Board Games | Games with Solo Mode

  Doppelt so clever follows the model of 2018's Ganz schön clever. Each turn the active player rolls six dice, chooses one of them to mark off a space on their scoring grid, places any dice with lower numbers aside, then re-rolls any remaining dice. The white die is a joker and can be used as any one of the other five colors. After the active player chooses at most three dice, then the other players each choose one of the set-aside dice for use on their scoring sheet. Doppelt so clever has five new dice-marking challenges and a new action beyond the re-roll and "use one more die" actions of the earlier game.

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Clever 4Ever features the same gameplay as Ganz schön clever, Doppelt so clever and Clever hoch drei, but with new categories in which to score. Your goal: Choose dice, then place the numbers into the matching colored area, put together tricky chain-scoring opportunities, and rack up the points. The dice you don't use are as important as what you do because every die that's smaller than the chosen one can be used by the other players, keeping everyone in the game at all times.

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Dice Kingdoms of Valeria is a Roll & Write game. Will you hire citizens to patronize the guilds and fill up your treasury so that you can gain scoring options? Will you slay monsters for glory and rewards?

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  Far to the north, in a remote winter land, rivers are frozen most of the year. When the villages along the riverside eventually are accessible, a small river cruise company offers exotic tours like polar bear safaris, reindeer trips, ice fishing, and more. Lucky tourists may even get a chance to see the northern lights. You work as a tour guide trying to attract tourists to your guide boats for spectacular excursions. Riverside is a different kind of roll-and-write game: The game comes with a modular game board, which composes the route for the game. On a river cruise boat, everyone follows the same route, but you can take your tourists on different tours. You may plan ahead, but beware, the dice may force you to change your plans. You start each round by rolling dice into a common pool. Simultaneously, each player chooses one die of one specific color (without physically taking it) and fill seats on the matching guiding boat on their own player sheet. Whenever they have completed a row of seats, they have sold a group ticket of the corresponding color (excursion). The longer the row, the more points they get. Additionally, this ticket is valid for the remainder of the game: Every time they go on an excursion in a village of this color, they take this group with them to earn even more points. The player with the most points wins the game. Each dice color represents tourists with a preference for one specific type of excursion. The transparent green die is "wild" and represents the northern lights, something everyone wants to see. Riverside offers tough decision-making within a short playing time: Some rows are short with low points and bonuses, while other rows are long with higher points and bonuses. Which one do you start to fill? Within each guide boat, you need to score higher and higher, so taking too many tourists on your first excursions could be fateful. Players are rewarded if they manage to please all five kinds of tourists, so maybe you need to score a new color instead of scoring really high in another color? Higher dice represent tourists who are freezing and cost fire symbols to get. Note that the "wild" green die always costs fire symbols to get! You have a limited number of fire symbols to use, so when will be the right time to use them?

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Eagle-Gryphon Games is proud to present Matt Leacock's Roll Through the Ages: The Iron Age by Tom Lehmann, the much-anticipated sequel to Matt Leacock's best-selling and highly-awarded Roll Through the Ages: The Bronze Age. Matt is also the designer of the terrific titles Pandemic and Forbidden Island, while Tom has been busy designing such notable titles as Race for the Galaxy and Pandemic: On the Brink. It's now the Iron Age and you are still rolling! Do you build provinces, raise armies, and conquer barbarians or build ports and ships to gain trade goods? Explore the strategies of Greece, Phoenicia, and Rome as you erect monuments, fend off disasters, and strive to feed your people. Roll Through the Ages: the Iron Age gives players different ways to build their empires: the Trade and Naval strategies of the Phoenicians, the conquests of Alexander the Great, and the engineering prowess and gradual absorption of new provinces by the Roman Republic. Grab those dice—including the Fate die—and prepare to build the greatest empire as you continue to Roll through the Ages!

