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7.5
2-4
Complexity: 1.5
Language dependency: 1.0

During your turn, you assemble your hand, maybe place cards for their effect, and decide if you want to end the round. But do you think you are the one with the most points in hand?

You will have to choose: stop the round immediately or give the others an extra turn to try to extend the gap? Is it worth taking the risk?

The game ends when you reach 30/35/40 points (4/3/2 players).

The excitement of ending the round to catch your opponents off guard

The pleasure of playing your effect cards and making combos

It's a set collection card game like Rummy. The origami created especially for the game is just the illustrations on the cards.

Not available at the moment

During your turn, you assemble your hand, maybe place cards for their effect, and decide if you want to end the round. But do you think you are the one with the most points in hand?

You will have to choose: stop the round immediately or give the others an extra turn to try to extend the gap? Is it worth taking the risk?

The game ends when you reach 30/35/40 points (4/3/2 players).

The excitement of ending the round to catch your opponents off guard

The pleasure of playing your effect cards and making combos

It's a set collection card game like Rummy. The origami created especially for the game is just the illustrations on the cards.

7.5
2-4 Players
30-45 Min
Age: 8+
Complexity: 1.5
Language dependency: 1.0
Not available
at the moment
7.0
2
Complexity: 1.0

In Flip Circus, the artists amaze the crowd as they move about the stage, but you have a larger goal in mind: using their special powers — and your recollection of which artists are where on each side of the tokens — to line up three artists of the same type. Do that, and you collect their portrait from the poster.

Collect three of the five portraits and you win — or maybe you'll find the five clowns to let you honk your way to the victory circle...

Not available at the moment

In Flip Circus, the artists amaze the crowd as they move about the stage, but you have a larger goal in mind: using their special powers — and your recollection of which artists are where on each side of the tokens — to line up three artists of the same type. Do that, and you collect their portrait from the poster.

Collect three of the five portraits and you win — or maybe you'll find the five clowns to let you honk your way to the victory circle...

7.0
2 Players
15 Min
Age: 10+
Complexity: 1.0
Not available
at the moment
7.7
1-4
Complexity: 2.5

Your patients' lives are in your hands. Will they survive the night? Work as a team to solve real life medical cases. Each patient has a mysterious medical condition and it is your job to diagnose and treat before its too late. Do you have what it takes to save their lives?

BE A NEW YORK CITY EMERGENCY ROOM DOCTOR: Medical Mysteries puts you in the shoes of an Emergency Room doctor, tasked with ensuring your patient survives the night - their lives are in your hands. Can you work with your team to examine, diagnose and treat your patient, before it’s too late?

INCLUDES 4 PATIENTS AND A TUTORIAL: This Medical Mysteries game includes 4 patient files to solve. Each patient comes into the Emergency Room with mysterious medical condition that you’ll need to unravel before it’s too late. Also includes a Tutorial which walks you through a patient case so you feel prepared to treat and diagnose patients on your own before moving to the 4 main patients. Each case has a varying level of difficulty.

EXAMINE, DIAGNOSE AND TREAT: As an Emergency Room Doctors, it is your job to examine your patients’ mysterious symptoms, review their medical history and uncover hidden clues. Work together to diagnose the conditions. Follow clues, run tests, consult specialists and use your instincts to diagnose the patient, and finally make the right treatment decisions to help your patient survive the night. Then, work to determine the underlying cause of their condition. Earn points along the way for making the right treatment decisions and helping your patient survive the night.

NO PRIOR MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE NECESSARY, EASY TO LEARN AND PLAY: Medical Mysteries game includes a full case tutorial to walk you through how to play. Tutorial helps players navigate through their patient's treatment plan, and no prior medical knowledge is necessary. Each patient includes an intake interview, and an Electronic Medical Record to review and assess the case. From there, you’ll have the information you need to start treating and diagnosing. Research Sheets will provide details on possible conditions that your patient might have, and additional information will unfold as you start treating the patient. Gather more information by running tests and consulting specialist as you narrow down the options.

IT’S A RACE AGAINST THE CLOCK: Each action you take progresses the game, and the clock. Your goal is to get your patient to survive the night. Continue testing and diagnosing until time runs out.

