Vendor: Gryphon Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 27.95

Includes: Incan Gold: New Dangers Expansion in the box

Incan Gold: Recovering the Ancient Artifacts

The new edition of Incan Gold features all-new art by Mila Harbar, and includes the New Dangers expansion. This includes a new Assist action to throw a wrench into others’ plans, and Event cards that switch up gameplay each round.

A local university in Peru has reported that the excavation site of an Incan temple is about to collapse. They have hired an expedition to venture into the ruins to recover artifacts rumored to be in the temple before they are lost forever. Players will explore the hazardous ruins
of the temple in five rounds, recovering gems and artifacts while pressing their luck with how deep into the temple they will explore, thus risking the loss of everything they have collected during that round. The player who discovers the most treasure wins!

Incan Gold is an award-winning game in which players push their luck as they head into a ruined temple, attempting to recover the most gems and artifacts. Each turn, a card is turned over that with new treasures or a new hazard. Players can attempt to escape, keeping the loot that they’ve acquired, or stay in the temple, hoping for more reward.
As players escape, those in the temple will acquire bigger shares of new treasures found, but also run the risk of being forced to drop it all and flee if the same hazard card is drawn twice. The tension mounts as players decide whether to explore or exit. Up to eight people can play this game, making it a great game for parties and other gatherings. With quality components and a compelling theme, Incan Gold will be the first choice of large groups looking for a fun filled game.

GRYPHON BOOKSHELF SERIES #6

Components:

• Rulebook
• 35 Quest cards
• 16 Explore and Exit cards
• 5 Temple cards
• 8 Folded Tents
• 110 Gems
• “New Dangers” Expansion:
• 8 Assist Cards
• 9 Event Cards

Vendor: Schmidt Spiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 36.95

Note: This game is in French, but the game itself is language independent.  Using Google Document Translate together with the publisher's rules will reveal the game rules.

In Noch mal!, the dice determine which color and how many spaces you can mark off on your playing sheet — but the starting player may first evaluate what everyone's doing, then remove two dice, leaving everyone else to make their choices with the dice that remain...

Vendor: Mojito Studios
Type: Board Games
Price: 59.95

Vendor: Twilight Creations, Inc.
Type: Board Games
Price: 27.95

The goal of The Haunting House is to be the first to escape a haunted house that the players have entered. The haunted house is made up by randomly laying out tiles in a 6x6 square making up the floor plan and then adding entrance and exit tiles at opposing edges.

Each player then gets a set of cards symbolizing different actions. Each turn consists of two phases: a random phase and planned phase. First, the random phase is where a number of random cards are drawn and executed, throwing the players off track from their plans. During the random phase, a few cards are inserted into each player's card set that cannot be chosen during the planned phase. Apart from normal move cards, there are also special action cards that may for instance move the exit or things like that. After the random phase remove the white bordered cards and perform the planned phase. Now, each player secretly select a sequence of 5 cards that define that player's actions that turn (somewhat reminiscent of RoboRally).

Publisher's blurb

The Haunting House is a wildly fun, fast paced, strategy boardgame with a twist. The object is simple, players enter the front door and race to be the first to reach the exit. It's not as easy as it sounds. Half the time the players choose their own path. The other half their paths are chosen randomly by opponents. Additionally, the board elements constantly change as the game progresses.

The Haunting House features 38 tiles that make up the board, 60 cards and six custom-sculpted pawns.

Vendor: Happy Camper
Type: Board Games
Price: 14.95

Vendor: HABA
Type: Board Games
Price: 17.95

Vendor: AEG
Type: Board Games
Price: 53.95

In Let's Go! To Japan, you are a traveler planning, then experiencing your own dream vacation to Japan.

The game consists of thirteen rounds in which players draw activity cards illustrated by Japan-based artists and strategically place them in different days in their week-long itinerary. These can't-miss tourist attractions will have you bouncing between Tokyo and Kyoto as you try to puzzle out the optimal activities to maximize your experience while balancing your resources. The game ends with a final round in which you ultimately go on your planned trip, activating each of your cards in order along the way.

