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26 Mar 2021

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Photo Impression of .... Santa Fe

In Santa Fe, the players — western heroes that they are — aim to take as many tricks as possible during the eleven rounds of the game, in addition to collecting as many points as possible.

Game Play

Unlike most games, lower-valued cards are worth more as the deck contains fewer of them. The players can challenge each other, as well as the sheriff, to the Mexican standoff.

Game Play

Players View

After a duel, only one player is left standing, and this player takes several tricks at the same time. The player who fights a duel at the most appropriate time and collects the largest points — as well as the highest number of special bandit cards — will be the final one standing when the game ends.

The Sherrif

Gun fights

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Photo Impression of .... Oriflamme

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21 Mar 2021

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Box & Components

The Crown .... Who will be the new King in the Realm

In Oriflamme, the players find themselves in the middle of a medieval feud over the French royal crown. The King is dead! Long live the King! As heads of influential families, the players strive to come to power with cunning and malice, power and strength, virtue and infamy. Their goal: the king's throne!

In the tactical card game, hidden cards are played in turn. By tactically uncovering and activating their effects, players can outdo or get them out of the way, because all players have the same goal in mind — to collect the most influence points for their family and thus win the game.

Oriflamme - All Abilities

Assassination - It doesn’t matter whether the target card is revealed. This is the only card that allows you to kill wherever you like in the Influence Queue

Oriflamme - The king has died without any descendants. Throughout the realm, the most influential families try to seize power through conspiracy, cunning... and blood

Lord - ach adjacent card in your family earns you 1, regardless of whether it is revealed or covered

Conspiracy

Game Over View

The Soldier - Eliminate an adjacent card

The Archer : Eliminate the first or last card from the Queue

Archer - It doesn’t matter whether the target card is revealed. If you have no other choice, you must eliminate a card from your family.

A cunning and dynamic card game, the characters and the cards should be used effectively and refined. An atmosphere where you have to deal with opposition and cunning tricks of your opponents. A nice short playing time, lots of interaction and intense. In France it has already won a great price.

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20 Mar 2021

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Photo Impression of .... Clash of the Ardennes

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Two Generals

Box & Components

During one of the toughest battles fought in World War 2: the Battle of the Bulge, you face the difficult task to conquer important streets in the Belgian city of Bastogne.'

Components - Two Armies

General Patton

Spy in Action

Objectieve Cards

In Clash of the Ardennes you have control over the Allied or Axis forces and you have to obtain your goal, which is described on your 'Objective card' (drawn at the beginning of the game).

Close up during the game

Game Overview

Spy in Action

Victory Card

Close up during the game

Use all of your (special) units wisely, because you will run out of units very quickly. Place them strategically and tactically on 1 of the 7 streets, always think ahead and try to reach your objective a little bit sooner than your opponent.

Box & Components

The Kickstart project is still up just click on the link for more info.

Pre-order: Clash of the Ardennes
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/elwin/clash-of-the-arde...

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19 Mar 2021

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Photo Impression of .... Rossio

The Portuguese King has called the finest stonemasons of the country to pave one of the most important squares with calçada tiles (worldwide famous black and white tiles that pave several squares in Portugal). But the task is enormous and players will have to count with the aid of helper cards who will help them score points and/or collect money.

In Rossio, players start the game by drawing five cards and keeping three of them on their hands.

On a player's turn, players will first recruit a card from their hands, placing it on the rightmost space under their player board, sliding to the left all cards previously recruited, discarding the card that slides off their boards (under each player board there are only 3 card slots). If the newly recruited card is played face-up, players must pay its cost in coins. If the card is played face-down, no money needs to be spent.

Then, ALL cards under a player board will activate: face-up cards will give the player Points for each time the pattern depicted on the card is found on the square. Face-down cards will provide the player 1 coin each.

Then, players must build the leftmost calçada tile of their player boards. Players can never voluntarily change the order of the tiles on their board. At any moment players can, however, spend 1 coin to swap 2 pieces on their board that are orthogonally adjacent. The tile must be built in the square orthogonally adjacent to at least 2 elements: 1 tile and 1 wall, or 2 tiles. And must be built on the leftmost available space of the line it is being built. If the players manage to build orthogonally adjacent to a similar tile, they can as bonus build the next leftmost tile, and so on, until they decide to stop or until they can't build more. Players collect then 1 coin for each coin depicted on the spaces that were left free on their player boards after tiles were built.

Finally, players end their turn by drawing 1 card into their hand from the 4 cards available on the market. However, the amount of cards players can choose from depends on the number of tiles that they have built. So, if players build only 1 tile, they must take the 1st card. If they build 3 tiles, for example, they can choose between the 1st, 2nd or 3rd cards. Players end their turns by refilling the empty spaces of their player boards with tiles from the facedown stacks.

As the square is being cooperatively built, certain patterns appear more often than others and the scoring of face-up cards becomes exponential. Also, when players complete a column, they collect a bonus, that can be either 1 coin or drawing more cards. Money is very tight in this game, so gaining an extra coin can be crucial to recruiting a card from your hand face-up.

The game ends when the square is finished and the player with most points wins the game.

Rossio is all about timing: Recruit a card face-up late in the game, and then it will score fewer times than expected. Recruit it too early, and it will score you a few points since there are few tiles built on the square. To many cards recruited face down will give that extra amount of money, but, they won't score any points. Build several tiles and you're probably helping your opponents. Build fewer tiles and you probably won't have money next turn to recruit a face-up card.

