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Capital Lux 2: Pocket

2024-09-04T23:05:32-04:00

Vendor: Aporta Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 23.95

Designer	Kristian Amundsen Østby Eilif Svensson
Publisher	Aporta Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	25-40 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	316343/capital-lux-2-pocket http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/316343/capital-lux-2-pocket/forums/63

This pocket edition is a conveniently portable and slightly trimmed version of the big box game, Capital Lux 2 : Generations.

Capital Lux 2: Pocket, a standalone sequel to the acclaimed tactical card game from 2016, introduces a range of exchangeable capital powers that can be mixed and matched as you like. This allows for a total of 81 unique power combinations. One of these combinations plays as the original Capital Lux, while the other 80 present the players new tactical challenges.

The core of the game revolves around the following dilemma: Do you play character cards in your home base for points, or contribute them to the capital to benefit from their powers? At the end of a round, you are not allowed to have a higher total value in your home base for any color than the current total value in the capital. Exceeding the limit makes you lose those cards. At the end of the third round, all cards remaining in your home base are worth points.

The game therefore turns into an act of balancing on a razor's edge: Secure as many points for yourself without exceeding the capital's limit — always taking into account the current capital powers.

Contains:
160 cards
40 tiles and tokens

—description from the publisher

Sparks PRE-ORDER

2024-09-03T11:39:04-04:00

Vendor: Alion – by Dr Ø
Type: Board Games
Price: 24.95

Designer	Adrian Adamescu Kristian Amundsen Østby Florin Purluca Kjetil Svendsen
Publisher	Alion – by Dr Ø
Players	1-4
Playtime	45 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	419125/sparks http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/419125/sparks/forums/63

ETA Q3 2024

This robot factory needs you! With the assistance of your trusty animal companions, mechanical marvels will soon start rolling off your assembly line — then you just need to add some spark to bring those robots alive. Explore the junkyard to gather dice for constructing robots or upgrading your factory. Keep a keen eye on your line-up of charming animal aides; they're the cornerstone of your winning strategy.

In Sparks, each player runs a robot factory and takes turns being the active player. As the active player, you play one of your production tiles to take a number of dice from the junkyard; all other players then take one die each. All players simultaneously use their dice to complete robots or level up their factory.

Players can also use spark to activate the abilities of their completed robots, or use cogs to recruit their animal assistants. You start the game with six assistants, each with a unique ability, and you should shape your strategy around them. The variety of assistants ensures that each game provides a different challenge. In the advanced game, players draft the assistants, providing more strategic options.

—description from the publisher

Escape: Quest PRE-ORDER

2024-09-03T11:22:02-04:00

Vendor: Queen Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 35.95

Designer	Kristian Amundsen Østby
Publisher	Queen Games
Players	1-6
Playtime	10 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Expands	Escape: The Curse of the Temple
Additional Info	137405/escape-quest http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1359870/escape-quest/reviews

Note: This is not a standalone product and you'll need the base game Escape: The Curse of the Temple to play .

Escape: Quest includes two new expansion modules – Quest Chambers and Character abilities – for Escape: The Curse of the Temple that can be used individually or combined with any other modules for the base game.

Quest module: In addition to activating gems, players now need to complete special quests before they can leave the temple. At set-up the quest tiles are shuffled separately, and 1-3 of them are then shuffled (unseen) into the deck. This means you never know what challenges you will face.

Character module: Each player plays one of six different characters: Doc, Mechanic, Discoverer, Dark Priest, Muscleman, Mentalist. Each character comes with two unique abilities, and at the start of the game you pick one.

Revive

2023-12-27T14:51:41-05:00

Vendor: Aporta Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 96.95

Designer	Helge Meissner Eilif Svensson Anna Wermlund Kristian Amundsen Østby
Publisher	Aporta Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	90-120 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansion	Revive: Call of the Abyss
Additional Info	332772/revive http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/332772/revive/forums/63

Revive civilization, 5000 years after everything was destroyed. Lead your tribe and explore the frozen earth. Harness its resources. Recruit surface survivors to your cause. Build factories with powerful machines. And populate ancient sites to relearn your tribe's forgotten technologies.
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Revive is a game for 1-4 players with asymmetric player powers, highly variable setup, and no fighting or direct conflict. Playing through the 5-part campaign unlocks additional contents, and once all contents have been unlocked, the game can be replayed indefinitely.
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At the beginning of the game, each player gets a set of citizen cards, a tribe board, as well as a huge dual-layer player board. The tribe board shows your unique tribe ability and the ancient technologies that you may relearn during the game. The dual-layer player board is where you place your custom machines and upgrade your card slots.

