Spring Meadow is the grand finale of Uwe Rosenberg's puzzle trilogy following 2016's Cottage Garden and 2017's Indian Summer. The complexity of the game is set in between the two games and fans of the trilogy will find familiar elements combined in an innovative way. In Spring Meadow, the most interactive game of the trilogy, the player who earns their second Hiking Pin during scoring wins the game. When these scorings will happen is determined by the player's selection of Meadow tiles from a central game board. The Hiking Pin goes to the player with the largest meadow during the scoring. Place your Meadow tiles with 0-2 holes skillfully on your Mountain board to receive extra tiles when creating or expanding groups of holes. Find your way around the burrows of the marmots because they can restrict you during tile placement. With 172 tiles in 49 shapes, familiar players and new players alike will appreciate the beauty and challenge of Spring Meadow!

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  Expand your selection of loot-hauling squires with Squire Pack 1, the first character expansion pack for Squire for Hire and Squire for Hire: Mystic Runes. This pack includes 18 new Squire cards with a range of new item combinations and abilities to help manage your junk and give you a lot more variability with each play. Includes an equal number of compatible squires for both Core Set 1 and 2. Use any squire when combining both core sets!

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Sylvion is a tower-defense type game in which attacks come down four rows and in waves. You build a deck using a unique drafting process and play cards from your hand by paying with other cards in your hand. You can play cards to the rows like fountains and trees or play animals for instant effects or to manipulate the enemy decks of cards. When all the waves have finished, you must have kept the heart of the Sylvion verdant, or else the whole forest of the Oniverse will be destroyed.This game can be played in an introductory style, advanced mode, and includes two expansions and an appendix for further challenges and complexity.

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  In an ancient world forgotten by time, enormous titans terrorize the land. Five tribes have been fleeing from the titans for centuries, but things are about to change. Growing city-states pledge to end the reign of terror, determined to take on the titans and make the world a safer place for all. Each city-state competes to attract the tribes, eager for the strength of the combined peoples, who are now leaving behind old traditions with the hope that the titans can be defeated once and for all. In The Ancient World, players compete to grow the largest and most influential city-state by managing citizens, treasury, and military and by defeating titans. Players take turns sending citizens to take special actions or using military cards to attack titans. One of the actions a citizen can perform is to build Empire cards, which give more citizens, money, and abilities. A city-state's influence in the world is measured by sets of tribe banners that it owns. Each Empire card has one or more tribe banners, and tribe banners can also be gained by defeating titans. Players gain victory points (VPs) for sets of tribe banners. After six rounds, the player with the most VPs from sets of tribe banners wins.

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 In 1958, Demitri Belyaev and Lyudmila Trut started an experiment on domestication. From a large group of foxes, the selected the ones that reacted to humans with more curiosity and less aggression. In each generation, they selected only the friendliest pups to become parents - hoping to recreate the process that originally led to domestication thousands of years ago. In The Fox Experiment players will breed their own domesticated foxes over the course of the game. Each round represents one breeding generation, in which each player will select a pair of fox parents to breed. They will take dice according to the traits they have and roll them, attempting to make whole trait symbols to mark on their pup cards. These pups then go on to become parents in the next round! Be strategic in the foxes you choose to breed, because the right ones will help you finish studies and please your patrons to score points and win the game.

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 It’s summer time, and amid the forest lies the glade. In The Glade, you fill your personal forest board with sets of forest tiles (played from your tile rack) that feature creatures, leaves, and forest fruits. Create sets of three tiles to place one of your toadstool counters onto the central glade board. Complete a set of four tiles to add a toadstool to your store. Claim toadstool counters from the glade for your store by playing matching forest tiles. Play toadstool counters into enclosures in your forest to create extra actions. When one player has played all twelve of their toadstool counters or when all the forest tiles have been drawn from the bag, the player with the most points wins. After playing the basic game, progress to the "matching" game in which you also match your forest tiles to the creatures, leaves, or forest fruits on your forest board.

