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Legends of the Deep brings cultural legends, high fantasy, and mythologies from around the globe into the Oceans ecosystem.Oceans is a journey from the known world into the unknown, where you discover powerful traits that hardly seem possible in the realm of biology. With Legends of the Deep, you will discover things beyond the world of science!Game PlayAt the beginning of the game, deal four Legend cards to each player. Choose one of them, and pass the rest to the player on your left. Continue drafting until everyone has four Legend cards.During your Play Cards phase, you may play one Legend card in addition to your normal card play. Legend cards have game-changing abilities with global effects.To replace an Legend card with a new one, subtract the cost of the old Legend card from the cost of the a new Legend card.

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Endless Winter: Paleoamericans takes place in North America, around 10,000 BCE. Players guide the development of their tribes across several generations—from nomadic hunter-gatherers to prosperous tribal societies. Over the course of the game, tribes migrate and settle new lands, establish cultural traditions, hunt paleolithic megafauna, and build everlasting megalithic structures. Endless Winter is a euro-style game that combines worker placement and deck building in an innovative way. Each round, players send their tribe members to various action spaces, and pay for the actions by playing cards and spending resources. Tribe cards grant additional labor, while Culture cards provide a variety of unique effects. As an alternative, cards can be saved for an end-of-round Eclipse phase, where they are simultaneously revealed to determine the new player order, and trigger various bonus actions. The game features a novel blend of interwoven systems and mechanisms, such as multi-use cards, area influence, tile placement, and set collection. Plus, there are many viable paths to victory. After four brisk rounds, scores are tallied, and the tribe with the most points wins!

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The "Stone Age" times were hard indeed. In their roles as hunters, collectors, farmers, and tool makers, our ancestors worked with their legs and backs straining against wooden plows in the stony earth. Of course, progress did not stop with the wooden plow. People always searched for better tools and more productive plants to make their work more effective. In Stone Age, the players live in this time, just as our ancestors did. They collect wood, break stone and wash their gold from the river. They trade freely, expand their village and so achieve new levels of civilization. With a balance of luck and planning, the players compete for food in this pre-historic time. Players use up to ten tribe members each in three phases. In the first phase, players place their men in regions of the board that they think will benefit them, including the hunt, the trading center, or the quarry. In the second phase, the starting player activates each of their staffed areas in whatever sequence they choose, followed in turn by the other players. In the third phase, players must have enough food available to feed their populations, or they face losing resources or points.

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Evolution is an award-winning board game where 2 – 6 players adapt species in an ever-changing ecosystem with hungry predators and limited resources. Traits like Hard Shell and Horns will protect your species from Carnivores, while a Long Neck will help them get food that others cannot reach.With over 12,000 different species to create, every game becomes a different adventure. So gather your friends and see who can best adapt their species to eat, multiply and thrive!Evolution has been used in the evolutionary biology department at the University of Oxford and featured in the world's leading scientific journal, Nature. "The theme of evolution is not just tacked on: it drives play." - NatureIncludes: 129 Trait Cards (17 Carnivore Trait Cards, 7 of Each Other Trait Card), 20 Species Boards, 40 Wooden Markers, 144 Food Tokens, 12 Ten Value Food Tokens, 1 Watering Hole Board, 6 Food Screens, 1 Dino Starter Token , 2 Player Aids, 1 Rulebook

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Evolution: CLIMATE is a stand-alone game for 2 - 6 players in the best-selling Evolution game line.In Evolution: CLIMATE, players adapt their species in a dynamic ecosystem where food is scarce, predators lurk, and the climate can swing between scorching hot and icy cold. Traits like a Hard Shell and Horns can protect your species from Carnivores while a Long Neck will help them get food that others cannot reach. Evolving a coat of Heavy Fur will protect your species from the cold, while being Nocturnal or Burrowing will provide protection from the cruel desert sun. With over 200,000 ways to adapt your species, every game of Evolution: Climate unfolds in a beautifully unique way.Evolution is so vivid and true-to-life that it is used in classrooms around the world and was featured in the world's leading scientific journal, Nature: “Evolution features sophisticated biology. Traits can be put together in a dizzying array of combinations, so each game can be very different. The theme of evolution is not just tacked on: it drives play.”Includes: 177 Trait Cards, 30 Event Cards, 240 Food Tokens, 20 Species Boards, 40 Wooden Cubes, 6 Food Token Bags, 1 Climate Board, 1 Climate Marker, 1 Dino Starter Token, 1 Rule Book, and 2 Player AidsAges: 12+ | Players: 2-6

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Cave Paintings is an expansion for Endless Winter: Paleoamericans. Each player gets a dry-erase player board which they can connect dots and draw lines on to unlock powerful one-time bonus actions, ongoing Eclipse phase benefits, and end-game scoring possibilities.

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