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Love Letter
All of the eligible young men (and many of the not-so-young) seek to woo the princess of Tempest. Unfortunately, she has locked herself in the palace, and you must rely on others to take your romantic letters to her. Will…

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Citadels (2016 version)
In Citadels, players take on new roles each round to represent characters they hire in order to help them acquire gold and erect buildings. The game ends at the close of a round in which a player erects his/her eighth…
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Modern Art
Buying and selling paintings is a very lucrative business, at least that’s what Hollywood’s led us to believe, and that’s the premise of this game. Five different artists have produced a bunch of paintings, and it’s the player’s task…
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Masques
As the head of an ambitious Venetian family in Intrigo (a.k.a. Masques) – which won the 2009 Concours de créateurs under the title St Benoît – you have sent your most influential representatives to mingle at the Doge’s masquerade ball….

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Cloud 9
Cloud 9 – The Daring Game of Ups and Downs Players earn points by daring to stay in the basket of a hot air balloon as it rises. Points increase as the balloon climbs from cloud to cloud, but so…

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Can’t Stop
In this Sid Sackson classic, players must press their luck with dice and choose combinations tactically to close out three columns. The board has one column for each possible total of two six-sided dice, but the number of spaces in…
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Cartagena
Cartagena takes as its theme the famous 1672 pirate-led jailbreak from the fortress of Cartagena. Each player has a group of six pirates, and you want to be the first to have all six escape through the tortuous underground passage…

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BANG! The Duel
Game Description: BANG! The Duel is a two-player version of BANG! In which each player chooses a certain number of characters from a personal deck, with one deck containing lawful individuals and the other one outlaws; the more characters you…
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Cartagena 2
In the first Cartagena game, the players, as pirates, attempted to flee prison by making their way through a tunnel to a boat waiting for them at the end of the tunnel. But simply reaching the boat does not mean…

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Desperados
In Reiner Knizia’s first published game, there are nine mine-opening cards and nine mine-closing cards. To score any points you’ve got to play gold, silver or copper cards onto the corresponding open mine and then close it. Trouble is, your…

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Cashflow
Cashflow 101 is a serious game designed by investor, businessman, and self-help author Robert Kiyosaki to serve as a tool for learning basic financial strategies and accounting principles. Cashflow 101 is the first of several games created by Kiyosaki to…

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Death Over The Kingdom
In Death Over the Kingdom you have two games in one: – For groups of 3 to 7 players; – For groups of 3 to 16 players, although we recommend starting with 8 players. The rules explained below are for…

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Dixit
2010 Spiel des Jahres Winner One player is the storyteller for the turn and looks at the images on the 6 cards in her hand. From one of these, she makes up a sentence and says it out loud (without…
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Dixit Odyssey
Dixit Odyssey is both a standalone game and an expansion (Dixit: Odyssey (expansion)) for Jean-Louis Roubira’s Dixit, which won Germany’s Spiel des Jahres award in 2010. Game play in Dixit Odyssey matches that of Dixit: Each turn one player is…

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Babel
Please note that only PRELOVED set available for sale for this game. We do not have a brand new set. Game set in good and playable conditions. In Babel, each player makes use of members of various tribes of the…

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Code 777
The clever little game Code 777 combines the elements of a good, logical deduction game and Indian poker. Each player receives a rack for keeping three tiles drawn from a pool of tiles, which are seven different numbers in seven…

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Family Business
Family Business takes mob warfare to a new level of backstabbing, revenge, and general bloodthirstiness, which is what makes it such a blast to play. Every player controls a ‘family’ and plays various cards to off other players’ family members….

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Baby Blues
In Baby Blues every player is working in their neighbor’s day care center. You have five babies under your charge, and you want to keep your babies happy. Happy babies score points at the end of the game, crying babies…

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Fish Eat Fish
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…

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Banana Grams
Bananagrams is a fast and fun word game that requires no pencil, paper or board. One hand can be played in as little as five minutes. Very similar to the non-standardized Anagrams game Game play involves arranging one’s tiles into…

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Coloretto
Game play in Coloretto is simple: Either draw a card to play to a row, or take a row of cards to add them to your collection. A row can have at most three cards, so at some point everyone…

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Guillotine
The French Revolution is famous in part for the use of the guillotine to put nobles to death, and this is the macabre subject of this light card game. As executioners pandering to the masses, the players are trying to…

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Bears VS Babies
Bears vs Babies is a card game in which you build handsome, incredible monsters who go to war with horrible, awful babies. The shared deck of cards consists of bear parts (and other monster parts) and baby cards. When you…

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Compatibility
Play is in teams of two. Each person has a deck of picture cards. Each deck has the same set of pictures. There is also a deck of word cards with words like “marriage”, “de facto”, and “pimple”. A word…

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