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Founders of Teotihuacan

2021-12-27T09:08:40-05:00

Vendor: Board&Dice
Type: Board Games
Price: 47.95

Designer	Filip Głowacz
Publisher	Board&Dice
Players	1-4
Playtime	45-60 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	345088/founders-teotihuacan http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/345088/founders-teotihuacan/forums/63

Travel back in time to the founding of one of the greatest cities of Mesoamerica and become a part of its history once again. Design the foundations of a great pre-Columbian civilization, with its buildings, temples, and a grand pyramid in the center. Find perfect locations for production buildings and great temples, and build the might of the great pyramid overlooking your city. Establish yourself as the very best among competing architects, and your project will secure you a spot among the great Founders of Teotihuacan!

Founders of Teotihuacan is a strategy game where you compete against your friends to create the best design of the city of Teotihuacan. Over the course of three to four rounds you will place your action disks to the main board, forming towers of varying strength, strategically use the bonuses they offer, and construct temples, resource buildings and the pyramid central to your project of Teotihuacan. You will balance generating resources and using them, as finding good locations on your city board becomes increasingly more difficult, and you will try to outwit your opponents, making use of an innovative and interactive action system. Finally, once the eclipse comes, all designs will be assessed and the player with the most points will win and become the architect to join the ranks of Founders of Teotihuacan!

Founders of Teotihuacan is a stand-alone game, related to Teotihuacan: City of Gods only by the shared setting of the ancient city of Teotihuacan. Thematically, the events in Founders takes place at an earlier time in history, while what was to become a magnificent city was yet in its infancy and only few inhabited the area.

On your turn, you must either perform an Action or pass. To perform an Action, place between 1 and 3 of your Action disks on an Action space on the Main board that already contains at least one disk (minimum a Bonus disk and possibly also opponent disk(s)), and carry out a corresponding Action. The Action disk(s) should be placed on top of the disk(s) already on that space, forming a stack. Each Action space can hold a maximum of 4 Action disks—including Bonus disks!

Your personal player board is divided into four Districts or quadrants. Buildings and Temples can only be placed within the two Districts closest to your Architect. Pyramid tiles can only be placed within the six Pyramid squares closest to your Architect. Your Action Strength is equal to the total number of disks (whether yours, an opponent’s disks, or Bonus disks) on an Action space.

After performing an Action (not when passing), move your Architect clockwise to the next side of your Player board, signifying
the end of your turn. This changes your Architect's Reach for your next turn. After all players have passed, the current round ends.

After the game has ended, players score additional Victory Points for how well their Districts complement their Pyramid.

—description from the publisher

Mandala Stones

2020-12-27T00:09:56-05:00

Vendor: Board&Dice
Type: Board Games
Price: 40.95

Designer	Filip Głowacz
Publisher	Board&Dice
Players	2-4
Playing Time	30 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Expansion	Mandala Stones: Harmony
Additional Info	317504/mandala-stones http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/317504/mandala-stones/forums/63

Welcome to Mandala Stones, a game of tranquility and beauty! Arrange colorful stones to create a stunning work of art together with your friends. However, while there are many creators, there can be only one winner. Influence artists, positioning them cleverly on the main board, to form towers out of collected Stones, which you then display onto the mandala board at an opportune moment to score Victory Points.

Mandala Stones is played over a number of rounds. Each round, beginning with the starting player and continuing clockwise until around the table, every player will take one turn. The game will conclude at the end of the round during which the end-game condition is triggered, thus giving all players an equal number of turns. The player with the most Victory Points is the winner.

On your turn, you must perform one of two possible actions: PICK or SCORE.

PICK
Choose one Artist and move it to a different position on the board. Then, take all adjacent Stones that match the pattern of the Artist you selected and are not adjacent to any other Artists.

Collected Stones are gathered in towers on your player board, waiting to be scored on a future turn.

SCORE
Decide whether to score a color or to score any top Stones.

When scoring a color, you must choose a colored shared by the top Stones of at least 2 towers on your player board. Their patterns do not matter, as long as the Stones themselves are of the same color. Score each such tower individually, according to the rule depicted next to it on your player board.

When using the option to score any top Stones, select any number of Stones from the tops of your towers and score 1 Victory Point for each selected Stone. The individual colors and patterns of these Stones do not matter.

