Architects of the West Kingdom is set at the end of the Carolingian Empire, circa 850 AD. As royal architects, players compete to impress their King and maintain their noble status by constructing various landmarks throughout his newly appointed domain. Players will need to collect raw materials, hire apprentices and keep a watchful eye on their workforce. These are treacherous times. Rival architects will stop at nothing to slow your progress. Will you remain virtuous, or be found in the company of thieves and black marketeers? The aim of Architects of the West Kingdom is to be the player with the most Victory Points (VP) at the game’s end. Points are gained by constructing various Buildings and advancing work on the Archbishop’s Cathedral. Throughout the game, players will need to make a lot of moral decisions. However, only at the game’s end will their virtue be judged. A few underhanded deals here and there might not seem like much, but fall too far and you will be punished. The game ends once a set number of constructions have been completed. Features: West Kingdom adventure with beautiful artwork and great quality components. Become an ambitious royal architect to impress the king by building notable landmarks in the kingdom First stand-alone game in the West Kingdom Trilogy Exciting worker-placement strategy board game for 1-5 players, ages 12 and up As a royal architect of the Carolingian Empire, you must impress their King and maintain your noble status. Construct various landmarks throughout his newly appointed domain and remain virtuous, or be found in the company of thieves and black marketeers! From the designer of Raiders of the North Sea!

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In Architects of the West Kingdom: Age of Artisans, journeymen have returned to the city as master craftsmen, equipped with knowledge of new crafts and tools. The Guildhall has never been so busy! While some apprentices spend time learning new skills, others adorn the city’s buildings with everything from golden tapestries, to stained glass windows. But don’t let the shimmer of lights and fancy wares deceive you. For not all that glitters is gold. In addition to including components for an extra player, Age of Artisans adds the new Craft Cards, a dual-layered Guildhall Board, two new Player Boards and a variety of new Apprentices and Buildings. Requires Architects of the West Kingdom to play.  Features: Adds components for an additional player!  Includes new Craft Cards and a dual-layered Guild Board Expands the game with two new player boards and  a variety of new Apprentices and Buildings.  Expansion for the award-winning Architects of the West Kingdom Contents 12 Apprentice Cards 12 Building Cards 24 Craft Cards 1 Black Market Card 2 Player Boards 6 Player Aids 20 Orange Workers 2 Player Markers 1 Guildhall Board 6 Artisans 1 Score Pad 1 Illustrated Rulebook

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  Three Incredible Games, One Century Big Box! The groundbreaking trilogy of Emerson Matsuuchi returns in a big box format, containing all three original games in one convenient place. Each game stands alone, but you can mix and match the games for greater challenges! The Century Collection takes you on a global journey, exploring unique trading methods while traveling to find the perfect mix of spices.  The brilliance of the design of this trilogy is still such an incredible accomplishment to this day!

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A temple in honor of the gods has just been erected in the heart of an Aztec city. The walls inside this place of worship are to be decorated with paintings of feathered snakes to pay tribute to the gods. An election will be held to determine who is the empire’s most celebrated Cóatl painter so that they may have the honor of decorating the temple walls. Can you prove your worth? In Cóatl The Card Game, players try to paint the most beautiful and valuable serpent they can. The serpent (or Cóatl) is made up of a Head, a Tail and 8 Body cards. Cóatl The Card Game also has a solo mode and includes the Golden Feathers expansion, which is compatible with the Cóatl base game!