—description from the publisher

Not available at the moment

Your patients' lives are in your hands. Will they survive the night? Work as a team to solve real life medical cases. Each patient has a mysterious medical condition and it is your job to diagnose and treat before its too late. Do you have what it takes to save their lives?

BE A NEW YORK CITY EMERGENCY ROOM DOCTOR: Medical Mysteries puts you in the shoes of an Emergency Room doctor, tasked with ensuring your patient survives the night - their lives are in your hands. Can you work with your team to examine, diagnose and treat your patient, before it’s too late?

INCLUDES 4 PATIENTS AND A TUTORIAL: This Medical Mysteries game includes 4 patient files to solve. Each patient comes into the Emergency Room with mysterious medical condition that you’ll need to unravel before it’s too late. Also includes a Tutorial which walks you through a patient case so you feel prepared to treat and diagnose patients on your own before moving to the 4 main patients. Each case has a varying level of difficulty.

EXAMINE, DIAGNOSE AND TREAT: As an Emergency Room Doctors, it is your job to examine your patients’ mysterious symptoms, review their medical history and uncover hidden clues. Work together to diagnose the conditions. Follow clues, run tests, consult specialists and use your instincts to diagnose the patient, and finally make the right treatment decisions to help your patient survive the night. Then, work to determine the underlying cause of their condition. Earn points along the way for making the right treatment decisions and helping your patient survive the night.

NO PRIOR MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE NECESSARY, EASY TO LEARN AND PLAY: Medical Mysteries game includes a full case tutorial to walk you through how to play. Tutorial helps players navigate through their patient's treatment plan, and no prior medical knowledge is necessary. Each patient includes an intake interview, and an Electronic Medical Record to review and assess the case. From there, you’ll have the information you need to start treating and diagnosing. Research Sheets will provide details on possible conditions that your patient might have, and additional information will unfold as you start treating the patient. Gather more information by running tests and consulting specialist as you narrow down the options.

IT’S A RACE AGAINST THE CLOCK: Each action you take progresses the game, and the clock. Your goal is to get your patient to survive the night. Continue testing and diagnosing until time runs out.

—description from the publisher

7.7
1-4 Players
30-60 Min
Age: 14+
Complexity: 2.5
Not available
at the moment
7.7
2-4
Complexity: 1.8
Language dependency: 1.0

Introduced by the Moors, azulejos (originally white and blue ceramic tiles) were fully embraced by the Portuguese when their king Manuel I, on a visit to the Alhambra palace in Southern Spain, was mesmerized by the stunning beauty of the Moorish decorative tiles. The king, awestruck by the interior beauty of the Alhambra, immediately ordered that his own palace in Portugal be decorated with similar wall tiles. As a tile-laying artist, you have been challenged to embellish the walls of the Royal Palace of Evora.

In the game Azul, players take turns drafting colored tiles from suppliers to their player board. Later in the round, players score points based on how they've placed their tiles to decorate the palace. Extra points are scored for specific patterns and completing sets; wasted supplies harm the player's score. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins.

Not available at the moment

Introduced by the Moors, azulejos (originally white and blue ceramic tiles) were fully embraced by the Portuguese when their king Manuel I, on a visit to the Alhambra palace in Southern Spain, was mesmerized by the stunning beauty of the Moorish decorative tiles. The king, awestruck by the interior beauty of the Alhambra, immediately ordered that his own palace in Portugal be decorated with similar wall tiles. As a tile-laying artist, you have been challenged to embellish the walls of the Royal Palace of Evora.

In the game Azul, players take turns drafting colored tiles from suppliers to their player board. Later in the round, players score points based on how they've placed their tiles to decorate the palace. Extra points are scored for specific patterns and completing sets; wasted supplies harm the player's score. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins.

7.7
2-4 Players
30-45 Min
Age: 8+
Complexity: 1.8
Language dependency: 1.0
Not available
at the moment
7.6
2-10
Complexity: 1.0

Create an instant party with HITSTER, the music card game of the century!

Listen to over 100 years of amazing hits, take turns arranging them in chronological order on your music timeline and create your trip down memory lane.

The first player to collect 10 hits is crowned the HITSTER

HITSTER is the perfect game for an evening with lots of laughing, singing, dancing and sharing memories. Simply open the box, scan a song card and let the music do the rest to create an instant party. So what are you waiting for?

