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781 items

Abstract Strategy (43)

Action / Dexterity (32)

Adventure (42)

American Indian Wars (1)

American West (8)

Ancient (27)

Animals (36)

Arabian (3)

Aviation / Flight (8)

Bluffing (58)

Book (2)

Card Game (249)

Children's Game (32)

City Building (34)

Civil War (1)

Civilization (25)

Collectible Components (2)

Comic Book / Strip (7)

Deduction (59)

Dice (62)

Economic (56)

Educational (16)

Electronic (3)

Environmental (9)

Expansion for Base-game (71)

Exploration (39)

Fantasy (120)

Farming (18)

Fighting (65)

Game System (7)

Horror (20)

Humor (32)

Industry / Manufacturing (17)

Mafia (4)

Math (8)

Mature / Adult (3)

Maze (5)

Medical (5)

Medieval (38)

Memory (17)

Miniatures (31)

Modern Warfare (2)

Movies / TV / Radio theme (19)

Murder/Mystery (9)

Music (1)

Mythology (19)

Napoleonic (2)

Nautical (16)

Negotiation (20)

Novel-based (11)

Number (8)

Party Game (66)

Pirates (15)

Political (16)

Post-Napoleonic (3)

Prehistoric (5)

Print & Play (9)

Puzzle (16)

Racing (18)

Real-time (33)

Religious (6)

Renaissance (15)

Science Fiction (54)

Space Exploration (11)

Spies/Secret Agents (9)

Sports (11)

Territory Building (31)

Trains (8)

Transportation (8)

Travel (8)

Trivia (11)

Video Game Theme (3)

Wargame (30)

Word Game (12)

World War I (7)

World War II (10)

Zombies (7)

Math ×

Acting (10)

Action / Movement Programming (36)

Action Point Allowance System (45)

Area Control / Area Influence (90)

Area Enclosure (2)

Area Movement (35)

Auction/Bidding (34)

Betting/Wagering (13)

Campaign / Battle Card Driven (11)

Card Drafting (88)

Chit-Pull System (4)

Co-operative Play (91)

Commodity Speculation (5)

Deck / Pool Building (50)

Dice Rolling (123)

Grid Movement (43)

Hand Management (163)

Hex-and-Counter (7)

Line Drawing (4)

Memory (55)

Modular Board (61)

Paper-and-Pencil (4)

Partnerships (31)

Pattern Building (29)

Pattern Recognition (31)

Pick-up and Deliver (16)

Player Elimination (21)

Point to Point Movement (29)

Press Your Luck (48)

Rock-Paper-Scissors (6)

Role Playing (7)

Roll / Spin and Move (11)

Route/Network Building (18)

Secret Unit Deployment (11)

Set Collection (104)

Simulation (23)

Simultaneous Action Selection (51)

Singing (2)

Stock Holding (5)

Storytelling (17)

Take That (35)

Tile Placement (78)

Time Track (10)

Trading (17)

Trick-taking (8)

Variable Phase Order (17)

Variable Player Powers (99)

Voting (18)

Worker Placement (59)

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Average Rating:8.14
Unranked

Designed by:	Antoine Bauza Bruno Cathala
Published by:	Repos Production
Number of players:	2
Playing time:	30 − 45 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Ancient Card Game City Building Civilization
Mechanics:	Card Drafting Set Collection
Expands:	7 Wonders: Duel
Language:	English
Description:	A pantheon from several civilizations — including Greek, Egyptian, and Middle-Eastern — gets added to 7 Wonders: Duel in 7 Wonders: Duel – Pantheon, with each god having its own power to help you or hinder your opponent. During Age I you collect mythology tokens — which allow you to choose which deities have a place in the Pantheon — and offering tokens, which help you court those deities. Then, during Ages II and III, you can activate a god or goddess in the Pantheon instead of taking a card from the pyramid. To do so, you pay whatever that god or goddess demands from you in offerings, then place it next to your city. With Isis on your side, you can use a card from the discard pile to construct one of your Wonders for free. Zeus, whose nod determines what happens and what does not, enables you to discard any single card from the pyramid that you want as well as any mythology or offering tokens on it. The Phoenician goddess Tanit, whose people were renowned for trade, fills your coffers with twelve pieces of gold. Enki, the Sumerian god of crafts, technology, and creation, lets you choose one of two progress tokens. Minerva's ability to keep the conflict pawn from entering your territory may not instantly bring you victory, but it can save you from military defeat. What's more, instead of adding three guild cards to the deck for Age III, you add three of five Grand Temples. Each Grand Temple belongs to a different Mediterranean culture, and if you have the favor of a god or goddess from that culture, you can build the temple for free. For example, having Isis by your side enables you to build the Egyptian temple; with Enki, you can build the Mesopotamian one. These temples are worth 5, 12, or 21 points depending on how many you build. 7 Wonders: Duel – Pantheon also includes two new Wonders: the Sanctuary (which for the cost of 2 coins lets you reverse turn order) and the Divine Theater (which grants points and easier access to the gods).
Other Information:	• Available in separate English, French and German editions at SPIEL 2016. • MSRP $25

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Average Rating:7.74
Overall Rank:6198

Designed by:	Uwe Rosenberg
Published by:	Edition Spielwiese
Number of players:	1 − 4
Playing time:	45 − 60 minutes
Suggested ages:	8 and up
Categories:	Farming Puzzle
Mechanics:	Tile Placement
Language:	English German
Description:	In Cottage Garden, you compete in the art of gardening and are working two beds with a variety of flowers. Whenever no unplanted box is visible on a bed, you have completed it, then you count your points and replace it with a fresh, unplanted bed. You gain points for all of the visible plant pots and planting bells. In more detail, players select various polyomino tiles of flower beds from a central market grid, depending on the location of the "gardener", then place them on one of their two personal garden boards. Each board has several garden elements that are worth points when not planted over, and these are scored on two different tracks as soon as a garden has been finished. Crossing over a line on each track awards bonus tokens that can fill in empty spaces or give you a better selection of the flower bed tiles. Whenever a garden is finished, you receive a new one to complete. After the gardener completes her fifth lap around the market, the game enters its last round. The player with the most points from their completed gardens at the end of the game wins.
Other Information:	• Want more details on the gameplay of Cottage Garden? Check out the illustrated preview on BGG News. • MSRP €30, but discounted to €25 for sales at SPIEL 2016; no preorders will be taken, but Edition Spielwiese's Michael Schmitt says, "This shouldn't be a problem. We'll produce enough copies..." Artwork in progress

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Average Rating:8.47
Overall Rank:211

Designed by:	Jacob Fryxelius
Published by:	FryxGames Stronghold Games
Number of players:	1 − 5
Playing time:	90 − 120 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	Economic Environmental Industry / Manufacturing Science Fiction Territory Building Show More »
Mechanics:	Card Drafting Hand Management Tile Placement Variable Player Powers
Language:	English
Description:	In the 2400s, mankind begins to terraform the planet Mars. Giant corporations, sponsored by the World Government on Earth, initiate huge projects to raise the temperature, the oxygen level, and the ocean coverage until the environment is habitable. In Terraforming Mars, you play one of those corporations and work together in the terraforming process, but compete for getting victory points that are awarded not only for your contribution to the terraforming, but also for advancing human infrastructure throughout the solar system, and doing other commendable things. The players acquire unique project cards (from over two hundred different ones) by buying them to their hand. The projects (cards) can represent anything from introducing plant life or animals, hurling asteroids at the surface, building cities, to mining the moons of Jupiter and establishing greenhouse gas industries to heat up the atmosphere. The cards can give you immediate bonuses, as well as increasing your production of different resources. Many cards also have requirements and they become playable when the temperature, oxygen, or ocean coverage increases enough. Buying cards is costly, so there is a balance between buying cards (3 megacredits per card) and actually playing them (which can cost anything between 0 to 41 megacredits, depending on the project). Standard Projects are always available to complement your cards. Your basic income, as well as your basic score, is based on your Terraform Rating (starting at 20), which increases every time you raise one of the three global parameters. However, your income is complemented with your production, and you also get VPs from many other sources. Each player keeps track of their production and resources on their player boards, and the game uses six types of resources: MegaCredits, Steel, Titanium, Plants, Energy, and Heat. On the game board, you compete for the best places for your city tiles, ocean tiles, and greenery tiles. You also compete for different Milestones and Awards worth many VPs. Each round is called a generation (guess why) and consists of the following phases: 1) Player order shifts clockwise. 2) Research phase: All players buy cards from four privately drawn. 3) Action phase: Players take turns doing 1-2 actions from these options: Playing a card, claiming a Milestone, funding an Award, using a Standard project, converting plant into greenery tiles (and raising oxygen), converting heat into a temperature raise, and using the action of a card in play. The turn continues around the table until all players pass. 4) Production phase: Players get resources according to their terraform rating and production parameters. When the three global parameters (temperature, oxygen, ocean) have all reached their goal, the terraforming is complete, and the game ends after that generation. Count your Terraform Rating and other VPs to determine the winning corporation!
Other Information:	• For background on the game, designer Jacob Fryxelius details the history of *Terraforming Mars* in a designer diary on BGG News. • Price €50

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Average Rating:8.38
Unranked

Designed by:	Sebastian Bleasdale Richard Breese
Published by:	R&D Games
Number of players:	2 − 6
Playing time:	90 − 120 minutes
Suggested ages:	14 and up
Categories:	City Building Economic Territory Building
Mechanics:	Auction/Bidding Modular Board Set Collection Tile Placement Worker Placement Show More »
Language:	Dutch English French German Portuguese Spanish Show More »
Description:	Description from the publisher: In Key to the City – London, each player aims to develop their own London borough based around their home tile, using the large hexagonal location tiles. Each location tile gives victory points and may generate resources (skill tiles or connectors that connect two location tiles). Connectors and skill tiles can be used to upgrade location tiles for additional victory points and productivity. The game is played over four eras, and in each era, new location tiles will be available for bidding. In both era 1 and 2, these tiles consist of six resource-generating tiles, plus some additional building tiles. In era 3, there will be only building tiles, which arrive already upgraded. In era 4, some of the Routemaster tiles become available. On their turn, a player chooses one of five actions. They may use one or more of their team of wooden workers ("keyples") to (1) bid for a location tile, (2) use a location tile to generate resources, or (3) upgrade a location. They may (4) pass, in which case they may play again in that era, or (5) cease playing in that era by setting off in their sailing barge along the Thames. The game finishes after the last river barge sets sail at the end of era 4, at which point the player with the most victory points wins. Key to the City – London has similarities in structure to the award-winning 2012 R&D game Keyflower.
Other Information:	• As is his custom, co-designer/publisher Richard Breese has posted an explanatory GeekList about *Key to the City – London* to provide an overview of the game and details of its origins. • Price €50

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Average Rating:7.03
Overall Rank:4302

Designed by:	Ted Alspach Toryo Hojo N2
Published by:	Bézier Games, Inc.
Number of players:	1 − 4
Playing time:	45 − 60 minutes
Suggested ages:	13 and up
Categories:	Card Game Dice Science Fiction
Mechanics:	Deck / Pool Building Dice Rolling Trading
Language:	English
Description:	In Colony, each player constructs and upgrades buildings, while managing resources to grow their fledgling colony. In a clever twist, dice are used as resources, with each side/number representing a different resource. Some resources are stable, allowing them to be stored between turns, while others must be used right away. Buildings provide new capabilities, such as increased production, resource manipulation, and additional victory points. Using dice-as-resources facilitates a dynamic, ever-changing resources management mini-game while players work to earn victory points by adding building to their tableau on their way to victory. Colony includes 28 different building card types, of which only seven are used each game in addition to the fixed buildings that are used each time that you play.
Other Information:	• Available for preorder through Bézier Games in U.S. dollars with a pick-up option at SPIEL 2016.

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Average Rating:7.98
Overall Rank:3867

Designed by:	Christian Martinez
Published by:	Matagot
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	60 − 90 minutes
Suggested ages:	14 and up
Categories:	Ancient Card Game Mythology
Mechanics:	Area Control / Area Influence Area Movement Card Drafting Deck / Pool Building Hand Management Memory Tile Placement Show More »
Language:	French
Description:	Inis is a game deeply rooted in Celtic history and lore in which players win by being elected King of the Island (Inis). Players can try to achieve one of three different victory conditions: Leadership: Be the leader — i.e., have more clan figures than any other player — of territories containing at least six opponents' clans. Land: Have your clans present in at least six different territories. Religion: Have your clans present in territories that collectively contain at least six shrines. Over the course of the game, players also earn deeds, typically chanted by bards or engraved by master crafters, that reduce by one the magic total of six for any condition. While one victory condition is enough to claim the title of King, a game of experienced players usually has a tight balance of power, emphasizing the leadership of the capital of the island. At the start of each round, players draft a hand of four action cards (with 13 action cards for three players and 17 for four players) during the Assembly. Action cards not played at the end of one season are not held for the next. Players also have access to leader cards for the territories that allow it and where they were elected leader during the assembly. Each Assembly reallocates those cards. Finally, they collect "epic tales" cards that depict the deeds of the ancient Irish gods and heroes, like Cuchulainn, the Dagda, Lugh and many others. These will be kept and used to inspire the clans and achieve extraordinary feats...under the right circumstances. The cards provide a variety of actions: adding clans, moving clans, building/exploring, and special actions. Careful drafting, hand management, bluffing (especially once players understand the importance of passing their turn), good timing, and a precise understanding of the balance of power are the keys to victory. After a discovery game you'll be ready for a full and epic game, where an undisputed will be king by the Assembly for his merit and wisdom. While Inis has "dudes" that are "on a map", it's a beginner's mistake to play this as a battle game because eliminating other clans reduces your chances of scoring a Leadership victory condition. Peace among different clans, with or without a clear territory leader, is the usual outcome of a clan's movement. Battles will occur, of course, as the Celtic clans can be unruly and a good player will listen to his clan's people (i.e., his hand of cards). That battle aspect is reflected in the clan's miniatures representing warriors. Woodsmen, shepherds and traders complete the set of twelve minis for each player; these occupations have no impact on the game, but give it flavor.
Other Information:	• Price €60, but discounted to €55 if you preorder for pick up at SPIEL 2016 through the Matagot website. Bundle deals with other Matagot titles are available.

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Average Rating:8.33
Overall Rank:4956

Designed by:	Alexander Pfister
Published by:	eggertspiele Stronghold Games
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	75 − 150 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	American West
Mechanics:	Deck / Pool Building Hand Management Point to Point Movement Tile Placement
Language:	English
Description:	Description from the publisher: America in the 19th century: You are a rancher and repeatedly herd your cattle from Texas to Kansas City, where you send them off by train. This earns you money and victory points. Needless to say, each time you arrive in Kansas City, you want to have your most valuable cattle in tow. However, the "Great Western Trail" not only requires that you keep your herd in good shape, but also that you wisely use the various buildings along the trail. Also, it might be a good idea to hire capable staff: cowboys to improve your herd, craftsmen to build your very own buildings, or engineers for the important railroad line. If you cleverly manage your herd and navigate the opportunities and pitfalls of Great Western Trail, you surely will gain the most victory points and win the game.
Other Information:	• Price to be announced closer to SPIEL 2016.

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Average Rating:7.85
Overall Rank:6369

Designed by:	Vangelis Bagiartakis
Published by:	Artipia Games
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	30 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Card Game City Building Farming
Mechanics:	Card Drafting Simultaneous Action Selection Tile Placement Variable Phase Order
Language:	English
Description:	Fields of Green takes place in the second half of the 20th century. Players take the role of farm owners trying to expand their property and business. By adding fields, livestock and facilities, they build an economic engine that will bring them closer to victory. Fields of Green, inspired by Among the Stars, is played over four rounds (years) during which players draft cards and add them to their ever-expanding farms. At the end of each year comes the harvest season when they must water their fields, feed their livestock, and pay maintenance costs in order to receive valuable resources that will allow them to further expand in the next year. Through various means, player eventually convert their wealth to victory points, and the player who gathers the most by the end of the fourth year wins.
Other Information:	• Price to be announced closer to SPIEL 2016.

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Average Rating:7.07
Overall Rank:1895

Designed by:	Brian Gomez
Published by:	AMIGO Spiel + Freizeit GmbH
Number of players:	2 − 4
Suggested ages:	6 and up
Categories:	Action / Dexterity Children's Game
Mechanics:
Language:	German
Description:	The lunch break is almost there and all of the young penguins would finally get the fish they’ve been craving for. However, some rascals think they are quick enough to snatch some of the fish before the lunch break starts, but they have forgotten one thing – the Hall Monitor! Each school day one of the penguins is designated to watch over the school, and this is his moment to shine – for each rascal penguin he catches he would get additional fish! A fun run takes place – the rascals are running everywhere and trying to snatch some fish on their way, but the Hall Monitor is trying to catch each and one of them to have some order in the school. Who will be more successful? Ice Cool is a flicking game in which each round one of the players takes the role of the Hall Monitor (also called "the Catcher") – his aim will be to catch each other penguin and get points for that. The others (also known as "Runners") will try to run through several doors, thus gaining fish (that give them points) on their way. When either the Hall Monitor has caught each other penguin once or any of the others has gone through all 3 doors that have fish on them, the round is over. Each player will take the role of the Hall Monitor once and at the end of the game the winner will be the one with the most points on their fish cards. The penguins can be flicked in a straight line, make curves and even jump over the walls! Each player will have to use the best of their skills in order to get the most points in this fun and exciting game. It's not just cool, it's ICE COOL!
Other Information:	• MSRP €30; note that the game will be available in English through originating publisher Brain Games.

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Average Rating:8.33
Overall Rank:4956

Designed by:	Alexander Pfister
Published by:	eggertspiele
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	75 − 150 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	American West
Mechanics:	Deck / Pool Building Hand Management Point to Point Movement Tile Placement
Language:	English German
Description:	Description from the publisher: America in the 19th century: You are a rancher and repeatedly herd your cattle from Texas to Kansas City, where you send them off by train. This earns you money and victory points. Needless to say, each time you arrive in Kansas City, you want to have your most valuable cattle in tow. However, the "Great Western Trail" not only requires that you keep your herd in good shape, but also that you wisely use the various buildings along the trail. Also, it might be a good idea to hire capable staff: cowboys to improve your herd, craftsmen to build your very own buildings, or engineers for the important railroad line. If you cleverly manage your herd and navigate the opportunities and pitfalls of Great Western Trail, you surely will gain the most victory points and win the game.
Other Information:	• MSRP €40

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Average Rating:7.32
Overall Rank:6155

Designed by:	Stefan Feld
Published by:	Hall Games
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	70 − 100 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	Ancient
Mechanics:	Dice Rolling Grid Movement Modular Board Pick-up and Deliver
Language:	English German
Description:	Description from the publisher: "For once, Zeus, Greek god of thunder and sky, is in high spirits. Hence, he decides to offer a generous gift to a worthy mortal and invite him, or her, to his realm, to Olympus. To determine a sufficient candidate, Zeus hosts a competition for his entertainment. Twelve legendary tasks are imposed upon the fearless participants: to erect graceful statues, to raise awe-inspiring sanctuaries, to offer capacious offerings, and to slay the most fearsome monsters. The first participant to master all the posed assignments wins the favor of the father of the gods himself. Indubitably, you will not pass up this golden opportunity, so you clear your ship and rally your crew to follow on the trails of legendary Odysseus through the dangerous waters of the Aegean. But how could you find the righteous path onward? There is but one who can help you. Visit the mysterious oracle of Delphi and let her answers guide your ways. In Stefan Feld's new game The Oracle of Delphi, the player's ships travel across a large variable game board of hexagonal tiles showing islands and the surrounding waters. Each player aims to reach certain islands to perform the twelve tasks given by Zeus: e.g., to collect offerings of different colors and to deliver them to corresponding temples, or to slay monsters of a specific type (and color), all of which can be discovered on the islands. In order to execute these color-dependent actions, you are given three colored dice each turn, the so-called "oracle dice". Rolling the dice (at the start of the turn) is equivalent to consulting the oracle, whereas the results represent her answers. The answers determine which actions you will be able to take, but you will always have three actions per turn. However, a slight divergence from your fate is often possible. In addition to the oracle, you can request support from the gods and you can acquire favor tokens, companions, and other special abilities that will help you win the race against other competitors. Differently equipped ships and the variable set-up of the game board will offer new challenging and interesting strategic and tactical decisions with every new game of The Oracle of Delphi that you play.
Other Information:	• Price €40, with Hall Games' Ralph Bruhn highlighting the goodie available with purchase of the game at SPIEL 2016:

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Average Rating:8.33
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Designed by:	Julien Vergonjeanne
Published by:	Lucky Duck Games
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	40 − 70 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Card Game Fantasy Humor Medieval Mythology Video Game Theme Show More »
Mechanics:	Deck / Pool Building Hand Management
Language:	English French
Description:	Each turn in Vikings Gone Wild — a deck-building, resource management game based on the online real-time strategy game — players can either buy permanent buildings sitting in front of them (resource factories, resources containers, etc) or buy units, towers and special cards that improve their deck and offense/defense capacity. The only way to win is by successfully attacking each other, and each attack involves interesting bluffing mechanisms in which the attacker doesn't know the defense capacity of their opponent...
Other Information:	• Available for previewing at Spiel 2016 ahead of its scheduled release in 2017. • That said, a "Sif" promo card for Vikings Gone Wild will be available at SPIEL 2016.

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Average Rating:7.38
Overall Rank:1512

Designed by:	Tony Boydell
Published by:	Surprised Stare Games Ltd Tasty Minstrel Games
Number of players:	1 − 4
Playing time:	45 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Medieval
Mechanics:	Area Control / Area Influence Hand Management
Language:	English
Description:	London: The biggest, most important and richest city in England in the late medieval and early modern periods. The Guilds played a major role in the lives of London's citizens, controlling the way in which trade, manufacturing and business was conducted in the city. The members of the guilds were rich men, who were appointed to the most influential positions in the community and wielded immense civic power. The chief representative of the Guilds became the Lord Mayor of London, and the leading delegates of the Guilds became his Aldermen. Other members of the Guilds were the burghers of London. The Guilds ran the city and controlled its commerce; each had its own Hall and its own Coat of Arms. Representatives of the Guilds met at the Guildhall to discuss the great issues of the day. In Guilds of London, you place your liverymen in strategic Guilds, building your power base, so that you can achieve the status of Master in many of them. You also have the opportunity to spread your power into the commercially valuable Ulster or Virginia plantations. Control of each Guild provides victory points and additional actions that you can exploit, so that you can control the future development of the city.
Other Information:	• Says designer Tony Boydell, "We will have 300 copies of *Guilds of London* — which we will be running a pre-order campaign for in the next couple of weeks [i.e. August/September 2016] — and it will be priced at €45, coming with some 'exclusive SSG promo goodies' (!); I'm hoping to have the Solo Player rules printed nicely for Spiel, too. (They will be free, of course.)" Co-publisher Tasty Minstrel Games will have another hundred copies of Guilds of London themselves. Boydell notes that non-English-language copies likely won't be available until 2017 at the earliest, so this is the extent of Guilds at SPIEL 2016. • For Boydell's history of Guilds of London, head to this designer diary on BGG News. • Preorder price €45, as noted above; to preorder, head to this page to drop your deets.

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Average Rating:7.68
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Designed by:	Friedemann Friese
Published by:	2F-Spiele
Number of players:	2 − 6
Playing time:	45 − 60 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	Card Game Economic Industry / Manufacturing
Mechanics:	Auction/Bidding
Language:	German
Description:	In Power Grid: The Card Game, the players represent CEOs of mighty power companies producing electricity. During the game, the players bid for power plants at auctions and supply them with resources. Their income depends on the amount of electricity produced in each round. At the end of the game, the player who produces the most electricity wins the game. Power Grid: The Card Game offers all the tension and tactics well-known of its two big brothers — Power Grid and Power Grid deluxe — without using the different maps. You get the full Power Grid emotions in an intensive playing time of sixty minutes! To give two players an exciting experience, they will play with the Trust acting as a third player. While challenging the opponent, they must incorporate the schemes of the competing Trust in their plans and use these schemes against their opponent. This game includes a small variant for the Demolition Contractor. This variant is playable with Power Grid: The Card Game, and all maps of Power Grid deluxe and Power Grid!
Other Information:	• MSRP €18, with both the German and English editions of *Power Grid: The Card Game* being sold by 2F-Spiele at SPIEL 2016. Six hundred copies of the English-language edition will be available for purchase, and no preorders will be taken.