The player who collects the most points by the end of their trip wins!

-description from designer

Vendor: Perplext
Type: Board Games
Price: 6.95

Vendor: Eagle-Gryphon Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 25.95

Vendor: AMIGO
Type: Board Games
Price: 35.95

For 30 Years Take 5 fans have been proving that they are anything but bull-headed! Play your number cards into one of the four rows of cards as cleverly as you can. However, when it comes to Take 5, sometimes you just have to grin and take it: Whoever plays the sixth card in a row must take the first five – and the negative points they bring! In this anniversary edition, you’ll find the beloved Base Game as well as four additional Special Fan Cards that make the game even more varied and fun. In addition, there’s also the brand-new cooperative variant “Beat the Buffalo.” Team up against the “buffalo,” use the special cards cleverly and make sure not to saddle each other with negative points, but pass them on to the buffalo. Will you rise to the challenge?

Vendor: Super Meeple
Type: Board Games
Price: 32.95

Based on Wolfgang Kramer's earlier effort Wildlife Adventure, Expedition — which is on the market as Expeditions: Around the World since 2023 — is a game about moving three commonly held expeditions around the world in search of various archaeological sites. The board shows a map of the world with many different branching paths, and players advance the expeditions by placing plastic arrows. When an expedition arrives at a location that matches one of your private site cards or one of the public site cards, you score that card. Certain spaces on the board allow you to play again immediately, and other spaces allow you to pick up a bonus action card that you can play at any time on one of your turns.

The game ends when someone has scored all of their cards, then whoever has the highest total score wins.

Vendor: SPIEL DAS! Verlag
Type: Board Games
Price: 29.95

Note: This game is in German.  The game itself is language independent.  English rules can be found here.

For Sale is a quick, fun game nominally about buying and selling real estate. During the game's two distinct phases, players first bid for several buildings then, after all buildings have been bought, sell the buildings for the greatest profit possible.

The Überplay 2005 Edition has new art, rules and card distribution changes, and it accommodates 3-6 players.

The Gryphon 2009 Edition uses the Überplay art for the faces of the property cards, while replacing most other art. The rules are the same as the Überplay edition, with the exception of the rounding rule.

For Sale is a quick, fun game nominally about buying and selling real estate. During the game's two distinct phases, players first bid for several buildings then, after all buildings have been bought, sell the buildings for the greatest profit possible.

The Überplay 2005 Edition has new art, rules and card distribution changes, and it accommodates 3-6 players.

The Gryphon 2009 Edition uses the Überplay art for the faces of the property cards, while replacing most other art. The rules are the same as the Überplay edition, with the exception of the rounding rule.

Vendor: ThinkFun
Type: Board Games
Price: 22.46

Vendor: Z-Man Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 52.95

Note: This game is in Italian.

The "Stone Age" times were hard indeed. In their roles as hunters, collectors, farmers, and tool makers, our ancestors worked with their legs and backs straining against wooden plows in the stony earth. Of course, progress did not stop with the wooden plow. People always searched for better tools and more productive plants to make their work more effective.

In Stone Age, the players live in this time, just as our ancestors did. They collect wood, break stone and wash their gold from the river. They trade freely, expand their village and so achieve new levels of civilization. With a balance of luck and planning, the players compete for food in this pre-historic time.

Players use up to ten tribe members each in three phases. In the first phase, players place their men in regions of the board that they think will benefit them, including the hunt, the trading center, or the quarry. In the second phase, the starting player activates each of his staffed areas in whatever sequence he chooses, followed in turn by the other players. In the third phase, players must have enough food available to feed their populations, or they face losing resources or points.

Vendor: BFF Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 29.95

Vendor: Stonemaier Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 54.95

You are an amateur dracologist in the world of Wyrmspan, a place where dragons of all shapes, sizes, and colors roam the skies. Excavate a hidden labyrinth you recently unearthed on your land and entice these beautiful creatures to roost in the sanctuary of your caves.