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MIDNIGHT: TIME OF THE MURDER! WELCOME TO A STORY-BASED CRIME INVESTIGATION GAME ON A CRUISE SHIP! Aboard the Majestic, the lifeless body of a passenger has been found in their luxury suite... You are attending a conference on board with other private detectives, and place a wager to reconstruct the circumstances of the alleged crime before the ship arrives at the port! WHO DID IT? WHAT WAS THEIR MOTIVE? WHAT WAS THEIR MODUS OPERANDI?DISCOVER THE STORY PIECE BY PIECE AND TRY TO UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPENED... In each of the 27 unique cases, you can interrogate 12 suspects on 3 conversation topics and search for clues at 24 locations on various decks. With 60 possible paths to follow in each case, you won’t have time to explore them all... Be efficient in your investigations and avoid false paths! 3 POSSIBLE GAME MODES: COMPETITIVE, COOPERATIVE, OR SOLO!

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Football Highlights: The Dice Game is a standalone game or can be used to expand your copy of Baseball Highlights: The Dice Game, it will fit in the same box. It takes all the excitement of Football Highlights: 2052 and turns it into a thrilling dice game! Score the most points by drafting the best dice and stringing together powerful combos! Use run and pass plays to break into the end zone for a touchdown or kick a quick field goal to advance your score! The rolls of the dice make each round a whole new ball game. Everyone gets to play even when it’s not their turn, so the strategic thinking never ends! Dust off your helmet and put on your cleats – it’s time for FOOTBALL!

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The enchanted forest of the kodama is flourishing. But with so much growth, the ancient paths to the sanctuaries within have become overgrown and lost. Now the forest guardians call upon you, their loyal kodama, to restore these paths. Help your kodama build these paths, gather offerings for the guardians, and win their favor. Kokoro is an exciting family game that can be played with up to eight players! Each player has a forest map to draw their paths and turns are simultaneous so the game plays quickly. Connecting your sanctuaries to offerings will gain you favor. Choose wisely because you never know exactly when the sanctuary will score. And you shouldn't be too greedy, if a sanctuary is not connected to more offerings than your previous sanctuary, you lose points!  

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  Motor City is a strategic roll-and-write game about running an auto plant in the heyday of Detroit. In Motor City, you have two player sheets, each with multiple areas. These areas are represented by tracks that you will mark off as you make progress. Many of the tracks are interconnected with other elements in the game, giving you bonuses along the way and opportunities to unlock more points. Advancing on all of these tracks offers various amounts of points, advancements, and bonuses. The game lasts eight rounds. Each round, roll colored dice based on the number of players, then place them on spaces on the blueprint table based on value and color. Each player drafts one die and uses it. Once everyone has drafted a die twice, all players get to use the remaining die on the blueprint table. After eight rounds, you score points for your progress in engineering, assembly, testing, and more. Whoever has the most points wins. Motor City has a solo mode in which you try to top your own score against an auditor that drafts dice and blocks areas of your sheet. Its difficulty can easily be adjusted by changing the colors of dice during setup, with no added rules. Motor City is game 3 of the Motor City Gameworks Loaded Roll and Write series. Game 1: Fleet: The Dice GameGame 2: Three SistersGame 3: Motor City Each series framework includes game tweaks, new Threats, and an introductory Mystery to get you started. Or take inspiration from your own sources and use the advice inside to build your own world!THE CODEX OF WORLDS. THE MOVES ARE BIGGER, THE STAKES ARE HIGHER, AND THE WORLD GETS WEIRDER!

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  Number Drop is a Tetris-style roll-and-write game played with shapes and numbers. Players use 4 number dice and 1 shape die to determine the way they must fill in their grid, by creating the shape with the numbers. Players also have 5 block tiles they can use to block the other players' grid. In this game, you must drop shapes in the right places to create combinations of identical or consecutive numbers on your grid. You aim at being the most efficient and being able drop penalties onto your opponents !As soon as a player reaches the Game Over line, the game ends and whoever has the most points is the winner. Will you reach the ultimate score of 100 ?

