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Wizards & Co. PRE-ORDER

2024-10-24T22:56:40-04:00

Vendor: Sinister Fish Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 30.95

Designer	Flaminia Brasini Virginio Gigli Stefano Luperto Antonio Tinto
Publisher	Sinister Fish Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	30-60 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	382307/wizards-and-co http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/382307/wizards-and-co/forums/63

ETA Q4 2024

The high necromancer is dead. His dungeons lie unguarded, packed full with gems and artefacts ripe for plunder! There’s just one problem: the enchanted treasure vaults can only be breached by a wizard. A good job then, that you’re a wizard - a greedy wizard with time on your hands and no respect for the dead. You need a crew to carry all the riches home, so you head to the Henchpersons & Minions Guild and go for the deal of the day: ten of the meanest beasts, bullies and brutes available. They may not smell so good, but they’ll get the job done.

However, you’re not the only gem grabbing spell-slinger with flexible morals and a sneaky strategy, for rival wizards have come to take the treasure that should be yours! It’s annoying that they hired the same minions as you, but it was a great deal.

You and your adversaries are evenly matched, so you’ll need to deploy your underlings carefully. They’ll enter dungeons as you command, clashing with their rivals, battling for loot all while navigating the enchantments left by the necromancer. The artefacts you’ll find might swing things in your favour, allowing you to wield weapons of legend and to summon horrifying monsters to fight for you - with the mighty Big Blue Blob on your side, how can you fail! Fight well & wisely, and bring back as much loot as you can, because only one wizard will emerge victorious!

Wizards & Co. is a strategic board game where players aim to collect valuable magical artefacts and sets of gemstones by placing creature cards face-up and face-down around octagonal dungeon boards. When no more cards can be placed on a dungeon, a battle takes place where creature abilities are triggered in clockwise order. When the dust settles, loot is distributed accordingly and the game goes on until a set number of dungeons has been cleared.

—description from the publisher

Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester - Deluxe (Import)

2023-11-28T22:52:37-05:00

Vendor: DiceTree Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 142.95

Designer	Changhyun Baek Flaminia Brasini Virginio Gigli Stefano Luperto Antonio Tinto
Publisher	DiceTree Games
Players	1-5
Playtime	30-150 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	374858/leonardo-da-vincis-codex-leicester http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/374858/leonardo-da-vincis-codex-leicester/forums/63

Note: This game includes English and Korean.

Codex Leicester is the reimplementation of Leonardo da Vinci (2006) by Acchittocca (Flaminia Brasini, Virginio Gigli, Stefano Luperto, Antonio Tinto) in collaboration with the founder of DiceTree Games, Changhyun Baek. It is a new game using the original’s system and theme.

This is a worker placement game for 1 to 5 players, featuring strong player interaction. Playtime lasts approximately 30 minutes per player.

Summary:
Players find themselves as inventors trying to breathe life into their designs, all of which draw their inspiration from the notes of the master himself: the Codex Leicester of Leonardo da Vinci. Ranging from relatively simple to epic, all these inventions require materials and time to bring them to fruition.
Of course, genius alone won’t get the job done. Get support from the Council and sponsors. You will need to expand your workshops and procure Automata designed by Leonardo himself – all this to increase your work efficiency. Hire apprentices straight out of the academy to nab highly coveted materials from the market before your rivals.

Time is of the essence. Race to be the foremost in completing inventions. You will unlock rewards and special abilities if you are the first player to complete the inventions. Otherwise, you will get less rewards without special abilities.

After 7 rounds, the player who has amassed the largest fortune will be awarded victory!

Who among you will be the most ingenious Renaissance inventor?

-description from publisher

=Changes from Leonardo da Vinci (2006):

- The allocation of start game resources has changed. 4 resource selection cards are distributed, of which 2 are kept, and their corresponding resources are collected. Receive additional resources according to to turn order.

- Competitive elements have been strengthened for a 2 or 3 players game, allowing enjoyment of a similar tension at any player count.

- More invention cards! An increase from 25 to 40 cards, with each card having special effects that players can use instantly, once in a round, and permanently.

- More enticing Council options! An increase from four to eight options, with florins piling up on tiles that no one has chosen each time a new tile is placed.

- Card resources have been replaced with meeples, and player screens have been added.

- Invention card completion has been modified so that everyone knows what inventions are being worked on at any given time.

- Invention cards are now divided into current and future spaces, adding a new dimension for strategic play.

