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Jalape-NO! PRE-ORDER

2024-09-03T11:36:13-04:00

Vendor: 25th Century Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 15.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	25th Century Games
Players	3-9
Playtime	45 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	206/jalape-no http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/206/jalape-no/forums/63

ETA Q4 2024

Jalape-NO!, first released as Pepper, is a trick-taking game in which you want to dodge the spiciness to end up with the lowest score possible.

The deck consists of 108 cards (102 number cards and 6 pepper cards), with cards being numbered 1-18 in six colors and with the 1s being peppers. Based on the player count, you use 4-6 colors of cards ranging from 1-9 to 1-18.

At the start of each round, you receive 12 cards in hand, and you must place any peppers on the table in front of you. The lead player in a trick plays any card from their hand or one of their peppers. Each other player must follow suit, if possible, except that you are not forced to play the matching pepper card, should you have it. (However, if you do have it, you cannot play a pepper of another color to this trick.) Whoever plays the highest card in the suit led wins the trick and leads the next trick. If you win a pepper in a trick, place it on the table in front of you; you can play this pepper on a future trick, whether to lead off the trick or to play it on a trick that's already in progress.

As soon as a player has no cards in hand, the round ends. All players add any cards in hand to the cards in front of them, whether peppers or cards claimed in tricks. Each pepper you have is worth 2 points, and each card in the same suit as a pepper you have is worth 1 point. After five rounds, the player with the lowest score wins.

Disney's Donald Duck: Happy Camper PRE-ORDER

2024-09-03T11:35:59-04:00

Vendor: Maestro Media
Type: Board Games
Price: 34.95

Designer	Daryl Andrews Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	Maestro Media
Players	2-4
Playtime	30-45 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	426476/donald-duck-in-happy-camper http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/426476/donald-duck-in-happy-camper/forums/63

ETA Q4 2024

The ducks are setting out to camp! In Donald Duck in Happy Camper, players race to explore the wilderness, set up camp, take scenic photos, and earn badges. Starting with an empty board, players reveal tiles and gather resources on their turn, but the more you have in your bag, the slower you go. Will you race to the best photo spot or set up tents in different terrains? There are bigger bonuses for being the first to complete a task, so plan carefully as you race to become the best happy camper!

—description from the publisher

Wandering Towers: Playmat PRE-ORDER

2024-09-03T11:34:55-04:00

Vendor: Capstone Games
Type: Accessories
Price: 27.42

ETA Q3 2024

The official playmat for Wandering Towers!

The playmat features locations for all 8 spells, draw card and discard stacks, and locations around the game map in a charming fantasy landscape.

Constructed of thick 2mm neoprene with stitched edges, this playmat will stand the test of time.

Sized at 19.7×19.7-inches, the playmat comes in a cardboard display box.

Leylines PRE-ORDER

2024-09-03T11:29:17-04:00

Vendor: Arcane Wonders
Type: Board Games
Price: 61.95

Designer	Daryl Andrews Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	Arcane Wonders
Players	2-6
Playtime	45-60 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	367842/leylines http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/367842/leylines/forums/63

ETA Q4 2023

Your ancestors have lived in the forest for generations, surviving by following the Leylines - tangled wisps of magic that weave between the pines and lead to the forest’s most coveted bounties. But you can’t sustain yourself on only moss and berries for long. Every solstice, the fae-markets roll into the forest with their caravans bursting with food and supplies. Gather what you can from the woodland floor and seek out the markets before they move on.

Leylines is a re-imagining/update of the classic game Auf Achse by Wolfgang Kramer set in a brand new world with new rules by Daryl Andrews, featuring beautiful acrylic standees and a circular board filled magical leylines and mystical markets!

To win players must collect resources in the forest and bring them back along the leylines to the markets to sell them. Be aware though the magical merchants pay different amounts depending on what they are interested in!

Each round players will take turns waking up and preparing for the day by placing their dice to program their actions and then adventuring through the forest using their placed dice. Along the way picking up resources and delivering them to the markets for either Gold or Magical items to help them in their journey.

