease in the field, then use the Lab board to sequence, characterize, and test your cures. Add sample cubes to one of the two lab dishes by taking the Treat Disease action. Once enough samples are collected, seal yourself behind bio-hazard doors and send the samples through the centrifuge and separator to place them on sequence cards in the correct order. If you can get a disease characterized and sequenced, you’re ready to find a cure! In addition to the Lab Challenge, In the Lab provides two variants that shake up the Pandemic experience. Now you can take on the diseases by yourself in a solo game or split into two rival teams and race to cure and eradicate diseases, prevent outbreaks, and gain prestige. Other than a little help from the CDC, you're on your own in the solo game. Stay in contact with your home base and discover the cures before it’s too late. If you break into rival teams, curing diseases is still the ultimate goal, but the prestige you’ve earned over the course of the game determines the winner. Along with its four new Role cards, three new Event cards, and challenges you can combine with those in the On the Brink expansion, In the Lab creates a whole new world of possibilities for Pandemic. This product is an expansion: The Pandemic base game and On the Brink expansion are required to play

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1962 — The Cold War continues as a new threat looms on the horizon, a deadly new Soviet bioweapon, something called "Project MEDUSA". You and your fellow medical graduates have been recruited by the CIA for the critical mission of investigating and preventing its development. Travel the world using carefully constructed aliases to move swiftly between Allied, Neutral, and Soviet cities. Your missions will require you to neutralize enemy agents, acquire specific targets, and set up other CIA agents on location to execute your operations without a hitch. As you complete objectives over the course of twelve months, each success or failure will bring you closer to the truth. Combatting this dangerous new pathogen is of utmost importance, but it's not the only threat you'll encounter in the field. Enemy agents are taking root in all parts of the world, and it's critical to your mission that you keep them contained before they can escalate international tensions. Luckily for you, you won't be without backup. Coordinate with other covert operatives for assistance and make strategic use of these teams at different locations to clean up the board and keep your eye on your main objectives. Designed as a prequel, Pandemic Legacy: Season 0 does not require you to have completed Season 1 and Season 2 before diving into this Cold War spy thriller. As in the first two Pandemic Legacy games, each time you play brings new cards, rules, and conditions that affect future games. Each alias you create will gain contacts and other assets to execute your plans more smoothly. And, of course, the CIA will be watching and evaluating your performance in the field. Work together with your fellow agents to prevent this new bio-threat — the fate of the world depends on it. Can you save humanity once again?

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Actions have consequences from one game to the next as you strive to avert global disaster in this stand-alone epic twist on Pandemic. Red and Blue Editions have variant covers; game contents are the same. It starts simply. A virus tougher than the rest. Nothing your team can’t handle. But as January turns to February, things take a turn for the worse. This is no ordinary virus. What results is a year that will never be forgotten. Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 is a unique and epic cooperative game where your decisions in one game carry over into future games. Over the course of the campaign, you will open sealed packets, reveal hidden information, and unlock secrets that will change your world in unexpected ways. Characters will gain scars, cities will panic, and diseases will mutate. Adapt to each new challenge and save humanity before it’s too late. The world will never be the same again. The world is on the brink of collapse. The coming year in Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 will determine the fate of humanity. Gather your team and prepare for a campaign full of epic twists and evolving gameplay. There are many paths to follow. No two worlds will ever be alike!

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Actions have consequences from one game to the next as you strive to avert global disaster in this stand-alone epic twist on Pandemic. Red and Blue Editions have variant covers; game contents are the same. It starts simply. A virus tougher than the rest. Nothing your team can’t handle. But as January turns to February, things take a turn for the worse. This is no ordinary virus. What results is a year that will never be forgotten. Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 is a unique and epic cooperative game where your decisions in one game carry over into future games. Over the course of the campaign, you will open sealed packets, reveal hidden information, and unlock secrets that will change your world in unexpected ways. Characters will gain scars, cities will panic, and diseases will mutate. Adapt to each new challenge and save humanity before it’s too late. The world will never be the same again. The world is on the brink of collapse. The coming year in Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 will determine the fate of humanity. Gather your team and prepare for a campaign full of epic twists and evolving gameplay. There are many paths to follow. No two worlds will ever be alike!