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Average Rating:8.16
Overall Rank:4821

Designed by:	Perepau LListosella
Published by:	Looping Games
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	60 − 90 minutes
Suggested ages:	14 and up
Categories:	Territory Building World War I
Mechanics:	Area Control / Area Influence Tile Placement
Language:	English Spanish
Description:	1916, Europe: The Great War has ravaged the land. Only one fertile ground remains and it is strongly disputed...by moles? In Topoum, you control an army of moles that are fighting for control of a piece of fertile land in the middle of the Great War. The moles are well known for their blindness and, for this reason, you'll earn badges (points) if you can form uninterrupted lines of sight between your soldiers. Topoum features several different types of cards of four categories: combat, movement, expansion and special. Each game is different because you build the playing deck with seven types of cards (+110.000 combinations!). Each player has a private hand with two cards and there is a public row of five cards available for all the players on the board. This is the structure of the turn: Choose between "Enter the Battle with a Mole" (playing one card is mandatory) or "Move Moles in the Battlefield" (playing a card is optional for each mole). Score the lines of sight between your moles. Refill the cards in your hand and the public row. When the "Peace" card (hidden at the bottom part of the deck) is drawn, the game ends. The players now score extra badges for majorities and sets of the categories of the cards they used during the battle.
Other Information:	• Price €36, with *Topoum: Bratatatata – Expansion Deck I* — which brings new card types and more to the game — being €8. • You can purchase Topoum and Topoum: Bratatatata – Expansion Deck I together for €40 instead of €44 — and if you throw in the second edition of 1911 Amundsen vs Scott, which is linked to in the publisher section above, you'll pay only €50 instead of €62. Seven new types of action cards

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Average Rating:7.29
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Designed by:	Martin Wallace
Published by:	Game's Up
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	75 − 90 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	Ancient Civilization Mythology Territory Building
Mechanics:	Action Point Allowance System Area Control / Area Influence Hand Management Point to Point Movement Simultaneous Action Selection Show More »
Language:	English German
Description:	Description from the publisher: In a time long forgotten, the cruel Fomori rule over Érin, the green island. They praise their king Balor, who reigns from his fortifications in the north with an iron fist. Old paths and ruins spread over the island's face, which will be called Ireland many generations from now. But new tribes arrive at the island striving for permanent presence. Who will control Érin's fate over the next centuries to come? Each player in The Arrival represents a tribe leader who tries to gain predominance over the mythical island of Érin while pushing back the demon-like Fomori. But the players are facing a dilemma, for spreading too quickly means becoming more and more corrupt and strengthening the Fomori in their power... Over 4-6 rounds, the players determine their resources by means of a unique game mechanism, which will be used later on profitably. During a first phase (Earning Phase), players draw four cards, each showing three sections of different resources. Two of these sections are gradually blocked by the player, thus leaving one section. The resources shown on this section are the ones the player gets. During this phase, they have to decide which section is the best one; while the upper section of the cards offers many resources, it also results in unwanted Corruption Points. The middle and the lower sections offer fewer resources, but also less Corruption. After that, the Action Phase takes place and the players must use their resources wisely while having the choice from different kinds of actions in order to get Fame Points. The game ends when a certain number of rounds have been played or somebody reaches the corruption limit. The winner is either the one with the highest amount of Fame Points or the one with the fewest Corruption Points. This depends on the scene of the board at the end: Do the tribes (players) control more locations on Érin than the Fomori do — or is it the other way around?
Other Information:	• MSRP ~€44, discounted to €39 for sales at SPIEL 2016; preorder available for €38 for both pick up at SPIEL 2016 and delivery to your door (shipping added).

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Average Rating:7.74
Overall Rank:840

Designed by:	Vlaada Chvátil
Published by:	Czech Games Edition
Number of players:	2 − 8
Playing time:	10 − 20 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Deduction Party Game Spies/Secret Agents
Mechanics:	Memory Partnerships Pattern Recognition Press Your Luck
Language:	English
Description:	What are these strange symbols on the map? They are code for locations where spies must contact secret agents! Two rival spymasters know the agent in each location. They deliver coded messages telling their field operatives where to go for clandestine meetings. Operatives must be clever. A decoding mistake could lead to an unpleasant encounter with an enemy agent – or worse, with the assassin! Both teams race to contact all their agents, but only one team can win. Codenames: Pictures differs from the original Codenames in that the agents are no longer represented by a single word, but by an image that contains multiple elements.
Other Information:	• Available in both English and German versions, which seems funny given that the game is all about identifying pictures, but if you don't know the rules, then yes, the language of the box you pick up does still matter. • Price €15

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Average Rating:7.60
Overall Rank:852

Designed by:	Gil Hova
Published by:	Formal Ferret Games
Number of players:	1 − 5
Playing time:	60 − 90 minutes
Suggested ages:	13 and up
Categories:	Economic Movies / TV / Radio theme
Mechanics:	Card Drafting
Language:	English
Description:	In The Networks, you and your opponents are new television networks, and you need new programming. For this, you’ll need Shows, Stars, and Ads. Shows need Stars and Ads. Stars give you bonus viewers (points), and Ads give you extra money. You’ll need everything you can get; you'll have a small amount of resources and time, and you must grab the latest hot show before your opponents. And some Stars will give their best effort only if you put them on in the proper conditions. For example, some Stars only want to be put on dramas. Other Stars want to be the only Star on the show. And your Ads will give you the most money only if you put them on in the correct time slot. Finally, Shows age and viewers lose interest, so you have to keep your line-up fresh by canceling shows and sending them into reruns. Fortunately, you can get viewers from your reruns, and you'll get bonuses if you get a lot of shows of the same genre throughout the game. If you need a special push, Network Cards can give you special powers — but will a Network Card be better than another action? You'll have to make that call. The player with the most viewers after five seasons wins!
Other Information:	• In addition to *The Networks* base game, at SPIEL 2016 *The Networks: On the Air* will also be available, although both probably won't be available for long, according to designer/publisher Gil Hova: "I will only be able to bring slightly more to Essen than I did to Gen Con, so I anticipate selling out late Thursday or early Friday. " • Price €45 for the base game and a recommended price of €10 for the expansion. Notes Hova, "It'll be pay-what-you-want because of a printing issue that resulted in the card backs being a slightly different shade than the base game." • Finally, adds Hova, "Anyone who bumps into me in the evening at one of the local hotels has a chance of checking out the expansion to The Networks I'll be Kickstarting in 2017..."

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Average Rating:7.50
Unranked

Designed by:	Andreas Steiger
Published by:	KOSMOS
Number of players:	2
Playing time:	60 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	Card Game
Mechanics:	Modular Board Set Collection Worker Placement
Expands:	Targi
Language:	German
Description:	The expansion of the tribe goes on in Targi: Die Erweiterung, an expansion for Targi. With water as a new element, the tribe has more flexibility in how it will extend itself. More specifically, in the game water functions like a joker, e.g., you can swap two water tokens for any one goods token. Many of the new tribe cards, which replace the set in the base game, allow players to choose to spend gold or water tokens, which can make it a little easier to build. The Targia — a Tuareg woman — is a special pawn like the robber, but has a more positive effect for players. She starts in the opposite direction of the robber and moves each turn one edge card. When you place one of your Targi on the same card, you receive a favor: Either take a goods token of your choice or spend one good to reveal the top card from the draw pile and receive what it shows. Now a less attractive edge card might be more interesting because the Targia offers an additional reward. Finally, shifting sand cards give the players rather strong immediate advantages when they place a Targi on them — but since these shifting sands are placed next to the central playing area, you lose an intersection on the central cards.
Other Information:	• MSRP €16

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Average Rating:7.66
Overall Rank:4890

Designed by:	Attila Szőgyi
Published by:	A-games (Board Game Publisher)
Number of players:	2 − 5
Playing time:	45 − 120 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	Ancient Civilization Economic
Mechanics:	Set Collection Variable Phase Order Variable Player Powers Worker Placement
Language:	English French German Hungarian
Description:	Ave Roma is a worker placement game with some unique mechanisms. All workers have a value and all are common workers. At the beginning of a new turn you always start with five workers, but depending on your previous decisions you will always have different workers. In the first phase you have to send out your workers, and in the next one you have to collect them — but in most cases you get back different ones. You have several ways to win the game. You can build buildings, support wars, convince patrons, obtain influence in territories, get money and resources, and so on. It's a complex game with several mechanisms and components.
Other Information:	• Price €45 for the base game, with five expansions also being available for the game: —1. *Censor* (€5) —2. *Magistratus* (€5) —3. *Preator* (€5) —4. *Consul* (€10) —5. *Imperator* (€10) Rules for each of these expansions can be downloaded from the Ave Roma base game page. The discounted price of the Ave Roma base game and all five expansions is €70 instead of €80.

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Average Rating:8.38
Overall Rank:11

Designed by:	Jamey Stegmaier
Published by:	Morning
Number of players:	1 − 5
Playing time:	90 − 115 minutes
Suggested ages:	14 and up
Categories:	Economic Farming Fighting Territory Building
Mechanics:	Area Control / Area Influence Area Movement Variable Player Powers
Language:	German
Description:	It is a time of unrest in 1920s Europa. The ashes from the first great war still darken the snow. The capitalistic city-state known simply as “The Factory”, which fueled the war with heavily armored mechs, has closed its doors, drawing the attention of several nearby countries. Scythe is a Worker Placement/Economic Engine board game set in an alternate-history 1920s period. It is a time of farming and war, broken hearts and rusted gears, innovation and valor. In Scythe, each player represents a character from one of five factions of Eastern Europa who are attempting to earn their fortune and claim their faction's stake in the land around the mysterious Factory. Players conquer territory, enlist new recruits, reap resources, gain villagers, build structures, and activate monstrous mechs. Each player begins the game with different resources (power, coins, combat acumen, and popularity), a different starting location, and a hidden goal. Starting positions are specially calibrated to contribute to each faction’s uniqueness and the asymmetrical nature of the game (each faction always starts in the same place). Scythe gives players almost complete control over their fate. Other than each player’s individual hidden objective card, the only elements of luck or variability are “encounter” cards that players will draw as they interact with the citizens of newly explored lands. Each encounter card provides the player with several options, allowing them to mitigate the luck of the draw through their selection. Combat is also driven by choices, not luck or randomness. Scythe uses a streamlined action-selection mechanism (no rounds or phases) to keep gameplay moving at a brisk pace and reduce downtime between turns. While there is plenty of direct conflict for players who seek it, there is no player elimination. Every part of Scythe has an aspect of engine-building to it. Players can upgrade actions to become more efficient, build structures that improve their position on the map, enlist new recruits to enhance character abilities, activate mechs to deter opponents from invading, and expand their borders to reap greater types and quantities of resources. These engine-building aspects create a sense of momentum and progress throughout the game. The order in which players improve their engine adds to the unique feel of each game, even when playing one faction multiple times.
Other Information:	• Available in separate English, French and German editions at SPIEL 2016. • Price €80, with preorders for pick up at SPIEL 2016 available on the Morning Players website.

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Average Rating:6.94
Overall Rank:5266

Designed by:	Guan Chih Huang
Published by:	ThunderGryph Games
Number of players:	3 − 6
Playing time:	30 − 45 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	Bluffing Card Game
Mechanics:	Card Drafting Set Collection Variable Player Powers Voting
Language:	English
Description:	Since the beginning of time, two opposing forces have been the pillars of the universe and coexist in eternal balance. Our Goddess in her infinite wisdom has sent a group of Overseers to protect our world. They have the power to bend human traits to their will, and they will always battle between each other to create the perfect symmetry between virtues and vices of humankind. You will now choose whether to find the best balance — or completely crush it for your own good. Overseers is a drafting and bluffing game with a twist. Each player represents an Overseer whose objective is to bend traits in their favor to create the most dominant combination of virtues and vices. The game has three main phases: 1] Drafting: Each player receives six cards at random from the deck, selects one of them, then passes the rest to the player sitting on their left. The goal is to build up the combination that will grant them the most victory points. Some cards grant points on their own, while others require the same type of cards to earn more points. 2] Judgement: All players place their five trait cards in front of them in two rows: two face down and three face up to show the cards they chose. Give the information available, the Overseers then discuss which player has the strongest possible combination. After deliberating, players vote for this person using their token. The chosen player must then admit or deny the verdict: — If they admit having the strongest combination, they must then discard two cards from their combination. — If they deny this, the showdown phase happens, with all players revealing their scores. If the chosen player has the strongest combination, they lose the two cards that grant the most points; if not, instead they take one additional card of their choice from the discard pile. 3] Scoring: Each player shows all cards in front of them, then calculates their score. The game might have other phases depending on the type of overseers being played as each character has special abilities that can change the outcome of the game, such as being able to peek at another player's hidden cards, steal a card before the scoring phase, or transform one card into another. At the end of each round, players secret their victory point (VP) tokens to keep their score secret, and after three rounds whoever has the most VPs wins.
Other Information:	• So gorgeous! • Price €25; you can preorder for pick up at SPIEL 2016 on the ThunderGryph Games website.

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Average Rating:6.41
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Designed by:	Frédéric Henry
Published by:	Bombyx
Number of players:	2 − 5
Playing time:	30 − 40 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Card Game Industry / Manufacturing
Mechanics:	Worker Placement
Language:	English
Description:	Lead a team of history's greatest minds to glory in Legendary Inventors, a game in which 2-5 players each captain a group of four inventors working to bring their knowledge to life by creating useful objects to improve the world. Compete against rival teams to patent inventions and work to improve the knowledge of your inventors. The inventing team who has patented the most inventions or who has the smartest inventors wins. In more detail, the game takes place over three ages, with each age representing a different period of technological advancement and those inventions becoming more complex in each subsequent age. On a turn, you either send one of your inventors to work on an invention or refresh your inventors to make all of them available again. When you send an inventor to work you apply that character's skills — Albert Einstein has a starting skill of four Physics, for example, while Johannes Gutenberg has a starting skill of two Mechanics — against the needs of the invention, marking off what you've done with colored cubes. When an invention is complete, the three players who have contributed the most reap the rewards of its completion! Players can choose to acquire and patent the invention by placing the invention card face up in front of them, or they earn reward tokens to upgrade their inventors, gain extra victory points, and even add additional knowledge to an invention. As soon as all but two inventions in an age are complete, that age ends and a new one begins. After the third age, the team of inventors with the most victory points wins!
Other Information:	• Available in separate English, French and German editions at SPIEL 2016 ahead of the game's November 2016 release date in France and elsewhere. • Price €15

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Average Rating:7.59
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Designed by:	Bruno Cathala Ludovic Maublanc
Published by:	Funforge
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	30 minutes
Suggested ages:	8 and up
Categories:	Card Game
Mechanics:	Hand Management Set Collection
Language:	English
Description:	In Pocket Madness, you'll meet nice people like Shub-Niggurath, visit lovely places like Innsmouth, and cross the path of friendly creatures such as the Shoggoths. Pocket Madness is a fast-paced card game inspired by the writings of H.P. Lovecraft, known worldwide for his short story "The Call of Cthulhu". In the game, you evoke the powers of the Ancient Ones to drive your fellow cultists mad while securing your path to victory. To play, you first deal each player two cards from a deck that contains cards numbered 6-12, then you count out 17 face-down cards, flip the remainder face up, shuffle the deck, then lay it out in a row so that all players can see the cards. On a turn, you either take 1-3 cards, open a portal, or open an investigation. When you take card, you pick up the first 1-3 cards in the row, then add them to your hand. To open a portal, you lay down three or more cards of the same type, then take the portal matching the number on those cards. Each portal has a different power, and you can use any one portal power on your turn. If someone else claims a portal that you own, too bad! You just lost the portal! To open an investigation, discard cards numbered 6-12, after which every other player gains as many madness tokens as the number of investigations this round. A round ends when one player runs out of cards or the card row runs out. In the latter case, everyone takes one final turn, then all players gain madness tokens equal to the number of different types of cards in their hand. If a player empties their hand, that player loses half of their madness tokens while everyone else gains one. The game ends the round that a player has collected ten or more madness tokens.
Other Information:	• Available at SPIEL 2016 in separate English and French editions.

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Average Rating:8.53
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Designed by:	Chris Darsaklis
Published by:	Drawlab Entertainment
Number of players:	4 − 10
Playing time:	20 − 40 minutes
Suggested ages:	8 and up
Categories:	Deduction Party Game Word Game
Mechanics:	Memory Partnerships Storytelling
Language:	English
Description:	The night has fallen and your mind is floating in the magical world of dreams. But the Dream Spirits want to have some fun tonight! They are giving their best and the dreams become strange and surreal. Become the dreamer, put on your sleeping mask and try to figure out your dream and which spirits are the Naughty ones. Become a good spirit and help the Dreamer by giving him clues about the dream before the naughty spirits mess it up. Close your eyes and dive in 'When I Dream'! At the beginning of each round of When I Dream one player takes the role of the Dreamer and "falls asleep", wearing a cloth mask. The other players are secretly dealt their role cards determining what kind of spirits they are "good" or "naughty" or if they are just "tricksters" changing sides as the game goes by. The whole round lasts 120 seconds in which the spirits are drawing "Dream" cards depicting a specific element of the dream, trying to describe them to the dreamer using one word each. The dreamer can guess what the element of the Dream is at any time, placing the card to the good spirits team side if the guess was correct and in the naughty spirits pile if it was not. At the end of the round the Dreamer and the good spirits get a point for every card in the good spirits pile, when the naughty spirits get one point for every card in the naughty spirits pile. The tricksters get points according to how well balanced the two teams were at the end of the round, gaining extra points if they managed to equally balance the two piles. At the end of the round, the dreamer must use the words he guessed and storytell his dream for extra points before he opens his eyes. You can learn how to play in a few minutes and have a great laugh right from the start. Each role is challenging and entertaining giving the game more depth according to the player’s imagination, providing a wonderful experience with a unique dream every round. When I Dream won the 1st award of People's Choice and the 3rd award of Card Games at Epitrapezio: the 7th annual Greek Board Game Design Contest of 2016. It was also nominated as "Most Innovative Game" in BostonFIG 2016.
Other Information:	• Debuting at Spiel 2016. • Price €20

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Average Rating:7.22
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Designed by:	Friedemann Friese
Published by:	2F-Spiele
Number of players:	2 − 5
Playing time:	20 − 30 minutes
Suggested ages:	8 and up
Categories:	Animals Card Game
Mechanics:	Set Collection
Language:	German
Description:	Once upon a time there was a marvelous forest full of gorgeous fruits. These fruits could be squeezed and mixed into the most delicious juices... You live in this forest and are in search of the most savory fruits. Friendly forest dwellers will help you in different ways... You are greedy and thirsty. Who will be the first to satisfy their appetite for Fabled Fruit? Fabled Fruit is a Fable game, a new and unique concept in game experiences, where the gameplay changes over time. The game starts in an initial, simple state, but as you explore deeper into the game system, the mechanisms and gameplay will evolve over time. You play the game many times, and each play changes the game slightly. Unlike in a Legacy game, however, the game is never permanently changed. At any time you may easily restart a Fable game from the beginning, either after you have run through the entire game system, or at any time during the many plays you will get from this game system. This Fable Game will remain just as playable on the 20th play as it was on the first plays of the game.
Other Information:	• MSRP €28

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Average Rating:8.67
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Designed by:	Sławomir Stępień
Published by:	Galakta
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	60 − 120 minutes
Suggested ages:	14 and up
Categories:	Fantasy Miniatures Renaissance Spies/Secret Agents
Mechanics:	Action / Movement Programming Action Point Allowance System Simultaneous Action Selection Variable Player Powers
Language:	English
Description:	Description from the publisher: Age of Thieves is a fantasy board game of strategy and adventure set in Hadria, a port metropolis located on the northern fringes of a mighty Empire. Each player becomes a master thief about to commit the most daring burglary of his career. During the game players may use unique abilities of their thieves as well as various action cards, which represent maneuvers, alchemical potions or complicated devices inspired by visionary ideas of Renaissance inventors. The players choose cards to play and then use available Action Points to plan the order of their activities. This makes the game very dynamic, with each resolved action dramatically influencing the turn. The players’ order changes dynamically depending on the number of Action Points placed on each chosen card. The goal of the game is to break into the vault inside the Emperor's palace and steal the Emperors' Jewel, the symbol of power very precious to the ruling dynasty. However, this is hardly the end, because thieves must escape from the city with their loot. This is no easy task - the streets are patrolled by vigilant city guards and veteran captains well versed in all criminal tricks. Additionally, time is running fast for the thieves - event cards introduced each turn control the flow of the game, escalating its pace and difficulty of challenges for the players to overcome. The thief who will manage to escape through one of four city gates taking with him the Emperors’ Jewel or other valuable loot will be the winner of the game. Anyone who will stay inside Hadria after resolving the last event card will be caught and mercilessly thrown inside the city dungeon, their names erased from the annals of the omnipotent Guild.
Other Information:	• MSRP €55, but discounted to €50 for sales at SPIEL 2016.

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Average Rating:6.50
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Designed by:	Stefan Feld
Published by:	Stronghold Games
Number of players:	2 − 5
Playing time:	45 − 90 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:
Mechanics:	Auction/Bidding Worker Placement
Language:	English
Description:	For several decades during the Viking age, parts of England were occupied by the Norsemen. Under their influence, one of the larger cities turned into a flourishing center of trade and craftsmanship. The Vikings called the city and its surrounding kingdom "Jórvík", which is today known as the city of York. In the game Jórvík, players assume the roles of Viking jarls. They gather prestige points by trading goods, holding big feasts, funding pillages, commissioning craftsmen and hiring soldiers to defend the city against recurring invasions. The player with the most prestige points wins. The game is a re-design of Die Speicherstadt (2010). In this game, players acquire cards from a card display through a simple yet brilliant worker placement and bidding mechanism to build up their trading empires. Jórvík includes two versions: A base game that is equivalent to Die Speicherstadt, and an advanced game that equates to Die Speicherstadt including its expansion Kaispeicher.
Other Information:	• Price to be announced closer to SPIEL 2016.

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Average Rating:8.65
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Designed by:	Phil Eklund Matt Eklund
Published by:	Sierra Madre Games
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	60 − 120 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	Renaissance
Mechanics:	Card Drafting Simulation
Language:	English
Description:	As a Renaissance banker, you will finance kings or republics, sponsor voyages of discovery, join secret cabals, or unleash jihads and inquisitions. Your choices determine whether Europe is elevated into the bright modern era or remains festering in dark feudalism. In Pax Renaissance, you have two actions each turn. As in other Pax games, you can acquire cards in a market, sell them out of the game, or play them into your tableau. You can also stimulate the economy by running trade fairs and trading voyages for Oriental goods. A map of Europe with trade routes from Portugal to Crimea is included, and discovering new trade routes can radically alter the importance and wealth of empires, ten of which are in the game. Four victories determine the future course of Western Society: Will it be towards imperialism, trade globalization, religious totalitarianism, or enlightened art and science?
Other Information:	• Price €30, with the *Pax Renaissance Expansion* being available for €10. Here's a short description of that item: Quote: The Pax Renaissance Expansion introduces 59 new cards with new abilities to Pax Renaissance, new "Renaissance Man" card types, and two new one-shots: Apostasy & Victory Inactivation.

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Average Rating:8.24
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Designed by:	Flaminia Brasini Virginio Gigli Simone Luciani
Published by:	Cranio Creations
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	60 − 120 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	Renaissance
Mechanics:	Card Drafting Dice Rolling Variable Player Powers Worker Placement
Language:	English Italian
Description:	Lorenzo de' Medici, also known as "Lorenzo il Magnifico" (Lorenzo the Magnificent), was one of the most powerful and enthusiastic patrons of the Italian Renaissance. In Lorenzo il Magnifico, each player takes the role of a head of a noble family in a city during the Italian renaissance. You try to accumulate prestige and fame to gain more victory points (VP) than the others. To do so, you send your family members to different areas of town, where they can obtain many achievements. In one location they get useful resources, in another development cards (which represent newly conquered territories, sponsored buildings, influenced characters, or encouraged ventures), somewhere else they activate the effects of their cards. Family members are not identical. At the beginning of each round, you roll three dice to determine the family members' value. You must carefully choose where to send your family members with a higher value... You can gain VP several ways, and you must also pay attention to your relations with the Church. The game is divided into three periods, each formed by two rounds; at the end of each period, players must show their faith, and whoever hasn't prayed enough will suffer hard penalties. After six rounds, you calculate your final scoring, and the player with the most VP wins.
Other Information:	• MSRP €50, with two exclusive leader cards being included with purchase of the base game at SPIEL 2016.

