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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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In the Space Dragons trick game, players first draft nine cards, then play seven to score as many points as possible. Whoever plays the highest card in a trick wins the face-up dragon. However, unlike other trick games, there are no suits to follow and the cards that were played remain for the respective players. They activate special effects when played, but also award victory points. With three double-sided score cards and a variant for an even faster game, there is plenty of variety.

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In Itchy Monkey, several families of lice try to become the dominant type. Each turn you summon new lice and jump to nearby monkeys. Alternatively, you can tickle the monkey, which will make it move and bump into other monkeys. This way more of your little friends can jump over! But beware of your rival families, because no one likes nitpicking. The family lice that can build a colony on three gorillas, four of the same animal or five different species of monkeys wins! Itchy Monkey is an easy to learn, but very strategic and tactical game.

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Can you keep your cool when the Elements are at stake? In this microgram, you and your opponent try to create a sum of card values ​​close to the limit on the table without going any further. With few components and even fewer rules, Elements is a smart card game with beautiful artwork that you'll want to play again and again.

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In the world of international espionage, effective ways to complete missions are just as important as improvisation and secure travel routes. In Spy Connection, players travel across Europe to complete their missions as quickly as possible. To fulfill mission cards, players must build a route between all shown locations. While they may use their established network to carry out future missions, their network is of limited size: to eventually expand in one direction, they must remove markers elsewhere, adapting their network throughout the game to meet current requirements to fulfil. The first person to complete 7 missions wins the game.

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A colossal pun? Great at math? Do you like your letters? Ridiculously good at riddles? Then this is your chance to shine as you battle it out to win the fastest puzzle game! The rules are simple. Everyone races to solve each puzzle and the first player to crack it and sound the alarm wins the round! Are you super fast or do you panic under pressure?

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In Era, your dice represent different classes of medieval society as players attempt to build the most prosperous city. You use beautifully modeled three-dimensional components such as walls, keeps, farms and other structures. At the end of the game, each player will have their own unique city! Things get even more challenging as you deal with extortion and, of course, illness! Hey, this is the Middle Ages, right?

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It all starts with flowers: orange, bergamot, jasmine, lavender, daffodil and rose. Using different production methods, you transform flowers into the corresponding scents and use them to complete a perfume recipe. Perfumers will need to continually develop their knowledge and learn new techniques through study and travel. In addition, players must maintain their social position among nobles and try to influence the king and his court. When perfumes are presented to the king and court, you score prestige points based on how fashionable and original they are. Ultimately, the player with the most prestige points wins.

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You need to create the face that best suits your card. The number of facial parts is limited, but the expressions you can make are countless. If everyone can find the card that matches your face, you win. Can you express emotions with your face so that everyone understands?

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ARTBOX is a game where every player becomes a modern artist. Each game round is a competition where you try to represent your word using only different shapes. Players will also have to challenge their deduction and try to guess what their opponents were trying to portray.

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A laughing phantom. Who is the criminal? A mysterious case involving a MacGuffin... the investigators are ready to report their prime suspects and to arrest the criminal. Behind the scenes, however, the Phantom retreats. No one has seen the Phantom... You must be vigilant! While on the lookout for the Phantom, speculate and discover who the criminal really is. This fast-paced, mysterious card game is packed with reasoning and fun. Let the battle begin!

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You are a formidable villain; your sinister conquests are countless. But there is one enemy that even you cannot defeat alone, Archerex, the Lord of Dragons. A wealth of treasure beyond imagination is waiting to be claimed, and this dragon's scales are more valuable than any amount of gold or gemstones! Will your loose alliance be able to defeat Archerex, or will the wrath of this great dragon consume you all? Dragonscales is a villain and treasure hunting game where players are sinister villains, each with their own unique advantages, tactics and style! Show your strength by slaying the dragon... while grabbing as much treasure as possible! Or perhaps you will find an opportune moment, rush to the exit, leaving your "allies" to be consumed by the dragon's wrath! Designed by Richard Launius, Dragonscales gives players multiple victory conditions to work towards while ensuring constant player interaction. Devise a devious strategy and head for the great dragon's lair, pushing your luck against that of the other players as you strive to be the most formidable villain!

