Board Games | Economic Games

In Ark Nova, you will plan and design a modern, scientifically managed zoo. With the ultimate goal of owning the most successful zoological establishment, you will build enclosures, accommodate animals, and support conservation projects all over the world. Specialists and unique buildings will help you in achieving this goal. Each player has a set of five action cards to manage their gameplay, and the power of an action is determined by the slot the card currently occupies. The cards in question are: CARDS: Allows you to gain new zoo cards (animals, sponsors, and conservation project cards). BUILD: Allows you to build standard or special enclosures, kiosks, and pavilions. ANIMALS: Allows you to accommodate animals in your zoo. ASSOCIATION: Allows your association workers to carry out different tasks. SPONSORS: Allows you to play a sponsor card in your zoo or to raise money. 255 cards featuring animals, specialists, special enclosures, and conservation projects, each with a special ability, are at the heart of Ark Nova. Use them to increase the appeal and scientific reputation of your zoo and collect conservation points.

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Kia ora, and welcome to Great Western Trail New Zealand! Heading out on the trail for one last time! You are now a runholder traveling the vast fields of New Zealand. This game will engage long-term fans and charm new ones with distinct mechanisms that blend perfectly. An epic conclusion to a great trilogy to include in your collection! Well-respected and talented designer Alexander Pfister did it again! Familiar gameplay in a new landscape with many strategies to explore creates a unique and engaging experience.

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Epic adventures await you on the Great Western Trail! 19th century America never looked so breathtaking! Great Western Trail Second Edition marks the return of Alexander Pfister’s epic strategy masterpiece with new cool features and new components for an even greater journey! Buy the most valuable cows to deliver the best cattle to Kansas City’s train station. From there, bring them to New York to earn money and points to become the best rancher!

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Ark Nova is required to play this expansion. 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!

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In Great Western Trail: Argentina, you own a vast estancia in Argentina at the end of the 19th century, and you will need to travel the plains of the Pampas with your cattle to deliver them to the main train station in Buenos Aires. Great Western Trail: Argentina features gameplay elements similar to Great Western Trail such as deck management, the rondel mechanism, and the ability to upgrade your player board, along with twists on these elements and new features.

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Campaign Trail is a strategy board game in which players pit their campaign skills against one another as they vie for the Presidency of the United States. The confetti is flying, the champagne is flowing, and you have just accepted your party's nomination for President of the United States. Now it's time to hit the Campaign Trail! How will you chart your path to victory? Engage in grass roots campaigning, advertise, sling mud at opponents, fundraise, debate, and so much more! But be sure to avoid revealing those skeletons you have buried in your closet. The candidate who best manages their resources and connects with the public on key issues will win the presidency! Campaign Trail uses card driven actions to implement your strategy. Your goal is to have the most voters for your party in enough states to win a majority of electoral votes. If you have the most voters in a state you are awarded that state's electoral votes (victory points). At the end of the game the player with the most electoral votes wins and is declared the president! Made in China.

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Ark Nova: Zoo Map Pack 1 contains the two new zoo maps #9 (Geographical Zoo) and #10 (Rescue Station).

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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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Uwe Rosenbergs new game Atiwa explores the agricultural wonders of the Africancontinent. Leading a family of fruit farmers, the players find that fruit bats - so called flying foxes,once considered to be fruit thieves only - are indeed useful for their farming endeavors.While it's true that the bats are eating the fruits from their trees, they also spread the seeds, overall helping to grow the amount of trees they can farm. This led to a symbiotic lifestyle between farmers and bats in which the farmers keep the bats as pets in order to grow their farms more quickly. However, the more bats, the more space they need... The players who will find the perfect balance between their bats and the growth of theirfarm will finally succeed and win the game!

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