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Average Rating:0.00
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Designed by:	Sebastian Bleasdale Richard Breese
Published by:	R&D Games
Number of players:	2 − 6
Playing time:	90 − 120 minutes
Suggested ages:	14 and up
Categories:	City Building Economic Nautical Territory Building
Mechanics:	Auction/Bidding Modular Board Tile Placement Worker Placement
Expands:	Keyflower
Language:	Dutch English French German Portuguese Spanish Show More »
Description:	Keymelequin is a mini-expansion for the game Keyflower that consists of the two colored Keymelequin keyples — Paulo and Sven — and a ship tile, the Keymelequin. When the Keymelequin arrives in port, it transports two new characters, Paulo and Sven. Sven, who is a translator, co-ordinator and peacemaker between the blue and yellow keyples, disembarks from the Keymelequin at the end of spring. Paulo, who has similar abilities with red and green keyples, arrives on the Keymelequin at the end of the summer. Paulo and Sven will facilitate team work and co-operation between their respective factions, with powerful and interesting results. Keymelequin is playable only with a copy of the game Keyflower, and it can be used with the base game on its own or in conjunction with any combination of the other Keyflower promotional tiles and expansions.
Other Information:	• As is his custom, designer/publisher Richard Breese has posted an explanatory GeekList about *Keyflower: Keymelequin* to provide an overview of the game and details of its origins. • Price €5

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Average Rating:8.90
Overall Rank:4777

Designed by:	Richard Amann Viktor Peter Dávid Turczi
Published by:	Mindclash Games
Number of players:	1 − 4
Playing time:	60 − 120 minutes
Suggested ages:	15 and up
Categories:	Economic Science Fiction
Mechanics:	Variable Player Powers Worker Placement
Language:	English
Description:	It is the late 26th century. Earth is recovering from a catastrophic explosion that exterminated the majority of the population centuries ago and made most of the surface uninhabitable due to unearthly weather conditions. The surviving humans organized along four radically different ideologies, called Paths, to rebuild the world as they see fit: Harmony, Dominance, Progress and Salvation. Followers of the four Paths live in a fragile peace, but in almost complete isolation next to each other. Their only meeting point is the last major city on Earth, now just known as the Capital. By powering up the mysterious Time Rifts that opened in the wake of the cataclysm, each Path is able to reach back to specific moments in their past. Doing so can greatly speed up their progress, but too much meddling may endanger the time-space continuum. But progress is more important than ever before: if the mysterious message arriving through the Time Rift is to be believed, an even more terrible cataclysm is looming on the horizon: an asteroid bearing the mysterious substance called Neutronium is heading towards Earth. Even stranger, the scientists show that the energy signature of the asteroid matches the explosion centuries ago... Anachrony features an unique two-tiered worker placement system. To travel to the Capital or venture out to the devastated areas for resources, players need not only various Specialists (Engineers, Scientists, Administrators and Geniuses), but also Exosuits to protect and enhance them — and both are in short supply. The game is played in 4-7 turns, depending on the time when the looming cataclysm occurs (unless, of course, it is averted!). The elapsed turns are measured on a dynamic Timeline. By powering up the Time Rifts, players can reach back to earlier turns to supply their past "self" with resources. Each Path has a vastly different objective that rewards it with a massive amount of Victory Points when achieved. The Paths' settlements will survive the impact, but the Capital will not. Whichever Path manages to collect most points will be the new seat for the Capital, thus the most important force left on the planet...
Other Information:	• Available for demo games at SPIEL 2016 ahead of its scheduled release in February 2017. • Notes co-designer Viktor Péter, "We will be doing a special promotion for Essen attendees. We will have a ten-card promo pack for sale for *Anachrony* (for €5 each) that will have a bonus code in it, and with this code, attendees will receive a 10 USD discount from the preorder price of the Anachrony base game. (Prices in the preorder site will be in USD.)" The normal preorder price of the Anachrony base game is $60/€54, while the Anachrony miniature pack has a preorder price of $30/€27.

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Average Rating:7.97
Overall Rank:4574

Designed by:	Ghislain Masson
Published by:	Geek Attitude Games
Number of players:	2 − 7
Playing time:	30 − 45 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Bluffing Card Game Science Fiction
Mechanics:	Action / Movement Programming Deck / Pool Building Hand Management
Language:	English
Description:	It is the 25th century. You are a member of an intergalactic expedition shipwrecked on a mysterious planet named Artemia. While waiting for the rescue ship, you begin to explore the planet but an alien entity picks up your scent and begins to hunt you. You are not alone! Will you survive the dangers of Artemia? NOT ALONE is an asymmetrical card game, in which one player (the Creature) plays against the rest (the Hunted). If you play as one of the Hunted, you will explore Artemia using Place cards. By playing these and Survival cards, you try to avoid, confuse or distract the Creature until help arrives. If you play as the Creature, you will stalk and pursue the shipwrecked survivors. By playing your Hunt cards and using the mysterious powers of Artemia, you try to wear down the Hunted and assimilate them to the planet forever. NOT ALONE is a light immersive card game resting on guessing, hand management, and a pinch of deck-building.
Other Information:	• Available in separate English, French, German and Spanish editions. • Price €20, with three SPIEL'16 promo cards (1 hunt card, 1 survival card and 1 new place) being included with the game; preorders are available at the Geek Attitude Games website for pick up at SPIEL 2016 or delivery to your home. Package deals with other GAG titles are available.

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Average Rating:9.00
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Designed by:	Gordon Alford
Published by:	(Self-Published)
Number of players:	2 − 6
Playing time:	120 − 180 minutes
Suggested ages:	14 and up
Categories:	Adventure Fantasy Fighting Horror
Mechanics:	Co-operative Play Dice Rolling Point to Point Movement Role Playing
Language:	English
Description:	"The signs have come. Shadows flicker and stir in the Hollows. A chill has settled in those ancient ruins and expedition pack animals refuse to enter the underworld realm. There are new sightings of large beasts roaming the countryside and strange unnatural calls fill the night air. Hunters have gone missing without a trace and it is no longer safe to explore very far into the woods. My sisters wake from the same nightmares. A skeletal hand, pale and white as snow, grasping out from darkness. Thousands of red-eyed crows flying over a field of dead. A bloody maw gaping open with rows of gleaming teeth the size of daggers. I see these images in my own dreams and I fear for what is coming." ~Selene Of Dreams & Shadows is a cooperative board game for up to six players who take on the role of Champions trying to save their realm. Set in a dark fantasy world, the players will journey from the underworld ruins of a long-dead people to the heart of untamed forests where otherworldly creatures dwell. As they direct the actions of their Champions on the game board, the players will participate in a collaborative story. Scenarios introduce encounters and conflict, which are resolved through passing a test or making a choice. The consequences advance the storyline and drive a unique experience as part of the story changes based on each outcome. Failing a test could have dire results such as receiving one of several types of debilitating Afflictions. Many Scenarios will also present players with a moral dilemma where a decision could aid their cause, but not without sacrifice. Opposing the players is one of three selectable Villains. Beings of myth and legend, the Villains have their own host of deadly servants to face in combat. Developing flexible tactics and teamwork among players will be crucial as there are over 30 different enemies, each with their own special ability. You must band together with your friends if you hope to survive.
Other Information:	• Booth 2-F109 • Price €40

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Average Rating:8.00
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Designed by:	Michael Keller (II) Andreas "ode." Odendahl
Published by:	Spielworxx
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	60 − 150 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	Civilization Dice Economic Exploration Science Fiction Show More »
Mechanics:	Dice Rolling
Language:	English German
Description:	In the distant future, the home planet is overpopulated and riots loom. The only solution seems to be to advance into space and to settle planets. Several technically advanced nations emphatically try to put this into practice. Under the name of Solarius Mission they begin a project to explore other planets, build space stations and conduct interplanetary trade. Who is able to use the technical means available and to fulfill the vital Solarius Mission? With their space ship, the players explore far away planets, develop new technologies with their tech dice, and send settlers into space. They try to prevent space contamination. Solarius Mission is a very eclectic game – it is important to think ahead and to optimize the personal strategy. Who acts especially prudent, who will win in the end? Solarius Mission is a tactical and strategic civilization game in a pulp science-fiction setting, with a dice-draft, dice manipulation, and resource-management mechanism. It can best be described as a mid-weight euro-style game.
Other Information:	• For details on the history of the game's development, head to this designer diary on BGG News by co-designer Michael Keller. • Price €59 if preordered through the Spielworxx website before the game's release in mid-August 2016; €69 afterward. • As with all Spielworxx titles, the production run is limited to one thousand copies and all copies might be claimed prior to SPIEL 2016, so if you really want this game, don't wait until you arrive in Essen or you might leave empty-handed...

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Average Rating:8.17
Overall Rank:5845

Designed by:	Asger Harding Granerud
Published by:	Lautapelit.fi
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	30 − 45 minutes
Suggested ages:	8 and up
Categories:	Card Game Racing Sports
Mechanics:	Hand Management Modular Board Simulation
Language:	English French German Spanish
Description:	The excitement in the air is electric as the leaders round the last corner and head for the finish line. Each team has used cunning and skill to position their sprinter for this moment, but only one has done enough to pull off the win! Will your team lead from the front and risk exhaustion? Should you play it safe in the middle of the pack? Could you surprise everyone by striking from the back? Can you time your move perfectly? Anyone can race, few become champions! Flamme Rouge is a fast-paced, tactical bicycle racing game where each player controls a team of two riders: a Rouleur and a Sprinteur. The players’ goal is to be the first to cross the finish line with one of their riders. Players move their riders forward by drawing and playing cards from that riders specific deck, depleting it as they go. Use slipstreams to avoid exhaustion and position your team for a well timed sprint for the win.
Other Information:	• MSRP €37, but you can preorder for €25 for pick up at SPIEL 2016 via the Lautapelit.fi website. The price of the game at SPIEL 2016 will be somewhere between these two values.

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Average Rating:7.82
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Designed by:	Kalle Malmioja
Published by:	Lautapelit.fi
Number of players:	2 − 5
Playing time:	30 − 40 minutes
Suggested ages:	8 and up
Categories:	City Building
Mechanics:	Hand Management Tile Placement Trick-taking
Language:	English Finnish French German Spanish Swedish Show More »
Description:	Honshu is a trick-taking, map-building card game set in feudal Japan. Players are lords and ladies of noble houses seeking new lands and opportunities for fame and fortune. One game of Honshu lasts twelve rounds, and each round is divided into two phases. First, map cards are played in a trick, and the player who played the highest valued card gets to pick first from those cards played. Then the players use the map cards picked to expand their personal maps. Each player must expand their personal maps to maximize their scoring possibilities. Manipulating your position in the player order is crucial for mastering Honshu.
Other Information:	• MSRP €15, but you can preorder for €10 for pick up at SPIEL 2016 via the Lautapelit.fi website. The price of the game at SPIEL 2016 will be somewhere between these two values.

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Average Rating:7.92
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Designed by:	Marco Canetta Stefania Niccolini
Published by:	What's Your Game?
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	45 − 90 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	Trains
Mechanics:	Deck / Pool Building Route/Network Building
Language:	English French German
Description:	Ambition and a thirst for wealth have driven humanity to strive for ever greater progress. In America, during the 19th century, battles were waged between huge railway corporations that sought to connect state to state and coast with coast… making themselves filthy rich in the process. Railroad Revolution drops you straight into the middle of these tempestuous years; a time that changed America forever. In Railroad Revolution, you will manage your own railroad company, ruthlessly competing to be the most powerful railroad tycoon across all America. You will build railroads, establish stations in your connected cities, expand the network of telegraph lines, and chase your objectives, increasing the value of your company with every action you take. You start with mainly a team of non-specialized workers, but during the game you can hire additional ones with specific skill sets. The cost or effect of an action is determined by the type of worker that does it. To complete your company objectives, you will have to remove some of your workers from your active pool, promoting them to managerial positions. You must carefully assign each of your workers to perform the right action at the right time in order to exploit their specializations in the best way. You need to decide which ones to promote and which are instead still needed to take actions, as your priorities will change from turn to turn. Railroad Revolution is a fast paced game with relatively simple rules, and it provides you with interesting and challenging decisions. Having a good strategy and finding the correct timing to implement it, is the key to winning the game.

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Average Rating:8.74
Overall Rank:6206

Designed by:	Grégory Oliver
Published by:	La Boite de Jeu
Number of players:	1 − 4
Playing time:	40 − 110 minutes
Suggested ages:	14 and up
Categories:	Science Fiction
Mechanics:	Worker Placement
Language:	English French
Description:	Outlive is a management/survival game in a post-apocalyptic universe in which nature has overcome its rights amongst the world of Men. In Outlive, players have six days (turns) to send heroes gathering resources during the day, while avoiding threats from other players and reinforce their settlements during the night, trying to recruit new survivors and adapt to the new world. The specificities: movements and resource gathering are compelled by you heroes strength. You play six rounds (six days) that are divided between the day phase and the night phase. During the day phase, you move your four heroes of different strength on the board to collect resources with a mechanical movement innovative and interactive. During the night phase, you manage your shelter, feed your survivors and recruit new ones, organize your survival, and improve your rooms and objects. Only one clan can outlive this devastated world!
Other Information:	• Available for demo games at SPIEL 2016 ahead of its anticipated release in February 2017.

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Average Rating:6.91
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Designed by:	Wolfgang Kramer Reinhard Staupe
Published by:	AMIGO Spiel + Freizeit GmbH
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	25 minutes
Suggested ages:	8 and up
Categories:	Card Game
Mechanics:	Pattern Building
Language:	German
Description:	It's time to run from the bulls one again in X nimmt! This card game starts with the same premise as the well-known 6 nimmt!: Each turn, players all simultaneously reveal one card from their hand, then these cards are placed into existing rows one at a time, starting with the lowest-valued card. If a row is full, then whoever played that final card takes all of the cards already in the row, scoring negative points for all of the bullheads on those cards. X nimmt! changes these rules a few ways. Each player starts with eight cards in hand and a personal X row. Played cards will be placed into three rows, with those rows being able to hold three, four or five cards. Whenever someone takes cards from a row, those cards go into the player's hand, then the player must play one card into their personal X row. All cards in this X row must also be played in ascending order! If you can't do this, then you place all of those X cards aside in order to start a new X row, with the value of those set-aside cards now being doubled. A round ends after someone plays the final card in their hand, and whoever has the fewest negative points after two rounds wins.
Other Information:	• MSRP €8

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Average Rating:7.75
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Designed by:	Uwe Rosenberg
Published by:	AMIGO Spiel + Freizeit GmbH
Number of players:	2
Playing time:	45 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	Card Game
Mechanics:
Language:	German
Description:	Gifts are common in the bean-trading card game Bohnanza as players don't want to spoil the crops in their own field by needing to make room for something new. In Bohnanza: Das Duell, a two-player version of Bohnanza, players will find that gifts are not always welcome — but they do have the option of providing a "gift" of their own to their "generous" opponent! In more detail, Bohnanza: Das Duell features eight different types of beans, valued 6-20 with only the even numbers being used; Each bean has as many copies in the deck as its number, and each bean card features a "beanometer" that shows how many beans you need to sell to earn 1-4 coins. Each player starts with five bean cards in hand as well as three bonus cards with secret orders. On a turn, the active player must plant one card from hand in one of their bean fields. Then they reveal two cards from the top of the deck, keeping and planting them if desired or offering to trade them with the opponent. You can also choose to offer cards as a gift to your opponent, but if the opponent accepts this gift, then they must offer you a gift in return — most likely something you don't want! In Bohnanza, you can plant cards only of the same number in a bean field; in Bohnanza: Das Duell, this rule is relaxed and you can plant the same number or cards of exactly the next higher rank. When you harvest this field for coins, you must use the beanometer on the most recently played card in that field. More importantly, when the combination of bean card types in one of your fields matches a secret order card in hand, you can reveal that order to score bonus coins. In the end, whoever has the most coins wins!
Other Information:	• MSRP €10

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Average Rating:7.27
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Designed by:	Corné van Moorsel
Published by:	Cwali
Number of players:	2 − 5
Playing time:	30 − 50 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Animals
Mechanics:	Tile Placement
Language:	Dutch English French German
Description:	In Habitats, each player builds a big wildlife park without cages or fences. The animals in your park need their natural habitats, which consists of grass landscape, bush, rocks, and lakes. The zebra needs a big area of grass and some water adjacent, for example, while a bat needs rocks and bush and water, a hart needs bush and grass, and a crocodile needs mainly water. There is a snake, baboon, bee, elephant, otter, lizard, turtle, eagle, meerkat, scorpio, hog, catfish, rhino, etc., each with its own landscape requirements — 68 different animals in total. Each player starts their individual park with an entrance tile, and they are each represented in the marketplace of animal tiles by a ceramic figure. On a turn, a player takes the tile to their left, right or front; moves their figure to the space just vacated; then draws a tile to place where their figure started the turn. When adding an animal tile in your park, you add its main landscape — the base space for the animal — to your park, too. While placing this new animal, its own piece of landscape can help to fulfill the requirements of your other animals' requirements, e.g., the water on a hippo tile fulfilling the adjacent otter's need for water. Thus, fulfilling every animal's desire for land becomes a more and more difficult task with each tile you add. Aside from expanding your park with different landscape types, flora and animals, you can improve its profitability by building extra entrance roads, trek spots, and watchtowers. Habitats lasts three seasons, with each season giving each player 6-9 new tiles for their parks. Whoever has best met the goal of the season receives bonus points, with a smaller number of points for second and third place. At the end of the game, each player scores for each tile in their park based on whether that tile's requirements are satisfied. Whoever scores the most points wins!
Other Information:	• Cwali's Corné van Moorsel notes that due to a limitation on the ceramic figures that he has available, at most one thousand copies of this game will be produced. The animals shown below are examples of these figures, and each box will its own random assortment of animals. • Price €27, with a Kickstarter project for this game being planned to run (without stretch goals) prior to SPIEL 2016 for debut at that show.

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Average Rating:8.25
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Designed by:	Christian Giove
Published by:	Giochi Uniti Stratelibri
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	60 − 90 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	City Building Fantasy Medieval
Mechanics:	Action / Movement Programming Auction/Bidding Tile Placement
Language:	English
Description:	Description from the publisher: The bloody War of the Seven Kingdoms has been over for more than thirty years, and the kingdom of Anderis is experiencing a period of great expansion, thanks in part to its central position which has quickly transformed it into an important commercial crossroads. New roads have been built in the kingdom, with a new city founded at their meeting point which has grown so much that the King has decided to move the capital there and build a new castle. Numerous corporations of craftsmen were already present in the city, but now guilds are forming, which are larger and more wide-ranging, powerful and in competition with one another. With the goal of obtaining favor with the King, the guilds will gather together the most prestigious personages within them, not to mention those who can bring the largest influx of money or useful talent. What better place than the central square to find new members? For this reason, each guild places its tents in the central square every week, inviting the persons it considers most interesting to sign up by incentivizing them with precious gifts. This is certainly not a low-cost operation considering that it can cost many pieces of silver to put together the most convincing gift. At the same time, each guild must build its headquarters, spending large amounts of gold to enlarge it with a range of luxurious rooms suitable for its members; if this were not enough, the guilds must also take into account the King's current tastes on what is most important for a guild worthy of his approval. Will you manage to make your guild stand out so that it becomes the most important in the city? Which means will you be willing to use in Guilds to win the King's favor?
Other Information:	• Available for demo games at SPIEL 2016 ahead of its retail release.

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Average Rating:8.38
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Designed by:	Sebastian Bleasdale Richard Breese
Published by:	Quined Games
Number of players:	2 − 6
Playing time:	90 − 120 minutes
Suggested ages:	14 and up
Categories:	City Building Economic Territory Building
Mechanics:	Auction/Bidding Modular Board Set Collection Tile Placement Worker Placement Show More »
Language:	Dutch English French German
Description:	Description from the publisher: In Key to the City – London, each player aims to develop their own London borough based around their home tile, using the large hexagonal location tiles. Each location tile gives victory points and may generate resources (skill tiles or connectors that connect two location tiles). Connectors and skill tiles can be used to upgrade location tiles for additional victory points and productivity. The game is played over four eras, and in each era, new location tiles will be available for bidding. In both era 1 and 2, these tiles consist of six resource-generating tiles, plus some additional building tiles. In era 3, there will be only building tiles, which arrive already upgraded. In era 4, some of the Routemaster tiles become available. On their turn, a player chooses one of five actions. They may use one or more of their team of wooden workers ("keyples") to (1) bid for a location tile, (2) use a location tile to generate resources, or (3) upgrade a location. They may (4) pass, in which case they may play again in that era, or (5) cease playing in that era by setting off in their sailing barge along the Thames. The game finishes after the last river barge sets sail at the end of era 4, at which point the player with the most victory points wins. Key to the City – London has similarities in structure to the award-winning 2012 R&D game Keyflower.
Other Information:	• Price ~€50

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Average Rating:7.96
Overall Rank:1093

Designed by:	Grant Rodiek Michał Oracz Michał Walczak
Published by:	Portal Games
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	90 − 120 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Fighting Miniatures Science Fiction Wargame
Mechanics:	Area Control / Area Influence Area Movement Deck / Pool Building Hand Management Variable Player Powers Show More »
Language:	English
Description:	Cry Havoc is a card-driven, asymmetric, area control war game set in a brutal, science fiction setting. Each player commands one of four unique factions with varying abilities and units. The game includes 54 custom miniatures, a large format board, and over one hundred unique cards, all with stunning new artwork.
Other Information:	• Price €70, with an eight-card *Objectives* mini-expansion available should you preorder for SPIEL 2016 pick-up through the Portal Games website.

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Average Rating:7.22
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Designed by:	Friedemann Friese
Published by:	Stronghold Games
Number of players:	2 − 5
Playing time:	20 − 30 minutes
Suggested ages:	8 and up
Categories:	Animals Card Game
Mechanics:	Set Collection
Language:	English
Description:	Once upon a time there was a marvelous forest full of gorgeous fruits. These fruits could be squeezed and mixed into the most delicious juices... You live in this forest and are in search of the most savory fruits. Friendly forest dwellers will help you in different ways... You are greedy and thirsty. Who will be the first to satisfy their appetite for Fabled Fruit? Fabled Fruit is a Fable game, a new and unique concept in game experiences, where the gameplay changes over time. The game starts in an initial, simple state, but as you explore deeper into the game system, the mechanisms and gameplay will evolve over time. You play the game many times, and each play changes the game slightly. Unlike in a Legacy game, however, the game is never permanently changed. At any time you may easily restart a Fable game from the beginning, either after you have run through the entire game system, or at any time during the many plays you will get from this game system. This Fable Game will remain just as playable on the 20th play as it was on the first plays of the game.
Other Information:	• MSRP €28, with the German edition being sold by 2F-Spiele (3-M106/M108)

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Average Rating:7.46
Overall Rank:5757

Designed by:	Antonio Ferrara Sebastiano Fiorillo
Published by:	Ares Games Pendragon Game Studio
Number of players:	2 − 6
Playing time:	30 − 120 minutes
Suggested ages:	14 and up
Categories:	Deduction Fighting Horror Movies / TV / Radio theme Murder/Mystery Show More »
Mechanics:	Campaign / Battle Card Driven Memory Partnerships Point to Point Movement Secret Unit Deployment Variable Player Powers Show More »
Language:	English
Description:	Last Friday is a hidden movement, hunting and deduction board game, inspired by the popular "slasher" horror movie genre. In the role of young campers, the players are challenged to survive a long weekend of terror – while one of them takes the role of the undying psychopath hiding in the shadows of the forest. In general, the murderer's goal is to remain hidden and to kill off each of the campers, while the campers are trying to fight back and kill the murderer before they are all killed. The game is played over four chapters — Arrival at the Camp, The Chase, The Massacre, and The Final Chapter — and each chapter plays out differently as the hunter becomes the prey, then comes back from the dead looking for revenge.
Other Information:	• A promo card will be included with purchase at SPIEL 2016. • Price $50

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Average Rating:9.00
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Designed by:	Matúš Kotry
Published by:	Czech Games Edition
Number of players:	2 − 4
Suggested ages:	14 and up
Categories:	Deduction Expansion for Base-game Fantasy
Mechanics:	Action Point Allowance System Card Drafting Hand Management Memory Worker Placement Show More »
Expands:	Alchemists
Language:	English
Description:	Alchemists: The King's Golem, an expansion to Alchemists, brings you a new logic puzzle with new rewards and consequences. Can you figure out how to animate a golem? And equally important, can you convince the king you are making progress? The King's Golem actually contains 4 expansions: In Startup Funding, players get a chance to customize the initial resources in their laboratories. The Busy Days expansion makes each round different by offering new rewards (and new costs!) on the order spaces. The Royal Encyclopedia is an entirely new venue for publishing your research. And in The Golem Project, players have the challenge of animating a creature made from magic and clay. The expansions are presented in order of complexity. Startup Funding and Busy Days will be just fine for beginners. The Royal Encyclopedia is for players accustomed to the logic puzzle of the base game. The Golem Project is for advanced players who want a new deduction challenge.

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Average Rating:5.72
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Designed by:	Jog Kung
Published by:	TwoPlus Games
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	15 − 30 minutes
Suggested ages:	8 and up
Categories:	Animals Card Game Deduction Exploration Memory Show More »
Mechanics:	Hand Management Memory
Language:	English
Description:	Description from the publisher: Welcome to Cat Town, a paradise for cats and cat lovers like you. On these lazy breezy days, you may see cats lying on the roof, inside the bushes, under the cars, or any other funny places they see fit. During your visit today, take a walk around the blocks to see how many cats you can find in Cat Town. Cat Town combines memory, hand-management and deck-manipulation, with players scoring points in three ways: finding cats, collecting items, and playing Travel notes cards. To set up, shuffle the deck of Cat, Item, and Action cards, deal two cards to each player, then create four or six "blocks" of cards, based on the number of players. On a turn, a player takes one of four actions: Move their cat token across one of the neighboring blocks, then add the top card on that block to their hand. Move their cat token across one of the neighboring blocks, then reveal the top card on that block, keeping it in front of them if it's a Cat or Item and discarding it otherwise. Playing an Item or Action card for the effect described in the text, then taking the action shown on the bonus icon. Revealing a card at random from their hand, keeping it in front of them if it's a Cat or Item and discarding it otherwise. Each Cat in front of you as well as each pair of Items with the same name is worth 1 point. A Travel note played with three additional cards from the hand is also worth 1 points. The first player to score 6 points wins.
Other Information:	• Price €20, with preorder available for pick up at SPIEL 2016 or shipping to your door.