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Are you ready for Lift Off? In this space race, players try to combine the right cards for a Lift Off! Collect the most sets of three cards each. Each set contains a rocket, an astronaut and a moon - but each card must be different! The color and number of images on a card must be different for each card in the set.

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UNO Showdown is a card game that everyone will enjoy, but with the unexpected excitement of a sudden shower of cards! When the light comes on and the signal from the UNO Showdown unit sounds, you must push the pedal down as quickly as possible. The fastest player wins the 'showdown' and lets cards from the UNO Showdown fly to the other players! The players try to play all their cards as quickly as possible by placing a matching card in their hand on the top card of the pile. And don't forget to shout UNO when you have one card left! Fun for a games evening with children, adults or the whole family and a great gift for players aged 7 and over.

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The ceiling in the cathedral is in urgent need of restoration. The Bishop is awaiting important visitors and wants to show off his church. The players slip into the role of the fresco painters in this colorful family game and must prove their skills: But only the player who plans cleverly can win! This fascinating game contains 3 expansion modules that can be combined with the basic game.

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After several generations, the ancient capital of underground gnomes must be moved due to human expansion. Brave explorers and their families are sent to found a new city in the largest and deepest stone hall of the Great Mountain. You and your friends will manage the construction of this new capital, which will become known as the great Gnomopolis! Gnomopolis is a fast and strategic game in which you have to combine city growth with population specialization. A near-endless combination of buildings and workers can create ingenious action systems and scoring mechanisms in a frantic race for victory. With a playing time of almost 45 minutes, one to four players must think wisely to build their own city and trade with neighbors. The game is played in turns, with each player drawing three gnomes (gnome meeples) from a cup. They can then use these gnomes to build buildings or perform actions. Actions can be a combination of specializing adults, hiring more gnomes, earning gold coins, building mechanical golems, or controlling the workforce in a district. As the city grows, more gnomes immigrate. At the end of the game, players count their points from coins and any workers working in buildings (be careful of unemployed gnomes!). The player with the most points is the winner!

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After the nobles have settled in Honshu, the journey continues north: Hokkaido. With the large mountain ranges it becomes more challenging to settle. Hokkaido is played over twelve rounds. Each player starts with six cards, chooses one and passes the remaining cards to the player on the left or right (depending on the round). With the chosen card, the player expands his landscape, placing the card under or over an already played card. After twelve rounds there is a final score and the player with the most points wins the game.

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At the start of each turn, players have a certain amount of energy to bid with, for an ever-changing pool of cards known as the Mortal Plane. This number is equal to the current number of suns in the sky. But every time Houyi appears, more Suns are closed and players have less and less energy to bid with them. Players can use other forms of energy, such as lunar energy from the moon or other gods, in short: engine building.

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Cloud Control is a fun and fast-paced game of creative imagination in which you try to score the most points by shaping clouds into recognizable objects before time runs out. Let your imagination run wild as you rotate, rotate, overlap and animate cloud maps in limitless creative ways of communicating. The sky is your canvas!

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The Canadian province of Manitoba is wild, fascinating and almost without borders: countless lakes, majestic mountains, a vast tundra in the north and endless prairies in the south. Manitoba is a country whose name is directly derived from Manitou, the great creative spirit of the American natives. In Manitoba, players become clan leaders of the Cree tribe and try to become the leader of them all, but this is not easy as they have to deal with the capriciousness of nature and provide both material and spiritual wealth for their clans. As the seasons progress, there are a few things everyone needs to consider: When and where do I plan to be active on Manitoba's hunting grounds? Or would it be better now to emphasize spiritual development and walk on mystical paths? How can I exchange and exploit my resources smartly? Players can also manipulate the totem's wooden checkers to greatly influence the abilities of all players. Many situations require wise decisions...

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In The Court of Miracles, players will lead a guild of beggars, scheme sinister plots and use deceit to build their fame in an attempt to take over 16th century Paris. The first player to place all their Glory tokens is the winner. Players use worker placement and area influence to compete for control of neighborhoods, inevitably leading to standoffs where glory can be won or lost. The use of plot cards and the secret values ​​of Rogue Tokens allows for deceptive tactics, while a wide mix of skills and actions gives huge variety to every game. So take control of one of the five guilds and make sure you're the most feared in Paris when the Penniless King reaches his final destination.

