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What is that? Is that a rhino climbing up the wall? Indeed! Rhino Hero is out and about again. The super hero from the animal world fearlessly scales the highest houses looking for burglars and rogues.

He is as strong as a lion and as smart as a fox but also as heavy as a rhinoceros. So when Rhino Hero is around even the most robust tower may start to wobble. Can you help Rhino Hero accomplish his wobbly construction mission? …

Champions

Champions are mighty individuals who seek out the essence of the gods in order to fulfill their destiny and ascend. Champions are always large miniatures.

Banners

Banners resemble a flag or icon and allow champions to stake claim to an area, driving their standard into the ground for all to see.

Followers

Followers aid champions in their quest for ascension, and can be anything from mercenary henchmen to devoted acolytes, or even conjured spirits bound to the will of a champion. …

Components

• Four pieces of the game board, plus legs and bumper pegs
• 16 dice - 4 each of red, green, blue and black;
• Rule book

You will also need a pencil and a sheet of paper (which are not provided).

Object of the Game

Be the player to score the most points in four rounds of play.

If any players are tied after four rounds, then those players will play an extra round or rounds until a winner is determined.

Setup

Each player chooses a set of same-colored dice. To determine the order of play, each player rolls one die with the highest roll going first, followed by the next highest going next and so on. Use a paper and pencil to record your scores. …

Charlemagne has requested that his contentious heirs (the players) build castles for his security and comfort in the territories he likes to visit in the course of his travels.

To do this they are forced to compete for the services of the five clans of paladins (the five colors of cubes), through whom the Emperor rules his lands.

Components

• 15 board segments representing territories of the Empire. (Notice that the segments, of 3 different shapes, can be easily fitted together to form larger territories - a significant element of the game)
• 5 sets of discs each numbered 1 to 5 (2 black, 2 white, and 1 gray)
• 4 courts: small rectangular boards with the picture of a castle and along one edge a row of dots in the 5 colors
• 2 cotton bags
• 200 small wooden cubes representing the 5 paladin clans in the 5 colors
• 1 large yellow figure representing the Emperor Carolus Magnus
• 4 dice with 5 faces in the 5 colors; the 6th face has a crown
• 5 clan markers (wooden cylinders) in the 5 colors 30 castles in 3 colors (black, white, and gray)

The Game For 2 Players: …

In Villages of Valeria you play the role of a Duke or Duchess, building a village around your castle by playing cards from your hand onto the table in front of you. Develop Resources to build Buildings, which give you Victory Points and special powers.

The right Buildings help you recruit Adventurers, who provide even more Victory Points and special powers. Keep an eye on your fellow players as they will be trying to build a grander village and may even attract the Adventurer you were hoping to recruit. …

Carnival in Venice. The night is filled with cheerful jubilation, wild rejoicing, singing, laughter, and well- disguised, costumed characters scurrying through narrow alleyways.

Intermingled with the crowd in this festive atmosphere are four special characters, true masters of deception. They are capable of disguising themselves to become unrecognizable, as they sneak through the night on their secret missions.

These four masters of disguise (and one of them is YOU!) are:

Lord Fiddlebottom was already in the Secret Service back when the Service was not at all secret. A dignified character, he is a man of inestimable wealth who hobnobs with all European nobility. …

Hello, welcome to ESCAPE ROOM by Identity Games. As is the case in many Escape Rooms across the world, you are "locked in" in this game and the object is to find the codes to "escape" within 60 minutes by solving puzzles and riddles.

Use your brain! Teamwork, good communication, ingenuity, creativity, logic and attention for detail are also very important.

This box contains 4 thrilling adventures in ascending order of difficulty. Just like in a 'real life' Escape Room, you can only play each game once. You can buy the extensions once you've played them all. …

Once you've played Rise of Tribes a few times, you can choose to expand the game with several advanced modes:

Tribal Elders: A special tribe member goes on the board giving you a new power.

Special Terrain: New types of tiles are added to the map.

Leader powers: Each tribe gains unique abilities that can add new elements to the game.

You can mix and match these modes as you choose: playing with one, two, or all three in a single game! …

Shorter Game

With experienced players, a full game usually takes about an hour. For a shorter game, you can just play one or two rounds. It is up to you whether to leave out the shorter rounds or the longer rounds.

Round 3A

Experienced players can make the game longer and more challenging by playing an extra round. The extra round is played according to the Round 3 rules using ships of Class IIIa.

(You may have noted that this board has no discard area. You can just keep your discarded components beside your board. These ships are uninsurable, so you must pay for every component you lose. There is no maximum penalty). …

With the terraforming of Mars initiated, and several projects already being implemented, the World Government on Earth sees an opportunity to start working on terraforming Venus as well. It is a much more difficult 'task, probably requiring a thousand years. All the more reason to get started now!

Components

• Venus board
• 5 corporation cards
• 49 project cards
• Venus marker
• Hoverlord Milestone tile
• Venuphile Award tile
• Rulebook

The Venus Board

On the Venus board, players are offered a fourth global parameter: the Venus scale! On the cards it is simply referred to as 'Venus'. Because of Venus being a more long-term project, the scale only goes from Venus being 0% to 30% terraformed. …