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Average Rating:7.97
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Designed by:	Alberto Abudinen Diego Benavente
Published by:	Aldebaran Games
Number of players:	2 − 6
Playing time:	60 − 120 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	Economic Farming Industry / Manufacturing
Mechanics:	Dice Rolling Tile Placement Worker Placement
Language:	English Spanish
Description:	Mi Tierra: New Era (My Land: New Era) is a worker placement game in which the players represent farmers that try to labor their land in the best way possible. They will have to sow and work the land and take care of their animals so they can produce goods and sell them in the different available markets. In this second edition, players will have all the fun included in the original Mi Tierra plus more, since the second edition includes many more features like use of water for plantations, horses, new products and more. Also, instead of four players you will be able to play up to six-player games. Finally, the rules of the game have been revised to make sure that Mi Tierra gets even better.
Other Information:	• Price €50; for all titles from Aldebaran Games and GDM Games (which share a booth), if you buy three games, the least expensive one is free.

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Average Rating:0.00
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Designed by:	Cole Wehrle
Published by:	Sierra Madre Games
Number of players:	1 − 5
Playing time:	60 − 180 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	Card Game Economic Negotiation Political Spies/Secret Agents Show More »
Mechanics:	Area Control / Area Influence Area Movement Hand Management Simulation
Expands:	Pax Pamir
Language:	English
Description:	Pax Pamir: Khyber Knives, an expansion for Pax Pamir, introduces new rules concepts and sixty unique cards. Now players can attempt to use their political acumen to secure game-changing capabilities. Imprison your opponent's spies in your dungeon or rely on piracy in the Punjab to fund your ambitions. Battle for influence over the six regional governments or attempt to do your own dynasty building. Players have never had this many routes to dominance. The fight for a new Afghan future has just begun. Khyber Knives dramatically expands the game-to-game deck variance in Pax Pamir by adding 54 new game cards as well as six Wazir Cards.
Other Information:	• Price €12

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Average Rating:7.07
Overall Rank:1895

Designed by:	Brian Gomez
Published by:	Brain Games
Number of players:	2 − 4
Suggested ages:	6 and up
Categories:	Action / Dexterity Children's Game
Mechanics:
Language:	English Estonian Latvian Lithuanian Russian Show More »
Description:	The lunch break is almost there and all of the young penguins would finally get the fish they’ve been craving for. However, some rascals think they are quick enough to snatch some of the fish before the lunch break starts, but they have forgotten one thing – the Hall Monitor! Each school day one of the penguins is designated to watch over the school, and this is his moment to shine – for each rascal penguin he catches he would get additional fish! A fun run takes place – the rascals are running everywhere and trying to snatch some fish on their way, but the Hall Monitor is trying to catch each and one of them to have some order in the school. Who will be more successful? Ice Cool is a flicking game in which each round one of the players takes the role of the Hall Monitor (also called "the Catcher") – his aim will be to catch each other penguin and get points for that. The others (also known as "Runners") will try to run through several doors, thus gaining fish (that give them points) on their way. When either the Hall Monitor has caught each other penguin once or any of the others has gone through all 3 doors that have fish on them, the round is over. Each player will take the role of the Hall Monitor once and at the end of the game the winner will be the one with the most points on their fish cards. The penguins can be flicked in a straight line, make curves and even jump over the walls! Each player will have to use the best of their skills in order to get the most points in this fun and exciting game. It's not just cool, it's ICE COOL!
Other Information:	• Price €35; note that the game will be available in German through licensing partner AMIGO Spiel.

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Average Rating:7.21
Overall Rank:2786

Designed by:	Manuel Correia
Published by:	Board&Dice
Number of players:	1 − 5
Playing time:	20 − 45 minutes
Categories:	Card Game Science Fiction
Mechanics:	Card Drafting Hand Management Pick-up and Deliver Point to Point Movement Set Collection Show More »
Language:	English German Polish
Description:	You’re part of a team of brilliant scientists working on the super secret lab: CERN. While experimenting with teletransportation your team came across a wonderful discovery: portals to new dimensions! Just imagine! Once a portal is open a whole new magical dimension is suddenly very close. All you need to do is take one step forward and you're there. The problem is... The crazy wild creatures from those other dimensions can now walk in. Oh no. Close the portals NOW! Multiuniversum is a card game puzzle in which players use actions on their cards to do research, move between 5 modules of the Hadron Collider, preparing tools so they can close portals to alternative realities. Each player has 3 cards on hand and 3 actions to make during their turn. Using these cards players can: do research (draw 2 cards) prepare a tool move to any machine module close portal use module ability When the player closes a portal he gets a sample from this universe (allows player to get bonus points) and knowledge points - described on card. Each 5 modules open 5 portals. The game ends immediately when three portals piles have run out. The scientist who got the most knowledge points receive a Nobel prize and wins the game.
Other Information:	• Price €15

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Average Rating:7.33
Overall Rank:442

Designed by:	Dan Cassar
Published by:	ABACUSSPIELE
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	30 minutes
Suggested ages:	8 and up
Categories:	Card Game
Mechanics:	Hand Management Set Collection Tile Placement
Language:	German
Description:	Arboretum is a strategy card game for 2-4 players, aged 10 and up, that combines set collection, tile-laying and hand management while playing in about 25 minutes. Players try to have the most points at the end of the game by creating beautiful garden paths for their visitors. The deck has 80 cards in ten different colors, with each color featuring a different species of tree; each color has cards numbered 1 through 8, and the number of colors used depends on the number of players. Players start with a hand of seven cards. On each turn, a player draws two cards (from the deck or one or more of the discard piles), lays a card on the table as part of her arboretum, then discards a card to her personal discard pile. When the deck is exhausted, players compare the cards that remain in their hands to determine who can score each color. For each color, the player with the highest value of cards in hand of that color scores for a path of trees in her arboretum that begins and ends with that color; a path is a orthogonally adjacent chain of cards with increasing values. For each card in a path that scores, the player earns one point; if the path consists solely of trees of the color being scored, the player scores two points per card. If a player doesn't have the most value for a color, she score zero points for a path that begins and ends with that color. Whoever has the most points wins.
Other Information:	• Designer Dan Cassar wrote about the origins of Arboretum for BGG News in March 2015. • MSRP €13

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Average Rating:6.21
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Designed by:	Christian Leonhard Jason Matthews
Published by:	Spielworxx
Number of players:	2
Playing time:	45 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	Card Game Educational Political Religious
Mechanics:	Area Control / Area Influence Card Drafting Simulation
Language:	German
Description:	Despite earlier attempts, Martin Luther started the Reformation in 1517 with his "Ninety-Five Theses". Luther criticized the selling of indulgences and stated that the Catholic doctrine of the merits of the saints had no foundation in the gospel. The "Protestants" soon incorporated doctrinal changes such as Sola Scriptura (Scripture alone) and Sola Fide (faith alone). These changes turned out to be not only theological, but also influential in the Reformation in other ways: the rise of nationalism, the Western Schism that eroded people's faith in the Papacy, the perceived corruption of the Roman Curia, the impact of humanism, and the new learning of the Renaissance that questioned much of traditional thought. The Roman Catholic church responded with a counter-reformation initiated by the Council of Trent. In the two-player game Sola Fide: The Reformation, by the renown design team of Jason Mathews and Christian Leonhard, players attempt to install Reformation in the Holy Roman Empire or try to prevent it, battling the Holy Roman Empire's Imperial Circles.

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Average Rating:7.63
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Designed by:	Katalin Nimmerfroh Dávid Turczi Mihály Vincze
Published by:	Cloud Island Mr. B Games
Number of players:	1 − 4
Playing time:	60 − 90 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Card Game Political Wargame
Mechanics:	Action Point Allowance System Co-operative Play Hand Management
Language:	English
Description:	It's 1956, and waves of protest in Poland are once again showing cracks of the Eastern European communist bloc. Emboldened by these signs, students and intellectuals in Budapest, the Hungarian capital, organize a protest of previously unseen magnitudes. As the communist leadership sweeps in to kill the movement in its tracks a violent response is provoked, thus sparking the Revolution of the 23rd of October. One player takes charge of the Soviet forces trying to shape the headlines to his liking and uses the militia and snipers of the State Protection Authority to stop the revolutionaries at all cost. The other player(s) (from 1-3 opponents) co-operatively play as the ringleaders of the revolutionary forces collecting resources (represented as icons on their cards) and recruiting other fighters to ensure the revolution's events end up in favor of their side, while fighting off tanks and soldiers in this exciting, historically inspired card driven game. Days of Ire: Budapest 1956 is played over seven days — the last week of October 1956. The Soviet commander plays headline cards at the beginning of every turn, gathering Command Points and triggering effects that sometimes help, sometimes hinder the revolutionary effort. This card-play, reminiscent of well-known card-driven wargames (CDG) such as Twilight Struggle or Labyrinth: War on Terror, is what drives the tempo and the strategic thrust of the game. The other player(s) form the revolutionary side. They collect cards and fighters for two reasons: to resolve events for boosts to their side, and to fight off militia, snipers, and Soviet tanks in a drastic fight for survival. They have to manage their positions while spreading across Budapest, carefully dividing their actions as a team and always keeping an eye on their morale lest they run out of cards. This team-playing aspect — reminiscent of highly successful cooperative games such as Pandemic — guarantees ease of access to players who would otherwise be more intimidated by a traditional CDG. If any of the revolutionary ringleaders suffer too many wounds, or if they fail to resolve enough events by the end of the game, history changes and the revolution falls. But if they keep the streets of Budapest free from oppression, the revolution lives on, to fight another day. Historical Note: In real life, the revolution succeeded, and Hungary was free for less than a week. On the 4th of November, the Soviet forces quickly recaptured the country, but that is a subject for a different game...
Other Information:	• Available at SPIEL 2016 in limited quantities for €50, with all Kickstarter extra included, according to co-designer Dávid Turczi.

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Average Rating:6.21
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Designed by:	Christian Leonhard Jason Matthews
Published by:	Stronghold Games
Number of players:	2
Playing time:	45 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	Card Game Educational Political Religious
Mechanics:	Area Control / Area Influence Card Drafting Simulation
Language:	English
Description:	Despite earlier attempts, Martin Luther started the Reformation in 1517 with his "Ninety-Five Theses". Luther criticized the selling of indulgences and stated that the Catholic doctrine of the merits of the saints had no foundation in the gospel. The "Protestants" soon incorporated doctrinal changes such as Sola Scriptura (Scripture alone) and Sola Fide (faith alone). These changes turned out to be not only theological, but also influential in the Reformation in other ways: the rise of nationalism, the Western Schism that eroded people's faith in the Papacy, the perceived corruption of the Roman Curia, the impact of humanism, and the new learning of the Renaissance that questioned much of traditional thought. The Roman Catholic church responded with a counter-reformation initiated by the Council of Trent. In the two-player game Sola Fide: The Reformation, by the renown design team of Jason Mathews and Christian Leonhard, players attempt to install Reformation in the Holy Roman Empire or try to prevent it, battling the Holy Roman Empire's Imperial Circles.
Other Information:	• Price to be announced closer to SPIEL 2016.

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Average Rating:7.62
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Designed by:	Grzegorz Okliński Krzysztof Wolicki
Published by:	REDIMP GAMES
Number of players:	1 − 4
Playing time:	90 − 150 minutes
Suggested ages:	14 and up
Categories:	City Building Civilization Economic Exploration Science Fiction Space Exploration Show More »
Mechanics:	Action Point Allowance System Co-operative Play Variable Player Powers Worker Placement
Language:	English
Description:	The first expedition to Mars ended with a heroic fight by the astronauts for survival and initiated the first mission aimed at colonizing the planet, which was financed by four corporations. Now in Martians: A Story of Civilization the human colony on Mars, managed by leaders of the corporations, has to explore the planet in search of necessary resources, build new constructions, and develop technologies adjusted to planetary conditions. Such effort is necessary not only to survive, but also to create better living standards for future generations raised by colonists.
Other Information:	• Price €45

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Average Rating:8.19
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Designed by:	Pantelis Bouboulis Sotirios Tsantilas
Published by:	LudiCreations
Number of players:	1 − 5
Playing time:	45 − 120 minutes
Suggested ages:	14 and up
Categories:	Economic Industry / Manufacturing Political
Mechanics:	Commodity Speculation Worker Placement
Language:	English Greek
Description:	Axia — a land with a glorious past, a most uncertain present, and an even more unpredictable future. Populated by what has been described as a fervent and warm-blooded people, Axia is in crisis – economic, social, and political: the longest-running recession in its modern history, the highest inequality in years, and a political system teetering on the brink of collapse. In more ways than one, Axia is fighting against itself. Old divisions of the past have given way to new ones, and this generation – along with the next ones – has the most to lose. Will you, along with your fellow industrialists, do your part to help Axia? Will you sacrifice short-term gain in the present for a brighter future? Can you do that, and survive? Perhaps you can, and perhaps you can even thrive – and you will, if you see opportunity where others only see crisis! CRISIS is a turn-based game for 1-5 players who assume the roles of businessmen, trying to rebuild their businesses and create value at a particularly challenging time. By skillfully placing their managers in a position to invest in companies, trade resources, and navigate the local bureaucracy and regulations, they can thrive and prosper in a time when others might struggle and decline.

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Average Rating:8.53
Overall Rank:4289

Designed by:	Isaac Childres
Published by:	Cephalofair Games
Number of players:	1 − 4
Playing time:	60 − 120 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	Adventure Economic Exploration Fantasy Fighting Show More »
Mechanics:	Co-operative Play Grid Movement Hand Management Modular Board Simultaneous Action Selection Variable Player Powers Show More »
Language:	English
Description:	Gloomhaven is a game of Euro-inspired tactical combat in a persistent world of shifting motives. Players will take on the role of a wandering adventurer with their own special set of skills and their own reasons for travelling to this dark corner of the world. Players must work together out of necessity to clear out menacing dungeons and forgotten ruins. In the process they will enhance their abilities with experience and loot, discover new locations to explore and plunder, and expand an ever-branching story fueled by the decisions they make. This is a legacy game with a persistent and changing world that is ideally played over many game sessions. After a scenario, players will make decisions on what to do, which will determine how the story continues, kind of like a “Choose Your Own Adventure” book. Playing through a scenario is a cooperative affair where players will fight against automated monsters using an innovative card system to determine the order of play and what a player does on their turn. Essentially, every turn a player will play two cards out of their hand. Each card has a number at the top, and the number on the first card played will determine their initiative order. Each card also has a top and bottom power, and when it is a player’s turn in the initiative order, they determine whether to use the top power of one card and the bottom power of the other, or vice-versa. Players must be careful, though, because over time they will permanently lose cards from their hands. If they take too long to clear a dungeon, they may end up exhausted and be forced to retreat.
Other Information:	• Designer/publisher Isaac Childres says that he'll be running demoes of Gloomhaven at SPIEL 2016 "using actual production copies, which I'm very excited about, so people can come by just to look at the massive amount of stuff in the box". One problem, however, is that he won't have copies of that "stuff in the box" available for purchase as at that time the games will be on a ship bound for Europe. Instead he'll be taking preorders for €99, with shipping being included in the price, and copies of the game will be delivered in November 2016 once they arrive. Childres posted more details of his SPIEL 2016 plan in this blog post. And if you can't wait to have Childres present his game to you at SPIEL 2016, you can watch him do at Origins 2016:

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Average Rating:6.56
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Designed by:	Henri Kermarrec
Published by:	Capsicum Games
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	20 − 40 minutes
Suggested ages:	8 and up
Categories:	Card Game Territory Building
Mechanics:	Hand Management Tile Placement
Language:	English French
Description:	Welcome to Noxford, a timeless city in perpetual construction that extends continuously following the rhythm of the gears that hold it. Each player leads a crime syndicate and relies on their lieutenants and henchmen to become the most influential around rich districts of the city. Set in a Steampunk universe, Noxford gives you the opportunity to take control of a Victorian city made up of cards. In turn, players place in the game either cards depicting influence of their syndicate, or neutral cards representing rich districts (victory points) as well as barracks (which cancel syndicate influence around those areas). Cards must be placed so that they touch at least two cards already in play and must have at least two edges aligned on the edges of the cards that it touches. The game ends when a player plays their last syndicate card. Then, players wins neutral districts if they have more syndicate cards than their opponents around. Neutral districts give 1 victory point per symbol on them, and a +2 bonus if the district depicts the favorite field of the player's syndicate. The player with the most victory points controls the city and wins the game!
Other Information:	• Price €12

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Average Rating:7.40
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Designed by:	Christophe Boelinger
Published by:	Ludically
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	15 − 30 minutes
Categories:	Real-time
Mechanics:	Area Control / Area Influence Tile Placement
Language:	English French
Description:	Four Gods is a real-time tile-laying game in which players create a world — one tile at a time — before laying claim to one of the four gods of their world and attempting to win followers by sending prophets into that world. In more detail, players sit outside of a cardboard frame that represents the limits of the world. Each player starts with two randomly-drawn tiles in hand, with each double-sided tile depicting 1-3 types of landscape out of the four types present in the world. When play begins, each player simultaneously starts laying tiles into the frame; each tile must be adjacent to two sides to be placed, so initially tiles can be placed only in the corners of the frames, with players building inward from there. Players can place tiles anywhere that they can legally be placed (two sides are adjacent to the frame or previously placed tiles and all landscapes match across tile borders. Instead of placing a tile, a player can place it in their personal discard area, which can hold at most ten tiles. When a player has both hands free, they can draw two new tiles from the bag; alternatively, any player with a free hand can pick up any tile in any discard area and place it in the world. At any point during the game, a player can claim one of four gods and that god's followers. Each god is associated with a particular type of landscape, e.g., the merfolk god. Once a player has followers, they can place a prophet on a tile they just placed to claim that section of landscape. Players can place any number of prophets in a landscape as long as they're placing each prophet on a tile they just added to the world. At any point in the game, if a player thinks that a section of the board cannot be filled with a tile — e.g., a space that's surrounded by four types of landscapes — that player can place a round city marker in that space. Anyone can then claim that city with a prophet. If a matching tile is found later, a player can "smash" and claim that city, replacing it with the tile. Once the world is filled or players agree that no more tiles can be placed, the game ends. Each player scores five points for each city occupied or smashed. Each landscape with one or more prophets is worth a number of points to the player(s) with the most prophets in it equal to the number of tiles in that landscape minus the number of prophets in it. The landscape with the largest mass rewards its god with a large bonus, with the second and third largest masses rewarding their gods with smaller bonuses; similarly, the landscape that appears in the most distinct groups rewards its god with a large bonus, with the second and third largest groups again rewarding their gods with smaller bonuses. Whichever god has scored the most points wins!
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Average Rating:7.88
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Designed by:	Filip Miłuński
Published by:	Granna
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	45 − 60 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	City Building Economic
Mechanics:	Card Drafting Simultaneous Action Selection Tile Placement
Language:	English
Description:	Warsaw is a unique city. It is said that it "survived its own death", and there is truth in this. Poland's capital was largely destroyed during the Second World War, and its reconstruction was an exceptional urban development process. Warsaw is a combination of elegant buildings from Saxon times, architecture from between the World Wars, socialist blocks, and modern buildings. Walking through the streets of Warsaw's Wola district, one can see this diversity at a glance. Modern glass office buildings stand next to pre-war automotive garages, and concrete block buildings touch elegant older houses, which show the signs of time's decay. Some call it a spatial mess, while others see in it the residents' determination. Both views are right because that's how Warsaw is. Maybe not the most beautiful, but strong and determined. Nothing reflects the city's character more than its diverse buildings. In Capital, players jointly build Warsaw over six epochs, from when Warsaw first became the capital at the end of the 16th century through modern times. Each player creates their own district of the city. At the end of each of the six epochs, districts give income and victory points to their owners. After six rounds, whoever has the most points wins. In more detail, each epoch consists of a construction phase and an income phase, with wars at the end of the third and fourth epochs. During the construction phase of an epoch, players shuffle the city tiles with the current epoch's number, then deal several tiles to each player. Each player chooses one of the tiles, then places it face down onto the table. All players simultaneously reveal their selected tiles, and each player chooses one of two possible actions: Discard their tile to the box and take three coins from the bank. Pay the tile's cost in coins and build the tile in their district. Instead of placing a tile on an empty space, a player may choose to build on top of an existing tile. Simply place the new tile directly onto an existing tile, covering it completely. As a result, the new tile's price is reduced by the price of the older tile that it covers. A player's district can never be larger than a 3×4 or 4×3 rectangle of tiles. Each city tile is divided into four quarters, and each quarter has its own type of building, so a tile can have 1-4 different kinds of buildings. Public buildings and milestones are always separate individual areas, even if they are adjacent to each other. They also occupy an entire tile. During the income phase, milestones are placed, and players receive coins and victory points.
Other Information:	• Price €25

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Average Rating:7.35
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Designed by:	Fabrice Vandenbogaerde
Published by:	Quined Games
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	30 − 75 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	City Building Deduction Transportation
Mechanics:	Area Control / Area Influence Auction/Bidding Pick-up and Deliver Tile Placement Worker Placement Show More »
Language:	Dutch English French German
Description:	Description from the publisher: Papà Paolo brings you to the beautiful city of Naples, birthplace of one of the world's favorite dishes: pizza. In Papà Paolo, 2 to 4 players compete to deliver the most pizzas to the hungry customers of Naples. To do this, you must outsmart your rivals by being a clever investor, bidding on the right city tiles, and creating your own little district of Naples. Over the course of five game rounds, players first have to plan their actions carefully, choosing whether they want to invest in new pizzerias, make express deliveries, get sponsored by the bank, or decide to expand their district. Once all players have used up their action tokens, players get rewarded by receiving Lira, which they can then use in a bidding phase to determine how many deliveries you can make, and how many pizzas you can deliver. Once you deliver pizzas to your hungry customers, they reward you by boosting your abilities, making each action more powerful as the game progresses. Every decision counts, but Papà Paolo is a very accessible game, which will charm players of all ages alike.
Other Information:	• MSRP €45, discounted to €43 for sales at SPIEL 2016.

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Average Rating:7.22
Overall Rank:7175

Designed by:	Ekaterina Gorn Igor Sklyuev
Published by:	Hobby World
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	40 − 60 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	Card Game Economic Science Fiction
Mechanics:	Hand Management Variable Player Powers
Language:	Russian
Description:	Master of Orion: The Board Game takes you to the world of the legendary strategy video game. You will lead one of the races that will face each other in the outer space confrontation. Destinies of secretive Darloks, genius Psilons, universal humans and many others will depend on your actions. Manage your resources skillfully and wisely and lead the development of a chosen race in the right direction. You can progress by either military means, training your spies and attacking alien planets, or choose the path of creation, controlling the weather and building space fleets. A dynamic and well-balanced game mechanics will offer you plenty of paths to the victory, and the leader of the most successful nation will be granted the Emperor's title from the Galactic Counsil.
Other Information:	• Available in separate English and Russian versions.

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Average Rating:10.00
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Designed by:	Bruno Cathala Ludovic Maublanc
Published by:	Matagot
Number of players:	2 − 5
Playing time:	60 − 90 minutes
Suggested ages:	14 and up
Categories:	Ancient City Building Civilization Fighting Miniatures Mythology Nautical Show More »
Mechanics:	Area Control / Area Influence Area Movement Auction/Bidding Card Drafting Dice Rolling Show More »
Expands:	Cyclades
Language:	Dutch English French Italian Spanish Show More »
Description:	Reinforce your cities in the Cyclades archipelago! Attract more favors from the Gods with Cyclades: Monuments, a mini-expansion for Cyclades that consists of ten monument miniatures and ten associated monument cards. Now you can build temples dedicated to Zeus or Poseidon's glory, a great university to Athena, or a citadel from which Ares will watch down with each of these new buildings giving you a unique power to achieve victory!
Other Information:	• Price €20, but discounted to €15 if you preorder for pick up at SPIEL 2016 through the Matagot website. Bundle deals with other Matagot titles are available.