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A Game of Thrones: B'Twixt is an all-new game of twisting loyalties and unpredictable power struggles set in the world of George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series! Manipulate the tangled politics of King's Landing in this fast-paced card game for 3-6 players. You run your house as one of nine iconic conspiracy characters from the Song of Ice and Fire series. Use your influence to attract new allies and carefully navigate the loyalties of the other players as you strive to have the most powerful small council in Westeros. But some allies are shared between you and your neighbor, so beware - even your closest companions have different loyalties!

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The Cold War is here. In the dark shadows, agencies gather information about financial institutions, political figures, military installations and top-secret technological advances. However, where an agency believes it has exclusive access to information, leaks within the network allow information to be spread around the world. Which agency will be able to gather sufficient information on their prominent targets and at what cost? Who built the best Shadow Network? Shadow Network is a worker-placement style game where players deploy their agents around the world to collect snippets of information. These fragments are then promoted into a usable state that can be used against a prominent target and earning player influence - the in-game currency. As the players gather information from one city, information is also leaked to other cities, potentially helping other agencies. Additional agents can be deployed, but for a fee. Additionally, handlers can help exchange information, giving the agency an edge. At the end of four rounds of play, agencies will bribe their prominent targets for greater influence. Ultimately, the player with the most influence is the winner.

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For generations, the fertile Hiddenlands were shared by the peoples of the Five Realms. The Elves, Mages, Dwarves, Halflings, and Men lived peacefully together, though they became increasingly involved in fierce competition for the prosperity and glory of their nations. But then everything changed. The Goblin Hordes attacked and the Hiddelands' whole grains could not stop them. The survivors of the empire fled by ship and discovered a new country after a few days at sea. It was a time of hope, a time of exploration and construction, and a time of renewed competition in a new world they called Pandoria. In Pandoria, players discover this new land by placing tiles and placing workers. When a terrain type is completely surrounded by other terrain, the worker gains resources. Although more than one civilization usually benefits, each player tries to get more than the others. Mining gold gives you income to buy cards that have two options: buildings and spells. You can build cards with wood and you can use crystals to cast one-time spells. Excess resources can be converted into prestige points. When the new land is fully explored (all tiles have been placed), the player with the most points is declared the most powerful nation in Pandoria and wins the game!

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Flotilla offers two distinct and intertwined game modes as you try to outdo your opponents by bringing prosperity to humanity's new home. You start the game as a 'Sinkside' fleet commander, commissioned by world leaders to explore the new face of the ocean, scour the depths for resources and rescue any survivors you come across. At any point in the game you can choose to become "Skyside" by selling your skiffs and leaving your seafaring life behind to now grow the Flotilla itself. The components in Flotilla are unique, immersive and interconnected. Your skiffs can carry up to four resource barrels and have a unique shape for each player color. Artifact tokens are placed in matching spaces in a double-tiered hub board, and art on the ocean tiles lines up to create a unique layout for your growing Flotilla every time you play. In Flotilla you'll find significant strategic depth and variety, while giving players the freedom to tell their own story. Will you build the Flotilla by getting to Skyside first, or will you stay in Sinkside for the entire game and become the most powerful seafarer of them all?

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On the Rocks is a drafting game in which you create recipes. Welcome to On The Rocks Cocktail Lounge, where the city's best mixologists expertly craft cocktails that customers crave. In this competitive bartending game, players fill cocktails for money and extra tips, but beware of rival mixologists who remove and spill ingredients from your cocktails. Players choose 3 or 4 cocktails to prepare and serve. Complete three rounds of play until the Last Call is made. The Mixologist who has the most cocktail sales and tips after Last Call is the winner of the evening! Cheers and roll responsibly!

