Free Ride USA

1-5 Players | 30-60 Mins | Ages 14+

During the 1950s, the network of railway lines in USA was modernized because of new diesel locomotives. This allowed people to travel to the major cities to visit beautiful old and new structures worth to see. In Free Ride USA, you are taking charge of rebuilding the railway lines and carry passengers to the cities. Your railway lines and state-owned railway lines are free of charge, while you must pay fellow players to convert their lines into state-owned railway lines.

Choose travel routes from an open display of city cards and gain additional coins for the long east-west connections.

Visit as many different cities of America as possible to gain the most victory points.

Free Ride USA also offers a difficult solo challenge!

Art Decko Deck Building Game

Buy art low, sell art high. Increase value by exhibiting in the museum & buying more.

2-4 Players  |  45-60 Mins  |  Ages 10+

Features: Commodity Speculation, Deck, Bag, and Pool Building

Theme: Card Game, Economic

Description:

Art Decko is an artistic new take on deck building. The paintings are beautiful (and expensive) but can become more valuable as the game continues. Showing a painting in a museum increases the value of all works in that genre. All of the players who hold that type of painting benefit, but who benefits most? Players face difficult decisions on every turn. Is beauty truly in the eye of the beholder when there is profit to be made with every potential move?

Play Art Decko and see for yourself.

• 15 pieces of original, gallery-quality art in five different genres from Lauren Brown, Alex Eckman-Lawn, Kwanchai Moriya, Heather Vaughn, and Alison Parks.
• Unique Starting decks with asymmetrical player powers.
• Innovative deck building mechanic that replicates amassing an art collection and increasing its value.
• Modular bonus tiles vary end-game scoring, adding to the replayability of the game
• Buying art, exhibiting at museums, and amassing currency all affect the market values of paintings and gold. Players must be willing to adapt their strategies during the game in order to succeed.

Zooloretto

2-5 Players  |  45 Mins  |  Ages 14+

You manage a zoo and try to create a place where people and animals alike feel happy. To run an attractive zoo you need a variety of animals and culinary stalls, because these are the crowd-pullers that bring you points in the end. Once the enclosures are full, it pays to expand your zoo, ecause animals that cannot find room end up in the barn and bring minus points. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins.

Content:

• 5 zoo boards
• 5 expansion boards
• 5 delivery trucks
• 136 tiles
• 33 coins
• 1 marker “Last Round”
• Game rules

Woodcraft

In Woodcraft, you play as forest people running competing workshops in the woods, with you gathering wood and crafting goods for your customers. Along the way, you hire helpers, improve your workshop, and buy different types of wood and other tools to create the best workshop you can.

During the game, players complete their projects with wood (dice) that can be cut down to size, glued back together, and adjusted using dice manipulation to be as efficient as possible with their resources.

Whoever builds the best, most successful workshop wins.

Southern Pacific

3-5 Players  |  60 Mins  |  Ages 14+

The Civil War is over and it is time to get back to America’s business, making money. The Railroads are the place to do it and the American Southwest is booming, with Robber Barons starting and funding railroads across Texas & beyond. Savvy investments will pay off handsomely, others not so much. What sort of dividends should be paid versus how much shouldbe kept by the railroad for further expansion? Each Railroad president must decide for themselves, keeping the shareholders happy or being forced out in a hostile takeover.

3 to 5 players are the Robber Barons in this game of railroad building and market exploitation. The game lasts about an hour and there is no luck involved. Winners win by their wits and wits alone. The Southern Pacific, Missouri Pacific, Texas & Pacific, Missouri-Kansas-Texas and the Galveston, Houston & Henderson railroads explode across the Southwest, searching for the most lucrative routes and making the stockholders rich.

SNCF France & Germany

3-6 Players  |  45 Mins  |  Ages 14+

Players are railroad pioneers in this easy family game, building railroads across France and Germany. Each desires to maximize their gains from these early railroads, seeking to be the most invested in the most lucrative railroads. Very simple rules are used, but the ability to bluff and misdirect offer a challenging game experience. No two games play the same and each game takes about 30 minutes.

This award winning game, previously published as Paris Connection with only a map of France, now includes a map of Germany.

The rules are largely the same when playing Germany, with two minor changes to fit the history and character of Germany.

Designed and developed by the master of modern train games.

Jump Drive Terminal Velocity Expansion

As empires rapidly expand, the race for the galaxy continues!

Jump Drive: Terminal Velocity is an expansion to Jump Drive. It adds new game cards, optional start worlds and goals, material for a fifth player, and a series of five challenges for solo play.

Fishing

3-5 Players | 30-60 Mins | Ages 14+

In Fishing, you try to catch as many tricks as possible in 8 rounds, as each card you catch counts 1 point. You use your caught cards for the next round. If you did not catch enough tricks to do so, you can fill up your hand of cards with fresh cards from the ocean stack. You win Fishing with the most points, but how many fresh cards do you need to succeed?

