Board Games | Historical Games

Build a mosaic fit for a monarch! Azul is a tile-placement game in which players compete for the highest score by claiming tiles and arranging them on their board to score points. Extra points are on offer for collecting sets of the same color of tile, or for creating particular patterns, while there are penalties for taking tiles that you’re unable to use. But every tile that you claim affects what your rivals can take next. You’ll have to make choices that help you without helping them too much!

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Created by Michael Kiesling, Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra challenges players to carefully select glass panes to complete their windows while being careful not to damage or waste supplies in the process. The window panels are double-sided, providing players with a dynamic player board that affords nearly infinite variability! to carefully select glass panes to complete their windows while being careful not to damage or waste supplies in the process. The window panels are double-sided, providing players with a dynamic player board that affords nearly infinite variability!"

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Welcome back to the palace of Sintra! King Manuel I has commissioned the best garden designers of Portugal to construct the most extraordinary garden for his wife, Queen Maria of Aragon. In Azul: Queen's Garden, players are tasked with arranging a magnificent garden for the King's lovely wife by arranging beautiful plants, trees, and ornamental features. Using an innovative drafting mechanism, the signature of the Azul series, players must carefully select colorful tiles to decorate their garden. Only the most incredible garden designers will flourish and win the Queen's blessing.

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Make your own Dr Seuss-esque cheese factory will ridiculous machines, strange animal chefs and nonsense ingredients. Build a Custom Factory that makes cheese in it's own unique way High Quality Cards and Box, with a linen finish Make all kinds of different and weird cheeses  Entry level engine building and set collecting Contents 8 Large Chef Cards 69 Craft Cards 31 Machine Cards 23 Recipe Cards Rulebook

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Dominoes with a kingdom building twist. Each turn, connect a new domino to your existing kingdom, making sure at least one of its sides connects to a matching terrain type already in play. The game mechanics for obtaining the tiles is clever: the order of who picks first depends on which tile was previously chosen. Make sure to secure tiles with crowns- these royal treasures help to multiply the worth of your kingdom at the end of the game! The game ends when each player has completed a 5x5 grid, and then points are counted based on number of connecting tiles and crowns. Skills: Strategy, Problem SolvingPlay Time: 15 min or lessContents: 4 3D Castles, 48 Dominoes, 8 Wooden King Tokens, Illustrated Rules

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  Part puzzle, part game. Play as either Land or Sea (or the Cartographer in a 3 player game). Each player plays with 2 double-sided hex tiles containing a mix of land and sea shapes. They take turns placing a tile each to make a map together. Land places tiles trying to complete land areas, and Sea places tiles trying to complete sea areas. Completed areas score a point per tile; land areas for Land, sea areas for Sea. Some tiles score bonus points for whoever completes the area they are in. So players may decide to strategically complete rival’s areas to gain their bonus points. Other tiles allow players to play their second tile, or steal a player’s tile - but not their last one! Using 2 double-sided tiles (one side always revealed and the other always hidden until played) means there is partial information to plan around, and some surprises too. Players replenish back up to 2 tiles from a choice of 2 face-up tile stacks. The strategy of the game involves careful tile placement to score from as many land or sea areas as possible, while minimising your rivals’ opportunities to score from the tiles you play. Watch your rivals’ possible plays, and control tempo strategically with Play Again and Steal tiles. Look out for opportunities to score valuable bonus points in your and your rivals’ areas. Carefully select tiles as you replenish your hand to prepare for your next turn. The game ends once the last tile is placed. The player or team with the most points wins. The basic Land vs Sea game is simple enough for light / family gamers. After you have played the basic game, you can unlock more scoring options on the tiles to add surprising depth:1. Mountain & Coral scoring - score for cumulative chains of connected Mountain (Land) / Coral (Sea) sections.2. Caravan & Ship scoring - score for Caravans & Ships added to Trade Routes on the map, and score each Trade Route you have majority in (more Caravans scores the Trade Route for Land, more Ships for Sea) at the end of the game.3. Waypoints - bonus points you can place on the map to entice cooperation, or score for yourself. 2, 3 & 4 player modes:You can play head to head with 2 players, or with 4 players in teams using the basic rules and any of the additional scoring options. 4 player games use Waypoints to prevent alpha players directly instructing their partner. The challenging 3 player mode uses all of the additional scoring options in a more asymmetric game. The Cartographer scores by connecting Mountain and Coral sections, and all players compete for bonus points and Trade Route scoring.

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Go back in time to the prehistoric era of Kingdomino! Kingdomino Origins plays similarly to the original game but introduces new components for additional actions and new ways to score points. Regions in your territory will earn you points if they contain fire. Fire is either part of your terrains, or earned by adding dominoes with volcanoes. There are 3 game modes to play: the 1st one introduces fire and volcanoes, the 2nd mode uses wooden resources and the 3rd one features cavemen tokens. You will earn points by collecting resources and additional points when you have the majority of a type of resources. Then resources allow you to bring cavemen to your territory and each type of caveman has its own way to give you points based on their position.