A main goal of the game is to reach and populate the large ancient sites. These ancient locations are randomized, and as they are important sources of victory points, they will shape your strategy differently each game.

On your turn you take two actions:

Play a card (its effect is determined by which card slot you use)
Explore (reveal an area tile and recruit a new citizen card)
Populate (populate an ancient location to learn a new technology)
Build factory (the adjacent terrains determine which machine tracks you advance)

In addition you may use power to activate any number of your machines, modifying your actions.

Instead of taking two actions you may Hibernate. This will circulate your cards, moving your played cards to your resting area, and releasing the cards in your resting area back to you. In addition you regain your used power, so that you may activate your machines again.

The multi-use cards play an important role: Each card shows a resource ability (on the top) and a special ability (on the lower part). Playing a card in one of your top slots activates the resource action; In a lower slot you activate the special ability. You may install slot modules in the card slots, and these are activated whenever you play a card matching its color. It is possible to find combinations that lets you chain cards, triggering several slot modules and abilities in one action.

Building factories harness the power of the surrounding terrains, advancing your marker on one of three machine tracks. This may unlock machines that can be activated, using energy.

Reaching certain milestones lets you take an artifact from the main board. Each artifact boosts one of the three scoring categories on your personal scoring card.

The game ends when all artifacts have been taken, and the player with the most points wins.

Escape: The Curse of the Temple

2023-11-28T00:12:42-05:00

Vendor: Queen Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 49.95

Designer	Kristian Amundsen Østby
Publisher	Queen Games
Players	1-6
Playtime	10 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Honors	2012 Meeples' Choice Nominee 2013 Årets Spill Best Family Game Winner 2013 Golden Geek Best Family Board Game Nominee 2013 Golden Geek Best Innovative Board Game Nominee 2013 Golden Geek Best Party Board Game Nominee 2013 Origins Awards Best Family, Party or Children's Game Nominee 2013 Spiel des Jahres Game of the Year Recommended 2013 UK Games Expo Best Boardgame Nominee 2014 Hungarian Board Game Award Nominee
Expansions	Escape: Illusions Escape: Quest Escape: Doomed Escape: Traps Escape: Queenie Box
Reimplemented By	Escape: Zombie City

Escape: The Curse of the Temple is a cooperative game in which players must escape (yes...) from a temple (yes...) which is cursed (yes...) before the temple collapses and kills one or more explorers, thereby causing everyone to lose.

The initial game board consists of a row of three square tiles, each showing a combination of two symbols, say, two green adventurers or one green adventurer and one blue key in one corner of the tile. All of the explorers start in the center tile – the safe room – and each player starts with a hand of five dice. Each die has five symbols:

A cursed mask – this die is set aside when rolled.
A golden mask – each such symbol counteracts two cursed masks, either your own or those of another explorer in the same room.
A red torch or blue key – these are used to enter rooms, access treasure, or activate gems.
A green adventurer, which appears twice on the die – you need these to move from room to room, and to activate some gems.

Escape is played in real-time, with all players rolling dice and taking actions simultaneously. You must roll the right symbols to enter a room, and if you're at an open doorway, you can roll to reveal the next tile in the stack and add it to that doorway. Some rooms contain combinations of red and blue symbols, and if you (possibly working with other players in the same room) roll enough red or blue symbols, you "discover" magic gems, moving them from a separate gem depot onto that tile.

The real-time aspect is enforced by a soundtrack to be played during the game. At certain points, a countdown starts, and if players aren't back in the safe room when time is up, they lose one of their dice.