During a game of Wyrmspan, you will build a sanctuary for dragons of all shapes and sizes. Your sanctuary begins with 3 excavated spaces—the leftmost space in your Crimson Cavern, your Golden Grotto, and your Amethyst Abyss. Over the course of the game, you will excavate additional spaces in your sanctuary and entice dragons to live there, chaining together powerful abilities and earning the favor of the Dragon Guild.

Wyrmspan is inspired by the mechanisms of Wingspan, though its unique elements make Wyrmspan a standalone game (not compatible with Wingspan).

—description from the publisher

Vendor: Dude Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 50.95

Welcome to... Collector Edition is the definitive version of the eponymous game. It includes reworked rules and refined gameplay, as well as all the released expansion sets (7 different maps and a new Solo IA experience), in addition to a brand new « Roswell » expansion (risk-taking mechanics in a story about aliens and flying saucers), a rethemed expansion, previously exclusive to France (« Share the Dream », a complete reworking, perfect for learning the game in a 4th of July, / share the American dream setting) and a « Quack » expansion ( a quirky game about lost ducks in a neighborhood, previously o ff ered as a PNP during the lockdowns), all in glorious dry- erase form for higher quality feel.
 
Welcome to.. Collector Edition contains also 6 alternate versions of the classic Welcome to... sheet, completely re-imagined and illustrated by world renowned artists : Vincent Dutrait, Beth Sobel, Weberson Santiago, Christine Alcouffe, Ryan Goldsberry and Maud Chalmel. It also adds 35 new cards for increased replayability, and 6 boxes for easy storage, all in a small « Welcome to the Moon » format.

Contents:

• 63 Construction Cards
• 38 City Plan Cards
  • 9 Solo Cards
  • 55 Expansion Cards
• 36 Double-sided Dry Erase Sheets
• 6 dry erase markers
• 6 eraser pads
• 6 boxes
• 1 guide
• 1 rulebook
• 1 expansion rulebook
• 7 player-aids

Vendor: Artipia Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 58.95

Vendor: Edition Spielwiese
Type: Board Games
Price: 17.50

Vendor: AEG
Type: Board Games
Price: 22.95

Vendor: Days of Wonder
Type: Board Games
Price: 79.95

 
Based on simple and intuitive hand management, Heat: Pedal to the Metal puts players in the driver's seat of intense car races, jockeying for position to cross the finish line first, while managing their car's speed if they don't want to overheat. Selecting the right upgrades for their car will help them hug the curves and keep their engine cool enough to maintain top speeds. Ultimately, their driving skills will be the key to victory!

Drivers can compete in a single race or use the "Championship System" to play a whole season in one game night, customizing their car before each race to claim the top spot of the podium. They have to be careful as the weather, road conditions, and events will change every race to spice up their championship. Players can also enjoy a solo mode with the Legends Module or add automated drivers as additional opponents in multiplayer games.

—description from the publisher

Vendor: Greater Than Games, LLC
Type: Board Games
Price: 19.50

"You don't have to be faster than the shark, just faster than your friends!"

Get Bit! is a card game where players are competing to stay alive as the others are being eaten by the shark.

The order of the swimmers is determined by simultaneously playing cards face-down then revealing the values. The number on each player's card determines position in line (higher numbers in front, lower numbers in back), however ties don't move. The swimmer at the back loses a limb to the shark and is flung to the front of the line! The process is repeated until only two swimmers remain on the table. When this happens, the swimmer at the front of the line wins the game!

Vendor: Devir
Type: Board Games
Price: 11.95

Vendor: Vesuvius Media
Type: Board Games
Price: 47.95

Vendor: Bombyx
Type: Board Games
Price: 19.95

Diplodocus is clearly heavier than Tyrannosaurus, but what about Brachiosaurus? I imagine the Stegosaurus is lighter than those three, but is it lighter than a woolly mammoth? Not easy, I think I'll just place the saber-toothed tiger, at least I know where to put it… Well, I think? This box contains 110 cards on the theme of dinosaurs and prehistoric animals. It can be played alone, or combined with the other titles of the Cardline series.