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Discover the ancient art form of Tea Dragon caretaking within this enchanting world of friendship and fantasy. Create a bond between yourself and your Tea Dragon that grows as you progress through the seasons creating memories to share forever. Each player's deck represents their own Tea Dragon. From turn to turn, players will choose to draw a card, triggering effects and strengthening their position, or buy a card, improving their deck or scoring points.  The game takes place over four seasons, starting in spring and ending in winter. At the end of winter, the player who has the most points is the winner. Features: Based on the Oni Press graphic novel The Tea Dragon Society by Kay O’Neill. Beautifully illustrated with cute little dragons. Light card game with some deck building concepts. No hidden information makes it kid friendly. Competition for Market and Memory cards but no direct player on player nastiness. Perfect for families. Contents Summary: Rulebook Comic quick-start rules 4 Tea Dragon cards 1 Mentor card 24 Memory cards (6 cards each for spring, fall, winter, and summer) 28 Market cards 48 Starter cards (12 cards each in 4 decks) 4 Player aid cards 1 Rulebook

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To celebrate the original game and its howling legacy, the original designers decided to take all their favorite character combinations and bring them to you. With characters taken from all the expansions—New Moon, Characters, The Pact—all in one box, it's easier than ever to put together a terrifying game of intrigue and suspicion. Play the way the designers do with the Best of Werewolves of Millers Hollow!

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In Time of Empires, take charge of a civilization and lead it through the ages from antiquity through the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution to modern times. Each epoch spans a preparation phase, an action phase, and a scoring phase. Other players have accepted the same charge you have and will be grappling with life through the action phase simultaneously with you in real time. Your two 30-second sand timers will trigger your actions — expanding your territory, building wonders, and discovering new technologies — while a soundtrack keeps the tempo of history. You probably won't be able to look everywhere at the same time, so try to ensure that you don't overlook a potential attack because you're too busy helping to complete a wonder!

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Embark on a journey of exploration and discovery along the historic John Muir Trail through the High Sierras of California. Explore the majestic mountains and lush meadows, the picturesque waterfalls and alpine lakes. Scale the heights of Yosemite's iconic Half Dome or Sequoia's Mt. Whitney! Enjoy meandering through Evolution Valley or Tuolumne Meadows, pausing to take in the beauty of Thousand Islands Lake or cooling your feet in the Kings River. Be humbled beneath a giant and ancient Sequoia, or catch (and release) a Golden Trout, listen to the song of an Ouzel, watch Marmots at play, or spot the rare Snow Plant. Happy trails!Trailblazer: The John Muir Trail takes place over the course of twelve days/rounds of hiking and backpacking along the John Muir Trail (JMT). You will experience daily trail encounters, choose to explore destinations along the trail, acquire and manage natural and personal resources, discover and observe the sights and sounds of your environment, adapt to ever-changing weather conditions, and move along the entire trail, all while wisely using the items in your backpack to maximize your experience.You can earn trail points in several ways along the route, such as placing workers on your tracks, collecting sets of field guide cards, scoring instantly with destination cards, and using your backpack gear efficiently.

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Take a hike in TRAILS, exploring iconic sites and national parks across the U.S., gathering resources, observing wildlife, and earning wilderness badges. TRAILS is a standalone adventure in the PARKS series with artwork from the Fifty-Nine Parks Print Series. In TRAILS, players hike back and forth along the trail, collecting rocks, acorns and leaves; taking pictures; and encountering wildlife to gain bonuses. At trailhead and trail end, you can turn in resources to earn badges, after which you start back in the other direction. As players visit the trail end, the sun sets over the trail. As night falls, trail sites grant more powerful actions, but they won't last forever. When the sun leaves the trail, the last round of play takes place, then the player with the most points from collected badges, photos taken, and bird sightings wins.

