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Beacon Patrol: Ships & Shores

2024-07-02T10:26:14-04:00

Vendor: Pandasaurus Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 15.95

Designer	Torben Ratzlaff
Publisher	Pandasaurus Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	30-45 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Expansion For	Beacon Patrol
Additional Info	417618/beacon-patrol-ships-and-shores http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/417618/beacon-patrol-ships-and-shores/forums/63

The first expansion for Beacon Patrol introduces 7 new ship types with varying difficulty levels and 20 new exploration tiles.
As you venture along the coast, you encounter new ships that can aid you in navigating the difficult terrain ahead. Join forces with these other ships and combine your unique abilities to protect the coastlines. But beware, while the ships can assist you in your travels, they require expert hands to operate!

Construction Ship: You may refill 1 movement token each time you place a tile.
Research Vessel: You may swap up to 2 tiles each turn.
Coast Guard Ship: You may spend 1 movement token to move to any Outpost tile or the Beacon Patrol HQ.
Hover Craft: You may spend 1 movement token to place a tile connected by land and move onto it, and 2 movement tokens to move 1 space over land.
Pilot Ship: You can't move your ship to a tile when you place it unless you spend a movement token. Because of this, you may place tiles that are connected to you by land.
Ferry: You may move up to 3 tiles in a straight line when you spend a movement token. You can't swap tiles on your turn.
Submarine: You may exchange 1 of your unplayed tiles with the top tile of the discard pile. Discarding tiles does not refill your movement.

In addition to these new powers some of these ships will add new tiles into the game, adding more ways to score as well as new challenges!

—description from the publisher

Unrest

2023-11-28T00:21:50-05:00

Vendor: Pandasaurus Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 16.95

Designer	Brendan Hansen
Publisher	Pandasaurus Games
Players	2
Playtime	10-20 mins
Suggested Age	0 and up
Additional Info	387248/unrest http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/387248/unrest/forums/63

No one can remember when the Empire’s regime began. People say it will never end, that resistance is impossible... but no one has ever prepared like the Rebellion. They have planned in secret, gathered intelligence, and sowed dissent in the Districts. However, the Empire has innumerable advantages and will confront the Rebellion with its full might. The revolution begins now.

In Unrest, two players are pitted head-to-head in the asymmetric struggle for control over five City Districts. Can the Rebellion complete their missions and topple the regime? Or will the Empire continue their rule?

—description from the publisher

The Fox Experiment (Standard Edition)

2023-11-28T00:21:09-05:00

Vendor: Pandasaurus Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 64.95

Designer	Elizabeth Hargrave Jeff Fraser
Publisher	Pandasaurus Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	60 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Expansion	The Fox Experiment: 5-6 Player Expansion
Additional Info	368432/fox-experiment http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/368432/fox-experiment/forums/63

In 1958, Demitri Belyaev and Lyudmila Trut started an experiment on domestication. From a large group of foxes, they selected the ones that reacted to humans with more curiosity and less aggression. In each generation, they selected only the friendliest pups to become parents — hoping to recreate the process that originally led to domestication thousands of years ago. The experiment made stunning progress. Even though the foxes were chosen only for their friendliness, they soon started to get many of the physical traits that we associate with domesticated animals — like spots, floppy ears, and curly tails. As communication opened up, the foxes made major contributions to our understanding of how these traits are expressed. The experiment continues to this day.

In The Fox Experiment, you’ll breed your own domesticated foxes. In each round you'll select a pair of fox parents who have certain traits. You'll gain those specific trait dice, roll them, then try to move them around to make complete trait symbols which you'll then mark off on your pup card. You'll then gain trait tokens depending on how many traits you marked off which you'll use to upgrade tracks on your personal player board.

At the end of the round, the previous generation of foxes will be cleared and all of the new pups will be moved to the kennel — thus becoming candidates to be chosen as parents in the next round. The game ends after 5 rounds and you'll gain points for pleasing patrons (end of game scoring bonuses), studies completed (personal player objectives), if you ever won the friendliest fox award, upgrades on your personal player board, and extra tokens. The player with the most points wins!

—description from the publisher

Emerge

2023-09-05T09:31:48-04:00

Vendor: Pandasaurus Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 52.95

Designer	Adam DeYoung
Publisher	Pandasaurus Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	75 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	387201/emerge http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/387201/emerge/forums/63

New islands have emerged from the ocean, and as scientists, you must research the new, developing ecosystems present there. Watch the islands on the board grow in three dimensions as you learn more about them, and add colorful plants and animals to each island as you explore their ecosystems.