Friday

Friday is a solo adventure - only you can win the game! You are helping Robinson, who came ashore on your island, fight against many hazards.
At the beginning, Robinson is not very skillful.
With each fight he wins you will improve his abilities, but defeats are also helping to get rid off of his worse habits.
However, life on the island is energy-sapping, so that Robinson not only gains experiences during his time there, but also starts aging and tends to get clumsy.
In this game, Robinson is represented as a card stack of different behaviors.
You are forced to improve this card stack, so you can collect the cards at the end of the game to give Robinson the best chance to win against the tough pirates!

Underwater Cities

Develop future cities on the seafloor through politics, production, and science. 

1-4 Players  |  80-150 Mins  |  Ages 12+

Features: End Game Bonuses, Hand Management, Income, Network and Route Building, Solo / Solitaire Game, Turn Order: Stat-Based, Worker Placement

Theme: Card Game, City Building, Civilization, Industry / Manufacturing, Nautical, Science Fiction

Description: 

In Underwater Cities, which takes about 30-45 minutes per player, players represent the most powerful brains in the world, brains nominated due to the overpopulation of Earth to establish the best and most livable underwater areas possible.

The main principle of the game is card placement. Three colored cards are placed along the edge of the main board into 3 x 5 slots, which are also colored. Ideally players can place cards into slots of the same color. Then they can take both actions and advantages: the action depicted in the slot on the main board and also the advantage of the card. Actions and advantages can allow players to intake raw materials; to build and upgrade city domes, tunnels and production buildings such as farms, desalination devices and laboratories in their personal underwater area; to move their marker on the initiative track (which is important for player order in the next turn); to activate the player's "A-cards"; and to collect cards, both special ones and basic ones that allow for better decision possibilities during gameplay.

All of the nearly 220 cards — whether special or basic — are divided into four types according to the way and time of use. Underwater areas are planned to be double-sided, giving players many opportunities to achieve VPs and finally win.

AWARDS & HONORS

• 2021 MinD-Spielepreis Complex Game Winner
• 2021 MinD-Spielepreis Complex Game Nominee
• 2020 Kennerspiel des Jahres Recommended
• 2019 Tric Trac Nominee
• 2019 JUG Adult Game of the Year Winner
• 2019 JUG Adult Game of the Year Finalist
• 2019 Jogo do Ano Nominee
• 2019 International Gamers Award - General Strategy: Multi-player Nominee
• 2019 Goblin Magnifico Nominee
• 2019 Cardboard Republic Tactician Laurel Nominee
• 2018 Swiss Gamers Award Winner
• 2018 Swiss Gamers Award Nominee
• 2018 Meeples' Choice Nominee
• 2018 Golden Geek Board Game of the Year Nominee
• 2018 Golden Geek Best Strategy Board Game Nominee

West Riding Revisited

3-6 Players  |  120 Mins  |  Ages 12+

With over 120 private railways in the UK in 1910, competition was fierce. During World War I, the government took over control of these railways for the war effort. The end of the war brought these railways back to private operation and the Railways Act of 1921 forced railways to combine into fewer, but more efficient, railways. This government mandated ‘Grouping’ was fertile ground for financial gain for the sharp investors, with many reaping huge profits and gains from their initial investments.

Players are investors, managers and railway presidents during this often chaotic period in British railway history. The best financiers will come out on top in this often brutal struggle for control & ownership of the railways. Calculation & instinct are critical factors in this contest, as there is no luck factor here. 3-6 players contend for vast wealth in this game by the renowned designer Han Heidema.

Tichu

Players who love new and interesting card games will love Tichu.It is simple to learn: one need only get rid of his cards. The basic game is played by two pairs of two partners each with the players of each team sitting opposite one another. During the game, the partners try to help each other score points and opportunities to lead. The game is played over several hands with the goal to be the first team to score a total of 1000 points.Although Tichu is primarily a partnership game for four, with the two packs of cards, Tichu is well suited for large groups, too.

Pictures - Spiel des Jahres Winner 2020

In Pictures, each player simultaneously tries to copy a picture with one of five different materials: building blocks, sticks and stones, icon cards, color cubes, or a rope. Following this, each player decides which of the 16 displayed pictures has been copied. The game ends after five rounds, when each player has used each material once.

Except for the rules, the game is language independent.

Shipyard 2nd Edition

1-4 Players | 90-120 Mins | Ages 14+

In the 19th Century, the Age of Sails met the Age of Steam, and for a time, ships moved across the ocean under power of both wind and coal. It was an exciting time to run a shipyard!

Buy equipment. Hire crew. Build the ships that will power commerce, immigration, and naval supremacy. Will you build many small ships and try to score frequently, or will you put all your effort into one grand vessel that will score tons of points at once?

The game is centered around a unique action-selection mechanism with constantly-shifting options. Plan ahead, bide your time, then strike when the iron is hot. Build the fleets that built the world!