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Café & Expresso
From Brazil, the king ordered Sergeant Melo Palheta to travel to French Guyana to formally establish the Utrecht Treaty of 1713 and to secretly bring coffee seeds to Brazil. The Sergeant was successful and by 1800 Brazil was one of the largest coffee producers in the world. In the early 20th century, coffee from Brazil, São Tomé and Príncipe, Angola and Timor were highly prized in Portugal and inspired the appearance of prestige coffee shops in emblematic locations that attracted the elites of Portugal. Through dedication, hard work and expertise, the Portuguese of the 20th century witnessed the birth of one of the biggest coffee industries in the world. In Café, 1 to 4 players represent coffee companies. From plantation, aging, roasting, and distribution, they try to create and control the best supply chain of coffee. This version of Cafe' also includes the Expresso expansion with 8 new plan cards and 4 new icons: Expresso, Lote, Nata and Plus!
$51.00$49.00
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Garum
Garum was a fermented fish sauce used as a condiment in the old ages; its manufacture and export was an element of prosperity and perhaps an impetus for the Roman penetration of Lusitanian and Hispanian coastal regions. Garum from today’s Portugal and Spain is highly prized in Rome and has now inspired a versatile strategy board game for the whole family, ages 8 and up, that plays 2 to 4 players. Garum is a tile-laying game, which plays in about 30 minutes, it is language-independent and features endless replayability, due to its board system, that ensures no two games are alike. In Garum, each player represents a master in the preparation of a specific type of fish sauce and receives a set of 16 Cetarian Tiles; each one has 4 spaces filled by 4 colors in different proportions, though the color that the player is defending is the predominant one. The game's goal is to play your Cetarian Tiles strategically, to get a considerable number of your own color symbols in selected rows or columns - the greater the number, the higher the reward! If you score the most points you are the winner!
$59.00$50.00
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Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa (13 June 1888 - 30 November 1935) was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher, and philosopher and has been described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets of all times. Pessoa was a prolific writer — and not only under his own name because he created approximately seventy-five others. He did not call them all pseudonyms because he felt that some did not capture their true independent intellectual life and instead called them heteronyms. In Pessoa, you embody some of his renowned heteronyms — Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, Álvaro de Campos, and Bernardo Soares. You navigate between the metaphysical realm of Pessoa's thoughts and the tangible landscapes of Lisbon. This movement allows you to draw inspiration from the city's iconic cafés, explore bookshops to enrich your literary collection and understanding, and ultimately find creative stimulus for composing poems, all of which contribute to your accumulation of victory points. The player with the highest number of victory points at the game's conclusion emerges as the winner. In more detail, Pessoa is a worker-placement game with special rules for where players can place their heteronyms since each player is a different heteronym. But all players are also the same physical person, Fernando Pessoa. The game comes with two modules that can be used independently as the players wish. If you play with only the base game, Pessoa fares well as an advanced family game with straightforward rules, but with interesting decisions and a more tactical nature. With the modules, Pessoa becomes a more complex game, in which extra layers of strategy combine to offer you a rich experience that tries to shine light on the complex figure that Fernando Pessoa was. The game's rulebook includes historical notes to explain how theme and mechanisms are interconnected, providing you an accurate historical background about this extraordinary poet and his metaphysical creations that had their own personality and writing style: his heteronyms. We hope that at the end of your first game, we have spiked your interest to learn more about Fernando Pessoa and his poetry.
$88.00$75.00
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Lata
The Portuguese canning industry developed throughout the 20th century, going through periods of great splendor and of extraordinary importance in the social fabric of communities close to fishing centers. After the huge growth due to the immense supply of troops in Europe that World War II brought, the industry went through a period of instability with the consolidation of the quality of the products and the establishment of markets abroad. Lata ("tin can" in English) is the name of the raw material for the containers in which the fish is packed, and it also turned out to be a popular designation for the product. In this game, players manage local canning companies in the 1950s and produce and sell the famous canned sardines or canned mackerel, the two main canned fish in the first decades of the industry, before the appearance of the very popular tuna. The game takes place over six rounds. In each round, players buy a batch of fish, tomato or olive oil, which they then can use in their factory. These products will then be sold to markets. This operation will result in money that will be used to buy scorecards and increase the factory's production capacity. The order in which each batch of raw materials is chosen is given by an auction of action points that players secretly make by sliding their disk to the left on the action track of their individual board. Whoever gives up more opportunities for action chooses the best lot, but it is clear that having more possibilities for action is vital to produce more and reach the best markets! The player with the most victory points (VP), which are awarded at the end of the game by the scorecards, wins. Lata is the second game in the "Quinas Collection", following the success of Café, the first game in the line.
$51.00$44.00