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In Corrosion, each of you manages a factory and deploys engineers to build up diversified scoring and production engines. In the steam-filled air, however, your biggest enemy is time because most machines and gears rust away quickly, so you are well advised to also produce chrome gears and invest in rustproof and powerful chrome machines. On your turn, you can either play an engineer card or turn the corrosion wheel of your factory: Playing engineers mostly gains you new machines and qualified engineers. Other players can copy your engineer's action by playing an engineer of the same suit but a higher grade. Turning your corrosion wheel puts your machines to work and returns engineers to your hand, but also causes old gears and machines to rust. To be successful, you must cleverly co-ordinate your engineers and corrosion wheel and smoothly shift from one efficient engine to the next. The game end is triggered once the special point supply or the award supply run out. Then, whoever was able to score the most points with their machines and awards wins. AWARDS & HONORS 2021 Cardboard Republic Tactician Laurel Nominee

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  You are a lead server at the Cryptid Cafe, a Sasquatch-owned restaurant packed with legendary creatures from all over the world. Gather food. Fill orders. Earn the most tips and be crowned, dare we say, the most "legendary" server. Strategically dispatch your team of Sasquatch servers to the different food stations, gathering the much-needed items to complete your customers' orders. As you serve the customers they will give you tips based on their satisfaction level. However, with each passing round, the Cryptids get more and more frustrated waiting for their food and will leave smaller tips. Eventually, they’ll leave the restaurant if they are not served fast enough. If that happens, plan on giving the owner some of your tips at the end of the night, he doesn't like to lose customers. Sounds simple, right? Not so fast, because you’re not the only lead server working tonight. You'll be competing with other players who are trying to serve their customers as well. Spaces are limited. Food stations are breaking. The orders are piling up. Customers are getting angry! It may be wise to share some of your tips with the chef, so you get the food you need first. If all goes well, at the end of the night you'll be the player crowned the most legendary server.

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When all you can identify in the horizon for many long days is the line that detaches the sea from the sky, the glimpse of a distant shore appearing before you will make you shiver at the understanding that the adventure is about to begin. You find yourself astonished, landing on the shore that will be the origin of an extensive exploration through the Galapagos, a magic place of inconceivable beauty and endless biodiversity. There, you will gather repertoires and expand your knowledge of the natural sciences. Your eyes will learn how to detect the hidden species in the tropical forest, gazing at the countless colors and textures of nature. After inspiring hours spent studying and getting to enlightening conclusions, you will rest under a sparkling sky, admiring the stunning complexity of the animal realm. Darwin's Journey is a worker-placement Eurogame in which players recall Charles Darwin's memories of his adventure through the Galapagos islands, which contributed to the development of his theory of evolution. With the game's innovative worker progression system, each worker will have to study the disciplines that are a prerequisite to perform several actions in the game, such as exploration, correspondence, gathering, and dispatch of repertoires found on the island to museums in order to contribute to the human knowledge of biology. The game lasts five rounds, and thanks to several short- and long-term objectives, every action you take will grant victory points in different ways.

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The Fireland Expansion includes a new map and alternative board layout with new mechanisms and additional content. It contains: 4 Wooden ships 4 Wooden explorers 4 coloured wooden discs 4 Special Action tiles 2 Player Objective tiles 2 Crew Cards 21 Adventure Cards (land and ocean) 20 wooden Adventure tokens 4 Adventure Player Aid cards 6 Observation score tokens 6 Time tiles 8 cardboard Time seals

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  As you know it’s been over 150 years since the inventor of the Perpetual Steam Engine (or PSE), Louise Delargue, wrote her last diary entry before her disappearance. That someone could create an invention to seemingly power cities and other technologies forever, without publishing any findings, remains the biggest scientific folly in the era of PSE. We took the crystals for granted. The supply seemed endless and their energy seemed unending, but we underestimated the growth of populations and the greed for crystal power. As PSE’s across the world try to keep up with the demand, the crystals are breaking. In Delta, players set out on an adventure through the Delta region of Kamargo, to try and gather more information about the crystals that power up the PSEs. as players observe the mechanimals such as the tortoise, flamingo, horses, and bulls. Send your crew to the different sections of the board to try and maximize your actions, and later on add new crew members to your team and even set out on special missions. Manage your hand well, gather enough knowledge, and emerge as the victor in this exciting steampunk adventure.

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The restaurant industry in Paris is buzzing after the inauguration of a new pedestrian square in a very popular district for Parisians and tourists from all around the globe. It is a golden opportunity for you, restaurant owners, to open one of the addresses that will contribute to the culinary diversity and the reputation of the French capital. However, there isn’t space for everyone and your opponents could throw a wrench in your gears!

