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  The heron flies over the Himeji sky while the Daimio, from the top of the castle, watches his servants move. Gardeners tend the pond, where the koi carp live, warriors stand guard on the walls, and courtiers crowd the gates, pining for an audience that brings them closer to the innermost circles of the court. When night falls, the lanterns are lit and the workers return to their clan. In The White Castle, players will control one of these clans in order to score more victory points than the rest. To do so, they must amass influence in the court, manage resources boldly, and place their workers in the right place at the right time. The authors are Sheila Santos and Israel Cendrero, the duo known as Llama Dice who also designed the successful The Red Cathedral with Devir. In this case, we leave the Moscow of Ivan the Terrible behind to explore the most imposing fortress in modern Japan, Himeji Castle, where the banner of the Sakai clan flies under the orders of Daimio Sakai Tadakiyo. The White Castle is a Euro type game with mechanics of resource management, worker placement and dice placement to carry out actions. During the game, over three rounds, players will send members of their clan to tend the gardens, defend the castle or progress up the social ladder of the nobility. At the end of the match, these will award players victory points in a variety of ways. The central panel shows Himeji Castle in all its splendor, divided into several zones. The largest is inside the castle, with the Room of the Thousand Carpets, where the courtiers must ascend socially until they reach the circle closest to the Daimio to enjoy his favor. There is also the pond and the gardens, patiently tended by the gardeners where everyone can relax and contemplate its beauty without restriction. Another important area is the wall and the outside of the castle, where the warriors patrol and stand guard. Finally, we find the area of the three bridges, where the three types of dice that can be used to carry out actions are accumulated, and the personal domain of each player, where they will keep track of their resources and where they will have the reserve of workers. With accessible rules and a very careful setting, The White Castle is a very versatile title that will fit in with different gaming groups. As is tradition with Llama Dice titles, its sleek and simple design belies a great deal of strategic depth within the grasp of players.

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Following the arrival of the Portuguese in Japan, daimyos competed for control of foreign trade and technology. Himeji Castle, a symbol of feudal power, became a strategic center for clans seeking to gain influence. In The White Castle Duel, two clans compete to exert their influence in the White Heron's court, managing resources and building engines. On each turn, you will use their lamp tokens to obtain resources and activate actions. Among the actions available, you can buy and upgrade influence cards, place clan seals on gardens and training grounds, move your courtier between circles of influence, or trade with the Portuguese. These actions will allow you to accumulate a series of icons — flags, katanas, kabutos, and origami figures — that will reward you with points, and whoever ends up with the most points wins.

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In Troyes (pronounced "twah"), players recreate four centuries of history of this famous city of the Champagne region of France. Each player manages their segment of the population (represented by a horde of dice) and their hand of cards, which represent the three primary domains of the city: religious, military, and civil. Players can also offer cash to their opponents' populace in order to get a little moonlighting out of them — anything for more fame! Make your underlings: work on the cathedral combat misfortune bustle about the city and other such tasks that are below your family's stature

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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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Terraforming Mars: The Dice Game, is a card driven dice game where players use special dice to develop their corporations and terraform Mars into a new home for humanity. The dice represent resources that players spend to play cards and perform other actions. During the game you increase your production of dice, you terraform and place cities and greenery tiles on the board and gain various bonuses. Each turn, you either produce new dice (Production Turn) or perform actions (Action Turn). Whenever you terraform Mars (raise oxygen or temperature, or place an ocean tile), you gain 2 Victory Points (VP). You can also gain VP for placing tiles and playing cards, as well as winning Awards and Milestones. The game ends when 2 of the 3 global parameters have been completed (oxygen/temperature/ocean). The player with most VP wins the game.

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A multi-expansion for Lords of Vegas, featuring all new boards and components representing the other gambling meccas of the United States. Contains gameplay for playing in Atlantic City, Reno, and 1881 Tombstone. Each game is for 26 players, except Lords of Reno is 2 or 3. Requires the Lords of Vegas base set (any edition) to play. Components include: 4 Boards (Reno, Tombstone, Atlantic City, and New Orleans) 1 deck of 55 cards 60 Tombstone lot markers 1 Reno arch tile 5 New Orleans riverboat tiles 5 wooden Ferris wheels 6 wooden cowboys 5 resident tokens 1 Rulebook

