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Make the right decisions to lead your civilization to prosperity! Lead one of the seven greatest cities of Antiquity. Develop your civilization on a military, scientific, cultural, and economic level. Once built, will your Wonder bring you glory for millennia to come? No downtime, renewed fun in each game and perfect balance regardless of the number of players.

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Bohnanza is the first in the Bohnanza family of games and has been published in several different editions. In the game, you plant, then harvest bean cards in order to earn coins. Each player starts with a hand of random bean cards, and each card has a number on it corresponding to the number of that type of beans in the deck. Unlike in most other cards games, you can't rearrange the order of cards in hand, so you must use them in the order that you've picked them up from the deck — unless you can trade them to other players, which is the heart of the game. On a turn, you must plant the first one or two cards in your hand into the "fields" in front of you. Each field can hold only one type of bean, so if you must plant a type of bean that's not in one of your fields, then you must harvest a field to make room for the new arrival. This usually isn't good! Next, you reveal two cards from the deck, and you can then trade these cards as well as any card in your hand for cards from other players. You can even make future promises for cards received right now! After all the trading is complete — and all trades on a turn must involve the active player — then you end your turn by drawing cards from the deck and placing them at the back of your hand. When you harvest beans, you receive coins based on the number of bean cards in that field and the "beanometer" for that particular type of bean. Flip over 1-4 cards from that field to transform them into coins, then place the remainder of the cards in the discard pile. When the deck runs out, shuffle the discards, playing through the deck two more times. At the end of the game, everyone can harvest their fields, then whoever has earned the most coins wins.

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A horrible crime was committed on the grounds of Warwick Manor thirty years ago. Now, the mansion is haunted by the ghost of the murdered servant, and it's up you, a group of psychic investigators, to get to the bottom of the mystery! Mysterium is a cooperative game of deduction and teamwork for two to seven players. Over the course of the game, one player takes on the role of the ghost and, over the course of a few scant hours, tries to lead the psychics to the correct culprit. Every member of the team will receive numerous visions, but what is the ghost trying to tell you exactly? Can the psychics determine the weapon, location, and killer, or will the criminal pull off the perfect crime?

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Welcome to Mysterium Park! Its cotton candies, its circus and its dark secrets... The former director disappeared, but the investigation came to nothing. Since that night, weird things have happened at the fair. As psychics, players are convinced that a ghost haunts this carnival. They’re now intent on giving it a chance to reveal the truth. In this asymmetrical game, the ghost sends visions with illustrated cards. The psychics try to interpret them to exonerate the safe suspects and locations and, finally, seize the only chance to understand what happened a few years ago. Players have six enjoyable nights before the carnival leaves. They must open their minds and find the truth!

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This might just be the simplest game you'll ever play and, according to more than 10 years of 5-star reviews, one of the best. On each turn, you've only got one decision to make: I want to avoid taking points - should I take the points on this card or play a chip on it and push the decision to the next player? It's "engaging," a "must-buy," and "fiendishly addictive," and maddening when you you're out of chips and forced to take the points.Contents:33 Thick, Oversized Cards55 Plastic TokensIllutrated Instructions

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Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig is published by Stonemaier Games as part of a collaboration with Bezier Games. The king demands a castle! You are a world-renowned master builder who has been asked by the Mad King Ludwig to help design his castles. Projects of such significance require the expertise of more than one person, so for each assignment you are paired with another master builder to execute your grandiose plans. Will your planning and collaborative skills be enough to design the most impressive castles in the world? Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig is a competitive tile-drafting game in which each tile is a room in a castle. You work together with the player on your left to design one castle, and with the player on your right on another castle. On each turn you select two tiles from your hand, reveal them, then work with your partners to place them. To win, you have to share your attention and your devotion between two castles. This game includes 147 regular room tiles with unique art, 83 other tiles, 20 bonus cards, 7 custom wooden castle tokens, 1 full-color, double-sided scorepad, and a 4-piece Game Trayz custom insert that reduces setup time to less than 60 seconds.

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New information has come to light in the case of of the murder at Warwick’s Manor! Hidden Signs, the first card expansion for Mysterium, adds even more mystery and challenge to the investigation with 84 brand new cards. Suspects have been unveiled, locations revealed and new objects discovered, and the ghost has even more visions for the psychics to interpret. The combinations are endless, but the pressure remains to solve the case quickly so the ghost may rest in peace. Use your intuition to decipher new clues and find the truth in Mysterium: Hidden Signs! This product is an expansion: Mysterium base game required to play.

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Shed new light on the strange events leading up to the ghost’s death in Secrets & Lies, the second expansion for the breakout game of 2015 Mysterium. Using their gifts, the psychics’ task is to lift the veil on these troubling events, using eighteen brand-new story cards to provide further context to why this ghost met such an untimely end. The new story cards replace the object cards, adding a different way to play your favorite game without extending the time limits. Additionally, you’ll find 42 additional vision cards that the ghost can use to assist the psychics as they investigate the all-new suspects, locations, and objects (six of each). Step inside—your seat at the table awaits! This product is an expansion: Mysterium base game required to play.

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