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Average Rating:8.57
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Designed by:	Mateusz Albricht
Published by:	(Self-Published)
Number of players:	1 − 5
Playing time:	90 − 120 minutes
Suggested ages:	14 and up
Categories:	Fantasy Fighting Medieval
Mechanics:	Co-operative Play Point to Point Movement Variable Player Powers
Language:	English
Description:	Expand your city and face unending waves of savage enemies or lead natives to victory over foreign invaders. In The Exiled: Siege, players become outlaws who have been given a chance to atone for their crimes. In order to prove their loyalty to the ruler, they have to colonize new lands in the name of the King. They start building their city with a few inexperienced fighters and shabby buildings. By expanding fortifications, buildings and siege engines as well as by training armies, they gradually strengthen their dwelling. Unfortunately, the new land is full of aggressive natives who are ready to use any means necessary to expel the colonists. Innumerable hordes of barbarians supported by horrifying monsters and brutal war machines are eager to flood the city walls and kill the defenders to cleanse their land of foreign influence. The goal of the Defenders is to survive all waves of enemy attacks and gain the King's forgiveness. The goal of the Attacker is to conquer the city and chase the colonists away from his homeland. The game can be played in two different modes: In the first mode one of the players becomes the Attacker and the commander of the natives, while in the second mode all players become the Defenders.
Other Information:	• Booth 2-C110 as Board&Dice is serving as worldwide distributor for this self-published title. • Price €80

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Average Rating:7.31
Overall Rank:1973

Designed by:	Diego Ibañez
Published by:	Devir
Number of players:	2
Playing time:	20 − 30 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Card Game Novel-based
Mechanics:	Card Drafting Set Collection Worker Placement
Language:	Spanish
Description:	In February 1895, London woke up to a loud bang. A large pillar of smoke showed that a bomb had exploded in the Houses of Parliament. Security forces were activated immediately and they arrested a suspicious young laborer near the area. Mycroft Holmes, at the service of the crown, was commissioned to investigate the relationship of the young laborer with anarchist groups. He thinks it will be an easy task that he can do from the comfort of his armchair in the Diogenes Club — until he is informed of disturbing news; his younger brother Sherlock Holmes, Consulting Detective, has been hired by the boy's parents to prove the innocence of his son, who believes to be a scapegoat of a dark conspiracy. For the first time, the brightest minds in London face each other. Was the young laborer involved in this terrible attack or he is just a scapegoat for a dark conspiracy? A game of Holmes: Sherlock & Mycroft lasts seven turns (days of investigation). At the beginning of each day, famous characters extracted from the books of Arthur Conan Doyle appear in London. Each player has three action tokens that move from one character to another to use their special abilities, knowing that a player can never have two tokens on the same character. Therefore, a character must be freed before reuse. The abilities of each character allow them to obtain Evidence Cards or gain Investigation Tokens in multiple ways. The game has great replay value because it is not known whether a character with a specific ability will make their appearance on the board in the Day 1 or in the final Day 7. Each game is different!
Other Information:	• Available in both English and Spanish editions. • Price €20

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Average Rating:7.77
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Designed by:	Jesús Torres Castro Matt Leacock
Published by:	Z-Man Games
Number of players:	2 − 5
Playing time:	45 minutes
Suggested ages:	8 and up
Categories:	Medical
Mechanics:	Action Point Allowance System Co-operative Play Hand Management Point to Point Movement Set Collection Variable Player Powers Show More »
Language:	English
Description:	Description from the publisher: Welcome to the Iberian Peninsula! Set in 1848, Pandemic Iberia asks you to take on the roles of nurse, railwayman, rural doctor, sailor, and more to find the cures to malaria, typhus, the yellow fever, and cholera. From Barcelona to Lisboa, you will need to travel by carriage, by boat, or by train to help the Iberian populace. While doing so, distributing purified water and developing railways will help you slow the spread of diseases in this new version of Pandemic. Discover a unique part of the world during a historically significant time period: the construction of the first railroad in the Iberian Peninsula during the Spring of Nations.

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Average Rating:6.76
Overall Rank:3436

Designed by:	Brian Engelstein Geoff Engelstein Sydney Engelstein
Published by:	Stronghold Games
Number of players:	2 − 8
Playing time:	60 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Fantasy Fighting Humor
Mechanics:	Action / Movement Programming Simultaneous Action Selection Time Track Variable Player Powers
Language:	English
Description:	The Dragon & Flagon is a tavern world-renowned for its most magical drink, The Dragon. Legend has it that one sip of The Dragon can give a hero wondrous abilities beyond their wildest dreams — but with a tavern full of thirsty adventurers and only one flagon left, things are bound to go wrong. Prepare your magic and grab your weapon because there's only one true objective in this brawl — and it's not just a sip of The Dragon. Only one can win and emerge with the reputation as the greatest fighter ever seen within the walls of The Dragon & Flagon! The Dragon & Flagon is a game of chaos and mayhem for 2-8 players. Throw mugs, smash chairs, swing from the chandelier, sip from the legendary Dragon Flagon, cast spells, and pull the rug out from under your fellow adventurers as you attempt to build up your reputation and win the day! Play as one of nine unique characters in a 3D tavern environment that can be set up differently every time. Multiple play modes add even more variety. Will you leave with the greatest reputation from The Dragon & Flagon?
Other Information:	• Price to be announced closer to SPIEL 2016.

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Average Rating:7.43
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Designed by:	Jesse Li
Published by:	Moaideas Game Design
Number of players:	3 − 5
Playing time:	60 − 90 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	Card Game Civilization
Mechanics:	Auction/Bidding Take That
Language:	English
Description:	Description from the publisher: History is a harsh river that flows steadily through the ages. Since the dawn of time, numerous civilizations have risen over the fallen ashes of others, and yet every one of them had once shone brightly in its own moment of glory! The Flow of History is yet another innovative civilization game from Taiwanese designer Jesse Li. Players develop their nation using a unique bidding/price-setting mechanism to purchase new cards, but what is paid to the supply might also be harvested into the pockets of other players later, which puts a twist on your strategy of bidding cards, and also simulates economic inflation in the game. Don't forget to build a formidable military to clash with cultures led by your enemy, and create an unforgettable tale of your civilization in The Flow of History.
Other Information:	• MSRP €29, but discounted to €25 for sales at SPIEL 2016. Additionally, you can preorder for pick up in Essen or shipping to your door through the Moaideas website.

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Average Rating:8.46
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Designed by:	Scott Almes
Published by:	Gamelyn Games
Number of players:	1 − 5
Playing time:	30 − 60 minutes
Suggested ages:	14 and up
Categories:	Dice Expansion for Base-game Science Fiction Space Exploration
Mechanics:	Action / Movement Programming Area Control / Area Influence Dice Rolling Press Your Luck Set Collection Show More »
Expands:	Tiny Epic Galaxies
Language:	English
Description:	Your galaxies have expanded to the extent of known space. You overlap with your rivals and fight tooth and nail for fertile planets. Now it is time to extend the horizons. Now it is time to upgrade your ships to the limits of today’s technology, and ready them with the brave pilots. Now it is time to go beyond the deep blackness of space into the truly unknown universe… In Tiny Epic Galaxies: Beyond the Black, players have access to four new ships that they can upgrade their original ships to. To do this, they will need to hire specialized pilots. There are many pilots to hire, each possessing a unique special ability. Pilots are also specialized in what ships they are trained to use. Hiring the right pilot for a ship reduces that pilot's cost. The more ships a pilot is specialized in, the weaker their special ability is. Pilots are hired by spending unused dice that correspond with the four different ship types, and are worth victory points during play. Pilots are shuffled into a deck and splayed out like planets. Additionally, Tiny Epic Galaxies: Beyond the Black introduces a press-your-luck exploration option for players. This allows players to venture beyond the planets and into deep space where they might encounter dwarf planets worth victory points, or rare materials that yield resources... or they may encounter cosmic threats like solar storms, black holes, and even supernovas. Either way, exploring deep space provides a player with exploration badges. These badges are tallied up at the end of the game and players are rewarded bonus victory points based on who has the most of a certain badge type. They are four types of badges to collect. Tiny Epic Galaxies: Beyond the Black also comes with additional planets and new and exciting secret missions to explore!
Other Information:	• Available for previewing at Spiel 2016 ahead of its scheduled release in 2017.

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Average Rating:8.00
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Designed by:	Shadi Torbey
Published by:	Z-Man Games
Number of players:	1 − 2
Playing time:	15 − 30 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Dice Fantasy
Mechanics:	Co-operative Play Modular Board Roll / Spin and Move Set Collection
Language:	English
Description:	Description from the designer: Nautilion is a dice game in the Oniverse series! Take the helm of a Nautilion submarine and recruit a heroic crew to vanquish the treacherous Darkhouse that lurks in the oceanic depths. You must get to the Abyss, lair of the Darkhouse, before the Phantom Submarine (his henchman) reaches your homeland, the Happy Isles — but to defeat the Darkhouse, not only must you be faster than the Phantom Submarine, you must also assemble the submarine's crew along the way. Each turn, you roll three dice and give one to each of these figures: the Nautilion, the Phantom Submarine, and the Darkhouse. The dice of the Nautilion and the Phantom Submarine move those figures along a path formed by Crew tokens: the Nautilion from the Happy Isles towards the Abyss; the Phantom Submarine in the opposite direction. The crew token on which your Nautilion ends its move joins your submarine, the one the Phantom Submarine reaches is lost! Only four copies exist of each of the nine different tokens, so you have to decide carefully which die you need and which you can leave to your enemies. (The Darkhouse doesn't move, but inflicts damage to you each time he gets a die with a high value.) To win, you need to reach the Abyss with a full crew of nine different tokens. Five expansions are included with the game, adding new crew members, powers, treacheries and challenges.
Other Information:	• Available in both English and French editions.

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Average Rating:5.00
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Designed by:	Geoff Engelstein
Published by:	Stronghold Games
Number of players:	2
Playing time:	90 − 120 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Bluffing Wargame World War II
Mechanics:	Simulation
Language:	English
Description:	For months you've been planning and gathering forces for the largest invasion of the war. Your opponent knows that you are preparing a major strike, but do they know where? Suddenly you receive reports that a spy has gained information about your operation, and the enemy shifts their defensive forces. But do they know the full extent of your plans? Should you call off the invasion and plan for a new attack? Or risk disaster against a prepared enemy? This is the fog of war... The Fog of War is a two-player grand strategic game covering the European theater of World War II from 1940 to 1944. One player plays the Axis forces, and the other the Allies. The game does not have units that move around a map; instead the game focuses on the planning and intelligence aspects of the war. Each player has a deck of cards that represent the army, navy, and other assets of their nations. A map shows the 28 land and sea provinces over which the players are battling. You defend a province by placing cards face down on the map. If you wish to attack a province, you must plan an "operation" to do so by creating one on your operation wheel. The wheel is a unique way of forcing players to commit to operations in advance, while giving opportunities for intelligence gathering and bluffing. An operation consists of a province card that shows the target of the operation, plus one or more cards to conduct the attack. All of these cards are placed face down, so your opponent does not know the target of the operation or the strength of the cards that are taking part. Each turn, the dial on the operation wheel is rotated by one position. This controls when an operation can be launched and any attack or defense bonuses that apply. In addition to combat forces for attack or defense, you may also spend Intel tokens to look at your opponent’s operations and defenses.
Other Information:	• Price to be announced closer to SPIEL 2016.

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Average Rating:7.03
Overall Rank:7656

Designed by:	Krzysztof Matusik
Published by:	Tailor Games
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	15 − 30 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Deduction
Mechanics:	Pattern Building Tile Placement
Language:	English
Description:	The museum was closed on that day to not cover any tracks. The custodian, waddling back and forth on the red carpet, was plucking his hair out and quietly moaning each time he glanced at the empty space that the painting left. Guards were standing by the wall and looking at the tips of their boots. Unfortunately, the detectives did not have any good news. The perpetrator was a real pro – they did not leave anything that could lead us to him. Only those strange rumors about the man walking through the city streets, carrying a large package... The detectives in Commissioner Victor: The lost painting case must set out to capture the art thief, and whoever succeeds will earn a promotion or mention in the local newspaper! Players assume the roles of the detectives who are helping Commissioner Victor look for the thief by using tiles with suspects' faces. The player who matches the most features of the perpetrator wins. It will not be easy though, as each player tries to prove that their suspect is guilty and will disrupt other players as much as possible. Deduction and logic needed!
Other Information:	• Price €10

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Average Rating:8.40
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Designed by:	Scott Almes
Published by:	Gamelyn Games
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	30 − 60 minutes
Suggested ages:	14 and up
Categories:	Adventure Dice Fantasy Video Game Theme
Mechanics:	Area Movement Dice Rolling Modular Board Press Your Luck Worker Placement Show More »
Language:	English
Description:	A world of peace has been torn asunder by the opening of a vile portal from the goblin kingdom. Nasty goblins pour into the peaceful groves and villages of the elf world, setting the realm ablaze. Now you, the heroes, must quest in order to right this wrong. There are two paths to victory: closing the portal or slaying all the goblins. Which one will you choose? Either way, your quests will be aided by the help of the surviving mushroom folk — and by the epic items that have been lost in the realm's deep dungeons. The world is ending quickly, so you must act fast to save it, but you also need to know when your luck will run out... In Tiny Epic Quest, players embark on a sandbox adventure reminiscent of classic video games. Each player controls a band of three elf heroes questing to save the world and the sacred mushroom folk from the intruding goblins. Each round is broken into two phases: day and night. During the day, players travel far and wide, visiting villages to acquire quests, monuments to learn powerful spells, mushroom groves to seek guidance, and treacherous locations in search of artifacts! Acquiring artifacts empower the heroes with unique abilities; this may improve a heroes' movement or combat, or their ability to learn spells or mitigate harmful dice rolls. Heroes must travel by foot, by horse, by raft, by boat and by gryphon to get to everywhere they need to go to satisfy their quests — or to position themselves for what night brings. As each type of movement is different, and limited, players need to take careful consideration when traveling, and how they travel, if they wish to accomplish all of their goals. During the night, players must face the challenge of their quests, and decisions, by rolling dice, hoping for fortune, and knowing when to quit. Will you press on? Or is it time to save your progress and rest? Tomorrow is another day. The game ends once the portal is closed or all the goblins have been eradicated. The player who has acquired the most victory points by slaying goblins, learning spells, and completing quests is crowned the winner!
Other Information:	• Available for previewing at Spiel 2016 ahead of its scheduled release in 2017.

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Average Rating:7.31
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Designed by:	Marco Maggi Francesco Nepitello
Published by:	Devir
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	70 − 90 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	City Building
Mechanics:	Area Control / Area Influence Tile Placement
Language:	English Spanish
Description:	Description from the publisher: We are in Barcelona in the late 19th century. The old city walls have just been torn down, finally freeing the city's growth outward towards the old villages that surround it. Based on the plans by Cerdà, the construction of Barcelona's famous Eixample (Catalan for "expansion") has begun. It is a period of great prosperity when the burgeoning upper middle class families found their fortunes and used their wealth to demonstrate their power by constructing unique buildings and supporting initiatives for the city's inhabitants. However, not everything is so pleasant in the city. Its prosperity is drawing more and more people to work in the big city, and revolutionary movements are taking hold among the city's unemployed workers. Barcelona: The Rose of Fire is a board game for 2-4 players in which the players compete for social prestige and personal wealth while trying to avoid the revolution that is spreading through the city. In more detail, the players take turns using cards to build their influence by constructing buildings (tiles) in the new city, outside the old medieval walls. The better and more spectacular the construction, the more notoriety they gain. But at the same time, this construction boon brings many workers who are living in much cheaper venues. Building high-class buildings, while rewarding in terms of prestige, may generate unrest amongst the popular classes. In order to avoid strikes and riots, players have to make sure that they construct buildings for the popular classes as well. During the construction phase, players place workers in the Raval zone depending on the sort of buildings they construct. At the end of each era, all those workers are placed into a bag, alongside peacekeeping soldiers. Depending on the level of unrest, a number of these figures are drawn from the bag and the player with more figures drawn from their color suffers a strike.
Other Information:	• Price €50

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Average Rating:8.20
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Designed by:	Philippe Keyaerts
Published by:	Days of Wonder
Number of players:	2 − 5
Playing time:	40 − 80 minutes
Suggested ages:	8 and up
Categories:	Expansion for Base-game Fantasy Fighting Territory Building
Mechanics:	Area Control / Area Influence Area Movement Dice Rolling Variable Phase Order
Expands:	Small World
Language:	Dutch English French German Italian Japanese Polish Spanish Show More »
Description:	Description from the publisher: In Small World: River World, players discover new maps full of water regions haunted by merciless pirates. Players need to defend their precious harbors against them, fight them on the river, and still keep an eye on their opponents! Some regions such as the shipyard or the temple of the seer may help them to have the upper hand, but in River World, there is still not enough room for everybody. And random events that trigger on each turn add to the chaos! Small World: River World includes two double-sided game boards. (4 Maps of River World, contained on two double-sided boards, one for each of the four possible player configurations) Note: To play with this expansion, you will also need the following contents from Small World: race banners, special power badges, markers, victory coins, and the reinforcement die. Recommend that you remove the “Flying” special power before playing with this expansion
Other Information:	• MSRP €25 Two-player game board

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Average Rating:9.00
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Designed by:	Andrea Chiarvesio Maurizio Vergendo Pierluca Zizzi
Published by:	Yemaia
Number of players:	2 − 6
Playing time:	60 − 180 minutes
Suggested ages:	13 and up
Categories:	Civilization Expansion for Base-game Exploration Fighting
Mechanics:	Area Control / Area Influence Deck / Pool Building Grid Movement Modular Board Variable Player Powers Show More »
Expands:	Hyperborea
Language:	English German Italian
Description:	Description from the publisher: Years have passed since the fall of the magic barrier and the rediscovery of Hyperborea's heart. The six nations are still at war with each other and are always looking for more powerful weapons to win it. Digging in the ancient crypts, they think to have finally found them. Shortly before their sudden destruction, the mages from the lost civilization poured their souls into magical objects of immense power; the evil souls became Black Soul Cubes, while the good ones became White Soul Cubes. Everything was hidden in sacred arcs, named Relics, that couldn't be controlled by others. In Hyperborea: Light & Shadow, these powerful Relics provide enormous knowledge and powers and the Soul Cubes are now in the hands of the six factions: Will the destiny of humans be dominated by war, or will wisdom and prosperity prevail between the realms of Hyperborea?
Other Information:	• MSRP €25

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Average Rating:6.72
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Designed by:	Rüdiger Kopf Klaus Zoch
Published by:	Zoch Verlag
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	90 minutes
Suggested ages:	14 and up
Categories:	Humor Mature / Adult Medieval Religious
Mechanics:	Action Point Allowance System Auction/Bidding Secret Unit Deployment Set Collection Variable Player Powers Show More »
Language:	English German
Description:	As soon as a coin in the coffer rings, the soul from purgatory springs" —Johann Tetzel, 1465-1519 Mea Culpa is a paradise-and-pandemonium gamer's game that’s all about sins and sinners. Be it at the brothel or at the market, men such as the Pope or the Emperor can be seen hard at work at any time of the day. Even the most miserable miser, though, would be well advised to also strive to get hold of enough precious stones and wine to make sufficient donations towards the Lord's cathedrals. After all, it is through pious generosity that a poor soul can gain the all-important letters of indulgence and be pardoned for a life of greed and lust. When all is said done, what matters is to have sinned just enough to have achieved all goals and gotten away with it, while others took the fall. In more detail, to win, players have to end the game with their "poor souls" closer to heaven's gate than their opponents. Alas, throughout the game these poor souls pretty much exclusively move in the opposite direction, i.e., towards Hell. Only at the very end of the game might players climb back towards heaven, depending on the letters of indulgence that they managed to collect up to that point. The accumulation of these letters of indulgence is each player's primary goal. To this end, they take on the roles of different people: the Pope, the Emperor, the Merchant, or the Little Sinner. Each round, these roles in turn grant them access to different special actions. On their turn, players buy or sell goods on the market, visit the brothel to benefit from personal connections, or secretly donate money and goods to the church. Meanwhile, the construction of the game's three cathedrals proceeds. As soon as a cathedral is fully erected, the church will hand out the all-important letters of indulgence. However, only those who have donated the most in either of three categories will actually receive anything. Many perks that can be used during the game require the players to "sin". Sins are tracked by means of a tally stick and will move the player's poor soul closer to hell. The player who strikes the right balance and picks the right roles at the right time will be able to collect the most valuable letters of indulgence and might stand chance at winning the game. If a player has burdened themselves with too much sin, though, all will ultimately be for naught.
Other Information:	• MSRP €45, discounted to €38 for sales at SPIEL 2016.

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Average Rating:7.88
Overall Rank:3970

Designed by:	Asger Johansen
Published by:	Grey Fox Games
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	60 − 90 minutes
Suggested ages:	14 and up
Categories:	Horror Murder/Mystery Real-time
Mechanics:	Co-operative Play Variable Player Powers
Language:	English
Description:	London Dread is a co-operative game set in Victorian England. Players take on the role of investigators trying to uncover plots on the way to confronting a story specific finale. The game is gritty and thematic, featuring a series of dark events and story lines (such as the appearance of a caped killer on the streets of London) with a hint of the supernatural. The game is broken into a series of stories, usually played over the course of 2 chapters, in which players alternately participate in a timed planning phase where various obstacles and plots are uncovered and then an untimed story phase where players resolve the effects of their planning. The result is a tense and truly cooperative experience where players must work together, communicate well, plan effectively, and use the strengths of their investigators in an attempt to stay a step ahead on the mean streets of the city.
Other Information:	• Price €55

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Average Rating:9.02
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Designed by:	Simone Romano Nunzio Surace
Published by:	Ares Games Gremlin Project
Number of players:	1 − 5
Playing time:	60 − 90 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	Adventure Fantasy Fighting Miniatures
Mechanics:	Action Point Allowance System Area Movement Co-operative Play Dice Rolling Modular Board Variable Player Powers Show More »
Language:	English
Description:	Description from the publisher: Sword & Sorcery is an epic-fantasy cooperative board game in which 1-5 players fight together against the forces of evil, which are controlled by the game system itself. Each player controls one or more heroes – legendary characters brought back to life by powerful sorcery. Weakened by the resurrection, they grow stronger during their story-driven quests. By acquiring soul points during battles, the heroes' souls regenerate, restoring their legendary status with multiple powers, magic and soul weapons, and powerful artifacts. Designed by Gremlin Project (the same team who created Galaxy Defenders), the game system in Sword & Sorcery represents the perfect evolution of its forerunner. Gameplay is faster and dynamic, thanks to an innovative area movement and area control system, with new features never seen before in a game of this category. Key features of Galaxy Defenders are also preserved in Sword & Sorcery, such as the advanced AI system for monsters, a high degree of character customization, and the multiple tactical options during battles. Sword & Sorcery packs, in a top-quality board game format, all the excitement of the best MMORPGs and action RPGs, to provide the ultimate heroic fantasy board game adventure.
Other Information:	• Available for previewing at SPIEL 2016 ahead of its scheduled release in January 2017. • Designers Simone Romano and Nunzio Surace will be at the Ares Games booth on Friday and Saturday at 15:00 to present and demo *Sword & Sorcery*.

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Average Rating:8.12
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Designed by:	Stefan Alexander
Published by:	Mücke Spiele
Number of players:	2 − 6
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Science Fiction Spies/Secret Agents
Mechanics:	Action / Movement Programming Area Control / Area Influence Deck / Pool Building Pick-up and Deliver
Language:	English French German
Description:	Welcome to 1950s USA — the era of huge cars, rock 'n' roll, and alien activity! To prevent a mass panic, the President has ordered his generals to store all evidence of the existence of aliens. In Area 51, a secret military base in the Nevada desert, players store all the futuristic weapons, unbelievable tools, and alien corpses in high-end storage facilities. However, this base is capable of hiding only certain artifacts and must be improved all the time. The generals try to outperform each other in building and upgrading the facilities and the infrastructure in addition to finding the optimal logistics for storing the artifacts to please the President. In Area 51: Top Secret, players encounter several categories of artifacts — ships, weapons, tools, etc. — which are numbered 1-4 to show how dangerous they are (and therefore what security level is needed to store them). Players must build storage facilities to store these artifacts. Artifact cards need to be collected, but the decisive element in the game is that once a player chooses to pick up a pile of artifact cards to place them into storage facilities, they need to store ALL cards possible, including those that will score points for the other players. The main strategy of the game is thus to use the existing storage facilities and transportation vehicles to optimize one's own scoring.
Other Information:	• MSRP €39, but discounted to €36 for sales at SPIEL 2016.

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Average Rating:6.95
Overall Rank:574

Designed by:	Reiner Knizia
Published by:	DiceTree Games
Number of players:	2 − 6
Playing time:	45 − 60 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Animals Racing Sports
Mechanics:	Betting/Wagering Roll / Spin and Move
Language:	English French German Korean
Description:	A lively game of horse racing where players bet on several of seven horses to try to gain the most money by the end of the game. A re-issue by Alea of Knizia's Turf Horse Racing published by Gibsons Games. This edition has better graphics and uses the same mechanism of 4 symbols on the horse cards also appearing on the die. Players roll the die and choose which horse you want to move from those not taken their turn yet. The seven horses vary in strength, but even the weakest horses have some amazing bursts of speed. Players bet on the horses before each race and so either co-operate or compete to get their horses over the line. There are money tokens now for the winners, but not enough supplied in the game to pay out properly. There are various differences between this edition and THR. There are only 3 races instead of 4. The circuit is oval, the horses start in a line of seven places, not all together. In the race, they cannot share spaces so a horse can only move to the next available empty space. This can make it easy to block the ones at the back and it's nearly possible to lap the final horse, or end the race before it's even crossed the start line. I've never seen a horse race where they start nose to tail! There is a variant where the betting is done secretly with players using a 0 betting chip (for bluffing) in addition to the 2,1 and 1 betting chips of the basic game. There's also a sprint bonus in the race and a penalty for the last horse. Republished by Face 2 Face Games as "Winner's Circle" in 2006. "Royal Turf" is #2 in the Alea small box series.
Other Information:	• MSRP €48, but discounted to €39 for sales at SPIEL 2016; copies purchased at SPIEL 2016 will include thirty wooden betting chips and one sticker sheet.