Each round in Emerge, earn points by rolling your dice and using them to collect research and make discoveries. All players start with the same research board, but throughout the game you can modify your own board and change what you're researching. After eight rounds, score points based on how flourished and biodiverse your islands are as well as varying
research objectives.

—description from the publisher

District Noir

2023-05-06T22:40:15-04:00

Vendor: Pandasaurus Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 15.95

Designer	Nobutake Dogen Nao Shimamura
Publisher	Pandasaurus Games
Players	2
Playtime	10-20 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Honor	2023 As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année Nominee 2022 Tric Trac Nominee 2022 Tric Trac Jeux Duo Nominee 2022 Tric Trac d'Argent Jeux Duo
Additional Info	216497/district-noir http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/216497/district-noir/forums/63

District Noir — first released as 聖杯サクセション (Throne and Grail) — is a two-player game with bluffing and set collection. To set-up the game, remove three face-down cards from the deck of 45 cards from the game, then lay out two cards face up to start a line. Each round, each player receives five cards in hand, and each turn you either play one card from your hand to the end of the line or — once per round — collect the most recently played five cards. Once all the cards from hand have been played, deal out five cards to each player and start the next round. After four rounds, the game ends.

Some cards have positive or negative numbers on them, and you score those points directly. Other cards are numbered 5-8, and you score 5-8 points for a value if you have more of those cards than the other player. Additionally, you score 5 points for each set of 5-8 that you've collected. And while normally points decide who wins, if you collect all three special cards — each of which are worthless on their own — you win immediately.

The original edition saw players seeking the Holy Grail, with the assistance of various factions. Nasza Księgarnia's version of the game — Fabryka czekolady — features the same gameplay as the original design, with players are fighting over chocolates. Spiral Editions retheme the game in a gangster setting, with players taking over businesses or seizing control of the city.

Aurum

2023-04-05T17:10:53-04:00

Vendor: Pandasaurus Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 15.95

Designer	Shreesh Bhat
Publisher	Pandasaurus Games
Players	3-4
Playtime	30-45 mins
Suggested Age	7 and up
Additional Info	383459/aurum http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/383459/aurum/forums/63

After years of experimentation in your shared laboratory, you and your fellow alchemists have just successfully transmuted common metals into gold! Now all that's left is to perfect the formula, repeating the experiments to find the perfect combination of metals that produce the purest gold.

This is a trick-taking game for 3 or 4 players. In a 4 player game there will be two teams of 2. After all cards for the round have been dealt, you will bid on how many tricks you think you/your team will win. (In a 4-player game after both players on a team have made a bid, the higher of the two bids will be the team's bid.)

During the round you can lead with any non-Gold card. On your turn you must not play a suit that has already been played (unless it is a Gold card). The highest number played wins, but Gold is the trump suit and always wins. Whoever played the lowest non-Gold card adds a Gold card of the same number from the Supply to their Collection if it is available. All Gold cards played in a trick are returned to the supply.

The round ends immediately whenever any player either:
- Cannot play a valid base metal card and does not have a Gold card to play
- Cannot play a valid base metal card and chooses not to play a Gold card

If the number of tricks you win:
- Is Under the Bid: You earn no points.
- Is Over the Bid: You earn your bid value as points.
- Is Exactly Your Bid: You earn double the big value as points.

Additionally you earn points for the number of Gold cards remaining in your collection. The player/team with the highest points wins a Gold Nugget and the first to have 2 of them wins!

-description from publisher

Roller Coaster Rush

2023-03-24T05:57:41-04:00

Vendor: Pandasaurus Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 33.95

Designer	Scott Almes
Publisher	Pandasaurus Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	15-30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Reimplements	Coaster Park
Additional Info	379644/roller-coaster-rush http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/379644/roller-coaster-rush/forums/63

Welcome to Roller Coaster Rush, a coaster-building game with oodles of kinetic fun! Your goal is to design and construct the best roller coaster for your investors' theme park! At the start of each game, you design a model coaster using the blueprints you have available. During the game, you'll attempt to actually construct your model by winning auctions for the track pieces you used in your design.

If you lose an auction on one of your own blueprints, you'll have to take that track out of your coaster - but if you win someone else's blueprints you'll get to add a new track to make your coaster bigger and better. Along the way, you can demo your model coaster for investors to see how well it works and earn some extra money for auctions.

At the end of the game you get to unveil your fully constructed roller coaster and run it for the public. You earn victory points based on how far your marble makes it down the track. The player with the most points wins!

