Board Games | Strategy Games

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 Space Base, players assume the roles of Commodores of a small fleet of ships. Ships begin docked at their stations and are then deployed to sectors as new ships are commissioned under your command. Use cargo vessels to engage in trade and commerce; mining vessels to build reoccurring base income; and carriers to spread your influence. Establish new colonies for a new Commodore in a sector to gain even more influence. Gain enough influence and you can be promoted to Admiral! Space Base is a quick-to-learn, quick-to-play dice game using the core "I roll, everyone gets stuff" mechanism seen in other games. It's also a strategic engine builder using a player board (your space base) and tableaus of ship cards you can buy and add to your board. The cards you buy and the order you buy them in have interesting implications on your engine beyond just the ability on the card you buy, making for a different type of engine construction than seen in similar games. Players can take their engine in a number of directions: long odds and explosive gains, low luck and steady income, big end-game combos to launch from last to first, or a mix-and-match approach. Ultimately, Space Base is a game you can just start playing and teach everyone how to play in the first round or two and has a satisfying blend of dice-chucking luck and challenging strategic choices.

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The Purrfect Game For Cat Lovers and Gamers Alike! Players are cat ladies, part of an elite group of people including Marie Antoinette and Ernest Hemingway. During the game, you and your fellow cat ladies will draft cards three at a time, collecting toys, food, catnip, costumes, and of course lovable cats. But watch out! Make sure you have enough food for all of your feline friends or your hungry cats will subtract points from your score. The player with the highest total victory points wins the game! Short play time of 30 min or less for a boardgame means the game will be played frequently and likely be a fan favorite for gaming night. Easy to teach and easy to play. Charming art and graphics makes the game appealing and accessible to players of all ages. Low price point. Contents: 102 Game cards 13 Stray cat cards 6 Victory point tokens 1 Cat token 60 Food cubes 1 Rulebook

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Calico is a puzzly tile-laying game of quilts and cats. In Calico, players compete to sew the coziest quilt as they collect and place patches of different colors and patterns. Each quilt has a particular pattern that must be followed, and players are also trying to create color and pattern combinations that are not only aesthetically pleasing, but also able to attract the cuddliest cats! Turns are simple. Select a single patch tile from your hand and sew it into your quilt, then draw another patch into your hand from the three available. If you are able to create a color group, you may sew a button onto your quilt. If you are able to create a pattern combination that is attractive to any of the cats, it will come over and curl up on your quilt! At the end of the game, you score points for buttons, cats, and how well you were able to complete your unique quilt pattern.

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Point Salad is a fast and fun card drafting game for the whole family! There are over 100 ways to score points. Players may use a variety of strategies and every game of Point Salad is unique!

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  Grab Your Popcorn!Smash Up is back with a rad to the extreme expansion featuring the best in 80’s cinema! Or, as close we can legally get to it without attracting the attention of some lawyer spaz.Get ready to go back in time (again!), rustle some wraiths, burst some chests, and unload insane amounts of action on some dweebs! Can you lose with these righteous new factions? As if!Excellent Movies, Dudes! is fully compatible with all previous Smash Up expansions.CONTENTS• 4 Faction Decks with 20 Cards Each♦ Action Heroes♦ Wraithrustlers♦ Extramorphs♦ Backtimers• 8 Base Cards• 4 Card Dividers• 1 Token Sheet• 1 Rulebook

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In order to see every continent on our world tour, we just had to include five factions! One entire free faction of fun for the price of four! Culture Shock takes us through the folk and fairy tales of: Russia, where minions are frequently transformed; West Africa, where sharing stories and cards is valued; and Germany, where uniting characters from the same tale gives multiple benefits. We also look at the incredible histories of: the Inca Empire, known for its roads and monumental architecture; and Polynesians, who spread out on as many islands as possible.