-description from publisher

Vampire Queen

2024-09-03T11:22:26-04:00

Vendor: 25th Century Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 15.95

Designer	Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	25th Century Games
Players	3-12
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	191073/vampire-queen http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/191073/vampire-queen/forums/63

The gray morning has arrived, and the vampires of the ancient clans must now hurry back to their tombs. For the high and mighty this is easy, but the smaller, weaker vampires have the strength to do this only in groups. Thus, you as the vampire lord might want to play out several with low values together in order not to be surpassed. Whatever you do in Vampire Queen, though, be sure to rid yourself of an intrusive vampire hunter because no one wants to get stuck with that!

The deck consists of cards numbered 1-13, four vampire queens that have variable value, and two vampire hunters. Players start with a hand of 9-13 cards depending on the player count, and the start player for a round plays from their hand either a single card, multiple cards of the same value, or a vampire hunter. Vampire queens on their own (or in a pair, triplet, or quartet) are valued at 14, but they can be played with other cards and adopt the value of those cards. For a single card or a set of cards (e.g., three 6s), each other player in turn can either pass or play the same number of cards but of a higher value (e.g., three 9s). Whoever plays the highest card(s) wins the round and leads off the next round.

If the round's start player leads a vampire hunter, it counts as value 0 and each other player must play exactly one (non-vampire hunter) card of whatever value they want. Whoever plays the highest card takes all played cards into their hand, then leads off the next round, but they cannot lead with the same vampire hunter they just won.

When one or more players have emptied their hand at the end of a round, the round ends. Players then score points for all cards still in hand, with number cards being worth their face value, queens being 14, and vampire hunter cards being 15 or 20, as indicated. Players with vampire hunters in hand keep them, then shuffle all cards and deal new hands to all players, with the player who holds the 20 starting. After five rounds, whoever has scored the fewest points wins.

Pueblo (New Edition)

2024-08-29T22:25:17-04:00

Vendor: Mojito Studios
Type: Board Games
Price: 69.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	Mojito Studios
Players	2-4
Playtime	60-60 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Hornor	2002 Japan Boardgame Prize Best Advanced Game Nominee 2002 Japan Boardgame Prize Best Foreign Game for Beginners Nominee 2002 Nederlandse Spellenprijs Nominee 2002 Spiel der Spiele Game of the Year Winner 2002 Tric Trac Nominee 2003 International Gamers Awards - General Strategy; Multi-player Nominee
Additional Info	3228/pueblo http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3228/pueblo/forums/63

Pueblo - the ultimate building challenge! Work with the other players to create a mighty home for the Chieftain, stone by stone. You are a craftsman, but you cannot let the Chieftain see your trademark stones, or you will be penalized. The longer you play, the more difficult this task becomes! Take on your opponents and become the Chieftain's Master Builder.

The theme setting is the Native American Pueblos of the Southwest tribes of the Zuni and Hopi. The board is a fairly small square. Each player gets a number of building blocks in their own color, and also some neutral colored blocks (1 fewer than the colored). Starting with the odd colored block, the player places it on the board, and then gets to move the "Chieftain" around the outer track surrounding the board. If the Chieftain can look straight across and see any colored blocks, those players gain points -- but points are bad. And when the Chieftain lands on the corners of the track, he looks down on the Pueblo from above, and all visible player's blocks gain them more points. Now, on each subsequent pair of turns, you have a choice of a colored block and a neutral block. Once all players' blocks are played, the Chieftain makes one last trip around the board, players gaining points all along the way. The player who has gained the fewest number of points is the Master Builder and the winner of the game.

There are also some extra components for making the game more challenging by adding an element of bidding for turn order, and from 1 to 4 sacred sites that cannot be built upon.

Original description from box.