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nana, which was later reprinted as Trio, is a card game in which players are looking for three of a kind. The deck consists of 36 cards, numbered 1-12 three times. Players receive some cards in hand, which they are required to sort from low to high, and the remaining cards are placed face down on the table. On your turn, choose any single card to reveal, either the low or high card from a player's hand (including your own) or any face-down card from the table. Then, do this again. If the two cards show the same number, continue your turn; if they do not, return the cards to where they came from and end your turn. If you reveal three cards showing the same number, take these cards as a set in front of you. If you are the first player to collect three sets, you win — except that a player wins immediately if they collect the set of 7s or two sets that add or subtract to 7, e.g., 4s and 11s. Note that nana and Trio contain identical components, but nana is labeled for 2-5 players, while Trio is labeled for 3-6 players. Trio has slight changes to the rules, with players using all cards no matter the player count. Additionally, you play in normal mode — winning with three sets or the 7s — or "spicy" mode, winning with two linked sets or the 7s. Finally, Trio includes rules for playing in teams with four or six players.

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  The card game Velonimo allows you to depict the merciless struggle in the animal world for the distinctive and highly prized "petits pois-carottes" jersey rewarded to the best climbing cyclist. This trick taking game features ultra simple rules for an absolutely addictive play experience. Goal of the Game: Race to the summit to score as many points as possible and win the covered jersey. To win a race, you must be the first player to get rid of all your cards. Racer cards may be played alone or in specific combinations of the same color or same value. There are also breakaway specialist cards which work alone to speed ahead of the pack. Victory: The game has 5 rounds, each representing the ascent of a different mountain summit by riders in a cycling race. To win the round, yo need to get rid of all of your cards before any other player. Even if you are not the winner, you can still score points for your position. Keep playing until there is only one player left. At the end of each round, the player with the highest points total is the leader and received the coveted jersey. The player who receives the jersey at the end of the last round, after the final scoring, is the winner.

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1898, Siberia, the seismologist Edgar Vuntaf discovers a continent free of any human presence, sheltering a teeming life, in forms never encountered before! Unknown plants, colossal creatures... Faced with this shocking discovery, the world's scientific elite, gathered in Paris for the Universal exposition, create the Vivarium Syndicate, and decide to send explorers into this new continent.Vivarium is an efficient and tense card collection game with a great artistic direction! Each turn players use dominoes to create coordinates that allow them to build their card collection. After 7 rounds, the player that has successfully completed their objectives and collected the greatest creatures wins the game.★ UNIQUE USE OF DOMINOES: Each turn, add a domino to the one in the middle of the table, creating coordinates that let you take a card from the board.★ COMPLETE SECRET OBJECTIVES: Use these to drive your strategy to collect different creature colors, creature types, equipment, or other aspects of the game.★ POWERFUL EQUIPMENT: Gain these cards to help complete certain objectives and for their unique special abilities or end-game scoring effects.★ HIGH QUALITY COMPONENTS: The custom domino designs, sparkly amber gems, and details on the cards and board add to a luxury gaming experience.★ BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK: See the creatures of Vivarium spring to life, each one with their own personality and storing that shines through in the illustrations.

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  Built long ago by an ancient evil, a lair lies at the heart of a dense forest not far from your village. Silent for generations, a noxious reek now wafts from the entrance and unsettling noises from within signal that something terrible is about to awaken. Do you dare venture into the depths and combat what monsters lurk inside? Wakening Lair is a fully cooperative dungeon delve for 2-6 players who take on the roles of heroic adventurers banded together to defeat the monsters inhabiting a nearby lair. Play heroes from nine different character classes, each with unique abilities to help vanquish foes. Double-sided hero cards provide both male and female versions of each class for a total of 18 heroes from which to choose. A variety of monsters, nine different monstrous terrors, and randomized boss monster awakening changes the game narrative each time you play. Six different room types can give you an attack bonus if your character type matches the room advantage. Weapons have character preferences and arming the right weapons can increase the power of your attacks. Use magical items for rerolls, healing, or other boosts for yourself or members of your party. Monsters have attack vulnerabilities and immunities, so you need to watch out and square off with the best suited members of your team! Players take turns exploring rooms in Wakening Lair, defeating monsters, disarming traps, and gathering weapons and magic items. Equip those items to maximize your hero's abilities, all in preparation to defeat the slumbering monstrous terror that is bound to awaken at any moment. When it does, you need all your collective power to keep it from escaping the lair and destroying the land!

