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HEAD-TO-HEAD CARD BATTLEGosu X is a combo card game in which players build uptheir army using the cards from their deck, made of 3clans. At the end of each round, a Great Battle takesplace, where the player with the highest military valuecomes closer to victory.★ TWO PLAYERS ONLY: Inspired by the games Gosu and Gosu Tactics, X is a new version adapted to suit two players only, with the same tense strategy.★ MULTIPLE WAYS TO WIN: Adapt your strategy depending on your preferred way to play, whether that’s through battling, upgrading, or capturing cards.★ UNIQUE IMMORTAL POWERS: Each player chooses 3 of the 8 Immortals to combine into their deck. The remaining 2 determine which effects are active.CONTENTS• 120 cards• 16 wooden pieces• 8 Immortal tiles• 1 board• 1 cloth bag• 1 rulebook

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  In Pylos, you want to be one who places the final ball on top of the pyramid. Sounds simple enough, right? At the start of the game, each player has fifteen balls, either light or dark, and they take turns placing them on a game board that has sixteen indentations on it in a 4x4 grid. Once four balls have been placed next to one another in a square, a ball can be placed on top of them, forming a second level of play. Players can then place balls on this second level, eventually allowing a ball to be placed on the third level – and once that level is full, which requires only four balls, a final ball can be placed on the fourth level, with that player winning the game. If a player forms a square of his own color – that is, four balls placed next to one another on the same level – that player can remove one or two of his balls (that don't support anything) from anywhere on the board and place them in his reserve, thereby giving him more balls to place in the future. Whenever a player forms a square that's not entirely his own color, he can "stack" one of his pieces – that is, he can take any ball and place it on this square, locking some pieces in place and making a move without having to place a piece from his reserve. The rules include a variant for children (that removes the square bonus) and one for experts (that allows a player to return 1-2 balls to his reserve when he creates a line of his color).

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Where will your path take you?Lay stones on the path and try to line up four stones in your color. Simultaneously simple and tactical, Qawale is inspired piles of stones found along paths. On your turn, add a stone on top of any pile and move it. When moving a pile, you must leave a stone on each space you cross. The first player to get 4 of their stones in a row, looking at the board from above, wins the game.★ TWIST ON MANCALA: Use the well-known "pick up and drop" mechanics of mancala, with layers upon layers of strategy on top.★ BRAIN BURNER: Contrary to normal gameplay, it’s your opponent that chooses the piece you place on your turn, which increases the challenge!★ QUALITY WOODEN PIECES: The rich wooden tones of the pieces will look attractive on your coffee table, as you leave it set up and ready to play.CONTENTS• 8 light stones• 8 dark stones• 8 neutral stones• 1 game board• 1 rulebook

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Simple yet tactical, Qawale will rock your idea of strategy games.Lay stones on the path and try to line up four stones in your color.Qawale is inspired by the tradition of stacking stones along trails and paths in nature.As you drop these stones along your path, this incredible game will transport you to a place where strategy and nature come together.Each player takes 8 stones in their color. The third color is neutral and is placed in the 4 corners of the board.On your turn, add a stone on top of any pile and move it. When moving a pile, you must leave a stone on each space you cross.The first player to get 4 of their stones in a row, looking at the board from above, wins the game.Ages 8+2 players15 minute play timeContents:1 game board8 light-colored peebles8 dark-colored peebles8 tan-colored peeblesrules

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Quarto has a 4×4 board and 16 pieces. Each piece has four dichotomous attributes — color, height, shape, and consistency — so each piece is either black or white, tall or short, square or round, and hollow or solid. The object is to place the fourth piece in a row in which all four pieces have at least one attribute in common. The twist is that your opponent gets to choose the piece you place on the board each turn.

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Quarto has a 4×4 board and 16 pieces. Each piece has four dichotomous attributes — color, height, shape, and consistency — so each piece is either black or white, tall or short, square or round, and hollow or solid. The object is to place the fourth piece in a row in which all four pieces have at least one attribute in common. The twist is that your opponent gets to choose the piece you place on the board each turn.

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  Sky Team is a co-operative game, exclusively for two players, in which you play a pilot and co-pilot at the controls of an airliner. Your goal is to work together as a team to land your airplane in different airports around the world. To land your plane, you need to silently assign your dice to the correct spaces in your cockpit to balance the axis of your plane, control its speed, deploy the flaps, extend the landing gear, contact the control tower to clear your path, and even have a little coffee to improve your concentration enough to change the value of your dice. If the aircraft tilts too much and stalls, overshoots the airport, or collides with another aircraft, you lose the game...and your pilot's license...and probably your life. From Montreal to Tokyo, each airport offers its own set of challenges. Watch out for the turbulence as this could end up being bumpy ride!

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