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Rock Hard: 1977

2024-09-03T11:31:38-04:00

Vendor: Devir
Type: Board Games
Price: 49.95

Designer	Jackie Fox
Publisher	Devir
Players	2-5
Playtime	45-90 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	402679/rock-hard-1977 http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/402679/rock-hard-1977/forums/63

It's 1977. You're an up-and-coming musician, dreaming of making it big with your band. Over the next few months you'll rehearse, play gigs, write songs, and promote your band. With careful planning and a little luck, you'll earn the most fame and become the best new artist of the year.

Designed by Jackie Fox (member of the 1970’s rock band "The Runaways", four-time Jeopardy! champion, and designer of the narrative adventure trilogy The Adventures of the Chubby Slugz) and illustrated by Jennifer Giner, Rock Hard: 1977 allows games for groups of between 2 and 5 players, from 14 years old, in games lasting about 45-90 minutes.

Rock Hard: 1977 is played over a maximum of nine rounds, each representing a typical day of one month in 1977, from April to December. You win the game by accruing the most fame. How? Increasing reputation, chops and songs; achieving production, performance, and publicity bonuses; getting record deals and earning royalties; playing concerts; and hanging out at the hottest after-hours spot. Ready to live like a rock star?

—description from the publisher

Cities

2024-07-02T10:21:45-04:00

Vendor: Devir
Type: Board Games
Price: 28.95

Designer	Steve Finn Phil Walker-Harding
Publisher	Devir
Players	2-4
Playtime	30-40 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	402676/cities http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/402676/cities/forums/63

You've been tasked by the city council to put together a plan to transform a whole neighborhood in the city. You have the opportunity to build new housing, office buildings, parks, and leisure areas near the waterfront. It is in your hands to make the city a better place.

Cities is a city-building game in which you draft the best projects and arrange them in your own playing area. Designed by Steve Finn and Phil Walker Harding and illustrated by Jorge Tabanera, it allows games for groups of 2 to 4 players, ages 10 and up, lasting about 40 minutes. With action and resource draft mechanisms, it will give you the opportunity to visit the cities of Sydney, London, New York, Barcelona, Rio de Janeiro, Lisbon, Mexico City, and Buenos Aires. Can you design the most magnificent neighborhood?

The game is played over eight rounds (or four rounds in a two-player game). Each round, players use their workers to collect 1 scoring card, 1 city tile, 1-2 feature tiles, and 2-4 building pieces. City tiles are made up of park spaces, water spaces, and building spaces. Building pieces are placed on building spaces of the same color to form buildings, which can be 1-4 stories high. Whenever a player fulfills an achievement, they place one of their discs on the achievement board. At the end of the game, players add up the points they have gained from all of their scoring cards and achievements.

—description from the publisher

Sand

2024-04-11T16:28:44-04:00

Vendor: Devir
Type: Board Games
Price: 43.95

Designer	Ariel Di Costanzo Javier Pelizzari
Publisher	Devir
Players	1-4
Playtime	120 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	402669/sand http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/402669/sand/forums/63

People refer to this vast place only as the desert since no one remembers what was here before. The golden age of human beings has long passed. Now there is only sand, and the only hope is in the humidity.

Travelers cross the desert that stretches from the slopes of the Akaishi Mountains to the cliffs of Seaclaw. Half-ruined ancient cities are home to the last human communities struggling to survive by foraging for what little green remains standing. These desert travelers transport goods on the backs of their caterpillars. Although their only goal is to make as much money as they can, at the same time and in a more or less deliberate way, they are helping to bring life back to the desert by carrying small plants from the artificial greenhouses of the cities to the most remote corners of this ocean of sand.

Designed by Ariel Di Costanzo and Javier Pelizzari and illustrated by Ernest Sala, Sand is a game with a main mechanism of pick-up-and-deliver that can be enjoyed alone or in groups of up to four players in games of about 120 minutes long. Players have to earn as much gold as possible after six rounds (five in a four-player game) to win.

