Board Game Posts

Each player controls a faction that wants to develop its presence in the galaxy by exploring new planets and establishing colonies on them.

By controlling planets you will be able to gather the resources that you will use later to explore other planets, build colonies and factories, and, sometimes, terraform distant worlds.

All these actions are accomplished using action cards. Players will take turns in placing their cards on the planning board during the planning phase, at the beginning of each game round. …

Components

• 168 double-sided word tiles
• A 20-second timer
• Rulebook

Object of the Game

Get rid of your Randomonium tiles before any other player by making connections between the words on game tiles.

Setup

1. Before play starts, all players should decide how strict or loose they would like the links between words to be. We suggest playing with loose rules. However, groups are encouraged to follow their own preference.

   Loose Rules: To count, a word association cannot be an opposite ("FERRETS are not SPIDERS" would not count). Otherwise, almost anything goes, and the sillier the better. "FERRETS and SPIDERS are both kept as pets" would count. …

Welcome to the middle of the 22nd century. After 300 years of excess, denial, and recklessness, rising water levels engulfed the last pieces of dry land. Fighting for their lives, survivors have settled above sea level in colonies that grow ever higher, sustained by remnants of the past recovered from the depths.

As a member of the Otys colony, send your best divers into the depths of the ocean to retrieve the most useful resources. Your divers each have their own specialty, but it is up to you to match them with the benefits allocated by the Colony. …

t's a fabulously sunny day - the perfect occasion for folks to visit the new topiary garden on the outskirts of town! Nothing spells a relaxing weekend like enjoying sculptures created with the assistance of nature herself.

The garden can get quite crowded at times, though, so it's up to you to make sure your visitors get the best views of these beautiful botanicals.

Components

• 1 scoreboard
• 32 visitors
• 40 sculpture tiles +4 score markers
• Instructions

Object of the Game

The goal of the game is to earn points by rearranging the topiary garden and positioning your visitors so that they can see as many sculptures as possible. C …

Components

• Game Board
• 4 Playing Pieces
• 1 Jar of Totally Gross Slime
• 1 Die
• 140 Professor Cards
• 50 Totally Gross Cards
• 30 Lab Cards
• Instructions

Object of the Game

To be the first player to complete a lab experiment after moving the Totally Gross Slime 10 spaces.

The Game Board

Playing pieces are moved around the perimeter spaces on the board.

The center of the game board has four kids on it. Each player picks one of these kids. In front of each kid is a Score Line. Players move their Totally Gross Slime from 1 to 10 on the Score Line after selecting a kid. …

Dungeon Mayhem is a free-for-all battle for two to four players. Play as one of four different characters. Each character's tricks, gear, and skills are represented by a deck of cards.

Components

• 4 hit point trackers
• 4 reference cards
• 4 hit point tokens
• 16 damage tokens
• Four 28-card decks
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Be the last player left standing and you win!

Setup

1. Choose one of the four character decks.

   
   
   

2. Take the hit point tracker, hit point token, and reference card that match your deck, and set them on the table in front of you. …

Components

• 1 Double-sided Game board
• 52 Tunnel tiles
• 5 Player Mats
• 6 Great Hall tiles
• 17 Spell cards
• 5 Gate tiles
• 5 Score markers
• 3 Pedestal reminder tokens
• 21 Statues
• 22 Workshop tiles
• 18 Pedestals
• 15 Pedestal Point tokens
• 225 Resource tokens
• 2 Coronation tokens
• 1 Crown
• 2 Team Storage cards
• 1 Draw bag
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Recruit trolls from the horde to create a cascading, customized source of the resources to fit your strategy. …

Coraline: Beware the Other Mother is a cooperative card game for 1 - 4 players. The players assume the roles of the Ghost Children who were captured by the Beldam (the Other Mother). Now they are trying to free Coraline and her parents from the Beldam's evil clutches.

Components

• 8 Stand-Up Character Tokens
• 8 Plastic Character Token Stands
• 30 Coraline Story Cards
• 30 Beldam Story Cards
• 1 Coraline's Satchel Card
• 6 Large Room Cards
• 1 Room Map
• 8 Object Tokens
• 4 Button Tokens
• 6 Moon Cards
• Instructions

Object of the Game

The players must work together to guide Coraline through the Other World as she attempts to find the Skeleton Key, the Eyes of the Ghost Children, and the Snow Globe that holds her imprisoned parents. The players all win or lose the game together as a team! …

Components

• 2 Robins
• 2 Bards
• 60 Loot tiles
• 16 small Fame tiles
• 8 big Fame tiles
• Instructions

Object of the Game

The players collect Loot tiles by moving their Robin pieces on the board. A set of Loot tiles in the same color may be sold to earn gold. This gold may be spent to help the player's Bard piece move around the Race Track on the outside of the board.

Each player will try to stay one step ahead of their opponent. Every fame tile the players encounter as they move will present them with a challenge. …

In this first expansion to Wingspan, we increase the scope of the world to include the regal, beautiful, and varied birds of Europe.

These birds feature a variety of new powers, including "round end" powers, powers that increase interaction between players, birds that can cover multiple spaces to make future actions more profitable, and birds that benefit from excess cards/food.

The European birds are designed to be shuffled into the original deck of cards (and cards from future expansions).

The European Expansion also includes an additional tray for storing the growing collection of birds (past, present, and future), as well as 15 purple eggs, extra food tokens, new end-of-round goals and bonus cards, and a colorful new scorepad designed for both multiplayer and solo scoring. …