How to play

1. Pick a music card and scan the QR code with the free Hitster app to automatically play it in Spotify

2. Guess when the song was released by placing it in the right position of your music timeline.

3. Flip the music card. If correct, you keep the music card to build your timeline.

Tip: add the Hitster tokens into the mix for an even more exciting game

Features:

- With more than 300 of the greatest hits HITSTER will create an instant party for everybody…guaranteed!

- Everybody is invited for the HITSTER party! Super easy rules and no game set-up gets the party started in no-time. Simply scan a card with the free Hitster app and the music starts playing automatically in Spotify, isn't that cool?

- HITSTER is the music game in which you don’t have to be a music expert. Simply guess if a song was released before or after other songs in your music timeline. The futher you are in building your timeline the more challenging it becomes. Your chances of winning increases if you can also name the artists and song titles.

- Are you craving to show of your music knowledge? Play HITSTER with the Pro rules or even Expert rules in which you have to know the exact year, artist and song title.

- Fancy a less competitive trip down memory lane? Then HITSTER can also be played as one team or by yourself

—description from the publisher

Not available at the moment

Create an instant party with HITSTER, the music card game of the century!

Listen to over 100 years of amazing hits, take turns arranging them in chronological order on your music timeline and create your trip down memory lane.

The first player to collect 10 hits is crowned the HITSTER

HITSTER is the perfect game for an evening with lots of laughing, singing, dancing and sharing memories. Simply open the box, scan a song card and let the music do the rest to create an instant party. So what are you waiting for?

How to play

1. Pick a music card and scan the QR code with the free Hitster app to automatically play it in Spotify

2. Guess when the song was released by placing it in the right position of your music timeline.

3. Flip the music card. If correct, you keep the music card to build your timeline.

Tip: add the Hitster tokens into the mix for an even more exciting game

Features:

- With more than 300 of the greatest hits HITSTER will create an instant party for everybody…guaranteed!

- Everybody is invited for the HITSTER party! Super easy rules and no game set-up gets the party started in no-time. Simply scan a card with the free Hitster app and the music starts playing automatically in Spotify, isn't that cool?

- HITSTER is the music game in which you don’t have to be a music expert. Simply guess if a song was released before or after other songs in your music timeline. The futher you are in building your timeline the more challenging it becomes. Your chances of winning increases if you can also name the artists and song titles.

- Are you craving to show of your music knowledge? Play HITSTER with the Pro rules or even Expert rules in which you have to know the exact year, artist and song title.

- Fancy a less competitive trip down memory lane? Then HITSTER can also be played as one team or by yourself

—description from the publisher

7.6
2-10 Players
30 Min
Age: 16+
Complexity: 1.0
Not available
at the moment
7.5
2-5
Complexity: 1.4

Survive The Island is a cutthroat game in which players seek to evacuate their adventurers — especially those of a high value — from a sinking island to maximize their score.

An island made up of forty hex-tiles is slowly sinking into the ocean as tiles are removed from the board. Each player controls ten people (valued 1-5) that they try to move towards the safety of the surrounding islands before the main island's volcanoes finally erupt. Players can either swim or use rafts to travel, but must avoid sea serpents, kaiju, and sharks on their way to safety.

—description from the publisher

Not available at the moment

Survive The Island is a cutthroat game in which players seek to evacuate their adventurers — especially those of a high value — from a sinking island to maximize their score.

An island made up of forty hex-tiles is slowly sinking into the ocean as tiles are removed from the board. Each player controls ten people (valued 1-5) that they try to move towards the safety of the surrounding islands before the main island's volcanoes finally erupt. Players can either swim or use rafts to travel, but must avoid sea serpents, kaiju, and sharks on their way to safety.

—description from the publisher

7.5
2-5 Players
45 Min
Age: 8+
Complexity: 1.4
Not available
at the moment
8.5
2
Complexity: 2.1

A dark rumour rises from Mordor. The Eye turns to Middle-earth. The hour has come. The Fellowship is reunited. The Heroes prepare for battle. Will you play as the Fellowship of the Ring to defend the free races and destroy the One Ring? Or will you play as Sauron and pursue Frodo and Sam while deploying your hordes to the gates of the enemy cities? The destiny of Middle-earth is in your hands!

