Board Games | Strategy Games

Experience the miracles of the forest in this clever card game. In Forest Shuffle, 2-4 players compete in gathering the most valuable trees and attracting species, thus creating an ecological balanced habitat for flora and fauna. It all starts with a single tree... And it's as simple as that: Each turn you draw cards from the stack or center, place trees in your forest to attract wildlife, try to combine plants and animals for extra points or bonus actions. Consider the different preferences of these creatures: Some animals feel only comfortable in the presence of their fellow species, others prefer certain tree types to live in. Are you able to establish an ideal balance and create the most beautiful forest?Â

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In the mixed mountain forest of the Alps, all the way up the tree line, you can find numerous animals, plants, and mushrooms. While they share a habitat, they each have their own set of diverse needs. Forest Shuffle: Alpine is the highly anticipated expansion to the acclaimed card drafting game. These new cards expand the existing set collection options as well as introduce new ones, adding more depth and strategy to the game.Forest Shuffle: Alpine adds 36 new cards all with new stunning illustrations. EXPAND YOUR FOREST SHUFFLE EXPERIENCE: Introduce 36 new multifunctional cards to your Forest Shuffle game, adding incredible diversity and fresh strategies to explore. DISCOVER THE ALPS: Venture into the Alpine region with this expansion, bringing new species and two additional tree types to enrich your gameplay. ADDITIONAL TACTICAL DEPTH: Some cards introduce exciting twists to the base game's rules, offering more strategic options and challenges to your forest-building endeavors. PERFECT FOR STRATEGY LOVERS: Designed by Kosch, this expansion enhances the tactical aspects of Forest Shuffle, making it even more engaging for players seeking a thoughtful and strategic card game. SEAMLESS INTEGRATION WITH BASE GAME: Easily shuffle the new cards into your existing Forest Shuffle game for an even more varied and immersive gaming experience. Contents 36 Cards Instructions

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Immerse yourself in the serene beauty of nature with Forest Shuffle: Woodland Edge.This expansion set for the beloved Forest Shuffle game introduces new flora and fauna, enhancing your strategic play with lush edge-of-the-forest habitats. Encounter diverse wildlife, discover hidden pathways, and manage your woodland resources to thrive.With stunning artwork and engaging mechanics, Woodland Edge brings the enchanting forest environment to life, making every game session a captivating journey. Perfect for nature lovers and strategy enthusiasts alike, Forest Shuffle: Woodland Edge offers endless possibilities for exploration and adventure. EXPAND YOUR FOREST SHUFFLE EXPERIENCE: Introduce 36 new multifunctional cards to your Forest Shuffle game, adding incredible diversity and fresh strategies to explore. DISCOVER THE ALPS: Venture into the Alpine region with this expansion, bringing new species and two additional tree types to enrich your gameplay. ADDITIONAL TACTICAL DEPTH: Some cards introduce exciting twists to the base game's rules, offering more strategic options and challenges to your forest-building endeavors. PERFECT FOR STRATEGY LOVERS: Designed by Kosch, this expansion enhances the tactical aspects of Forest Shuffle, making it even more engaging for players seeking a thoughtful and strategic card game. SEAMLESS INTEGRATION WITH BASE GAME: Easily shuffle the new cards into your existing Forest Shuffle game for an even more varied and immersive gaming experience. Contents: 36 new multifunctional cards