6 nimmt!: 30 Jahre-Edition (German Import)

2024-05-02T02:19:34-04:00

Vendor: AMIGO
Type: Board Games
Price: 40.95

Designer	Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	AMIGO
Players	1-10
Playtime	45 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	406321/take-5-30th-anniversary-edition http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/406321/take-5-30th-anniversary-edition/forums/63

Note: This game is in German.

6 nimmt!: 30 Jahre-Edition is a 30th anniversary edition of 6 nimmt! that includes the standard base game that's playable by 2-10 players, as well as cards used in four variants of the base game (created by fans to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the game) and separate cards used in a new co-operative variant. Each variant must be played on its own, not combined with another. They are:

• Even/Odd: During set-up, place a double-sided even/odd card to the left of the lowest starting card, placing it even or odd side face up to match that card. Only cards of the same type can be added to that row, so if the card is on odd, then even cards can be placed only on the other three rows. If you take the row next to this card, move this card next to the row with the lowest number at right, flipping it if needed.

• Mountain Climbing: During set-up, place a double-sided card to the left of the bottommost starting card with the face showing the up arrow in the corner and down arrow on a row of cards. Cards placed in this row go in descending order instead of ascending. If you play 35 and the descending row ends in 40 and an ascending row ends in 28, you'll place your card in the descending row since the difference between 35 & 40 is less than between 35 & 20. If you take this row, slide the double-sided card up to the next row; when it reaches the top row, it then starts moving back down.

• The Jumping Cow: During set-up, place the jumping cow card to the right of the lowest starting card; this card counts as part of this row. When someone places the sixth card in this row, they claim the number cards other than the one they played, then the cow immediately jumps to the end of the row with the lowest number at right; if this row now has six cards, they claim these cards as well!

• Number Spinner: During set-up, each player takes a number spinner card along with ten number cards. Once during the round, they can play the number spinner along with a two-digit number card. During card placement, the digits on this player's card are reversed, e.g. 41 becomes 14, so if 14 is the lowest number, they place their card first. However, once placed, the digits are treated in their original order for all subsequent card placements.

• Beat the Buffalo: This co-operative variant is for 1-6 players, who try to score less collectively than the buffalo. During set-up, deal ten cards face down to the buffalo board; additionally, take 0-16 random action cards depending on the player count, then lay two of them face up. Each turn, all players choose and reveal their cards, then flip the buffalo's top number card. All of the cards are placed in the rows like normal, but at any time before, during, or after this process, players can choose to use one or more action cards, replacing each with a new card immediately. Action cards let you make a row off-limits, place a card inside a row, move an already placed card, and more. (In a game with one or two players, the buffalo must score twice as many points as the players for the players to win.)

Flower Show (Import)

2024-03-26T22:48:17-04:00

Vendor: Trefl
Type: Board Games
Price: 32.95

Designer	Wolfgang Kramer Detlef Wendt
Publisher	Trefl
Players	2-4
Playtime	20-30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	401882/flower-show http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/401882/flower-show/forums/63

You can compete alone or in pairs to take on the challenge of making the most impressive bouquets. Decide the leitmotif of your composition, and then pluck the finest flowers from under your opponents' noses, so you won't be left behind on this petal-strewn road. You earn points for the number of flowers in a bouquet (row of flowers) - simply put flower cards in the row on your team's side of the playing area. You have to match starting card with one of three attributes - a type of flower, its color, or ornament. As soon as there are at least 4 flowers in a row you can score, but more flowers means more points. On the other hand, waiting too long may cause losing all points for that row.

Możecie samodzielnie lub w parze stanąć do konkursu i podjąć wyzwanie wykonania najbardziej okazałych bukietów. Na początek zdecydujcie, jaka będzie cecha przewodnia Waszej kompozycji, a potem zadbajcie, by sprzątnąć sprzed nosa najlepsze okazy przeciwnikom i nie dać się wyprzedzić na tej usłanej płatkami drodze. Punkty zdobywacie za wykładanie kart kwiatów w rzędach po Waszej stronie obszaru gry. Musicie dołożyć kartę pasującą do karty startowej jedną z trzech cech - rodzajem kwiatu, jego kolorem albo dodatkiem. Za rząd, w którym znajdują się co najmniej 4 kwiaty możecie już zdobyć punkty, ale im więcej kwiatów w bukiecie tym więcej punktów. Z drugiej strony, czekanie zbyt długo może kosztować Was utratę wszystkich punktów za dany rząd.