—description from the designer

Orichalcum (English Edition)

2022-11-29T09:27:50-05:00

Vendor: Pandasaurus Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 45.95

Designer	Bruno Cathala Johannes Goupy
Publisher	Pandasaurus Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	45-60 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	355888/orichalque http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/355888/orichalque/forums/63

Orichalque is a tense and fast-pace strategy game – similar to a short 4X. Each player has their own Island board to explore and develop. On each turn, they choose a set of one Exploration tile and one Action : recruit hoplites, produce precious orichalcum (a legendary metal from Greek mythology), construct buildings granting powerful bonuses, or try to get rid of Monsters infesting your island (and preventing you to build new building).

To prevail, you will need to erect majestic temples, forge orichalcum tokens or win the favors of titans (by creating areas of their favorite landscapes. The first to get to 5 victory points while clearing their Island of all Monsters wins the game.

—description from the publisher

Wildstyle

2022-07-04T07:15:35-04:00

Vendor: Pandasaurus Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 38.95

Designer	Peter Ridgeway
Publisher	Pandasaurus Games
Players	2-5
Playtime	40 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	366782/wildstyle http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/366782/wildstyle/forums/63

Welcome to Wildstyle, where the city is your canvas and the streets belong to the people. Rock to the beat of your favorite pirate radio station while you and your crew tag the city. Make sure your rivals know where their turf ends and where yours begins. Watch out for the man though, because not everyone in the city appreciates your artistic endeavors and they might call the fuzz on you!

The goal of the game is to tag locations across the city's districts with your crew's color. You'll do this by collecting sets of cards with matching location icons. Each time you collect a set of 3 cards that all have the same icon, you get to place a tag on a hex with that icon anywhere on the map.

The game is played over 3 rounds and there are no turns! Once a round has started everyone takes their actions at the same time in any order they choose. There are 5 main actions:
- Draw a card: Draw the top card from any draw pile into your hand.
- Add to a set: Play a card from your hand or from the top of the share pile onto a set pile on your crew mat.
- Share a card: Play a card from your hand onto a share pile that is empty or has the matching color or icon on top.
- Complete a set: Clear a set of 3 cards from your crew mat and place a tag on a matching map hex.
- Rush a set: Take a cop car token to clear an incomplete set and place a tag on a matching map hex.

The end of the round is triggered either when all draw piles are empty or once only 1 player has tags remaining on their map. Each player gets 6 crew tags from the supply and another round commences. The game ends after 3 rounds and you'll score for objectives and for each map hex where you have a tag AND lose points for cop cars and solo tags. The crew with the most points wins!

Nacho Pile

2022-07-04T07:11:40-04:00

Vendor: Pandasaurus Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 18.95

Designer	Ken Gruhl
Publisher	Pandasaurus Games
Players	2-6
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	7 and up
Additional Info	366327/nacho-pile http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/366327/nacho-pile/forums/63

Nacho Pile is a fast-paced, high-energy game that will have chips flying back and forth as players compete for full plates and stomachs. In the game, players must push their luck to pile their nacho plates high, but also cleverly snatch matching chips from other players. Don't get too risky or you will lose them all! Keep an eye out for special chips that really ramp up the heat with spicy effects.

On your turn you'll reach into the bag and pull out a chip. Continue doing this until you either bust or stop.

- You bust if you pull out a chip that is identical to another chip you pulled out this turn. Place all chips you drew this turn into the bag and end your turn.
- If you choose to stop, place all chips you drew in front of you. Then take any chips in front of other players that have the same number! Any chips that remain in front of you by the beginning of your next turn are placed onto your plate and are safe from being stolen.

The game ends once only one chip remains in the bag. Reveal that last chip. The player with the most of that value chip wins! If it's a special or wild chip, the player with the highest number of chips wins.

Trek 12: Himalayas

2021-09-20T13:24:31-04:00

Vendor: Pandasaurus Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 9.95

Designer	Bruno Cathala Corentin Lebrat
Publisher	Pandasaurus Games
Players	1-50
Playtime	15-30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Honor	2022 Spiel des Jahres Recommended 2021 UK Games Expo Best New Dice Game Nominee 2020 Tric Trac Nominee
Additional Info	303672/trek-12-himalaya http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/303672/trek-12-himalaya/forums/63

Trek 12 sends you on a journey through the Himalayas with your friends. Grab your rack and get ready to set new paths and summit these crags. Carefully map the area, plan your routes, and set your lines because these cruxes aren't going to solve themselves. Wits, nerve, reputation, and, of course, become a legendary climber.