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In the tile-laying game Castles of Mad King Ludwig, players are tasked with building an amazing, extravagant castle for King Ludwig II of Bavaria...one room at a time. You see, the King loves castles, having built Neuschwanstein (the castle that inspired the Disney theme park castles) and others, but now he's commissioned you to build the biggest, best castle ever — subject, of course, to his ever-changing whims. Each player acts as a building contractor who is adding rooms to the castle he's building while also selling his services to other players. In the game, each player starts with a simple foyer. One player takes on the role of the Master Builder, and that player sets prices for a set of rooms that can be purchased by the other players, with him getting to pick from the leftovers after the other players have paid him for their rooms. When a room is added to a castle, the player who built it gains castle points based on the size and type of room constructed, as well as bonus points based on the location of the room. When a room is completed, with all entranceways leading to other rooms in the castle, the player receives one of seven special rewards. After each purchasing round, a new player becomes the Master Builder who sets prices for a new set of rooms. After several rounds, the game ends, then additional points are awarded for achieving bonus goals, having the most popular rooms, and being the most responsive to the King's demands, which change each game. Whoever ends up with the most castle points wins.

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  Propolis is a worker-placement, engine-building, area-control, and tableau-building game for 1-4 players. Players take on the role of competing medieval bee colonies and take turns deploying worker bees to collect pollen, fortify their positions, and construct their hives to appease their queen and become the most glorious in the land! As bees compete over the realm's floral landscapes, they will be collecting pollen to create the propolis they need to build their hives. Attaining dominance in different realms provides additional glory and building materials. As hives expand, new structures provide additional resources, new scoring opportunities, and the prerequisites to construct a glorious palace for the queen. The player who dominates the realm and builds the most prestigious home wins. From the team that brought you Calico, Cascadia, and Point Salad, this small box worker placement game is the perfect introduction to new gamers, but has enough strategic depth to be challenging for everyone!

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Cascadia: Rolling is a series of puzzly flip-and-roll-and-write games featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest! Simultaneously roll dice, collect wildlife, and complete habitat cards to fill in different environments in Cascadia.Use special actions to manipulate your dice, and dynamic completion cards to unlock powerful combos! Play on one of four unique Environment Sheets, each with its own special gameplay elements. Create the most harmonious ecosystem to win!Cascadia: Rolling Rivers features unique content specific to the riverine environments of Cascadia!CONTENTS• 3 Deluxe Wooden Central Dice• 1 Unique Deluxe Wooden Special Central Die• 6 Deluxe Wooden Personal Dice• 30 Unique Habitat Cards• 4 Unique Beginner Completion Cards• 8 Unique Advanced Completion Cards• 64 Double-sided Environment Sheets• 64 Double-sided Tally Sheets• 4 Player Aid Cards• 1 Rulebook with Quick-reference Guide

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Cascadia: Rolling is a series of puzzly flip-and-roll-and-write games featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest! Simultaneously roll dice, collect wildlife, and complete habitat cards to fill in different environments in Cascadia.Use special actions to manipulate your dice, and dynamic completion cards to unlock powerful combos! Play on one of four unique Environment Sheets, each with its own special gameplay elements. Create the most harmonious ecosystem to win!Cascadia: Rolling Hills features unique content specific to the prairie environments of Cascadia!CONTENTS• 3 Deluxe Wooden Central Dice• 1 Unique Deluxe Wooden Special Central Die• 6 Deluxe Wooden Personal Dice• 30 Unique Habitat Cards• 4 Unique Beginner Completion Cards• 8 Unique Advanced Completion Cards• 64 Double-sided Environment Sheets• 64 Double-sided Tally Sheets• 4 Player Aid Cards• 1 Rulebook with Quick-reference Guide

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Explore a 60 minute game of Land vs Sea with 24 new tiles with new shapes, new artwork and 3 new scoring mechanisms. This expansion takes the modular Land vs Sea game from light to medium weight. Menhirs - Score the bonus points on tiles in 'ley lines' you form between distant Menhirs. Can you triangulate Menhirs to score more? Cities - Connect City tiles to land and sea areas to double the bonus point values in them, and the end game scoring value of trade routes connected to them. All the more reason to complete rivals' areas! Bandits and Pirates - Score by raiding trade routes (pirates raid ships bandits raid caravans) throughout the game. Do you lower your risk by making a variety of smaller trade routes, or push trade routes longer to increase their risk and rewards? Start scoring immediately with 1 of 4 large starting tile faces pre-filled with different scoring elements.