Once the exit tile is revealed, players can attempt to escape the temple by moving to that tile, then rolling a number of blue dice equal to the magic gems that haven't been removed from the gem depot. Thus, the more gems you find, the easier it is to escape the temple. When a player escapes, he gives one die to a player of his choice. If all players escape before the third countdown, everyone wins; if not, everyone loses, no matter how many players did escape.

Escape: The Curse of the Temple includes two expansion modules that can be used individually or together. With the "Treasures" module, some rooms contain treasure, and when you reveal such a room, you place a face-down treasure chest on the tile. Roll the symbols on that chest tile, and you claim the treasure for use later: a key lets you teleport anywhere, a path lets you connect two rooms that otherwise have no door between them, and a medic kit heals all players instantly (putting black dice back into play). With the "Curses" module, some tiles "curse" players by forcing them to place one hand on their head, keep mute during play, or otherwise do what you wouldn't want to do while escaping a temple!

Tucana Builders

2023-09-05T09:44:31-04:00

Vendor: Aporta Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 49.95

Designer	Eilif Svensson Kristian Amundsen Østby
Publisher	Aporta Games
Players	1-5
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	386273/tucana-builders http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/386273/tucana-builders/forums/63

Tucana Builders is a sequel to the award winning Trails of Tucana.

Place tiles on spaces that match the revealed terrain card to connect animals to corresponding huts.

All connections that score in round 1 will score again in round 2. So, do you go for high scores in round 1, or will you try to create smart intersections for long-term benefits?

Tucana Builders is an easy-to-teach game for those who enjoy challenging tile-laying puzzles.

—description from the publisher

Trails of Tucana: Ferry

2023-09-05T09:44:17-04:00

Vendor: Aporta Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 14.95

Designer	Eilif Svensson Kristian Amundsen Østby
Publisher	Aporta Games
Players	1-8
Playtime	15 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Expansion For	Trails of Tucana
Additional Info	340679/trails-tucana-ferry http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/340679/trails-tucana-ferry/forums/63

Supplies for all Trails of Tucana fans! With the Trails of Tucana: Ferry expansion, two new game pads come into play: one with the island maps from the basic game, and one with two new islands.

With the new map, players have two new island maps for Isla Bahía and Isla Habita. On both maps, the ferries help players navigate stretches of sea — and on Isla Habita three additional villages offer new challenges.

Revive: Call of the Abyss

2023-09-05T09:39:46-04:00

Vendor: Aporta Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 51.95

Designer	Helge Meissner Eilif Svensson Anna Wermlund Kristian Amundsen Østby
Publisher	Aporta Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	60-90 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansion For	Revive
Additional Info	385685/revive-call-abyss http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/385685/revive-call-abyss/forums/63

"The glacial meltwater forms giant lakes. And from minuscule spores that have resided in the deeper layers of the ice, a new life form emerges. And the lakes become home to the Scyphoz.

The Scyphoz harbor vast knowledge and wisdom. We will settle near their lakes to learn from them. We will bend to their will to honor them. Complete the journeys they prepare for us. We will serve and be gifted.

That is the call of the abyss." —Nàdair

The Revive: Call of the Abyss expansion introduces the mysterious life form Scyphoz, which lives in the giant lakes that are formed by meltwater from the glaciers. By building near lakes, you gain devotion points, which let you access the new and powerful Scyphoz cards. You can also use the switch action to initiate journeys, sending out your citizen on missions to gain more devotion points.

Aside from 16 Scyphoz cards, 18 journey cards, 3 lakes, and the devotion track, this expansion contains 15 new machine tokens, 9 slot modules, 9 new citizen cards, and four new tribes, with all of the content (other then the Cordycephians tribe) being compatible with solo play. The four new tribe boards feature only an advanced side, and each has its own unique rules, advanced abilities, and technologies:

The KAIROS have two modes — day and night — and their abilities depend on the current mode. Switching between the two modes at the right time is crucial to this tribe's success.

The GIB'WARKS has access to powerful gadgets that boost their switch actions, and they may unlock more gadgets for even more flexibility. Their tribe ability lets them reset their switch, which is powerful because the switch action is even more important now that it lets you initiate journeys.

The OSTARIUS build huge gates which they can switch on and off, either helping or hindering other players. Gates require quite some space, but if placed well, OSTARIUS may temporarily block off parts of the game board, possibly securing them for themselves.