All scored Stones, regardless of option chosen, are placed on a central Mandala board, where you may score additional Victory Points by covering spaces with special markings.

END OF THE GAME
If a Stone is placed on the Mandala board covering a space showing a number of hands equal to the number of players — finish the round, thus giving all players an equal number of turns. Finally, each player has the opportunity to score one of the two Objective cards that were dealt to them during setup.

The player with the most Victory Points is the winner!

Beer Empire

2017-09-08T23:29:44-04:00

Vendor: Board&Dice
Type: Board Games
Price: 69.95

Designer	Filip Głowacz Ireneusz Huszcza
Publisher	Board&Dice
Players	2-4
Playtime	60-120 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	205346/beer-empire http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/205346/beer-empire/forums/63

Description from the publisher:

In Beer Empire, you become the owner of a brewery who strives for market share by skillfully matching recipe ingredients. At the same time, you aspire to brew beer that's the best of the festival — but these two elements do not always go hand in hand.

That’s why players have to examine what the market expects from their beer, which styles are in current trend, and what festival critics like. As if that was not enough, the world in which we brew beer is alive! Shifts on the beer market change trends and critics taste. The market set-up is unique each time, so you need to manage your resources wisely and follow carefully the market and other players' actions.

Beer Empire is mainly based on a set-collection mechanism as players compose recipes using a variety of ingredients (resource tiles) like light and dark malts, hops, fermentation type (open or closed) and type of container (bottle, can, barrel or keg). Each of these components may add different effects and influence on quality of beer.

Increase/decrease beer attributes (aroma, color, taste)
Produce more or less bottle caps (market share)
Add extra points

What ingredients we’d use, thereby what effects in our beer we’d get influence all game areas:

Market (area control), represents what consumers expect from beer. Some prefer aromatic beer, some prefer to drink from bottles, other ones favor specific style (India Pale Ale, Bock, Pilsner). Players brew beer that meets several tastes thereby achieve points from different markets at the same time!
Beer Festival(bidding & combo): Here matters especially aroma, color, taste. These characteristics are assessed by the critic. He assign festival points and it’s worth effort because only at the festival you can win rare brewing passion tiles!
Trends: In Beer Empire world there are few main beer trends (Pilsner, Bock, India Pale Ale, Lager and ALE). Brewing beer compatible to the trend gives you experience tile that opens new great possibilities for brewing!

What is most important, it is up to you and your abilities of smart resource management (tile placement & worker placement) and right recipes composing, which direction you’ll go. Would you accomplish goals in all fields or you’d focus just on chosen elements?
What we want to underline is that each of these elements influence on each other making every play one of a kind.

It seems it’s gonna be a really hard work to build your Beer Empire.

Dice Brewing

2015-04-26T19:32:00-04:00

Vendor: StuntKite Publishing
Type: Board Games
Price: 30.95

Designer	Filip Głowacz Ireneusz Huszcza
Publisher	StuntKite Publishing
Players	2-4
Playtime	45 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Family	Brew Crafters Brew Crafters: The Travel Card Game
Additional Info	157322/dice-brewing http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1529826/dice-brewing/reviews

Dice Brewing is a dice-building game in which you manage resources and brew beer to become the beer master.
The players become brewers whose goal is to acquire the resources needed to brew many new beer recipes and then gaining the rewards that come with brewing them - gold and mastery points. To do so, each player uses their player board and two location cards (marketplace and black market) to develop their resource pool and stock their storage with certain tokens that alter the course of the game. The player who has the most mastery points at the end, wins the game.
Players will have to prove themselves by brewing various styles of beer, acquiring specific malts and hops, as well as enhancing the recipes with ingredients that will make your beers stand out. But that's not all... The Apprentices will be able to compete with each other directly, making their lives harder by using some unrefined methods!

Players manage their resources by way of 6-sided dice in 4 different colors:

Light malt: yellow dice
Dark malt: black dice
Hops: green dice
Skill: blue dice, which allow for additional effects on recipe cards and resource dice.

Players can influence the luck of the dice through a variety of cards that allow them to replace the dice, increase the value rolled, receive extra dice, buy special ingredient tokens, and buy action tokens - which can affect opponents or provide additional dice manipulation.

When a player collects the correct number of dice with the proper value, he can brew one of the available recipes and gain points, gold, or another effect. Players can also enhance recipes by throwing in additional ingredients to earn a bonus (more gold, more points).