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We love Avatar: The Last Airbender. Now we can work together to fulfill Aang’s destiny, while building each character’s strengths.
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Move over, Modern Art! It’s time for Avant Carde, an innovatively simple deck-building game.
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Aurum is a trick-taking game where players take on the role of alchemists melding base metals into gold. Earn points from gold and correctly bidding on number of tricks you’ll win. The unique trick-taking hook in Aurum is that players must not follow suit!
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A security guard caught you red-handed sneaking into the school library late at night for some before-the-final cramming. Your penance is to sort and reshelve all the books that need to be cleaned up! Athenenum: Mystic Library is a drafting and spatial planning game for 2-5 players ages 10 and up. It takes between 30-45 minutes to sort and shelve
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Every so often a game comes along from an unheralded publisher that makes you stop and look. It might be incredible table presence, it might be gorgeous artwork, it could be two people bouncing between intense focus and laughter that you can’t help but ask what’s going on.
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Arraial is the closest analogue to Tetris we’ve seen yet, but with player interaction and the ability to choose your polyomino shape(s)! The goal of the game is to attract the most visitors to your festival in the form of meeples.
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Crashing lightning, booming thunder, and thousands upon thousands of gallons of water pour from the sky. The drumming of torrential downpour on the roof of the Ark is calming in its regularity, as the unending rows of matched pair animals bray and paw nervously. There is a loud creaking as the rising water level begins to lift the massive boat
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Mapping a hidden city full of traps is the theme of ArcheOlogic, a new logic and deduction game from Ludonaute. ArcheOlogic is a deduction and polyomino placement game for 1-4 players ages 12 and up. A game should take a little under an hour. Setup In ArcheOlogic, players race to determine the correct placement of six buildings (represented by polyominos)
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Anomia is a word from a Latin root and means “without name”. It’s the term for being unable to come up with the name of an object. Anomia is also a game (from Anomia Press), in which players race to come up with a word that fits a certain category, ranging from “color” to “rock opera” to “shampoo brand”.
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It’s time for a safari with Animix! Collect animals of different types and make sure the ones still on the table are arranged in their favorite patterns.
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Gain the most influence in the Animal Kingdoms by placing Noble Beast cards that match each kingdom’s (randomly-chosen) Decree. Animal Kingdoms feels very “adult” but is definitely approachable for kids.
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Legends of Andor is an awardwinning lightweight adventure. But what if players need something simpler, more approachable for young children?
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“My family is better than yours!” That’s the premise behind Ancestree, created by Eric Lang and published by Calliope Games. Draft tiles and build a dynasty worth commemorating! Or will your lineage be merely mediocre?
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Águeda does a masterful job with sequencing. Within each sequence of the game, there are only a few decisions to make…
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The open ocean was both marvelous and terrifying… Sailing out of sight of land was only for the most desperate – and the most adventurous.
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I suspect almost every game-loving parent has had experiences similar to mine. I used to play Dungeons and Dragons with my friends…
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Manage your own Adventure Mart franchise in this deck-building card game. Buy stock, fixtures, and hire staff, then sell your stock for the best price to passing adventurers! Best for gamers who enjoy min/maxing with lots of discrete information.
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Call fellow adventures to the table and prepare for epic battles! Protect the realm from the dangers that lurk within the fog surrounding the banks of the great river. On your way, gather swords from the mountains and medicinal herbs from the forests. Will you heed the call to Adventure Land?
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Move and stack books in your apartment to meet temporary goals, and build up your social battery so you can go to town and buy more books! A boardgame all about introverts who love being surrounded by their stuff.
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In one of the most stressful times of my life, A Nice Cuppa is exactly what I need to slow my racing thoughts and spend a few minutes on something that is just for me.
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