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Average Rating:8.88
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Designed by:	Jose Antonio Abascal Acebo
Published by:	Devir
Number of players:	3 − 5
Playing time:	20 − 30 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Deduction Spies/Secret Agents
Mechanics:	Pattern Recognition
Language:	English Spanish
Description:	Description from the publisher: Checkpoint Charlie is a game of observation, deduction, and mental agility. Watch all the suspects carefully and find out which of them is the chief of spies using the clues that you and the other investigators uncover. Be the first to find the chief of spies and become the best hound dog! In the game, each player receives a clue that reveals one out of five possible traits of the chief of spies. Each player keeps revealing cards, indicating whether each character is a suspect or not. As the game progresses, players gather more and more clues to lead them towards the chief of spies. This chief of spies will coincide with five out of five possible clues, and his aides will match four out of those five. Whoever accuses the chief of spies on time gets the most points. Players who accuse the aides will also earn some points, while the other players might not receive any points at all — or even negative rewards. The game includes two optional rules that add more strategy to the gameplay. Checkpoint Charlie is set during the cold war, and the subject of detectives and spies is applied using cartoon-stylized dogs and cats.
Other Information:	• Price €18

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Average Rating:7.77
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Designed by:	Marcin Danysz
Published by:	Cube Factory of Ideas
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	30 − 60 minutes
Suggested ages:	8 and up
Categories:
Mechanics:	Area Control / Area Influence Dice Rolling Modular Board Variable Player Powers
Language:	English Polish
Description:	A huge meteor containing some form of extra-terrestrial life crashes to Earth somewhere in the icy wasteland of Antarctica. The American government sets up a secret facility whose goal is to contain and examine these new and unfamiliar lifeforms — but something goes wrong. A huge storm damages the station, destroying vital systems. The alien microbes escape and begin to spread and conflict with each other, while the station's human inhabitants rapidly succumb to the cold. The last survivor, afraid of what the microbes could do to humanity, initiates a self-destruction procedure. There are four minutes left... Chromosome is an asymmetrical, tactical board game for 2-4 players. As an alien microbe, unaware of your impending doom, you struggle to survive and to escape the laboratory. As one of four microbe species, you have four general and four unique actions to take during your turn. You use them to spawn your microbe, fight other microbes, manipulate energy, create radioactive spaces, and finally mutate – to get new genes (four different types) that will help you to fight better, grow faster, and overcome your opponents. Your goal is to create the most effective set of genes to thrive in an environment that might be different each time you play. You win the game and escape the station if you have more population tokens on the board and more enemy microbes destroyed than any other player.
Other Information:	• Price €35

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Average Rating:4.75
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Designed by:	David Parlett
Published by:	IELLO Purple Brain Creations
Number of players:	2 − 6
Playing time:	45 − 60 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Adventure Novel-based Racing Transportation
Mechanics:	Hand Management
Language:	English
Description:	October 2, 1872, Phileas Fogg is pretending that it’s possible to go around the world in 80 days. The gentlemen of the Reform Club have made a bet on his failure, since they don’t believe this eccentric dandy could ever succeed! However, the most troubling part of this story is the strange coincidence between the rash depart of Phileas Fogg, accompanied by his loyal valet Passepartout, and the theft of 50,000 pounds from the Bank of England! The first lady or gentleman to return to London wins the game. However, since you left the British capital suspected of stealing from Her Majesty’s bank, you will have to return to London without any Rumor cards and 10£ or less in your pocket (or rather, in your hand) in order to prove your innocence in the eyes of the world! Players will quickly discover that moving too fast drains their wallet just as fast. To win, you will have to alternate between cautious and ambitious advances, waiting for the right moment to return to the city! Around the World in 80 Days is a beautiful and modern republication of the first ever Spiel des Jahres winner (the most prestigious Game of the Year award in 1974), thematically revisited around the timeless and beloved novel of the same name by Jules Verne.
Other Information:	• Available in separate English and French editions. • Debuts at SPIEL 2016 ahead of its scheduled release in November 2016. • Designer David Parlett and illustrator Tom Vuarchex will be in the IELLO booth on Thursday from 12:00 to 13:00 and on Friday from 11:00 to 12:00 to sign copies of the game. • Price €35

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Average Rating:7.27
Overall Rank:5698

Designed by:	Jeffrey D. Allers Bernd Eisenstein
Published by:	Grey Fox Games
Number of players:	2 − 5
Playing time:	30 − 60 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Adventure Dice
Mechanics:	Area Control / Area Influence Dice Rolling
Language:	English
Description:	Order of the Gilded Compass is a dice assignment game for 2-5 players. In this game, each player takes on the role of a treasure hunter seeking invitation to join the most prestigious of archaeological secret societies. Players scour the globe to unearth fantastic and valuable artifacts. By assigning their archaeologist dice to the right locations at the right time, players acquire treasure maps and specialists to follow them, dive for sunken treasure, acquire rare finds at the auction house, and even enlist the help of the Illuminati. The player who has the most treasure at the end of the game earns an invitation to The Order of the Gilded Compass and wins. Order of the Gilded Compass uses a variable set-up in order to create fresh and interesting game play experiences. Each game has five locations in play to which players may assign their dice for various kinds of treasures and bonuses, and the game includes nine different buildings to allow for many unique combinations.
Other Information:	• Price €35

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Average Rating:7.12
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Designed by:	Eilif Svensson Kristian Amundsen Østby
Published by:	Aporta Games PixieGames
Number of players:	2 − 4
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Ancient Medieval Science Fiction
Mechanics:	Area Control / Area Influence Card Drafting Hand Management
Language:	English French
Description:	Description from the publisher: Will you play citizens into your hometown for points, or contribute them to the capital and benefit from their special abilities? In Capital Lux, you always balance on a razor's edge, so will you take risks? Bluff? Or follow a carefully laid plan? The choice is yours in this clever card game, featuring beautiful art by American painter Kwanchai Moriya. Each round begins with the players drafting a hand of five or six character cards. On your turn, you must play a card either in front of you (your hometown) or in the middle of the table (the capital). When you play a card into the capital, you benefit from the card's special ability. Each character belongs to one of four professions, and their special abilities are: Merchant: Take 1 gold coin. Gold coins can be used at the end of a round to increase your own limit for one of the four professions. Agent: Draw a secret modifier card and add it (face down) to one of the four professions in the capital. This will affect the limit of the chosen profession at round's end. Scholar: Draw a card from the deck into your hand. Cleric: Move the lowest valued card of any profession from the capital into your hometown At the end of a round, for each profession, you are not allowed to have a higher total value in your hometown than the current total value in the capital. If you break the limit for one of the professions, you lose all cards of that profession from your hometown. At the end of the third round, all characters remaining in a player's hometown are worth points. This means that for every card there's a dilemma of whether to add it to your hometown for possible points, or to the capital which not only gives you the benefit from a special ability, but also increases the potential points for all players. Since every player is dealt only five or six cards at the beginning of a round, every card play is crucial...
Other Information:	• Price €15, with any two of the new-for-2016 Aporta Games titles for €25, or all three for €35; what's more, if you reserve copies for pick up at SPIEL 2016 through the Aporta Games website, those bundle prices fall to €20 for two games and €30 for all three games.

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Average Rating:6.60
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Designed by:	Friedemann Friese
Published by:	2F-Spiele
Number of players:	3 − 8
Playing time:	10 − 20 minutes
Suggested ages:	7 and up
Categories:	Card Game Number
Mechanics:	Hand Management Take That
Language:	German
Description:	Be the first player to get rid of all of your cards! Join forces with fellow players to beat cards played by other players...or independently play the highest card to outdo all your opponents together, flushing their cards down the drain! Fuji Flush is a fast, fun, easy-to-learn card game that will have you shouting as your cards are sent down the drain! Fuji Flush is a card game, which consists of cards numbered 2 through 20, with higher numbers being rarer. Each player holds six cards at the beginning. In clockwise order, players play one card each. If it is higher than another card currently on the table, the lower card or cards are discarded and the players who had played the lower cards must draw a new card. However, if two or more players play the same number, the card values are added together. When it is a player's turn and their card is still in front of them, they can discard it without redrawing. First player(s) to get rid of their cards wins! Fuji Flush is supports from 3 to 8 players! A great game for large player counts!
Other Information:	• MSRP €8

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Average Rating:4.10
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Designed by:	Aigar Alaveer Inga Alaveer
Published by:	2D6.EE
Number of players:	2 − 6
Playing time:	15 − 30 minutes
Suggested ages:	8 and up
Categories:	Exploration
Mechanics:	Modular Board Tile Placement
Language:	English Estonian German Russian
Description:	"My phone alerts me — a new geocache has been published. A glance at the map makes me smile because I know this piece of woodlands! Here I grab my rubber boots and a towel, turn on the GPS device, and run to get the car. A cup of tea is left behind on the table, half-filled with tea that is still hot." FTF: First to Find is a geocaching-themed card game that lets players experience the same kind of emotions that they would get from playing in the open air. One can choose between various types of geocaches, and whoever reaches to the cache first is the lucky winner, of course. During set-up, players form a 7x7 square from landscape tiles from starting locations they select. During a player's turn, they can either move and reveal the current tile or just reveal the tile, based on the path chosen. Players can choose between searching three different cache types — normal, multi- and mystery cache — with all having different conditions for finding them.
Other Information:	• MSRP €10

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Average Rating:7.25
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Designed by:	Olivier Grégoire
Published by:	Zoch Verlag
Number of players:	3 − 6
Playing time:	30 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Deduction Party Game
Mechanics:	Co-operative Play Pattern Building Pattern Recognition Voting
Language:	English French German Italian
Description:	Description from the publisher: Dreams is a game of perception and intuition with 72 large cards illustrated by eight different artists. In each round, four pictures are revealed. The players are gods who transfer one of these images onto the night sky as a new constellation of stars. Which one is transferred is determined in such a way that all players but one know the picture in question. The one who doesn't know which picture was chosen tries to remain undetected during the round. Star by star, the players now transfer the picture onto the night sky (i.e., the central mat) until all stars are placed. There is a good chance that different players will emphasize different aspects of the picture in question. After the placement phase, the "Gods" try to detect the "ignorant" player, while the ignorant player tries to name the picture that was chosen. The right balance between keeping the imposter in the dark and not giving the regular players cause for suspicion has to be struck...
Other Information:	• MSRP €35, discounted to €29 for sales at SPIEL 2016.

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Average Rating:7.84
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Designed by:	Alain Epron
Published by:	Quined Games
Number of players:	2 − 5
Playing time:	60 − 90 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	Deduction Economic Exploration Nautical
Mechanics:	Action Point Allowance System Auction/Bidding Modular Board Variable Phase Order Worker Placement Show More »
Language:	Dutch English French German
Description:	In Vanuatu, you are a Vanuatuan who wants to prosper during the eight turns of the game. In order to prosper, you have to manage with natural resources, rare items, vatus (local currency) and tourists. To earn money or prosperity points, you may also draw on the sand, carry tourists all over Vanuatu islands, or trade cargo with foreign countries. On each turn, the archipelago expands and you have to program your actions with five tokens. You put one or more of them on the chosen action spaces, and on your turn, you will only be able to play an action if you have the majority on its space. Thus, sometimes have to wait for other players to remove their tokens by playing their actions. If you are not in majority anywhere, you have to remove all of your tokens from an action and give up hope of playing this action. A good strategy lets you block other players; for example, they won't be able to sell fishes if they haven't caught them first – order matters! Islands and sea resources are rare, so be quick and take them first! There is no such thing as a rich Vanuatuan. When you reach ten Vatus, they automatically transform into 5 prosperity points and again, you are poor. Life is hard, but you may encounter ten men to help you; on each turn you choose one of them to increase your benefits from an action. As always, being the first player lets you choose before the others. In short, Vanuatu* is a strategy game of programming and majorities that features development, blocking, and a lot of interaction between players. This Quined Master Print edition brings you the wonderful original game, as well as the Rising Waters expansion and the extra character of the Governor, with completely new artwork by Konstantin Vohwinkel. The Rising Waters expansion adds a whole new level of tension to the game: Global warming threatens Vanuatu. Many islands are in danger of disappearing under the sea due to rising waters. Players will therefore have to unite to protect the islands by building dikes. However, the interests of one are not necessarily the interests of others. (*) Sand Drawing in Vanuatu belongs to the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity of the UNESCO.
Other Information:	• MSRP €45, discounted to €43 for sales at SPIEL 2016.

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Average Rating:8.67
Overall Rank:2971

Designed by:	Vital Lacerda
Published by:	Eagle-Gryphon Games
Number of players:	1 − 4
Playing time:	60 − 135 minutes
Suggested ages:	14 and up
Categories:	Economic Industry / Manufacturing
Mechanics:	Area Control / Area Influence Variable Phase Order Worker Placement
Language:	English
Description:	Vinhos (the Portuguese word for "wines") is a trading and economic game about wine making. Despite its small size, Portugal is one of the world's leading wine producers. Over six years of harvests, cultivate your vines, choose the best varieties, hire the best oenologists, take part in trade fairs, and show your opponents you are the best winemaker in the game. As winemakers in Portugal, the players develop their vineyards and produce wine to achieve maximum profit. The object of the game is to produce quality wines that can be exchanged for money or victory points. The Vinhos Deluxe Edition features new art from Ian O'Toole, all components and improved rules of the original game of Vinhos, and a new simplified version of the game. The board is double-sided and features both versions of the game. Here are the main differences from the first edition of Vinhos: Double-sided player boards can be used in both game versions A ninth region has been added A new estate has been added The Farmer (a new character) has been added The Fair has been streamlined with new mechanisms 18 actions tiles to replace the manager's actions 22 multiplier tiles to final scoring The bank action has been removed The zero initial Vintage tile has been removed The exportation action has been optimized for 2 players A few small rules like the limit on experts was removed and the action replaced for another vineyards action No exceptions on a number of things you can do in your turn, now you can buy, hire, sell, export 1 or 2 things in every action Explanation of gameplay was reduced a lot New solo rules designed for the new game version
Other Information:	• Designer Vital Lacerda will be on hand throughout SPIEL 2016 at booth 7-E109 to sign and demo this game. • In addition to the Vinhos Deluxe Edition base game, at SPIEL 2016 Eagle-Gryphon Games will have four expansions: *Connoisseur Expansion Pack, Experts Expansion Pack, Islands Expansion Pack, and Tasting Room Expansion Pack*

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Average Rating:8.50
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Designed by:	Filip Głowacz Ireneusz Huszcza
Published by:	Board&Dice
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	60 − 120 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	Economic Industry / Manufacturing
Mechanics:	Action / Movement Programming Area Control / Area Influence Auction/Bidding Set Collection Worker Placement Show More »
Language:	English German Polish
Description:	Description from the publisher: In Beer Empire, you become the owner of a brewery who strives for market share by skillfully matching recipe ingredients. At the same time, you aspire to brew beer that's the best of the festival — but these two elements do not always go hand in hand. That’s why players have to examine what the market expects from their beer, which styles are in current trend, and what festival critics like. As if that was not enough, the world in which we brew beer is alive! Shifts on the beer market change trends and critics taste. The market set-up is unique each time, so you need to manage your resources wisely and follow carefully the market and other players' actions. Beer Empire is mainly based on a set-collection mechanism as players compose recipes using a variety of ingredients (resource tiles) like light and dark malts, hops, fermentation type (open or closed) and type of container (bottle, can, barrel or keg). Each of these components may add different effects and influence on quality of beer. Increase/decrease beer attributes (aroma, color, taste) Produce more or less bottle caps (market share) Add extra points What ingredients we’d use, thereby what effects in our beer we’d get influence all game areas: Market (area control), represents what consumers expect from beer. Some prefer aromatic beer, some prefer to drink from bottles, other ones favor specific style (India Pale Ale, Bock, Pilsner). Players brew beer that meets several tastes thereby achieve points from different markets at the same time! Beer Festival(bidding & combo): Here matters especially aroma, color, taste. These characteristics are assessed by the critic. He assign festival points and it’s worth effort because only at the festival you can win rare brewing passion tiles! Trends: In Beer Empire world there are few main beer trends (Pilsner, Bock, India Pale Ale, Lager and ALE). Brewing beer compatible to the trend gives you experience tile that opens new great possibilities for brewing! What is most important, it is up to you and your abilities of smart resource management (tile placement & worker placement) and right recipes composing, which direction you’ll go. Would you accomplish goals in all fields or you’d focus just on chosen elements? What we want to underline is that each of these elements influence on each other making every play one of a kind. It seems it’s gonna be a really hard work to build your Beer Empire.

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Average Rating:7.01
Overall Rank:7508

Designed by:	Krzysztof Matusik
Published by:	Tailor Games
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	30 − 60 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	Card Game Fantasy
Mechanics:	Deck / Pool Building Hand Management
Language:	English
Description:	I have met a young noble while traveling. It seemed that he has everything anyone could ever want: son of a wealthy prince and highlander, descending from the famous winemakers, heir to the fortune, chief to the conscript army of the east flank, university scholar, educated, handsome and desired by ladies of all ages... And somehow there was always some kind of melancholy and sorrow written on his face. Once during shared meal, the noble confessed what grieves him: he never tasted what real adventure is. He heard tales of heroes and journeys – he wanted it himself but did not know how to begin. So I helped him by taking him to the Adventure's Gate, notorious inn where you can find adventurers ready to brave the world. And this is how it begins... Tavern Tales is a card-game in which players build their decks on their own. Their deck consists of adventurers who crave fame and, well, adventure. Each of 15 characters in the game possesses their own unique ability, so the choice of characters that the players recruit has direct impact on their win chance. You need to choose your party members so their abilities complement each other. Although rules are easy, winning the game is not. Players have to demonstrate their strategic thinking, long-term planning, and ability to react to the other players' moves. The game is divided into nine rounds. In each round, each player performs their turn. During this turn, player must perform two out of three available actions Play a card face-up and use its ability. Play a card face-down and recruit a character or take on a quest. Play a set of cards from the same character. Thanks to synergy between cards, players try to recruit as many characters as possible and complete as many quests as possible. At the end of the game, players earn prestige points for characters met during the game and for completed quests.
Other Information:	• Price €12

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Average Rating:7.09
Overall Rank:3762

Designed by:	Max Valembois
Published by:	Blue Cocker Games
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	30 − 60 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Exploration Fantasy Fighting Medieval
Mechanics:	Area Control / Area Influence Area Movement Modular Board Worker Placement
Language:	English French
Description:	Before these elegant little wooden figures served faithfully in Carcassonne City and many other playful treasures, did you know that the meeples were originally battle vehicles for the four kingdoms of Lilliput? Embody yourself as one of the leaders of those kingdoms and re-enact (in actual size!) those tremendous battles of history. Develop your city, claim new territories, fight for glory, and destroy enemy cities: It’s time for meeple war! To win Meeple War, gain six victory points by fighting enemy armies, destroying enemy cities, and gaining control of areas. Over the course of the game, you develop your city, build powerful armies, fight and destroy buildings. In this game of timing and strategy, anticipation and diplomatic skill — or perhaps crying — is key to victory.
Other Information:	• Price €30

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Average Rating:7.48
Overall Rank:4360

Designed by:	Kota Nakayama
Published by:	EmperorS4 Games
Number of players:	2
Playing time:	15 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Card Game Medieval
Mechanics:	Action / Movement Programming Area Control / Area Influence Card Drafting Hand Management
Language:	Chinese English Japanese
Description:	Welcome to the most well-known geisha street in the old capital, Hanamikoji. Geisha — the graceful women elegantly mastering in art, music, dance, and a variety of artistic performances after years of training — are greatly respected and adored. Geisha may be translated to "artist" and they dance, sing and entertain everyone. In Hanamikoji, two players compete to earn the favors of the seven geisha masters by collecting the performance items with which they excel. With careful speculation and sometimes a few bold moves, you may earn the essential items by giving away the less critical ones. Can you outsmart your opponent and win the most favors of the geisha?
Other Information:	• Price €13, with preorder available for pick up at SPIEL 2016 or shipping to your door.

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Average Rating:9.33
Overall Rank:7313

Designed by:	Richard Borg Eric M. Lang Jason Little Kevin Wilson
Published by:	Modiphius Entertainment
Number of players:	1 − 8
Playing time:	30 − 180 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Fighting
Mechanics:	Dice Rolling Modular Board Variable Player Powers
Language:	English
Description:	Siege of the Citadel 2nd Edition is a reboot of Mutant Chronicles: Siege of the Citadel and is set in the Mutant Chronicles universe with each player controlling one of five corporations: Imperial, Cybertronic, Mishima, Capitol, or Bauhaus. The players must prevent the Dark Legion and one of its vile leaders from conquering the solar system. Each successful mission brings news of monstrous foes and terrifying events as the heroes explore the modular Citadel. Promotion gives credits to access more powerful weaponry and abilities, while secret missions can cause chaos for the heroes! The narrative-led design of Siege of the Citadel updates and balances the gameplay of the original release and adds new campaigns based on major events from the Mutant Chronicles universe and new creatures, such as the Praetorian Stalkers. During each mission a different player will control the Dark Legion forces, while their fellow players attempt to fight their way through the citadel. Players select one of five factions (each with a unique faction ability) with two figures representing a team. Characters have 5 wounds, but their team shares promotional points, which are now tracked in units of 10 and through rank cards as the heroes increase in experience. Teams have secret secondary missions which may be at odds with the rest of the teams in the game and doomtrooper cards can give tactical advantages or be discarded to take an extra action. As players take it in turns to play the Dark Legion they get to control the vast Citadel of Alakhai on Venus, its defences and the terrifying creatures ready to do battle with humankind. Each turn they will summon reinforcements, play event cards to further challenge the doomtroopers and try to defeat their friends with the forces of the Dark Legion. If the Dark Legion player does well at the role, his doomtrooper team gains promotion points to advance their characters’ rank for when they play the next mission!
Other Information:	• Debuting at Spiel 2016.

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Average Rating:6.42
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Designed by:	Inka Brand Markus Brand Michael Rieneck
Published by:	HUCH! & friends
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	45 − 60 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Adventure Fantasy Humor Medieval Renaissance Travel Show More »
Mechanics:	Point to Point Movement
Language:	English French German
Description:	In Touria, Princess Tara has decided to marry – but not just anyone, of course. She expects a lot from her husband-to-be: Heroic deeds and precious gifts are a must. A group of bold adventurers set out to pit themselves against dragons, dig up gems from the haunted mines of the country – and make a good deal from time to time, since the father of the bride demands an appropriate price for his daughter's hand. Touria's dancing towers show the heroes the way, so the brave men and women go from one adventure to the next. Brave women? Of course – or have we forgotten to mention that Tara's handsome brother, Prince Talan, is also of marriageable age?
Other Information:	• Designers Inka Brand, Markus Brand and Michael Rieneck and illustrator Klemens Franz will be in the HUCH! & friends booth on Thursday from 16:00 to 16:30 and on Saturday from 11:00 to 11:30 to sign games. • MSRP €34

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Average Rating:8.36
Overall Rank:5292

Designed by:	Rudy Seuntjens
Published by:	Game Brewer
Number of players:	2 − 5
Playing time:	60 − 120 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	Economic Fantasy Mythology
Mechanics:	Auction/Bidding Worker Placement
Language:	Dutch English French German
Description:	Pixie Queen is a kickstarter game, and has been funded as of September 22. You still have time to opt in until October 19 at this page. Pixie Queen is a smoothly playing worker-placement game about a pixie queen who rules over her subordinates like a true tyrant. The legend tells of pixies being small, flying, naughty creatures often spotted in the area of Cornwall and Devon in the UK. Apart from the stealing, bullying and torturing, they are considered a big nuisance to the human inhabitants of the region. According to the game, they are obliged to do so by their pixie queen... The player with the fewest points wins since the only points one can earn (or avoid) during the game are penalty points. Reward points are given out only at the end of the game, and you can receive rewards by charming the Queen with a golden ring, making additional offerings during the game, or promoting your pixies to faithful servants of the Queen. Obtaining each reward demands completely different game tactics. In summary, the game consists of a maximum of seven rounds with five phases each: Steal food (honey, apples, bread) in Truro, the nearest human village. Perform actions with your four action disks to maximize your profits and gain more goods. There is a choice of no less than 21 different actions. For most actions, two action disks are needed unless you can enlist the help of a pixie. Offer simultaneously with all other players gold, silver or food to the Queen. She only accepts the food for which she has a craving in this round. Receive possible rewards: Promote pixies to become a faithful servant or get a better trading position to obtain gold or golden rings. Penalty points are given to the pixies that didn’t achieve enough according to the Queen.
Other Information:	• Available for demo games at SPIEL 2016 to coincide with an ongoing Kickstarter funding campaign.

