Vendor: Piatnik
Type: Board Games
Price:
34.95
Vendor: Fantasy Flight Games
Type: Board Games
Price:
36.54
| Designer |
Jordi Gené Gregorio Morales |
| Publisher | Fantasy Flight Games |
| Players | 2-4 |
| Playtime | 15-30 mins |
| Suggested Age | 12 and up |
Run fast, score big! Android: Mainframe is a fast-paced strategy game set in the not-too-distant future of the Android universe!
In the game, you and up to three opponents are elite cybercriminals known as runners who are competing for control of a vulnerable bank's various accounts. At the beginning of the game, you mark your arrival by the placement of your first access point. Then, each turn, you get to take a single action: establish another access point, execute a program, or pass. Your goal is to use the programs at your disposal to secure your access points so that they control as many of Titan's vulnerable accounts as possible.
Most of the generic programs write pathways between Titan's various nodes, allowing you to place a blue partition between the nodes on the board. Whenever your partitions seal off a section of the board containing only your access point or access points, they are "secured" and flipped face down. They are no longer vulnerable to your opponents' programs, and you will score the accounts they control at the end of the game.
Android: Mainframe differs from its predecessor Bauhaus in a number of ways, such as each player having a hand of cards and the game including six runners who each have five distinctive programs.
Vendor: AMIGO
Type: Board Games
Price:
14.95
| Designer | Jordi Gené, Gregorio Morales |
| Publisher | AMIGO Spiel + Freizeit GmbH |
| Players | 3-5 |
| Playtime | 20 mins |
| Suggested Age | 10 and up |
Note: This game is in German. English rules can be found here.
In the trick-taking game Crazy Lab, the players are mad scientists mixing colorful liquids to make explosive mixtures. Each card features a vial that contains several liquids – that is, colored and numbered suits – and players will collect these cards if they win the trick. Each player has a randomly-dealt public color that counts as negative points for him, and after checking his dealt cards each player chooses a secret hidden color for which he'll score positive points at game end. Finally, each player chooses two more colors that will be added to the trump deck.
Each round, a card from the trump deck is revealed, then players sequentially play any card from their hand. Whoever plays the card with the highest trump color wins the trick. But beware! Since the vials contain liquids in several colors, even if the trump is blue, you could be getting a lot of red liquid!
After all cards in hand have been played, the game ends, and whoever has the highest score wins.
Vendor: KOSMOS
Type: Board Games
Price:
22.95
| Designer |
Jordi Gené Gregorio Morales |
| Publisher | KOSMOS |
| Players | 2-5 |
| Playtime | 30 mins |
| Suggested Age | 10 and up |
Note: This is an import game in German. English Rules can be found here.
It's barbecue time, so call your friends and tell them to bring the ingredients to grill!
In Grill Party, each player has a deck of twenty cards depicting the conditions for the meal – e.g., "More Steaks than Corn", "More Fish than Steaks", "No Fish", "More Wurst than anything" – and a set of wooden tokens: fish, corn, wurst and steak.
On your turn, you can exchange one token from your hand with one token on the central barbecue or in the possession of another player, then play as many cards from your hand as you can that meet the condition depicted. The first to rid himself of cards wins.