tag: “boardgames”
Escape from the Grand Hotel: The Escape Room Game [Game] BGG
other title: Das geheimnisvolle Grand Hotel
genre: Deduction / Murder / Mystery platform: Boardgame publisher: moses. Verlag GmbH / Professor Puzzle Games
See what mysteries await you in this fast-paced, quick-thinking escape room game! Invite your guests, set your scene and get ready to host a night of fun and intrigue. The ultimate quest? To uncover the dark, hidden secret of The Grand Hotel…

Owned by the wealthy but mysterious Blossom family, this once magnificent hotel was in danger of being closed for good until the sudden return of the Blossom son, Kurt and his beautiful wife, Lauren. They want to restore the hotel to its former glory but nothing is quite what it seems!

When their glamorous, rich and influential guests arrive for the grand re-opening, they’re ready for a night to remember – little do they suspect it will be for all the wrong reasons!

Invite your guests, set your scene and get ready to host a night of fun and intrigue. Each guest can come dressed as one of the eight characters, ready to play their role. During the evening, they must travel through the hotel solving the series of mysterious puzzles that release them from each room. The ultimate quest? To uncover the dark, hidden secret of The Grand Hotel.

Winter Rabbit [Game] BGG
other title: ᎪᎳ ᏥᏍᏚ
genre: Animals / Farming platform: Boardgame publisher: Absurdist Productions
The village elders have predicted a severe winter, and so the villagers have agreed to work together to ensure that the village has all of the necessities. In a spirit of healthy competition, the villagers have decided to compete to see who can be the most helpful. However, Rabbit, the constant trickster, has decided that he does not want to work. Instead, he has decided to confuse everyone else so that he can take all of the resources for himself.

Winter Rabbit is set in the world of traditional Cherokee animal stories, where each player takes on the role of one of the animal characters. In this semi-cooperative game, players cooperate to provide everything the village needs for winter while also competing to see who can contribute the most.

Winter Rabbit features a unique hidden worker placement system. Villagers are drawn randomly from a bag. The active player knows whose villager they have drawn and can choose where to place it, though this information is hidden from other players. Resources are only generated when enough villagers are present. When resources are produced, every player gets one, but those with villagers present gain additional resources.

Rabbit villagers do not produce resources. When one of these appears in a resource location, resources are instead diverted to the Rabbit Burrow. In later turns, players can steal these resources back.

Players can spend resources to build their personal engine through village cards. They can also spend resources on stories that affect the game for all players, or complete tasks that score points, progress the game, and provide a benefit to another player.

Players are encouraged to manage resources carefully. Storage is limited, and overproducing can result in difficulty producing resources in future turns.

The game ends after a variable number of rounds, depending on player count. If players have collectively produced enough supplies for the village to survive Winter, then the player with the highest score wins. If Winter arrives before the necessary supplies are produced, then players share a collective loss.

Winter Rabbit attempts to create a counterpoint to common colonial game themes by focusing on indigenous values and concepts. Winter Rabbit won second prize in the 2021 Zenobia Awards.

-description from designer

Critter Kitchen [Game] BGG
other title: Állati fogások / Zvířecí kuchtíci
genre: Animals platform: Boardgame publisher: Cardboard Alchemy / Gém Klub Kft.
It's Restaurant Week in Bistro Bay! Restaurants are competing in food challenges, while also planning an epic meal to impress a celebrity critic. As one of 1-5 players in Critter Kitchen, you'll send your chefs into the city to gather ingredients to create amazing meals and demonstrate that your restaurant is the best in town.

Each round, new random ingredients are placed in locations throughout the city. Players simultaneously and secretly plan which locations to send their three chefs to, hoping to collect the best ingredients. Some chefs are fast, but can gather only one item, while others can carry three items but arrive late. Rumors are also available at locations and provide guidance on what the critic desires.

Challenges revealed in rounds 1-6 offer the players opportunities to earn stars for crafting dishes with specific ingredient requirements. After round 7, the players must create an epic meal to impress the celebrity critic and cater to their appetites. A multitude of different critics, rumors, and restaurateurs mean every game is fresh!

—description from the publisher

Apothebakery: The Culinary Alchemists [Game] BGG
genre: Economic / Fantasy platform: Boardgame publisher: Lux Lupo
In a land filled with perilous dungeons and treacherous monsters, take on the legacy of an Apothebaker — an ancient lineage of culinary alchemist healers. Sought after far and wide by adventurers in desperate need of salvation.

With the help from your trusted Forries, collect ingredients and valuable resources from the wilderness. Brew elixirs and bake cakes of salvation to heal and rejuvenate adventurers on the brink of doom.

Over the course of 6 rounds, players compete for the most reputation by strategically achieving objectives, healing adventurers and casting powerful spells. There are 3 phases per round; Foraging, Alchemy and Healing.

