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It's springtime! Time to restore your farm to its former glory! Lucky for you there's a regional farming competition going on! The trophy for this year's most beautiful farm will be given to the farmer who has the most Animals and Cornfields!

Will you win the competition?

Components

• 4 Farm cards
• 15 Animal tokens
• 6 Wolf cards
• 12 Animal cards
• 32 Pen cards, including 4 Starting cards
• 1 Farmyard
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Expand your Farm, cultivate your Cornfields, and adopt as many

Animals as possible to win the competition! But keep watch for the Wolf who might chase away your Animals. Careful, your own Animals might wreak havoc on your Cornfields …

Components

• 1 Game Board
• 109 Game Tiles
• 30 Gems - 5 of each color
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Be the first player to collect six different colored gems.

Setup

Assemble the game board and place it in the center of the playing area. Place the gems on each of their color-matching spaces on the board.

Do NOT place any gems on the solid circles around the board's perimeter.

Lay the tiles face down near the board, within reach of all players. Players take six tiles. Stand the tiles on edge facing you, so other players can't see your colors. …

As everybody knows, dwarves have beards and their king has the longest! So the King of Dwarves is a bearded guy who is even more bearded than the others ...

Components

• 39 basic cards
• 14 special cards
• 20 Quest tiles

Object of the Game

The player with the highest total score after seven hands wins the game.

A different scoring rule is chosen for each hand. The quest determines how many points are scored during the present hand.

Briefly put, the goal is to take tricks (each card or trick taken wins you points) OR to avoid taking tricks (each card or trick taken would then make you lose points). …

Components

• 1 gameboard
• 1 Dagger of Power
• 2 two-sided boards
• 5 Cultist pawn
• 5 Offspring pawn
• 5 Cult Power marker
• 5 Command Clock
• 4 tokens for each type of Component
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Each player is the head of a cult dedicated to the Grand Octopus. Each group of cultists must scour the university in search of the four components necessary to complete the ritual that will allow Him to return to Earth.

The first to succeed will invoke the Grand Octopus and thus have His favor. …

Oh no! The polar bear cubs got all splotched up with paint while they were helping the Inuits to paint their igloos.

Needless to say, Daddy Cool isn't thrilled when he sees his bunch of bear cubs. "What we need, is some soap and water" he says, and sets off with his cubs on the way to the wash tub.

Components

• 13 Ice Floes
• 2 Cracked Ice Floes
• 1 Ice Floe with a Wash Tub
• 1 Big Polar Bear (Daddy Cool)
• 6 Polar Bear Cubs
• 6 Special Dice
• Instructions

Object of the Game

The first player to reach the wash tub with his bear cub is the winner. …

Components

• 13 White tiles
• 13 Black tiles
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Crack your opponent's secret code before they crack yours!

Setup

After removing the two 'Scramble Tiles', place the remaining twenty-four tiles face down in the center of the table and mix them thoroughly.

Each player takes four tiles (three tiles each if four people are playing) at random, and stands them up in a wall, with the blank side facing the opponents. The remaining tiles stay in the center. You may choose any combination of black and white tiles but accidental exposure spoils the game, so make sure you pick up your tiles carefully. …

Components

• game board
• 55 cards
• 35 stackable fish tokens
• 1 starfish token
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Players challenge and bluff each other as they attempt to "eat" other players' fish. The player with the most fish at the end of the game wins.

Setup

1. Place the game board in the center, each player selects a color (fish and cards). Purple may only be selected when there are 5 players. Look at your challenge cards.

2. Select a player to go 1st and give that player the Starfish token. That player places a fish 1st. …

Rumis means 'stones' in Quechua, the ancient language of the Inca which is still spoken in the Andes.

In the game RUMIS, the players construct together an Inca building with their stones.

One of those legendary monuments, witnesses of a perished culture, erected with gigantic, irregular blocks of stone, held together by their incredible precision!

But who is the best craftsman? You will find out using the stones in the smartest way!

Components

• 3 Double sided boards
• 44 Rumis "stones"
• Instructions

Setup

At the beginning, each player receives all the stones of one color. A building - scenario (wall, pyramid, ... ) is chosen and placed in the middle. …

Place tiles on the board to create a line connecting your player markers.

The more tiles the line passes through, and the higher those tiles are stacked, the more points you will score!

Components

• First Player Marker
• 15 Player Markers
• 15 Level Markers
• 42 Tiles
• Game Board
• Score Board
• Instructions

Setup

• Place the game board and the score board in the center of the table.

• Shuffle the tiles, keeping them face down, and divide them into three stacks of fourteen tiles. Place these next to the game board. Draw the top tile from each stack and place it face up next to the stack. …

Setup

Select 15 discs in 3 colors to use throughout the game. The remaining 5 discs should be returned to the box.

Game Play

The player will begin a round by flicking all 15 discs, in any order, onto the game board. The player will then select a set of the discs (in the same color) and will assign one to the AI, one to themselves and the other will be discarded.

AI icons appear on the scoresheet as a small black square. These are important for the solo-mode. …