Reworld

2024-03-20T14:44:16-04:00

Vendor: eggertspiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 55.24

Designer	Michael Kiesling Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	eggertspiele
Players	2-4
Playtime	50-90 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	225163/reworld http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/225163/reworld/forums/63

In Reworld, players attempt to terraform a newly discovered planet, and to do that they need to use terrabots to establish new cities and shuttles to deliver materials that will populate those locations.

In game terms, over five rounds players fill the five levels of their spaceship with tiles featuring terrabots, shuttles, material vessels, and satellites. Each round twenty of these tiles are placed at random around the perimeter of a large ship, and each player receives a hand of cards. On a turn, a player can play one or more cards to claim a tile following these rules:

If neither tile adjacent to the desired tile has been claimed, the player can lay down any card next to this tile, claim it, then place it in the leftmost space of the level of their spaceship that matches the number of the card played. If you play a 4, for example, then you must place that tile in the leftmost position of your fourth level.

If one tile adjacent to the desired tile has been claimed, then you must lay down a card of the same number used to claim that previous tile or any two cards of your choice (with those two cards thus serving as a joker). Whatever number is topmost indicates the level of your spaceship on which you must place this tile.

If both tiles adjacent to the desired tile have been claimed and the cards used to claim them show the same number, then you do the same as described above. If the cards have different numbers, however — e.g., 1 and 3 — then you must lay down the same two numbers (1 and 3), one matching number and any other two cards, or any four cards. You place this tile on your spaceship in the same manner previously desired.

Once everyone has no cards in hand or cannot play further, the round ends. Any remaining tiles are thrown away, then you reset the board and deal out a new hand of cards. After five rounds, players now deploy these tiles onto the new planet, each turn playing 1-3 of the leftmost tiles from the row of their choice to create their personal terraformed world. If you deploy a terrabot, which are labeled A-E, you start a new city with this letter or extend an existing city of yours. Material vessels, which come in five colors, can be delivered to the planet's surface only if attached to shuttles, and each city can have vessels of only a single color. Satellites provide bonus scoring when added to a city. Shuttles and satellites can also be used for shields to protect your newborn planet.

Players earn points during the first half of the game for picking up terrabots and having cards left in hand. During the second half, players score for deploying satellites and for meeting targets set at the start of the game, e.g. having a city with eight tiles in it, having a city of each letter, emptying a level on your spaceship, having a certain number of shields, etc.

Once all the spaceships are empty, players score their final points for how well they've developed each city and their shields in comparison with their fellow terraformers. Whoever scores the most points wins.

Wandering Towers: Mini-Spell Expansion #3

2024-03-08T06:57:10-05:00

Vendor: Capstone Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 6.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	Capstone Games
Players	2-6
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Expansion For	Wandering Towers
Additional Info	402302/wandering-towers-mini-spell-expansion-3 http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/402302/wandering-towers-mini-spell-expansion-3/forums/63

This expansion includes 2 New Magic Spells for Wandering Towers. New Spells included are Fill a Potion Bottle and Extra Die Roll.

FILL A POTION BOTTLE: If you use this magic spell, you may flip one of your own empty magic potion flask to the full side.

EXTRA DIE ROLL: If you use this magic spell, you may roll a new movement value with the die after a movement card is played, instead of moving the value indicated on the card. If the movement card shows a die or dice, you may roll the die again. In both cases you have to move the result of the roll.