Embrace the role of an Apothebaker, accumulating reputation for each adventurer you heal and every bake you undertake. The player who gains the highest reputation by day’s end will claim victory!

—description from the publisher

Bunny Boom [Game] BGG
genre: Animals / Card Game platform: Boardgame publisher: Ruse.Games
Bunnies are everywhere! It's an invasion, and nothing seems to be able to stop the proliferation of these adorable little beasts! Madness has taken hold of the area, and no one wants to be caught with all these rabbits!

In a game of Bunny Boom, you try to pass the bunny problem on to other players! To do this, you must place cards from your hand in order to push the rabbits as far as possible and attract opponents to pick up more bunnies than you! You also cause BUNNY BOOM! The game gets more intense each time an opponent places a new card, which may force you to collect more bunnies!

At the end of the game, the player who finishes with the fewest bunnies wins!

—description from the designer

Morels [Game] BGG
other title: Boletaires / Funghi
genre: Card Game / Educational platform: Boardgame publisher: Two Lanterns Games / Bright World Games
The woods are old-growth, dappled with sunlight. Delicious mushrooms beckon from every grove and hollow. Morels may be the most sought-after in these woods, but there are many tasty and valuable varieties awaiting the savvy collector. Bring a basket if you think it's your lucky day. Forage at night and you will be all alone when you stumble upon a bonanza. If you're hungry, put a pan on the fire and bask in the aroma of chanterelles as you sauté them in butter. Feeling mercantile? Sell porcini to local aficionados for information that will help you find what you seek deep in the forest.

Morels, a strategic card game for two players, uses two decks: a Day Deck (84 cards) that includes ten different types of mushrooms as well as baskets, cider, butter, pans, and moons; and a smaller Night Deck (8 cards) of mushrooms to be foraged by moonlight. Each mushroom card has two values: one for selling and one for cooking. Selling two or more like mushrooms grants foraging sticks that expand your options in the forest (that is, the running tableau of eight face-up cards on the table), enabling offensive or defensive plays that change with every game played. Cooking sets of three or more like mushrooms – sizzling in butter or cider if the set is large enough – earns points toward winning the game. With poisonous mushrooms wielding their wrath and a hand-size limit to manage, card selection is a tricky proposition at every turn.

Following each turn, one card from the forest moves into a decay pile that is available for only a short time. The Day Deck then refills the forest from the back, creating the effect of a walk in the woods in which some strategic morsels are collected, some are passed by, and others lay ahead.

Exit: The Game – The Enchanted Forest [Game] BGG
other title: EXIT-КВЕСТ: Зачарованный лес / EXIT: A játék – Az elvarázsolt erdő
genre: Deduction / Puzzle platform: Boardgame publisher: KOSMOS / 999 Games
Exit: The Game – The Enchanted Forest is a puzzle game modeled after escape rooms, and it includes components meant to be folded, written upon, or torn, so it's marketed as a single-use game.

A relaxing walk in the woods takes a very different turn when you suddenly encounter strange fairytale creatures and even stranger puzzles. Will you ever find your way out?!

-- description from the publisher

Faraway [Game] BGG
other title: Faraway: Πέρα Μακριά… / Hen daleko
genre: Adventure / Card Game platform: Boardgame publisher: Catch Up Games / BoardM Factory
Welcome to Alula, a mysterious continent with ever-changing geography, shaped after the rhythm of the seasons. Beyond the Sea of Mists lies the mysterious continent of Alula. Roam across the land in search of its secrets, meet its inhabitants and list its wonders in order to gain more fame than your opponents.

Throughout a game of Faraway, you will play a row of 8 cards in front of you, from left to right. These cards represent the regions you will come across while exploring the lands. Characters on these cards will grant you victory points if you later fulfil the conditions they demand. At the end of the game, you walk back the same way, scoring cards in the opposite order you played them. There lies the heart of the gameplay. Throughout the game, the cards you play will serve both to set new objectives, and to meet the ones you played previously.

Each turn, you play a card from a hand of 3. Then you pick a new card from a face-up river. As play is simultaneous in Faraway, you must take into account a clever priority system in all of your choices – being last to pick a card leaves you with fewer options and often less profitable choices for the next turns.

—description from the publisher

Boggle [Game] BGG
other title: Boggle Game Folio Edition / Boggle Gamepen
genre: Dice / Real-time platform: Boardgame publisher: Alga / Basic Fun, Inc.
Boggle is a timed word game in which players have 3 minutes to find as many connected words as possible from the face up letters resting in a 16 cube grid. When the timer runs out, players compare their lists of words and remove any words found by multiple players. Points are then awarded for remaining words, depending on how many letters are in the word. (In the original Boggle, all words must contain 3 or more letters to score points.)

