Remote islands, gold treasures… who has never dreamed of it? All this and more is all in this great family game! Simple rules, smooth gameplay, luck, planning and excitement, success after success as you complete one treasure map after another. With erasable maps, for endless adventures! The Games Friends: “ This is one of our favorite roll/draw & write games. Unlike Patchwork, for example, you now only have to fill a very small area with figures. Once you finish one card, you move on to the next, making it a very varied game. Highly recommended for puzzle enthusiasts! "

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Welcome To... is set in the 1950s. You are an architect and you want to build the most beautiful new city. You do this by hiring employees, building houses and much more. Welcome To... plays like a roll-and-write game, but without dice. Instead, you turn over cards from three piles, giving you three different actions consisting of a house number and an associated action. Each player chooses from the available actions and fills in a house number in his or her street. With the actions you can increase your number of points or change the value of your house numbers. Your ultimate goal? Be the first to reach the public goals and get the most points. Because of the different cards, every game of Welcome To... is different! The Games Friends: “Welcome to... is a super fun and extensive flip & write game for Silver & Gold enthusiasts and Cartographers. Because you can always choose from three different numbers and actions, you don't get stuck so quickly and you actually have the feeling that you have played well in every game. Highly recommended!"

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Queen Gimnax has ordered the conquest of the northern territory. You are sent as a royal cartographer to map this area and claim it for the Kingdom of Nalos. But you are not alone in this wilderness: the Dragul use their lookouts to stop you. To limit their influence, you'll need to think carefully about how you draw your map. Conquer as much of the territory the queen wants and you will be declared the best cartographer in the kingdom. The Games Friends: “ Cartographers is one of our favorite Draw & Write games. Because there are many goals to choose from and the goals are constantly changing, there is a lot of variety in Cartographers. Highly recommended!”

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When the Roman emperor Hadrian Augustus visited northern Britannia in 122 AD, he witnessed the aftermath of the war between his armies and the fierce Picts. In a show of Roman might, he ordered a wall built that would separate the Pict tribes from the rest of England. Large in its design, the wall stretched 80 Roman miles, from coast to coast. In Hadrian's Wall, players take on the role of a Roman general, presiding over the construction of a mile castle and an adjacent wall. Over 6 years (rounds), players will build their fortress and wall, man the defenses, and attract citizens by building services and providing entertainment - all while defending the honor of the Roman Empire against the wary Picts. The player who can amass the most fame, piety, courage and discipline, while avoiding contempt, will prove to the Emperor that he is the model of the Roman citizen and be crowned Legatus Legionis! The Games Friends: This game is an absolute favorite! It is a wonderful puzzle, with many tactical choices and little interaction. At the beginning it sometimes feels a bit overwhelming when you see all the choices, but once you get started it plays very smoothly. All this makes Hadrian's Wall unique and a real hit!

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Fliptown is a flip-and-write game where you try to earn stars by exploring a Wild West town. The game uses a standard poker set to encourage an open world style of play, along with whiteboard-style boards that serve as each player's cards. Each turn you turn over three cards and assign one card to indicate your suit, one card to indicate your value, and one card to indicate your poker card. The color determines which of the four regions you activate, the value determines which location within that region you can circle, and the poker card goes to a five-card poker hand that is completed at the end of each round. Each of the four regions - Trail, Badlands, Mine, and Town - offers a different problem to overcome, while each location within a region offers unique rewards such as money, gold, useful items such as pistols, horses and tools, or bonus actions to create powerful combinations. For solo play, you can play to get a high score or compete against one of four "cowbot" robot opponents, each with their own motivation. For multiplayer play, players use "community cards" in the center of the playing field, with players completing each turn simultaneously. Additionally, bounty cards add competitive goals that players race to achieve. In addition to the standard game, you can play as one of 14 characters from the Wild West. Each character has a unique set of starting resources and a unique special ability.

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In Trails of Tucana, each player receives a map showing the main villages, sights and various terrains. Each turn, two terrain cards are revealed. All players draw a route between those two areas, somewhere on their own map. You can score points by connecting matching villages and by connecting villages with points of interest. The game ends when the deck of terrain cards is completely depleted for the second time. Whoever has the most points wins the game. This pack also includes the Trails of Tucana: Ferry expansion. Inside you will find two new playing blocks: one with the island cards from the basic game and one with two new islands. With the new map, players will have two new island maps for Isla Bahía and Isla Habita. On both maps, ferries help players cross stretches of sea — and on Isla Habita, three additional villages offer new challenges.

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