Board Game Posts

Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula is played over three rounds during each of which you will draft exactly three dice.

The potency of your drafted die will allow you to transmute precious materials, collect alchemical essences, acquire and activate artifacts, and perform experiments that will progress you along four mastery tracks.

You will also build a secret hand of publication cards which - together with the value of your Experiments, the completed formulas of your Philosopher's Stone and your collected gold - will determine your final score in Victory Points and, perhaps, make you the greatest alchemist, able to rival Hermes Trismegistus himself! …

There are three types of technology:

1. Institutions (which look like land tiles with buildings and railroad tracks).
2. Single-Use Technologies (which have an illustration inside a glowing white square frame).
3. Multiple-Use Technologies (which have an illustration inside a grey square frame).

A. Institutions

Institutions are either mines (increasing coin production), laboratories (increasing science point production), or hospitals (increasing victory point production). …

Default Modules

Components

• 36 Dice (6 Colors)
• 6 Scoring Chips
• 1 Scoring Pad
• 1 Pencil
• 1 Travel Bag
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Achieve the highest score.

Setup

Use the same number of scoring chips as players. Example: If there are 4 players, use chips 1,2, 3 and 4.

Each player takes 6 dice (all of the same color). Write each player's name on the scoring sheet.

Game Play

1. One player chooses a challenge from the scoring sheet for the first round. Everyone will try to achieve this dice combination.

2. On the count of three, all players roll their 6 dice. As you roll, put aside any dice you want to keep and quickly roll again until you achieve the desired dice combination. …

To aid you in the understanding of the rules that follow it will help to explain some of the elements within the game.

The Player Display

Each player has one player display in their color. The warehouse is used to store goods in. The bank is used to hold gold coins. When you place city discs on the board you choose whether to take them from your warehouse or bank. In doing so, you increase the storage capacity of that section. …

In Crystal Palace, each player represents a nation at the first World Fair of 1851 in London. To make sure that your country truly attracts everyone's attention, you are going to showcase spectacular inventions and recruit the brightest, most influential minds of your times: all to promote your homeland.

Whether in the sacred halls of Westminster or in the dark corners of the docks, you are pulling the strings everywhere, to prepare for the great event in the best possible way.

And it could all be so easy - if your government had provided you with unlimited means. As it is, you are constantly torn between modest investments and excessive loans. …

Components

• 80 popcorn cards
• 1 popcorn shaker
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Collect the most cards by adding up the popcorn on the dice and matching them to the total on your cards.

Setup

Place the shaker in the middle of the playing area. Separate the "burnt" popcorn cards from the rest and place them off to the side. Shuffle the rest of the cards and deal four to each player.

Place your cards face up in a row in front of you. Stack the rest of the cards face down into a draw a pile within reach of everyone. …

Components

• 1 Game board
• 2 Dual-sided character cards (man/woman)
• 2 Card holders (pink and blue)
• 2 Player aids
• 2 Token boxes
• 1 Custom insert to organize all content
• 18 Card dividers
• 292 Cards
• 88 tokens
• Rulebook

Setup

1. Put the game board on the table between the two players. Notice that each player's side has a color: blue and pink.

2. Take the cardholder g, the choice tokens h and the token boxes with tokens in your character's color i. Place them in front of you.

3. Decide which Love Story to play. Pick up the synopsis, chapters, the finale and scenes that come with the Love Story. For your first play, we recommend playing 'Sunday Morning Date' - preferably as part of the tutorial. …

Components

• 72 cards
• 9 Super Tooth tokens
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Collect matching sets of plant eating dinosaurs, which you will exchange for Super Tooth tokens.

All along, chase away Meat-Eaters and resolve events that may change the outcome of your turn.

The first to collect 3 Super Tooth tokens (3-4 players) or 5 tokens (2 players) wins.

Setup

The first time you play, take a moment to become familiar with the three types of cards in the deck - Plant-Eaters, Meat- Eaters and Events.

Then shuffle the deck and stack it face down in the center of the playing area to form a draw pile. …

Marvel Champions: The Card Game is a cooperative card game for one to four players. Each player takes the role of one Marvel hero, playing the game as that character and their alter-ego.

In the game, the players work together to defeat a villain (controlled by the game) who is trying to complete an evil scheme.

Components

• 199 Player cards
• 137 Encounter cards
• 7 Reference cards
• 30 Status cards
• 62 Damage tokens
• 16 All-purpose counters
• 33 Threat tokens
• 5 Acceleration tokens
• 1 First player token
• Rulebook

Setup

To set up the first game, perform the following steps in order. …