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Historical theme, Bronze Age. Players are in charge of Minoan Clans (Minoans are deemed as the first European civilization), fighting for the Minos (king) title. Build cities, monuments and other structures, open new trade routes, expand and fight off barbarians out of your land, plan your actions with your clan council, research and issue decrees so your actions will be more powerful than your opponents! You have only 4 rounds to prove you are worthy of the legendary Minos title.Contents• 1 Double-Sided Main Board• 5 Action Board Overlays• Map Overlay Sheet• 1 First Player Marker• 4 Double Layered Player Boards• 72 Age I Decree Cards• 72 Age II Decree Cards• 9 Starting Cards• 3 Double-Sided Trading Post Tiles• 15 Blue Trade Bonus Tiles• 15 Red Trade Bonus Tiles• 20 City Foundation Tiles• 14 Vase Tiles• 54 Good Tiles• 54 Temporary Good Tiles• 9 Age I Barbarians Tiles• 11 Age II Barbarians Tiles• 5 Special Ability Tiles• 5 Action Bonus Tiles• 52 Coins (40 Of Value 1 And 12 Of Value 5)• 52 Military (40 Of Value 1 And 12 Of Value 3)• 4 +100/+200 VP Tiles• 17 Dice (4 Red, 4 Blue, 4 Yellow, 5 Gray)• 8 Player Aids♦ In Each Of 4 Player Colors:• 3 Cities• 3 Towers• 3 Merchants• 4 Farms• 10 Armies• 1 Income Marker• 1 Scoring Marker• 1 Ability Marker• 3 Progress Markers• 3 Objective Markers• 4 Dice Containers  

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Dark times loom over the kingdom of Thebes. The blind, old king Oedipus left the throne in disgrace and asked Polynices and Eteocles, his own sons, to rule the city together. But power corrupts and ancient feuds call for new blood to be spilled. Soon, Polynices finds himself leading an army from the rival city of Argos against his own brother. The Theban nobles support Eteocles as he maintains precarious rule over Thebes. The young king calls for defenders to man the seven gates of the city, while the invaders’ seven champions lead the attack on the gates. Meanwhile, the famous citadel of Thebes, the Cadmea, lies in disarray, as it has fallen into disrepair since the days of Oedipus’ father, king Laius. It is as if the fates themselves have lined everything up against the current rulers of Thebes! While the common folks prepare for war, the noble families whisper among themselves that the time for new leadership has come, and the time to rebuild the Cadmea is now! However, ensuring the glory of the holy birthplace of Dionysus, the god of grape himself, is no easy feat, especially with enemies at the gates.FEATURES★ Thebai is a highly interactive, heavy Eurogame that reimagines dice worker placement with a fresh, tactical twist. Players co-create the pool of available actions on the main board while carefully managing their personal abilities and long-term plans.★ Every turn presents tense, rewarding decisions - use unlocked actions on your player board or deploy your dice to the shared board to promote them into powerful councilors, securing unique scoring opportunities and triggering satisfying combos.★ Inspired by Greek mythology, Thebai plunges players into the conflict between Polynices and Eteocles. Defend the Seven Gates of Thebes while navigating deep strategy, positive player interaction, and thematic tension at every step.CONTENTS• 1 City Board (Double-Sided)• 1 Devotion Board• 1 Council Board• 4 Estate Boards• 8 Commander Standees• 14 Neutral Cadmea Tiles• 8 Commander Cards• 8 Invader Cards• 44 Contract Cards• 9 Disruption Cards• 12 Herald Cards• 7 Comfort Fate Tiles• 7 Conflict Fate Tiles• 1 Four-Player Council Tile• 24 Metic Tiles• 24 Blessing Tiles• 7 Gate Tiles• 1 Battle Marker• 5 Disruption Markers• 10 Plaza Markers• 18 Pottery Tokens• 18 Grape Tokens• 18 Bronze Tokens• 24 Drachma Tokens♦ Per Player Color (X4):• 7 Citizen Dice• 4 Hoplite Dice• 1 Turn Order Marker• 1 Scoring Marker• 2 Devotion Markers• 9 Cadmea Tiles• 1 Archon Meeple• 4 Strategos Tiles• 3 Councilor Tiles• 1 100/200+ VP Tile• 2 Player Aids♦ Solo Mode:• 16 Basic Action Cards• 9 Advanced Action Cards• 6 Antigone’s Destiny Cards• 5 Challenge Cards• 1 Endgame Antigone Card

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A mashup style card and dice game for 2-3 players where you take mutant fish …and then battle to the death! A.D.A.P.T. is a card and dice game for 2-3 players, that plays in 30 min or less, comes with 3 full sets of polyhedral dice (3d4s, 3d6s, 3d8s, 6d10s, 3d12s, & 3d20s), and bears a unique theme. Light   weight, a lot of fun, and entirely unique. We’re certain you’ve never played anything like it before.

