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Cascadia is a puzzling tile-laying and token-drafting game about the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest. In the game you take turns building your own terrain and populating it with wildlife. You start with three hexagonal habitat tiles (with five types of habitats in play) and on a turn you choose a new habitat tile linked to a nature token. Place the tile next to your other one and place the nature token on a suitable habitat. (Each tile shows 1-3 types of wildlife out of the five species in the game, and you can place up to one tile on a habitat.) There are four tiles in the display, with each tile randomly paired with a nature token, so you have to make the best of what's available - unless you have a nature token to spend so you can choose any item. The Games Friends: Cascadia is a real hit! It has the same ease as Calico, but we still find this game a lot more fun. Due to the different animal cards, there is sufficient variation in the game, which makes it something that is often on the table here. Highly recommended!

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In Space Base you have a player board on which you can add cards with ships. The players can decide for themselves whether they go for cards that require a lot of luck or whether they prefer to play it safe . This means there are plenty of tactical choices to make, but Space Base is also a game that you can explain to new players in a very short time.

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In Dog Lover you have to fetch cards, collect bones and collect food for your lovely dogs. You will rescue them from the shelter, train them in new tricks and nurture their unique qualities. The player who best cares for his beloved dogs scores the most victory points and wins the game!

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You are the mayor of a small town in the forest, where the smaller creatures of the forest have created a society hidden from predators. This new country is small and resources are scarce – you take what you can get and never say no to resources. Plan smartly and build a thriving city, but don't fill it up with unused resources! The Games Friends: “ Tiny Towns is a simple board game that is fun to play. In this game you can really upset each other and you have to be careful that you distribute the resources properly. Highly recommended as a family game or for a snack!”

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It's time for a new challenge! In Cat Lady: Box of Treats you will find new items, treats and cats. In addition, this expansion allows you to play the game with up to six players. All of this makes Cat Lady: Box of Treats indispensable for fans of the base game!

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Verdant is a puzzling card game for 1 to 5 players. You take on the role of a houseplant lover trying to create the coziest indoor space by collecting and arranging houseplants and other objects in your home. You need to place your plants so that they get the most suitable lighting conditions and you need to ensure that you create the greenest collection. Each turn you select an adjacent pair of a card and token and use those items to build an ever-expanding tablue that represents your house. You'll need to keep several goals in mind as you try to increase plant greenery by making spatial matches and using item tokens to perform various actions. You can also develop your "green thumb" skills, allowing you to take extra actions to care for your plants and create the coziest space!

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In Santa Monica you try to create the most beautiful neighborhood in southern California. Are you going for a quiet neighborhood near the beach that focuses on nature? Or do you focus on tourists? The choice is yours! Each round, players draw cards from a central board and use those cards to build their beach and street. If you do that best, you will score the most points and you will be the winner of Santa Monica!

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What if the formation of the Earth had gone differently? In 'Ecos: First Continent' players will answer that question, because now you have the chance to change part of the Earth. Which landscapes, animals and plants appear is up to you! The unique thing about Ecos is that the players complete their turns at the same time. Each round, one player takes an element token from the element bag, giving all players the opportunity to shape the continent in such a way that it is most useful to them. Elements that cannot be used can be converted into energy cubes or extra cards. Are you going for mountains, a jungle, rivers, oceans, islands or a savannah? Each site has its own fauna. The choice is yours! The Games Friends: Ecos: First Continent looks beautiful and is cleverly constructed. The rules are relatively simple, but because of the many different cards, each game feels different. In our opinion, definitely recommended for fans of Cascadia, for example!

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In Tiny Towns: Villagers you will be introduced to a new community looking for a new home. That community contains creatures with incredible talents, from traders to engineers, so you want to attract them to your Tiny Towns. With their talents you can transform buildings, better control your resources and build incredible architectural feats. Will you take up the challenge! The Games Friends: " Tiny Towns Experts makes it all a bit more difficult. The experts provide even more brain-bending decisions, but are certainly a nice addition. Because the experts each have different properties, the replayability is also high. Good expansion! "

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In Ready Set Bet, you and your friends head to the races for a day of cheering, cheering and betting on your favorite horses, whose fate depends on every roll of the dice. Ready Set Bet is played over four rounds. Each round consists of a race followed by the bet. During each race, players place their betting chips freely on the board while the race is in progress. After each race, players win or lose money for each of their placed betting chips and then receive a VIP Club Card that allows them to win more money in subsequent races. After four rounds, the player with the most money wins!

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Truffle Shuffle™ is a fast and fun card game for the whole family! Players take turns selecting truffles from a shared box of overlapping cards to sell their own chocolates. Players can complete different sets using special modifiers and action cards. With so many different chocolate truffles to unwrap and different ways to combine them, every game of Truffle Shuffle™ is unique!

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In a peaceful galaxy, a new technology has been invented: wormholes. They allow ships to fly from one point to another, opening up countless opportunities for trade and travel. As a captain of a passenger spaceship, you can make a lot of money by building a robust network of wormholes. Connect the farthest reaches of space as you deliver passengers to become the most successful captain in this golden age of space travel. Players collect passengers, each of whom has specific destinations they want to reach. However, this pick-up and delivery can be very different once you create wormholes between different points of the galaxy...

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Shake That City is a family puzzle game for 1-4 players that takes less than an hour! The game is played over a series of rounds. The active player shakes the Cube Shaker and presses the slider to reveal a 3x3 pattern, based on which he must place the corresponding building tiles of a single color of his choice on his board. The building tiles correspond to roads, factories, shops, parks and of course houses. The other players then choose a different building color than the color chosen by the active player, and then place matching colored tiles in the pattern on their board. Players earn points for tile-placement combinations and for completed bonuses around the edge of their board.

