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Happy Salmon is a simple, fast-paced card game packed with high-fivin', fin-flappin' fun.

Components

• 72 cards (12 cards for 6 colors each)
• Happy Salmon Pouch
• 1 Rulebook

Setup

Pick a card color and take those 12 cards. Shuffle your cards and keep them face down in a stack in your hand.

Object of the Game

Be the first player to discard your last card and shout "FIN-ished!" You win!

Game Play

1. 

   On the count of three, flip over your stack of cards, so the entire stack is face-up. Everyone starts playing at once, by shouting out the ACTION shown on their top card. …

A Marathon Match is played up to 15 points (i.e. the first player to score 15 points is the winner). The match starts by playing an 'Initial Round', exactly as described above for Single Round play. After the end of this first round (and subsequent rounds), two important things will happen:

A 'Sumo' (or 'Double Sumo' or 'Triple Sumo') is Born!

The player who won the first (or previous) round places an octagonal 'Sumo ring' on the appropriate dragon tower (as described for a Standard or Long Match). If the tower concerned has no rings on it already (i.e. it is an 'ordinary' tower), the largest size of Sumo ring is used. …

Components

2010 Edition

• 72 red customer cards
• 285 purple word cards

2012 Edition

• 36 double-sided customer cards (72 Customers)
• 324 purple word cards

2014 Edition

• 28 double-sided customer cards (56 Customers)
• 336 purple word cards

Setup

Each player takes a hand of six Word Cards.

Select one player to be the Customer for the first round.

Game Play

1. The Customer takes a Customer Card from the center of the box, reads it aloud, and places it in front of him or herself.

   The Customer takes on the role printed on the Customer Card for that round. …

Tips for the First Game

Before the very first game of MENARA, it is advisable simply to build a tower without using the construction plan cards. Just observe the rules for placing the columns and building the temple floors. This way, you get a feel for the architecture of the temple of MENARA.

After that, look at the construction plan cards in order to get an idea of what kinds of tasks exist in which pile.

Tips & Tricks

• Talk to each other! MENARA is a cooperative game. Often, it is necessary to plan several turns ahead. Only together can you act wisely enough to resurrect the ancient temple in new splendor. …

Components

• 16 suspect cards
• 16 thief cards
• 12 clue markers
• 4 detective hat pawns
• 3 custom dice
• 1 fox figurine
• 1 clue decoder
• 1 game board

Object of the Game

A wily fox has stolen Mrs. Plumpert's pot pie and is high-tailing it to the foxhole!

Work together as a team of detectives, gathering clues and eliminating possible suspects. Figure out who is the guilty fox before it escapes.

Setup

1 Place the board in the center of the playing area.

2 Each player takes a detective hat and places it on a space in the center of the board. …

Solitaire Setup

• The nine Map cards are placed on the table with the factory side up within reach.

• Select an AI to play against and give them their truck.

• Choose one of the remaining trucks to drive for yourself and collect the corresponding token and Truck card.

• Place the Truck tokens onto the designated space in the order dispatch room (located top center of factory).

• Randomly select 20 mints from the mint tin and add them to the conveyer belts until there are 10 mints and 2 empty spaces on each belt. …

Components

• 16 offspring tiles
• 88 animal tiles
• 10 coin tiles
• 16 coworkers
• 30 coins
• 5 water zoo boards
• 5 delivery trucks
• 5 depot boards
• 10 small expansion boards
• 10 Large Expansion Boards
• 1 round wooden disc

Object of the Game

Each player is the owner of a water zoo. Each player tries to lure as many visitors as possible into his water zoo and earns points for the visitors that visit his zoo. To create a zoo that people want to visit, a player must collect animals.

When a player's water zoo is successful, he may want to expand it. When a player's animal basins are full, he must place additional animals into his depot, which loses him points at game end. When a player makes skillful use of his coworkers, he can gain additional points. The player with most points wins. …

Components

• Game board
• Deck of cards
• 16 pawns (4 each of four colors)

Game Board

• The Slides

  

  Some parts of the track have "slides". The triangle is the start of the slide and the circular end is the end.

  If a pawn ends at the start of a slide (color of an opponent's color), the pawn skids to the end of that slide. Any pawns in the middle of that slide are sent back to their respective start square.

• Safety Zone

  This are the colored squares leading to your home and your pawns are safe here because no other player can affect a pawn here. …

Amazon

A warrior woman, renowned as a hunter and fighter.

Apollo

The God of prophecy, music, and healing, he was the son of Zeus and Artemis'twin brother. He defeated the Python to become the God at Delphi and then spoke to Pythia, who passed his words to the people.

Argus

Argus, the all-seeing, had 100 eyes, which he used to watch over Io, whom Zeus loved. Hermes put Argus to sleep with long-winded stories so Zeus could kill him, but Hera rescued Argus at the last minute by turning him into a peacock. …

1. The Messenger

The player who plays the messenger takes 8 talers from the bank.

2. The Trader

The player who plays the trader gets resources for himself and other players by placing one of his helpers next to one of the four carts or next to the rider.

Only after each cart has gotten a helper can the rider also get a helper.

Only one helper is allowed per cart or beside the rider. Each of these "trader's helpers" remains on the gameboard and "occupies" the respective kind of resource until he is displaced by another trader's helper (...or until the player needs his helper for a building). …