The CORDYCEPHIANS leech other players, taking advantage of their cards, their buildings, and even their technologies. The CORDYCEPHIANS must therefore adapt their strategy to the opponents they are facing.

—description from the publisher

House of Cats

2023-09-05T09:35:17-04:00

Vendor: Aporta Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 29.95

Designer	William Attia Kristian Amundsen Østby
Publisher	Aporta Games
Players	1-6
Playtime	15-20 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	386436/house-cats http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/386436/house-cats/forums/63

Fill your house with cats, mice and dice!

Form rooms using numbers. Then use the rooms' special abilities to score the most points.

There are 4 unique levels (each with their own rules), and every time you play you use a random set of 4 out of 12 possible abilities. This ensures new challenges every game.

House of Cats is a quick and clever roll-and-write game, and the first collaborative design by veteran designers William Attia and Kristian A Østby.

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HOW TO PLAY:

Each turn, one player rolls the dice and all players use the results to fill in spaces on their individual playing sheet. Keep taking turns until one player has filled every space on their sheet.

Try to group equal numbers together. A room is formed if you make a group with size equal to the number that makes up the group (i.e. groups of two 2's, three 3's, four 4's or five 5's). Each completed room scores points and gives you access to a special ability.

Cats and mice will score depending on the level you are playing.

Santa Maria: Exploration Deck

2023-01-04T04:23:46-05:00

Vendor: Aporta Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 9.95

Designer	Eilif Svensson Kristian Amundsen Østby
Publisher	Aporta Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	45-90 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Expansion For	Santa Maria Santa Maria: American Kingdoms
Additional Info	262750/santa-maria-exploration-deck http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/262750/santa-maria-exploration-deck/forums/63

Santa Maria: Exploration Deck is a mini expansion consisting of five nationality cards and twenty achievement cards. The nationality cards override the standard set-up of resources and coins, and provide each player with a unique starting point. Achievement cards are drafted at the beginning of the game; fulfilled achievements provide bonuses and points to the players.

The Magnificent (French Edition)

2022-06-21T21:53:54-04:00

Vendor: Matagot
Type: Board Games
Price: 79.95

Designers	Eilif Svensson Kristian Amundsen Østby
Publisher	Matagot
Players	1-4
Playing Time	60-90 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansion	The Magnificent: SNØ
Additional Info	283863/magnificent http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/283863/magnificent/forums/63

The Magnificent is a tightly designed Eurogame from the creators of Santa Maria set in a mystical world beautifully illustrated by French artist Martin Mottet.

In the game, players are competing to attract the largest audiences to their shows, featuring magnificent performers. In the process, you must expand your camp by placing Tetris-style tiles on your player board, gather elements needed for the shows, and set up performances in your tents.

On your turn, you take one die from the supply. The value of the chosen die is your strength. Add to this the value of all dice of the same color that you have already collected, then use this strength to carry out one of three main actions: build, travel or perform. The more strength you have, the better the action will be, but at the end of the round, you must pay — in coins — the total of your highest-valued dice color. Thus, taking dice of the same color makes for better actions, but will cost more coins.

After each player has taken four turns, the round ends. Each player must discard one of their ringmaster cards and score points according to its requirements. After three rounds, the game ends, and the player who has collected the most points wins.

In more detail, players start the game with four ringmaster cards and a unique trainer tile. Each ringmaster card provides a special ability (which is triggered when you place a die on it) and a unique end-of-round scoring opportunity. When you choose a ringmaster card to discard and score at the end of the round, you must therefore also take into consideration which special abilities you want to keep.

In addition to your main action, you may use trainers on your personal unique trainer tiles or on common trainer spaces on the game board for various benefits.

At the end of each round, in order of the players' highest-ranked performances, players choose a new ringmaster card and a trainer tile, providing new abilities and scoring opportunities for the next round.

Bad Company

2021-10-25T16:19:05-04:00

Vendor: Aporta Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 54.95

Designer	Kenneth Minde Eilif Svensson Kristian Amundsen Østby
Publisher	Aporta Games
Players	1-6
Playtime	30-45 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	340677/bad-company http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/340677/bad-company/forums/63

Build your own gang and customize it to suit your plans. Gather resources to complete heists and money to recruit new gang members. And make sure you escape the police! A unique and fun game from the award-winning designers of Automania and Trails of Tucana.