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  DOM PIERRE is a robust euro-game merging worker-placement and action-retrieval mechanics. The setting is 17TH century France, where players produce and sell extraordinary sparkling wines to earn Prestige for your vintages.★ Strategic euro-game with deluxe upgrades available★ Manage your maison to create and sell the best vintage★ Unique action table mechanic rewards inciteful planning★ Huge replay value due to variety of goal cards★ The latest design by the team of Rôla & Costa

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Globetrotting is a game about traveling the world. Players plan three epic trips to take over the next year. It’ll take careful planning to achieve all your travel goals while staying under budget.Each round, three Destination cards are revealed.  Each player simultaneously selects one Destination and adds it to one of their three trips by drawing the travel route on their own globe. The globe stands have a built-in circular ruler to measure the distance (and cost) of each flight. The further you fly, the more expensive the trip.  Score by accomplishing objectives on your Bucket List cards, by coordinating plans with your neighbors to meet up in the same place at the same time, and by racing to complete the Global Objectives.

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The Industrial Age is starting to boom. You are in need of more workers for your factories, and you also need more workers to build railroad tracks to expand your railway network. This, in turn, will enable you to deliver the goods from your factories to cities with high demand — but be sure to earmark goods for fulfilling profitable public contracts because when the connection to Trieste is made, your net worth is all that matters. Imperial Steam is a highly strategic yet accessible economic and logistics game that sees you making difficult decisions as you manage your business's operations while navigating fierce competition to ensure your victory!

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Klondike Rush is a bidding/stock game in a gold rush setting in which players build mines along different routes. Players also get a chance to score a big reward if they hunt down a wild monster that's been scaring the miners...

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 After an arduous journey through the otherworldly land of Valanyr, your caravan finally arrives at Camp Trinity — a young, thriving settlement built atop a ruined kingdom once decimated by an ancient cataclysm. Like many here, you were previously a mage of low renown now seeking a better fortune. The cataclysm altered Valanyr's Elan to be fertile but mercurial, rendering the rules of spellcasting different from whence you came. Here, the usually separate elements of nature fuse readily, allowing for new and unknown spells to be created. You'll have to start from scratch, but unknown means new discoveries to be made, and a thriving settlement means opportunity... Mercurial is an card & dice-manipulation game themed on spellcrafting with combo & engine-building mechanics. Learn magical Alteration techniques to control the chaos of your elemental dice, and use these elements to combine lesser magicks into new and unknown spells. Your combined spells can either inflict ruin, restore life, or something more — use them to perform heroic deeds, ranging from helping your allies defeat dangerous beasts, to finding a path for stranded travellers lost in the strange land of Valanyr. In Mercurial, each player has varying capabilities and starting resources, with their differences offering a unique path to power with every journey. Delve into the fantastic world of Mercurial, and discover a new age of spellcrafting.

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The new moon is a symbol for a new beginning, the perfect time to start something new and to plan your future — and that is what Nova Luna (lat. for new moon) is all about. In each round of this abstract tile-laying game, you have to plan your future anew, developing a new strategy to cope with what the moon wheel has to offer you. On each turn, you have to decide which new tile from the moon wheel to place in front of you. Every new tile brings a new task you have to fulfill. In order to do so, you need to place tiles of the correct color adjacent to the task you want to complete, but these of course again bring you new tasks. Each time a task is solved, you may place one of your markers on it. So decide wisely and be the first one to place all your markers.

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In Pioneer Rails, you represent a railroad owner who has seen an opportunity to expand your empire across the new lands of the frontier. You'll compete against other railroad owners to plan your railway in the best way possible to connect establishments to the railroad and satisfy the demands of the locals. In this flip-and-write game, you use poker cards to extend your railway tracks and build a poker hand at the same time. Each turn, you choose one of the revealed poker cards. The suit of the card helps you extend your railway, connecting you to new towns and surrounding features. When you connect to a town, you gain the ability to do a one-time bonus. When you surround a feature with your tracks, you activate it for endgame scoring. The value of the card is added to your poker hand, for which you'll score additional points at the end of the round. Three common goals are also in play each game, giving you incentives to build in different directions. The mechanism of surrounding features to activate them gives Pioneer Rails a satisfying "puzzley" feel to the game.

