Holy Grail Games

Museum: Pictura is a standalone game for 2-4 players by Olivier Melison and Eric Dubus, in which you take on the role of an aspiring curator at an art museum. Set in the 1920s, the game is beautifully illustrated in Art Deco style by French artist Loïc Muzy, brought to life by illustrator Ekaterina Varlamov. Your goal is to create collections of some of history's most iconic works of art. To do this, acquire painting cards and exhibit them in your museum to eventually create collections. A collection can be based on the period of the painting (ranging from the Renaissance to Impressionism), or the domain (historical, landscape, mythological...). The collections you create earn you prestige points and the player with the most prestige at the end of the game wins. While playing you will have to deal with the changing trends in the art world. Exhibiting paintings of those that are currently in fashion will earn you extra points! As your collections grow, you can briefly open them to the public with a temporary exhibition, which will immediately allow you to score that collection's value and get special bonuses for the rest of the game. But be careful, your visitors will quickly tire of the same types of collections, so it's essential to time your exhibitions wisely.

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Welcome to Encyclopedia! The year is 1739 and as aspiring naturalists and adventurers, you have been hired by the Comte de Buffon - Darwin's predecessor - to help him create the first encyclopedia of natural history. To do this, conduct research, organize ambitious expeditions, and publish studies of the world's most fascinating creatures! Encyclopedia is a dice-based worker placement game. At the start of each round, you draw dice, roll them and place them on your player board. These dice can then be used to perform an action each turn, depending on their color and value. Your action can be to prepare your expeditions by going to the embassy, ​​visiting the bank to raise funds or hiring your research team at the university. When you're ready to go, choose the animal maps you want to study and organize expeditions to observe them in their natural habitat. When your research is complete, you can publish your findings in an effort to contribute to Buffon's Encyclopedia. With each publication you make you earn victory points and at the end of the game you score points based on collections of animals and research collected during play. The naturalist with the most points wins! Encyclopedia was designed by Olivier Melison and Eric Dubus, the authors of Dominations: Road to Civilization and Museum. This expert worker-placement game brings some fascinating new twists to the genre and offers multiple paths to victory. The game also offers a variety of ways to counteract the random element of your dice rolls. Not only can players spend different tokens to change the value or color of a die, but they have more than just their own dice to choose from, as other players' dice can be used too! Taking a die from another player's board costs nothing, but the target player gets a bonus. The game's theme - with beautifully illustrated animal cards - ties in closely with the mechanics, making the rules easy to understand so you can start devising the perfect strategy straight away.

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Start your engines! Rallyman is a Roll and Move game with a simple yet exciting dice mechanic that invites players to try their luck and navigate the terrain as best they can. Do you take a risk and squeeze every last second out of the track, or do you play it cool and avoid turning around on hard turns, bumps and other treacherous terrain? Holy Grail Games will reinvent this classic racing board game from 2009. The first edition and its expansion Rallyman: Dirt not only sold out completely, but connected a community that continues to play to this day. Hosting monthly challenges, championships and even a World Cup, Rallyman has endured in the heart of its dedicated community despite being officially out of print for over 6 years. Now Holy Grail Games brings back this cult game for both new and experienced players in the form of Rallyman: GT!

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Sydney's Royal Botanic Garden holds a special place in the hearts of locals. World famous for its location, beauty and historical and scientific significance, each of the 29 hectares is not only beautiful, but also a soothing retreat from the city streets. In The Gardens, players play cards and then score points based on what their visitors see as they walk past the gardens' various flowerbeds, ponds, native trees and statues. The tableau you build has three rows - water, grass and the city side - and you add one card per turn until the area is full. The game is accessible and easy to learn, yet offers strategic choices. The included modules add variety and depth for experienced players, with landmarks such as the Opera House and the Harbor Bridge that players can earn for extra points or special abilities, so join the picnickers and joggers and enjoy your day in the beautiful Botanic Gardens.

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Rallyman: Dirt is the brand new edition of Jean-Christophe Bouvier's classic rally game. Get behind the wheel of a supercharged rally car and race against the clock to achieve the best time through the different stages of a course! Rallyman: Dirt is a roll and move racing game, so if you want to move around the track you have to roll dice! Each player has a mix of Gear, Brake and Coast dice at their disposal to drive their car around the track. Each die can only be rolled once per turn. Each die has a certain number of warning symbols. If you get a three in one roll you will lose control of your car and possibly damage your vehicle! This new edition combines the original Rallyman from 2009 with the expansion: Dirt. It features beautiful new artwork and improved components, while incorporating classic mechanics from the original game such as drifting, jumping and cutting corners. In addition to the new visual design, it replaces the large rectangular map sections of first edition with hexagonal tiles that allow players to recreate iconic tracks or create their own unique designs in a flash.

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n The Hegemon expansion of Dominations Road to Civilization adds two new mechanics to your Dominations games: Hegemony Tiles and Omen Cards! First of all, the Hegemony tiles. These tiles are essentially a new common objective system that replaces the regular objective cards in the game. When playing with the Hegemony tiles, players do not draw a personal goal card at the start of the game as they normally would. Instead, they will all try to meet the demands of the hegemon. These requirements are determined by drawing three Hegemony tiles, each of which has a criterion based on cities, knowledge cards, and colors of Nodus. Players will then battle for dominance over each objective determined by the tiles: at the end of the era, the player with the highest number of each of the 5 criteria will receive additional victory points! In the event of a draw, no player gets the points - the hegemon is only interested in the best... But as time goes by, old leaders will fall and new ones will rise... The start of each new era will bring a new hegemon to power and their demands may be very different this time! Two of the objectives are constant: the number of Monument levels you own and your Influence score. However, the old tiles are shuffled back into their pile and three new tiles are drawn. As a result, your objectives may remain the same (at least partially), or completely change for the next era!

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