A game plays over 3 successive chapters that unfold similarly.

On your turn, strengthen your Skills, hoard your treasure, stretch your presence across Middle-earth, rally Races to your cause, or advance the Quest of the Ring.

Turn OverviewIn each chapter players take cards from a display of face-down and face-up cards arranged at the start of a round. A player can take a card only if it's available, that is not partially covered by any other cards. Players can either play the card, paying its cost and placing it in their play area, obtaining its benefit, or discard the card and take as many coins from the reserve as the current chapter.

Players can also take a Landmark tile from one of the faceup tiles, paying its cost placing it in their play area. They will be able to immediately place a Fortress pawn on the corresponding region of the central board and benefit from its other effects.

Victory ConditionsImmediately win the game by fulfilling one of the 3 victory conditions:

Quest of the Ring

For the Fellowship: If Frodo and Sam reach Mount Doom, they destroy the One Ring and you immediately win the game.

For Sauron: If the Nazgûl catch Frodo and Sam, they seize the One Ring and you immediately win the game.

Support of the RacesIf any player gathers 6 different Race symbols on their Green cards, they rally the support of the Races of Middle-earth and immediately win the game

Conquering Middle-earthIf a player is present in all 7 regions (with a Fortress and/or at least 1 Unit), they dominate Middle-earth and immediately win the game.

If none of these three victory conditions are achieved by the end of chapter 3, the player who is present in the most regions of Middle-earth (with a Fortress and/or at least 1 Unit) wins the game. In case of tie, share the victory.

Not available at the moment

A dark rumour rises from Mordor. The Eye turns to Middle-earth. The hour has come. The Fellowship is reunited. The Heroes prepare for battle. Will you play as the Fellowship of the Ring to defend the free races and destroy the One Ring? Or will you play as Sauron and pursue Frodo and Sam while deploying your hordes to the gates of the enemy cities? The destiny of Middle-earth is in your hands!

A game plays over 3 successive chapters that unfold similarly.

On your turn, strengthen your Skills, hoard your treasure, stretch your presence across Middle-earth, rally Races to your cause, or advance the Quest of the Ring.

Turn OverviewIn each chapter players take cards from a display of face-down and face-up cards arranged at the start of a round. A player can take a card only if it's available, that is not partially covered by any other cards. Players can either play the card, paying its cost and placing it in their play area, obtaining its benefit, or discard the card and take as many coins from the reserve as the current chapter.

Players can also take a Landmark tile from one of the faceup tiles, paying its cost placing it in their play area. They will be able to immediately place a Fortress pawn on the corresponding region of the central board and benefit from its other effects.

Victory ConditionsImmediately win the game by fulfilling one of the 3 victory conditions:

Quest of the Ring

For the Fellowship: If Frodo and Sam reach Mount Doom, they destroy the One Ring and you immediately win the game.

For Sauron: If the Nazgûl catch Frodo and Sam, they seize the One Ring and you immediately win the game.

Support of the RacesIf any player gathers 6 different Race symbols on their Green cards, they rally the support of the Races of Middle-earth and immediately win the game

Conquering Middle-earthIf a player is present in all 7 regions (with a Fortress and/or at least 1 Unit), they dominate Middle-earth and immediately win the game.

If none of these three victory conditions are achieved by the end of chapter 3, the player who is present in the most regions of Middle-earth (with a Fortress and/or at least 1 Unit) wins the game. In case of tie, share the victory.

8.5
2 Players
30-45 Min
Age: 10+
Complexity: 2.1
Not available
at the moment
7.1
1-5
Complexity: 1.0

Spotlight is a co-operative hidden object game in which you and your friends search with your trusty flashlight for wacky characters and items hidden in dark places brimming with absurd things. Your goal is to find as many as possible to advance your pawns on the track and cross the finish line, without any player being reached by the Moon pawn that is chasing you.

The game is played over five rounds. Each player has a different board composed of a transparent layer on top, depicting a different part of the game scene, and a black cardboard background, that makes everything dark and difficult to see.

At the beginning of each round, the hidden picture to search is determined by looking at the card on top of the deck. When everybody is ready, players start looking for the hidden picture on their board with their "magic" flashlight, which can illuminate the board thanks to its white spot.

