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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.

Murder Party Pocket: Deadly Sin (Import)

2023-11-18T16:14:53-05:00

Vendor: Cranio Creations
Type: Board Games
Price: 19.95

Designer	Flaminia Brasini Virginio Gigli
Publisher	Cranio Creations
Players	1-6
Playtime	60 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
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Naples, 1932. One person was killed, and each of you is one of the 6 suspects. The case was entrusted to Commissioner Luigi Alfredo Ricciardi of the Royal Police Headquarters of Naples, supported as usual by the faithful sergeant Raffaele Maione. The murderer may be hiding among you, and it is up to you to help the Commissioner find out who is. Will you be able to do this before the time is over?

At the beginning of the game, each player will be assigned, through a Character card, the role of one of the suspects that they will have to play. All the Clues are contained in cards that will be revealed to you at three different moments in the game and each of you will have access to only some of these: some cards in the center of the table will be available to everyone, while others will be in hand and visible only by those who hold them.

Players will have to reflect, collaborate, share the information in their possession without compromising themselves too much, and try to understand what, beyond appearances, really happened.

When all the clues will be revealed the players together have to give the solution. Unfortunately among them, there could be also the murderer who will do anything to divert the investigation and get away clean.
Will they be able to discover the real culprit or will the murder remain unsolved? Or worse still, will they let an innocent be wrongfully accused?
Murder party pocket is a game of crime investigation, mixing a card game, a role-playing game, and an app that guides in the game and dictates the timing and methods of the investigation.

All the investigative cases are written by well-known crime writers. The first series of cases is the work of the famous Italian writer Maurizio De Giovanni, creator of the novels of Commissioner Ricciardi as well as I Bastardi di Pizzofalcone, translated into many languages and also became television series.

—description from the publisher

Murder Party Pocket: The Curtain Falls (Import)

2023-11-18T15:25:23-05:00

Vendor: Cranio Creations
Type: Board Games
Price: 19.95

Designer	Flaminia Brasini Virginio Gigli
Publisher	Cranio Creations
Players	1-6
Playtime	60 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
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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
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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

Lorenzo il Magnifico Big Box

2020-10-22T13:16:06-04:00

Vendor: Cranio Creations
Type: Board Games
Price: 86.95

Designer	Flaminia Brasini Virginio Gigli Simone Luciani
Publisher	Cranio Creations
Players	2-5
Playtime	60-120 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
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Lorenzo il Magnifico - Big Box is the all-in-one package for Lorenzo il Magnifico, including the base game as well as 5 expansions.

Expansions Included:

Lorenzo il Magnifico: New Leaders
Lorenzo il Magnifico: Houses of Renaissance
Lorenzo il Magnifico: New Leaders #2
Lorenzo il Magnifico: The Pazzi Conspiracy
Lorenzo Il Magnifico: Promo Visconti/Della Scala

Golem

2020-10-22T11:48:22-04:00

Vendor: Cranio Creations
Type: Board Games
Price: 59.95

Designer	Flaminia Brasini Virginio Gigli Simone Luciani
Publisher	Cranio Creations
Players	1-4
Playtime	90-120 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	298383/golem http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/298383/golem/forums/63

Golem is an engine-building game by Simone Luciani, Virginio Gigli and Flaminia Brasini, the team behind Grand Austria Hotel, which inspired some of the mechanisms in Golem.

The game is based on the 16th-century legend of the Golem of Prague, an anthropomorphic creature that Rabbi Loew animated starting from a clay statue to protect his people. In the game, players take the role of kaballists who create and grow these powerful and magical creatures that will be moved around the main places of magical Prague under the control of their masters — but if a golem becomes too powerful, it will destroy everything it encounters on its way! Players also create powerful artifacts and cast several kinds of spells.

The game is divided into five rounds, and at the beginning of each round, the players place fifteen colored marbles into the 3D synagogue that will split them into five lines corresponding to the five main actions available in the game:

Work: By paying mana, activate the Golem placed in the city of Prague and get bonuses.
Golem: Obtain clay to create new golems or grow yours.
Artifact: Obtain coins and buy gold to build artifacts that offer permanent bonuses in the game.
Spells: Obtain mana and perform spells, with a scoring for spell set collection.
Mirror: Perform one action of your choice by paying 1 coin.

