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Components

• 64 game tiles (16 of each color: red, green, blue, yellow)
• 8 game boards
• 4 ramps + 16 triangular anti-skid pads
• 4 transparent covers
• 4 starting cards
• 16 building cards
• Rulebook

Object of the Game

Players try to arrange the differently shaped tiles onto their boards in the best way possible in order to obtain the most points.

Setup

Before playing for the first time:

• Remove the starting and building cards from their original panels.
• Remove the plastic wrapping.
• Detach the 4 ramps from each other.
• Apply 4 triangular anti-skid pads to the bottom of each ramp as shown in the illustration.

Each player receives: …

Component

• 1 Double-sided game board
• 96 Light Chips 4 Cloth bags
• 4 Start Markers
• 4 Scoring Markers
• Rules Booklet

Object of the Game

Playing Glüx,, the players place their light chips on the game board, taking their turns in clockwise direction.

The board shows paths and rooms.

The players aim is to place their light chips inside the rooms on the gameboard. At the end of the game, all rooms will be evaluated, and victory points are awarded to the players owning the highest total of pips in each room. …

The circus is in town, but not the one with lions and tigers and bears, oh no! This is the smallest circus known to man: the flea circus.

Components

• 80 circus cards - 8 each in 10 kinds of fleas
• 9 action cards
• rule booklet

Setup

Shuffle the circus cards and the actions cards together. Place them face down in the middle of the table as a draw stack.

The players choose a starting player and he begins the game. Thereafter, players take turns in clockwise order. …

In Kero, your clan must be faster and smarter than the opposing clan. You have only three rounds to achieve victory.

Components

• 1 gameboard
• 2 timetrucks,
• 12 territory
• 24 regular cards
• 12 starting cards
• 3 battle cards
• 18 tokens
• 5 ressources dice
• 3 special dice
• 14 character tokens with 14 stickers
• rulebook

Object of the Game

Your goal is to collect as many resources as possible while using as little as possible of the KERO in your tanker truck.

You will need to send Explorers to claim New Territories. Claim any territories in which you have a majority at the end of the round. During your travels, you will come across Tuareks, who are always ready to lend a hand. They are generally friendly, and it is a good idea to have them on your side. …

Components

• 1 large gameboard
• 5 action discs
• 7 character cards
• 5 architects
• 1 maharaja
• 7 city coat of arms pieces
• 60 gold coins (game currency)
• 7 action playing pieces
• 100 wooden houses
• 35 plastic palaces
• 5 reference sheets
• Instructions

Setup

Place Maharaja on the Starting City. Character card 1 - 6 placed next to the board. Use Yogi (Character card #7) only in advanced game.

Shuffle Governor pieces x 7 and randomly placed face up on the Governor track (the 7 spaces between the upward arrow and '1'. Chit and Yogi are not used in the basic game. …

One player takes on the role of the Shark. The other players take on the roles of Quint, Chief Brody, and Hooper, who work together as a Crew to eliminate the Shark.

A full game is played over two Acts, in which success in Act 1 provides advantages going into Act 2. However, either Act may be played separately for a shorter game.

Act 1: Amity Island

Each round, the Shark secretly moves through the water surrounding the island, eating swimmers while trying to avoid detection. Meanwhile, the Crew rescues swimmers and tries to locate the Shark. …

More Family-friendly Experience..

Museum has the potential to be a very challenging, strategic game. However, if you happen to be playing for the first time, are in the company of inexperienced players, or if you just want to keep things simple, here are a few things you can do to tone down the complexity of the game:

• You can play without the Expert cards, which will give you one less thing to think about! All you have to do is not put the Experts board in place and remove the "Good Hiring" Favour Cards, and the "Mysterious Death" and "A School at the Museum" Headline cards. …

5-player Variant

The instructions below cover the rule changes for 5-player Valeria: Card Kingdoms. All other standard rules apply.

Setup

• Monster Cards

  Each stack of Monster cards will contain 6 cards. Include the cards with

• Citizen Cords

  Each stack of Citizen cards will contain 6 cards.

• Domain Cards

  Each stack of Domain cards will contain 4 cards, with 3 face-down cards and 1 face-up card on top of the stack.

• Resting Player

  After selecting the First Player, give the Rest Token to the person to the First Player's right; that person is the Resting Player for the first round. …

Shorter Game

• For the short version of the game, fewer plantation tiles are needed. From each color remove a total of 5 tiles (3 without wells and 2 with wells).

• Use 3 Fincas at the beginning (instead of 4) on building sites A, B and C.

• Remove the building site tiles A, B and C, as well as L, M, N and O from the game.

• In the short version of the game, some Fincas are built on the edge of the board. These Fincas are scored when the surrounding 5 spaces on the board are occupied. …

The Union Pacific is one of the largest railroad companies in America. Its rails connect many of the largest cities in America. To further enhance its range, it has arrangements with smaller companies to use their rails.

This allows the Union Pacific to serve even more cities. The ten smaller companies are shown on the map with their starting cities and possible track sections they may build. Each track section connects two cities and has spaces for one or more trains. …