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In Crystal Palace, players take on the role of a nation at the time of the first World Fair in London (1851), trying to create a buzz with spectacular inventions and the support of famous and powerful people. Crystal Palace is a dice-placement game in which the players themselves determine the stats of their dice at the beginning of each round. The higher the number, the better — but it comes at a price. In the course of the game, dice are placed on eight action locations (Patent Office, Reform Club, London Times, Port of London, Waterloo Station, British Museum, Bank of England, Westmin or lesster) in a competition for the best resources, patents, and brains. In a world of slightly weird inventions, you will meet people like Phileas Fogg, Levi Strauss and Amelia Edwards, and invent gadgets such as the Thinking machine, the Beer glass counter or the Climate changer.

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This item is a pre-order item with an expected release date of Q1 2026 Orders containing a pre-order items WILL NOT SHIP until the final pre-order item is able to be shipped. Dates and product details are subject to change as new information from the manufacturer is updated. Civolution: Acceptance Letter is a small expansion pack for Civolution that features 3 Extra Credits. Extra Credits are small add-ons that can be used with the base game either individually or mixed together. Extra Credit A: 6 starting attribute chipsAt the start of the game, each player drafts a starting attribute chip, which is installed in their console and gives them an individual starting benefit. Extra Credit B: 6 creature chipsEach creature belongs to one territory type and can be tamed by performing a hunting action in that territory type. Once tamed, the creature chip is installed in one’s console. As with most other cards and chips, creature chips must go in a column of their own. Each creature likes to eat the resources of its territory, which you can feed to them in the feeding phase in exchange for benefits. Extra Credit C: 15 level-4 module tilesFor each of the 15 main modules, there is one powerful additional tile for level 4. At the beginning of the game, each player drafts three of them. Accordingly, during the game, they can upgrade each of these three modules up to level 4 if they manage to.

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In Potions of Azerland you will, you guessed it, make potions!Gather resources from the forest, increase your knowledge in various potion types, go to the market to collect and trade goods, then make your potions to drink for unique powers or fulfill the orders of travelers who come to your town!Potions of Azerland utilizes a unique simultaneous action selection mechanism where understanding the goals of your opponents in each round will give you the upper hand. Decide whether to drink your newly made potions for temporary boost and prolonged powers or give them to an ever changing group of travelers for points and other bonuses. After 8 rounds the player who has garnered the most prestige will be the winner!CONTENTS:• Two Piece Box• paper sheet• Rule book• Game Board• Round Tracker Board & Marker• four (4) Cauldrons• twelve (12) Solo Mode Cards• eight (8) Player Aids• four (4) Player Boards• thirty (30) priority tiles• four (4) tile holders• forty-three (43) Visitor Cards• forty-four (44) Market Cards• seventy-five (75) Ingredient Tokens• twenty-five (25) apprentice tokens• twenty-five (25) gold tokens• five (5) 5x ingredient tokens• twelve (12) study track discs• four (4) hypnosis tokens• twelve (12) novice ability discs• four (4) prestige discs• thirty (30) potion tokens• seven (7) Round bonus tiles• twelve (12) ingredient dice• one (1) potion die• four (4) 50+ prestige tokens• twelve (12) tracking cubes

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Designed by Jonny Pac, the expansions box contains the White Dwarf and Corporation Robot modules, and additional components to support a 5th player. With the construction of Solar Sphere #1 underway, The Corporation has set its sights on a nearby white dwarf. You can now choose to survey the white dwarf to gain valuable resources and opportunities.The White Dwarf expansion adds a unique rondel mechanism, as well as two screen printed meeples.The Corporate Robots expansion adds a set of cards and screen printed meeples that act as remote access to worker locations. Install these robot for a fully upgraded location power of your choice!A 5th player can also now join the table with all the components needed to do so.Are you ready to expand the Solar Sphere?Game Contents:• 1 White Dwarf Board• 2 Ship Meeples• 10 Robot Meeples• 4 Dice• 4 Custom Markers• 8 Tokens• 9 Custom Resources• 14 Cards• 20 Cubes• 4 Hexes• 1 Command Board

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  The harbor of Port Royal is as lively as ever. But you need a bigger crew—and quickly! On the various islands throughout the Carribean Sea, you can hire crew members and loot some treasures along the way. Put your luck to the test against the dice! The more you risk, the more you can cross off your game map. Roll the dice, but avoid a second ship of a color. Hire people for their abilities and victory points. Be the first to score 20 points or try your luck in a round of Sudden Death. The four maps included in the game gradually add new elements, increasing the difficulty.

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