The number of marbles available in the corresponding action line determines how much the player gets from the action. When you choose an action, you collect one marble of your choice in the corresponding line (two actions) per round. Depending on the color of the marble you chose, you may move your masters forward on one of the tracks of the city: External, Commercial, Ancient and Magic.

It's important to advance your masters on those tracks to be able to keep the control of your golems. At the end of the round, mana can also be used to control a golem that surpassed its master, but if one of these creature is uncontrolled, it may become dangerous and destroy the neighborhood, after which you will have to destroy and bury it!

The marble color also matters because at the end of the round, if you get the correct combination of two colors, you receive the favor of one of the powerful Prague characters, which will differ each round.

At the end of the fifth round, players score points for golems active or buried, artifacts, spells, and personal goals and development unlocked on their board.

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
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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

Dino World

2018-05-18T17:50:16-04:00

Vendor: HABA
Type: Board Games
Price: 19.99

Designers	Flaminia Brasini Virginio Gigli Marco Pranzo
Publisher	HABA - Habermaaß GmbH
Players	2-4
Playtime	10-15 mins
Suggested Age	6 and up
Honors	2018 Kinderspiel des Jahres Recommended
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An archaeopteryx jumps through the thick ferns. But what the little primitive bird doesn't know, is a velociraptor has already spotted him. But even this agile hunter isn't sure when the big T-rex, who all the dinosaurs fear, will come!

The player, who manages to push the dinosaur playing cards from the box so that they land on the most dinosaurs captures the most prey. Players need to aim well and push their cards skillfully.
An exciting prehistoric hunt.

Coimbra

2018-04-21T01:41:45-04:00

Vendor: eggertspiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 49.95

Designer	Flaminia Brasini Virginio Gigli
Publisher	eggertspiele
Players	2-4
Playtime	60-90 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansions	Coimbra: Royal Treatment
Additional Info	245638/coimbra http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/245638/coimbra/forums/63

In the 15th and 16th century, Portugal is thriving under its leading role during the Age of Discovery. Nestled in the heart of Portugal, the city of Coimbra serves as a cultural center of the country. As the head of one of Coimbra's oldest houses, you seek to earn prestige by deepening relationships with nearby monasteries or funding expeditions of the era. To reach this goal, you must vie for the favors of the city's most influential citizens, even if you must offer a bit of coin or some protective detail.

Coimbra introduces an innovative new dice mechanism in which the dice players draft each round are used in multiple different ways and have an impact on many aspects of their decision making. While there are many paths to victory, players should always seek to optimize their opportunities with every roll of the dice. Combined with ever-changing synergies of the citizens, expeditions, and monasteries, no two games of Coimbra will ever be the same!

Lorenzo il Magnifico: Houses of Renaissance (French Edition)

2017-12-30T12:14:55-05:00

Vendor: Cranio Creations
Type: Board Games
Price: 41.95

Designers	Flaminia Brasini Virginio Gigli Simone Luciani
Publisher	Cranio Creations
Players	2-5
Suggested Age	12 and up
Expansion For	Lorenzo il Magnifico
Accessory	Folded Space - Lorenzo il Magnifico & Houses of Renaissance
Additional Info	229123/lorenzo-il-magnifico-houses-renaissance http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/229123/lorenzo-il-magnifico-houses-renaissance/forums/63

Note: This game is in French

Description from the publisher:

In Lorenzo il Magnifico: Houses of Renaissance, each player now becomes the head of a powerful house of Renaissance, each of which has a strong special ability that only that player can use. Players choose the houses from the ten available at the beginning of the game through a special and fast auction. This expansion also introduces:

48 new Development Cards and a fifth tower, where these cards are placed. These cards add to the game a lot of new powerful effects.
20 new Leader Cards with a new leader mechanism.
30 special tokens that player can take and use in combination with the new cards, and that add new way to collect resources and perform actions.
The components to add a fifth player to the struggle for the power.

