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2024-09-03T11:28:43-04:00

Vendor: Sea Cove Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 124.95

Designer	Christoph Cantzler Sebastian Freudenberg
Publisher	Sea Cove Games
Players	1-6
Playtime	60-180 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	370853/carolingi http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/370853/carolingi/forums/63

Winter 830: Disaster looms. The vast realm of Charlemagne threatens to fall apart under his son and successor Louis the Pious. Charlemagne's grandchildren are already competing for the throne, pushing their father aside. Strife and rebellion abound — the once stable kingdom is on the verge of war. Is there still hope for peace?

In Carolingi, the players assume the roles of the grandchildren of Charlemagne; they are the "Carolingi", who must live through the difficulties and central aspects of early medieval rule. The "Carolingi" have to wield their power by fealty of the nobility. The nobility, in turn, expect to be rewarded with vast estates, so the Carolingi have to seek more and more land and resources, but as the power base of one Carolingian gets stronger, so does the envy and greed of his royal siblings. There's need for action for the Carolingi, but not everything can be done at a time. Only prudent action will bring peace and stability to the realm.

The board shows the counties and regions of Carolingian times, and the game features an innovative system of action that guarantees an exciting, effortless gaming experience. Each game year consists of four quarters; in each quarter the players add two of their (wooden) action tiles to a bag, from which they are later drawn one at a time. This results in unpredictability (true to its time).

The game includes a competitive version and a semi-cooperative version.

The game ends in peace.

—description from publisher

Town 77

2023-12-27T14:54:01-05:00

Vendor: Oink Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 21.95

Designer	Christoph Cantzler Anja Wrede
Publisher	Oink Games
Players	1-5
Playtime	15 mins
Suggested Age	9 and up
Additional Info	402310/town-77 http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/402310/town-77/forums/63

The residents of Town 77 — located just down the road from Town 66, mind you — can't stand it when houses with the same shape or color are lined up with each other. Try to build as many houses as you can while keeping in mind which houses in your hand can be built at the end.

In Town 77, each player has a hand of tiles, with each tile showing one of seven house styles in one of seven colors/patterns. (The color/pattern of a tile also shows on its reverse side.) The game has 49 tiles in total, one of each possible combination. Each player starts with a hand of random tiles.

The first player places a tile in the upper-left corner of an imaginary 7x7 square, then on each subsequent turn a player adds a tile to a row or column in this square so long as this tile is adjacent to at least one other tile and the color/house style isn't already present in this row and column. After playing a tile, a player can choose to draw a new tile or not. Once you lower your hand size, you can't increase it again. If you can't play on a turn, you're out of the game, and once everyone is out, whoever has the fewest tiles in hand — or who played latest in the event of a tie — wins.

If you play your final tile, you win, but if you don't draw new tiles, you might find yourself unable to play!

Town 66

2022-08-27T15:25:54-04:00

Vendor: Oink Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 22.95

Designer	Christoph Cantzler Anja Wrede
Publisher	Oink Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	15 mins
Suggested Age	9 and up
Additional Info	361212/town-66 http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/361212/town-66/forums/63

The residents of Town 66 can't stand it when houses with the same shape or color are lined up with each other. Try to build as many houses as you can while keeping in mind which houses in your hand can be built at the end.

In Town 66, each player has a hand of tiles, with each tile showing one of six house styles in one of six colors/patterns. (The color/pattern of a tile also shows on its reverse side.) The game has 36 tiles in total, one of each possible combination.

The first player places a tile in the upper-left corner of an imaginary 6x6 square, then on each subsequent turn a player adds a tile to a row or column in this square so long as this tile is adjacent to at least one other tile and the color/house style isn't already present in this row and column. After playing a tile, a player can choose to draw anew tile or not. If you play your final tile, you win, but if you don't draw new tiles, you might find yourself unable to play!

