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Akropolis Athena is an expansion of the Akropolis base game, set in the Ancient Mediterranean where architects compete to build prestigious cities. The theme revolves around gaining the favor of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, war, and artisans, to earn riches and honor.

In this game, players must use their skills to complete specific Construction cards by building layouts within their cities that match the cards. As players complete these cards, they can acquire parts of the Statue of Athena and gain Mini-tiles to enhance their cities. The goal is to strategically build your city while completing these Construction cards to gain additional points and advantages.

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A quick and nifty card game by the publisher of Faraway.

Each player will spend coins to draft 9 cards from 2 open markets on the table (the lower and upper city), creating along the game a 3x3 square of people interacting with each other to trigger instant effects and end-of-game bonuses.

Castle Combo is a tableau-building game that combines simplicity with deep, engaging gameplay, offering highly satisfying experiences.

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Tonight, the queen holds a banquet that everyone will attend. Will they leave a good impression? Backstabbing is fair game, and no trick is too dirty if it allows you to place your favourite families in the spotlight.

In Courtisans, you receive and play three cards on each of your turns. One is played at the Queen's table to sway a family's influence, whether in a positive or negative manner. The two other cards are played in your domain and in an opponent's domain, and they can be worth positive or negative points, depending on their family's status at the end of the game. Choose where best to place your three cards if you want to end up with the most points and win.

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In the Cyclades archipelago, off the shores of a divided Greece, players develop their cities and compete for supremacy under the watchful gaze of the gods.

In Cyclades: Legendary Edition, designers Bruno Cathala and Ludovic Maublanc have reworked the Cyclades base game and its many expansions to make gameplay more dynamic and fluid.

The game is billed as Director's Cut of the classic game. It's unique for its implementation of bidding systems in the action selection, requiring players to secure the favour of Greek gods in order to deploy troops, move units, battle, and secure areas.

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Deep Sea Adventure is nothing short of a phenomenon at this stage. But Boost turns things up a notch.

This brand new edition brings in the Boost mechanic – more dice which give you the option to spend oxygen in order to move further. But as always, oxygen is limited so use it wisely!

The ultimate push-your-luck dice game just got an upgrade.

Autumn has given the forest beautiful colors, it's the perfect time for a race! The little animals move from tree to tree at varying speeds! But this whole group is also very hungry, and at the slightest temptation, a snack break becomes necessary and slows down the race.

This is a race game that sees players taking a tile from a bag. They choose which side of the tile to use out of two options, and then all players move to that space on their race track.

But you may also pull fruit tiles, which you can put onto other players' tracks to slow them down! A fast and frantic children's game with beautiful art. It's so fast you'll want to play again and again and again!

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In MicroMacro Kids: Crazy City Park, you are the investigators. Mysterious things are happening on the huge hidden picture map. You will work together as a team to solve these cases: follow characters, solve puzzles and pursue suspects—just like real detectives!

The game features 22 engaging cases that gradually increase in difficulty, coaching players through chal lenges while keeping them entertained for hours with fun details and hidden surprises. When you are done with the cases, there are 44 additional “search and find” mini tasks to complete!

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QuizWiz is a unique trivia game in which players work together as a team instead of competing against each other. Players have to play a correct Country card to a Statement that truly describes it.  

Players choose a difficulty level and set up a game according to the description on the Level card. Each game will have at least 3 Statements. Each player will start with a hand of Country cards.

On their turn players have to choose a card from their hand without discussing it with others and play it to any of the Statements, then draw a new Country card. Alternatively they may play the country cards available on the table and in this case they are allowed to discuss them with other players. The game goes on in such a manner until there are at least 2 Countries next to each of the Statements.

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Romi Rami is a game that feels like it’s been around forever, with thousands of people quietly and gradually polishing it over time. Falling squarely in the family of ‘Rummy’ games, Romi Rami features a double market. The first one has number cards, and the second one has contracts to complete. The goal of the game: Make the most points by optimizing the combinations required by the contracts. Keep an eye on the trophies (they change from game to game) which will propel you to to the top spot on the podium!

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A permanent base is being built in the Shackleton crater at the Moon's South Pole. You're leading one of the space agencies that are working together to expand their presence on the base, while at the same time the three major corporations sponsoring the mission are each pursuing their own agenda. In Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon, you will build structures on the base, while also funding projects from the corporations that provide special abilities and scoring opportunities.

A rich a complex interconnected euro game from Fabio Lopiano and Nestore Mangone.

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Spy Guy Fantasy is a cooperative observation game that requires a keen eye and close cooperation between players. The board game is intended for 1-4 people over 5 years of age, and the average playing time is 20 minutes. Participants practice observation skills and cooperation.

You are given a limited amount of time to hunt down various items on a giant board packed with cartoonish and characterful detail.

Each item you find takes you one step towards finding the treasure… but the dragon Balasar is also racing to grab it first!

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