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To brew your Potions, take one Ingredient marble from the Dispenser each turn, and make Ingredients of the same color collide to make them explode (and take them too)! The bigger the explosions, the faster you'll brew your potions!

Each Potion recipe may need between 4 and 7 Ingredients. They are represented by the holes on the Potion tiles themselves. Put the marbles of the correct color on your Potion tiles: when all the holes have been filled with a marble of the corresponding color, the Potion is completed. …

The year is 1822. After years of decay the decision is made to rebuild the medina located at the foot of the Atlas mountains. The players work together to erect large and beautiful palaces and to renovate the damaged city wall.

Life returns to the old city. People flock through the alleys and the contours of the new city gradually start to appear.

Components

• 1 game board - double sided (2 players /3-4 players)
• 4 tower tiles
• 4 palace tiles
• 6 tea tiles
• 80 buildings - 20 in each 4 colours
• 16 rooftops - 4 in each 4 player colours
• 12 stables
• 31 merchants
• 36 walls
• 4 towers
• 1 well
• 4 player screens - 1 in each player color
• 1 score block

Setup

1 Place the game board in the middle of the table. Use the side with the large game area (11x16 squares) in a three- or four-player game Use the side with the small game area (10x14 squares) in a two-player game. …

Components

• 1 game board,
• 92 tower blocks,
• 24 knights
• 4 scoring markers
• 1 King
• 40 Action cards
• 4 Codex cards (action summary cards)
• 3 Phases cards (description of the phases and scoring)
• 8 Master cards (to be used in the master version)

Object of the Game

The board has a scoring track circling the outer edge and an 8 x 8 area for castle building. The starting locations for the 8 castles are marked within the castle building area.

The players earn points at the end of each of the three years for every castle where they are represented by a knight. The score is the product of the surface area of the castle and the level where the knight stands. The player who collects the most points over the three years is the winner. …

• A player may hold as many cards as they wish.

• Holy Places are not held in hand. They are kept face up in front of the player who owns them.

• A player's gold must always be visible. A player may not perform an action that would cost more gold than they currently have.

• If a player receives wares through the effect of a Person or Animal card, they may decide which wares to place in their market stand and which to return to the supply. This is different from the rules for Ware cards. …

You Snooze, You Loose

The last person to submit a response cannot be chosen as the winner that round. We DON'T recommend playing this with less than 6 players, new players, or players who have trouble thinking under pressure.

Revenge of the Teams

If you have more than 8 players or if you have a couple people who have a hard time coming up with answers, this variant may work for you. You can form everyone into teams or even have a mix of teams and single players. …

In the Florence of the 12th-14th centuries, the city's powerful and influential families don't just compete with each other in trade and politics. They also try to outdo one another by building tall, mostly square- based tower homes as status symbols.

In this game, you are master builders working on the families' construction commissions for such towers. You build the towers from different-colored bricks you receive from the game's cards.

But be careful: once you've started construction on a tower, you must keep erecting it every turn, or it will be torn down as abandoned construction. Pay attention to other players' projects, so that they don't snatch commissions you were counting on right from under your nose! …

A revolutionary new technology has been discovered! Immediately, every major military power recognizes its destructive potential. Can your nation take the lead in this new arms race and become the world's dominant superpower?

In The Manhattan Project, you are the leader of a great nation's atomic weapons program in a deadly race to build bigger and better bombs. But this is no peaceful race! You must not hesitate to use clever espionage and military force to advance your plans and secure your nation's rightful place! …

1. Adventure Cards

Green or gold numbered cards include the terrains you will discover as you explore the continent, the predefined events (places, encounters, etc) you can trigger, items you can find, as well as many more surprises to be discovered!

1 unique ID number
2 card number
3 flavor text

Terrain

Terrain cards are portions of the continent that remain in play on the Board.

A player may move their figure to a Terrain card, take the actions shown on it, and use the resources shown on it to craft items at cheaper cost. …

Peloponnese - seat of the Gods. Each player represents one of 7 Peloponnesian civiliza- tions in 1000 B.C., trying to develop it, increase its wealth and population, and become the most powerful entering the new millennium.

Object of the Game

Players have 8 rounds to develop their civilizations, adding territory through Land Tiles and prestigious buildings through the Building Tiles. These increase the civilizations' inhabitants, luxury, wealth and power

Only through a balance of inhabitants, land and buildings can a player claim victory and join the heroes of Peloponnesian history. …

There are four primary Card Types in the game and each has an icon that refers to the Card Type as a whole.

There are no limits to how many of each card you may have, with two exceptions:

• Starter Cards: You may never have more or less than 1 Starter Knight and 1 Starter Peasant.

• Duke Cards: You may never have more or less than 1 Duke card.

The following icons represent the three different Resources in the game (Gold, Strength, Magic). These icons are present across all card types. When there is a number on top of the icon, it means that it represents that many of that type. …