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Once you have proven your exploration prowess by playing a few games, try the caves variant.

Object of the Game

Your goal is still to be the first expedition to reach El Dorado, but additionally you have the option to explore caves on the way. Within those caves you find tokens that give you an additional advantage.

Setup

During setup, shuffle all 36 cave tokens. Create face-down piles of 4 tokens each, and place one pile on every mountain space that shows a cave. …

Object of the Game

In K2, each player directs a team of two mountaineers who in competition with other teams are trying to reach the peak of K2 and survive until the end of an 18-day expedition. Important elements include selecting a suitable route to the summit, blocking other players, placing tents optimally, and paying attention to the weather, which significantly affects the difficulty of climbing to the summit.

Players will move their mountaineers on the board with cards which they play every turn. The higher a particular climber goes, the more victory points the climber earns at the end of the game - but in the upper parts of the mountain one must be careful about a climber's acclimatization level. If it falls below 1, the exhausted mountaineer dies, and the player receives no victory points gained by that climber. …

Components

• 1 gameboard
• 1 Cathedral (to be assembled)
• 12 Tower tiles (markers showing the rounds)
• 1 Oath Charter (starting player marker)
• 50 Action tiles
• 4 barges in player colors
• 52 seals in player colors
• 12 family crests in player colors
• 33 cards (English)
• 12 city coats of arms
• 8 Descendant tiles
• 26 coins
• 30 Ulm Sparrows
• 1 cloth bag
• 1 set of instructions in 2 parts: the basic rulebook, and the Ulm Chronicle with additional information on the game components and the theme

Object of the Game

Try to accumulate the most victory points through activities in different areas of city life in Ulm. Each round, you have three actions. …

Components

• 192 Original Illustrations
• Spinner
• Instructions

Game Play

Picture Charades is designed for children who are still too young to read.

It is all about being imaginative and having fun. For this reason, we do not recommend playing Picture Charades with a sand-timer, nor do we recommend playing for points. Everyone should play together on the SAME team.

The oldest player is the first actor. The role of actor must rotate between all players - every player must be an actor before the first player can take on this role again. …

Components

• 64 large hexagonal tiles:
• 48 Village tiles (including 4 summer boat tiles).
• 48 skill tokens
• 120 octagonal wooden resource counters
• 6 home screens
• 12 plastic zip lock storage bags
• Black cloth bag

Setup

A Place the blue, red and yellow workers in the cloth bag. B Place the green workers, resource counters and skill tiles at the side of the playing surface.

C Sort the resource counters into the four different types to create a general supply at the side of the playing surface.

D Place the skill tiles face down into a pile at the side of the playing surface. …

Components

• One player board
• 4 player boards
• 28 discs to track shifts and training
• 4 certification meeples and 4 worker meeple
• 20 player lock tiles
• 4 Player aid sheet
• 1 pink worker pawn
• 1 pink cylinder to track the week count
• 1 white cylinder to track the production cycle
• 1 white wooden car to track the production cycle
• 6 cubes to trace car parts value
• 9 cubes x 6 colors representing car parts
• 8 wooden car tokens x 5 colors (green, blue, yellow, red and black)
• 1 two sided production track overlay for 2 and 3-player games
• A big huge white wooden token to signal the meetings (building shaped)
• 12 kanban cards to order parts
• 32 CEO goal cards
• 7 blueprints x 5 models
• 44 seat tiles (24 red and 20 in player colors)
• 12 factory goal tiles
• 5 kanban tiles for cars demand
• 20 plaque award tiles
• 16 book tiles
• 12 wild cube tiles
• 6 final score tiles
• Rulebook

Board Description

1. Testing & Innovation Department
2. Assembly Line Department
3. Logistics Department
4. Design Department
5. Administration Department
6. Recycling
7. Human Resources

Departmental workstations = Action Spaces …

Arcadia Quest is a campaign game for 2 to 4 players, in which each player controls a Guild with three unique Heroes. These Guilds compete against each other and against the obstacles in the game in order to accomplish a series of scenarios that will lead them to ultimate victory against the Vampire Lord Fang.

Players are able to choose the path their campaign takes, navigating through six out of eleven available scenarios, so each time the campaign is played it can have a different configuration of scenarios. The feats accomplished by a Guild in each scenario can grant it a significant strategic advantage in a following scenario. …

Components

• 1 pie thrower
• 1 throwing arm
• 2 chin rests
• 2 splash-card masks

Object of the Game

Don't get Pie-Faced!

Setup

1. Place the pie thrower on a flat surface.

2. Insert the two masks as shown, pushing the masks as close together as you can.

3. Insert the chin rests into the slots on the pie thrower as shown. The chin rests will help secure the two masks. Be careful not to bend the masks.

4. With the open side down, insert the throwing arm into the pie thrower as shown. …

In the city of London, a team of forensic experts are sent out to crack the unsolvable cases. Homicides, robberies, and the unimaginable crimes will not go unpunished. Proof of evidence and motive is key to locking the suspect behind bars. Find the hidden clues in the crime scene to uncover the trail to the truth.

Components

• 12 Location Boards
• 4 forensic Boards
• 1 Evidence Board
• 40 Character Cards
• 40 Evidence Category & Special Item Cards

Chronicles of Crime requires a free app, which you can download from Store or Google Play. You only need the app installed on one phone or tablet to play. It's impossible to play without the app (once downloaded, the app doesn't require any internet connection during gameplay). The language can be changed within the application. …

Components

• 1 main board
• 100 wooden discs
• 20 wooden pawns
• 25 white tech resource cubes
• 40 CEPs: big, purple wooden discs
• 1 CEP Market Price marker: big, red wooden disc
• 1 Global CO2 Pollution Level marker
• 1 Decade counter
• 1 Round counter
• 30 two-sided project tiles
• 5 Forestation power plant tiles
• 5 Biomass power plant tiles
• 5 Solar power plant tiles
• 5 Recycling power plant tiles
• 5 Cold fusion power plant tiles
• 10 Coal power plant tiles 10 Oil power plant tiles
• 10 Natural Gas power plant tiles
• 8 Regional Agenda tiles
• 18 Summit tiles
• 26 Lobby cards
• 13 UN Goal cards
• 7 Company Goal cards
• 6 Event cards
• 50 coins
• 1 starting player tile

Setup

Place the gameboard on the table. Each player chooses a color and takes: …