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Components

• 5 Village Square cards
• 5 Player Aid Cards
• 5 Founders
• 6 Starting Road Villagers
• 30 Basic Villagers: Lumberjacks, Miners and Hayers
• 94 Other villagers
• 2 Market Cards
• First Player Card and End of Draft Phase Card
• 150 Coins
• 24 Event Cards
• Countess Card and Jester Card
• Instructions

Setup

1 Find the 6 Starting Road Villagers marked with and place them face-up in a line in the center of the table. This is the Rood.

2 Find the 10 Hayers, 10 Lumberjacks and 10 Miners and place them face-up in separate stacks.

3 Give each player a Founders card and place it with the 2 Gold side facing up. The Founders card forms the start of each Village. …

Components

• 1 Game Board
• 36 Specialist Cards,
• 8 Lab Cards, 96 Mission Cards
• 74 Technology Cards
• 16 Objective Cards,
• 50 Money Tokens
• 32 Upgrade Tokens,
• 11 Space Station Tokens
• 8 Score Tokens
• 1 Phase 2 Marker
• 4 Cardboard Player Boards
• 4 Cardboard Rockets
• 45 Wooden Rockets
• 1 Mission Sheet,
• Rulebook

Setup

1. Place the game board in the middle of the table, within reach of all players.

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   When playing with three players, return all specialist and mission cards with the number "4" in the bottom-left corner to the game box.

   When playing with two players, return all specialist and mission cards with the numbers "3" or "4" in the bottom left corner to the game box. …

The year is 1897. Art Nouveau is taking over the streets of Brussels as the World's Fair opens its doors. The time has come to cement your name in the History of Art. In order to establish your reputation, you will exhibit and sell your works of art, construct architectural masterpieces, and expand your social circle.

Bruxelles 1897 is a strategic card game which is played over 4 rounds. During your turn, you will use your Architect cards to perform actions in the Art Nouveau and Brussels areas. …

Components

• 1 game board:
• 4 two-sided palace gardens
• 81 garden tiles
• 72 playing cards
• 4 points cards
• 9 mission cards
• 5 replacement cards
• 4 two-sided expansion boards
• 36 noblemen
• 4 counting stones

Object of the Game

Who can create the most majestic garden? Improve your garden by adding beautiful pavilions, impressive statues, fragrant herb plots, colorful rose arches, and more.

Move the admiring noblemen through your garden; the further they move along your completed garden beds, the more points you receive. At the end of the 18 rounds, score bonus points for completed rows and columns in your garden, and for your secret mission cards. …

This game is about the 5th element: spirit, in its broadest sense! That is, the human mind, the mix of conscious and subconscious, divine sparks of inspiration, the potential to create.

And therefore, also, the sense for meaning, the sense for art, the sense for beauty. And, last but not least, courage! Linking the elements, interpreting what exists, daring to add a personal touch!

That is why PUNCT is a game about connecting opposite sides.

Components

• 1 game board
• 18 white pieces with 3 dots
• 18 black pieces with 3 dots
• 1 white PUNCT-piece
• 1 black PUNCT-piece
• 1 bag
• Rulebook

Object of the Game

You must connect two opposite sides of the board. To do so you must occupy a series of adjacent spaces that lead from one side to the other side (see diagram 1). …

Santa Timea has set sail, venturing far out into unknown sea - too far! In misty weather, the ship collided with a reef, and after a long and despairing struggle the situation became hopeless, and the ship had to be abandoned. Groaning and moaning, the grand ship sinks to the seabed where it will find its last resting-place.

Fortunately, all the sailors made it to the old lifeboats. However, water is pouring through the rotten planks, and safety is found on islands seen on the horizon in the lifting fog. Will they manage to reach one of the islands in their leaking lifeboats or will the merciless sea claim the brave adventurers? …

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  Extra Road Crew (2x)

  During the Road Building Action of your People Phase, you may build one extra Road for free.

  
  
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  Rural Unrest (2x)

  At the end of each Sun Phase, destroy all Roads that have any portion built in unconquered Regions.

  
  
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  Workers Press On (2x)

  If you choose to build an Additional Road during the Construction Action of the People Phase, you may build another Additional Road at no cost.

  Note: The card "El Nino Flooding:" does not affect this action. …

The throne of Scotland lies empty and the clans fight each other to lay claim to it.

As a Lord of Scotland, you are gathering the loyalty of clans by showing your prowess in battle. Gather enough support and you will be able to claim the throne and be crowned king.

Content

• 98 cards
• 9 Clan tokens
• 1 Victor's Initiative token

The Cards

A Clan - Each card belongs to one of the eight normal Clans or to the royal Clan Bruce. The name of a Clan, the portrait of its chief, its Clan tartan, and badge are displayed on each card. …

1. If you make a suggestion, you may name one or more of the cards that you hold in your own hand. This way, you can gain information or to mislead your opponents.

2. You may make a Suggestion and an Accusation on the same turn.

3. You may make only one Suggestion after entering a particular room. To make your next Suggestion, you must either enter a different room or, sometime after your next turn, re-enter the room that you most recently left. …

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  Hammer

  Allows you to add a new Mineral to the fragment of the board you or another player are about to cut off.

  You can also place the Mineral anywhere on the board as long as it will be adjacent to at least two other Minerals.

  
  
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  Shovel

  You can use it while cutting off a fragment from the board, but first you have to pay for it with a wollastonite from your pool.

  When cutting off more than one fragment of the board you can take any Mineral you like from one of them. You can take only the least valued Mineral from all other cutoff fragments. …