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Brass: Lancashire — first published as Brass — is an economic strategy game that tells the story of competing cotton entrepreneurs in Lancashire during the industrial revolution. You must develop, build, and establish your industries and network so that you can capitalize demand for iron, coal and cotton. The game is played over two halves: the canal phase and the rail phase. To win the game, score the most victory points (VPs), which are counted at the end of each half. VPs are gained from your canals, rails, and established (flipped) industry tiles. Each round, players take turns according to the turn order track, receiving two actions to perform any of the following: Build an industry tile Build a rail or canal Develop an industry Sell cotton Take a loan At the end of a player's turn, they replace the two cards they played with two more from the deck. Turn order is determined by how much money a player spent on the previous turn, from lowest spent first to highest spent. This turn order mechanism opens some strategic options for players going later in the turn order, allowing for the possibility of back-to-back turns. After all the cards have been played the first time (with the deck size being adjusted for the number of players), the canal phase ends and a scoring round commences. After scoring, all canals and all of the lowest level industries are removed for the game, after which new cards are dealt and the rail phase begins. During this phase, players may now occupy more than one location in a city and a double-connection build (though expensive) is possible. At the end of the rail phase, another scoring round takes place, then a winner is crowned. The cards limit where you can build your industries, but any card can be used for the develop, sell cotton or build connections actions. This leads to a strategic timing/storing of cards. Resources are common so that if one player builds a rail line (which requires coal) they have to use the coal from the nearest source, which may be an opponent's coal mine, which in turn gets that coal mine closer to scoring (i.e., being utilized). Brass: Lancashire, the 2018 edition from Roxley Games, reboots the original Warfrog Games edition of Brass with new artwork and components, as well as a few rules changes: The virtual link rules between Birkenhead have been made optional. The three-player experience has been brought closer to the ideal experience of four players by shortening each half of the game by one round and tuning the deck and distant market tiles slightly to ensure a consistent experience. Two-player rules have been created and are playable without the need for an alternate board. The level 1 cotton mill is now worth 5 VP to make it slightly less terrible.

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  Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor is a stand-alone game within the Forest Shuffle family and introduces a brand new habitat and features new species with new abilities and bonuses to explore. As in the earlier original Forest Shuffle, in Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor players compete to build the most valuable environment by placing trees and shrubs, then attracting species to these locations to create an ecologically balanced habitat for flora and fauna. What's new in Dartmoor is the introduction of TERRAIN cards that are played horizontally and serve as a home or feeding ground for different species than trees or shrubs. Due to the nature of the terrain, species can only be placed above and below a terrain card. Deer and other species stay clear from bogs or peat areas in the moorland. They need their drink, but won't feel safe at dwells or next to rivulets. So players have to be watch out, where to place their species. Like its predecessor, Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor comes with a unique back side: Each of the 180 cards of the deck can be placed face down, creating a bog, if the action allows it. The caves in Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor now will be drafted at the beginning of the game and offer asymmetrical starting conditions. On top, the number of tree symbols has been reduced from eight to six to enable bonuses more easily. The game mechanism stays untouched: To start, each player has six cards in hand, with cards depicting either a particular type of tree, shrub or terrain or two moor dwellers (animal, plants), with these latter cards being divided in half, whether vertically or horizontally, with one dweller in each card half. On a turn, either draw two cards — whether face down from the deck or face up from the clearing — and add them to your hand, or play a card from your hand by discarding other cards to pay the cost, then putting that first card into play. In the end, the player with the highest score wins.

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This expansion promo pack contains 25 new birds for Wingspan. There is new art, new gameplay, and all new birds never before seen in Wingspan or other expansions.   There are multiple play variations with these new birds: Shuffle them into any Wingspan deck. Shuffle this pack, along with the 5 other promo packs together as a single deck. Play region vs. region, where each player has a private draw deck in addition to the shared core/expansions deck and face-up tray in the center.

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This expansion promo pack contains 25 new birds for Wingspan. There is new art, new gameplay, and all new birds never before seen in Wingspan or other expansions.   There are multiple play variations with these new birds: Shuffle them into any Wingspan deck. Shuffle this pack, along with the 5 other promo packs together as a single deck. Play region vs. region, where each player has a private draw deck in addition to the shared core/expansions deck and face-up tray in the center.

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This expansion promo pack contains 25 new birds for Wingspan. There is new art, new gameplay, and all new birds never before seen in Wingspan or other expansions.   There are multiple play variations with these new birds: Shuffle them into any Wingspan deck. Shuffle this pack, along with the 5 other promo packs together as a single deck. Play region vs. region, where each player has a private draw deck in addition to the shared core/expansions deck and face-up tray in the center.

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This expansion promo pack contains 25 new birds for Wingspan. There is new art, new gameplay, and all new birds never before seen in Wingspan or other expansions.   There are multiple play variations with these new birds: Shuffle them into any Wingspan deck. Shuffle this pack, along with the 5 other promo packs together as a single deck. Play region vs. region, where each player has a private draw deck in addition to the shared core/expansions deck and face-up tray in the center.