In Sand, players put themselves in the shoes of these intrepid desert travelers who travel the paths of the board and visit the different towns. They collect goods to take them to other places and thus earn gold for the transport service. They cross the dunes on the backs of their faithful caterpillars, which, cared for, will grow and help players complete their tasks more effectively. Along the way they will be joined by helpful companions and be entrusted with missions that, if completed, will bring good benefits at the end of the journey. Help the plants take root again, and perhaps there is still some hope for this desolate place...

—description from the publisher

Salton Sea

2023-12-27T14:51:59-05:00

Vendor: Devir
Type: Board Games
Price: 39.95

Designer	David Bernal
Publisher	Devir
Players	1-4
Playtime	120 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	402663/salton-sea http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/402663/salton-sea/forums/63

Salton Sea is a unique place located in California, very close to the border with Mexico. The characteristics of this salty lake make it a unique location to generate geothermal energy, which takes advantage of the heat from the planet. In this area of intense geothermal activity, you will drill the ground and extract the steam and hot water to obtain lithium and sell it as part of a modern industry, far from fossil fuels, that will allow you to lead the energy transition towards a completely renewable future.

Designed by David Bernal and illustrated by Amelia Sales, Salton Sea can be enjoyed alone or in groups of up to four players in sessions lasting about 120 minutes. During the game, players must manage their geothermal lithium extraction companies to obtain the greatest number of points. The extraction of this material and its subsequent processing will be the driving force of your companies.

On your turn, place one of your four engineers on one of the available spaces to take an action. There are three different groups of actions: industrial actions (which allow you to obtain an exploration license, drill, extract, process or repair machinery), commercial actions (sell, acquire contract and execute contract), and management actions (research, buy shares, develop the business project or finance itself). It is up to you to manage the engineers at each point of the game to get the most out of your company.

However, there is no single path to success. The game will reward you for exhausted land, executed contracts, short-term objectives, company development, or research advances. Will you master the power of the Salton Sea to create the most efficient geothermal company?

—description from the publisher

Flash10

2023-12-27T14:47:54-05:00

Vendor: Devir
Type: Board Games
Price: 11.95

Designer	Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	Devir
Players	2-5
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	146152/flash-10 http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/146152/flash-10/forums/63

Wolfgang Kramer's Flash 10 is a quick-playing take on the Rack-O game system, with players trying to arrange cards in numerical order – but doing so all at the same time.

The card deck includes 120 cards, twenty showing a thunderstorm and the other hundred numbered 0-99, with each card ending in 0 or 5 showing a lightning bolt. Someone shuffles the deck, then each player receives ten cards face down, which they place in a row in front of them. Playing simultaneously and as quickly as possible, players reveal these cards (without rearranging them), then start taking cards one at a time from those scattered in the center of the table and placing them on one of the ten cards in front of them, thereby creating stacks of cards as the game progresses. If a player draws a thunderstorm card, she can place it on any stack.

As soon as a player has ten number cards in ascending order from left to right, she yells "Stop!" and ends the round. If she's correct, she scores 10 points, plus 2 points for ending the round. Each other player scores points for the number of cards in order starting from their left stack. In addition, each card with a lightning bolt (whether in order or not) is worth 1 point, while each thunderstorm card is worth -1 point. Players then shuffle the cards and start another round. Whoever reaches 50 or more points first wins!

Flash 10 includes two variants. In one, players can end the round even if they have one or more thunderstorm cards in their row. In the second, players use nine cards instead of ten, and they must arrange their cards in ascending, then descending order with the fifth card in the row serving as the turning point.

España 1936 (Second Edition)

2023-12-27T14:47:34-05:00

Vendor: Devir
Type: Board Games
Price: 55.95

Designer	Antonio Catalán
Publisher	Devir
Players	2
Playtime	180 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Honor	2008 Charles S. Roberts Best Pre-WW2 era Board Game Nominee 2008 Golden Geek Best Wargame Nominee
Additional Info	31291/espana-1936 http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/31291/espana-1936/forums/63

ESPAÑA 1936 is a game of historical simulation that recreates the facts occurred during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39).

It is played on a board depicting Spain and divided in connected zones, with counters at operational level. It has cards to develop the events of the war and to modify decisive battles. It does not have any CRT, and the combats are simple but real for the conflict. The turn and the combats are alternative, which creates a great interaction between the players. Thought for beginners and experts alike.

