Agricola is a turn-based game. There are 14 game turns plus 6 harvest phases (after turn 4, 7, 9, 11, 13, and 14). Each player starts with two playing tokens (farmer and wife) and thus can take two actions per turn. There are multiple options, and while the game progresses, you'll have more and more: first thing in a turn, a new action card is flipped over.

Problem: Each action can be taken just once per turn, so it's important to do some things with high preference. Each player also starts with a hand of 7 Occupation cards (of more than 160 total) and 7 Minor Improvement cards (of more than 140 total) that he may use during the game if they fit in his/her strategy. This amounts to countless strategies, some depending on your card hand. Sometimes it's a good choice to stay on course, sometimes you better react on what your opponents do.

Agricola can also be played without cards (family game) and can even be played solo.

Contents: 360 cards, over 300 wooden components, 50+ tiles, 9 boards, tokens, scoring pad.

It is the Contest of the Alchemists! The most talented Adepts of the mystical arts come from around the world to compete. They fill their cauldrons with exotic and rare ingredients, all creating new potions in the quest for fame and honor. In addition to demonstrating their talents by replicating their fellow competitors' potions, each has a secret agenda: to promote the use of the component their school of magic prizes most highly! The person who brings the most fame to his or her school-and for themselves-will win the title of Supreme Adept!

Astoria is the first game of Rôle & Stratégie Editions. Displayed in its engraved wooden box, the game also contains a great lot of original material: opening the box reveals four glass flasks and their cork stoppers, sixty large shining gems, 66 illustrated cards, some pawns, and a two-sided paperboard along with two complete rulesets.

There are two rulesets, for there are two games : the "Alchemy version" and the "Epic version".

The "Alchemy version" is team-played ; it is a game of combination putting team strategy and competition to a very challenging level. Players are divided in two teams, each trying to compete for the best cure. Players have limited resources, and the game will end as soon as one is depleted.

The "Epic version", on the other hand, has six different endings. It includes more diplomacy and roleplaying features. Players are powerful mages trying to defend the city of Astoria from many invaders. But they also must watch each other, for traitors are among them..

Each player oversees the building of his city-state. Temple, theater and oracle, a harbor with ships, vineyard with vintner, and many more must find space on the islands. Players must move fast to get the best land for themselves while blocking their opponents from good building spots. As building is expensive, players seek to save money by using the natural resources of the islands. Players also seek to organize their building in an order that gives them the best city-state.

The original Lake District boardgame only it's played on a big map made of cloth!

This is the game where buying a cup of tea in Braithwaite could make all the difference or wolfing down that last bar of chocolate gives you just enough energy to race back into Keswick before the Mountain Rescue is called out to scour the hills for you ( and scour your points from the score track too! ).

'Backpacks....' is a game with plenty of scope for interaction and much amusement when your opponents collapse to the grassy sward with a blister or two to delay their progress. It's a family game that adults on their own enjoy as well and one that only takes about an hour to play.

This game is the follow-up to our boardgame 'Backpacks and Blisters', riding high on the popularity of it's sibling game. Actually it's a better game than the original in my opinion as it's got really mean weather! There's nothing like seeing your rivals stuck in a 'white out' while carrying the Heavy Rucksack, armed with only a hip flask of winter warmer to see them through.

The basic mechanics are the same as 'Backpacks....' but with extra ingredients such as Equipment Cards to spice the gameplay up a bit. It comes with a large size cloth map which doubles as a clean-up cloth in case you spill the beer over it - fully machine washable of course!

It's not a complex game and children can easily learn to play but it's also got enough decision making involved so that adult gamers can get a good interactive game out of it as well.

Today, there is chaos in the chicken yard!!!

Today’s practice for the chicken cha cha olympics is feather stealing. Each chicken cha chas to catch each of their opponents without being caught themself. Their reward for catching another chicken is tail feathers. The first chicken to have all tail feathers is the winner! But only a chicken who knows what is in the chicken yard will be able to catch the others and win the game. A chicken with a leaky memory will find himself standing bare-rumped and medalless when the prizes are distributed.

CLOUD 9™ will take you straight up through the clouds! The higher the balloon rises, the more points you can score. But watch out, the balloon can fall at anytime… how long are you willing to stay on and risk losing it all?

Reach new heights with CLOUD 9!

COVERUP™ is a four-in-a-row game with depth—three depths to be exact. Players choose where they will place their disks, and at what depth. Place a disk below the surface and risk having that disk covered up. Move a disk and risk uncovering an opponent’s disk.

This deceptive two-player strategy game takes only seconds to learn and minutes to play.

Greener Grass Across the Way!

Two elk (Jule and Ole) stare at each other across a river. Longing for the greener grass where the other elk is, they set out to beat each other to the opposite bank! In Elk Fest, move your elk to the other bank by flicking wooden disks across the table and balancing your elk on them. Can your elk get to the greener grass across the river? Good grazing is just a stone's flick away!

A Fast-Moving, 2-Player Game for Festive Folk!

Elk Fest™ includes: 2 Elks, 2 River Banks, 6 River Stones, 8 Rubber Feet, 1 Rules.