Zogen

2018-08-06T02:19:05-04:00

Vendor: Oink Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 22.95

Designer	Christoph Cantzler Anja Wrede
Publisher	Oink Games
Players	2-6
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	6 and up
Additional Info	249289/zogen http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/249289/zogen/forums/63

In Zogen, a.k.a. ゾーゲン, the player researchers want to rid themselves of their microorganism cards as quickly as they can, but they can do so only by observing the current lab environment and watching the one thing that changes, then "recording" it by playing their card.

In more detail, each player starts with a hand of sixteen cards, with each card showing 0-4 types of microorganisms, which are named "Maru", "Tsuki", "Yama", and "Siri". The start player for the round places one of their cards face up on the table, then everyone plays at once, trying to lay down a card that differs from the initial card by exactly one microorganism, whether one more or one less.

Thus, if a card shows "Maru" and "Tsuki", you can lay down a card that shows either "Maru" or "Tsuki" or a card that shows "Maru" and "Tsuki" along with one of the previously missing microorganisms. You must say the name of the microorganism that is added or removed when you play a card, then everyone must match the card that you just played.

When a player has only three cards in hand, the round ends and players score points based on their rank in terms of how many cards they hold. Whoever has the most points after you've played the agreed-upon number of rounds wins.

Dragi Drache

2014-02-28T22:20:26-05:00

Vendor: Ravensburger
Type: Board Games
Price: 36.95

Designer	Christoph Cantzler Anja Wrede
Publisher	Ravensburger Spieleverlag GmbH
Players	2-4
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	4 and up
Additional Info	129955/dragi-drache http://www.boardgamegeek.com/forum/1297530/dragi-drache/reviews

Note: This game is in German. English rules can be found here.

Dragon Dragi and his friends have one big wish: If only they could breathe fire like the adult dragons! So they practice a lot and eat lots of fiery-hot dragonfruits. Today they are having a fire-breathing contest. The participant who manages to blow the floating fire ball into the right volcano field gets to collect the highly sought-after dragonfruits.

Dragi Drache is a dragon-themed action game for children. At the center of the board is a cardboard volcano that divides the board into six sections. Underneath the board (in the box) is an airblower that when switched on keeps a little ball afloat. Each player gets an individual game board and six dragonfruit chits in the same color. One dragonfruit chit per player color is then placed on each section of the game board.

To play the game, someone turns on the air blower, then places the ball on the air jet at the center of the board so that it floats over the volcano. The active player each turn tries to blow the ball into one of the board sections with a dragonfruit chit of her color, with only one chance to get the ball in the right spot. If the ball lands on a board section with a dragonfruit of her color, she takes that chit and places it on her game board. Whether she gets it or not, though, the next player then takes his turn.

The first player to collect six dragonfruits of her color wins!

Riff Raff

2013-10-29T21:51:00-04:00

Vendor: Zoch Verlag
Type: Board Games
Price: 75.95

Designer	Christoph Cantzler
Publisher	Zoch Verlag
Players	2-4
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Honors	2013 Spiel des Jahres Game of the Year Recommended 2014 As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année Enfant Winner 2014 As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année Nominee
Additional Info	118695/riff-raff http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1183311/riff-raff/reviews

Imagine a cardanic hinge – the axis is upright and after going through a wooden floor that turns out to be the body of a ship, that axis ends up being the mast of said ship. Three spreaders rotate around it to provide balancing space for sailors, mice, bottles, crates. The spreaders are numbered (left or right to the mast, from five to ten), and the upper deck is divided into four quarters numbered 1-4. That's the set-up for Riff Raff.

Each player has the same set of "stuff" and a hand of cards numbered 1-10. Choose one card, then reveal it simultaneously with the other players. Then place anything you want onto the numbered space you chose. If the players all go to one side, the whole ship will tumble in rather unforeseeable ways to and fro, with one or more items falling off the ship with players trying to catch them quickly. Whatever you catch, goes out of the game. What falls down counts to the things you try to put on the ship. The player getting rid first of all his things, is winning the game.