Puzzles

Cascadia is a puzzly tile-laying and token-drafting game featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest. In the game, you take turns building out your own terrain area and populating it with wildlife. You start with three hexagonal habitat tiles (with the five types of habitat in the game), and on a turn you choose a new habitat tile that's paired with a wildlife token, then place that tile next to your other ones and place the wildlife token on an appropriate habitat. (Each tile depicts 1-3 types of wildlife from the five types in the game, and you can place at most one tile on a habitat.) Four tiles are on display, with each tile being paired at random with a wildlife token, so you must make the best of what's available — unless you have a nature token to spend so that you can pick your choice of each item. Ideally you can place habitat tiles to create matching terrain that reduces fragmentation and creates wildlife corridors, mostly because you score for the largest area of each type of habitat at game's end, with a bonus if your group is larger than each other player's. At the same time, you want to place wildlife tokens so that you can maximize the number of points scored by them, with the wildlife goals being determined at random by one of the four scoring cards for each type of wildlife. Maybe hawks want to be separate from other hawks, while foxes want lots of different animals surrounding them and bears want to be in pairs. Can you make it happen?

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In Cascadia: Landmarks expansion, players create sprawling habitats and place beautiful natural landmarks within them. Landmarks give each environment its own look and feel, while also providing dynamic endgame scoring bonuses! In addition to the Landmarks module, this expansion includes more unique wildlife scoring cards and habitat tiles to add variety and enough components to play Cascadia with 5-6 players.

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From the creator of Isle of Cats: Race to the Raft is a cooperative path building and tile laying social puzzle board game for 1 – 4 players.In the game, you play the role of the disorientated island cats who are lost on the smoke-filled island. Nothing seems to be where it once was, and you must find a safe route to the raft by placing pathway cards.As you build pathways, fire — which is represented by different shaped tiles — will spread across the island, limiting your options. You need to find the balance between creating long pathways and keeping the cats ahead of the flames as you move towards the raft.The game includes 81 scenarios from which to choose, including a simple tutorial that gradually introduces you to new rules and an advanced tutorial for when you're ready for a far greater challenge.Choose cards, build pathways, and control the spread of the fire as you work together to guide all the cats in their race to the raft!

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A Game Of Second Chances For Shelter Dogs In Forever Home, players use a combination of tile placement, set collection, and drafting in order to train pups and match them up with new families. With quick and simple turns, Forever Home is a replayable, easy-to-love abstract game perfect for fans of Cascadia, Azul, and Draftosaurus.Contents• 1 Shelter Commendation Board• 5 Player Boards• 13 Home Cards• 50 Training Cards• 16 Solo Trainer Challenge Card• 1 Solo Round Tracker Cube• 1 Cloth Bag• 98 Dog Tokens• 7 Screen Printed Wooden Dog Meeples• 1 Scorepad• 1 Rulebook

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Bark Avenue is a competitive route optimization pick up and deliver game centered around a day in the life of a dog walker in upper Manhattan. Players balance walking several dogs at once with competing needs - including walk length, preferred activities, bathroom breaks, and compatibility with your other dogs. You will be challenged with solving the puzzle of returning dogs on time and determining which dogs to walk next! In between walks, use public transportation to your advantage to position yourself for the best walks. As you progress in your dog walking career, your good ratings will unlock new abilities, such as walking more dogs simultaneously, going off leash at the dog park, and taking more end-of-turn actions, including pickups and activities like visiting pet shops. Be wary of returning dogs late, because you could lose out on most the pay! At 45 minutes - 1 hour, this Gateway+ game is targeted at all players and pulls in dog lovers, providing fun for new gamers and critical thinking and optimization problems for seasoned gamers.

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Unfortunately, the fishing nets that scour the ocean floor don't just catch fish. In their wake, they also capture many species of marine mammals that don't belong on our plates!In Fish 'n' Flip, play together to free as many animals as possible before the end of the game.With its original mechanics that will undoubtedly remind you of your Tetris games, Fish'n Flip is the perfect game to bring young and old together. Discuss together, and optimize the use of your action cards to create cascading movements and free the animals! Each player can only use their special ability on their turn, but beware: to achieve a clean sweep, you'll need to move together!