Can your fool help the King? Figaro wants to be hired by the King as cook, painter, soldier, singer and wizard! But that's really too much even for a talented... goofy guy as Figaro who always gets into mischief!

CONTENTS: 60 cards, 15 road pieces, Castle Wall, King figure, Linen bag, rules.

It's Survival of the Fishest!

In a wave of challenges and bluffs, players compete for control of the sea. Play your cards right, and watch your stack of fish grow. But just when you think you’re the big fish... a bigger fish comes along. Gobble up the most fish and you win!

The fast-moving "first person shooter" boardgame... mutated into the Weird West! This is a complete game which combines the award-winning Deadlands background with the fast, fun Frag rules. Play as a magic-using huckster, an undead Harrowed gunslinger, or a Mad Scientist... frag your foes on the main street of Doomtown, and hang them on the gallows! You don't need the original Frag to play... but if you have them both, you can combine them.

Capture as many mythological creatures as possible using skilfully your peregrin falcon, for the high fly hunt, and your goshawk, for the low fly hunt, and make bets on the others' preys. Who will become the new imperial falconer of Frederick II?

GQM12 includes Mayfair Games’ expansion The Fishermen of Catan. Includes a full 8” x 10” die cut sheet of counters plus special rules for the scenario. This expansion matches all basic Settlers of Catan games- no other expansions are needed.

Who is the best angler?

One player takes the role of the two anglers and tries to catch as many fish as possible. The other player takes the role of the fish and with bluff and skill tries to hinder the anglers from catching fish. The angler player decides where to fish, but must do so in the dark (that is, he cannot really see where the fish are), as the fish cards are placed face down. Because of this, he does not know whether he is catching a fish or garbage. Also, when he is lucky enough to catch a fish, he will not know until he lands it how valuable it is. With clever movement of his fish, the fish player tries to get garbage and small fish onto the anglers hooks.

After one game, the players switch roles. After two games, the player with the most points is the winner.

Eccentricity is what makes the world go round. Well, your world anyways.

As a member of the pretentious "Antique Club", you feel inexplicably compelled to outshine your other snobby friends. You are oddly convinced it is your destiny to become the antique collector with the most valuable collection - by using any means necessary.

Outwit your fellow snobs to become the most "Hoity Toity" of them all.

Carnival in Venice. The players take on the roles of secret agents, disappearing into the wild, festive confusion behind the masks of carnival – intent on fulfilling a secret mission. But first, they have to identify their partner, for only together can they find out which mission awaits them. But who is this partner? At each encounter, you learn a little bit more, piecing together information while you try to avoid misdirection and heading on the wrong track.

You are an ingenious Renaissance inventor in the 15th century Florence. You build amazing machines for the Lord of your city. Become a protagonist of this age of unbelievable discoveries, by realizing your inventions! Can you marshall your workers in the most advantageous laboratories, workshops, shops and in the palace plots? Only the best one can compete with the great Leonardo!

In uncharted waters, the ship, Santa Timea, has collided with a reef, and the sailors set off in the old lifeboats for a hair-raising journey to sheltering shores. As the lifeboats move closer to the islands, water rushes in and sailors get thrown overboard. But it's all done democratically and the majority rules - unless you happen to play the Captain’s Hat at the right time to overrule everyone.

In Lifeboats, players use their cards to vote for which boat moves closer to safety, which boat springs a leak and who gets thrown overboard. Negotiation skills are a must and backstabbing will not be uncommon - after all, you will do whatever is necessary to get your sailors to shore... and so will everyone else!

Originally released as Rette Sich Wer Kann.

Monastery is a tile laying game in which players construct different parts of a medieval monastery. The work is done by the monks of a player. The monks may move from tile to tile and in addition to building work they can also study, toil or pray. In the ‘icon’ game monks can also make use of the special properties of some of the tiles.

The tiles vary in value ranging from 1 point field and path tiles to 5 point Chapter House and Library. The higher the value of tile the more monks are needed to build it. Players can build independently, but often they are required to work collaboratively.

The game spreads over two days of monastic life, with turns being allocated as time for study and toil or for services in the abbey. At each service a new abbot is elected and apart from going first in the turn the abbot also has some significant powers.

In order to win the game players must collect the letters of the abbey’s motto ‘Libera Nos Quaesumus Ab Omnibus Malis Amen’. The letters become progressively more expensive and players must decide whether to buy letters or recruit extra monks.

Points at game end are also awarded for the ‘blessings’ which players can collect throughout the game.

In MixUp™ one player tries to win using the shapes, while the other player uses the colors. The first player to get four tiles in a row, or into a two-by-two square, wins. But take a good look— what first appears like a winning strategy could actually be helping your opponent! This illusive two-player strategy game takes only seconds to learn and minutes to play.

Neuland lies undeveloped with only a few hunters and woodcutters living there. Players compete to build up a new civilization in which 15 properties promise prosperity and progress, including the Abbey, Guild House, Town Hall, and Stronghold. Who will achieve the chains of production necessary to claim each cultural building? Players must evaluate how much to do each turn since the fewer actions they take, the more they can achieve the next turn. When should you make your big move so you can claim that cultural advance with your coat of arms? The first to place all of their coat of arms wins the game.