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This expansion promo pack contains 25 new birds for Wingspan. There is new art, new gameplay, and all new birds never before seen in Wingspan or other expansions.   There are multiple play variations with these new birds: Shuffle them into any Wingspan deck. Shuffle this pack, along with the 5 other promo packs together as a single deck. Play region vs. region, where each player has a private draw deck in addition to the shared core/expansions deck and face-up tray in the center.

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This expansion promo pack contains 25 new birds for Wingspan. There is new art, new gameplay, and all new birds never before seen in Wingspan or other expansions.   There are multiple play variations with these new birds: Shuffle them into any Wingspan deck. Shuffle this pack, along with the 5 other promo packs together as a single deck. Play region vs. region, where each player has a private draw deck in addition to the shared core/expansions deck and face-up tray in the center.

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Oceans depicts the boundaries between the known world near the ocean’s surface, and the mysteries lurking in Earth’s deepest unexplored regions. Enter a vast, underwater cosmos: a mysterious interconnected world of tentacles, sharp teeth, and black ink, where your survival depends on your ability to adapt in a changing environment. But this is just on the surface… Lurking below the surface lie mysteries so bizarre they hardly seem natural. The Deep is a deck of nearly 100 unique traits that you’ll discover over the course of many games. These powerful traits represent the unknown: the undiscovered wonders of the deep ocean. Venture into the Deep when you are ready to face the unknown!

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Twenty years after his expedition around the world, Charles Darwin is writing On the Origins of Species. He wants to gather new information about animal life, particularly about continents he hardly explored. Who other than young naturalists, eager for discovery, could help the renowned scholar finish writing his most famous work?

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Add the allure of roses to your Château! complete Rose card objectives, and attract new Visitors to your blossoming garden. Features:Rose Market Board and Rose Objective cards to add additional paths to victory in La Fleur.New Visitors with Rose Allure type and another layer to the competition between players.2 New Artisans provide additional options when placing workers.5 Garden Feature cards to continue building your perfect chateau.17 New World Event cards add even more surprises to each round.

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Discover the 18th century’s fascination with Eastern Asian design! Two new locations, new Visitors, and Vase cards to fill with Exotique Flowers bring new opportunities for Prestige in La Fleur. Contents:L’Orient Market Board, 8 Vase cards, and 45 Exotique cards, allow players to turn extra flower cards into new opportunities for victory.10 New Visitors add coins to equation when competing with other players each round.2 New Artisans mix up gameplay by adding new strategic opportunities.5 Garden Feature cards to further enhance your chateau.9 New Event cards themed around trade and opportunity change the way each round is played.

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In Undergrove, you are a towering evergreen with an ancient symbiotic connection to the fungi in your forest. As new mushrooms appear, your options expand for converting nutrients and helping your seedlings. Using cube conversion, tile placement, area control, and a tiny bit of engine building, you’ll need to claim the most advantageous locations and optimize your actions to leave the best legacy in the forest. The player with the greatest number of successful seedlings, wins! Contents:  Undergrove Mycologist Edition featuring upgraded wood components & silver embossed deluxe box Whispering Woods Expansion (included in the base game and not packaged separately)

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Embark on a journey of exploration and discovery along the historic John Muir Trail through the High Sierras of California. Explore the majestic mountains and lush meadows, the picturesque waterfalls and alpine lakes. Scale the heights of Yosemite's iconic Half Dome or Sequoia's Mt. Whitney! Enjoy meandering through Evolution Valley or Tuolumne Meadows, pausing to take in the beauty of Thousand Islands Lake or cooling your feet in the Kings River. Be humbled beneath a giant and ancient Sequoia, or catch (and release) a Golden Trout, listen to the song of an Ouzel, watch Marmots at play, or spot the rare Snow Plant. Happy trails!Trailblazer: The John Muir Trail takes place over the course of twelve days/rounds of hiking and backpacking along the John Muir Trail (JMT). You will experience daily trail encounters, choose to explore destinations along the trail, acquire and manage natural and personal resources, discover and observe the sights and sounds of your environment, adapt to ever-changing weather conditions, and move along the entire trail, all while wisely using the items in your backpack to maximize your experience.You can earn trail points in several ways along the route, such as placing workers on your tracks, collecting sets of field guide cards, scoring instantly with destination cards, and using your backpack gear efficiently.