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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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Like so many people, from royalty to your next-door neighbor, players are dog lovers sharing the joy of adorable dogs. During the game, you will be fetching cards, collecting bones, and gathering food for your loveable dogs. You will rescue them from the shelter, train them on new tricks, and cherish their unique traits. The player who takes care of their beloved dogs best will score the most victory points and win the game! Contents:122 Game Cards60 Food Cubes16 Dog Tricks Cards15 Rescue Shelter Cards1 Watch Dog Token1 Score Pad1 RulebookAges: 10+Players: 2-4Game Length: 30 min or less

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Smash Up: Cease and Desist can be played on its own as a two-player game or combined with other Smash Up titles to allow for up to four players to compete for control of bases at the same time. Smash Up: Cease and Desist includes four factions — Astroknights, Changerbots, Star Roamers, and Ignobles — with 22 cards for each faction. To play, you shuffle together any two factions, whether from this set or any other Smash Up title, then start playing.

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Smash Up: That '70s Expansion is a standalone two-player-only game that can also be used as an expansion for other Smash Up titles. The four factions to be included in this set are truckers, vigilantes, disco dancers, and kung fu fighters. Right on! Hop in the Waywaywayback Machine and join Smash Up in the dy-no-mite `70s with four all new factions

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From the Flatout Games team that brought you the smash hit Point Salad, Point City is a fast and fun card drafting engine-building game for the whole family! There are over 150 unique building cards, so you can create a completely different city each and every time you play!Point City takes the simple concept of drafting cards and building the best combinations, and adds new layers of resource management and engine building to the mix!CONTENTS• 60 Cards• 4 Starting Cards• 22 Civic Tokens• 2 Market Tokens• 1 Reference Card• 1 Rulebook

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In Santa Monica, you are trying to create the most appealing neighborhood in southern California. Will you choose to create a calm, quiet beach focused on nature, a bustling beach full of tourists, or something in-between to appeal to the locals? Each turn, you draft a feature card from the display to build up either your beach or your street. These features work together to score you victory points. The player with the most points wins!

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The smaller creatures of the forest have created a civilization free of predators, and they look to you as mayor to guide their growing and thriving town. However, the area is small, and resources are scarce. The clever use of limited resources will determine the most successful tiny town. In the expansion Tiny Towns: Fortune, the creatures of the forest have found a way to trick each other into thinking shiny bits of metal have arbitrary value. It's very useful — so much so that you can use this thing called "money" to get other creatures to give you almost anything in return for the right number of shiny bits. If only earning money weren't so difficult!

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In Tiny Towns: Villagers, word has spread far and wide of a thriving little civilization in the forest. Creatures with incredible talents - from engineers to merchants - have come to visit these towns and decide where they will make their new homes. They offer the most astute town mayors their skills, which can transform buildings, control the influx of resources, and perform impressive architectural feats. The world of Tiny Towns is getting a bit bigger! Contents:1 rulebook6 Lodge boards20 villager meeples18 Building cards5 Monument cards7 Villager cards

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Verdant is a gorgeous spatial puzzle game for the whole family!Take on the role of a houseplant enthusiast collecting and caring for plants as you compete to create the coziest, most verdant home!Turns are simple select a card / token set and place each into your expanding home. Earn points by providing plants with the lighting conditions they desire, coordinating your interior space with furniture and pets, and racing against your opponents to pot plants and earn bonuses.With variable scoring goals, each game of Verdant brings a new spatial puzzle to your table!Contents:• 60 Deluxe Wooden Verdancy Tokens• 60 Unique Plant Cards• 60 Unique Room Cards• 60 Unique Goal Cards• 45 Nurture Item Tokens• 36 Pot Tokens• 36 Green Thumb Tokens• 25 Unique Furniture Tokens• 20 Unique Pet Tokens• 1 Deluxe Printed Cloth Bag• 1 Full Color Scorepad• 1 RulebookAges 10+, 1-5 players, 30-45 min or less

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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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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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Mystic Vale: Conclave provides the ideal storage solution designed to hold all of the previous releases, with room to spare for future expansions! The new Equinox mechanic allows players to greatly speed up gameplay and can even scale up to 6 player games with the two additional starter decks provided. The new conclaves grant players the option to customize the starting decks of advancements and vales, creating a new play experience each game. Unique totem cards imbue players with awesome abilities they can use each turn, to truly feel the power of Gaia's blessing. Spirit counters provide a way for players to track their spirit symbols during their turn.

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