Bad Company supports up to 6 players with very little downtime. It also includes a solo mode where you try to outsmart the police.

Each player has a player board with 11 gang members. You may upgrade them by placing overlapping cards onto them. This way, the visual appearances of your gang members change as they gain more abilities.

Each round, the active player rolls four dice and divides them into two pairs (pay coins to reroll). Each pair of dice activates one gang member on the active player's board. All other players may use one of the pairs to activate a single gang member on their own boards.

Activating a gangster provides resources needed to complete heists, money to upgrade your gang members, or advance your car through the city.
You want to advance your car, because you need to stay ahead of the police in order to collect loot along the city route.

You gain points by completing heists, upgrading your gang and by driving your car through the city.
Some completed heists provide special abilities which you can build your strategy around.

The game ends when a player completes their 6th heist, or when any car reaches the dock on the city track, and the player with the most points wins.

—description from designer

Escape: Queenie Box

2021-04-27T01:25:56-04:00

Vendor: Queen Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 44.95

Designer	Kristian Amundsen Østby
Publisher	Queen Games
Players	2-4
Playing Time	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Expansion For	Escape: The Curse of the Temple Escape: The Curse of the Temple – Big Box Escape: The Curse of the Temple – Big Box Second Edition
Additional Info	310234/escape-queenie-box http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/310234/escape-queenie-box/forums/63

All Queenies that were released after the Escape Big Box 2nd Edition in one convenient box!

11 – The Cursed Gems
12 – The Slide
13 – The Map
14 – The Wishing Well
15 – New Quests
16 – New Traps

With this and the Big Box, players will have everything that is available for Escape.

The Escape Queenie Box is also a great addition for players who only own the base game and want new modules to add to their adventures.

Queenie 11: The Cursed Gems is already included in the Big Box, but is such a popular Queenie that we wanted to include it for all players to enjoy.

The Magnificent: SNØ

2020-12-27T00:12:55-05:00

Vendor: Matagot
Type: Board Games
Price: 34.95

Designers	Eilif Svensson Kristian Amundsen Østby
Publisher	Matagot
Players	1-5
Playing Time	60-120 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansion For	The Magnificent
Additional Info	316337/magnificent-sno http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/316337/magnificent-sno/forums/63

The audience holds their breath as she breaks the darkness, piercing the silence like an icicle, whirling up the frozen saw dust like a massive blizzard. She is the Magnificent SNØ.

This expansion to The Magnificent introduces SNØ, a new performer with her own camp tiles and poster cards.
You can now play the game with up to 5 players. New master cards provide new types of bonuses and new ways to score. New trainer tiles provide new ways to tweak your actions. The optional Master Board Module gives each player a special action each round, and then there is more. Note that the base game is required to play!

Contains:

53 new and unique Master Cards
14 White Camp Tiles
18 White Poster Cards
10 Player Order Cards
5 Summary Cards
15 Master Tiles
1 Master Board
2 new Player Boards
4 Dice
12 Gems
8 new Circus Tents
8 new Trainer Tiles
6 Large Camp Tiles
Components for the 5th player

-description from designer

Capital Lux 2: Generations

2020-12-27T00:06:16-05:00

Vendor: Aporta Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 39.95

Designers	Eilif Svensson Kristian Amundsen Østby
Publisher	Aporta Games
Players	1-4
Playing Time	15-40 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	299607/capital-lux-2-generations http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/299607/capital-lux-2-generations/forums/63

Capital Lux 2: Generations, a standalone sequel to the acclaimed tactical card game from 2016, introduces a range of exchangeable capital powers that can be mixed and matched as you like. This allows for a total of 256 unique power combinations. One of these combinations plays as the original Capital Lux, while the other 255 present the players new tactical challenges.

The core of the game revolves around the following dilemma: Do you play character cards in your home base for points, or contribute them to the capital to benefit from their powers? At the end of a round, you are not allowed to have a higher total value in your home base for any color than the current total value in the capital. Exceeding the limit makes you lose those cards. At the end of the third round, all cards remaining in your home base are worth points.

