https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/collections/all.atom vaibhavhospital 2021-09-15T02:55:59-04:00 vaibhavhospital https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/6603337138227 2021-09-15T02:55:59-04:00 2021-09-15T02:55:59-04:00 ¡Adiós Calavera! Board Games Mücke Spiele

Vendor: Mücke Spiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 29.95

Designer Martin Schlegel
Publisher Mücke Spiele
Players 2
Playing Time 30 mins
Suggested Age 8 and up

Every year at harvest time on the Day of The Dead, the souls of the deceased visit the world of the living to celebrate with their loved ones. There is dancing, singing, drinking, and eating! Before everyone goes their separate way again, the living and the dead make a bet: Whichever group makes it back again to their own world first has say over the other one for a year. The race begins...

¡Adios Calavera! is a tactical race between the living and the dead for two players, one controlling the dead, the other the living. Each player has eight pieces and sets them up on a edge of a roughly 9x9 board next to the edge of the opposing player. Players are thus not directly opposite each other, but seated at a right angle. The first player to get their eight pieces off their opposing side of the board wins.

On your turn, you move one of your pieces. A piece has as many movement points as pieces on the line where it is standing orthogonally (i.e. at a right angle) to the main direction towards your goal. This includes all pieces: both your own and your opponent's, including the piece being moved. Some pieces also have special abilities, such as moving through obstacles, switching with other pieces, or taking additional movement.

]]> 2-Players-Only 2023-LD 2023-LD-20-1 Age 6+ Availability_Out of Stock BGG-Set BoardGameGeek Rank_Top 300 BoardGameGeek Rank_Top 400 BoardGameGeek Rank_Top 500 Category_Abstract Category_Strategy INV-0-L Players Maximum_2 Players Players Minimum_2 Players Playtime Maximum_30 Minutes Playtime Minimum_30 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20230904 Stocky-Clearance Year Published_2010s https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/6603337138227 Default Title 29.95 MSP-004 1132 https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/8462076941 2016-11-19T09:27:00-05:00 2016-11-19T09:27:00-05:00 Luther: Das Spiel (German Import) Board Games KOSMOS

Vendor: KOSMOS
Type: Board Games
Price: 54.95

Designer Martin Schlegel, Erika Schlegel
Publisher KOSMOS
Players 2-4
Playtime 45 mins
Suggested Age 10 and up

Note: This game is in German, but the game itself is language independent.  Using Google Document Translate together with the publisher's rules will reveal the game rules.

For the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses of 1517, players in Luther: Das Spiel can now live as Luther's contemporaries, following in his footsteps, traveling the cities where he worked, and encountering important companions of the Reformer.

]]> Age_9+ Availability_Out of Stock BGG-Set Google-True INV-0-L INV-L Players Maximum_4 Players Players Minimum_2 Players Playtime Maximum_45 Minutes Playtime Minimum_45 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Source_Import Games Stocky-Clearance Year Published_2010s https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/8462076941 Default Title 54.95 28588987213 2077 https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/7983041857 2016-09-17T15:34:00-04:00 2016-09-17T15:34:00-04:00 Takamatsu (Import) Board Games Mücke Spiele

Vendor: Mücke Spiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 47.95

Designer Martin Schlegel
Publisher Mücke Spiele
Players 2-5
Playtime 30 mins
Suggested Age 10 and up

Note: This game includes English, Japanese and German. For a preview, English rule can be found here.

There's excitement in the capital as Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu wants to assign the Han of Takamatsu in a challenge. The competing daimyos direct their samurai through the palace following simple rules and quickly see that they can use the samurai of the other daimyos for their purposes.

Takamatsu is a game of conflict and cooperation, with players trying to place (or not place!) their samurai in their own rooms. The palace consists of two circular paths that merge at one point, then separate once again. Players have 5-7 samurai that are split between two color-coded rooms at the start of the game, and a row of scoring cards — some face-down — are laid out next to the board.