The Spanish edition was released in October 2007.

España 1936: La Armada is an expansion to the Spanish edition released in 2008. It includes naval rules, cards and a new board for naval operations.

The English edition includes the basic game and the expansion. It was released in May 2008.

ESPAÑA 1936 es un juego de simulación histórica que recrea los hechos acontecidos durante la Guerra Civil Española (1936-39).

Utiliza un tablero dividido en zonas conectadas entre si, con fichas a nivel operacional. Tiene cartas para desarrollar los eventos de la guerra y modificar combates decisivos. No tiene CRT, y los combates son sencillos pero reales para el conflicto. El turno y los combates son alternativos, lo que crean una gran intereacción entre los jugadores. Pensado tanto para principiantes como para expertos.

El juego está disponible en la edición española desde octubre de 2007.

España 1936: La Armada es una expansión para el juego, producida en Octubre 2008 Incluye reglas navales, fichas, nuevas cartas y un tablero de operaciones navales. Esta disponible de manera gratuita en las tiendas habituales o a traves de Devir Iberia

La edición en inglés incluye, además de la versión original, la expansión. Se acabó de producir en mayo de 2008.

Bitoku: Resutoran

2023-09-05T09:28:01-04:00

Vendor: Devir
Type: Board Games
Price: 18.95

Designer	Germán P. Millán
Publisher	Devir
Players	1-5
Playtime	120 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Expansion For	Bitoku
Additional Info	383122/bitoku-resutoran http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/383122/bitoku-resutoran/forums/63

Enjoy a new taste of Bitoku with Bitoku: Resutoran, a three-module expansion that you can add to the base game as you prefer. Do you want the full menu? Add all of them! Do you want to try a bite? Add just one, and enjoy the banquet. Itadakimasu!

Modules include new Iwakura rocks, new Yokai cards, and three new types of Kodama Lake. Also, Resutoran includes a new deck of cards that will allow players to activate certain effects during the game, such as modifying dice results (whether their own and opponents') or gaining a lot of points.

—description from the publisher

Yokai Sketch

2023-04-11T13:27:17-04:00

Vendor: Devir
Type: Board Games
Price: 12.95

Designer	Ignasi Ferré
Publisher	Devir
Players	2
Playtime	15-25 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	371981/yokai-sketch http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/371981/yokai-sketch/forums/63

Children who go into the forest may come across some yokai, that is, supernatural creatures and phenomena. Moved by boundless curiosity, the little ones draw these spirits in their notebooks to understand their nature and learn from them.

With a set-collection core mechanism, the goal of Yokai Sketch is to score more yokai points than the other player by completing sketches of the elusive forest spirits. The game consists of two decks of cards: in one are four types of yokai, each associated with an element (water, fire, earth, and wind) and a numerical value that corresponds to victory points, and in the other, sketches made by humans, two of the four elements, and possibly a special ability.

At the start of the game, the yokai cards are stacked in four decks (one for each element) and three sketch cards are dealt face down to players. On their turn, players draw a new sketch card and slide one of their four cards under one of the four decks in the center of the table so that it reveals the element associated with that yokai. If by doing this the yokai reaches or exceeds the number of sketches needed to draw it (adding the sketches on both sides of the card), the player who has accumulated the most sketches on their side of the table takes it.

The winner's sketch cards will be placed in the discard pile, and the other player's will stay where they are as they will be used for the next yokai card of that type. If there is a tie in the number of sketches on both sides of the card, the yokai is frightened and lost. In this case, neither player manages to finish the drawing and all the sketch cards on both sides of that yokai pile are discarded. Sketch cards can also include powers: calling the yokai or distracting it to move cards. The game ends when one or more yokai decks are empty.

