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Patrician: Towers of Influence

2023-12-27T14:51:17-05:00

Vendor: Calliope Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 49.95

Designer	Michael Schacht
Publisher	Calliope Games
Players	2-5
Playtime	20-50 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	392767/patrician-towers-influence http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/392767/patrician-towers-influence/forums/63

The definitive version of a Michael Schacht classic, Patrician: Towers of Influence features an updated presentation, new two-player rules, and two expansion modules.

Welcome to 13th Century Italy, a time when wealthy Patrician families build magnificent towers to represent their power and prosperity: the more influential the family, the taller the tower! You are a master builder, ready to profit from the vanity of the Patrician families. You take building orders, adding floor after floor, and when a tower is complete, you’ll be there to take the credit. At the end of the game, the builder with the most victory points wins!

Patrician: Towers of Influence is delightfully effortless to play. Each turn, play a Building card, which allows you to add to a tower in the matching city. Some cards allow you to take special actions that help you or hinder others. Next, take the face-up card from the pile next to the city where you just built a tower. As the game goes on, players will continue to build up the various towers, and points are scored for who controls the tallest towers in each city, as well as for playing Patrician portrait card sets. In the end, the builder with the most points wins!

This new version of the classic game includes several expanded ways to enjoy the game. When playing with two players, you compete against the Architetto, a wily bot opponent who thwarts your plans. The Trade Routes and Delegates modules can optionally be added in to increase the decisions and affect final scoring.

—description from the publisher

Four Corners: Kaleidoscope

2022-12-27T10:43:02-05:00

Vendor: Calliope Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 38.95

Designer	Ray Wehrs
Publisher	Calliope Games
Players	1-6
Playtime	20-40 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	369563/four-corners http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/369563/four-corners/forums/63

Four Corners is a living puzzle! In this quick, fun, and captivating game, everyone has a different solution, but only the player who best manipulates the board and completes their puzzle will win! Four Corners comes in 2 themed editions: Kaleidoscope and Galaxy.

Players each start a game of Four Corners game with secret goals. Every turn, you’ll add, twist, rotate, and flip tiles to reach your goal. This is achieved on the unique, patented Four Corners game board, which allows tiles to rotate and move without affecting neighboring tiles. You score a goal either by creating sequences of four identical images, or by completing a full image from the corners of four tiles. Watch out, because other players will also be shifting and changing the board to shape it the way they need. The first player to achieve three of their secret goals wins!

Enchanted Plumes

2021-07-05T23:08:58-04:00

Vendor: Calliope Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 18.95

Designer	Brendan Hansen
Publisher	Calliope Games
Players	2-6
Playing Time	20-40 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	322010/enchanted-plumes http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/322010/enchanted-plumes/forums/63

In Enchanted Plumes, players strive to complete magical peacocks by assembling plumes in sparkling rows from top to bottom.

Skillfully placing feather cards of the same color from row to row is key, as the top row value will count against your score, while all lower rows count as positive values.

Once the peahen card is revealed, the player with the most valuable plumes wins the game and is bestowed with the luck of the peacock!

—description from the publisher

Mass Transit

2021-01-27T10:45:44-05:00

Vendor: Calliope Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 18.95

Designers	Chris Leder Kevin Rodgers
Publisher	Calliope Games
Players	1-6
Playing Time	15-20 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	303830/mass-transit http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/303830/mass-transit/forums/63

It's quittin' time in the Big City, and all the hardworking people want to get home to their families! Cooperate with other players to build routes and get six Commuters from the Big City to their homes in the Suburbs.

Mass Transit is a clever, fast-playing, cooperative, limited communication game for 1-6 players featuring dual-use cards.

You must play two cards each turn, and you can play cards in two ways:

- To build roads, canals, and rails, or
- To move the buses, ferries, and trains from one station to the next.

Players must work skillfully together, but the twist is that communication is limited: players cannot tell each other what cards they have in their hands or share their strategies, so planning moves is tricky!

—description from the publisher

Contents:

1 Big City board
52 Mass Transit cards
6 Commuter pawns
Game rules

—description from the publisher

Tsuro: Phoenix Rising

2019-12-03T00:12:26-05:00

Vendor: Calliope Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 47.95

Designer	Tom McMurchie
Publisher	Calliope Games
Players	2-8
Playtime	20-60 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	266177/tsuro-phoenix-rising http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/266177/tsuro-phoenix-rising/forums/63

Long ago, a vengeful god stole the stars from the night sky. To illuminate the night, hopeful people sent glowing paper lanterns floating toward the heavens. Out of nowhere, clever magical phoenixes appeared, soaring through the sky. As they flew from lantern to lantern, their enchanted touch changed the lanterns into new stars! The phoenix who can create a constellation of seven new stars will be the champion of a world looking for light!