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The printing press is a remarkable invention that demands exceptional skill to operate with finesse. In the game "Printing Press," your objective is to impeccably fulfill customer orders and bring renown to your printing workshop. The gameplay spans three rounds, during which you'll strategically select plates, frames, and printing cards to meticulously execute each customer's request. The more faithfully you carry out your entrusted tasks, the greater the acclaim you'll earn. After three rounds, the player with the highest accumulation of fame points emerges as the victor. Get ready for a rapid and dynamic gameplay experience, infused with a healthy dose of tactical decision-making and astute planning.

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Set in the legendary city of Ragusa (now Dubrovnik), Ragusa charges players with the task of building the city in the 15th century, constructing its great towers, boosting trade with the East, and finding their fortunes. Players build houses on the spaces between three hexes, gaining access to resources (on rural spaces) and actions (in the city), which means that a house effectively functions as a worker being placed, but triggering three spots at a time. Players use resources gained in the countryside to build buildings, trade, and craft valuable commodities — the value of which varies as ships come and go from the harbor. In the city, players gain access to actions, with each spot representing the three actions that surround it. This simple worker placement gives way to a deep engine-building mechanism as not only will building around production spaces utilize the houses you've already built in the countryside, but building near other player's houses will re-activate them, giving other players valuable opportunities outside of their turns. The game ends once players have placed all their houses. The player with the most points from all sources wins.

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Many centuries ago, the Greek, Persian and Assyrian empires controlled vast amounts of land and riches. Yet, despite their fortifications and imposing armies, rumors began spreading of a formidable foe in the lands above the Black Sea. They came on horseback. Fierce warriors, both male and female. Skilled with the sword, axe and bow. But they weren’t mindless savages. Their artisans were renowned for their ability to craft detailed trinkets of gold. They fashioned leather armor and improvised the recurve bow. They trained eagles for hunting and war. Some even believe they inspired the Greek tales of the Amazons. But they were more than legend or fable. They were the Raiders of Scythia. The aim of Raiders of Scythia is to be the player with the most Victory Points (VP) at the game’s end. VP are gained by raiding Settlements, taking Plunder and completing Quests. Players will need to assemble a Crew, train Animals and gather Provisions. The game ends when there are only 2 unraided Settlements or 2 Quests remaining on the Main Board. Features: Play as one of eight Scythian Heroes each with their own unique player power.  Play against up to 3 friends or against the rival Scythian Chieftain in a highly intuitive Solo Mode.  Builds on the award-winning game play of Raiders of the North Sea Adds eagles and horses to customize your crew with special abilities, strength and VP bonuses. Designed for 1-4 Raiders ages 12+ to explore in 60 min.  Contents 1 Main Board 4 Player Boards 26 Quests 136 Cards 1 Plunder Bag 80 Plunder Tokens 32 Wounds 32 Kumis 32 Provisions 31 Workers 6 Dice 4 Score Markers 32 Silver 1 Illustrated Rulebook

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For years the humans, elves, and dwarves have been slowly encroaching on your territories and slaying your kind in the name of progress. They've built their citadels, keeps, and villages as they push you further into the darkness. Now is the time to rally your troops and lay waste to their kind and bring forth the reign of the Shadow Kingdoms! You are a Warden hungry for the destruction of Valeria. You must outwit the other Wardens to earn the right to command an army for the Shadow Kingdoms. Visit dark Shrines to gain minions, magic, gems, and gold to fuel your war machine. Command monsters into battle to conquer the lands and earn Victory Points. The player with the most Victory Points at the end of the game will be declared the winner. On your turn, you must move your Warden from its current location to a new location. When your Warden enters one of the 5 Shrines, you first take any available die from the Shrine and place it on your player board, then perform the Shrine action associated with the Shrine. There are 5 troop types (die colors) in the game: Goblin (green), Orc (red), Skeleton (white), Gargoyle (purple), and Gnoll (brown). Send your Warden to the Camp on your player board to use your minion dice to resolve battle plans and place Victory tokens on your Campaign board.