-description from publisher

Ierusalem Anno Domini

2023-01-20T15:35:25-05:00

Vendor: Devir
Type: Board Games
Price: 57.95

Designer	Carmen García Jiménez
Publisher	Devir
Players	1-4
Playtime	90 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	371972/ierusalem-anno-domini http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/371972/ierusalem-anno-domini/forums/63

Jerusalem, spring 33 AD. A crowd gathers at the city gates to welcome Jesus of Nazareth as he prepares to celebrate Easter with his apostles and followers. With a revolutionary message, he has garnered supporters everywhere but also looks of suspicion among religious authorities. The Last Supper will soon be celebrated and the fate of one of the most influential characters in human history will be sealed.

In Ierusalem Anno Domini, each player represents one of the communities of followers of Jesus of Nazareth who, coming to Jerusalem from nearby towns and villages, want to approach the place of the Last Supper and position themselves as close as possible to the seats of Jesus and his apostles.
Designed by Carmen G. Jiménez and illustrated by L.A. Draws, Ierusalem Anno Domini can be played alone or with up to 4 participants. The goal of the game is to gain points sitting your followers at the table of the Last Supper. The closer they are to the apostles and to Jesus himself, the more victory points they will provide at the end of the game. The parabola tiles that we have accumulated, or the offering tokens will also give us points.

Different locations are shown on the board: the market, the desert, the mountain, the lake and the temple. After sending our followers to one of these locations, we will obtain stones, bread and fish, as well as denarii or cards that will allow us to do more than one action. Among these actions, players will be able to choose between listening to a parable, going to the table, changing seats or doing a favor, among others. All this will happen while the patience of the Sanhedrin runs out. When this happens, symbolized by a tile moving in a marker, the endgame is triggered.

However, the main element of the game is the cards. Each card has a symbol corresponding to one of five key locations in the game. As you play them, combinations will be formed that will allow us to bring the apostles to the table of the Last Supper. The optimal placement of our followers around Jesus and the apostles will also be done through the management of letters, as well as various resources at our disposal.

Behind a very immersive theme, Ierusalem Anno Domini will not disappoint lovers of good challenges. Players will have a wide range of possibilities at their fingertips and multiple ways to earn victory points. Preparing the best strategies to get the most out of your followers will be one of the keys to victory. Devout gamers don’t need to look further: Here is your game!

-description from publisher

Regine

2022-11-07T14:15:57-05:00

Vendor: Devir
Type: Board Games
Price: 11.95

Designer	Josep M. Allué Dani Gómez
Publisher	Devir
Players	2-4
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	363089/regine http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/363089/regine/forums/63

Regine is a card game of betting and bluffing, designed by Dani Gómez and Josep M Allué, the author of games like The Color Monster, Castellers!, and Dragons & Chickens. It is illustrated by Bea Tormo. It’s for 2 to 4 players ages 10 and up and games last around 30 minutes. Regine brings us back to the European courts of the end of the 16th century and the goal is to be the first player to reach 31 points.

Watch your backs…because the daggers are flying! In Regine the interaction among players is constant and the majority of the effects of the cards affect the hands of your rivals. As the game progresses, each player tries to get the best combinations to score points but they don’t always have control over their hands.

The intuitive card design makes it quick and easy to learn how they function. And if you know how to play Mus, some of the rules will seem familiar. Rounds are structured in 3 phases: hand construction in which players try to get the most favorable card combinations, a betting phase where they bid on the best hands, and point resolution. To start, put the 4 scoring cards in the middle of the table alongside the betting chits. Shuffle the remaining 40 cards, deal 4 face down to each player, and put the rest in the middle of the table. You’re now ready to start the first phase!

In a turn, a player can do 1 of 4 actions. The first is change one of the cards in their hand for the top card of the deck. The second is to announce “no changes,” which blocks the rest of the players from changing cards from the deck. The third is play a card either face down or face up on the table. If a card is placed face up, it may trigger an action. The jester, for example, negates a “no changes” declaration previously made by another player. The peasant forces a player to play a card face up on the table and use its effect. The assassin eliminates a card that has been played on the table, the courtesan forces a player to reveal a card that has been played face down, the herald lets one look at the top card of the deck and the knight forces one to change a card from their hand. Finally, each player can also pass and when all players pass, all remaining cards are placed face down and the betting phase begins.

