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In solitary mode, your crew is isolated in an old wing of the prison. Instead of competing against other players,

you face off against an automated opponent - the guards.

Guard Board

The guard board is used to track the guards' power cubes, suspicion cubes, and resource cubes, and to organize the item cards and goon cards that the guards acquire.

The guards can keep an unlimited number of resources.

Guard Deck

The guard deck represents the "screws", the corrupt guards within Kulbak Prison. The deck is composed of 12 guard cards. …

In the game of Medium, you and your friends will harness your powerful extrasensory abilities to send psychic messages across the table!

Together, you and a partner will think of the Medium: the one word connecting the two words on your cards - and say that same word out loud, at the same time.

You will act as a medium, to find the medium, through the medium of cards! It's called Medium. And when it happens, it feels amazing.

Components

• 270 Medium Cards
• 3 Crystal Ball Cards
• 16 Extra Special Power (ESP) Cards
• 16 Divider Cards
• 54 Mind Meld Tokens
• Rulebook

Setup

1. Select sets of cards

   

   Medium contains 18 sets of cards, each set distinguished by the small numbers in the bottom right corner of the card face. These sets are carefully crafted to help facilitate better psychic connections during the game. …

What if the formation of Earth had gone differently? In Ecos players are forces of nature, creating the planet together but with competing visions of its grandeur. You will have the chance to mold and create a part of the world similar, but different, to the one we know. Which landscapes , habitats, and species thrive will be up to you.

There are no turns in the game of Ecos. Instead one player will be revealing elements in the form of element tokens, one at a time, from the element bag. Each element revealed can give some or all players energy, depending on what effect they are trying to activate. …

Several adventurous pirates have set their sights on buried treasures concealed on a secret island in the dreaded Bermuda Triangle . Can you outwit the other pirates by navigating your boat through hidden whirlpools to bring back the treasures?

Components

• Gameboard
• 4 Underboards
• 4 Flags
• 12 Buoys
• 24 Treasures
• Center piece
• 4 Magnetic boats

Setup

Object of the Game

Be the first player to bring one treasure of each color (4 colors) back to your base.

Game Play

Players sail the Bermuda Triangle to collect and bring back treasures to their home base. The gameboard contains spots under which metal disks are concealed. …

In Solo Mode you play against Victoria, a virtual player. She does not collect Building Points, only Citizen Points. 2 variants are available for the Solo Mode.

Indiviual Games: Beat the Highscore

In this variant you try to score as many points as possible.

You can set the difficulty by changing the starting position of your Building. We recommend starting between 15 (difficult) and 40 (easy). Note your highscore for each difficulty, separately.

While Victoria participates in the game, her score is irrelevant for your highscore. She serves only to compete for Nobility Cards and the Construction Site (see below). …

Barrels Effects

Gain 2 Gold Nuggets.

Gain 1 Camp and place as much Camps as you like.

Draw 3 cards from your deck.

Gain 3 Bucks

Gain 2 Dudes and place Dudes as much as you like on the Shootout

Move your Wagon on the Frontier Map

Gain 1 Horse

Play the Signpost action.

Play the Boom, Saw action of Site 3.

Play the Boom, Saw action of Site 2.

Bridges

Each Bridge you build can score you Victory Points at the end of the game.

3 Victory Points per Barrel you have (used or unused). Maximum 15 Victory Points. …

With the sudden disappearance of the King of Rats, the kingdom is now without a sovereign. Two rat clans have come forth in a struggle for power.

The Yargs are barbarian rats, famous for their expertise in combat and their impressive size. They wear the color blue into battle.

The Apple woods are civilized rats but are notorious for their obsession with jewelry and hoarding riches. They wear the color red into battle.

The clashing clans prepare to fight for the crown, but a heavy secret weighs on the clans: both of their princes are secretly in love with the princess of their enemy's clan! …

Other ways of playing:

"Best Of"

A hand can take as little as 5 minutes, so players, if desired, could play for the "best of 5" or "best of 10".

Banana Smoothie

This is a less hectic version of Bananagrams. All tiles are placed face down on the table. The letters are divided equally among players, remaining face down.

Players then play a game of Bananagrams, but without "peeling" or "dumping". The first player to use all of his/her letters shouts "BANANAS!!" and is the winner of that hand. …

Components

• 72 property cards
• 52 buildings
• 17 streetcars
• 8 neighborhoods^ each with 8 and 9 properties
• 5 colored player scoring markers
• 5 100 point tokens in the player's colors
• 5 summary sheets
• 1 scoring track
• 1 rule booklet

Object of the Game

In Big City, players have the opportunity to build the city of their dreams. Of course, each player has a different dream and the resulting city will be a mixture of those dreams.

The players begin with several pieces of property and will have the opportunity to exchange and acquire more property. On the property they have, players will build the city of their dreams, one building at a time. In the beginning, the city is small and building limited to residences and businesses. …

Each variant can be used on its own or combined with other variants.

Fashionable Diet

At the end of the game, each Meeple that's not part of a complete set makes you lose 1 point! You have to take care what you put in your mouth!

Tailor-made Monster

At the start of the game, each player receives 3 cards of each type (Character, Power and Secret Superpower), keeps 1 of each of his choice, then places the cards not chosen back in the box. …