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England, 1856: Charles Darwin finishes writing On the Origin of Species while you are on your way home. Your correspondence with the illustrious scientist during your journey has paid off as his book will soon be published — but you're not done yet. In the In the Footsteps of Darwin: Correspondence expansion, you will gain the support of historical figures and make fascinating new discoveries thanks to several new features for the base game: publication tokens, classification tokens, envelope tokens, and new characters such as Emma Darwin and Queen Victoria. *Base Game Required to Play

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This Whispering Woods micro expansion adds new goal cards and mushroom tiles to Undergrove. 2 Goal Cards 4 Mushroom Tiles

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Be on the prowl in Ecosystem: Savanna, a Serengeti-inspired card-drafting game. Players choose, pass, and arrange cards representing a diversity of organisms found in an African grassland, including zebras, elephants, cheetahs, and lions. Earn points by aligning herbivores with habitable landforms like watering holes or placing carnivores to devour nearby prey. Diversify your food web to maximize your bonuses. Each time you play, you build a one-of-a-kind ecosystem as you strive to balance the delicate connections between all living things. Players take turns drafting organism cards and arranging them into a 4x5 "ecosystem" in front of them. Once all players have completed their personal grid of 20 cards, players score their ecosystems using the rules for each card type. Scoring rewards players for building cohesive food webs and exploring the diversity of the Savanna ecosystem. The player with the most points wins!

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Travel the spectacular 800 mile long Arizona Trail as you take in the sights and sounds of the mountains, canyons, plateaus and deserts seeking out the amazing variety of wildlife such as the Roadrunner and Javelina, while avoiding the Gila Monster. From Saguaro National Park, the Sonoran desert, through the largest Ponderosa pine forest on Earth and into the Grand Canyon, you will interact with the incredible diversity of Terrain, Flora and Fauna found in State 48... aka Arizona. Players will call upon the legendary Jackalope and Lost Dutchman to aid in their travel. Turn order is determined for each round of travel and actions through a unique movement and observation mechanism. Players will need to acquire an interesting blend of key Natural and Personal resources to obtain advantages and create their own mural of Arizona wonders through efficient placement of polyomino depictions. After 8 weeks/rounds of travel, the player who builds a reserve of the most Arizona Grit and Superstition Gold is declared ... TRAILBLAZER

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Set of 4 wooden stands, holds each player's mushroom tiles for Undergrove. Works great with both the standard and deluxe editions of the game! 

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Uwe Rosenbergs new game Atiwa explores the agricultural wonders of the Africancontinent. Leading a family of fruit farmers, the players find that fruit bats - so called flying foxes,once considered to be fruit thieves only - are indeed useful for their farming endeavors.While it's true that the bats are eating the fruits from their trees, they also spread the seeds, overall helping to grow the amount of trees they can farm. This led to a symbiotic lifestyle between farmers and bats in which the farmers keep the bats as pets in order to grow their farms more quickly. However, the more bats, the more space they need... The players who will find the perfect balance between their bats and the growth of theirfarm will finally succeed and win the game!

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ImmunoWars is a strategic and competitive board game for 2-6 players, designed to combine scientific content with immersive gameplay. Players engage through biowarfare to be the last survivor in a battleground of infectious diseases, all while gaining valuable knowledge about pathogens such as salmonella, ebola, and tuberculosis. This game stands out by its scientifically accurate in-game content that shows what infectious diseases are out there and what can be done to prevent, treat, and cure them. Each player manages Health Points (HP) and Energy Points (ATP), reflecting their current health status and their ability to perform actions within the game. The unique twist of the game is its focus on the transmission of diseases, where aggressive tactics can backfire, allowing players to become infected by the diseases they spread. This introduces a realistic element of disease dynamics, encouraging players to think strategically about the consequences of their actions. The boardgame educates players on various aspects of infectious diseases, including symptoms, transmission routes, affected organs, contagiousness, and severity. Cards and game mechanics are designed to simulate the spread of diseases and the impact of medical interventions, offering a hands-on learning experience. Players are challenged to make informed decisions, utilizing their knowledge of diseases to strategize against opponents while managing their own health and energy resources.