Tsuro: Phoenix Rising is a new entry in the classic Tsuro series. The game shares a bond with the foundations of the venerable original: play tiles, move pawns, and stay in play, but it introduces a revolutionary board that allows for the double-sided tiles to flip and rotate throughout the game, creating diverging paths and opening up new strategies.

Featuring gorgeous phoenix miniatures, beautiful lantern tokens, and unique gameplay elements such as life tokens that allow your phoenix to be reborn from the ashes once per game, Tsuro: Phoenix Rising is a new chapter in the legacy of Tsuro!

Roll For It! Deluxe Edition

2014-10-15T23:53:00-04:00

Vendor: Calliope Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 38.95

Designer	Chris Leder
Publisher	Calliope Games
Players	2-8
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	164812/roll-it-deluxe-edition http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1546978/roll-it-deluxe-edition/reviews

The previous edition of Roll For It! by Calliope Games was for 2-4 players, and two sets could be combined to allow play for up to 8 players. This Deluxe edition supports 2-8 players out of the box.

Roll For It! is a casual, family-friendly dice and card game. Each player starts the game with six dice of a single color, and three target cards are laid face-up on the table. Players take turns doing the following: On a turn, a player rolls all of her dice not already on cards, then places any dice that match the targets on the corresponding cards. (Alternatively, before taking her turn, a player can first choose to reclaim all of her dice from all cards.)

If the player now fulfills the target with her dice – e.g., a pair of 3s, a quartet of 6s, or a specific combination of numbers – she claims the card, takes back her dice (and returns any other dice on the card to their owner), then places a new card on the table. Each card is worth a certain number of points. The first player to earn forty or more points wins!

Roll For It: Purple Edition

2014-08-22T19:20:00-04:00

Vendor: Calliope Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 18.95

Designer	Chris Leder
Publisher	Calliope Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	129090/roll-it http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1285044/roll-it/reviews

There are two sets of Roll For It! available -- the red set comes with translucent dice and the purple set comes with pearl dice. There are no duplicate cards between the sets. Each set allows play for 2-4 players, but when they are combined, up to eight players can compete in the same game of Roll For It!

Roll For It: Red Edition

2014-08-22T19:12:00-04:00

Vendor: Calliope Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 18.95

Designer	Chris Leder
Publisher	Calliope Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	129090/roll-it http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1285044/roll-it/reviews

Tsuro of the Seas: Veterans of the Seas

2014-01-11T16:05:00-05:00

Vendor: Calliope Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 14.95

Publisher	Calliope Games
Players	2-8
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Expansion For	Tsuro of the Seas
Additional Info	137837/tsuro-of-the-seas-veterans-of-the-seas http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1368900/tsuro-of-the-seas-veterans-of-the-seas/reviews

This is a repackaging of the parts that were originally available only as bonuses during the Tsuro of the Seas Kickstarter.

Game description from the publisher:

The forces of nature can be as devastating as the wrath of the daikaiju! With Tsuro of the Seas: Veterans of the Seas, an expansion forTsuro of the Seas, you'll be able to add more excitement to your game with the Tsunami (Tidal Wave) and Uzushio (Whirlpool) tiles. This tile set also provides you with hope, however, as the Taihou (Cannons) and the Mystic Portal (Magic) may help you to overcome the devastation and be victorious!

Tsuro

2013-11-02T23:08:00-04:00

Vendor: Calliope Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 35.95

Designer	Tom McMurchie
Players	2-8
Playtime	15 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Honors	2006 Golden Geek Best Light / Party Game Nominee
Reimplemented By	Tsuro of the Seas
Additional Info	16992/tsuro http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/7742/tsuro/reviews

A beautiful and beautifully simple game of laying a tile before your own token to continue its path on each turn. The goal is to keep your token on the board longer than anyone else's, but as the board fills up this becomes harder because there are fewer empty spaces left... and another player's tile may also extend your own path in a direction you'd rather not go. Easy to introduce to new players, Tsuro lasts a mere 15 minutes and actually does work for any number from 2 to 8.

Theme:

Tsuro has an Asian spiritual theme - the lines representing the "many roads that lead to divine wisdom", and the game as a whole representing "the classic quest for enlightenment".

This theme is very light and the game essentially plays as an abstract.

Gameplay:

The game consists of tiles with twisting lines on them, a 6x6 grid on which to lay these tiles and a token for each player. Each player has a hand of tiles. On your turn you do two things: place a tile from your hand onto the board next to your token and move your token as far as it can go along the line it is currently on, until it is stopped by an empty space with no tile in (yet), the edge of the board or colliding with another player's token. If your token reaches the edge of the board or collides with another player's token, you are out of the game. The aim of the game is to be the last player left with a token on the board. Strategy therefore consists of trying to drive your opponents either into each other or off the board whilst extending your own route in directions that will make it difficult for your opponents to do the same.

Other notes:

Tsuro was originally patented by McMurchie in 1979 under the name Squiggle Game, but was apparently not published at that time. Somewhat similar to Metro and Spaghetti Junction.