Eagle-Gryphon Games

“Natural disasters will soon be a thing of the past!” exclaimed Professor Sêni Lativ, meteorological manipulation project leader at Lightning Technologies. Tests of his new invention, the Weather Machine, showed positive results. Visions of taming floods, taming cyclones and ending droughts made him smile. In Weather Machine you are scientists on Prof. Lativ's team, tampering with the local weather: adjusting rainfall for farms, maintaining wind and clear air for ecological energy sources, and adjusting temperatures for resorts and sporting events. The prototype is quite effective so far; However, a pattern has emerged that reveals a worrying side effect: every use of the weather machine also changes conditions elsewhere on the planet – a "butterfly effect". “We need to build a new prototype,” he announces; "...but this time we're going to do it right. The government is funding this, and we're going to succeed." As Prof. Lativ explains the plan, the need to find suppliers for enough bots and chemicals is high. In addition to the materials, time is of the essence; you have to be focused and efficient…

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Your goal in Bot Factory is to collect projects and parts and then build bots to meet demand goals and improve the value of the bot you create. Sandra, Kanban's factory manager, is here to help! The game uses the same worker placement mechanism, with the order of turns determined by the workers' positions on the board.

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Since the beginning of time, humanity has sought new ideas and continually developed them into even newer concepts. Their genius made them distinctive from other animals. Every invention is a true evolutionary step. The use of tools by humans exceeds the efforts of all, making Homo sapiens technologists since long before historical records were invented. Inventions: Evolution of Ideas follows humanity's most remarkable innovations and puts the power of these technological advances in your hands to evolve your societies through the ages. In Inventions, maps simulate these new concepts. Maps are the ideas that eventually become inventions. Once invented, these technologies can be shared with the world, and everyone involved in the process spreads the exciting news and gives credit where credit is due. Developing these inventions furthers the progress of your society, furthering its technology, economy, and culture. You can even share with other societies, further increasing the effectiveness of the inventions! Inventions is a tactical game, but you'll do best by building these tactics around a long-term strategy. Each society's progress is measured in Intellectual Property Points (IPP), and the player who has the most IPP has the strongest society and wins the game.

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On Mars: Alien Invasion is a somewhat cooperative expansion of Vital Lacerda's On Mars. Although this expansion was originally going to be called Surviving Mars, Eagle-Gryphon Games decided to change the name to On Mars: Alien Invasion to better reflect the theme and content of this expansion. The game's story was written by Nathan Morse. The gameplay features four new and different ways to expand and play the base game. You play one against several; fully cooperative or even solo if you want depending on the chapter. Included are four new and fully replayable ways to establish colonies on Mars!

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Tanis, named after the ancient city in Lower Egypt, is a unique tile game for 2 players. The game starts with 40 beautiful domino-sized wooden tiles placed randomly in the custom-made box. These tiles represent pieces of reels that players try to reassemble in this fast-paced competitive game. The players also have cards that provide special powers that can be used to enhance their actions. A game takes less than 20 minutes to complete.

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Welcome to France during the reign of King Louis XV. The air is buzzing with excitement as a grand festival is about to begin in the lavish gardens of Versailles. You and your rival pastry chefs have been invited to create delicious pastries for the king’s noble guests in La Pâtisserie Rococo , a game for one to five players designed by Louis and Stefan Malz of the Rococo Deluxe design team. In this immersive game of culinary mastery, players take on the role of ambitious pastry chefs who manage their pastry chefs and apprentices. Players can acquire new recipes and purchase essential ingredients such as butter, sugar, and flour. They can add decorative flair to their creations by hiring talented pastry chefs, and benefit from the skills of staff with powerful bonus possibilities. During the game, players bake beautiful pastries that they can sell for profit or present to noble judges to gain prestige. Waiters can be employed to enhance presentations, while noble hosts can manage tables to earn additional prestige. Sometimes it is also necessary to strategically dismiss staff to gain extra money for the enterprise. The winner is the pastry chef who has earned the most prestige at the end of the game, making for a challenging and rewarding experience that can be played over and over again.

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You and your fellow minstrels meet at the Hungry Troubadour Tavern. There are plenty of vegetables to fill your empty belly as you sing for your dinner. A Bard Day's Night is a card game for 2-4 players with bidding, bluffing and singing songs. Players are bards who brainstorm their next performance for the bar patrons, while also filling their pockets with the vegetables the audience throws at them to express their “appreciation” for the performances. When a ballad is completed, players bid their food to claim different parts of the ballad. When the tavern closes for the night, those who performed the most popular themes will find a few coins coming their way in lieu of salad ingredients. The bard with the most coins wins! While playing the game, the bottom of the box doubles as a tavern table, with extra food cards for those who lose their bids.

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Cinema is an unpublished game by Sid Sackson. The Eagle-Gryphon team analyzed and developed the current rules of the game to bring Cinema to life. Dig Site was originally published as Corner by Ravensburger Games in Germany in 1974. It has been unavailable for decades until now. This new edition has an archaeological theme with updated rules for 4 players. Bowling Solitaire first appeared in Sid's book 'A Gamut of Games'. Originally published in 1969, this book was long a classic work on the subject of game design. Cinema: Number of players: 3 - 5 players Game time: 45 minutes Age: from 14 years Dig Site Number of players: 2 or 4 players Game time: 20 - 30 minutes Age: from 14 years Bowling Solitaire Number of players: 1 player Game time: 20 minutes Age: from 14 years

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I'm the Boss: The Dice Game and Banana Blitz are two games that the Eagle-Gryphon team found while digging through Sid's prototypes and his diary entries about his best games that had never been published. The name and gameplay of Banana Blitz comes from Sid's notes: exactly as they are written. The original name for 'I'm the Boss: The Dice Game' was 'Deal me in'. The original game almost felt like a finished project when Sid left it in 1981. His meticulous notes and calculations in his diary allowed us to recreate the gameplay as Sid intended. We took some liberties in modernizing the artistic design of both games, but we are confident that Sid would have approved of the end result, which we are proud to present. Scope was brought to Eagle-Gryphon's attention by game designer Joe Huber. Sid originally created this never-before-published large group game for a group at a veterans home in New York. Little has been added to Sid's original concept and rules for this game. I'm the Boss: The Dice Game: Number of players: 3 - 6 players Game time: 30 - 60 minutes Age: from 14 years Banana Blitz Number of players: 2 or 7 players Game time: 30 minutes Age: from 14 years Scope Number of players: 1 - 4 players Game time: 10 minutes Age: from 14 years

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In The Scarlet Pimpernel you help the Scarlet Pimpernel complete seven missions and save the innocent from the guillotine. No mission will be as important as the last, as you rescue the young Dauphin, heir to the French throne, by taking him to Vienna. As a member of the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, you help carry out missions by securing the routes and locations, obtaining the required number of supporters and resources (horses, carts, papers and disguises), and filling the five mission spaces. This task is done by placing your cubes in different locations on the board to score points. Although players work together to complete missions, only the player with the highest score at the end of the game becomes Scarlet Pimpernel's most trusted advisor.

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