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Communicate safely! Join the greatest Encryptor team in the world!Your mission: transmit secret codes to your teammates without letting the opposing team intercept. Decrypto is a "scramble communication" game: you must give clues to your teammates that are precise enough, so they can understand you, but vague enough, to make sure your opponents don't get the message...

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Decrypto pits two teams against each other. The general idea of the game is to transmit information to your own team without the other team understanding. To win you have to walk a fine line: The instructions you give need to be clear enough for your teammates to understand, while at the same time obscure enough to baffle your adversaries! Each round, both teams appoint one of their members to be the Encryptor, whose job is to transmit a secret 3-digit code to their teammates without the opposing team intercepting the code. If you succeed in guessing the opposing team’s code, you win an Interception Token. If you manage to get 2 Interception Tokens, your team wins!★ LIMITED EDITION: The black box with shiny gold foil accents is exclusive to 2023, celebrating the 5 year anniversary of Decrypto's publication!★ #1 PARTY GAME: This multi award-winning game has consistently held the #1 spot of the party game category on BoardGameGeek since it released!★ HIGH REPLAYABILITY: With 440 total keywords included in the box, no two games will be the same! You'll want to play again and again!★ NOVEL COMPONENTS: Keywords are scrambled by a red and blue 3D analgyph effect and are revealed once the cards are slid behind the red window in the screens!★ MULTI-AWARD WINNING: Across the globe, Decrypto has received commendations from renowned game juries and influential content creators.

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The world of communication enters a new era thanks to Laser Discs! This cutting-edge technology promises to reinvent how we communicate with each other. The future is now! Each round, at least one of your clues must match a random Category (i. e.: Movie title). If your 3 clues respect the category, you get a Laser token. Spend them to guess one of the opposing team’s keywords and receive an Interception token! An expansion for the game Decrypto by Thomas Dagenais-Lespérance. Illustrated by NILS, Manuel Sanchez and Sébastien Bizos.

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In Oh Really?, a game created by visual artist MC Marquis, players try to correctly guess the order of preference of other players among five completely different topics. The more accurate your guesses are, the more points you score. Oh Really? brings laughter, discussions and small discomforts, all of which can be a great icebreaker for your dinners, parties or even on a date! With 200 different topics to choose from, each game will be unique and each choices can be hard to make.

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Spice up your happy hour!Take turns saying a word that doesn’t contain any of the letters visible on the table ... and which is related to the previous word! It gets hard, because we add a new letter each turn!Each turn, the active player draws a card showing a letter and puts it on the table next to the previous ones. They now have 12 seconds to find a word thematically linked to the one told by the previous player which doesn’t contain any of the letters shown on the cards already drawn.★ SIMPLE RULES: Players can devour the easy-to-learn rules and start playing in just one minute!★ SPICY GAMEPLAY: Olé cards spice up gameplay with direction changes, targeted players, and skipped turns.★ WORD ASSOCIATION: Word game fans will crave this unique letter-elimination and word-association challengeCONTENTS• 49 game cards• 1 Arrow card• 1 rulebook

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In this third chapter of the Suspects line, players embody Adele and Neville, a pair of investigative reporters tasked with solving intriguing murder mysteries. A match made in heaven on the scene of the crime and in their personal lives, Adele and Neville met in New York, studying journalism at Columbia University. While Adele is passionate about capturing moments in photos, Neville prides himself on writing ever more impactful articles.In the heart of the 60s, this couple travels around the world to document the events of their time... and solve the mysteries they encounter. United in the face of mysteries and crimes, investigative reporters Adele and Neville have only one credo: publish the truth!In each chapter of Suspects, you will read Clue cards to progress through the plot like a book, discuss and reason amongst yourselves, and form hypotheses. Your goal is to score the most points when you answer the questions about the case. The "faster" you answer (i.e. having drawn and read as few Clue cards as possible), the more points you will score.

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Suspects is a range of investigation games with streamlined rules and plots centered on the psychology of the characters in the style of Agatha Christie’s novels. The first opus will feature the ingenious and fearless Claire Harper in three stories that pay tribute to the great classics of detective literature! Claire Harper was one of the first women to graduate from Oxford in 1927. Specializing in criminal law, she is also an adventurous traveler. Every mystery is an opportunity for her to test her formidable spirit of deduction and her unfailing determination! In this first episode, follow her in her investigations that will take her from grand manor houses to shady theaters and from Scotland to...Egypt!

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  Show your hosting prowess and treat your favorite Surrealist artists and writers to an excellent dinner party! But this might be trickier than you’d imagine. Keep your guests happy by serving the food they desire, managing drama between them, and sending them home at the right time. On your turn, bring new guests to the party, serve food and drink, or have guests socialize with their neighbors at the table. Each artist also has a unique habit, so pay careful attention to who is sitting next to whom! Of course you want to make all the guests you’ve invited happy, but if you can arrange for your opponents’ guests to start a little drama, that’s okay too! It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere… – André Breton.

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In the heart of a hostile region, you're the head of a fortified village. When night falls, ferocious monsters emerge from the darkness and storm your village! To avoid carnage, organize your defenses, call in your heroes and... direct the most dangerous creatures toward your neighbors! The game is played over two rounds, split in two distinct phases. During the day, each player selects cards to build their village, considering the best combination of buildings, the optimal positioning and also recruit powerful heroes to protect their villagers. During the night, they receive Creature cards to split between themselves and their neighbors In the best of cases, they choose to keep creatures that their defense can handle while hitting the weakest spots in your neighbor's defenses! Finally, the Creatures attack and destroy the most exposed buildings and villagers. At the end, the player with the most surviving villagers and tamed creatures mastered is declared the winner!

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