The game therefore turns into an act of balancing on a razor's edge: Secure as many points for yourself without exceeding the capital's limit — always taking into account the current capital powers.

—description from the publisher

Trails of Tucana

2020-04-22T22:30:03-04:00

Vendor: Aporta Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 21.95

Designers	Eilif Svensson Kristian Amundsen Østby
Publisher	Aporta Games
Players	1-8
Playing Time	15 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Expansion	Trails of Tucana: Ferry
Honors	2021 Vuoden Peli Family Game of the Year Winner 2020/2021 Årets Spill Best Family Game Winner 2020/2021 Årets Spill Best Family Game Nominee 2020 Cardboard Republic Socializer Laurel Nominee
Additional Info	283864/trails-tucana http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/283864/trails-tucana/forums/63

Trails of Tucana is a flip-and-write game from the creators of Avenue and Doodle City that is quick and easy to play, but has enough depth to entertain gamers.

Each player is given a map of the island Tucana, showing its villages and important sights. The positions of the villages are randomized for each player, so every game will provide a unique puzzle.

Each turn, one player flips over two terrain cards. Each player must draw — on their own map — a trail between two neighboring spaces of the shown terrains. Gradually, the trails will grow into a network of roads. Players score points by connecting matching harbors, and by connecting sights to harbors. Being the first to connect a pair of harbors provides bonus points.

To add depth to the game, there are varying distribution of the different terrain cards. Mountain cards are for instance rarer than desert cards, so it would be harder to build a trail through a mountain range or over water than through desert or forest. Players need to take this into account when planning their routes. And they should maximize the probability that they will be able to make use of any combination of terrain cards that may come up.

—description from designer

The Magnificent

2020-04-22T22:29:47-04:00

Vendor: Matagot
Type: Board Games
Price: 76.95

Designers	Eilif Svensson Kristian Amundsen Østby
Publisher	Matagot
Players	1-4
Playing Time	60-90 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansion	The Magnificent: SNØ
Additional Info	283863/magnificent http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/283863/magnificent/forums/63

Offshore

2020-04-22T22:27:28-04:00

Vendor: Aporta Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 66.95

Designers	Thor Egil Braadland Eilif Svensson Kristian Amundsen Østby
Publisher	Aporta Games
Players	3-5
Playing Time	60 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	283867/offshore http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/283867/offshore/forums/63

The vast oil reserves off of the Norwegian shores is an environmentally controversial topic, but it undoubtedly remains one of the most important contributors to the country's massive wealth. Offshore is a lightweight competitive strategy game about this highly specialized industry.

In the game, players build oil platforms in the North Sea. Opening a new oil field is, of course, not easy as it requires both technology and temporary co-operation between players. On your turn, you perform one of three actions:

Buy a technology tile
Export oil (selling it for points and money)
Open a new oil field and drill for oil

Opening a new oil field is the most complex action: Alone, or together with one other player, you must have the required technology and also pay the opening cost. Who should use which technology and how the cost should be split must be agreed upon between the players. The players then drill for oil in a small press-your-luck mini game: The players must decide how deep they want to drill, all the while avoiding too much pressure building up as this could result in a blowout. The combination of technology tiles used for opening the field will also influence the drilling in various ways.

The temporary co-operations and players' shared interests in the drilling phases makes for an exciting game in which players share both successes and failures.

Rebel Nox

2019-05-02T16:58:36-04:00

Vendor: Aporta Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 22.95

Designers	Helge Meissner Eilif Svensson Anna Wermlund Kristian Amundsen Østby
Publisher	Aporta Games
Players	4-6
Playtime	20-30 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	250878/rebel-nox http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/250878/rebel-nox/forums/63

Rebel nox is a highly tactical team-based card game with shifting alliances and a hint of social deduction. It is a stand-alone game set in the world of Capital Lux.

The world of Lux is in uproar and rebels and loyalist fight for control of the capital. Who is on your side? Will your team gather enough followers to seize power? And who is true to your cause when it looks lost?

