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Finding Atlantis

2023-12-27T14:47:50-05:00

Vendor: Synapses Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 31.95

Designer	Andreas Wilde
Publisher	Synapses Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	40-100 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Additional Info	363699/finding-atlantis http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/363699/finding-atlantis/forums/63

Embark on an exhilarating journey like never before! Equipped with cutting-edge technology and a state-of-the-art diving submarine, you stand at the precipice of a legendary discovery: the enigmatic Atlantis.

Finding Atlantis is a competitive deduction and exploration game with unique app-generated puzzles for 1-4 players. On a turn, you play two cards from your hand and resolve the action on these cards, moving your submarines on the map; inspecting the ocean floor via periscope, sonar, and radiograph; exploring for artifacts or stealing those artifacts from opponents; dropping mines to slow down those opponents; and surfacing to reset your deck. You track your findings on a hidden map, trying to be the first to discover all spaces of Atlantis.

Finding Atlantis features an app that offers more than a million distinct and challenging sea maps, along with an integrated tutorial and a U-Bot mode that allows for solo play against an AI or AI-controlled opponents that can be added to a multiplayer game.

Yummy Yummy Monster Tummy

2021-12-27T09:15:38-05:00

Vendor: Lucky Duck Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 18.95

Designer	Andreas Wilde
Publisher	Lucky Duck Games
Players	2-4
Playing Time	15-30 mins
Suggested Age	6 and up
Additional Info	344254/yummy-yummy-monster-tummy http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/344254/yummy-yummy-monster-tummy/forums/63

There are strange noises coming from the attic at your grandpa’s summer house. After climbing the stairs, you see colorful and furry Monsters everywhere! They seem to be friendly…. but also really hungry! You must feed them whatever you can find. They will eat anything, but what attracts them the most is the color of objects!

Yummy Yummy Monster Tummy is a co-operative card game of color matching for 2-4 players. Your goal is to complete each level by feeding all of the Creatures foods they like.

Each level consists of several Creatures that you must feed. Once a Creature opens its mouth, it’s ready for you to feed it! In any order, each player chooses one Item card from their hand to feed to the Creature by scanning the card’s QR code, which is located on the back of the card. When feeding a Monster, you must feed it Item cards that combine and mix into a color that is similar to the Monster’s fur color. If you feed a Monster a mix of Items that do not result in a mixed color that is similar to their fur color, all players lose the game and must start the level over again.

You can play Yummy Yummy Monster Tummy in either Story Mode or Party Mode. In Story Mode, there are 12 levels waiting for you. You will follow the story and unlock new Locations and Items by completing levels. On higher levels, you will also meet new Creatures. Some of them have exciting special abilities that provide additional fun challenges!

In Party Mode, you can play a single game session using all of the Items you have unlocked so far. This allows you to experience the game without worrying about the story.

Houston, We Have a Dolphin! (Import)

2020-12-23T02:08:20-05:00

Vendor: HYBR
Type: Board Games
Price: 39.95

Designer	Andreas Wilde
Publisher	HYBR
Players	3-5
Playing Time	20-40 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	301317/houston-we-have-dolphin http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/301317/houston-we-have-dolphin/forums/63

Note: This game includes English and German. For a preview, English rule can be found here.

An anchovy in the floppy drive?! This can only mean one thing: There's a dolphin on board the spaceship!

Each player controls a team of up to four astronauts with different abilities, possibly fooled by a murderous dolphin. During dangerous spacewalks, the astronauts try to repair the sabotaged spaceship, unaware whether their companion is helping them or secretly trying to undermine the mission. After each spacewalk, the Captain decides the fate of his crew members. However, a crew in panic can easily overthrow his shifty captain and send him to the void.

Houston, We Have a Dolphin! is a card-based social deduction game especially designed for a low player count of 3-5 players. The game consists of two alternating phases. During the spacewalk phase, the players try to trigger certain events by combining their cards, only knowing their own though. The actual happenings can lead them to find out who's on which side as the dolphins are working against the arrangements.

In the following Captain phase, the captain decides whether to sacrifice an astronaut from a team of his choice; flood the spaceship, which means the victory of the dolphins; or reset it, the goal of the humans, which is only possible after repairing the spaceship. At this point, the crew has the chance to revolt against the captain and his order, by secretly voting with their panic tokens.

Houston, We Have a Dolphin! is app supported, which allows an in-app narrator and an easy-to-follow game tutorial. To combine the physical astronaut cards with the digital spaceship, HYBR primarily uses magic, helped by their in-house developed image detection algorithm.

—description from the publisher

Soviet Kitchen Unleashed (Import)

2020-12-23T02:03:02-05:00

Vendor: HYBR
Type: Board Games
Price: 34.95

Designer	Andreas Wilde
Publisher	HYBR
Players	1-6
Playing Time	25 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	260407/soviet-kitchen-unleashed http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/260407/soviet-kitchen-unleashed/forums/63

Note: This game includes English and German. For a preview, English rule can be found here.

WWII is ending in the Soviet Union. You're a troop of field cooks co-operating to create meals out of the barely available ingredients. Whatever you find at the front — even if it doesn't seem edible at first sight — consider putting it in the meat grinder! Isn't it more about the looks anyways? The sausage is not red enough? Some rusty nails will do! Your mush looks like vomit? Yellow sand will give it the right color!

Sounds horrible? You just take care for Mother Russia, and she sure is hungry! But careful! Of course, you don't want to kill your guests while working your way from rags to Soviet gourmet-chefs!

Soviet Kitchen is a co-operative card game with an app in which each player throws a colorful ingredient into the virtual meat grinder. This way, all four players together try to mix the ordered color without intoxicating their soviet comrades too much. The app (for Android and iPhone devices) guides you through the story. Each player contributes one ingredient to the dish, scanning the ingredient card using the device's front camera. To match the color of the ordered dish, the players need to discuss the colors and effects of their cards without showing them. If the result is close enough, your meal is accepted and you earn rubles.

Unfortunately, some ingredients are toxic or even radioactive. Not even the toughest Soviet survives your toxic recipes unless you go slow and act strategically as to when to play which toxic items. Each time you send a guest to the hospital, you lose a life and one card from each player's hand. The same happens when your dish is rejected because it doesn't look like what was ordered.

Soviet Kitchen includes two playing modes:

The challenge mode includes different challenges like cooking for high score or mixing the perfect color. Compare your high scores online!
In story mode, you face 21 different missions, each with its own introduction and challenge. Mission by mission, the team earns more and more rubles and unlocks new cards until finally cooking for the Kremlin society.

Soviet Kitchen Unleashed contains more missions, more cards, and better balancing, with cards now suitable for left-handed players, too!

—description from designer