Be sharp and observant, because it’s now time to bluff! Taking turns, the players will bet on the scoring cards. They’ll bet on the highest number of queens and jesters, on pairs and trios of cards, and for the total value of their cards. It’s not always necessary to have the best hand in order to score points! You can always trick the other players into thinking you have better hand than you really do. In the last phase, the resolution, all cards are revealed and points are awarded. Rounds continue like this until a player reaches 31 points.

A good memory and a big dose of shrewdness will be your best allies in Regine, ensuring quick games and hours of fun. Families and friends, young and old will enjoy this game (try playing with your grandparents or card playing in-laws and they’ll quickly get the knack). So move with caution among the knights and courtesans and don’t get caught with the wrong cards!

—description from the publisher

Winter

2022-07-04T07:15:36-04:00

Vendor: Devir
Type: Board Games
Price: 11.95

Designer	Maria Blasco Arnandis Enrique Blasco
Publisher	Devir
Players	2
Playtime	10 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	359857/winter http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/359857/winter/forums/63

Every winter, the lake freezes over. It won’t last long, so we have to play as soon as possible, trying to dominate the frozen parts of the lake before everything unfreezes and we lose everything. In order to win, choose key spaces wisely before your rival does, and control them. Show that the cold never bothered you.

In Winter, two players compete to be the player with the most chips of their color on the lake at the end of the game. The game is divided into two phases. In the first, the freezing phase, players will create the frozen lake in a contiguous form using their snowflake cards. They’ll also attempt to secure zones in which they’ve managed to group four snowflakes of their color using chips. In the second phase, the unfreezing, they’ll undo the creation by moving and retrieving their cards and chips of their color. At the end of the game, the player with the most chips on the table is declared the winner.

Winter is an abstract game for 2 players ages 8 and up. Games last 10 minutes in which good decisions are everything. This is a reissue of the 2016 edition with all new mechanics.

Winter was the winner of the 2021 Cardboard Edison Award. It’s the first of a series of the 4 Seasons series that will continue later with Autumn, Summer, and Spring.

The Red Cathedral: Contractors

2022-07-04T07:14:40-04:00

Vendor: Devir
Type: Board Games
Price: 29.95

Designer	Isra C. Shei S.
Publisher	Devir
Players	1-4
Playtime	60-90 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Expansion For	The Red Cathedral
Additional Info	359747/red-cathedral-contractors http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/359747/red-cathedral-contractors/forums/63

The construction of St. Basil’s Cathedral is going at a steady pace. The moment has arrived to seek out the best specialists of each guild and to apply their skills and knowledge to turn this monument into something that will even surprise the Tsar himself. It’s necessary to send contractors to the far reaches of Russia to be able to stand out from the competition and achieve victory.

Contractors is the first expansion of The Red Cathedral, the hit game from Shei Santos and Isra Cendrero in which players construct Moscow’s St. Basil’s Cathedral and compete to make the most memorable contribution and win the favor of the Tsar. The expansion is also illustrated by Pedro Soto and Chema Román, two artists inspired by the work of Ivan Bilbin, the Russian artist renowned for his majestic representation of Slavic folklore in his works. The Red Cathedral stands out among recent games for its original rondel mechanism, winning the hearts of thousands of gamers around the world.

The expansion comes in a box that contains almost as much content as the original game and takes the experience into another dimension. In Contractors we find 10 new guilds that can be combined with those from the basic game, 6 additional blueprint cards, and a new card for the solo mode. Many of these new guilds use the Contractors module, which among other things, adds a new board containing a map of Russia. We Will send our contractors throughout Russia to recruit the talent of the best specialists and artisans of the country to aid in the construction of the cathedral.

As in the original game, each of these guilds contains 3 different cards, of which one per guild can be included into the game, meaning that Contractors offers 30 new different ways to play The Red Cathedral. And among other highlights are a black die that can be used alongside the 5 existing dice used to obtain resources, diamonds which serve as a wild-card form of resource, and the contractors, which are Cossack meeples that incorporate a worker placement element into the game.