With the cards dealt at the beginning of the game, players are assigned to either the Rebel team or the Loyalist team. The two teams fight for control over locations that alter the rules in that particular fight, and provide influence to the winner. Play your cards tactically to establish who is on your team, take control of locations and make sure your team has the most influence at the end of the round. But as cards change hands, allegiances can change, so who can you really trust? Perhaps you secretly switched team yourself?

The near endless combinations of locations and card distribution make for a vast number of unique situations and tactical challenges, ensuring no two games will ever feel the same.

Game flow:
At the beginning of each round, 6 locations are placed in the middle of the table and each player is dealt 9 cards. If you were dealt a rebel card, you announce that you are on the rebel team - if you do not have a rebel card, you are on the loyalist team.

The player who was dealt the "rebel commander" chooses a location for the first fight, and leads by playing the first card.

The game then plays like a trick taking game, but with some important differences: certain cards will alter who wins the location (assassins take out the highest card, making the second highest card win instead), flags increases the value of the current location (play them when you think a team mate will win), and infiltrators make cards switch hands (for every infiltrator symbol played, the player who played the lowest card must draw one card from the hand of the winning player). With tactical card play you can both influence who wins the location and how much it is worth. But as cards switches hands, you may not be sure who is on which team.

After all 6 locations have been won, players reveal which side they are on (if you have a rebel card, you are on the rebel team; if not, you are on the loyalist team). Players now collect followers for their controlled influence, and all players on the team that controls the most influence are awarded bonus followers. If one team has managed to gather a required number of followers, they win the game. If not, another round must be played.

-description from designer

Trollfjord

2018-11-06T17:02:05-05:00

Vendor: Zoch Verlag
Type: Board Games
Price: 42.95

Designer	Eilif Svensson Kristian Amundsen Østby
Publisher	Zoch Verlag
Players	2-4
Playtime	45-60 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	257073/trollfjord http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/257073/trollfjord/forums/63

Trollfjord is the family strategy game where a solid wooden hammer meets a solid wooden tower!
However, before that can happen you must populate the map with your trolls and strategically position them around the legendary rocky forts of the mountain ghost..
You strike the tower with the hammer, trying to knock out some rubble of different colours in order to collect the most valuable treasure tokens. But be careful! Do not knock out more rubble than your capacity allows, which is determined by the number of trolls you have around the cave. Although, there is some luck involved in the game, you may be surprised how much you are able to control. Through tactical placement of your trolls you may even join in on other players excavations, freeloading off their hard work.

The decisions are made on the time track surrounding the game board. This time track introduces a novel system, consisting of two types of fields, which creates interesting and important decisions for the players: Either you move on the placement fields (for placing trolls on the board) or on movement fields (for moving trolls on the board).

Santa Maria: American Kingdoms

2018-08-26T15:11:58-04:00

Vendor: Aporta Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 26.95

Designer	Eilif Svensson Kristian Amundsen Østby
Publisher	Aporta Games
Players	1-5
Playtime	45-90 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Expansions	Santa Maria Santa Maria: Exploration Deck

American Kingdoms, an expansion for Santa Maria, includes new buildings, scholars, bishops and shipping tiles, as well as several new modules, including:

Cocoa
The specialists
The governor
The Mayan City: A new asymmetrical role for one player, with its own rules and goals (playable for 1-5 players)

—description from the publisher

Gangster City

2018-05-24T22:40:58-04:00

Vendor: HUCH!
Type: Board Games
Price: 16.95

Designer	Henrik Larsson Kristian Amundsen Østby
Publisher	HUCH!
Players	1-6
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	243757/gangster-city http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/243757/gangster-city/forums/63

Can you solve the cases presented to you in Gangster City, preferably before the other detectives do so and show you up? The game includes a deck of 54 case cards, and each case card identifies elements about the case that you must discover; specifically, each case card indicates the suspect's profession (entertainer, scientist, thug), choice of weapon (revolver, knife, syringe), scene of the crime (theater, street, hotel room), and motive (money, love).

At the start of the game, each player takes a card at random and faces it away from themselves in a plastic stand. Three cards are revealed face up. On a turn, you can either take a face-up card or the top card from the deck, or you can attempt to guess your suspect's characteristics. When you take a card, you hold it up next to your case card, then the other players tell you how many characteristics they have in common. You then place this card in front of you, rotating it so that the number on the outer edge of the card shows how many characteristics they share (0-3).