When the sand timer runs out, players must stop searching, put down their flashlights, and set their dial on the number of hidden picture they think they have found. Then, they reveal the back side of the hidden picture card, which shows how many it was actually possible to find. The more you found, the more your pawn advances on the track...but beware, the Moon pawn will advance, too!

If the Moon overtakes any player's pawn, you can spend a rush token to get them back in front of the Moon, but if you lack rush tokens, the game is over and you all lose! If all players cross the finish line without being caught by the Moon, you all win!

—description from the publisher

Not available at the moment

Spotlight is a co-operative hidden object game in which you and your friends search with your trusty flashlight for wacky characters and items hidden in dark places brimming with absurd things. Your goal is to find as many as possible to advance your pawns on the track and cross the finish line, without any player being reached by the Moon pawn that is chasing you.

The game is played over five rounds. Each player has a different board composed of a transparent layer on top, depicting a different part of the game scene, and a black cardboard background, that makes everything dark and difficult to see.

At the beginning of each round, the hidden picture to search is determined by looking at the card on top of the deck. When everybody is ready, players start looking for the hidden picture on their board with their "magic" flashlight, which can illuminate the board thanks to its white spot.

When the sand timer runs out, players must stop searching, put down their flashlights, and set their dial on the number of hidden picture they think they have found. Then, they reveal the back side of the hidden picture card, which shows how many it was actually possible to find. The more you found, the more your pawn advances on the track...but beware, the Moon pawn will advance, too!

If the Moon overtakes any player's pawn, you can spend a rush token to get them back in front of the Moon, but if you lack rush tokens, the game is over and you all lose! If all players cross the finish line without being caught by the Moon, you all win!

—description from the publisher

7.1
1-5 Players
15 Min
Age: 6+
Complexity: 1.0
Not available
at the moment
7.3
2-4
Complexity: 1.9

In the three-dimensional construction game Nunatak: Temple of Ice, you build a step pyramid together in a mountain of ice — but this game isn't co-operative, so watch your step! (A "nunatak", by the way, is a hill or mountain completely surrounded by glacial ice.)

For each pillar stone placed, you receive cards with different values that will affect your score in the end. For every four pillars built in a square, a new level of the monument opens up, with the temple of ice growing step by step. Who can place their stones most wisely and rise to the icy challenge?

Not available at the moment

In the three-dimensional construction game Nunatak: Temple of Ice, you build a step pyramid together in a mountain of ice — but this game isn't co-operative, so watch your step! (A "nunatak", by the way, is a hill or mountain completely surrounded by glacial ice.)

For each pillar stone placed, you receive cards with different values that will affect your score in the end. For every four pillars built in a square, a new level of the monument opens up, with the temple of ice growing step by step. Who can place their stones most wisely and rise to the icy challenge?

7.3
2-4 Players
30-45 Min
Age: 10+
Complexity: 1.9
Not available
at the moment
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Ratings: Board Game Gift Guide 2024 with Actualol – with Actualol

Check "Board Game Gift Guide 2024 with Actualol" and find the best price on all items from the top among sellers all over in the Netherlands & Belgium!

7.5
2-4
Complexity: 1.5
Language dependency: 1.0

During your turn, you assemble your hand, maybe place cards for their effect, and decide if you want to end the round. But do you think you are the one with the most points in hand?

You will have to choose: stop the round immediately or give the others an extra turn to try to extend the gap? Is it worth taking the risk?

The game ends when you reach 30/35/40 points (4/3/2 players).

The excitement of ending the round to catch your opponents off guard

The pleasure of playing your effect cards and making combos

It's a set collection card game like Rummy. The origami created especially for the game is just the illustrations on the cards.

Not available at the moment
7.0
2
Complexity: 1.0

In Flip Circus, the artists amaze the crowd as they move about the stage, but you have a larger goal in mind: using their special powers — and your recollection of which artists are where on each side of the tokens — to line up three artists of the same type. Do that, and you collect their portrait from the poster.

Collect three of the five portraits and you win — or maybe you'll find the five clowns to let you honk your way to the victory circle...

Not available at the moment
7.7
1-4
Complexity: 2.5

Your patients' lives are in your hands. Will they survive the night? Work as a team to solve real life medical cases. Each patient has a mysterious medical condition and it is your job to diagnose and treat before its too late. Do you have what it takes to save their lives?