Players place workers to produce raw material that must be used to produce more refined material. These materials help you build different facilities to produce even more materials. The uniqueness of the actions is that you can do as much as you want as long as you don't pass the time marker. The time marker moves to the nextp layer piece: which could be you dpeending on how many actions you take. So one must consider doing a small number of actions in order to go more often or take a long turn to do everything you may want.

Contents: 10 Hexagon boards (9 are double hexes), 1 Timeline board, 2 building repository boards, 4 player boards, 32 wooden workers, 1 Time marker, 1 cloth bag, 72 coat of arms tiles, 57 building tiles, 4 wheelbarrow tiles, 21 mineral tokens, 4 wood tokens, 4 food tokens, 4 metal tokens, rules.

The territory of Rome is composed in a different manner at each game; on each hill, the players try to make affairs with their merchants, take fields and springs with their farmers and... fight with their soldiers!

A two player game where you pick and pack apples into crates - the catch is the mechanical arm is broken and you control the arm going vertically while the other player controls its horizontal movement.

Players move a pawn horizontally and vertically along rows, picking the apples they want or using a special action like Rush Order (giving you an extra turn) or Premium (making one of your crates worth double).

Contents: 60 tiles, 1 pawn, 1 board, rules.

"The Best Game Ewe Ever Herd!"

Ah, do ewe long for the life of a sheep? Bright summer days filled with games of tag and attempts to flock closer to Roger, the Heartthrob Ram? But Watch Out! The shearer wants to drag you away from all the fun and games!

In Shear Panic, ewe maneuver your ewes to score points, playing tag, standing close to Roger, or trying to avoid the shearing scissors! Will your brave sheep score the most points, or will it be "Off with the wool" for ewe?

Shear Panic includes: 9 sheep figures, 1 Roger figure, 1 Shearer figure, 4 player boards, 1 scoring board, 1 sheep panic die, 1 "return to flock" die, 5 track markers, 48 "mutton buttons" (12 each in four colors) Rules sheet.

You are shipwrecked...

...to survive, you must compete head-to-head in a bid for food, shelter, water, and friends. These entertaining contests require strategy, intuition, and nerve to determine who survives and who doesn't.

Fun, quick, and innovative, Shipwrecked™ will keep everyone on edge until the very end. Perfect for game lovers and castaways, everywhere!

The year is 1943. From Asia to England, and all places in between, Axis and Allied pilots put their daring, skill and nerve to the test in a fight for air supremacy; the prize being nothing less than the fate of the world. In Front Porch Classics new adventure game Sortie, players simultaneously play cards that authentically simulate the thrill and exhilaration of World War II dog fighting. Cast metal planes, a segmented wood playing surface and over 100 playing cards combine to give you a taste of what it was like behind the cockpits of the fighting machines of yesteryear. Comes packaged in an elegant all wood book-style box.

Strange Synergy is built around 100 different Power Cards . . . superpowers, mutations, skills, gadgets. Each warrior starts with three different powers. You choose the combination! Can you create the unbeatable team? Can you win against superior powers?

Developed by Steve Jackson and illustrated by Phil Foglio (Girl Genius, GURPS IOU, XXXenophile), this game will be as much fun to watch as it is to play. No two games are the same. How many ways can you make four different teams of three warriors, out of 100 powers? The mind boggles, and the fun never ends! Boxed game with 112 cards, rules, warrior stand-ups and bases, game map, counters, and one die.

A game for 3-7 players, players compete to have their surfers catch the biggest waves and ride them all the way in to the beach--but be careful of sharks and other surfers cutting in! Surf's Up is playable by ages 11 and up and usually plays in less than an hour!

Fast! Captivating! Simple!

Fast! Because all players are trying simultaneously to cover their Ubongo spaces with the appropriate tiles.

Captivating! Because you don’t want to stop and excitedly look forward to the next round.

Simple! Because the rules for playing Ubongo are explained in only a few sentences.

And here’s how the game works: Each player receives their own puzzle board and 12 tiles, all shaped differently. Then one player throws the die and turns the sand timer. Which tiles will have to be placed on each player’s board is determined by the icon on the die. Now each player tries to place their tiles and solve the puzzle as fast as possible. The fastest player shouts “Ubongo!” and is allowed to move their pawn on the common game board and take two jewels. Meanwhile the other players continue to solve their puzzle – as long as the sand timer is running, they are allowed to place their tiles and collect jewels. The player who has collected the most jewels of one color is the winner! And that player won’t necessarily always be the fastest.

In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, you will travel down the Yellow Brick Road with Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodsman and the Cowardly Lion in a cooperative effort to outsmart the Wicked Witch of the West. In this unique team game, players work together against the Wicked Witch to get Dorothy to her home in Kansas. During the course of the game, different players will become the leader of the group, making decisions as the Wicked Witch tries to capture and defeat the team. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz allows young and old alike to actively relive America’s most beloved children’s tale. Game includes both basic and advances rules and features four beautifully designed character playing pieces, over 30 multi-colored gems and 100 unique playing cards.