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This is an expansion for Studies in Sorcery. You need the base game to play the expansion. Have you mastered Alchemy, Sorcery, and Reanimation? Think you have it all? Ha! You've only scratched the surface of the arcane powers our universe has to offer. You have yet to explore the vast expanses of the human mind. Your understanding is limited to the here and now, where the ability to prophesy future timelines will show you how truly insignificant your power is. The school of Divination is an additional set of 24 project cards and tokens that can be mixed in with the projects provided by the base game. Mechanically this area of study some major themes: Place watchful eye tokens (a new component) to prophesy your opponent's actions and be rewarded for successful predictions. Manipulate perception, placing extra credit tokens and turning demerits into a positive. Increased knowledge of hidden information, which you can use against your opponents. Be rewarded for surrendering yourself to fate and pushing your luck. While the base game stands well on its own we recommend you pick up the Divination expansion if you're looking for advanced strategies, more player interaction, and more variety on your educational journeys.

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Welcome to the Sweet Mess Pastry Competition. You have worked hard to get here and the master chef cannot wait to see how you handle his famous recipes. The Sweet Mess kitchen is chaotic and, of course—messy! Work smarter and more efficiently than the other contestants and you might just come away victorious. May the best chef win! Throughout the competition, you will gather Ingredients from Bowls, Prepare Recipes, and Complete them to claim Awards. The more Recipes you Complete, the more skillful you become and the more points you will receive. You can use special kitchen Tools and Golden Tokens to gain tactical advantages. Ready… Set… Bake!

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Vampires awake from their torpor as the eternal roses are blooming. You have until sunrise to run to the labyrinth and pick the most beautiful bloom, hunting for humans on your way, tempting familiars into helping you, and increasing your powers to become the most notorious vampire. The Hunger is a race where each player will have to optimize their card deck, hunt humans to gain victory points, fulfill secret missions, and eventually acquire a rose and return to the castle before sunrise. The more you hunt, the slower both you and your deck become, which will make it harder and harder to get back before daybreak. Can you become the most notorious vampire? Or will you burn to ashes at sunrise? The Hunger plays 2-6 players in about 60 minutes!

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The stakes have been raised! The Hunger: High Stakes expansion features exciting new twists for hungry vampires.  The Event Deck creates random starting options.  Vampires can now Attack allowing them to defeat new Threats, improve your Hunting abilities and attack other vampires. The Hunter: High Stakes Expansion box is designed to store all your cards and tokens for both The Hunger base game and High Stakes Expansion. Download the Rulebook! High Stakes is an expansion for The Hunger.  The base game is required to play. Features: New Threats bring new strategies and excitement to the game. Events create unique hunt nights and spawn the threats. Powers that fight new dangers like Vampire Hunters and Werewolves, and even other Vampires. High Stakes is an expansion for The Hunger.  Base game required. Contents Summary: 180 cards 36 Starting cards 48 Wound cards 6 Injured cards 28 Hunt cards 1 Rose card 16 Threat cards 9 Spawn location cards 36 Event cards 10 Mission tiles 28 Damage tokens 6 Bonus tokens At a Glance Number of Players: 2-6 For Ages: 12+ Playing Time: 60 min Game Type: Deck-building, Push-your luck

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 In Ticket to Ride® Legacy: Legends of the West players will embark on a journey across twelve games, managing their own North American railway company to wealth and fortune in a campaign full of adventures. Completing tickets will remain the primary goal, but players will need to develop other skills if they hope to overcome the unexpected events and resourceful rivals. Game after game, route after route, they will continuously fill their vault with earnings and open frontier boxes that will unlock new rules, content, and many more surprises. Like previous instalments in the series, this game designed by Rob Daviau, Matt Leacock and Alan R. Moon can be learned very quickly but will provide a much more immersive and narrative experience that should please every fan. Limited-Time Bonus! Upgrade your Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West with Large Cities for an enhanced gameplay experience. Available while supplies last!