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A NEW MISSION The world almost ended seventy-one years ago. A virulent plague came out of nowhere and ravaged the world. For three generations, small groups of survivors have struggled to keep the world alive. Operating from floating stations known as “havens,” they have maintained a loose network of the largest cities by delivering supplies to the mainland. But their efforts are no longer enough. Cities are falling off the grid and supplies are running low. The world needs a group of heroes to emerge and lead it through this crisis. In Pandemic Legacy: Season 2, this task has fallen to you. You must reestablish supply lines and get the world back on its feet. Along the way, the decisions you make affect future games. As you play, you will unlock new components, make new discoveries about your world, and stumble upon secrets that could change the course of history. No matter what happens, though, the world is counting on you. You are humanity’s last chance. 

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The world almost ended 71 years ago... The plague came out of nowhere and ravaged the world. Most died within a week. Nothing could stop it. The world did its best. It wasn't good enough. For three generations, we, the last fragments of humanity have lived on the seas, on floating stations called "havens." Far from the plague, we are able to provide supplies to the mainland to keep them (and us) from succumbing completely. We've managed to keep a network of the largest known cities in the world alive. Things have been tough the past few years. Cities far away from the havens have fallen off our grid... Tomorrow, a small group of us head out into what's left of the world. We don't know what we'll find. Pandemic Legacy: Season 2 is an epic cooperative game for 2 to 4 players. Unlike most other games, this one is working against you. What's more, some of the actions you take in Pandemic Legacy will carry over to future games. No two worlds will ever be alike!

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You’ve found the cures to four deadly diseases. But what happens when those diseases get stronger? Worse yet, what happens when someone spreads them intentionally?! Return to the world of Pandemic with On the Brink and prepare for the unexpected. The three challenges included with this expansion evolve the base game mechanics in exciting ways. One disease might become a Virulent Strain and become more difficult to treat as the game goes on. Or you could introduce an unpredictable fifth disease with the Mutation challenge and watch it pop up in unexpected places. Finally, teamwork is even more important if a fifth player dons the mask of the Bio-Terrorist and spreads panic while moving secretly across the board. Try each challenge individually or combine them all for a major test! On the Brink also includes more of what made Pandemic an instant classic. With seven new roles and eight new event cards, the expansion injects even more variety into your globe-trotting adventures. Anticipate upcoming infections as the Troubleshooter or save the day with the extra actions granted by a clutch Borrowed Time. Combined with the base game, these cards open new avenues for experimentation and improvisation in your quest to save humanity. And if finding cures is becoming routine even on the Heroic difficulty, you can always add the Epidemic card and tackle Legendary difficulty. With a whopping seven Epidemic cards, playing at Legendary will challenge even the most experienced Pandemic players. The stakes have been raised. Now rise to the occasion and save humanity.  This product is an expansion: Pandemic base game required to play.

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CAN YOU SAVE HUMANITY IN TIME? Natural disasters have struck cities across the globe. Recognizing the overwhelming threat, the nations of the world have taken action and assembled the CRU: an elite team of doctors and specialists. With a specially equipped plane, you are uniquely capable of providing life-saving aid—anytime, anywhere. Pandemic: Rapid Response is a race against time. Roll dice to create supplies, fly the plane, and make deliveries to cities in need. As the timer counts down, you must quickly coordinate and work together to react to new disasters. Will you and your team be able to respond in time? ONLY ONE ELITE TEAM CAN RESPOND The nations of the world have pooled their resources and assembled a diverse crew. Each of the 7 unique role cards features their own ability. The Analyst, Adjoua Soro, is able to reroll the dice up to 2 additional times. The Engineer, Soojin Sohn, can change any die result with a plane to a different symbol. Take turns as quickly as possible, using your role’s unique ability and strategically allocating your dice to be as efficient as possible when creating supplies. Then when you’re ready for a new challenge, adjust the difficulty level or add Crisis Cards for a greater variety of obstacles to overcome. Now hurry—the timer is counting down and the world needs your help!

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In this dice-based version of Pandemic, curing diseases that plague humanity comes down to a roll of the dice—literally! Pandemic: The Cure is a stand alone, dice-based version of classic cooperative Pandemic board game. Just like the original, you win or lose together as your team travels the globe treating diseases and keeping hot spots in check while researching cures. In this version, though, rolling dice determines everything from the outcome of your actions to the behavior of diseases. Each character has both a unique ability and a set of dice you roll at the start of each turn. Depending on the results, you can fly or sail between population centers, treat diseases in your region, collect samples for further study, or exchange information with other players. Try for the perfect turn by rerolling your unused dice, but each biohazard symbol that comes up brings you one step closer to the next epidemic. Play the odds as you re-roll your player dice, ward off outbreaks and epidemics, and search for cures. No matter what you roll, the fate of the world is in your hands!

