Puzzles

Cascadia is a puzzly tile-laying and token-drafting game featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest. In the game, you take turns building out your own terrain area and populating it with wildlife. You start with three hexagonal habitat tiles (with the five types of habitat in the game), and on a turn you choose a new habitat tile that's paired with a wildlife token, then place that tile next to your other ones and place the wildlife token on an appropriate habitat. (Each tile depicts 1-3 types of wildlife from the five types in the game, and you can place at most one tile on a habitat.) Four tiles are on display, with each tile being paired at random with a wildlife token, so you must make the best of what's available — unless you have a nature token to spend so that you can pick your choice of each item. Ideally you can place habitat tiles to create matching terrain that reduces fragmentation and creates wildlife corridors, mostly because you score for the largest area of each type of habitat at game's end, with a bonus if your group is larger than each other player's. At the same time, you want to place wildlife tokens so that you can maximize the number of points scored by them, with the wildlife goals being determined at random by one of the four scoring cards for each type of wildlife. Maybe hawks want to be separate from other hawks, while foxes want lots of different animals surrounding them and bears want to be in pairs. Can you make it happen?

Read more less

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

Read more less

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

Read more less

It’s up to you to design the best city block using patterns from the exciting Cube Shaker. You’ll place a mix of building tiles to help grow the thriving city. The best design wins the game! Are YOU ready to Shake That City? Shake That City is played over 15 rounds. Each round, the active player will shake the Cube Shaker and press the Slider to drop 9 cubes in a 3 x 3 pattern. That player will pick one of the building colors available from the pattern and place the corresponding Building Tile(s) onto their player board. The other players follow suit, picking any building color except the one that the active player picked. At the end of the game, players will earn victory points for tile placement combinations and for the completed Bonus Point Tiles around the edge of their board.CONTENTS• Rulebook• 4 Player Boards• 1 Cube Shaker• 1 Round Tracker Board• 1 Round Tracker Disk• 8 Red Home Cubes, 7 Blue Shop Cubes, 6 Black Factory Cubes, 6 Green Park Cubes, 5 Gray Cubes• 40 Home Tiles, 40 Shop Tiles, 40 Factory Tiles, 40 Park Tiles, 40 Road Tiles• 28 Bonus Point Tiles• 16 Construction Variant Tiles• 27 Mini Building Tiles

Read more less

Calico is a puzzly tile-laying game of quilts and cats. In Calico, players compete to sew the coziest quilt as they collect and place patches of different colors and patterns. Each quilt has a particular pattern that must be followed, and players are also trying to create color and pattern combinations that are not only aesthetically pleasing, but also able to attract the cuddliest cats! Turns are simple. Select a single patch tile from your hand and sew it into your quilt, then draw another patch into your hand from the three available. If you are able to create a color group, you may sew a button onto your quilt. If you are able to create a pattern combination that is attractive to any of the cats, it will come over and curl up on your quilt! At the end of the game, you score points for buttons, cats, and how well you were able to complete your unique quilt pattern.

Read more less

In Cascadia: Landmarks expansion, players create sprawling habitats and place beautiful natural landmarks within them. Landmarks give each environment its own look and feel, while also providing dynamic endgame scoring bonuses! In addition to the Landmarks module, this expansion includes more unique wildlife scoring cards and habitat tiles to add variety and enough components to play Cascadia with 5-6 players.

Read more less