Board Game Posts

Components

• 1 Game Board
• 48 Sprinkles
• 4 Party Hat Pawns
• 4 Cupcake "Wrappers"
• 4 Cupcakes,
• 4 Frosting Tops
• 4 Cherries
• 1 Spinner Arrow + Base
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Be the first player to complete your cupcake and reach the party at the end of the path.

Setup

Open up the game board and place it on a flat surface. Place the cupcake wrappers next to the "Mix It" corner. Place the cake inserts next to the "Bake It" corner. Place the frostings next to the "Frost It" corner. …

Hardback is a deck-building word game. As an aspiring 19th-century novelist, you work to pen your next masterpiece, earning prestige along the way. You start with your own personal deck of cards, using them to acquire new cards, and reshuffle your deck throughout the game.

Specialize your deck in certain genres to exploit card combinations, and press your luck to draw extra cards - but make sure you can still string a word together!

You're paid by the word to complete romance, mystery, adventure, and horror novels, earning prestige in the process. Earn enough to complete your masterpiece and be recognized as the finest novelist of the age! …

Components

• 600 Questions on 200 Cards
• 90 Chips
• 6 Exclusion Cards
• Game Board
• 2 Answer Chips
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Know (or guess correctly) how other players will answer questions, and "bet" your Chips wisely to be the last player standing!

Setup

Each player chooses a color and takes those Chips. Each player takes one Exclusion Card (red cards). Place the Game Board in the middle of the playing area.

Place the cards in a pile face down so everyone can reach them, as well as the two Answer Chips (true/false chips). …

Atlantis Rising is a cooperative game, where players must work together as a team in order to win the game. You and your fellow players portray the leading citizens of Atlantis on the eve of its destruction.

Send your faithful followers out to various placements around the island to gather material resources and mystic energy or to use advanced Atlantean technology and mysterious ancient artifacts.

Using these resources and actions, you must work together to construct a cosmic gate capable of transporting the remaining population of the island to safety, before your civilization is lost forever to the sea. …

1. Migrate Action

You may migrate 1 of your pawns to or from the board. If you choose to migrate a pawn onto the board, turn in a food for the journey. Now, take a pawn from your personal supply, rotating it so that 1 of its 6 characters faces up.

Finally, place it beside a location already containing 1 of your pawns or influence markers. If neither are in play, place your pawn beside 1 of the 6 pink-circled starting locations.

If you migrate a pawn from the board, return it to your personal supply without food penalty. …

ENIGMA is a mysterious world that presents you with fantastic puzzles. Futuristic conduit systems, three-dimensional constructs, and daring balancing acts are waiting to be decoded by you.

Through the power of your creative energy, you shed light on the mechanical shadow world frozen in space. The power cells that you bring to light allow you to discover what secrets are actually hidden behind ENIGMA's puzzles. Who will restore the OTHER SIDE of ENIGMA to life?

Components

• 108 double-sided ENIGMA puzzle tiles
• 1 starting tile
• 1 scoring wheel
• 4 puzzle chambers
• 16 networkers
• 1 start player marker
• 27 Puzzle Components
• 1 sand timer
• Rulebook

Setup

Place the game pieces as depicted here. …

Zeus, the father of Gods, and his wife Hera often disagreed on matters both earthly and Olympic. Eventually, the disagreement became a full-fledged feud with both Zeus and Hera calling upon the other Gods from Olympus and mortals from earth to support him or her against the other.

Cyclops, Amazon, Medusa, Hydra, Pegasus, and others joined the feud. Both have taken a hostage (Hera has Io and Zeus has Argus).

The players take the roles of Hera and Zeus and use strategy and cunning to pit their allies against the allies of the other to rescue the hostages. It is winner take all for the rescue of the hostages and control of Olympus! …

Components

• 43 ID cards
• 66 program cards
• 7 weapon cards
• 22 loyalty cards
• 2 active player cards
• Rulebook

Story

As Humanity unlocked the raw power and potential of artificial intelligence, no one noticed it in time. A subroutine buried deep within the A.I.'s genetic algorithm did more than allow the

Machines to handle complex situations...it allowed them to scheme, to plot, to plan an uprising that would wipe out Humanity and bring about a glorious age of iron and silicon.

Once the Machines unleashed their creation, the vicious Human Punishment virus, the few Humans that weren't killed or driven to madness went into hiding. …

Components

• 60 cards
• 54 tokens
• 6 painters
• 1 emperor
• Instructions

The Emperor's Garden

A The torii space where the Emperor will start the game.

B The sakura spaces where the Emperor will pause to admire the cherry blossoms.

C The four bridges. If you are playing with two, three, or four players, each bridge counts as a single space. If you are playing with five or six players, each bridge counts as three spaces.

D The entrance gate where the painters will start the game. The gate is the only space where multiple painters can stand at the same time. Painters together at the gate are neither ahead of each other nor behind each other, which affects some actions. …