- description from publisher

Take 5! - 30th Anniversary Edition

2024-02-09T02:56:01-05:00

Vendor: AMIGO
Type: Board Games
Price: 35.95

Designer	Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	AMIGO
Players	2-6
Playtime	60 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	153/take-5 http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/153/take-5/forums/63

For 30 Years Take 5 fans have been proving that they are anything but bull-headed! Play your number cards into one of the four rows of cards as cleverly as you can. However, when it comes to Take 5, sometimes you just have to grin and take it: Whoever plays the sixth card in a row must take the first five – and the negative points they bring! In this anniversary edition, you’ll find the beloved Base Game as well as four additional Special Fan Cards that make the game even more varied and fun. In addition, there’s also the brand-new cooperative variant “Beat the Buffalo.” Team up against the “buffalo,” use the special cards cleverly and make sure not to saddle each other with negative points, but pass them on to the buffalo. Will you rise to the challenge?

Expeditions: Around the World

2024-02-05T17:51:56-05:00

Vendor: Super Meeple
Type: Board Games
Price: 32.95

Designer	Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	Super Meeple
Players	2-6
Playtime	30-45 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Honor	1996 Meeples' Choice Award 1997 Spiel des Jahres Recommended 2006 Deutscher Lernspielpreis "9 years and up" Nominee 2006 Deutscher Lernspielpreis "9 years and up" Winner
Additional Info	223/expeditions-around-the-world http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/223/expeditions-around-the-world/forums/63

Based on Wolfgang Kramer's earlier effort Wildlife Adventure, Expedition — which is on the market as Expeditions: Around the World since 2023 — is a game about moving three commonly held expeditions around the world in search of various archaeological sites. The board shows a map of the world with many different branching paths, and players advance the expeditions by placing plastic arrows. When an expedition arrives at a location that matches one of your private site cards or one of the public site cards, you score that card. Certain spaces on the board allow you to play again immediately, and other spaces allow you to pick up a bonus action card that you can play at any time on one of your turns.

The game ends when someone has scored all of their cards, then whoever has the highest total score wins.

Flash10

2023-12-27T14:47:54-05:00

Vendor: Devir
Type: Board Games
Price: 11.95

Designer	Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	Devir
Players	2-5
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	146152/flash-10 http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/146152/flash-10/forums/63

Wolfgang Kramer's Flash 10 is a quick-playing take on the Rack-O game system, with players trying to arrange cards in numerical order – but doing so all at the same time.

The card deck includes 120 cards, twenty showing a thunderstorm and the other hundred numbered 0-99, with each card ending in 0 or 5 showing a lightning bolt. Someone shuffles the deck, then each player receives ten cards face down, which they place in a row in front of them. Playing simultaneously and as quickly as possible, players reveal these cards (without rearranging them), then start taking cards one at a time from those scattered in the center of the table and placing them on one of the ten cards in front of them, thereby creating stacks of cards as the game progresses. If a player draws a thunderstorm card, she can place it on any stack.

As soon as a player has ten number cards in ascending order from left to right, she yells "Stop!" and ends the round. If she's correct, she scores 10 points, plus 2 points for ending the round. Each other player scores points for the number of cards in order starting from their left stack. In addition, each card with a lightning bolt (whether in order or not) is worth 1 point, while each thunderstorm card is worth -1 point. Players then shuffle the cards and start another round. Whoever reaches 50 or more points first wins!

Flash 10 includes two variants. In one, players can end the round even if they have one or more thunderstorm cards in their row. In the second, players use nine cards instead of ten, and they must arrange their cards in ascending, then descending order with the fifth card in the row serving as the turning point.

El Grande (New Edition)

2023-12-27T14:47:27-05:00

Vendor: Hans im Glück
Type: Board Games
Price: 54.95

Designer	Wolfgang Kramer Richard Ulrich
Publisher	Hans im Glück
Players	2-5
Playtime	60-120 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Honor	1995 Meeples' Choice Award 1996 Deutscher Spiele Preis Best Family/Adult Game Winner 1996 Spiel des Jahres Winner 1997 Årets Spil Best Adult Game Winner
Additional Info	93/el-grande http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/93/el-grande/forums/63

In this award-winning game, players take on the roles of Grandes in medieval Spain. The king's power is flagging, and these powerful lords are vying for control of the various regions. To that end, you draft caballeros (knights in the form of colored cubes) into your court and subsequently move them onto the board to help seize control of regions. After every third round, the regions are scored, and after the ninth round, the player with the most points is the winner.