- The 15-week inventions are now only revealed at the start of the game, allowing players to prepare in advance.

- Restrictions of the workshops have been lifted so that you can upgrade them, as well as add automata, in the middle of working on an invention.

- Each player now gets six objectives, all of which yield rewards upon fulfillment. So if you find yourself falling behind in completing inventions, these objectives will help you catch up.

- New effects have been added to the Laboratory and Academy. You can buy 1 work from the Laboratory and 1 resource from the Academy. Now there’s a reason to use the Laboratory and Academy in the later of the game.

- The game consists of 7 rounds. Players pay salaries to hired assistants at the end of rounds 3, 5, and 7. Some effects of the Laboratory and Academy change in rounds 4 and 6. In round 7, players can sell resources instead of buying them.

- The game comes with a double-sided game board; double-layered player boards; premium wooden, glass, and plastic resource tokens; and 12 transparent containers for storing components.

Alma Mater

2021-07-20T19:26:07-04:00

Vendor: eggertspiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 76.49

Designers	Flaminia Brasini Virginio Gigli Stefano Luperto Antonio Tinto Acchittocca
Publisher	eggertspiele
Players	2-4
Playing Time	90-150 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	299960/alma-mater http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/299960/alma-mater/forums/63

Alma Mater has players serving as a headmaster of one of the independent universities in the 15th century. Players seek to strengthen their school's reputation and standing. To achieve these goals, players need to recruit the best staff and students, exchange knowledge with other schools, and become experts in the school's four disciplines!

—description from the publisher

Mystery House: Adventures in a Box – Back to Tombstone

2020-08-03T12:28:10-04:00

Vendor: Cranio Creations
Type: Board Games
Price: 16.99

Designer	Antonio Tinto
Publisher	Cranio Creations
Players	1-5
Playing Time	60 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansion For	Mystery House: Adventures in a Box
Additional Info	298267/mystery-house-adventures-box-back-tombstone http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/298267/mystery-house-adventures-box-back-tombstone/forums/63

A fearless and furious Indian tribe, fast and smoking guns, a gloomy mystery under the Western hot sun — all of this awaits in Back to Tombstone, a Western-themed adventure for the game Mystery House: Adventures in a Box.

Solve all the riddles, and escape alive from the wild wild west.

Mystery House: Adventures in a Box

2020-03-25T21:40:56-04:00

Vendor: Cranio Creations
Type: Board Games
Price: 44.95

Designer	Antonio Tinto
Publisher	Cranio Creations
Players	1-5
Playing Time	60 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansion	Mystery House: Adventures in a Box – Back to Tombstone
Additional Info	269537/mystery-house-adventures-box http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/269537/mystery-house-adventures-box/forums/63

This house mysteriously moves through space and time, and no one knows its destination. Will you be brave enough to enter?

Experience the thrill of an escape room in Mystery House: Adventures in a Box, which features a mix of technology and tradition. You are imprisoned in this house, and the only way out is to solve all the riddles you find inside! You must search for clues in the box, which features multiple doorways on all sides. At the beginning of the game, you insert enigma cards in the box top, and these cards will tell a story as they're revealed and resolved during play. An app drives you through the game and records the progress of your team and your playtime.

The base game includes two adventures: "Family Portrait" and "The Lord of the Labyrinth". All future expansions will use the same base game box as a game system.

Egizia: Shifting Sands

2019-12-27T07:51:46-05:00

Vendor: Stronghold Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 45.95

Designer	Acchittocca Flaminia Brasini Virginio Gigli Stefano Luperto Antonio Tinto
Publisher	Stronghold Games
Players	2-4
Playing Time	90 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	267271/egizia-shifting-sands http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/267271/egizia-shifting-sands/forums/63

Egizia: Shifting Sands Edition is an updated version of the beloved strategy game Egizia. Players travel down the Nile, placing boats as they go, to collect resources that will help them construct some of Egypt's most famous monuments. With new monuments to build, new cards to collect, and a constantly shifting river, Egizia: Shifting Sands Edition is a streamlined, modern update that both longtime fans and new players can easily pick up and enjoy.

In Egizia, players must place their pawns following the course of the Nile, moving northwards. In this way, each placement not only blocks the opponents from choosing the same square (except monuments, where multiple players are always allowed), but also forces the player to place their remaining pawns only on the squares below the one they just occupied.