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Build up the most prestigious kingdom by claiming wheat fields, forests, lakes, grazing grounds, marshes, and mountains. Your knights will bring you riches in the form of coins — and if you make sure to expand the towns on your lands, you will make new buildings appear, giving you opportunities for new strategies. You may win the Queen's favors ... but always be aware of the dragon! Queendomino is a game completely independent from Kingdomino, while offering a choice of more complex challenges. Two to four players can play Queendomino independently, but also in connection with Kingdomino, allowing for games with 7x7 grids for four players, or for up to six players if you stick to 5x5 grids.

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Castles of Mad King Ludwig Expansions includes every previously released expansion for Castles of Mad King Ludwig and a new one, all compatible with the 2nd edition. Renovations: Rework your castle with special double-room tiles that are placed directly on top of existing rooms. Towers: Special rooms that provide an additional end game reward. Moats: Surround your castle for extra VPs for each of your rooms. Swan Tokens: Collect sets of swan tokens that can be converted to money or end game VPs. Secret Passages: Double connection bonuses and fit rooms into hard to reach spaces. Royal Decrees: Gain a unique, asymmetric player power at the start of the game. New Favors & Bonus Cards: Increase the variety of end game goals. 5th Player: Add a 5th player to your game.

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Dive into the mystery and excitement of "Perspectives: The Information-Sharing Investigation Game." Designed for players aged 12 and up, this cooperative board game challenges you to solve complex cases through a unique mechanic where each player holds crucial pieces of information.Each of the three included cases, set in vivid historical contexts, unfolds in four acts filled with intricate details and hidden secrets. As players, you'll need to communicate and collaborate without showing your hand, making for a suspense-filled gameplay experience."Perspectives" comes complete with 3 envelopes, 12 folders, 108 cards, and a tutorial, ensuring you have everything required to start your detective adventures right out of the box. Whether you're solving the riddles of the Roman Empire, uncovering the secrets behind a mysterious inheritance in the West, or exploring tales of deceit and redemption, this game promises a captivating experience.Perfect for game nights, educational environments, or as a unique gift, "Perspectives" fosters teamwork, sharpens deductive reasoning, and guarantees engaging fun for friends and family alike. Join forces to decode the mysteries and prove that sometimes, the right perspective is all you need to uncover the truth. INTERACTIVE DETECTIVE GAME: Engage in thrilling problem-solving as you and your team work to unravel three unique cases, each split into four intriguing acts. Perfect for 2-6 players aged 12 and up. DEEP STORYTELLING: Each case from "Perspectives" offers a rich narrative involving historical settings, where players cross-reference photographs, reports, and clues without sharing their individual documents. UNIQUE INFORMATION-SHARING MECHANIC: Players hold key information individually, fostering an immersive experience where communication and collaboration are key to piecing together the mystery. LEARN AND PLAY: Not only is "Perspectives" fun, but it also enhances critical thinking and teamwork skills, making it a great educational tool for families, friends, and educational settings. INCLUDES EVERYTHING YOU NEED: The game contains 3 envelopes, 12 folders, 108 cards, and a comprehensive tutorial, ensuring you have all you need for hours of investigative gameplay. Contents: 3 Envelopes 12 Folders 108 Cards 1 Tutorial

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  Winter is coming and the houses of Westeros are locked in a bitter battle. Experience a thrilling world of epic warfare with the newest Legendary, Game of Thrones. Play as one of the Great Houses, with your own Heroes to recruit and Masterminds to protect, in this fully competitive version of Legendary. No matter who you choose, be prepared! It will take more than brute strength to prevail. It will take skill, guile, and a steady hand if you are to sit on the Iron Throne!

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  What secrets are lurking in the shadows of King Ludwig's castle? Dozens of hidden swans are scattered throughout thirty new rooms in Castles of Mad King Ludwig: Secrets. Ludwig is particularly fond of these swans, which provide both much-needed cash at any time or can be collected for big bonuses at the end of the game. Surrounding and protecting your castle are new moats, making every room inside it even more valuable. The King has come up with more favors, including one for creating courtyards. Finally, secret passages enhance connections and muffle sound from activity rooms. Castles of Mad King Ludwig: Secrets is an expansion for Castles of Mad King Ludwig that will help you build even more amazing, crazy castles than ever before!  

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Oros is a game of strategy, where you will be faced with choices between moving the land itself, erupting volcanoes, building shrines, or repositioning your Followers on every turn. Shift the land itself, move and collide tiles, form and erupt volcanoes, worship to gain wisdom, journey around the ever-changing landscape, and build sacred monuments in the pursuit of wisdom and knowledge. ★ Customize your actions by moving your Followers between upgradeable action spaces on individual player mats.★ Manipulate a shared environment like a giant puzzle of plate tectonics. Shift, move, build up, erupt, and reposition the land by sliding and colliding tiles on the shared board.★ Every action is a puzzle of creative problem solving, abstract thinking, and constantly evolving strategy.Oros will appeal to players who enjoy competitive, highly strategic Euro-style games, thematic games, and games with unique mechanics.