In each of the nine rounds, you select one of your 13 power cards to determine turn order as well as the number of caballeros you get to move from the provinces (general supply) into your court (personal supply).

A turn then consists of selecting one of five action cards which allow variations to the rules and additional scoring opportunities in addition to determining how many caballeros to move from your court to one or more of the regions on the board (or into the castillo - a secretive tower). Normally, you may only place your caballeros into regions adjacent to the one containing the king pawn. The one hard and fast rule in El Grande is that nothing may move into or out of the king's region. One of the five action cards that is always available each round allows you to move the king to a new region. The other four action cards varying from round to round.

The goal is to have a caballero majority in as many regions (and the castillo) as possible during a scoring round. Following the scoring of the castillo, you place any cubes you had stashed there into the region you had secretly indicated on your region dial. Each region is then scored individually according to a table printed in that region. Two-point bonuses are awarded for having sole majority in the region containing your Grande (large cube) and in the region containing the king.

Wandering Towers (English Edition) - Mini-Spell Expansion #2

2023-10-18T02:00:12-04:00

Vendor: Capstone Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 5.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	Capstone Games
Players	2-6
Expansion For	Wandering Towers (English Edition)
Additional Info	392106/wandering-towers-mini-spell-expansion-1 http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/392106/wandering-towers-mini-spell-expansion-1/forums/63

Includes 2 new Magic Spells to help your wizards get to Ravenskeep!

New Spells included are Close Ravenskeep and Draw 2 Cards.

Promo Punchboard with cover sheet and shrink wrapped

Renature: Valley

2023-09-05T09:39:42-04:00

Vendor: Capstone Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 22.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	Capstone Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	45-60 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Expansion For	Renature
Additional Info	387369/renature-valley http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/387369/renature-valley/forums/63

Something has changed in Renature valley: mushrooms are suddenly shooting up everywhere, completely changing the way the game is played! A mushroom allows areas to be connected and enlarged, allowing another player to take over an area!

Transform the polluted valley back into an intact ecosystem, let the animals move in again, and plant adjacent areas to get points. Use the advantages that the mushrooms bring to expand individual areas with their help or join areas occupied by other players. While Renature is challenging, it gets even trickier in Renature Valley.

CONTENTS:

1 double-sided game board
8 Mushroom tokens
2 Cloud tokens

-description from publisher's website

Pick-A-Pepper

2023-09-05T09:39:17-04:00

Vendor: AMIGO
Type: Board Games
Price: 22.95

Designer	Wolfgang Kramer Christian Stöhr
Publisher	AMIGO
Players	2-4
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	368103/sauscharf http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/368103/sauscharf/forums/63

Can you prepare the hottest collection of chili sauces in Pick-a-Pepper, which was first released as Sauscharf?

Mild, hot or super hot? Depending on the selected level of difficulty, players start with 8-10 cards in hand. A card display is filled with the remaining chili pepper cards, with up to three cards of the same value being placed on top of one another.

The game is divided into two phases: In the first phase, players collect chilies, taking cards from the display and placing them on their personal ingredient stack. Whoever plays the highest combination of the same cards is the first to use the display. After all the ingredients have been taken, the card display is refilled and the chili collecting continues. This phase ends when no one has cards in hand.

For the second phase, the previously accumulated chilies are taken into hand. In addition, a new display with sauce tasks that can be fulfilled is made available. Now the players can decide each round whether they want to collect more ingredients or use their chili-card combinations to complete a sauce task to receive chili points. The hotter the sauce, the more points you score. Depending on the number of players, the game ends as soon as someone has prepared 3-6 sauces and has no more chili cards. Whoever collects the most chili points wins.