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Average Rating:8.50
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Designed by:	Eros Lin Zong-Hua Yang (Bob)
Published by:	EmperorS4 Games
Number of players:	2 − 5
Playing time:	60 − 90 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Economic
Mechanics:	Card Drafting Point to Point Movement Set Collection Worker Placement
Language:	Chinese English
Description:	The round houses (a.k.a., Fujian Tulou) are unique rural dwellings that can be found in the mountain areas in southeastern Fujian, China, dating back to the Ming dynasty (17th century). A round house is a large, multi-floor, enclosed, and fortified earth building housing usually a whole clan, which functions as a village and is known as "a little kingdom for the family". In the game Round House, players are the head of a family who tries to lead their members to glory. Players take turns moving their pawns around the circular building in one direction, performing different actions to get goods, trade goods for money, hire experts, send family members for distant business, and eventually bring the families home to worship the ancestors. By cleverly moving your pawns around the round house and maximizing the performance of your faithful family members, you might become the most glorious family and win the game!
Other Information:	• Price €45, with preorder available for pick up at SPIEL 2016 or shipping to your door. • In addition to the base game, *Round House: 1st Expansion – Additional Tiles* exists and is available at a preorder price of €5.

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Average Rating:5.45
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Designed by:	Alexandros Kapidakis
Published by:	Drawlab Entertainment
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	30 − 45 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	Card Game Movies / TV / Radio theme
Mechanics:	Deck / Pool Building Hand Management Set Collection
Language:	English
Description:	Description from the publisher: Motion Pictures is a card game that uses a hand management mechanism with strong set collection and deck building elements. At the beginning of the game, we have several available projects for the players to compete in. Every turn a player can choose between three actions: shoot, hire and recast. While shooting, a player places a filmmaker at an available project. If a project's requirements are met the player places the completed project in his score pile. When hiring, a player takes an advanced filmmaker into his hand from the advance row by discarding another filmmaker of the same specialty. Advance filmmakers have multiple skills and special abilities. Using the recast action, a player can draw a new card from his deck by discarding any one card from his hand. The four types of projects have different requirements. Movies need skills, based on their difficulty. Tv series need a defined number of skills while excluding some in particular. Commercials need specialties, not specific skills, whereas awards need exactly the skills shown on them and nothing more. Finally, there is also the trilogy in which all players can place filmmakers in secret during the course of the whole game and gain fame at the end according to the skills played. After a project is completed it is replaced by a new one from the upcoming projects pile. When the pile is depleted, players play a last round before the era is completed. The game ends after four eras and the final scoring occurs. It is a light to medium game, equally suited for families and gamers, and is recommended for players 12 years old and up. Two to four players can have the unique experience of managing a movie studio and each game lasts about forty minutes.
Other Information:	• Debuting at Spiel 2016. • Price €20

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Average Rating:8.08
Overall Rank:4509

Designed by:	Sami Laakso
Published by:	Snowdale Design
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	20 − 40 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Animals Card Game Fantasy Print & Play
Mechanics:	Card Drafting Deck / Pool Building Dice Rolling Hand Management Set Collection Take That Show More »
Language:	English
Description:	The world has grown smaller. Civilizations around different continents have established independent free trade cities in order to ease trading between distant lands. One of those cities, Yengzuh, is now looking for a new ruler – a new Trade Master. The post is only open every ten years and the selection of the said individual is no small task. It’s handled by holding a trading competition as it’s in everyone’s best interest to get the best merchant chosen for the job. All the participating merchants are prestigious, but the competition also tests their ability to deal with unexpected situations. After all, the winner will be responsible of keeping the global prices more fair and stable for years to come. There are only twelve free trade cities in the world. Yengzuh near Pandala is one of the oldest. The Guild of Extraordinary Traders from Dale promoted the founding of the city after the trade wars in Asia had spread too wide. The city’s harbour has tens of great ships all the time, loading and unloading passengers and cargo. In Dale of Merchants 2, players take the roles of those participating merchants learning new techniques, trading goods, and managing their stock. The player who first manages to complete their astounding merchant stall wins the game and gets access to the guild! Dale of Merchants 2 contains six new decks and can be played by itself or combined with the decks from Dale of Merchants. The game includes a new ruleset for four players that introduces team battle! These new rules greatly enhance the four-player experience by adding cooperation between teammates and cutting downtime. These rules can also be used with the original game's six decks.
Other Information:	• Price €20, with the original *Dale of Merchants* — which can be combined with this game — being available for €20 as well. • The *Dale of Merchants: Systematic Eurasian Beavers* mini-expansion is available for €5 or for free with the purchase of either base game. Here's info on that item: Quote: The Dale of Merchants: Systematic Eurasian Beavers mini-expansion includes one additional animalfolk deck to be used with either Dale of Merchants or Dale of Merchants 2. Beavers' effects happen only after certain triggers, which makes it really important to plan ahead. If you're crafty enough, you can create awesome combos with them. Best BGG image ev-AR!

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Average Rating:8.17
Overall Rank:3966

Designed by:	Dominic Crapuchettes Dmitry Knorre Sergey Machin
Published by:	North Star Games, LLC
Number of players:	2 − 6
Playing time:	60 − 75 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	Animals Card Game Educational Environmental Fighting Prehistoric Show More »
Mechanics:	Action Point Allowance System Hand Management Press Your Luck Secret Unit Deployment Simulation Show More »
Language:	English
Description:	Evolution: Climate is a standalone game that introduces climate into the Evolution game system. In Evolution: Climate, players adapt their species in a dynamic ecosystem where food is scarce, predators lurk, and the climate can swing between scorching hot and icy cold. Traits like a Hard Shell and Horns can protect your species from Carnivores while a Long Neck will help them get food that others cannot reach. Heavy Fur and Migratory can protect your species from the cold while being Nocturnal or Burrowing will provide protection from the cruel desert sun. With over 200,000 ways to evolve your species, every game evolves into a different adventure. The Climate standalone game dramatically changes game play with several simple additions to the Evolution base set: Players draw 4 cards +1 per species per round (instead of 3 cards + 1 per species). Each species may have up to 4 traits (instead of 3). The climate moves along a Climate Track based upon the food cards played each round. There are additional trait cards that provide protection from the heat and cold. Evolution: Climate changes Evolution from a two-dimensional game (dealing with the threat of Starvation and Carnivores) into a three-dimensional game (dealing with the threat of Starvation, Carnivores, and Climate effects) while increasing the vividness of the theme. It adds additional layers into what was already a dynamically strategic game.
Other Information:	• Price €50

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Average Rating:7.01
Overall Rank:2168

Designed by:	Martin Wallace
Published by:	Space Cowboys
Number of players:	1 − 4
Playing time:	30 − 60 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	Zombies
Mechanics:	Auction/Bidding Dice Rolling Player Elimination
Language:	English
Description:	Description from the publisher: In the fast-paced and morbidly kitschy game Hit Z Road, you and your fellow players embark on a road trip going south from Chicago along America's famous Route 66 — now infested by zombies. As you travel though a deck of adventure cards rife with dangers, you battle zombie hordes, drive abandoned school buses, scavenge for gas and bullets, and explore a darkened, tainted American countryside full of shambling undead, haunted carnivals, and plumes of toxic gas. Your goal is to stay alive until you reach the safe, sandy beaches of the California coast. Three different stages of adventure cards create an experience of increasing difficulty and ensure that each playthrough is unique. Each round begins with an auction that determines both player order and which cards you will encounter. Since the resources used for bidding are the same as those used to battle the oncoming zombie hordes, your survival depends as much on your resource management as it does upon winning those bidding wars. The player who either accumulates the most points or survives the longest wins. Zombies of all types await, with cannibals, anti-personnel mines and radioactive wastes also being among the hazards awaiting the players. Who will survive the zombie onslaught?
Other Information:	• Available in separate English, French and German editions.

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Average Rating:7.32
Overall Rank:2662

Designed by:	Klemens Kalicki
Published by:	REBEL.pl
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	20 − 40 minutes
Suggested ages:	7 and up
Categories:	Card Game
Mechanics:	Card Drafting Memory Pattern Building Set Collection
Language:	English
Description:	What would your house look like? Would you rather have a huge bedroom with an elegant canopy bed or a spacious living room with a grand piano? You are going to play a part of designers who will plan a house and add more and more rooms to it. Dream Home is a family game about building and furnishing your new house. Over twelve rounds, players collect pairs of cards consisting of a room card and an accessory card (roof, helper, furnishing or tool) and place them on their personal boards, creating their dream homes. At the end of the game, all players’ houses are finished and fully furnished. Players compare their houses, counting points for functionality, good design, quality of roof and furnishing. The player with the nicest and most comfortable house wins.
Other Information:	• Also available at one or the other (or both) Asmodee booths — 1-F122 or 3-B108 — in addition to at the REBEL.pl booth.

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Average Rating:7.39
Overall Rank:202

Designed by:	Uwe Rosenberg
Published by:	Hall Games Pegasus Spiele
Number of players:	1 − 4
Playing time:	60 − 120 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Economic Farming
Mechanics:	Card Drafting Set Collection
Language:	German
Description:	At the Gates of Loyang is a trading game in which you are able to produce goods by planting them and later selling them to customers. You can use the abilities of some helpers to increase your income or production. Fields, customers, helpers, and miscellaneous objects are represented by cards. Each player receives two of these cards per round distributed by a bidding/drawing mechanism in which you end up with one of the cards you draw and one of the cards of a public offer filled by all players. Additionally, to these cards you always receive one field for free each round. Placing one good on a field fills the complete field with goods of this type. Each round, one unit per field is harvested. After planting, harvesting, and distributing cards, each player can use as many actions as he wants, only limited by the number of his cards or the number of goods he owns. At the end of his turn, he can invest the earned money on a scoring track, where early money is worth more than late money. The game ends after a certain number of rounds, and the player who is first on the scoring track wins.
Other Information:	• Back in print! • MSRP €40

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Average Rating:7.56
Overall Rank:6248

Designed by:	Mikko Punakallio
Published by:	Lautapelit.fi
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	20 − 40 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Exploration Mythology
Mechanics:	Area Control / Area Influence
Language:	English Finnish German Swedish
Description:	Lead your tribe to glory on the island of Dokmus and become a legend! Dokmus is a board game for 2-4 players. Your goal is to lead an expedition to the island of Dokmus, the ancestral god of your tribe. The island is represented by eight double-sided map pieces. During set-up, you randomize which side of each map piece is up and place them in a 3x3 grid so that the middle place is left empty. The island is guarded by five Guardians, which are represented by Guardian cards. On each turn, players draft the Guardian cards so that each player gets the help of one Guardian. The Guardian cards decide turn order and they also give you special powers. With them, you can move and rotate, move your tokens, or gain first player marker for next turn. On your turn, you have three tokens to use. You use tokens to spread your influence by placing them on the board. You can also sacrifice tokens to be able to cross waters or enter forests. Or you can just sacrifice them in a volcano. At the end of the game, you get victory points for discovered temples and ruins on the map as well as sacrificed tokens. The layout of the islands changes constantly based on player actions, making Dokmus a dynamic, fast-paced game. So choose your Guardian, make the right sacrifices, and gain the favor of Dokmus!
Other Information:	• MSRP €35, but you can preorder for €25 for pick up at SPIEL 2016 via the Lautapelit.fi website. The price of the game at SPIEL 2016 will be somewhere between these two values.

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Average Rating:6.89
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Designed by:
Published by:	Hobby World
Number of players:	3 − 12
Categories:	Deduction
Mechanics:	Memory
Language:	Russian
Description:	Spyfall is a party game unlike any other, one in which you get to be a spy and try to understand what's going on around you. It's really simple! Spyfall is played over several rounds, and at the start of each round all players receive cards showing the same location — except that one player receives a card that says "Spy" instead of the location. Players then start asking each other questions — "Why are you dressed so strangely?" or "When was the last time we got a payday?" or anything else you can come up with — trying to guess who among them is the spy. The spy doesn't know where he is, so he has to listen carefully. When it's his time to answer, he'd better create a good story! At any time during a round, one player may accuse another of being a spy. If all other players agree with the accusation, the round ends and the accused player has to reveal his identity. If the spy is uncovered, all other players score points. However, the spy can himself end a round by announcing that he understands what the secret location is; if his guess is correct, only the spy scores points. After a few rounds of guessing, suspicion and bluffing, the game ends and whoever has scored the most points is victorious! Spyfall 2 features the same gameplay as Spyfall with two important changes: (1) Enough location cards are included that the upper player count is now twelve instead of eight, and (2) two spies can be found at each location, giving all of the non-spy players more of a challenge when it comes to tracking down who doesn't belong.
Other Information:	• Available in separate English and Russian versions.

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Average Rating:7.31
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Designed by:	Tobias Gohrbandt Heiko Günther
Published by:	2Tomatoes
Number of players:	2 − 6
Playing time:	60 − 90 minutes
Suggested ages:	8 and up
Categories:	Economic Educational Environmental Political
Mechanics:	Press Your Luck Set Collection Simulation Worker Placement
Language:	Spanish
Description:	You are the top manager at one of the big oil companies, tasked with leading your enterprise into a future without oil. With peak oil looming ahead, you try to squeeze the last drops from oil fields around the world to gather the resources to invest into various oil replacement technologies. While you may try to emerge from the coming crisis by regular means, your competitors will most probably not, forcing you to dirty your hands as well. On your turn in Peak Oil, you assign your agents to different action spots on the board. If your agents are in the majority at any given action spot, or you decide to send mercenaries to their help, they squelch the competition there and allow you to take the linked action. Actions include developing and harvesting oil fields, building pipelines, hiring new agents, buying new ship contracts, investing in oil replacement technologies, conducting PR campaigns, engaging in piracy, and manipulating public opinion and oil prices. After some time, the oil — represented by a set number of small barrels you draw from a bag when developing new oil fields — will run out. This is called "peak oil" and marks the end of the game. Players tally the value of the technologies in which they invested and promoted during the game. Whoever shaped the future best (i.e. gained favor for their company) wins.
Other Information:	• Available for demo games at SPIEL 2016 to coincide with a Kickstarter funding campaign.

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Average Rating:7.83
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Designed by:	Bernd Eisenstein
Published by:	Irongames
Number of players:	1 − 4
Playing time:	45 − 60 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	Ancient Card Game Dice Fighting Territory Building Show More »
Mechanics:	Area Control / Area Influence Dice Rolling Set Collection Variable Player Powers
Language:	English French German
Description:	Alexander the Great has conquered a vast empire, but his power is now waning and the time is ripe to compete for his inheritance. Each player in Phalanxx leads one of four competing factions that are ready to rule that vast empire. To do this, you must become the most powerful faction by reinforcing your troops, ensuring sufficient supplies, and occupying the most important cities and oases.
Other Information:	• MSRP €30, discounted to €28 for sales at SPIEL 2016.

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Average Rating:7.08
Overall Rank:1139

Designed by:	Daniel Solis
Published by:	Capsicum Games
Number of players:	2 − 5
Playing time:	20 − 40 minutes
Suggested ages:	13 and up
Categories:	Abstract Strategy Card Game
Mechanics:	Area Control / Area Influence Set Collection Tile Placement
Language:	French
Description:	The forest is growing fast! As caretakers for Kodama, the tree spirits, you must keep the forest a healthy and lush home for your little friends. Over three growing seasons, you must cultivate trees with the right mix of flowers, insects, and branch arrangements to make your Kodama as happy as possible. Whoever cares for their Kodama best will be remembered for generations! From the designer of the hit game Kigi, Kodama: The Tree Spirits branches out into a fun new way to play! Grow your tree by placing cards in clever arrangements, being careful to leave room for future growth. At the end of each season, one Kodama will award you points for how well your tree suits its needs. With beautiful art and innovative mechanics, Kodama is an inTREEguing game for the whole family.
Other Information:	• Price €20, with "playable goodies" being included with the purchase at SPIEL 2016.

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Average Rating:6.76
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Designed by:	Friedemann Friese
Published by:	2F-Spiele
Number of players:	2 − 6
Playing time:	120 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	Economic Expansion for Base-game Industry / Manufacturing
Mechanics:	Auction/Bidding Route/Network Building
Expands:	Power Grid
Language:	German
Description:	Power Grid: High-Voltage DC Transmission Passage C was first released as day 24 of the Brettspiel Adventskalender 2015, and this mini-expansion is playable solely with the Power Grid map of Germany. In future years, Germany plans a new high-voltage transmission line from North Germany to South Germany to deliver the electricity produced by wind power to the regions in South Germany with demand for that power. You are collectively building this transmission line, so step by step your power companies will not need to pay connection costs anymore between Cuxhaven and Stuttgart. Sadly, the construction of this transmission line is paid with tax money, so you must pay taxes to supply these cities with electricity.
Other Information:	• Available for a €1 donation to Hort & Spiel e.V., a non-profit association in Bremen, Germany that supports youth welfare. Both English (500 copies) and German (700 copies) versions of this mini-expansion will be available from 2F-Spiele during SPIEL 2016.

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Average Rating:9.50
Unranked

Designed by:	Marc André
Published by:	Matagot
Number of players:	2 − 5
Playing time:	40 − 60 minutes
Suggested ages:	14 and up
Categories:	Abstract Strategy Expansion for Base-game Fantasy Medieval Territory Building Show More »
Mechanics:	Area Control / Area Influence Area Movement Modular Board
Expands:	Barony
Language:	English French German
Description:	Barony: Sorcery, the first expansion to Barony, brings magic to the world, with a sixth action now available to the players that allows them to cast powerful spells. Before they can cast spells, however, they need mana, and only a few places on the board allow them to collect those precious mana points. The battle for control and access to these places will be hard! Barony: Sorcery stays true to the base game as the new elements add no luck to the game, instead opening up possibilities for players to bend the rules, thereby adding even more tension to the board. This expansion also adds components for a fifth player: new tiles, new wooden components, new player aid.
Other Information:	• Price €25, but discounted to €20 if you preorder for pick up at SPIEL 2016 through the Matagot website. Bundle deals with other Matagot titles are available.

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Average Rating:7.15
Overall Rank:2199

Designed by:	Théo Rivière
Published by:	IELLO
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	45 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Card Game Pirates
Mechanics:	Card Drafting Press Your Luck Set Collection
Language:	French
Description:	In Sea of Clouds, as captain of a flying pirate ship, recruit a cutthroat crew, collect relics and unearth the best rum by gathering shares of Loot. Then send your pirates aboard enemy ships to plunder their treasure! In each round of the game, players take turns divvying up shares of Loot to gain Rum, Relics, Objects, and Pirates. In some rounds, when ships are flying close together, they will also clash in a Boarding action, using the effects of any Pirates they picked up to gain Doubloons and plunder Loot. On your turn, take the first of the three shares of Loot on the table, and look at it secretly. You must decide to either take all the cards in the Share then add the top card from the deck face-down to this Loot space, or to leave the Share and look at the next one. If you choose to do the latter, add the top card from the deck to the Share you declined (or a Doubloon, if there's already three cards), thus increasing its value for the next player. If no shares interest you, blindly take the top card of the deck. The card backs give you a hint about what’s in the next Shares: Pirates to board other ships, legendary Relics to collect, Rum to be scored at the end of the game, and Items with permanent, immediate, or secret effects. Every 4 or 5 rounds (depending on the number of players), Boarding action will occur! Add the strength of your Captain and your Pirates, apply any bonuses or penalties, and face your two neighbors! For each victory, your Pirates will gain Doubloons or steal some Loot! After the fight, all Pirates are discarded. The game ends after 12 (or 15) rounds. Players then add the value of their Doubloons and their Loot cards to determine who’s the winner.
Other Information:	• Available in separate English, French and German editions. • Designer Théo Rivière & illustrator Miguel Coimbra will be in the IELLO booth on Friday from 16:00 to 18:00 to sign copies of the game. • MSRP €25

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Average Rating:8.83
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Designed by:	Brooklyn Game Lab
Published by:	Blue Orange (EU)
Number of players:	2 − 4
Categories:	Expansion for Base-game
Mechanics:	Area Control / Area Influence
Expands:	New York 1901
Language:	English French
Description:	Description from the publisher: New York 1901: Goons of New York is a promotional expansion pack for New York 1901 that adds five new "Boss" cards that give special powers to the players who control each district on the game board. Once all players in the game have reached the Silver Age, you look to see who controls the most territory of each color on the game board (with pink being excluded in two-player games). Whoever controls the most of a color takes control of that boss, and at the start of each of your subsequent turns, you can use the "goon power" of one of your bosses to place a goon in a particular location, such as on a street or on a specific Bronze Age skyscraper. You'll score points for this goon based on certain conditions, but if someone ever controls more territory of this color than you, that player takes control of the boss and you have to say goodbye to those goons. Goons of New York was made in conjunction with the Brooklyn Game Lab, an afterschool program in which children learn to play today's best board games, then discuss the strategies and tactics used to play them. For this project, hundreds of children worked together — in a month-long game-jam — to design and playtest this promotional content for New York 1901, which is currently planned to be made available solely at trade shows and game conventions.
Other Information:	• MSRP €1, or included free with the purchase of the *New York 1901* base game. • Aside from the mini-expansion described above, at SPIEL 2016 Blue Orange will have the *New York 1901: Painted Figures* accessory/expansion available for €10. You can reserve copies for purchase at SPIEL 2016 on the Blue Orange website, with the New York 1901 base game, Goons, and painted figures being sold as a package for €40.

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Average Rating:7.39
Overall Rank:4377

Designed by:	Alban Viard
Published by:	AVStudioGames
Number of players:	1 − 5
Playing time:	120 minutes
Suggested ages:	14 and up
Categories:	City Building Trains
Mechanics:	Auction/Bidding Deck / Pool Building Pick-up and Deliver Tile Placement
Language:	English French German
Description:	The 1920s: Small City was founded just a few years ago and is still a fledgling town at this stage. Nonetheless, the Town Center is prosperous, and the managers of the weird CliniC have been duly incarcerated for years by this point. Now it is time to reach a new step: Building a new map transit. In Tramways, you take the role of one of the managers of the local CliniC who were fired last month when it was discovered that you had acquired wealth on the backs of patients and their poor health. You are now at the head of a team of engineers, ready to build the best and most effective network possible for Small City. Your aim is to find the best places between buildings and citizens so that they can use your networks (and not those of your opponents, who are always ready to buy the most interesting development areas). Be assured that a happy citizen who is able to move where and when he wants will thank the best transport companies. There is nothing that satisfies a chief manager more than seeing citizens happy... The game is divided into six rounds, each of which is divided into two halves: During the first half of a round, players compete to acquire the best development cards to create their most efficient deck. An original auction phase also determines turn order — and being the first player increases your stress level. During the second half, they play a train game, using their deck to try to build a great network between the different buildings of Small City. They try to move passengers without stressing them during the transit, in the end obtaining happiness points, which is the aim of the game. The more that players use the symbols on their cards, the more actions they can do, but they also increase their stress level at the same time, which leads to negative victory points...
Other Information:	• For background on Tramways, read this designer diary on the game's development from designer Alban Viard. • MSRP €50, but discounted to €45 for sales at SPIEL 2016; Viard recommends placing a preorder by email to avstudiogames@gmail.com, with you then picking up the game on either Thursday or Friday. He notes that LudiCreations, the publisher whose booth he is sharing, might still have copies of Tramways for sale on Saturday and Sunday, but he'll be long gone by that point and no copies are guaranteed on those days. Non-final graphics

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Average Rating:7.46
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Designed by:	Simon McGregor
Published by:	Pleasant Company Games
Number of players:	1 − 4
Playing time:	30 − 60 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Dice Racing
Mechanics:	Dice Rolling Press Your Luck
Language:	English French German
Description:	Snowblind is a press-your-luck and risk-management dice game in which 1-4 players take control of a polar expedition, racing to be the first to return from the South Pole. The object of the game is to collect the most prestige points. The further you advance your Captain, and the more men who survive the Antarctic winter at the end of the game, the more prestige your expedition receives. This requires careful management of crates, food and camps: without supplies, your explorers will not survive. Play proceeds over a series of rounds. Within each round, players may make as many moves as they like, from those available, with each additional move becoming increasingly dangerous. In more detail, each turn, players may take an action (which involves taking a risk die from the action board, adding the die to their dice pool, then taking a corresponding action), or they choose to pass. Actions include moving explorers and crates, hunting for food, collecting research, and building camps. After completing an action, the active player rolls all the dice in their dice pool. High numbers result in exposure, the loss of supplies (crates and food), explorers being incapacitated, and even death. Exposure results can be offset by explorers remaining together (company) and the building of camps. A round ends when all players have passed. At the end of the round, a weather card is drawn that may cause additional attrition, then the next round begins. When the pack ice card is drawn from the weather deck, one last round is played and the game ends.
Other Information:	• Price €32; you can preorder *Snowblind* for pick up at SPIEL 2016 by Geekmailing co-designer/publisher rob_vz with the subject "SPIEL 16 Pre-order".