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Twisted Trumpets is a lively, competitive tile-laying game where you vie for the prestigious title of “Royal Bugler” by crafting the most whimsical trumpet in the kingdom!   On your turn, choose from three actions: draw a basic pipe tile from the face-down stack, trade for face-up premium tiles, or lay tiles on your player board to build your trumpet. As you go, you’ll create a fantastical, Dr. Seuss-like horn that twists and turns in all directions. Adorn your trumpet with flags, birds, and musical notes to meet various scoring criteria.   Additionally, you’ll race to complete any of the three public Royal Decrees before your rivals to earn extra points. Collect private Queen’s Plans cards, which challenge you to build your trumpet in specific ways by the end of the game to score additional points.   As you build your trumpet, you’ll trigger special bonus actions by covering “King’s Favor” scrolls on your player board. These scrolls let you choose one of these powerful bonuses: take a free premium tile, perform two additional actions, or gain an extra Queen’s Plans card. Each time you trigger the same favor, it becomes less powerful and eventually unavailable, so timing is everything!   The game ends when a player completely fills all but three squares on their player board. You’ll finish that round, then all players take one final turn. Everyone tallies their scores based on the length of completed pipes, sets of flags, notes surrounding birds, public objectives, and private goals. The player with the most points wins and becomes the new Royal Bugler!

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  The use of various symbols and devices to signify individuals and groups dates to the age of antiquity. Warriors often decorated their shields with patterns and mythological creatures. Heraldry refers to the design, display and study of armorial bearings, a shield used to identify a person or family. The concepts and systems of regular heraldic designs were developed by heraldic officers between 1000 AD and 1300 AD during a period known as the High Middle Ages. Originally conceived to assist with identification in battle, the beauty and intricacy of various heraldic designs meant that they survived the abandonment of armor on the battlefield and preserved the honor of the family line. To this day, we still see their use by individuals, organizations, corporations, towns, cities, and regions. To blazon arms means to describe them in the language of Heraldry, which has its own vocabulary, syntax and grammar based strongly on an anglicized version of Norman French. A game of Blazon allows you to act as a herald, designing your own heraldic shield by acquiring elements, placing them on your Shield board, and earning distinctions through careful choices. ObjectivePlayers score Prestige by placing Element cards on their Shield board. Players can score bonus Prestige by earning distinctions for their shields. The player with the most Prestige at the end of the game wins and is crowned the King of Arms. Playing BlazonBlazon is played in sequential turns. On your turn, you must take either an Acquire action OR a Blazon action. If performing the Acquire action, you may draw two Element cards from either the Tincture deck, Device deck, or one from each. You may keep both of these cards or exchange one (or both) for cards from the face-up display. Performing the Blazon action allows you to place Element cards from your hand onto your Shield board. You choose which card to place, ensuring that you meet the matching Device or Tincture requirement on your Shield board. To place a card, you must discard any number of cards from your hand, the combined Prestige Value of which equals or exceeds the Prestige Value of the Element card that you wish to place on your Shield board. Herald ActionsOnce per turn, at any time during your turn, regardless of which action was taken, you may discard one of your Herald tokens to take any one of the following Herald actions: Discard and refresh the display, Take any single card from the display, Place an Element card of any value on your shield for the cost of 1, or Take the top card from the Tincture or Device discard pile. End of GameThe end game is triggered immediately when any one of the following happen:• A player lands on or passes 50 Prestige on their Prestige track.• A player fills every space on their Shield board.• A player claims their final Distinction award.

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Build sky scrapers and develop transport in the city that never sleeps. A game of New York City is played over 5 game rounds. First, players each draw 3 cards from the deck. Then deal out cards in sets of two cards equal to two times the number of players plus one additional. In turn order, players draft a pair of cards until they have a total of 7 cards in hand. Next comes the bidding round, where in turn order players will play cards to bid to determine the strength of their action, with the player who bids the highest getting a bonus. In order, the actions are: Press: Advance on the Press track to determine player and tie-breaking order. Money: Receive money to be used for special actions. Characters: Take a character with a special ability or scoring up to the value of cards played. Building plans: Take a number of skyscrapers from the general supply. Prestige: Receive points equal to your bidding value. I addition, the first and second place bidder gets to increase the value of a borough. Skyscrapers: Players place skyscrapers from their board into borough currently being visited by the mayor. The game is played over five rounds (there are six boroughs, one is randomly not visited each game). Each game, the value of boroughs is randomly assigned, and the player with the most skyscrapers in a a borough receives full value, and the next player receiving half, and so on. There is also a bonus for building in every borough. Points are also awarded for certain characters, and the player with the most points is the winner. Based on Rialto, a previously designed game by Stefan Feld.

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