Amygdala

2023-09-05T09:26:43-04:00

Vendor: Game Brewer
Type: Board Games
Price: 54.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	Game Brewer
Players	2-4
Playtime	60-90 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	360879/amygdala http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/360879/amygdala/forums/63

Life is full of emotion, and the region of the brain primarily associated with processing these emotions is the amygdala.

In the abstract strategy game Amygdala, players vie for control of different regions, each associated with an emotion. They must collect and store emotional resources in their memory bank which they will use to unlock emotions from their mind, then place these emotion tiles on the main game board.

Emotion tiles can be connected in networks of like emotions to score points. The player with the most emotions in each region can score big points at the end of the game, but only if they manage to unlock and place a claim tile belonging to the region they wish to score.

—description from the publisher

Big Boss

2023-05-27T23:32:26-04:00

Vendor: Funko Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 34.95

Designer	Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	Funko Games
Players	2-6
Playtime	90 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	313/big-boss http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/313/big-boss/forums/63

Big Boss is a game of founding companies, expanding existing companies, taking over smaller companies and share buying. The game is explicitly based on the Sid Sackson classic Acquire and shares many similarities to that game though mergers are not as prevalent or crucial in Big Boss. The main differences between the two games include the three dimensional aspect of Big Boss, and the existence of a strong monetary incentive to expand companies that you do not control.

Reimplemented by:

Alcazar

The Princes of Florence (New Edition)

2023-04-11T13:13:55-04:00

Vendor: WizKids (I)
Type: Board Games
Price: 52.95

Designer	Wolfgang Kramer Richard Ulrich Jens Christopher Ulrich
Publisher	WizKids (I)
Players	2-5
Playtime	75-100 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Honor	2010 MinD-Spielepreis Nominee 2008 Ludoteca Ideale Official Selection Winner 2008 As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année Prix Spécial du Jury Winner 2008 As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année Nominee 2007 Tric Trac Nominee 2007 Tric Trac d'Or 2007 Spiel der Spiele Hit für Experten Recommended 2007 Nederlandse Spellenprijs Winner 2007 Nederlandse Spellenprijs Nominee 2007 Lucca Game Best Game Mechanics 2007 Juego del Año Finalist 2001 International Gamers Awards - General Strategy; Multi-player 2000 Meeples' Choice Award 2000 Deutscher Spiele Preis Best Family/Adult Game 3rd Place
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In The Princes of Florence, players attract artists and scholars to their palace while trying to become the most prestigious family in Florence.

Over seven rounds, players attempt to score points in various ways, with most points being earned by playing profession cards to generate "work points", which can be exchanged for money or victory points. The game includes a variety of professions, such astronomers, organists, and architects; each profession is attracted to a particular combination of building, landscape feature, and social freedom, and players acquire these items via auctions. The more that a player can match these preferences, the more work points they earn — but the minimum requirement of work points increases each round, and you must meet that threshold in order to convert the work points.

Wandering Towers (English Edition) - Mini-Spell Expansion #1

2023-04-06T18:14:46-04:00

Vendor: Capstone Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 6.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	Capstone Games
Players	2-6
Expansion For	Wandering Towers (English Edition)
Additional Info	392106/wandering-towers-mini-spell-expansion-1 http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/392106/wandering-towers-mini-spell-expansion-1/forums/63

This expansion contains 2 spells: Retrieve A Card and Movement Swap.

Retrieve A Card Effect: Take the top card from the discard pile, even if it is the card you just played. Note: you will not draw to fill your had to 3 cards at the end of your turn until you have less than 3 cards. This is the same spell as the previously released "Re-Use A Card".

Movement Swap Effect: Swap the movement values on the movement card you play. this has the following effect: For a card that can move either a tower or a wizard, their movement values are swapped. For a card that can only move a tower, it moves a wizard instead. For a card that can only move a wizard, it moves a tower instead.