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It's a beautiful day and everyone in your hometown is excited to see all the fun and spectacle of the upcoming parade! But first, the floats that will thrill the crowds must be built... and whoever creates the most exciting floats will be the Grand Marshal! In Everyone Loves A Parade, 2-6 players act as float designers, selecting colorful decoration cards (flowers, balloons and flags) to add to their floats and wowing the crowds, which is represented by dice with colors and items that they want to see. Each decoration card provides an immediate action that can give you an edge, allowing you to move or reroll dice! At the end of each round, players reveal their secret order cards, perform a final action, and then parade their completed float in front of a crowd. You earn points by giving the crowd what they want and the player with the highest score after three rounds wins and becomes the Grand Marshal!

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Between the 13th and 17th centuries, more than 900 monumental statues, Moaï, were erected on the Polynesian island of Rapa Nui, also called Easter Island. Become a powerful chieftain of Easter Island and gather tribesmen to best serve your village and please the gods. Cut, transport, and raise Moai to gather resources, turning them into sacrifices to honor your ancestors and secure your spiritual and political prowess. Each turn takes place in 3 phases. During the first phase, each player sends one of his figures onto the board, each in turn, until all the figures have been placed. The wizard determines the order of the next turn and the villagers are placed on the board to become transporters or scupltors. Thanks to the number of sculptors present in the quarry, each player collects Moais of different sizes. Moai or Pukao must be transported through a continuous chain of carriers whether they are from your clan or not. But be careful, you provide resources to your opponents when you use their transporter! Once you arrive at your destination, you can set up the Moai to grab the Ahu tile that you can play to your tune, as well as one or more resources depending on the size of the Moai. Styling your Moais allows you to exchange resources to acquire Offer Tokens. At the end of a round, if the number of ahu without moai is less than or equal to the number of players, the game ends. The winner is the player with the most victory points earned thanks to the Sacrifice and Extraordinary Sacrifice tiles.

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"Jubako" boxes are beautifully decorated boxes, usually made of fine wood, in which Japanese food is served, especially on special occasions such as New Year's Eve. Some jubako boxes even have multiple levels to stack the treats. In Jubako, 2-4 players try to stack treats, trying to fill their own box as skillfully as possible with rice, fish and various vegetables. The domino-style coins contain two treats each and must be placed carefully and stacked even more carefully.

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In the land of Allegoria, Queen Gwendoline is on her deathbed. How long she has to live is uncertain. With no born heir to the throne, her empire rests on the edge of the sword. Four houses, each represented by a champion of their own renown, vie to replace the ailing monarch and claim the throne of Allegoria. Reputation is fought for; influence is hard won. Power is fleeting. In Throne of Allegory, players take on the role of the Lords and Ladies of Allegoria, all vying to become the next monarch and proving themselves worthy to succeed the throne. They are supported by the four most powerful houses of the realm: Roselie, the House of Roses; Culver-Lux, the House of Feathers; Antares, the house of storms; Umbral, the House of Shadows. Over the course of 6 weeks (game rounds), players must make the best use of the local workforce, stake their claims and win decisive battles, in a story of secrecy and supremacy. At the end of the 6th round, players add up the Influence they gained during the game. The player with the most influence will claim the throne and win the game. Throne of Allegoria is a big and beautiful game from two experienced designers. Only 1000 copies will be made!

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Number of players: 2 - 4 players Game time: 60 - 180 minutes Age: From 12 years Publisher: DLP Games Language: English, German Orléans Stories is based on the bag-building mechanic of Orléans, where this mechanism has been further developed into a story in which players go through different eras and face different challenges. Instead of focusing on the city of Orléans and trading with the surrounding villages, the player now settles in the Loire Valley. Players must produce resources, establish villages and build forts and churches. They will experience times of prosperity and success, but also times of hardship; they must brave famine and plague, fight for their country, and perhaps conquer foreign lands to secure the lives of their colonists. But in the end there is peace and joint governance of territories and villages. The game contains two stories: "The First Kingdom" and "The King's Favor". “The First Kingdom” is an epic story that spans eight so-called eras, and each era has different terms and emphases. Sometimes knights settle, with whose help you can conquer foreign territories, sometimes the plague threatens to decimate the population of settlers, unless they all worked together to develop medicine. "The King's Favor" is shorter, simpler, and more suitable as an introduction to the game. In five eras, certain tasks must be completed and those who do not will be mercilessly dropped. The threat of having to end the game prematurely provides a constant thrill, but all tasks are achievable, so (usually) all players make it to the end. But you certainly shouldn't just focus on these tasks... it takes more to win! The different eras influence both the game parameters and the rules of the game, creating new strategic possibilities. This challenges players to constantly adapt to current circumstances, giving you the impression of experiencing a story. The legacy game is replayable and you can play it as many times as you want. The changes from era to era require a new way of seeing things from a distance, but this is made easier by a storybook where players will find not only all the relevant information and quirks of rules, but also hints on how to prepare.