Contents:
16 Assist cards
1 Lead Climber card
6 Challenge envelopes
3 Ascent pads
2 dice
1 rulebook

Machi Koro 2

2021-07-07T20:11:48-04:00

Vendor: Pandasaurus Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 31.95

Designer	Masao Suganuma
Publisher	Pandasaurus Games
Players	2-5
Playing Time	45 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	340364/machi-koro-2 http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/340364/machi-koro-2/forums/63

Your favorite lovably quirky city is back at it again! Welcome to Machi Koro 2, where new adventures await, but the bakeries and business centers still abound.

In Machi Koro 2, veteran players will notice some big changes. Under the new zoning laws, players receive a limited budget to choose their own starting establishments. The available cards are pulled from three decks and arranged for all to see. It's a race to grab the coolest new establishments and landmarks in the land!

The cards in this set have exciting, never-before-seen effects. But choose what you build wisely, as your landmarks might also benefit your opponents! With more variety than ever before, no two games will be the same. Machi Koro 2 will have fans visiting again and again!

—description from publisher

The Game: Quick & Easy (English Edition)

2020-08-10T17:29:24-04:00

Vendor: Pandasaurus Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 13.95

Designer	Steffen Benndorf
Publisher	Pandasaurus Games
Players	2-5
Playtime	8-10 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	296512/game-quick-easy http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/296512/game-quick-easy/forums/63

Play a card, draw a card — that couldn't be easier, right?

Don't be fooled, though, because even though the title claims this game is quick and easy, The Game: Quick & Easy will not be easy to defeat. You can do so only as a real team! In more detail, to win you must play all fifty cards in the deck on the two discard piles. The deck consists of fifty cards, with cards coming in five colors numbered 1-10 in each color. Each player has a hand of two cards.

On a turn, you play one or two cards onto one or both of the two discard piles. On one pile, you must play a higher card that whatever the top card is, and on the other, you must play a lower card. The exception is that you can play any card on a discard pile if it's the same color as the current top card. Thus, on the ascending discard pile the cards played might be blue 1, red 2, gray 4, yellow 6, yellow 2 — and that drop down gives you breathing room in which to play more cards.

You can't reveal the specific numbers you have in hand, but you can say things like, "I have a high yellow card." In the "professional" version of the game, you must play exactly one card each turn (even if you want to play two), and you can reveal only the color of cards in your hand and on which stack you want to play.

Robots

2020-08-10T12:22:22-04:00

Vendor: Pandasaurus Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 8.95

Designer	Reinhard Staupe
Publisher	Pandasaurus Games
Players	2-6
Playtime	15 mins
Suggested Age	5 and up
Honors	2020 Kinderspiel des Jahres Nominee
Additional Info	296514/robots http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/296514/robots/forums/63

How far does Robbi roll in about four seconds? Well, that depends on how quickly he moves!

As a team in Robots — first published as Wir sind die Roboter (We Are the Robots) — you try to work together to develop a sense of time and speed. If you can do this, soon you'll know exactly where Robbi will stop.

Godspeed

2020-04-22T22:26:06-04:00

Vendor: Pandasaurus Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 55.95

Designers	Clayton Hargrave Adam Hill
Publisher	Pandasaurus Games
Players	2-5
Playtime	45-90 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	286160/godspeed http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/286160/godspeed/forums/63

The Space Race was a lie.

Look, it's not that the moon landing was faked. It happened. Neil hates the conspiracy theories. The lie is that we ever wanted to go to the moon. We needed a spectacle to show the people. To justify the massive budgets. The agencies.

Neil stepped on a rock 239,000 miles from Earth. Big deal. I stepped on an exoplanet circling Ursae Majoris 18 months earlier. It's a one-way trip -- so there ain't any going home.

No ticker tape parade for me, but that's ok. I'm here for my country. See, the Russians beat us here by a few months. Japanese showed up a few weeks after us. We'll colonize this planet for America. Because there isn't a choice...

Godspeed is a mid-weight worker placement game of extra-terrestrial colonization for 2-5 players with a 60-90 minute playtime. -- From the back of the box

In Godspeed, players play as scientists from one of 5 nations: the USA, Japan, Soviet Union, the European Nations, or India. The game is played in 10 rounds, each with four phases.