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In Undergrove, you are a towering evergreen with an ancient symbiotic connection to the fungi in your forest. As new mushrooms appear, your options expand for converting nutrients and helping your seedlings. Using cube conversion, tile placement, area control, and a tiny bit of engine building, you’ll need to claim the most advantageous locations and optimize your actions to leave the best legacy in the forest. The player with the greatest number of successful seedlings, wins!

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In Petite Pastiche, a world of beautiful colors comes alive as players choose commission cards picturing 23 of the finest European art works of the past six centuries. Players score their commissions by mixing primary colors through clever tile placement and recreating the palette of colors used by the masters who created these works. Explore the paintings, palettes, and pasts of the artists in this unique and challenging game for the whole family.While placing hexagonal pieces to gain palette (color) cards, players become familiar with the different color combinations that produce the many hues of an artist’s palette, all listed on the Player Reference Card. Players also learn to recognize many great artists and their works as they complete commissions.Components 89 palette cards 36 palette hexes plus 1 three-hex starting piece 23 commission cards 8 wooden easels 4 reference cards 1 start player card 1 rules booklet

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Legends of the Deep brings cultural legends, high fantasy, and mythologies from around the globe into the Oceans ecosystem.Oceans is a journey from the known world into the unknown, where you discover powerful traits that hardly seem possible in the realm of biology. With Legends of the Deep, you will discover things beyond the world of science!Game PlayAt the beginning of the game, deal four Legend cards to each player. Choose one of them, and pass the rest to the player on your left. Continue drafting until everyone has four Legend cards.During your Play Cards phase, you may play one Legend card in addition to your normal card play. Legend cards have game-changing abilities with global effects.To replace an Legend card with a new one, subtract the cost of the old Legend card from the cost of the a new Legend card.

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In this family game, Marie Curie's laboratory and help the famous scientist win her double Nobel Prize! Conduct experiments, improve your workshop and complete Marie Curie's research before the other players. In the Footsteps of Marie Curie is a game featuring resource management and transformation mechanics with a card river and contracts. Resources distribution (Pitchblende, Uranium, and Radium) is done through a cube tower, and the retention or overproduction of these brings a set of surprises each turn. Players progress on a central board through Marie Curie's life timeline. The game ends when players reach the end of this timeline. Players take turns, starting with the first player and then proceeding clockwise until the Timeline marker reaches the last space of the timeline. At that point, players complete the current round up to the last player and the game ends. The player with the most Victory Points (VP) wins the game.

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Set of 4 cardboard constructible holiday trees in each player color for Undergrove. 

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  Step into the radiant future of Solar Gardens! Solar Gardens is a light-hearted, tile-drafting board game where 2-5 players will take on the role of a visionary architect specializing in carbon-neutral engineering to build a rooftop garden in harmony with nature. Each square tile placed on your player board will require a sense of strategy and imagination to outwit your opponents and make your garden the most beautiful and environmentally conscious. To create your own utopia and win the game, players must score the most points by using the tiles to build solar farms, windmill systems, water filters, and cultural hubs. This super fun game uses principles of sustainability, innovation, and community, encouraging players to harness renewable energy to create tranquil garden environments. Solar Gardens includes an easy-to-learn rulebook, 90 tiles for players to express their creativity, and gorgeously bright art that will make this a huge hit at your next game or family night.

