Carcassonne

Players 2 – 5         Ages 8+       30 – 45mins

 

Carcassonne is a tile-placement game in which the players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape on it. The tile might feature a city, a road, a cloister, grassland or some combination thereof, and it must be placed adjacent to tiles that have already been played, in such a way that cities are connected to cities, roads to roads, etcetera. Having placed a tile, the player can then decide to place one of his meeples on one of the areas on it: on the city as a knight, on the road as a robber, on a cloister as a monk, or on the grass as a farmer. When that area is complete, that meeple scores points for its owner.

During a game of Carcassonne, players are faced with decisions like: “Is it really worth putting my last meeple there?” or “Should I use this tile to expand my city, or should I place it near my opponent instead, giving him a hard time to complete his project and score points?” Since players place only one tile and have the option to place one meeple on it, turns proceed quickly even if it is a game full of options and possibilities.

Camel Up 2nd Edition

Players 3 – 8          Ages 8+          30 to 45mins

In Camel Up, up to eight players bet on five racing camels, trying to suss out which ones will place first and second in a quick race around a pyramid. The earlier you place your bet, the more you can win — should you guess correctly, of course. Camels don’t run neatly, however, sometimes landing on top of another one and being carried toward the finish line. Who’s going to run when? That all depends on how the dice come out of the pyramid dice shaker, which releases one die at a time when players pause from their bets long enough to see who’s actually moving!

This 2018 edition of Camel Up features new artwork, a new game board design, a new pyramid design, engraved dice, and new game modes, including crazy rogue camels that start the race running in the opposite direction! You never know how a race will end!

Braggart

Players 2 – 6         Ages 8+         30 – 45mins

Braggart is card game of heroes, lies and unfortunate fish!

You sit in The Heroes Return, a tavern famed for its heroic clientŠle. You’re not a hero, but you talk a good game. You and your friends are holding court, regaling the crowds with your tales of supposed derring-do. The crowd are an appreciative bunch, and will reward the best stories with their coin. Your aim? To tell better stories than your opponents!

Construct your exploits by playing cards from your hand. Each card played will contain a part of your story (a Scene, a Foe, a Deed or a Reward) and combine into an epic tale. Embellish this with a rousing delivery, no-one is going to believe you if you sound like you are reading the bar menu! If you are struggling to come up with a good brag then spend your round getting ‘inspiration’ at the bar, drawing new cards into your hand. Maybe you will draw the Liar card allowing you to call out your fellow heroes by swapping one of their high scoring cards with a lower scoring card from your hand. After all, it was you who saved the damsel from The Lonely Ogre!

Each card has a value listed on it. The brag with the highest cumalitive score is deemed the most impressive by the crowd, who will reward the player with coins for each card played. Each other player will recieve coins for one card in their brag, after all you aren’t the worst story teller this place has seen! The bar closes when the deck runs out, and the Braggart with the most coins will be crowned the winner!

So what are you waiting for? The tavern is full, the bar is soon to close and the crowd are getting rowdy!

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