BE A NEW YORK CITY EMERGENCY ROOM DOCTOR: Medical Mysteries puts you in the shoes of an Emergency Room doctor, tasked with ensuring your patient survives the night - their lives are in your hands. Can you work with your team to examine, diagnose and treat your patient, before it’s too late?

INCLUDES 4 PATIENTS AND A TUTORIAL: This Medical Mysteries game includes 4 patient files to solve. Each patient comes into the Emergency Room with mysterious medical condition that you’ll need to unravel before it’s too late. Also includes a Tutorial which walks you through a patient case so you feel prepared to treat and diagnose patients on your own before moving to the 4 main patients. Each case has a varying level of difficulty.

EXAMINE, DIAGNOSE AND TREAT: As an Emergency Room Doctors, it is your job to examine your patients’ mysterious symptoms, review their medical history and uncover hidden clues. Work together to diagnose the conditions. Follow clues, run tests, consult specialists and use your instincts to diagnose the patient, and finally make the right treatment decisions to help your patient survive the night. Then, work to determine the underlying cause of their condition. Earn points along the way for making the right treatment decisions and helping your patient survive the night.

NO PRIOR MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE NECESSARY, EASY TO LEARN AND PLAY: Medical Mysteries game includes a full case tutorial to walk you through how to play. Tutorial helps players navigate through their patient's treatment plan, and no prior medical knowledge is necessary. Each patient includes an intake interview, and an Electronic Medical Record to review and assess the case. From there, you’ll have the information you need to start treating and diagnosing. Research Sheets will provide details on possible conditions that your patient might have, and additional information will unfold as you start treating the patient. Gather more information by running tests and consulting specialist as you narrow down the options.

IT’S A RACE AGAINST THE CLOCK: Each action you take progresses the game, and the clock. Your goal is to get your patient to survive the night. Continue testing and diagnosing until time runs out.

—description from the publisher

Not available at the moment
7.7
2-4
Complexity: 1.8
Language dependency: 1.0

Introduced by the Moors, azulejos (originally white and blue ceramic tiles) were fully embraced by the Portuguese when their king Manuel I, on a visit to the Alhambra palace in Southern Spain, was mesmerized by the stunning beauty of the Moorish decorative tiles. The king, awestruck by the interior beauty of the Alhambra, immediately ordered that his own palace in Portugal be decorated with similar wall tiles. As a tile-laying artist, you have been challenged to embellish the walls of the Royal Palace of Evora.

In the game Azul, players take turns drafting colored tiles from suppliers to their player board. Later in the round, players score points based on how they've placed their tiles to decorate the palace. Extra points are scored for specific patterns and completing sets; wasted supplies harm the player's score. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins.

Not available at the moment
7.6
2-10
Complexity: 1.0

Create an instant party with HITSTER, the music card game of the century!

Listen to over 100 years of amazing hits, take turns arranging them in chronological order on your music timeline and create your trip down memory lane.

The first player to collect 10 hits is crowned the HITSTER

HITSTER is the perfect game for an evening with lots of laughing, singing, dancing and sharing memories. Simply open the box, scan a song card and let the music do the rest to create an instant party. So what are you waiting for?

How to play

1. Pick a music card and scan the QR code with the free Hitster app to automatically play it in Spotify

2. Guess when the song was released by placing it in the right position of your music timeline.

3. Flip the music card. If correct, you keep the music card to build your timeline.

Tip: add the Hitster tokens into the mix for an even more exciting game

Features:

- With more than 300 of the greatest hits HITSTER will create an instant party for everybody…guaranteed!

- Everybody is invited for the HITSTER party! Super easy rules and no game set-up gets the party started in no-time. Simply scan a card with the free Hitster app and the music starts playing automatically in Spotify, isn't that cool?

- HITSTER is the music game in which you don’t have to be a music expert. Simply guess if a song was released before or after other songs in your music timeline. The futher you are in building your timeline the more challenging it becomes. Your chances of winning increases if you can also name the artists and song titles.

- Are you craving to show of your music knowledge? Play HITSTER with the Pro rules or even Expert rules in which you have to know the exact year, artist and song title.