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Brikks can be viewed as tabletop Tetris, with each player trying to place falling blocks into their grid to score the most points. To start the game, each player draws a different quadromino at the bottom of their individual game sheet. On a turn, the active player rolls two dice — a colored d6 and a numbered d4 — then optionally rolls both dice again. The two dice determine which specific quadromino — that is, which colored shape and in which orientation — all players must "drop" into their grid. To represent this, you draw an outline of the block at the bottom of your sheet as if you had dropped it in from the top, then X out the spaces covered by the quadromino. If you cover a circle on the grid that's the same color as the quadromino just placed there, you collect two energy points. By spending one energy point on a turn, you can possibly "rotate" the quadromino to be placed depending on what dice were rolled; by spending five energy points, you can place exactly the quadromino you want, ignoring the result of the dice. As you collect energy, you might cover an X on the energy chart; if you do, you track these Xs on a separate "extra point" bar, with the points escalating for each X you collect. If you complete 2-4 lines through the placement of a single quadromino, you collect an additional 1-4 Xs for this extra point bar. Each player has three bombs they can spend to blow up a block instead of placing it, but by doing so you give up endgame points. As soon as you can no longer place a quadromino in your grid, your game is over. Once everyone has filled their grid to the top, tally your points. In addition to the extra points bar and any bombs unused, you score 1-5 points for each horizontal line that contains 8-10 Xs, with these line points doubling, or even quadrupling, as you go higher in the grid. Whoever scores the most points wins! "Brikks" also contains rules for a duel mode and a solitaire mode.  

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Welcome back to the Istanbul Bazaar! Once again, players take on the role of shrewd merchants whose goal is to gather goods and lira, then trade them for the precious rubies needed to win. In Istanbul: Choose & Write, instead of a common set of locations in the middle of the table, each player has a bazaar in front of them as a game plan, a personal tracking sheet where players will mark their choices as they play. On their turn, players must choose to play either a Location card or a Guild card. Location cards will allow all merchants to perform the action of the specified location, or the action of an adjacent space on their sheet. If a player would rather prevent others from taking this follow action, they can instead play a Guild card, which is expensive but triggers powerful effects. Fans of the Istanbul game series will recognize familiar locations in Istanbul: Choose & Write, such as the Large Market and the Gemstone Dealer. However, thanks to the innovative choose-and-write mechanism, this visit to the bazaar will challenge players in a completely new way. Contents• 1 Pad with 80 Game Plan sheets• 40 Location cards• 20 Ruby cards• 16 Guild cards• 16 Goods cards• 8 Caravan cards• 2 Sultan Palace cards• 1 Active Player card• 5 pencils• 2 rulebooks (German, English)

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  Embark on a heroic journey as you join the Heroes Guild, leading you on an epic adventure deep into Ulos' past! Two thousand years before the events of Roll Player Adventures, Queen Gimnax establishes the nation of Nalos to unify Ulos under a single banner. Others band together, forming the Dragul Alliance to resist the Gnomish queen. Meanwhile, Ulos’ greatest inventor, Gulpax the Crafter, builds a mysterious device of tremendous power deep within the Frozen Expanse. The peace enjoyed across Ulos threatens to come undone. With war on the horizon, it’s a dangerous time to be a hero. You’ll make allies and enemies, lend your unique skills to unravel the crafter’s mystery, and decide the fate of Ulos. Who will gain the upper hand in the upcoming great war? Roll Player Adventures: Gulpax’s Secret is a new seven-adventure campaign for the critically-acclaimed, co-operative storybook board game for 1-4 players. Players take on the role of fantasy heroes to face new challenges, explore new environments, meet new characters in the World of Ulos, and make meaningful decisions that change the story. Gulpax’s Secret requires the Roll Player Adventures base game to play. Embark on a heroic journey with your hero! Pick from one of eighteen pre-generated characters or a host of additional characters - either from thirty-six pre-generated characters from Adventures or any completed character from Roll Player.

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Throughout your journey to defend the kingdom of Nalos and uncover a mystery in Roll Player Adventures, your characters become aware of Nefras, the snake-faced goddess of judgement. Nefras assesses the hearts of your heroes, empowers them with appropriate gifts, and will ultimately judge each character based on the choices they make. Uncover your backstory and choose your alignment! Roll Player Adventures: Nefras’s Judgement features 41 backstory quests integrated into the core narrative of Roll Player Adventures, one for each backstory card in Roll Player. Each player will face unique encounters across multiple adventure books and make choices that adjust their alignment and provide different story arcs. The expansion includes a massive backstory codex (250+ pages) and 65 rare cards, among other components. Nefras’s Judgement requires the Roll Player Adventures base game to play. If you are importing a character from Roll Player to your Adventures campaign, this expansion will add new elements related to your backstory and alignment. Nefras's Judgement can also be used with any of the 36 pre-generated characters included in Roll Player Adventures, who each have a unique backstory.

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