Rossio is a game with very simple rules, but with high interaction between players and interesting decisions every single turn.

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16 Mar 2021

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The Infinity Stones are scattered throughout the Multiverse

Setup

Bring together a team of super heroes and prevent Thanos from ending the world!
The Infinity Stones are scattered throughout the Multiverse. Use their essence to recruit heroes and villains and gain Infinity Points.

Assemble the Avengers, acquire locations and when ready, claim the Infinity Gauntlet!

Use their essence to recruit heroes and villains and gain Infinity Points

Kate Bishop

Pick your tokens carefully, recruit characters to gain Infinity Points and bonuses. These bonuses help you recruit more powerful heroes and acquire locations… until you gather enough characters, power, and Infinity Points to trigger the endgame!

Even though Splendor Marvel uses Splendor’s core rules and high-quality materials, it has a different color structure, a new endgame trigger, and new victory conditions. You can also gain Infinity Points with the Avengers Assemble tile that can be passed from one player to another several times during the game!

The Battle for the Infinity Stones

Finding all Infinity Stones

Spider Man - Taking a Card

Victory Conditions

Hire new Hero's

Game Overview

Close Up in the Game - Taking a new Hero

Using your Hero's - Players View

Bring together a team of super heroes and prevent Thanos from ending the world!

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Photo Impression of .... Paleo .. Surviving in prehistoric times

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24 Feb 2021

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Box & Components

Paleo…. Survive in prehistoric times, before your last tribe dies, or of course, can make that petroglyph. That's the goal. Working together to survive the stone age.

Crafting useful objects, or discover that you can aide someone else in their project to survive.

On the hunt for food for the tribe

After the Hunt in the evening

Thematically well implemented in the game and my children.
Sometimes there are difficulties on the cards, sometimes a lot of setbacks, but then it is smart cooperation and meeting the challenges.

Our adventure is not over yet and we are happy to continue the adventure.

Tribe Members

The Mission Cards

When every one sleeps, then they want to
you have enough food that all persons can
having breakfast

10,000 BCE - Game overview

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Ishtar Gardens of Babylon

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12 Feb 2021

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The city of Babylon appeals to the imagination, in music, history, and stories of the past ... Who wouldn't want to wander around in those gardens and see the splendor before the signs were written on the wall?

A nice light game with nice colorful parts that play away quickly and quickly and that also appeals to young teenagers.

By the rivers of Babylon

Starting the game in the dessert of Babylon

Into the Garden

Finding gems under the palm trees by the palace

Players View - Collecting the bonus points

View from the Heavens

To plant a Tree, you need to spend the Gems that appear in the upper left corner

Hanging Gardens

Four Player game Overview

Bonus Tree Cards

Carpet Board

Designer Bruno Cathala created Ishtar, a game in which you play the role of a gardener aiming to transform the dry desert into the Lost Hanging Gardens of Babylon. To accomplish your mission, you will have to plant flowers, which, if you place them well, can help you gather precious gems and activate actions. Whether to buy Trees (which will block the link between two Flower spots, as well as earning you points) or to purchase upgrades (such as getting two more points per Tree card at the end of the game), collecting gems will be a crucial part of the game. Get them before your opponents, recruit apprentices, send them to earn points in the copses of flowers you have created, block others and think carefully of the upgrades to purchase if you want to become the best gardener at the end of the game!

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09 Feb 2021

Henk Rolleman

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A small impression of Menara

As a tight-knit team in Menara, players use pillars and wondrously-shaped temple floors to build a spectacularly soaring structure full of nooks and crannies. Cooperation and static skills are in demand since for each mistake in construction, you have to add another floor to the temple.

A steady hand, an alert mind, and mutual assistance can help you successfully complete what seems to top out at dizzy heights...

A Beautiful light-weighted family game with great components.
You

Try to achieve the goal together despite the pressure you feel to balance the pieces well without the temple collapsing.

Menara during the Game

Action Card - Players View

Game Overview

2020 Nederlandse Spellenprijs Best Family Game Nominee

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Photo Impression of .... Bonfire

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08 Feb 2021

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A First small impression of Bonfire ... more photo's will follow

The bonfires are sources of light, energy and warmth created by the guardians of light in order to brighten the cities on the otherwise dark planet

Bonfire Cards

Sailing to the Islands

Disappointed the guardians of light retreated and let the bonfires extinguish.

Close Up City View

The citizens could no longer live in the now dark cities and were forced to leave

You must visit the guardians of light on their holy islands and ask for tasks to prove your good will

For each completed task, they will re-ignite one extinguished bonfire.

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Photo Impression of .... Pendulum

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07 Feb 2021

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In Pendulum, each player is a noble in battle to succeed the timeless king as ruler of Dünya empire. Players take command of their workers, implement strategies, and expand the provinces in their domain in real-time to gather resources and grow the four victory tracks in power, prestige, popularity and legendary achievement.

Players should use actual time as a tool to manage their strategy to defeat their opponents, spending time on different action types and balancing them with the time they spend planning and analyzing. The winner is the player who most effectively manages and invests his time and who builds the best engine, not the player who acts the fastest.

Pendulum has an interesting game mechanic although
(Simultaneous Action Selection, Variable Player Powers
& worker Placement) I wonder if this is a good fit for any player company. Handling the hourglasses simultaneously requires good knowledge of the rules of the game and handling them correctly. The mechanisms feel good and without the hourglasses, it played smoother with us.

Designer Travis P Jones
Artist Robert Leask