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This expansion adds two thrilling challenges to the dice-based Pandemic: The Cure. You’ve traveled the world, collected disease samples, and researched cures. But new challenges are emerging. The Experimental Meds super-expansion builds on the Pandemic: The Cure dice-based game of curing diseases. Adapt to the escalating situation as a fifth purple disease with a unique set of dice behaves in unpredictable ways. Purple dice can lead to even more infections or modify your attempts to find a cure in strange—and sometimes beneficial—ways. Counter this threat with one of the eight new roles, including the Celebrity Activist, Archivist, and Field Director. Each role brings its own game altering abilities and dice to the table, offering even more varied approaches to your disease-fighting efforts. Combined with the eleven new event cards, Experimental Meds provides tools to handle any threat.  If you’re looking for even more of a challenge, try the Hot Zones Challenge. Rather than representing a new disease, the eleven Hot Zone dice represent different effects—positive and negative—that existing diseases have on that region. Some results might let you move a hot zone or infection die from your current region to an adjacent one. Others might force you to spend extra dice to travel to a region, or draw an additional infection die from the bag during an outbreak. No matter what dice are present, each hot zone offers a unique challenge to you and your team.  This product is an expansion: Pandemic: The Cure base game required to play.

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Experience two fantastical centuries of expansions and combat in Paper Tales. Remodel your assorted assembly of characters, units, and buildings in each period based on your developments and the age of your heroes. Write a new legend of the rightful ruler who brought unity to the rival kingdoms. In more detail, Paper Tales is a simultaneous drafting card game. Each turn, players draft five units that they then recruit into their kingdom — assuming that they can pay. These choices determine the players ability to shine in battle, generate great income, construct dominant buildings, and earn legend points. There are only four hiring positions available during the four rounds of the play, but your units grow older with each turn until time takes them away. Build a comprehensive strategy and adapt the shape of your realm according to opportunities and restrictions and you will make history!  

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  Paper Trail is a unique hidden movement game where students pass notes around the classroom while the teacher tries to confiscate these notes. The teacher must use logic and deduction, while the students must balance risk vs. reward as they race to deliver the most notes. This is a medium weight strategy game for adult board gamers and board game families. The art and aesthetic is 90`s/2000`s American education. Unique mechanics, theme, and asymmetric roles create a new experience for hidden movement enthusiasts.

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Paranormal Detectives is a deduction party game. One player takes the role of a Ghost. All other players work as Paranormal Detectives and need to discover how the victim died. Using paranormal abilities they will communicate with the Ghost, asking open questions about the details of the crime. The Ghost answers in a variety of ghostly ways - by arranging a hangman’s knot, playing chosen tarot cards, creating a word puzzle on a talking board, drawing by holding the hand of a detective and many more! You open your eyes to discover the most horrible truth of a lifetime... It has just come to an end and you are a ghost, floating in the air! Terrified, you look at your own body. A group of strange individuals has gathered around your mortal remains, watching it closely with sparks of fascination in their eyes. They want to communicate with you to discover how your life ended. You need to talk to them and reveal the truth so the culprit can be judged!

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In Petite Pastiche, a world of beautiful colors comes alive as players choose commission cards picturing 23 of the finest European art works of the past six centuries. Players score their commissions by mixing primary colors through clever tile placement and recreating the palette of colors used by the masters who created these works. Explore the paintings, palettes, and pasts of the artists in this unique and challenging game for the whole family.While placing hexagonal pieces to gain palette (color) cards, players become familiar with the different color combinations that produce the many hues of an artist’s palette, all listed on the Player Reference Card. Players also learn to recognize many great artists and their works as they complete commissions.Components 89 palette cards 36 palette hexes plus 1 three-hex starting piece 23 commission cards 8 wooden easels 4 reference cards 1 start player card 1 rules booklet