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Compounded is a game about building chemical compounds through careful management of elements, a fair bit of social play and trading, and just a bit of luck. In Compounded, players take on the roles of lab managers, hastily competing to complete the most compounds before they are completed by others — or destroyed in an explosion. Some compounds are flammable and will grow more and more volatile over time; take too long to gather the necessary elements for those compounds, and a lot of hard work will soon be scattered across the lab. Although Compounded does involve a fair share of press-your-luck tension and certainly some strategic planning, the most successful scientists will often be those who strike a good trade with their fellow lab mates. Players are able to freely trade elements, laboratory tools, and even favors — if there is truly honor among chemists! In the ten years since Compounded debuted, designer Darrell Louder and publisher Greater Than Games have developed and refined the design to streamline gameplay, increase player interaction, and include more real-world facts. Compounded: The Peer-Reviewed Edition is a game about scientists grappling for recognition on the edge of known chemistry and getting credit for their discoveries, all while competing for limited resources and striking deals with the competition to ensure their work gets done. Compounded: The Peer-Reviewed Edition features new compounds, new tool tiles and rules, revised lab fire interaction, redesigned lab benches, and more. Everything in this new build of Compounded has been tweaked in some way.

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Compounded: Premium Element Tray for use with Compounded Base Game

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Ahau: Rulers of Yucatán is a Euro-style board game, combining elements of worker placement and resource management with innovative dual-engine building - all set in the Classical Period of the Maya. In the game, the players take the roles of leaders of city-states who are all eager to climb the ladder of power and become the most famous ruler of this era. Throughout their journey, they have the chance to invoke the ancient Maya deities, make the production flourish, build their pyramid temple and capital, and expand the borders of their territory. Ahau is a homage to the breathtaking Maya culture, bringing their history closer to the players. The cultural and historical aspects of the game were closely checked by Mayanist David S. Anderson, professor of anthropology and archaeology, an instructor at the Radford University in Virginia, U.S. The Solo Mode was co-designed with professional game designer, David Digby.

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This item is a pre-order item with an expected release date of 04/25/26 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. Waddle Waddle is a unique strategy game that features the designer's own photographs of penguins in the wild, taken in Antarctica, and a game board made from a map of the regions around Antarctica. Waddle Waddle's blend of open drafting, set collection, area of control, and push-your-luck is as fun to play as it is beautiful to watch, and you'll learn something about penguins along the way too. Game play is lightning fast, with minimal downtime. Whether you're playing two or six players, it's your turn before you know it. In Waddle Waddle, you play the role of a Penguin Hero, specializing in a particular Penguin Species. Each Penguin Hero is based on a real-life Penguin Hero who works to conserve penguins! They will help you to study penguins as they leave the Ice Floe and travel to their nesting grounds in the Antarctic region, called Rookeries. There’s safety in numbers, so penguins travel in groups called Waddles. As a Penguin Hero, you tag Waddles, scoring Conservation Points for each Waddle. Waddles that contain Mating Pairs make Nests. Score extra Conservation Points at the end of each Breeding Season if you tag the most Nests in a Rookery. You also get player-specific bonuses when you tag the Nests of the Penguin Species your Penguin Hero specializes in. Each penguin is represented by a Penguin Card with a number indicating its pecking order in the penguin social hierarchy. Only compatible penguins will travel together. There are six different Penguin Species that each like to nest in different places. You’ll need to carefully choose the Penguin Cards from the Ice Floe to score the most Conservation Points. Food is scarce! There is a limited fish supply at each Rookery. It costs one fish to play each Waddle. You might need to send penguins on a Fishing Trip to find more fish. And finally, beware of Threats, both natural and manmade, that appear each Breeding Season and make it harder for Waddles to land at each Rookery. The player with the most Conservation Points at the end of the game earns the title Top Conservator.

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Survive Peak Oil!Peak Oil is approaching and, as the president of a major oil company, you need to find a way to keep your company afloat! To do this, you’ll have to extract the last reserves of black-gold to raise the money needed to invest in the new technologies that are sure to soon replace oil. Of course, you’ll attempt to survive this crisis using legal means, but the competition won’t be so honorable. So maybe you’ll have to get your hands dirty as well….On your turn in Peak Oil, you assign your agents to different action spots on the board. If your agents are in the majority at any given action spot, or you decide to send mercenaries to their help, they squelch the competition - allowing you to take the action. Actions include: developing and harvesting oil fields, building pipelines, hiring new agents, buying new ship contracts, investing in oil replacement technologies, conducting PR campaigns, engaging in piracy, and manipulating public opinion and oil prices.The oil — small barrels that you draw from a bag when developing new oil fields — will run out. This is called "peak oil" and marks the end of the game. Players tally the value of the technologies in which they invested and supported during the game. Whoever shaped the future best (i.e. gained the most favor for their company) wins.