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In Mystic Vale, 2 to 4 players take on the role of druidic clans trying to cleanse the curse on the land. Each turn you play cards in your field to gain powerful advances and useful vale cards. Use your power wisely or you will end your turn prematurely. Score the most victory points to win the game! First released in 2016, John D Clair's Mystic Vale introduced the world to the Card Crafting System. Using clear plastic cards stacked in a single card sleeve, this new game mechanic took the traditional game card and turned it into a dynamic, player-controlled playing piece. With Card Crafting at its heart and stunning artwork on every card, Mystic Vale became an award-winning modern classic that gamers have enjoyed for years. This Essential Edition includes the base game of Mystic Vale, along with the first three expansions: Vale of Magic, Vale of the Wild and Mana Storm.

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Ecos New Horizon is an extension for Ecos First Continent. Now your growing continent can feature iconic landscape features! Add Kilimanjaro, the Sahara, Serengeti and others to your developing countries. And of course, there are more animals to increase the population of your ecosystem - from Nile crocodiles to herds of zebras. New Horizon introduces a new type of card mechanic to play these landscape elements, and each has a unique interaction with the landscape that will influence all players' choices throughout the game. Can your plans resist the creeping expansion of the Sahara or take advantage of the deep jungles of the Congo Basin?

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Grab your popcorn! Smash Up is back with a radical and extreme expansion, featuring the best elements of 80s cinema! Or well, as close as we can legally get without attracting the attention of some lawyer. Get ready to go back in time (again!), tame some ghosts, search treasure chests, and unleash an insane amount of action on a bunch of nerds! Can you lose with these great new factions? Not really! "Excellent Movies, Dudes!" is fully compatible with all previous Smash Up expansions.

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Deep Dive is a press-your-luck set-collection game where you use your group of penguins to dive deep into the ocean and collect the most bountiful collection of food! Turns are simple: Turn over an ocean tile and see what you reveal. You can take what you find in the shallows or dive deeper, hoping for a bigger catch - but the deeper you go, the more numerous the predators become. As you surface with food, build sets of three colors. Focus on the colors you need to complete sets and score the maximum number of points. When one of the ocean's depths is fully explored, the game ends and the penguin group with the best food sets wins!

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The peaceful town of Rowan is surrounded by dangerous monsters. It's up to the citizens to fortify the city, train warriors, clerics, knights and mages, and defend Rowan in Meeples & Monsters! Meeples & Monsters is a large immersive board game by designer Ole Steiness (Champions of Midgard and more). Depth, replayability, beautiful features and some meeple humor will keep you coming back for another game!

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Smash Up celebrates 10 years with an all-new set featuring new factions, a new way to play and lots of goodies for fans of the game! The set also includes special items like a Goblin collectible coin (luckily you can flip a coin with your Goblin faction!), the 10th Anniversary Art Book, the all-new Big Base game mode and more!

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In That Old Wallpaper you try to restore the wall of a house with wallpaper, matching as many patterns as possible. There are a number of locations available in the game where wallpaper cards are up for grabs. Each turn, players simultaneously choose a location, and if you are the only one who chooses a location, you receive the card or cards at that location. If you choose the same location as someone else, everyone will receive a "blurry memory card" with a wallpaper pattern along only one edge instead of all four edges. If you receive regular wallpaper cards, you should immediately add them to your other played cards, ideally matching the pattern halves to create a complete pattern. Patterns come in four colors, with each color having two sizes. There is also a joker pattern available, which seems a bit strange, but so be it. To end a turn, you deal a new wallpaper card to each location, which means some locations will likely have more cards than others. At the end of the game, use your blurry memory cards to complete patterns on the edge of your wallpaper, then score for each color of the pattern. A pattern's score is the number of large symbols of that color multiplied by the number of small symbols, so if you don't have at least one large and small symbol, you won't score anything for that color!

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By combining the power of Shy Plutonium with new spaceship technologies, the UES Science Corps finally has the ability to reach the distant stars of Alpha Centauri and discover the planet Terra Proxima. Strange ruins and vast fields of fungi cover much of the planet... Welcome to the second installment of Space Base Saga expansions. This is a collection of linked story games that add new game mechanics to Space Base through story. Not only new ships are added, but also new scenarios. Once the story is completed, it can be replayed or the content can be added to the base game of Space Base.

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In the ultimate shuffling building card game, players choose two groups of Marvel characters to take over the bases and score the most victory points. Mix and match the different decks of heroes and villains to see which combinations can best defeat you! This game allows fans to create stories that have never existed in the Marvel Universe. Which combination do you choose?

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Put yourself in the shoes of an artist who manages a studio or art studio in the 19th century. Roll dice, manage your assistants, collect the necessary paints and complete famous works of art. Will you be a prolific artist completing many works for your clients, or will you be known for only a few masterpieces that stand the test of time? Atelier: The Painter's Studio is played in rounds. During each round, players take turns using one or more of their dice to complete tasks. Turns proceed clockwise around the table until all players have used all four of their dice. When the round is over, all players take back their dice, pass the starting player token clockwise and begin the next round. Players use their dice to collect students, paint colors, and ultimately complete paintings. The completed paintings contribute to the reputation of their studio, which will lead to additional actions that can be taken. When a player completes their third painting with the masterpiece symbol, the game enters the final round. Players then add up the victory points from their paintings, patrons, and “First Master” token to determine the winner.

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