When you guess, if you're correct, you discard the case card and place a new one in the stand; if you're wrong, you continue the game as normal next turn. The first player to correctly solve two cases wins!

Santa Maria

2017-10-26T16:02:22-04:00

Vendor: Aporta Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 34.95

Designer	Eilif Svensson Kristian Amundsen Østby
Publisher	Aporta Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	45-90 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Expansions	Santa Maria: American Kingdoms Santa Maria: Exploration Deck
Additional Info	229220/santa-maria http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/229220/santa-maria/forums/63

Santa Maria is a streamlined, medium complexity Eurogame in which each player establishes and develops a colony. The game features elements of dice drafting and strategic engine building. The game is low on luck and has no direct destructive player conflict; all components are language independent.

In the game, you expand your colony by placing Tetris-like pieces with buildings on your colony board. Dice (representing migrant workers) are used to activate buildings; each die activates a complete row or column of buildings in your colony. The buildings are activated in order (left to right / top to bottom), then the die is placed on the last activated building to block this space. It is therefore crucial where you put new buildings in your colony, and in which order you use the dice.

As the game progresses, you produce resources, form shipping routes, send out conquistadors, and improve your religious power to recruit monks. When you recruit a monk, you must decide if it becomes a scholar (providing a permanent special ability), a missionary (for an immediate bonus) or a bishop (for possible end game points). The player who has accumulated the most happiness after three rounds wins. The available specialists, end game bonuses and buildings vary from game to game, which makes for near endless replayability.

Kokoro: Avenue of the Kodama

2017-08-26T15:23:46-04:00

Vendor: Indie Boards & Cards
Type: Board Games
Price: 9.95

Designer	Eilif Svensson Kristian Amundsen Østby
Publisher	Indie Boards & Cards
Players	2-8
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Reimplements	Avenue
Additional Info	227758/kokoro-avenue-kodama http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/227758/kokoro-avenue-kodama/forums/63

The enchanted forest of the kodama is flourishing. But with so much growth, the ancient paths to the sanctuaries within have become overgrown and lost. Now the forest guardians call upon you, their loyal kodama, to restore these paths. Help your kodama build these paths, gather offerings for the guardians, and win their favor.

Kokoro is an exciting family game that can be played with up to six players (with a stretch goal to expand to more)! Each player has a forest map to draw their paths and turns are simultaneous so the game plays quickly. Connecting your sanctuaries to offerings will gain you favor. Choose wisely because you never know exactly when the sanctuary will score. And you shouldn't be too greedy, if a sanctuary is not connected to more offerings than your previous sanctuary, you lose points!

Destination X

2017-06-13T23:27:00-04:00

Vendor: Aporta Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 9.95

Designer	Bård Tuseth Kristian Amundsen Østby
Publisher	Aporta Games
Players	2-10
Playtime	20-40 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	223726/destination-x http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/223726/destination-x/forums/63

Description from the publisher:

Destination X is a game of one-against-many: One player takes the moderator role as a spy on the run, while the remaining players are detectives who must cooperate and use their deductive skills and geographical knowledge to track down the spy and identify their secret destination.

At the beginning of each round, six destination cards are placed face up on the table. The spy secretly chooses one of the destinations, and flips to the chosen country's page in the handbook. Each detective is given three informant cards, and in turn each detective must play an informant to get information about the spy's secret destination. The spy must find the relevant information in the handbook and answer truthfully. The informants may provide information on various aspects such as population, industry, religion, history, economy, and so on. After a detective has played an informant, the detective must also eliminate one of the destinations on the table.

At any time, the detectives can decide to guess on the spy's destination. If they guess correctly, the detectives win the round; otherwise the spy wins. The spy also wins if the detectives run out of informant cards, so the detectives must manage their resources well and not spend too much time or else the spy will manage to get away. The first side to win three rounds wins the game.

No prior geographic knowledge is needed to play, but having some insight might still help you in deducing the spy's destination. Since Destination X is a team-based game, it can be played in groups of any number of players.

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