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  Welcome to the city of culture, arts and music! Discover Unter den Linden, and immerse yourself in the young cultural capital of Europe. Enjoy a sightseeing cruise on the river Spree, ride a bike through the Brandenburg Gate, or be amazed by the masterpieces displayed in the Pergamon Museum. In Ticket to Ride: Berlin, players race one another to visit the most iconic locations of the city and complete their Destination Tickets. The winning player will utilize Berlin's streetcars and, for the first time, will venture under the streets to incorporate a subway system into their routes.

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Take a hike in TRAILS, exploring iconic sites and national parks across the U.S., gathering resources, observing wildlife, and earning wilderness badges. TRAILS is a standalone adventure in the PARKS series with artwork from the Fifty-Nine Parks Print Series. In TRAILS, players hike back and forth along the trail, collecting rocks, acorns and leaves; taking pictures; and encountering wildlife to gain bonuses. At trailhead and trail end, you can turn in resources to earn badges, after which you start back in the other direction. As players visit the trail end, the sun sets over the trail. As night falls, trail sites grant more powerful actions, but they won't last forever. When the sun leaves the trail, the last round of play takes place, then the player with the most points from collected badges, photos taken, and bird sightings wins.

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  Life in the village is hard, but life here also allows the inhabitants to grow and prosper as they please. One villager might want to become a friar. Another might feel ambitious and strive for a career in public office. A third one might want to seek their luck in distant lands. In Village, each player takes the reins of a family and attempts to help them find fame and glory in many different ways. There is one thing you must not forget, however: Time will not stop for anyone, and given enough time people will vanish. Those who find themselves immortalized in the village chronicles will bring honor to their family and be one step closer to victory. Eggertspiele is happy to announce that the 2012 Kennerspiel winning game from Inka and Markus Brand is finally ready to make an official comeback. Even more than 10 years after it releases, this game is still recognized for its brilliant and unique mechanism of the passing of time that was introduced with death overtime and generations.

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1898, Siberia, the seismologist Edgar Vuntaf discovers a continent free of any human presence, sheltering a teeming life, in forms never encountered before! Unknown plants, colossal creatures... Faced with this shocking discovery, the world's scientific elite, gathered in Paris for the Universal exposition, create the Vivarium Syndicate, and decide to send explorers into this new continent.Vivarium is an efficient and tense card collection game with a great artistic direction! Each turn players use dominoes to create coordinates that allow them to build their card collection. After 7 rounds, the player that has successfully completed their objectives and collected the greatest creatures wins the game.★ UNIQUE USE OF DOMINOES: Each turn, add a domino to the one in the middle of the table, creating coordinates that let you take a card from the board.★ COMPLETE SECRET OBJECTIVES: Use these to drive your strategy to collect different creature colors, creature types, equipment, or other aspects of the game.★ POWERFUL EQUIPMENT: Gain these cards to help complete certain objectives and for their unique special abilities or end-game scoring effects.★ HIGH QUALITY COMPONENTS: The custom domino designs, sparkly amber gems, and details on the cards and board add to a luxury gaming experience.★ BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK: See the creatures of Vivarium spring to life, each one with their own personality and storing that shines through in the illustrations.

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  In Woodcraft, you play as forest people running competing workshops in the woods, with you gathering wood and crafting goods for your customers. Along the way, you hire helpers, improve your workshop, and buy different types of wood and other tools to create the best workshop you can. During the game, players complete their projects with wood (dice) that can be cut down to size, glued back together, and adjusted using dice manipulation to be as efficient as possible with their resources. Whoever builds the best, most successful workshop wins.

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