Lorenzo il Magnifico: Houses of Renaissance (English Edition)

2017-12-30T12:14:55-05:00

Vendor: Cranio Creations
Type: Board Games
Price: 45.04

Designers	Flaminia Brasini Virginio Gigli Simone Luciani
Publisher	Cranio Creations
Players	2-5
Suggested Age	12 and up
Expansion For	Lorenzo il Magnifico
Accessory	Folded Space - Lorenzo il Magnifico & Houses of Renaissance
Additional Info	229123/lorenzo-il-magnifico-houses-renaissance http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/229123/lorenzo-il-magnifico-houses-renaissance/forums/63

Description from the publisher:

In Lorenzo il Magnifico: Houses of Renaissance, each player now becomes the head of a powerful house of Renaissance, each of which has a strong special ability that only that player can use. Players choose the houses from the ten available at the beginning of the game through a special and fast auction. This expansion also introduces:

48 new Development Cards and a fifth tower, where these cards are placed. These cards add to the game a lot of new powerful effects.
20 new Leader Cards with a new leader mechanism.
30 special tokens that player can take and use in combination with the new cards, and that add new way to collect resources and perform actions.
The components to add a fifth player to the struggle for the power.

Lorenzo il Magnifico (French Edition)

2016-09-28T01:06:00-04:00

Vendor: Cranio Creations
Type: Board Games
Price: 62.95

Designers	Flaminia Brasini Virginio Gigli Simone Luciani
Publisher	Cool Mini or Not
Players	2-4
Playtime	60-120 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Accessories	Meeple Realty - Medici Bank for Lorenzo il Magnifico Deluxe Token Bundle compatible with Lorenzo il Magnfico Folded Space - Lorenzo il Magnifico & Houses of Renaissance
Expansions	Lorenzo il Magnifico: Houses of Renaissance Lorenzo il Magnifico: Houses of Renaissanc (French Edition)
Additional Info	203993/lorenzo-il-magnifico http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/203993/lorenzo-il-magnifico/forums/63

Lorenzo de' Medici, also known as "Lorenzo il Magnifico" (Lorenzo the Magnificent), was one of the most powerful and enthusiastic patrons of the Italian Renaissance.

In Lorenzo il Magnifico, each player takes the role of a head of a noble family in a city during the Italian renaissance. You try to accumulate prestige and fame to gain more victory points (VP) than the others. To do so, you send your family members to different areas of town, where they can obtain many achievements. In one location they get useful resources, in another development cards (which represent newly conquered territories, sponsored buildings, influenced characters, or encouraged ventures), somewhere else they activate the effects of their cards.

Family members are not identical. At the beginning of each round, you roll three dice to determine the family members' value. You must carefully choose where to send your family members with a higher value...

You can gain VP several ways, and you must also pay attention to your relations with the Church. The game is divided into three periods, each formed by two rounds; at the end of each period, players must show their faith, and whoever hasn't prayed enough will suffer hard penalties.

After six rounds, you calculate your final scoring, and the player with the most VP wins.

Lorenzo il Magnifico

2016-09-28T01:06:00-04:00

Vendor: Cranio Creations
Type: Board Games
Price: 67.99

Designers	Flaminia Brasini Virginio Gigli Simone Luciani
Publisher	Cool Mini or Not
Players	2-4
Playtime	60-120 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Accessories	Meeple Realty - Medici Bank for Lorenzo il Magnifico Deluxe Token Bundle compatible with Lorenzo il Magnfico Folded Space - Lorenzo il Magnifico & Houses of Renaissance
Expansions	Lorenzo il Magnifico: Houses of Renaissance Lorenzo il Magnifico: Houses of Renaissance (French Edition)
Honors	2019 MinD-Spielepreis Complex Game Nominee 2018 Origins Awards Best Board Game Nominee 2017 International Gamers Award - General Strategy: Multi-player Nominee 2016 Meeples' Choice Nominee
Additional Info	203993/lorenzo-il-magnifico http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/203993/lorenzo-il-magnifico/forums/63

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