Home Sweet Home (or Not)

2022-07-04T07:10:11-04:00

Vendor: Devir
Type: Board Games
Price: 37.95

Designer	Paul Peterson
Publisher	Devir
Players	2-5
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	358219/home-sweet-home-or-not http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/358219/home-sweet-home-or-not/forums/63

The sun shines through the window, the aroma of recently cooked food wafts through the kitchen, and the dining room looks splendid as it awaits the guests. Everything's pointing to a memorable Sunday — except for the flying dish that just smashed into the attic. Why does this stuff always happen to us?

In the co-operative board game Home Sweet Home (or Not), 2-5 players must collaborate to complete the objectives laid out in one of the five missions included in the game. Each mission requires a different layout of the house, which is constructed of different rooms connected by 3D wooden doors.

Each player represents a family member who must spend action points to recover objects from the rooms and return them to their correct places according to the mission. Will you be able to get all of the stuff out of the rooms and into the attic before the aliens abduct you? Can you help Santa Claus load all of the presents into the sled that's parked in your garage?

—description from the publisher

Walkie Talkie

2022-02-10T11:13:07-05:00

Vendor: Devir
Type: Board Games
Price: 9.95

Designer	Isra C. Shei S.
Publisher	Devir
Players	2-8
Playtime	1-4 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	351540/walkie-talkie http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/351540/walkie-talkie/forums/63

Get rid of your cards as quickly as possible to obtain the most points. Over and out!

Walkie Talkie is a cooperative game in which players will have a very limited amount of time (30 seconds per player) to get rid of all the cards in their hand. If they manage to do so they beat the game and they can write down their score. AS its a coop game, either we all get rid of our cards and win together, or we don't win at all.

Everybody is playing their cards at the same time. There will be a pile of coulored cards on the table, next to a pile with letters. In order to get rid of a card from their hand, a player must say a word that starts with the letter and matches the color of the card that they wish to play, combining that with the card that is not getting covered. For example, in order to play a "B" card next to a yellow card you could say "Banana!". Or if you want to play an orange card next to an "L" you could say "Lion!". Communication is vital to being successful in this addictive co-op card game.

Image Credit: Walkie Talkie | IG: @doctor_meeple

Ouch!

2022-02-10T11:11:39-05:00

Vendor: Devir
Type: Board Games
Price: 11.95

Designer	Romain Caterdjian Théo Rivière
Publisher	Devir
Players	2-5
Playtime	10-15 mins
Suggested Age	5 and up
Additional Info	352710/ouch http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/352710/ouch/forums/63

Choose which Cactus card you want to take and decide which side you will handle it by. When you flip it over, you may get a nice set of flowers or an itchy prick in your finger!

Ouch! is a game for the whole family, especially for the younger ones. In this game players will take turns choosing the Cactus card with the prettiest flowers they want to bring over to their collection. Before taking the card they’ll need to indicate which side of the card they will touch, and then flip it handling only that side of the card. If the reverse is clear on that side, they can take the card and score that number of flowers. If the reverse shows a cactus full of thorns, they will lose the card.

As soon as someone manages to keep eight cards (or the deck runs out), players will count the number of flowers they’ve managed to collect. The one with the highest number of flowers in their collection will win the game.

-description from publisher

Paris: La Cité de la Lumière

2021-12-27T09:12:03-05:00

Vendor: Devir Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 24.95

Designer	Jose Antonio Abascal Acebo
Publisher	Devir Games
Players	2
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Expansion	Paris: Eiffel
Additional Info	276498/paris-la-cite-de-la-lumiere http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/276498/paris-la-cite-de-la-lumiere/forums/63

Paris is a two-player board game by José Antonio Abascal infused with Parisian aesthetics by the boardgame’s artist Oriol Hernández. The game is set in late 19th century Paris during the 1889 “Exposition Universelle,” or world’s fair, when public electricity was a hot topic. Electricity spread throughout the city, creating today’s beautiful nocturnal Parisian streets and coining Paris’s nickname “La Cité de la Lumiére”, the city of lights.

The most well-lit buildings are admired more highly by passers-by. In the first phase, players can either place tiles or grow their reserve of buildings. The cobblestone tiles are divided into 4 random spaces (their color, their opponents’ color, a streetlight or a mixed-color space where either player can build).