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Average Rating:7.83
Overall Rank:97

Designed by:	Mark Simonitch
Published by:	PHALANX
Number of players:	2
Playing time:	40 − 200 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	Ancient Political Wargame
Mechanics:	Area Control / Area Influence Campaign / Battle Card Driven Dice Rolling Point to Point Movement Simulation Show More »
Language:	English
Description:	This game uses the very popular card system which first appeared in Avalon Hill's We the People game to detail the struggle between Carthage's Hannibal and the Roman Republic in approximately 200 BC. (from Valley Games website:) One of the greatest military commanders and tacticians in history descends on the Roman Empire once again. Do you face him as Rome and try to ward the invasion that comes from the North, or do you climb atop your war elephant and show Rome you will take that which they hold most dear: their territory. Players use strategic-level cards for multiple purposes: moving generals, levying new troops, reinforcing existing armies, gaining political control of the provinces involved in the war, and generating historical events. When two armies meet on the battlefield, a second set of cards, called Battle Cards, are used to determine the winner. Ultimately both players seek victory by dominating both fronts: military and political.
Other Information:	• Available for previewing at SPIEL 2016.

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Average Rating:6.99
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Designed by:	Antoine Bauza Masato Uesugi
Published by:	IELLO
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	30 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Bluffing Card Game Fantasy Fighting
Mechanics:	Memory Player Elimination Press Your Luck
Language:	English
Description:	The sun is shining in the Abysmal Woods where you’re strolling without a care in the world, your weapon at your belt, dreams of adventure in your head. On your path, you stop before a damaged dungeon door. It seems that great battles took place here, a sure sign of coveted treasure inside. You recognize this dungeon from the ballads sung in your village! However, you’re not the only one who wants to enter, despite the warnings left around the entrance by the previous adventurers. Will you muster your courage to break open the door or will you let your opponents brave the monsters found inside? Let the adventure begin! Welcome Back to the Dungeon is a simple and subtle push-your-luck game in which you’ll need to adopt a show of bravado or outwit your opponents!
Other Information:	• MSRP €13

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Average Rating:7.66
Overall Rank:319

Designed by:	Kris Burm
Published by:	HUCH! & friends
Number of players:	2
Playing time:	30 − 60 minutes
Suggested ages:	13 and up
Categories:	Abstract Strategy
Mechanics:	Grid Movement
Language:	Dutch English French German Italian Polish Spanish Show More »
Description:	TZAAR is a game about making choices. Both players have 30 pieces, divided in three types: 6 Tzaars, 9 Tzarras and 15 Totts. The three types of pieces form a trinity: They cannot exist without each other. The aim is either to make the opponent run out of one of the three types of pieces or to put him in a position in which he cannot capture anymore. The tricky question the players will have to ask themselves on each of their turns is: “Shall I make myself stronger or my opponent weaker?” Meaning: Will you capture an opponent’s piece and make him weaker, or will you jump on top of one of your own pieces and make yourself stronger? If you choose to jump on top of your own pieces too often, you will probably leave your opponent with too many pieces on the board. On the other hand, if you capture too often, you may end up with pieces that are not strong enough at the end of the game. What to do? Up to you to decide! TZAAR is the most recent game in project GIPF, replacing TAMSK which was felt to not quite fit in with the others due to its use of sand timers.
Other Information:	• Designer Kris Burm is overseeing a *GIPF* tournament in the Mailand room in Hall 3 on Saturday from 13:00 to 16:00. Write to turnier@hutter.net by Sept. 29 to register; seating is limited. • MSRP €30

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Average Rating:8.00
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Designed by:	Stefano Castelli Andrea Crespi Lorenzo Silva
Published by:	Horrible Games
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	30 − 60 minutes
Suggested ages:	8 and up
Categories:	Fantasy Puzzle
Mechanics:	Pattern Recognition Set Collection Take That
Expands:	Potion Explosion
Language:	English
Description:	Description from the publisher: At the Horribilorum Sorcery Academy for Witty Witches and Wizards, we are not afraid of ghosts! Potion Explosion: The Fifth Ingredient introduces a new spooky ingredient: Ghost Ectoplasm! But don't panic as the new Professors will teach you how to handle it safely and use it to brew powerful new potions! This expansion for Potion Explosion steps up the game to a whole new level! Thanks to the fifth ingredient acting as a joker, players can now trigger even more incredible explosions to prepare their potions. Five new potions allow for even more diverse gameplay! On top of this, new Professors dramatically change the way of brewing potions!
Other Information:	• MSRP €25

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Average Rating:7.00
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Designed by:	Manuel Correia
Published by:	Board&Dice
Number of players:	1 − 5
Playing time:	20 − 40 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	Card Game Science Fiction
Mechanics:	Card Drafting Hand Management Pick-up and Deliver Point to Point Movement
Expands:	Multiuniversum
Language:	English German Polish
Description:	The stars are right, and you know what that means! Scientists at CERN wanted to see whether Cthulhu actually exists somewhere in another universe. The effects of this research was obvious... Yes, our scientists have opened a portal to R'lyeh and bad stuff is coming through. Multiuniversum: Project Cthulhu, the first expansion for Multiuniversum, includes twenty new worlds full of Cthulhu that replace the original ones and bring in new mechanisms and risks. So what are we changing here? Portals: Every time you close a portal, you lose a bit of your sanity, which is represented by insanity cards. Insanity Cards: These cards are something new and nasty. As you close portals, you collect them and they are face down for most of the time. Museum Card: The museum is where the players can get some of their sanity back. You can interact with it to spend some of your insanity cards for various effects. Move: In addition to all the things you could do using action cards, you can also discard one to move to an adjacent transformer.
Other Information:	• Price €9

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Average Rating:8.03
Overall Rank:21

Designed by:	Ignacy Trzewiczek
Published by:	Portal Games
Number of players:	1 − 4
Playing time:	90 − 180 minutes
Suggested ages:	14 and up
Categories:	Adventure Exploration Novel-based
Mechanics:	Co-operative Play Dice Rolling Modular Board Simultaneous Action Selection Tile Placement Variable Player Powers Worker Placement Show More »
Language:	English
Description:	Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island is a game created by Ignacy Trzewiczek, the author of Stronghold. This time Trzewiczek takes the players to a deserted island, where they'll play the parts of shipwreck survivors confronted by an extraordinary adventure. They'll be faced with the challenges of building a shelter, finding food, fighting wild beasts, and protecting themselves from weather changes. Building walls around their homes, animal domestication, constructing weapons and tools from what they find and much more awaits them on the island. The players decide in which direction the game will unfold and – after several in-game weeks of hard work – how their settlement will look. Will they manage to discover the secret of the island in the meantime? Will they find a pirate treasure, or an abandoned village? Will they discover an underground city or a cursed temple at the bottom of a volcano? Answers to these questions lie in hundreds of event cards and hundreds of object and structure cards that can be used during the game... Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island is an epic game from Portal. You will build a shelter, palisade, weapons, you will create tools like axes, knives, sacks, you will do everything you can to… to survive. You will have to find food, fight wild beasts, protect yourself from weather changes… Take the role of one of four characters from the ship crew (cook, carpenter, explorer or soldier) and face the adventure. Use your determination skills to help your team mates, discuss with them your plan and put it into practice. Debate, discuss, and work on the best plan you all can make. Search for treasures. Discover mysteries. Follow goals of six different, engaging scenarios. Start by building a big pile of wood and setting it on fire to call for help, and then start new adventures. Become an exorcist on cursed Island. Become a treasure hunter on Volcano Island. Become a rescue team for a young lady who’s stuck on rock island… Let the adventure live!
Other Information:	• Here's a description of what's different in this version of *Robinson Crusoe, which was previously extremely difficult to come by in English in Europe: Quote: This new edition of Robinson Crusoe* features custom wooden pieces, thick cardboard character cards, over 450 edits on the cards to improve clarity, a standard-sized square box, a seventh scenario, and an all-new English rulebook based on the excellent German edition. Portal Games has also updated the cover illustration with new artwork from Vincent Dutrait to help customers identify the new version of the game from previous editions. • Price €55

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Average Rating:6.63
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Designed by:	Rikki Tahta
Published by:	La Mame Games
Number of players:	4 − 6
Playing time:	5 − 10 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Bluffing Deduction Party Game
Mechanics:
Language:	English
Description:	Description from the publisher: Gooseberry is a short, light, social-deduction game inspired by Fake Artist, Spyfall, and Codenames. For each game a topic is chosen which contains sixteen different subjects which everyone can see. One of those is designated the secret subject and one player becomes the "Gooseberry". The Gooseberry does not know which of the sixteen subjects is the secret and the other players do not know who is the Gooseberry. The goal of the Gooseberry is to remain hidden and figure out the secret subject while all the other players are trying to keep the secret hidden and find the Gooseberry. A code card is dealt to each player, with one player receiving the Gooseberry card that has no code. Players use the code to identify the correct subject word. Everyone prepares in their mind a ONE WORD clue related to the secret subject. The challenge is to choose a clue that shows other players that you know the secret subject but is not so obvious that it reveals the secret to the Gooseberry. When all players have prepared their clue and are ready, each player, in clockwise order and without hesitation, says out loud the clue they have prepared. Players may now discuss, question and accuse each other. When ready everyone votes on who they think is the Gooseberry. The Gooseberry wins if either they are not correctly identified or if they can guess the correct subject word. The rules are currently only available in English. But the cards are universal (no language) and due to the low complexity of the game it's easy to play in any language.
Other Information:	• La Mame Games' Rikki Tahta notes that *Gooseberry* will be available solely at SPIEL 2016, with any unsold copies being "donated afterwards to the Games Loft in Maine, a charity we support. We are going back to printing and packing them ourselves, so it depends how hard the kids work as to how many we'll have." • Price: €8 without a box or €12 with. Your call!

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Average Rating:8.57
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Designed by:	Aron Groot Niek Jansma
Published by:	Golden Age Games
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	60 − 180 minutes
Suggested ages:	11 and up
Categories:	Adventure Exploration Nautical Pirates Travel Show More »
Mechanics:	Action / Movement Programming Hand Management Memory Pick-up and Deliver Rock-Paper-Scissors Trading Show More »
Language:	Dutch English German
Description:	Captains of the Golden Age is set in a fictional East-Indies in a time when pepper was worth more than gold! Each player starts the game as a captain on a small ship with an empty cargo hold. The amount of sails on your ship determines how far you move. Crew is used for boarding. Cannons deal damage to other ships and the size of your cargo hold determines how much cargo you can load and carry. Each player has a deck of cards that can be used as temporary buffs to sail further, carry more cargo, or change the tide of battle. Over the course of the game, each captain gathers resources to upgrade their ship or trades its cargo for valuable pepper to get shares in the Trading Company and ensure victory. You can board other captains' ships with your crew to steal cargo or attack them with your cannons to temporarily damage their ship. Trade, upgrade, attack and defend yourself, but beware of the pirate who will try to steal your cargo! Each player’s turn consists of four phases. Only the sail phase is mandatory; the rest of the phases may be skipped if they are not relevant (depending on where you sail during the sail phase): PHASE 1: THE SAIL PHASE Every turn starts with the sail phase where you move your ship across the game-board. You may sail a maximum of one tile per sail segment on your ship and an additional tile per sail card you choose to play. PHASE 2: THE COMBAT PHASE When you sailed to a tile with another player on it, you may now choose to attack that player, (except in The Orient and The Republic) either by boarding with your crew or by bombarding with your cannons. You start combat by using your captain card (turning it face-down). The defending player automatically defends against the chosen type of attack, even if their captain is tired (face-down). The outcome of combat is determined after both players are done playing cards. The player with the most segments and played reinforcement cards of the chosen type combined wins. In case of a draw, nothing happens. After the attack, even if you chose not to attack, all player(s) on the tile (with face-up captains) may choose to attack you as well! PHASE 3: THE HARBOR PHASE If you sailed to one of the seven land tiles on the game board during the sail phase, you may now take the action(s) on that land as described below: >Resource Island If you sailed to one of the four resource islands during the sail phase you may load resources of the type produced by the island equal to the number of hand icons depicted below your rightmost (undamaged) cargo hold segment. >The Republic/The Orient Here your captain may rest (turn face-up) and you may repair (turn face-up) all damaged segments on your ship for free. You may build ship segments. Pay the cost in resources that is printed on the back of each segment you wish to buy. You may buy shares in exchange for pepper. (Only in the Republic.) You may trade resources for pepper. (Only in the Orient.) >Smuggler's Cove Here you may hire the Notorious Pirate to block one of the four resource islands. Take his Spyglass and secretly turn it onto the island of your choice and put it face-down on the table. You may trade one resource or pepper for one resource of your choice (not pepper) here as well. PHASE 4: THE CARD PHASE During the last phase of your turn you may choose the cards (if any) you have earned this turn. After you have chosen the card(s) you earned this turn, your turn ends and the next player’s turn begins. You can earn cards in three ways: By ending your sail phase on a sea tile. By resting your captain (turn face-up) in the Republic or the Orient. By buying a share in the Republic with a reinforcement card icon depicted on it.
Other Information:	• Price €49

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Average Rating:8.00
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Designed by:
Published by:	Blue Orange (EU)
Number of players:	1
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Book
Mechanics:
Language:	French
Description:	Why would someone attack a policeman? It's one of many questions you've been obsessing about since you received this ransom demand following your daughter's kidnapping. As you begin walking toward the front door of a manor house deep in the woods in Captive, your hand cramping above your weapon, your spirit satiated with fear, you anticipate that things will turn out badly. Your intuition will not betray you — even if you were far from imagining what was actually in reserve for you on the most horrifying evening of your entire existence. Captive is a comic combined with a game, one title in a series subtitled "The comic in which you are the hero". You embody a character in a immersive story in which your choices guide your progress. You have a character sheet akin to those used in role-playing games that tracks your possessions, your special abilities, your coins, and your victory points. In general, gameplay consists in following the comic's panels — which contain clues, riddles and traps — and making choices about where to go and what to do, while using your visual perception to collect clues and be smart enough to resolve the riddles. As in any game, you can lose — sometimes really badly!
Other Information:	• Available in separate English and French editions. • Price €18

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Average Rating:8.08
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Designed by:	Chu-Lan Kao
Published by:	Big Fun Games
Number of players:	2 − 5
Playing time:	60 − 90 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	Game System Industry / Manufacturing
Mechanics:	Action Point Allowance System Area Movement Memory
Language:	English
Description:	Sniff to win! The Perfumer is a board game played by your nose, a game of real fragrance thanks to a new board game concept that integrates the "sense of smell" into the game rules. With a special printing technology, real fragrances are "printed" onto cards. Get ready for a brand new gaming experience! A good perfumer needs to have a keen knowledge of fragrance ingredients and be able to distinguish each of the ingredients by smelling their odors. Drawing on their wide range of knowledge about fragrance, players explore all over the world to collect ingredients, then try to fulfill clients' orders of unique perfumes. The secret recipe passed down by the century-old perfumers is another challenge that awaits players as you must identify the specific ingredients used in the secret formula by smelling. So let the journey began — smell all the way around the world to earn the most honors, and become the most celebrated perfumer of all!
Other Information:	• MSRP €50, discount to €48 for SPIEL 2016, with preorder available for pick up at SPIEL 2016 or shipping to your door.

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Average Rating:7.60
Overall Rank:5191

Designed by:	Fernando Abad
Published by:	ABBA Games
Number of players:	1 − 4
Playing time:	90 minutes
Suggested ages:	14 and up
Categories:	Card Game City Building Civilization Medieval Negotiation Show More »
Mechanics:	Card Drafting Deck / Pool Building Hand Management Trading Worker Placement Show More »
Language:	English Spanish
Description:	After an everlasting period of wars, it’s finally time to collect the spoils. The King has named the feudal lords who will bring glory and prosperity to the conquered lands. To that end, the nobles will have to hire workers and master craftsmen to make their feuds grow as well as helping in the construction of a glorious cathedral, a symbol of the King’s proximity to God. Feudalia is a deck-building and resource management game for 1-4 players, who will take the roles of the feudal lords of the new lands. Each player will rule three feuds, and all the vassals living in them, who will work those lands to improve their territories, all of it while trumping your opponent’s progress with military incursions into their territories. But the King wants his share too, and the tax collector will appear frequently, taking part of the resources stored by the players. The goal of the game is to be the first player to earn 10 points. Players earn points by building, either developing their own feuds or helping in the different phases of the construction of the cathedral. During a turn, each player plays their vassals from their hand to gather money and resources, to further invest in new workers or new buildings. Resources can be saved, but be careful! the tax collector will show at your door when you least expect him, and he’ll take half your resources from each feud. Manage your vassals wisely, hire the best master craftsmen, spend your resources in the cathedral before the tax collector arrives, and become the most prosperous feudal lord in Feudalia!
Other Information:	• Available for demo games at SPIEL 2016 with a Kickstarter funding project taking place sometime in 2016.

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Average Rating:6.75
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Designed by:	Matt Leacock
Published by:	Pegasus Spiele
Number of players:	2 − 6
Playing time:	15 − 45 minutes
Suggested ages:	8 and up
Categories:	Ancient Racing
Mechanics:	Dice Rolling
Language:	Dutch English German Italian Polish Show More »
Description:	Masses of people awaiting a spectacle… scorching afternoon heat… sweaty equine bodies nervously yanking their harnesses. There it is, the starting signal! Dashing ahead with your chariot, slowly at first, but quickly gaining speed… circling the spina in the center of the arena to complete the first lap. The next corner comes closer. Glancing back, one of the chariots is already far behind, and just ahead another chariot's speed is too high for the corner, sending the vehicle crashing into the wall and out of the race. Only a single chariot blocks your path to victory, so it's time to get uncivilized. Steadily you balance the javelin in your hand, waiting for the other charioteer to come into view…or should you just overtake him and throw caltrops in his path? In Chariot Race: Das große Wagenrennen, players participate as charioteers in a great race in ancient Rome. Use the dice to complete two laps on the dusty arena's circuit and be the first to steer your chariot over the finish line. On a player's turn, if they have gained enough Favors of Fortuna, they can repair their chariot. Depending on the chariot's speed on the previous turn and its current condition, the initial speed is determined, which defines how many of the five dice will be rolled during the turn. Each face of the six-sided dice allows a different action: Gain new Favors, increase or decrease speed, change lanes, or attack opponents (either directly by hurling javelins or indirectly by dropping caltrops in their path). if the first roll is not satisfactory, the player may call on Fortuna to influence the dice, as long they have her favor. Once the result is set, the player moves their chariot forward according to the final speed they achieved and may then take actions against their rivals. However, breakneck racing and ramming are not without risk. If two chariots collide, they both take damage, and cornering at a wild gallop is not recommended. The further the safe speed is exceeded, the more damage is caused to the vehicle – which might fall apart in the middle of the arena if the driver is too careless, resulting in their elimination from the race.
Other Information:	• MSRP €20

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Average Rating:8.01
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Designed by:	Jesse Li
Published by:	Grail Games Moaideas Game Design
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	40 − 70 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	Card Game Civilization
Mechanics:	Deck / Pool Building Hand Management Take That
Language:	English
Description:	The world is a dynamic place, always changing and never stops flowing. New and improved ways are challenging traditional values and, with the wave of renaissance sweeping through, you will not be spared. With great power comes great responsibility to provide stability and protection, resulting in a new golden age. Endure the tides of time, and leave an epic impression of your civilization upon the heritage of mankind. Guns & Steel: Renaissance is a standalone expansion for Guns & Steel, providing new cards and new mechanisms that can be played by itself, or combined with the base game to provide a rich and dynamic adventure throughout history. Here's the overview of a player's turn during the game: Resource Phase Play a card face-down as a resource card. Development Phase Play a card face-up as a development card. Purchase Phase May buy one card from supply. End of Turn Phase 0 or 1 card in hand: Retrieve cards to hand. 2 or more cards in hand: Do nothing. Check if you can place glory cubes on a wonder. The game ends when all of the wonders are taken, or when all space age cards have been bought, or when a player has 15 VP tokens. At this point, whoever has the most VP wins.
Other Information:	• MSRP €23, but discounted to €20 for sales at SPIEL 2016. Additionally, you can preorder for pick up in Essen or shipping to your door through the Moaideas website. • Additionally, the original *Guns & Steel* can be purchased together with this new standalone expansion as part of a package for €43; you can preorder this item as well, but only for pick up at SPIEL 2016. Should you already own Guns & Steel, you can purchase the storage box on its own for €5 via preorder or at the convention.

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Average Rating:7.50
Overall Rank:919

Designed by:	J. Alex Kevern
Published by:	dlp games
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	35 − 45 minutes
Suggested ages:	10 and up
Categories:	Post-Napoleonic
Mechanics:	Area Control / Area Influence Card Drafting Set Collection
Language:	German
Description:	The World's Fair of 1893 in Chicago was a spectacular international exhibition that showcased many great achievements in science, technology, culture, and entertainment. Acting as organizers of the fair, players work diligently to increase their influence throughout the fair and obtain the grand exhibits that will be put on display. The organizer who has earned the best reputation when the fair begins will emerge the victor. On each turn of World's Fair 1893, the active player sends a supporter to one of the five areas and gather all of the cards by it. New cards are then added to some of the areas, and the next player takes a turn. The five areas represent sections of exhibits, like Fine Arts and Electricity. Some cards represent exhibit proposals in one of those five areas, others represent influential people who give you bonus supporters, and other cards represent tickets for attractions and concessions along the Midway. The game consists of three scoring rounds, each triggered when players collectively gather a certain number of Midway tickets. Players gain reputation points for leading in number of supporters in an area and for gathering the most tickets in each round. The leaders in an area also receive approval for exhibit proposals they have gathered that match the area. Players gain reputation points at the end of the game based on the breadth and diversity of their approved exhibits.
Other Information:	• Price €30

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Average Rating:7.82
Overall Rank:2687

Designed by:	Hisashi Hayashi
Published by:	OKAZU Brand
Number of players:	2 − 4
Playing time:	90 minutes
Suggested ages:	12 and up
Categories:	Economic
Mechanics:	Card Drafting Grid Movement Modular Board Route/Network Building Set Collection Show More »
Language:	English French German
Description:	Once Yokohama was just a fishing village, but now at the beginning of the Meiji era it's becoming a harbor open to foreign countries and one of the leading trade cities of Japan. As a result, many Japanese products such as copper and raw silk are collected in Yokohama for export to other countries. At the same time, the city is starting to incorporate foreign technology and culture, with even the streets becoming more modernized. In the shadow of this development was the presence of many Yokohama merchants. In YOKOHAMA, each player is a merchant in the Meiji period, trying to gain fame from a successful business, and to do so they need to build a store, broaden their sales channels, learn a variety of techniques, and (of course) respond to trade orders from abroad.
Other Information:	• Price €53 if preordered for pick up at SPIEL 2016 through the Japon Brand website; if copies are available at SPIEL 2016, Japon Brand notes that the price might be €1-2 less — but the game might also be completely unavailable to walk-up buyers, which has been the case with many JB games in previous years.

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Average Rating:6.97
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Designed by:	Jason Lin Frank Liu
Published by:	MO ZI Game
Number of players:	3 − 5
Playing time:	30 − 45 minutes
Suggested ages:	8 and up
Categories:	Ancient Number Print & Play
Mechanics:	Secret Unit Deployment Set Collection Trading
Language:	Chinese English
Description:	Welcome to the ancient city of China, a city known for its delicious sweets. As tourists, you can't wait to taste them all — but before enjoying your sweets, you must learn about a legendary guy named Sweet Nose. He loved sweets so much that he wanted to eat the best sweet in the heaven, and to do that he climbed up a ladder made from shrimp. Just at the moment he reached heaven, the god of thunder met him while patrolling. The god of thunder was pissed because no mortal human was allowed to intrude the sacred heaven. A flash and thunder hit poor Sweet Nose, who fell from the ladder like a meteor and dissolved into a pile of black powder when he hit the ground, transforming into tiny insects — the ants. To avoid being hit by thunder and becoming the successor of the Sweet Nose legend, you had better not eat too many sweets. This doesn't mean you can't enjoy those delicious sweets in the city — but if you enter specific stores on the street, you might need to run from the thunder of heaven... Sweet Nose is a game of exciting interaction. You try to eat the most types of candy by trading with others, but the sweetness of each candy differs for each player, so to keep yourself from being the one who eats too many sweets, you need to be careful when trading and observe the reaction of other players. What's more, different shops provide different surprises, so you also need to take those shops' candies into consideration. On a turn, you can do one of the following actions: Trade with friend: Trade one of your candies with another player, with each player placing the candy they receive on their mouth board. Trade with market: Trade one of your candies with the market in the middle of table, placing your candy in the market and one of the market candies on your trading dish board. In the end, whoever eats the most sweets loses, and the winner is the one who eats the fewest sweets.
Other Information:	• Price €35 at SPIEL 2016, but available for preorder and pick-up at SPIEL 2016 for $30 through Sept. 24, 2016.