On a turn, you choose a room that contains at least one of your samurai, then you move some number of samurai in this room clockwise from this space. If the room contains only one samurai, you can move it one space; if it contains two, you can move both two spaces or only one a single space — but if an opposing samurai is with you, then you must move both exactly two spaces. When a room has three or more samurai, he must leave at least one behind (while still needing to bring at least one opposing samurai along, if any). When a samurai ends movement in a room of the same color, that samurai's daimyo collects the topmost scoring card, with multiple scorings being possible on a turn. For each open scoring card collected, the player immediately adjusts his scoring marker — which could move you back on the track, so sometimes you want to escort another samurai to his pad instead of bringing him to your place.

When one player reaches twenty points, players finish the round, then tally their hidden scoring cards, if any. The player with the most points wins! (With two players, each daimyo controls two colors of samurai and must move an opposing samurai when possible. After one pagoda reaches the twenty point threshold, the players sum their two scores to determine a winner.)

]]> Age_9+ Availability_Out of Stock BGG-Set Google-True INV-M-Z INV-T Players Maximum_5 Players Players Minimum_2 Players Playtime Maximum_30 Minutes Playtime Minimum_30 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Source_Import Games Stocky-Clearance Year Published_2010s https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/7983041857 Default Title 47.95 26160913345 1812 https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/7982879937 2016-09-17T15:10:53-04:00 2016-09-17T15:10:53-04:00 Sirenen in Sicht Board Games Smiling Monster Games

Vendor: Smiling Monster Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 29.95

Sirenen in Sicht is a two-player game in which each player is trying to sink tiles of a boat with the help of cards.

On your turn, you play a card with a value on your site or on the opponent site of a ship. Cards have positive or negative values. The cards with negative values also have a special power (e.g., move the captain from one ship tile to another). If the cards hit the value of the ships tile, it sinks; otherwise the ship tile sinks when five cards are on each side, and whoever has more points on their side wins this tile.

Each ship tile, the captain, and the first mate are all worth 1 VP, and a game is won as soon as a player has scored three points.

]]> Availability_Out of Stock BGG-Not-Set Google-True INV-M-Z INV-S Product Type_Board Games Product-International Source_Import Games Stocky-Clearance https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/7982879937 Default Title 29.95 26160009281 1132 https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/6341747457 2016-05-22T19:48:00-04:00 2016-05-22T19:48:00-04:00 West of Africa (Includes Expansion/Upgrade Pack) Board Games ADC Blackfire Entertainment GmbH

Vendor: ADC Blackfire Entertainment GmbH
Type: Board Games
Price: 39.95

Designer Martin Schlegel
Publisher ADC Blackfire Entertainment GmbH
Players 2-5
Playtime 60-90 mins
Suggested Age 10 and up

In the late Middle Ages, the Canary Islands had faded into obscurity from a European point of view. There was neither gold nor silver, and the islands did not play a role as a trading post because the north-south trade of that time went through the Sahara.

In 1312, the Genoese merchant and seafarer Lancelotto Malocello effectively "rediscovered" the Canary Islands. During the 15th century, the archipelago was conquered by the Spanish. Spanish masters pushed agriculture, cultivating sugar cane, wine and grain, which quickly gave the islands a certain economic value and importance.

In West of Africa, the players cultivate goods, try to sell them profitably, and build settlements. Each player has their own deck of cards. Each turn the players select cards from their decks to conduct successful actions, always keeping the actions of the other players in mind.

]]> Age_9+ Availability_Out of Stock BGG-Set Discount_On Sale Google-True INV-M-Z INV-W Players Maximum_5 Players Players Minimum_2 Players Playtime Maximum_90 Minutes Playtime Minimum_60 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20230112_Full_Restock Restock-20240526-Long Sale Type_Regular Year Published_2010s https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/6341747457 Default Title 39.95 19708797185 1510 https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/597967873 2015-05-05T02:01:00-04:00 2015-05-05T02:01:00-04:00 Key West Board Games Horst Rokitte - Ideen für Spiele

Vendor: Horst Rokitte - Ideen für Spiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 42.95

Designer Martin Schlegel
Publisher Horst Rokitte - Ideen für Spiele
Players 3-5
Playtime 60 mins
Suggested Age 12 and up

Note: This game is in German.  Based on BoardGameGeek the game is language independent.  English rules can be found here.