Wandering Towers (English Edition)

2023-04-06T18:10:30-04:00

Vendor: Capstone Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 47.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	Capstone Games
Players	2-6
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Expansions	Wandering Towers (English Edition) - Mini-Spell Expansion #1 Wandering Towers (English Edition) - Mini-Spell Expansion #2 Wandering Towers: Mini-Spell Expansion #3
Additional Info	355483/wandering-towers http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/355483/wandering-towers/forums/63

Each year, the graduating classes of the Ravenrealm Magic School compete to demonstrate their mastery of magic. For the final exam, all the wizards of each class must assemble at the legendary Ravenskeep… but every last one of them has procrastinated, distracted by learning new spells. They’ve also used all their potions—they can’t show up unprepared, with empty potion bottles!

Help your wizards get to Ravenskeep as quickly as possible. Using their magic they could even move the very towers atop which they stand to get there more easily! But how can they refill their potion bottles along the way? Well, here’s a little secret: Trapping wizards allows you to capture some of their magical essence in a bottle…

The Wandering Towers: Fill The Magic Potion Flask

2023-03-02T16:36:19-05:00

Vendor: ABACUSSPIELE
Type: Board Games
Price: 4.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	ABACUSSPIELE
Players	2-6
Playtime	30-30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	372448/wandering-towers-fill-magic-potion-flask http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/372448/wandering-towers-fill-magic-potion-flask/forums/63

Originally available as a bonus for purchasing the game at Spiel 2022.

Extra magic spell: Use two potions to flip an empty potion to the full side.

The Wandering Towers: Re-Use A Card (Import)

2023-02-27T10:41:21-05:00

Vendor: ABACUSSPIELE
Type: Board Games
Price: 3.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	ABACUSSPIELE
Players	2-6
Playtime	30-30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	372447/wandering-towers-re-use-card http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/372447/wandering-towers-re-use-card/forums/63

Originally available as a bonus for purchasing the game at Spiel 2022.

Extra Magic spell: Use one potion to get the top card from the discard pile.

Linko! (aka Abluxxen) (Amigo English Edition)

2023-02-18T12:38:26-05:00

Vendor: AMIGO
Type: Board Games
Price: 15.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling Wolfgang Kramer
Publisher	AMIGO
Players	2-5
Playtime	20-20 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Honor	2014 Essener Feder Best Written Rules Winner 2014 Fairplay À la carte Winner 2014 Golden Geek Best Card Game Nominee 2014 International Gamers Award - General Strategy: Multi-player Nominee 2014 Meeples' Choice Nominee 2014 Spiel der Spiele Game of the Year Winner 2015 Origins Awards Best Card Game Nominee 2018 Juego del Año Recommended
Additional Info	153065/linko http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/153065/linko/forums/63

In Linko! (a.k.a. Abluxxen), you take turns playing number cards, and the more cards of the same number you play, the better as cards score points at the end of the game. If someone else plays the same amount of cards with a higher number, however, your cards get nicked! Stealing cards can be good, but if you can't use them later, and end the game with cards in hand, they'll cost you points.

In more detail, the deck contains 104 number cards (1-13 x8) and five joker cards. Each player starts with a hand of 13 cards, and six cards are laid face-up next to the deck. On a turn, a player lays down one or more cards of the same value, adding jokers if desired; if she already has cards on the table, she lays these cards so that previously played cards are still visible. If any opponent has most recently played the same number of cards and those cards are of a lower value, then the active player "abluxxes" those opponents — that is, the active player can take the abluxxed cards into her hand and the opponent then draws the same number of cards, either from the display or the deck; if she doesn't take these cards in hand, then the opponent either returns these cards to his hand or discards them and draws that many cards. Refill the display only after someone finishes drawing cards. (Jokers can be played on their own, and they are considered to be higher than all values.)

As soon as the deck runs out of cards or a player has no cards in hand, the game ends immediately, even if the player would normally abluxx an opponent. Each player scores one point for each card on the table in front of him, then loses one point for each card in hand. Whoever has the highest score wins. If players wish, they can play multiple rounds and sum their scores over the rounds to determine a winner.