When the placement phase is over, the workers of the players (which are separate from the pawns) must be fed with the grain produced in the fields. The production of each field is based on the floods of the Nile, so some fields may not give grain each turn. If a player doesn't have enough grain for all their workers, they must buy it with victory points. After that, stones are received from the owned quarries and used to build the monuments (if the right to do so was reserved earlier) along with the workers.

In this new edition, players each get a chance to build across the Colonnade, a new monument. The more columns you build, the better powers you unlock to help you on the river. Perhaps once per turn you can place boats on occupied river spaces or upstream, or gain an extra point each time you place bricks in monuments. With randomized rewards from game to game, the Colonnade is a dynamic new monument to shake up traditional gameplay.

Below the Colonnade, where the graves once stood, lie the mysterious statues — a new monument unlike anything else in Egizia. These tiny build sites are cheaper than any other monument, but they hold the potential for high reward if you fulfill their requirements. Players must plan early as they can place only one brick in a statue per round, and each level they build has more strenuous requirements for endgame bonuses.

Egizia: Shifting Sands Edition keeps all the painstaking risk/reward decisions of the original Egizia and adds new depths of strategy, balance, and gameplay for a fresh twist on a timeless classic.

Terramara (Import)

2019-07-30T13:04:17-04:00

Vendor: Quined Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 99.95

Designer	Acchittocca Flaminia Brasini Virginio Gigli Stefano Luperto Antonio Tinto
Publisher	Quined Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	120 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	272427/terramara http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/272427/terramara/forums/63

Note: This game is multilingual including English

Terramara is the name of the villages founded around 1500 B.C., mid- to late Bronze Age, in Northern Italy. People lived, travelled, and traded between the Alps mountain range and the river Po. The main occupations of the Terramara people were hunting, farming and metallurgy, casting bronze tools like axe heads in stone molds. The houses in the villages were built on piles, meaning each house is built above the ground, supported by wooden stakes.

In Terramara, you play as the chief of a clan living in one of these villages. Your goal is to develop your clan, exploring lands farther away to trade with other villages, and reach sacred places. You improve your battle strength and discover new technologies to create useful artefacts. The player who develops the best clan by gaining more development points becomes leader of all of Terramara and wins the game!

—description from the publisher

Monsters' Tower

2015-11-03T01:02:00-05:00

Vendor: Cranio Creations
Type: Board Games
Price: 54.95

Designer	Simone Luciani Antonio Tinto
Publisher	Cranio Creations
Players	2-4
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	6 and up
Additional Info	173100/tower https://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1581955/tower/reviews

'Monsters' Tower' is a game of dexterity and touch, for fast fingers.

To set up, players sit around the tower and choose their pawns; each player has a different shape of pawns. Then they place their pawns inside the topmost floor by passing them through the roof. Now the round starts! Players want to make their pawns reach the ground floor of the tower because at the end of the round pawns have different values depending on the floor where they are located; the farther down they go, the more they're worth. Players have only one instrument to move pawns, though: their pointing fingers! They put their fingers through the windows of the tower and push their pawns to the next level — assuming that they recognize their own pawns, that is...

Leonardo da Vinci

2015-10-05T21:24:46-04:00

Vendor: Mayfair Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 24.95

Designer	Acchittocca Flaminia Brasini Virginio Gigli Stefano Luperto Antonio Tinto
Publisher	Mayfair Games
Players	2-5
Playtime	90 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up

Theme:
Florence, fifteenth century. The inventors of the Renaissance created amazing machines for the Lord of the city. Become the protagonist of this age of unbelievable discoveries by realizing your inventions! You'll direct your team into the laboratories, workshops, among the shops and perhaps learn the intrigues of the palace. Only the best can rival the great Leonardo!

Summary:
A worker-placement game for 2-5 players with an interesting bidding mechanic. In many other worker-placement games, if an opponent beats you to a spot, you're out of luck. Not so in Leonardo de Vinci. Here, you can bid more workers to jump ahead in line. And people at the back of the line, can still get something, but they have to pay more to get it. The competition for resources is very dynamic and fun.

Your same workers that compete for resources may also power your laboratory, so you must balance acquiring resources with working in the laboratory so that you can complete inventions and not run out of Florins (i.e. manage cash-flow).

The key is planning your resources and production capacity to maximize the number of inventions you can make and therefore maximize the amount of Florins you can earn. The last two rounds of the game require extra careful planning because new resources cannot be acquired.

Meta:
A "gamers' game" by Acchittocca (a team of Italian game designers). Nr. 1 in the QWG Master Print Edition series