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Paris's dazzling boulevards and historic monuments are surrounded by lush vegetation. The once vibrant city has been silenced after an apocalyptic event and your goal is to forge a new future. Improve your shelter, manage your resources, and gather a community of diverse survivors: builders, soldiers, healers, wits, and farmers, all as you make your way through the jungle cityscape. A clever dice-drafting mechanism allows you to recruit survivors. Over the course of a year, you continue to build your shelter and overcome the many obstacles you encounter along the way. At the end of winter, the player who has collected the most victory points wins the game.

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Become your favorite Animal Alchemist and try to become the best spell caster. Win by collecting the most points from spells, potions and ingredients! The Games Friends: “ Animalchemist is a very entertaining card game with a 'set collection' mechanism. The game material looks beautiful, with even a shiny layer over the potions. Very nice! "

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In Origin, experience the greatest adventure of all time: the expansion of humanity. Starting in Africa, the cradle of the world. Explore the entire planet, improve your knowledge and advance on the scale of evolution. Origin is a family game for 2 to 4 players with unique components. Exploration, innovation, discovery... the path to victory is manifold: choose your own strategy.

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The Space Race was a lie. Look, it's not like the moon landing was faked. That happened. Neil hates the conspiracy theories. The lie is that we once wanted to go to the moon. We needed a spectacle to show people. To justify the huge budgets. The agencies. Neil stepped on a rock 239,000 miles from Earth. Big deal. I stepped onto an exoplanet orbiting Ursae Majoris 18 months earlier. It's a one-way trip, so no one goes home. No ticker tape parade for me, but that's okay. I am here for my country. Look, the Russians beat us here for a few months. Japanese showed up a few weeks after us. We are colonizing this planet for America. Because there is no choice...

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Big Easy Busking is an area control game for 1 to five players, in which you try to become the best busker in New Orleans. The game is played over three days, during which players choose which locations they will perform at. But of course, all that performing takes a lot of energy, so you have to manage your energy carefully. Do I give it my all in this song or save some for later songs. If you manage to match the audience's mood exactly, you get bonus points! The game starts with three locations where a player can perform, but by the end of the game there are five locations. So think carefully about which location you choose! Once you've chosen that, you have to choose how much energy you want to spend at that location and try to meet the audience's expectations exactly. Will you manage to write yourself into the history books? Or will you lose the battle for the audience? The choices are yours!

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In 3 Secrets: Crime Time you are a detective who can travel through time and try to solve unsolved cases. The aim of the game is to unravel three secrets before time runs out. The supercomputer HAL knows the truth, but unfortunately cannot reveal everything... Therefore, players must ask questions while using their detective skills. If they do this correctly, they will manage to solve the three mysteries before being sent back to base. You can play this game both cooperatively and competitively and you can also use a free app for an even better experience.

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Guardians of Legends is a board game that lets you discover many legends and search for numerous treasures! Play with your friends, try to discover their secrets, but be careful and make sure you protect your own! Go to the meeting of unexpected places or unexplored land and, most importantly, have fun!

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Quickly grab the right animal or crop and win! Do you know all the animals on the farm? And do you know which crops grow there? With this game you get to know the farm well. Roll your dice in the 3D farm and be the first to pick the right animal or crop. Farmy Up is a game for children up to six years old. Children get to know life on the farm and develop their responsiveness. There are two different game levels. For older children it is possible to make the game more difficult and thus practice making strategic choices. The French company Bioviva develops games that focus on nature and the environment. Children learn all about animals, the climate and nature in a playful way. All board and card games are made of FSC paper and eco ink.

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