- Fancy a less competitive trip down memory lane? Then HITSTER can also be played as one team or by yourself

—description from the publisher

Not available at the moment
7.5
2-5
Complexity: 1.4

Survive The Island is a cutthroat game in which players seek to evacuate their adventurers — especially those of a high value — from a sinking island to maximize their score.

An island made up of forty hex-tiles is slowly sinking into the ocean as tiles are removed from the board. Each player controls ten people (valued 1-5) that they try to move towards the safety of the surrounding islands before the main island's volcanoes finally erupt. Players can either swim or use rafts to travel, but must avoid sea serpents, kaiju, and sharks on their way to safety.

—description from the publisher

Not available at the moment
8.5
2
Complexity: 2.1

A dark rumour rises from Mordor. The Eye turns to Middle-earth. The hour has come. The Fellowship is reunited. The Heroes prepare for battle. Will you play as the Fellowship of the Ring to defend the free races and destroy the One Ring? Or will you play as Sauron and pursue Frodo and Sam while deploying your hordes to the gates of the enemy cities? The destiny of Middle-earth is in your hands!

A game plays over 3 successive chapters that unfold similarly.

On your turn, strengthen your Skills, hoard your treasure, stretch your presence across Middle-earth, rally Races to your cause, or advance the Quest of the Ring.

Turn OverviewIn each chapter players take cards from a display of face-down and face-up cards arranged at the start of a round. A player can take a card only if it's available, that is not partially covered by any other cards. Players can either play the card, paying its cost and placing it in their play area, obtaining its benefit, or discard the card and take as many coins from the reserve as the current chapter.

Players can also take a Landmark tile from one of the faceup tiles, paying its cost placing it in their play area. They will be able to immediately place a Fortress pawn on the corresponding region of the central board and benefit from its other effects.

Victory ConditionsImmediately win the game by fulfilling one of the 3 victory conditions:

Quest of the Ring

For the Fellowship: If Frodo and Sam reach Mount Doom, they destroy the One Ring and you immediately win the game.

For Sauron: If the Nazgûl catch Frodo and Sam, they seize the One Ring and you immediately win the game.

Support of the RacesIf any player gathers 6 different Race symbols on their Green cards, they rally the support of the Races of Middle-earth and immediately win the game

Conquering Middle-earthIf a player is present in all 7 regions (with a Fortress and/or at least 1 Unit), they dominate Middle-earth and immediately win the game.

If none of these three victory conditions are achieved by the end of chapter 3, the player who is present in the most regions of Middle-earth (with a Fortress and/or at least 1 Unit) wins the game. In case of tie, share the victory.

Not available at the moment
7.1
1-5
Complexity: 1.0

Spotlight is a co-operative hidden object game in which you and your friends search with your trusty flashlight for wacky characters and items hidden in dark places brimming with absurd things. Your goal is to find as many as possible to advance your pawns on the track and cross the finish line, without any player being reached by the Moon pawn that is chasing you.

The game is played over five rounds. Each player has a different board composed of a transparent layer on top, depicting a different part of the game scene, and a black cardboard background, that makes everything dark and difficult to see.

At the beginning of each round, the hidden picture to search is determined by looking at the card on top of the deck. When everybody is ready, players start looking for the hidden picture on their board with their "magic" flashlight, which can illuminate the board thanks to its white spot.

When the sand timer runs out, players must stop searching, put down their flashlights, and set their dial on the number of hidden picture they think they have found. Then, they reveal the back side of the hidden picture card, which shows how many it was actually possible to find. The more you found, the more your pawn advances on the track...but beware, the Moon pawn will advance, too!

If the Moon overtakes any player's pawn, you can spend a rush token to get them back in front of the Moon, but if you lack rush tokens, the game is over and you all lose! If all players cross the finish line without being caught by the Moon, you all win!

—description from the publisher

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7.3
2-4
Complexity: 1.9

In the three-dimensional construction game Nunatak: Temple of Ice, you build a step pyramid together in a mountain of ice — but this game isn't co-operative, so watch your step! (A "nunatak", by the way, is a hill or mountain completely surrounded by glacial ice.)

For each pillar stone placed, you receive cards with different values that will affect your score in the end. For every four pillars built in a square, a new level of the monument opens up, with the temple of ice growing step by step. Who can place their stones most wisely and rise to the icy challenge?

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