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 In Wakening Lair: The Dark Forest, 1-6 players must cooperate against overwhelming odds to rid a classic fantasy themed dark and spooky forest of its assorted ne’er-do-well monsters and haunts. Should they succeed, songs will be sung of their noble exploits for generations to come. If they fail, then the Dark Forest’s evil will spread across the realm. Wakening Lair: The Dark Forest is a 1-6 player fully cooperative dungeon delve which plays in 45-60 minutes. Each player assumes one of nine heroes forming a party which must explore the forest disturbing and vanquishing its denizens. As they do, they’ll receive treasure in the form of weapons and magic items. Eventually, one of six monstrous terrors will awaken and try to escape the dark forest. Victory is achieved by defeating it before that happens! Wakening Lair: The Dark Forest is a standalone sequel to the original Wakening Lair and the components of both games can be swapped for unique and new game combinations.

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  Way Too Many Cats is a competitive drafting spatial puzzle game about drafting cats, making each cat happy, and pressing your luck in the number of kittens you take on. Players are managers of an adoption agency trying to show off each cat in the best light. They accomplish this differently depending on the cat type and the individual characteristics of each cat. The game is played until one player fills all showcase spots in their adoption center; all players get equal turns and the player with the cutest cats wins!

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Expansion of Way To Many Cats! The expansion adds in a new type of cat, Gray! It also adds new dual toy tokens. It includes 70 cards and 18 tokens! Gray cats provide a new type of scoring that will certainly mix up game play!  All gray cats score based on having lots of the same type of cat around them. They're not as straightforward as the other cats, so it'll take some effort to make them super happy. 

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 Wild Kratts Endangered Wildlife Game is a fun and fast game where players build the best Habitats for endangered and critically endangered animals. Play as Martin, Chris, Koki & Aviva, laying down and manipulating tiles to build the best habitats for your animals. Featuring three levels of play for kids of all ages and adults. Protecting the wild has never been so fun! All players have a hand of tiles. Beginning with the SRART tile, take turns laying down these tiles which feature various animals in their habitats. On your turn, you may also lay down a Creature Power Disc, securing that tile from manipulation. Some tiles allow you to manipulate the play area, with the goal of making large scoring Habitats for you, and smaller ones for your opponents. When the last tile is played, all players score the size of the connected habitats back to their Creature Power Discs. The highest score Wins! Rules also feature two simplified methods of play for younger children.

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Welcome to the Big Apple, a city rotten to its core. A high-profile politician has just been murdered, and only the Worminators can solve the case. You’re one of the hotshot detectives that have earned the title of Worminator, and you’ve been ordered by the chief to investigate this murder. If the media frenzy around the case weren’t enough to throw you off your game, the mayor’s office seems to be blocking you at every turn. Rumors run rampant that this might be… an inside job. Worminators: Inside Job is a game Born at PAX. What does “Born at PAX” mean? We at Lynnvander Studios teamed up with the PAX team to run a panel called Design a Board Game Live. Worminators: Inside Job was conceived by the crowd at PAX West 2022. They came up with the combination of buddy cop worms, and we refined their ideas into the board game you’re holding now! In Worminators: Inside Job, each player is a worm detective assigned to the case. You will build your own deck of Detective cards as the game advances, using them to gather evidence and bring it to the courthouse. Will you be able to assemble the clues and solve the murder before the city becomes overrun with corruption or drowns in criminal activity? Get your badge and let’s find out.

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Experience the nostalgia of visiting the zoo and the adventure of building your own. In this strategic family card game, players take turns building their own zoos by drafting from a diverse array of animal, staff, and facility cards. Players must manage the ups and downs of zoo ownership and collect the best sets of animals in order to win the most awards for their zoo. The player that wins the required number of awards first,—like Most Prestigious Zoo, Most Diverse, Big Cat King, and many more—is the victor.

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