Family Games, Page 13

Each player attempts to score the most points by snaking caravan routes through the desert, trying to reach oases and blocking off sections of the desert. Many people feel that it is reminiscent of Go.

The rules are simple, but the decisions are tough. Hikers only score if they are on a path of 4 continuous numbers. Do you join an opponents’ trail to team up, or block their path with one of your own? Do you forgo a sure placement to buddy up your hikers for a perfect space next turn? Will that space even be available next turn? We have fallen in love with these elegant dilemmas and you will...

Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition is the quintessential quantum trick-taking card game for 2 - 5 cool cats, where your card’s color isn’t defined until you play it! Hypothesize how many tricks you will win, and record your bid. Place tokens on the community research board as you play your hand, and connect large groups of tokens to score even more points. Plan your tricks carefully as you cannot...

The beautiful pieces of glass in the river here have attracted the most entrepreneurial of woodland creatures.

Enter a Growing Market! Welcome to the Community Hedge Fund where players take on the roles of gardeners dedicated to growing flowers and profits. When the market crashes, the Gardener with the most valuable Stalk portfolio wins. Garden shrewdly to grow your fortune.

The Emperor Penguin looooves jewelry! In Jewels for the Emperor Penguin, each player takes charge of a five-member penguin guild that must scale the icy walls of the Valley of the Emperor Penguin, gathering gems — emeralds, rubies, sapphires, and diamonds — and making advantageous exchanges to acquire the specific gem-recipes needed to claim objective cards that represent the fantastic...

In AQUA, your starting point is a hot spot that gradually becomes surrounded by expanding coral formations. These corals serve as habitats for small marine animals. By fostering biodiverse habitats, you can then create ideal conditions for attracting the largest marine animals.

For over 300 million years, trees have traded nutrients with fungi in a vast underground network. Scientists continue to make new discoveries about this hidden world. In Undergrove, you are a towering evergreen with an ancient symbiotic connection to the fungi in your forest. As new mushrooms appear, your options expand for converting nutrients and helping your seedlings. Using cube...

The Japanese term "bonsai" means "planted in a pot". A bonsai is a living work of art, a perfect miniature plant, identical in all respects to its full-size simile, but several times smaller.

The classic waterproof version of a gaming legend on the go!

What could be better than paddling down rivers in a colourful jungle and collecting delicious papayas? If only it weren't for the annoying boats of other players also chasing the sweet fruit. So sit down under the most beautiful palm trees and be stealthy when distributing the papayas, because only at the end of the game will it be revealed who owns which boat and who has guessed the other...

Plunge into the modern era, where our planet's vast interconnected ocean scape is one of the last frontiers to discover and explore. Experience a deep new ever-changing adventure in this followup to the smash hit Endeavor: Age of Sail!

In Kyoto no Neko, 2 to 4 players are kittens who explore the modern-day city of Kyoto, Japan through a series of independent, replayable scenarios. In each scenario, players must fulfill a variety of missions that represent typical cat activities, from befriending a school boy to fighting an aggressive stray cat, or stealing the food from other player's dinner bowl. During each game, every...

Delve deeper than ever before in CLANK! Catacombs: Lairs and Lost Chambers! Strange sounds have been heard beneath the catacombs...Brave the lairs of the enigmatic Sphinx, the petrifying Medusa, or the formidable Living Statues. Discover lost Chambers, each with a unique power found nowhere else in the dungeon. Collect trophies of your adventures to help your legend grow!

Don't let the cheeky monkeys make fun of you. Slap them on the fingers! It's allowed in this game. A fun game for children and adults that will exercise your observation and quick reaction.

Exceptional game that proves to practice observation and speed. Thanks to the original rotating game plans - butterfly meadows - butterfly hunters will entertain adults and children alike. The rules are as light as butterfly wings. In a game that will keep the whole family entertained, the task is to find the butterfly on its meadow by flipping the sides of the meadow game plan to find the...

MISH-MASH is a great perceptual game in which the winner is the one who finds the right picture in the flood of others. The rules are very simple, but only the brightest will succeed in the game. Determine the difficulty of the game and surprise your opponents with a lightning reaction.

The legendary game Dostihy a sázky in a limited retro edition for the 40th anniversary of its release. In the classic case you will find a large game plan consisting of four separate pieces with original illustrations and the author's signature, wooden pieces, the famous design of racing money and chance and finance cards. Dive into the world of horse racing together. Relive the nostalgia of...

Tactical area control meets fantasy adventure in this card-driven cooperative game of animals against machines from the designer of PARKS and the creator of Bloc by Bloc. Play as one of four unique factions and assemble your crew of defenders from a wide range of animal characters to resist the machines across a modular map that changes with each game.

Forges of Ravenshire is a dice worker placement game for 1-4 players who compete to earn the most gold over 4 seasons to see who wins and becomes the next Forgemaster of Ravenshire. The main way to earn gold is by acquiring and completing contracts for weapons, shields, and armor from the Adventurers’ Marketplace.

Atoll is a winning design of the 1st season of Czech board game design contest turned into reality show called "Den deskovek". It's engine building game in which your goal is to build the best possible ecosystem in which the population of fish and other creatures will thrive, and which will attract new species.A central concern for you in managing Atoll is a variable called fatigue -...

Tea Garden is a game of talented debuting designer Tomáš Holek, who is also working on his designs for the biggest Czech publishers. The key elements of the game are deck-building and worker-placement, Maybe the most intriguing is the resource management part though. In Tea Garden, you will pay with tea leaves. Those can be either green or black (fermented) – the value of green leaves...