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Survive Peak Oil!Peak Oil is approaching and, as the president of a major oil company, you need to find a way to keep your company afloat! To do this, you’ll have to extract the last reserves of black-gold to raise the money needed to invest in the new technologies that are sure to soon replace oil. Of course, you’ll attempt to survive this crisis using legal means, but the competition won’t be so honorable. So maybe you’ll have to get your hands dirty as well….On your turn in Peak Oil, you assign your agents to different action spots on the board. If your agents are in the majority at any given action spot, or you decide to send mercenaries to their help, they squelch the competition - allowing you to take the action. Actions include: developing and harvesting oil fields, building pipelines, hiring new agents, buying new ship contracts, investing in oil replacement technologies, conducting PR campaigns, engaging in piracy, and manipulating public opinion and oil prices.The oil — small barrels that you draw from a bag when developing new oil fields — will run out. This is called "peak oil" and marks the end of the game. Players tally the value of the technologies in which they invested and supported during the game. Whoever shaped the future best (i.e. gained the most favor for their company) wins.

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The "ImmunoWars" STD booster pack is a NSFW expansion that requires the base game to play. This expansion introduces 32 STD-related playing cards featuring ailments like chlamydia, herpes, along with items such as chastity belts and hangovers, adding a spicy twist to the gameplay as well as new pathogens to learn about. It's designed to appeal to students and gamers looking to add a humorous, adult-themed dimension to their game nights, making "ImmunoWars" even more engaging for those who enjoy a bit of risqué fun. Perfect for those who want to explore the infectious world of STDs in a lighthearted and educational way, this booster pack enhances the strategic depth and enjoyment of the original game.

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Retell the incredible origin myth of the Inca in this dramatic mid-weight eurogame. In the beginning, Viracocha the creator brought forth Inti, the sun god, and Mama Quilla, the moon god. From the union of these two gods sprang four sons and four daughters: the Ayar. These siblings were tasked with guiding the first clans and teaching them the skills needed to build a civilization. As they traveled the land in search of fertile ground, the Ayar one by one met their fates until only two remained to found Tawantinsuyu – the Inca Empire. In Ayar: Children of the Sun, players take control of one of the first clans, journeying with the Ayar across the Andes. Follow their teaching and improve your skills at farming, pottery, weaving, and reed bundling. As well as advancing your own clan, you must influence the progress of the Ayar, ensuring the survival of those who reward your most developed skills. Seek the approval of Mama Quilla through long-term strategy, and please Inti with tactical play. Be careful not to earn the ire of one of these jealous gods because at the end of the game, whichever one favors you least will determine your final score. The future of your clan – and the Inca civilization – is in your hands.

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This item is a pre-order item with an expected release date of 02/27/2026 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. Tech Race is a medium-weight, Euro-style strategy game that simulates the dynamic, fast-paced world of tech startups. Players race to the highest startup valuation through smart hiring, innovation, and lobbying. Fast-paced and strategic, it captures the thrill of growing a company from the ground up with humor and surprises.  Choose your CEO and take the reins of your new tech startup! Each CEO has a unique skill that you must utilize if you want to take your company to the top. Hire and train employees to unlock new abilities and build your company. Just remember, each employee needs a salary, so you’ll need to keep an eye on payroll costs—or risk going bankrupt before your company takes flight. Use your employees’ actions to drive demand, expand your territories, obtain customers or steal from your competitors, and collect resources to develop futuristic technologies. Resources are limited, but savvy CEOs can exchange or buy resources from other players. As the game advances, policy cards will be drawn each round. CEOs then bid on their desired policy. The policy with the highest total bid from all players will be selected and put into play. Plan well, as these policies can earn you valuable rewards or even trigger chaotic events!

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