Then, in the second phase, players build on top of their color or the mixed spaces, in effort to position their buildings as close to as many streetlights as possible. More streetlights solicit more adoration and points. The player with the best lit buildings steals the hearts of Parisian pedestrians and wins the game.

—description from the publisher

LUNA Capital

2021-12-27T09:10:44-05:00

Vendor: Devir Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 39.95

Designer	Jose Ramón Palacios
Publisher	Devir Games
Players	1-4
Playing Time	45 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	323613/luna-capital http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/323613/luna-capital/forums/63

The dream of maintaining human life on the surface of the moon has now come true. The project to build cities on Earth’s beloved satellite is under way. Things are moving full speed ahead too, the possibilities are enormous because this is 1977, the year when lunar living becomes reality. The most enterprising companies have decided to sponsor teams of scientists, builders, publicists and freelance nightlife entertainers to set out to construct the best client base in the galaxy. On top of this out of the world chance, the Lunar Colonization Authority shall assign the capital of the Moon to the best of the projects that are presented, making the chance for an even juicier reward!

In LUNA Capital, the players must optimally manage the elements of the game to build the best possible lunar settlement, and to make it worthy of becoming the capital of the entire off-planet colony. They will have a series of construction cards in a common “market”, and each of the players shall be tied to a number of project tiles. The players take turns drawing cards and the tiles that accompany them, and then place them in their personal playing area. The cards must be laid out in a maximum of three lines and must be placed so that they are always in ascending numerical value. Once the card has been placed, the tiles are then put on the spaces for them on the cards, in an attempt to group together the various projects in the most efficient way possible.

The tiles show what projects are available, all of which are essential for the construction of the city worthy of the term. They include oxygen collectors, greenhouses, residential complexes and (of extreme importance) sales offices to sell apartments with the best views in the galaxy. Each of these categories scores according to how they are arranged within the personal area of each player. Whoever is able to best take advantage of their arrangement and placement shall become the mayor of LUNA Capital.

—description from the publisher

Bitoku

2021-12-27T09:06:18-05:00

Vendor: Devir
Type: Board Games
Price: 62.95

Designer	Germán P. Millán
Publisher	Devir
Players	1-4
Playing Time	120 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Accessory	Folded Space - Bitoku
Expansion	Bitoku: Resutoran
Additional Info	323612/bitoku http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/323612/bitoku/forums/63

In Bitoku, the players take on the roles of Bitoku spirits of the forest in their path towards transcendence, with the goal of elevating themselves and becoming the next great spirit of the forest. To do so, they will have the help of the yōkai, the kodamas and the different pilgrims that accompany them on their path. This is a hand-management, engine-building game with multiple paths to victory.

Players will have yōkai represented by the cards that make up their hand, which must be placed in the right places at the right times in order to obtain the maximum benefit from the abilities they offer. Furthermore, during the game players can earn more yōkai cards for their deck, thereby increasing their playing options and achieving a higher score. Each player also has three yōkai guardians (in the form of dice) that they can send to the large regions of the forest on the main board in order to obtain all kinds of new options that they can play during the game. These options can be structures they build in certain areas of the forest, soul crystals that generate resources when certain actions are carried out, and many others as well. The players also have the chance to help the mitamas, lost souls in search of redemption by using the chinkon fireflies.

There is truly a wide range of actions to carry out, and this is without taking into account the personal domain where the players can lay out another layer of additional strategy while managing the pilgrims. Pilgrims are followers of the player who embark upon journeys of contemplation and reflection who then share the experiences and learning they can along the spirit path with the Bitoku.

—description from the publisher

Mazescape Ariadne

2021-07-06T11:35:05-04:00

Vendor: Devir Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 9.95

Designers	Pablo Céspedes Víctor Hugo Cisternas
Publisher	Devir Games
Players	1
Playing Time	5-90 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	331652/mazescape-ariadne http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/331652/mazescape-ariadne/forums/63

Mazescape is a fascinating and intriguing game of labyrinths for one player that guarantees intense brain racking moments as you search for the exit. It is a game you can take anywhere and play time and time again to discover all the different nooks and crannies of the seven maps included.