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Cascadia: Rolling is a series of puzzly flip-and-roll-and-write games featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest! Simultaneously roll dice, collect wildlife, and complete habitat cards to fill in different environments in Cascadia.Use special actions to manipulate your dice, and dynamic completion cards to unlock powerful combos! Play on one of four unique Environment Sheets, each with its own special gameplay elements. Create the most harmonious ecosystem to win!Cascadia: Rolling Hills features unique content specific to the prairie environments of Cascadia!CONTENTS• 3 Deluxe Wooden Central Dice• 1 Unique Deluxe Wooden Special Central Die• 6 Deluxe Wooden Personal Dice• 30 Unique Habitat Cards• 4 Unique Beginner Completion Cards• 8 Unique Advanced Completion Cards• 64 Double-sided Environment Sheets• 64 Double-sided Tally Sheets• 4 Player Aid Cards• 1 Rulebook with Quick-reference Guide

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Cascadia: Rolling is a series of puzzly flip-and-roll-and-write games featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest! Simultaneously roll dice, collect wildlife, and complete habitat cards to fill in different environments in Cascadia.Use special actions to manipulate your dice, and dynamic completion cards to unlock powerful combos! Play on one of four unique Environment Sheets, each with its own special gameplay elements. Create the most harmonious ecosystem to win!Cascadia: Rolling Rivers features unique content specific to the riverine environments of Cascadia!CONTENTS• 3 Deluxe Wooden Central Dice• 1 Unique Deluxe Wooden Special Central Die• 6 Deluxe Wooden Personal Dice• 30 Unique Habitat Cards• 4 Unique Beginner Completion Cards• 8 Unique Advanced Completion Cards• 64 Double-sided Environment Sheets• 64 Double-sided Tally Sheets• 4 Player Aid Cards• 1 Rulebook with Quick-reference Guide

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2083. Humankind died out decades ago, leaving behind mere vestiges of its time on Earth. As time went by, nature reclaimed land all over. In this resurgent world, apes have kept evolving. They've been gathering in tribes, growing, mastering human items, and advancing in their quest for knowledge. As the leader of such a tribe, you need to guide it towards collective intelligence. After Us is a deck-building and resource management game featuring an original and intuitive combo system in which players are each leading a tribe of apes. Starting only with tamarins, they combine their cards each turn to collect resources and gather victory points, attracting new apes into their tribe along the way: powerful gorillas, resourceful orangutans, versatile chimpanzees, and wise mandrills. The first player to obtain 80 points prevails in the race to collective intelligence — and wins the game.

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   Spring Meadow is the grand finale of Uwe Rosenberg's puzzle trilogy following 2016's Cottage Garden and 2017's Indian Summer. The complexity of the game is set in between the two games and fans of the trilogy will find familiar elements combined in an innovative way. In Spring Meadow, the most interactive game of the trilogy, the player who earns their second Hiking Pin during scoring wins the game. When these scorings will happen is determined by the player's selection of Meadow tiles from a central game board. The Hiking Pin goes to the player with the largest meadow during the scoring. Place your Meadow tiles with 0-2 holes skillfully on your Mountain board to receive extra tiles when creating or expanding groups of holes. Find your way around the burrows of the marmots because they can restrict you during tile placement. With 172 tiles in 49 shapes, familiar players and new players alike will appreciate the beauty and challenge of Spring Meadow!

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In Savannah Park, you each run your own wildlife park, and your goal is to group animals with their own kind — but everyone takes turns deciding what to move, so you might not be able to shuffle animals into the right spaces. Each player starts the game with the same set of 33 unique animal tiles, with those tiles laid out at random in your personal wildlife park. Three bush-fire spaces and one rock space will remain unoccupied in your park for the entire game, and six tree spaces and four grass spaces are unoccupied at the start of play. On a turn, you name a specific face-up tile that all players must pick up, flip face down, then move to a different empty space within their own park. Tiles that have been flipped cannot move again, and once all tiles have moved, the game ends with a scoring round. First, tiles adjacent to bush fires are removed if they depict as many animals as the number of fires (1, 2, or 3) on the bush-fire space. Score for each grass and tree uncovered on your board. Finally, score for each of the six animal species; the bigger the main herd of each of species and the more water holes it contains, the more points you score, e.g. a herd of five rhinos and three watering holes is worth (5x3) 15 points. The player with the most points wins. Savannah Park includes a solo mode, a set-up variant that allows you to place the bush fires and trees where you wish, and a scoring variant that rewards you for bumping a lion out of the animals' way.

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