Board Games | Strategy Games

  It's 1977. You're an up-and-coming musician, dreaming of making it big with your band. Over the next few months you'll rehearse, play gigs, write songs, and promote your band. With careful planning and a little luck, you'll earn the most fame and become the best new artist of the year. Rock Hard: 1977 is played over a maximum of nine rounds, each representing a typical day of one month in 1977, from April to December. You win the game by accruing the most fame. How? Increasing reputation, chops and songs; achieving production, performance, and publicity bonuses; getting record deals and earning royalties; playing concerts; and hanging out at the hottest after-hours spot. Ready to live like a rock star? Ages 14+2-5 players45-90 min or less play time

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Luthier transports players to the height of classical music in Western Europe, when the art of the instrument was upheld equally by skilled craftspeople, noble patrons, virtuoso performers, and famous composers such as Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven.Using a new, unique combination of hidden bidding and worker placement, players manage resources to craft various musical instruments in their workshop, while also courting actual historic patrons through an ever-changing personal tableau of actions and bonuses. Each player chooses how to balance improving skills across multiple tracks, unlocking specialized worker abilities and other bonuses. The choice to concentrate on varying gameplay strategies and goals, such as musical performances, instrument building and repairs, apprentice training and workshop expansion, and overall reputation as an instrument maker, provide multiple paths to victory.Luthier finds true harmony through an authentic and original marriage of theme and mechanisms, resulting in a rich gameplay experience that equally speaks to both the strategic gamer and the classical music lover.

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Bah! Humbug! and the 12 Games of Christmas is a collection of 13 original holiday card games by 13 designers, reimplementing and expanding Bah! Humbug!: A Twelve Days of Christmas Bluffing Game by Emily Willix into a versatile box of games for 1-12 players. At the heart of the collection is a 78-card "12 days of Christmas" deck featuring Victorian-inspired animal art. The box also contains 34 wooden pieces, a detailed rulebook, and several additional card sets which may be combined with the base deck in various ways. The box includes rules for these original games: * Animal Menagerie (2 players) a card-drafting and set collection game by Emily Willix & Clark Willix* Christmas Parade (2 players) a card manipulation game by Felix Falk* Deckbuild the Halls (3-4 players) a trick-taking and deckbuilding game by Duncan Hecht* Dress the Mantel (2 players) a tile-laying game by David Waldman* The Duke's Daughters (1-4 players) a solo/cooperative game by Koyomi Kawasumi* The Giving Spirit (3-6 players) a trick-taking game by Evan Halbert* Ladies Dancing (1-3 players) a rondel and set collection game by Emily Willix & Clark Willix* O Christmas Tree (2-4 players) a racing and press-your-luck game by Pedro Kerouac & Jan Spodek* Post the Parcels (3-6 players) a pick-and-pass set collection game by James Gjaltema* Snapdragon (2-3 players) a dexterity and press-your-luck game by Chris Stone (II)* Swindling Suitors (3-4 players) a card-shedding and bluffing game by Galen McCown* Woodland Winter (1-2 players) a solo/co-op strategy game by Ren Vice

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is dead. His last conscious action on his deathbed was composing the Lacrimosa movement of his Opus Requiem. You, as one of his sponsors, will meet with the widow in order to participate one last time in the funding of the works of the Austrian genius. Also, you will reminisce and retell all your memories alongside Mozart in order to make sure that she portrays you under the best light when writing her memoirs in order to enter history as Mozart's most important patron. In Lacrimosa, players take the roles of patrons of the late musician, contributing with their fundings to the composer's works one last time. During the game, you play in two different timelines: the present and the past. In the present, you commission the missing parts of the Requiem from other composers in order to complete it. When developing past events, the game takes place in five epochs in which you contribute by buying new compositions from the composer to sell or exhibit, accompany him on the different journeys through the main courts and theaters in Europe, and gather the resources you need in order to support the musician during his career. During the game, you play cards from a limited hand that you will improve as the game progresses. These cards can be played either as actions or as resource generators, and players need to optimize their resources and finances in order to support their best version of the story and their relationship with Mozart.

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A (Blue) Blister that contains: 7 Lead Singers, 8 Musician cards, 4 Backstage cards & 4 production cards. Players can use these cards to customize their Draft & Write experience. You simply remove a certain cards from the base game and replace them with an equal number of cards of the same type.

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A (Pink) Blister that contains: 7 Lead Singers, 8 Musician cards, 4 Backstage cards & 4 production cards. Players can use these cards to customize their Draft & Write experience. You simply remove a certain cards from the base game and replace them with an equal number of cards of the same type.

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A (Blue) Blister that contains: 7 Lead Singers, 8 Musician cards, 4 Backstage cards & 4 production cards. Players can use these cards to customize their Draft & Write experience. You simply remove a certain cards from the base game and replace them with an equal number of cards of the same type.

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 Become one of the greatest classical composers of all time! You'll use inspiration, seek fortune and hobnob with aristocrats to perform musical masterpieces and achieve your legacy in this engine building game for 1-4 players. Get inspired by your rivals' performances to create your own works of genius as the game builds to a crescendo

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Players: 2+ • Playing Time: 30-45 • Age: 12+ Say This Playlist - Outscore your rivals in a game of song titles! Have you ever heard a word and immediately thought of a song title? In Say This Playlist you race against other players to add as many of those songs as you can to your playlist before time expires. Whoever has the most unique playlist (no matching songs) at the end of the round earns points and could be on the way to being the winner!

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This item is a pre-order item with an expected release date of 04/24/2026 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. Players: 1-4 • Playing Time: 60-150 • Age: 14+ Step into the role of a space orchestra manager with Philharmonix, the game that combines music and sci-fi in an out-of-this-world experience! Send your orchestra on missions to perform on different planets, strategically acquire new talented musicians, and train them to reach their full potential. Please the patrons that sponsor these concerts with your performances, and watch out for unexpected challenges along the way!

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