It is a completely unique concept that promises to equally surprise and create headaches in equal measure. In this original game from Devir, you will unfold a map on the table, where you will start at the compass rose with the pointer you will find in the box, moving it along the labyrinth paths marked in white without ever lifting it from the map. You will have to open and close different parts of the map in search of the Impossible Triangle that will allow you to escape the maze. You can go under bridges, climb up ladders and run around in circles in the maze and in your own head until the exit finally leads you to… the next map!

Mazescape Ariadne places you in the ancient Crete of legend, where you must enter the famous labyrinth of Daedalus. You can rely solely on your wits to overcome the ordeals this box of maps provides, to reach the final challenge against the minotaur and help Ariadne escape. And when you have gotten out the first time, then you can dare to go back in and find all the hidden treasures that exist in the accursed maze.

—description from the publisher

The Color Monster

2019-01-02T15:17:12-05:00

Vendor: Devir Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 29.95

Designer	Josep M. Allué Dani Gómez
Publisher	Devir Games
Players	2-5
Playtime	25 mins
Suggested Age	4 and up
Additional Info	256980/color-monster http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/256980/color-monster/forums/63

Players in The Color Monster collaborate to help the Monster figure out his emotions. In turns, they roll the die that allows them to move the Monster around the board. When the Monster goes to a space with an emotion token, the player can pick it up and look for the right jar. The jars are all placed on shelves with their colors hidden. If the player chooses the jar which matches the color of the emotion, then they can place the emotion token into the jar. Otherwise, the jar goes back to the shelf as it was. In order to pick up an emotion token, players have to explain a memory or a situation in which they feel like the emotion they are picking up (Happiness, Sadness, Anger, Fear or Calm). The players can lose the game if the Monster gets too confused and they flip over too many mixed emotion jars, or win the game when the emotions are all placed in their correct jars.

—description from the publisher

Michael Strogoff

2017-11-17T01:14:34-05:00

Vendor: Devir Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 33.95

Designer	Alberto Corral
Publisher	Devir
Players	1-5
Playtime	60 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	224894/michael-strogoff http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/224894/michael-strogoff/forums/63

In Michael Strogoff, based on the Jules Verne novel of the same name, players race to deliver a message to the brother of the Czar, while simultaneously racing both an assassin sent to the kill that man and Tartar forces moving on Moscow. Players must help one another hold off the latter threats, while still trying to be the first to deliver that message.

Barcelona: The Rose of Fire

2017-02-01T14:29:00-05:00

Vendor: Devir Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 56.95

Designer	Marco Maggi Francesco Nepitello
Publisher	Devir
Players	2-4
Playtime	70-90 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	205078/barcelona-rose-fire http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/205078/barcelona-rose-fire/forums/63

Description from the publisher:

We are in Barcelona in the late 19th century. The old city walls have just been torn down, finally freeing the city's growth outward towards the old villages that surround it. Based on the plans by Cerdà, the construction of Barcelona's famous Eixample (Catalan for "expansion") has begun. It is a period of great prosperity when the burgeoning upper middle class families found their fortunes and used their wealth to demonstrate their power by constructing unique buildings and supporting initiatives for the city's inhabitants. However, not everything is so pleasant in the city. Its prosperity is drawing more and more people to work in the big city, and revolutionary movements are taking hold among the city's unemployed workers.

Barcelona: The Rose of Fire is a board game for 2-4 players in which the players compete for social prestige and personal wealth while trying to avoid the revolution that is spreading through the city.

In more detail, the players take turns using cards to build their influence by constructing buildings (tiles) in the new city, outside the old medieval walls. The better and more spectacular the construction, the more notoriety they gain. But at the same time, this construction boon brings many workers who are living in much cheaper venues. Building high-class buildings, while rewarding in terms of prestige, may generate unrest amongst the popular classes. In order to avoid strikes and riots, players have to make sure that they construct buildings for the popular classes as well.

During the construction phase, players place workers in the Raval zone depending on the sort of buildings they construct. At the end of each era, all those workers are placed into a bag, alongside peacekeeping soldiers. Depending on the level of unrest, a number of these figures are drawn from the bag and the player with more figures drawn from their color suffers a strike.