High Council Phase -- This is a negotiation phase where Nations will convene to decide how they will respond to an event occurring back on Earth or on the Exoplanet. The top card is drawn from the High Council deck. Nations then decide to respond to the event by assigning the specified Team Member to the event, keeping them from use during the rest of the round. If all Nations respond then everyone gets the bonus. If not, there's a penalty for those that ignored it.
Supply Depot Phase -- This is an auction phase where Nations bid on Supply Depot cards or the first player marker. Players choose cards in the order of their bids. The player with the highest bid may take a second delivery.
Action Phase -- This is a worker placement phase. Nations place Team Members in Action Spaces to take various actions and earn prestige.
Resolution Phase -- In this phase, the Nations produce new resources and return their Team Members home.

Points -- Prestige is gained on 4 tracks (Defense, Exploration, Commerce, and Infrastructure) and your position on these tracks gains you points at the end of the game. You may also gain points by achieving Civilization Milestones (only 1 Nation may claim each Milestone), completing Lunar Season scoring cards (any number of Nations may complete these), building ancient XenoRelics, completing special objective cards, and for left over resources.

The Nation with the most victory points wins.

Ctrl

2020-04-22T22:24:41-04:00

Vendor: Pandasaurus Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 24.95

Designer	Julio E. Nazario
Publisher	Pandasaurus Games
Players	2-4
Playing Time	20 mins
Suggested Age	7 and up
Additional Info	304679/ctrl http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/304679/ctrl/forums/63

In Ctrl, players try to dominate a cube by crawling over it with their colored bricks, preferably covering other players' bricks along the way.

In more detail, you start with a 3x3x3 cube that has one block of each player color stuck into one of the cube's holes. (In a two-player game, each player controls two colors, but at the start of play they secretly choose one of those colors to be their scoring color, with the other color serving only as a blocking mechanism.) Each player has a matching colored flag that sticks out of their block.

On a turn, a player removes their flag from its current location, adds one cube of their color to the side of any of their blocks (where such a move can be made), then they "grow" their color by adding two blocks in a straight line from the block they just added, crawling around corners and covering other players' blocks if needed. To end your turn, plant your flag in one of your final blocks, ideally blocking where someone else might like to play while also preserving future ground in which you can play.

Once all the blocks have been placed, you calculate your score by looking at the structure from all four surrounding sides, as well as from the top, and counting each unblocked square of your color that is visible. Thus, if you plant a block high up on the cube, you can possibly score 5 points for it since it would be seen from all sides and the top. Climb high, and block others from blocking you!

passtally

2019-03-25T16:26:31-04:00

Vendor: Pandasaurus Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 27.95

Designer	Masaki Suga (須賀正樹)
Publisher	Pandasaurus Games
Players	2-3
Playtime	30-40 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	252265/passtally http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/252265/passtally/forums/63

In passtally, you take turns placing tiles on the game board to create a line connecting your player markers. The more tiles the line passes through, and the higher those tiles are stacked, the more points you score!

ゲームボードにタイルを配置しながら、
自分のプレイヤーマーカー同士をラインで繋げて、勝利点を獲得していきます。
ラインがより高い段数のタイルを通過すると高得点のチャンスです。

The Great Fire of London 1666 (Import)

2013-11-23T22:39:00-05:00

Vendor: Pandasaurus Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 70.47

Designer	Richard Denning
Publisher	Pandasaurus Games
Players	3-6
Playtime	75 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Expansion	The Great Fire of London 1666: 2-Player Expansion

On Sunday September 2, 1666, Thomas Farriner, the baker to the King, forgot to put out the hearth fire in his shop. This simple act of negligence created a towering and lethal inferno which would eventually destroy 13,000 houses and leave nearly 90 percent of the city's population destitute and homeless...

You are no simple bystander to this tragedy; the future of London lies in your hands.

In The Great Fire of London 1666, the players are men of wealth and standing who own property around London. The Lord Mayor has failed to act and it is down to these mighty men to lead trained bands of militia to fight the fire and save the city. To do so they must decide which districts to sacrifice to the fire and which to protect. Remember, these same men own much of London, thus such choices will shape their own future and greatly affect their wealth and standing.

Use the trained bands to suppress the fire and explosives to destroy blocks of housing to create fire breaks and prevent its spread. Do you choose to protect your own homes, turning a blind eye and allowing the fire to consume your rival's property? Or will you stand as the hero of London, and choose to save as much of the city as possible?

Victory can belong to the player with the most property left after the ashes settle, but stopping the fire and saving London's most famous landmarks may win a more altruistic land owner the hearts and minds of the people.

Save the city, or watch it burn.