Crystal blue seas, tropical heat and crazy nightclubs are Key West, the extreme tip of the Florida Keys and a paradise for people who enjoy a wild and thrilling existence, including people like the writer Ernest Hemingway who was attracted by more than just the sea and the bars.

How will you make your way there? You might make good money with hotels, but first bridges must be built so that tourists, artists and business people of all kinds can flock to the islands. Plantations and cigar factories can show lush profits as well. Adventurers are attracted out to sea, where they dive for sunken shipwrecks and treasures. But the bottom line in Key West is that wanting everything is never a good goal. Don't get bogged down; stay cool and plan your actions like a pro.

Key West is set in the 1930s and depicts the economic development of the Florida Keys. Players build hotels, maintain fruit plantations, buy cigar factories (both producing and selling), ensure that bridges are built, and search the deeps for treasure and wrecks. It features an original and surprising auction mechanism from Martin Schlegel.

The game is divided into two parts: first bidding, then actions. At the beginning of each of the eight rounds, there is a offers phase, in which players bid to secure Key West cards, which represent, for example, ownership of bridges and plantations and other benefits for the subsequent actions round. Individual actions are a finite and players will need to approach them tactically. It often won't be possible to do everything one wants and what not to do an agonizing decision.

Both experienced players and families will find something to like in Key West. There are seven different paths for generating victory points, but those who try to get involved everywhere won't succeed. The focus should be on three or four programs. In the next game one can try a different set. As there are thus many combinations, the intentions is that matters stay fresh for many re-playings.

An Essen 2010 game. See you at spiele-idee.de Hall 4 Booth 414

Source: based on publisher blurb

]]> Age_9+ Availability_Out of Stock BGG-Set Google-True INV-0-L INV-K Players Maximum_5 Players Players Minimum_3 Players Playtime Maximum_60 Minutes Playtime Minimum_60 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Source_Import Games Stocky-Clearance Year Published_2010s https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/597967873 Default Title 42.95 1623674689 1623 https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/372845173 2014-10-24T03:15:00-04:00 2014-10-24T03:15:00-04:00 Bangkok Klongs Board Games dlp games

Vendor: dlp games
Type: Board Games
Price: 44.95

Designer Martin Schlegel
Publisher dlp games
Players 2-4
Playtime 60 mins
Suggested Age 10 and up


Small boats, close-packed, charged with colourful fruits, rice or fish, paltering marketers – A hustle and bustle happens on the Klongs (canals) of Bangkok when the Thai merchants arrive with their boats on the floating markets. "Where are the best embarkation points for the boats?" The players take turns to bring their boats to the floating markets. They tow them into the best position as this is decisive for the success or disappointment of the market day. Only those embarkation points are profitable where enough boats are huddled around, the rest goes away empty-handed. But not only the market days are decisive for the merchants’ success, the final scoring of the stock will be important as well. The player who settled his main focus only on some goods will come off especially well, the collection of all sorts of goods is not preferable for the final score.

Players place boats on the board, trying to take the best places. When a scoring round occurs filled up squares can be scored. After scoring players have to remove a boat which they can take in stock. The stock will be scored at the end of the game.

]]> Age_9+ Availability_Out of Stock BGG-Set Category_Family Google-True INV-0-L INV-B Players Maximum_4 Players Players Minimum_2 Players Playtime Maximum_60 Minutes Playtime Minimum_60 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20230112_Full_Restock Restock-20240526-Long Source_Import Games Year Published_2010s https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/372845173 Default Title 44.95 967370157 1699 https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/371304001 2014-10-11T23:29:00-04:00 2014-10-11T23:29:00-04:00 Top oder Flop (Import) Board Games Argentum Verlag

Vendor: Argentum Verlag
Type: Board Games
Price: 17.95

Designer Martin Schlegel
Publisher Argentum Verlag
Players 2-5
Playtime 30 mins
Suggested Age 10 and up


Note: This game is in German, English rules can be found here.