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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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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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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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Take on the role of an elemental sovereign, shaping the very nature of reality in this fast-moving board game! 2 to 4 players take turns to draft and play colorful (and colorblind-friendly) hexagonal tiles to match specific patterns and meet their own secret objective. With several dozen pattern cards, variable objectives, and a game state that's constantly in flux, you'll never play the same way twice. Simple setup, easy-to-learn rules, and a short play time of around 30 minutes means there's always time for one more game…

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Survive Peak Oil!Peak Oil is approaching and, as the president of a major oil company, you need to find a way to keep your company afloat! To do this, you’ll have to extract the last reserves of black-gold to raise the money needed to invest in the new technologies that are sure to soon replace oil. Of course, you’ll attempt to survive this crisis using legal means, but the competition won’t be so honorable. So maybe you’ll have to get your hands dirty as well….On your turn in Peak Oil, you assign your agents to different action spots on the board. If your agents are in the majority at any given action spot, or you decide to send mercenaries to their help, they squelch the competition - allowing you to take the action. Actions include: developing and harvesting oil fields, building pipelines, hiring new agents, buying new ship contracts, investing in oil replacement technologies, conducting PR campaigns, engaging in piracy, and manipulating public opinion and oil prices.The oil — small barrels that you draw from a bag when developing new oil fields — will run out. This is called "peak oil" and marks the end of the game. Players tally the value of the technologies in which they invested and supported during the game. Whoever shaped the future best (i.e. gained the most favor for their company) wins.

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Peak Oil Profiteer is a standalone board game set in the Peak Oil universe. As the top executive of an oil corporation, you are sent to a war-torn nation that's got a lot of oil — and no one who can help sell it! That's where you come in: Your task is to make the most cash before corruption ruins the land.This card-driven tactical game features area control, simultaneous action selection, and a healthy dose of player interaction. Progressing in rounds, players improve their workforce by investing in powerful consultants and vie for influence over the nation's three warring factions. As control of the oil fields passes between the hands of the so-called "government" the "National Liberation Front", and the noble "Guerilla Militia" you have to ensure you're in the right place at the right time with the right faction leader in your pocket.Double guess your competitors, blackmail politicians, and sell weapons to whoever needs them to ensure you keep the oil — and money — flowing in your direction. Remember, your sole goal is to make the most profit before corruption destroys this sorry region.Game Contents:• Screen-printed meeples and token• Engraved wooden die• Real-feel bills (laid paper)• Upgraded factory-stickered poker "leader" chips.• Includes all campaign stretch goals - new cards and variants.

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Survive Peak Oil!Peak Oil is approaching and, as the president of a major oil company, you need to find a way to keep your company afloat! To do this, you’ll have to extract the last reserves of black-gold to raise the money needed to invest in the new technologies that are sure to soon replace oil. Of course, you’ll attempt to survive this crisis using legal means, but the competition won’t be so honorable. So maybe you’ll have to get your hands dirty as well….On your turn in Peak Oil, you assign your agents to different action spots on the board. If your agents are in the majority at any given action spot, or you decide to send mercenaries to their help, they squelch the competition - allowing you to take the action. Actions include: developing and harvesting oil fields, building pipelines, hiring new agents, buying new ship contracts, investing in oil replacement technologies, conducting PR campaigns, engaging in piracy, and manipulating public opinion and oil prices.The oil — small barrels that you draw from a bag when developing new oil fields — will run out. This is called "peak oil" and marks the end of the game. Players tally the value of the technologies in which they invested and supported during the game. Whoever shaped the future best (i.e. gained the most favor for their company) wins.

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The Royal Museum of Berlin has commissioned excavations in Pergamon – an archaeological site in present-day Turkey. The city experienced its heyday around 200 BC when it was the most important port in the Ancient Roman province of Asia. As archaeologists, your goal is to get as much research funding as possible in order to finance excavations in Pergamon. You will unearth pieces of antique vases, jugs, bracelets and golden masks from the first five centuries BC. By piecing together matching artifacts, you’ll build collections that can be exhibited at the Pergamon Museum. The player who exhibits the most valuable collections and gains the most recognition by the museum’s visitors (in the form of admission tickets) wins the game.Pergamon is a 2-4 player game of competitive archeology. Outsmart your rivals to make sure you get the funding you need, and create the best exhibits in the Museum. In the end only one will be remembered as the best of the best.Pergamon (Second Edition) features several improvements made to the game including revised rules and upgraded components.

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