Five movies are being produced, and players each have a more or less high investment in them. Players with high investment play cards to increase the movie's success, while your opponents may play the same cards to ensure its failure.

Cards can influence one or two movies, or they can cause other cards to be moved from the "Top" side to the "Flop" side or vice-versa.

The player who has the most investment in the most successful movies is the winner.

]]> Age_9+ Availability_Out of Stock BGG-Set Discount_On Sale Google-True INV-M-Z INV-T Players Maximum_5 Players Players Minimum_2 Players Playtime Maximum_30 Minutes Playtime Minimum_30 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20220327 Sale Type_Regular Source_Import Games Stocky-Clearance Year Published_2000s https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/371304001 Default Title 17.95 962604425 678 https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/309075657 2014-05-10T15:42:59-04:00 2014-05-10T15:42:59-04:00 Atacama Board Games Mücke Spiele

Vendor: Mücke Spiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 27.95

Designer Martin Schlegel
Publisher Mücke Spiele
Players 2-4
Playtime 20 mins
Suggested Age 8 and up


Excitement in the Chilean desert! Valuable mineral resources have been found in the 1,200 km long desert along the coast of the Pacific Ocean: gold, silver and copper. Several companies are already busy prospecting by erecting huge drilling rigs as the seams are deep under the surface. Due to security reasons, the drilling rigs cannot be installed too close to one another, so each new rig limits the possibilities for erecting new ones in the surrounding areas.

What's more, the mining rights have been limited by the government. The companies have received a concession for only two of the three commodities – and extracting the "wrong" type of commodity will result in penalties.

Atacama, part of Mücke Spiele's "Edition Bohrtürme" series of games, is a tactical game for 2 or 4 players.

]]> Age 6+ Availability_Out of Stock BGG-Set Category_Abstract Google-True INV-0-L INV-A Players Maximum_4 Players Players Minimum_2 Players Playtime Maximum_30 Minutes Playtime Minimum_30 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20230112_Full_Restock Restock-20240526-Long Source_Import Games Year Published_2010s https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/309075657 Default Title 27.95 91-128 1057 https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/298808529 2014-04-26T22:53:00-04:00 2014-04-26T22:53:00-04:00 Aqua Romana Board Games Queen Games

Vendor: Queen Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 47.95

Designer Martin Schlegel
Publisher Queen Games
Players 2-4
Playtime 60 mins
Suggested Age 8 and up
Honors

The citizens of the early Roman empire lack a substantial part of life: drinking water.

Experienced architects and their workers take up the challenge and build the monumental Roman water system: the aqueducts.

It's not always easy, since the architects need to oversee many building sites at one time. Therefore, not all water pipes can be completed.

Plan ahead such that your workers build the longest aqueducts to earn the most fame at the end.

Aqua Romana is a tile laying game for 2 to 4 players. During his turn a player can extend an aqueduct, close an aqueduct and earn points for closed aqueducts.

To extend an aqueduct, the player chooses a worker and the corresponding architect, play the corresponding tile, move the workers forward and move the architect ahead.

An aqueduct is closed when it ends at the side of the gameboard or a non-fitting neighboring tile.

A closed aqueduct yields 1 point for every tile it is long. If an aqueduct crosses a tile for the second time, it yields two points.

The game ends when no tile can be played for an entire round. Winner is the player with the most points. ]]> Age 6+ Availability_Out of Stock BGG-Set Category_Family Google-True INV-0-L INV-A Players Maximum_4 Players Players Minimum_2 Players Playtime Maximum_60 Minutes Playtime Minimum_45 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20230112_Full_Restock Restock-20240526-Long Year Published_2000s https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/298808529 Default Title 47.95 4010350604229 1812