An example grid given in the French Canadian rules (of Deluxe Boggle) holds an amazing 459 words!

A number of variants have been produced by Parker Brothers over time, including Big Boggle (which uses a 5×5 grid of letters and forces players to search for longer words).

Boggle is a word dice game.

Fairy Ring [Game] BGG
other title: Tündértánc / Магія фей
genre: City Building / Fantasy platform: Boardgame publisher: Repos Production / Gém Klub Kft.
A ray of moonlight shines in the clearing. The fairies wake up and stretch their wings. Mushrooms pop up from the ground, forming a circle. The first fireflies start to land. Magic is returning to the forest, and now it's time to prepare for winter...

In Fairy Ring, you want to create a mushroom village to house the fairies in the clearing. Guide your fairy carefully, from village to village, through the fairy ring to gather as much mana as possible. You have two seasons to develop your village before winter begins. Each decision counts towards winning the game.

Fromage [Game] BGG
genre: Economic / Farming platform: Boardgame publisher: Road To Infamy Games (R2i Games)
You are a French cheesemaker in the early 20th century making, aging, and selling your artisanal cheeses. Become the most prestigious cheesemaker in all of France by running a highly successful creamery and crafting exceptional cheese.

Fromage is a simultaneous worker-placement game where players place Workers to make cheese and gather resources from the quadrant of the board facing them. Once all players have placed their Workers, the board rotates, aging any cheese that was made, and presenting each player with a new quadrant to place Workers into. Score Prestige Points by selling cheese to the four locations, and by efficiently managing and upgrading your creamery.

-description from the publisher

boop the Halls! [Game] BGG
genre: Abstract Strategy / Animals platform: Boardgame publisher: Smirk & Dagger Games
A deceptively cute, deceivingly challenging abstract strategy game for two players.

The Mensa award winning, Game of the Year, boop, is back with a new Holiday edition and has really leveled up game play (literally!!).

The hoomans are hanging ornaments on the highest boughs of the tree, but those clever cats are leaping up and boopin’ them right off. You can win “Naughty” by knocking off 3 of your opponent’s ornaments or “Nice” by lining up three cats in a row!

The 4-tiered game board ‘tree’ presents a surprisingly mind-bending 3D challenge for players. And the alternate win condition of knocking off 3 of your opponent's ornaments creates new strategic problems to solve, elevating the play experience to a new high!

—description from the publisher

Pete the Cat Perfect Pizza Party Game [Game] BGG
other title: Pizza Party / Pepperoni Party
genre: Children's Game / Dice platform: Boardgame publisher: Asmodee / Haywire Group
In the dice-rolling game Pizza Party, each of the two players rolls five dice over and over again at the same time, trying to match their dice to the toppings on the pizza slice card they drew. As soon as dice match, you can place them on the appropriate toppings on the card, and as soon as all the ingredients are supplied, you grab another card and start rolling once again. Whoever first creates an entire pizza pie of six slices wins!

Sushi Go Party! [Game] BGG
other title: スシゴーパーティ / 초밥대왕
genre: Card Game / Party Game platform: Boardgame publisher: Gamewright / AURUM, Inc.
Sushi Go Party! expands Sushi Go! with a party platter of mega maki, super sashimi, and endless edamame. You still earn points by picking winning sushi combos, but now you can customize each game by choosing à la carte from a menu of more than twenty delectable dishes. What's more, up to eight players can join in on the sushi-feast. Let the good times roll!

—description from the publisher

Dungeons & Dragons: The Yawning Portal [Game] BGG
genre: Fantasy platform: Boardgame publisher: Avalon Hill / Hasbro
The Yawning Portal is an iconic inn that attracts fascinating adventurers with two things in common: They're famished, and they have unique tastes in food.

As part of the tavern's staff in Dungeons & Dragons: The Yawning Portal, you need to feed them by matching up food tokens with the orders pictured on their hero card. You earn colored gems (and points) for every matching food token, and a bonus for completing an order. The colored gems that appear most frequently on the board receive the highest value, so strategize to tip the scoring scale in your favor — and don't be afraid to use potions to make patrons love your food! Collect more points if you're the first to achieve an objective challenge or earn an endgame bonus. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins.

Cartographers [Game] BGG
other title: Cartografii: O poveste în universul "Roll Player" / Cartógrafos
genre: Fantasy / Territory Building platform: Boardgame publisher: Thunderworks Games / Arclight Games
Queen Gimnax has ordered the reclamation of the northern lands. As a cartographer in her service, you are sent to map this territory, claiming it for the Kingdom of Nalos. Through official edicts, the queen announces which lands she prizes most, and you will increase your reputation by meeting her demands. But you are not alone in this wilderness. The Dragul contest your claims with their outposts, so you must draw your lines carefully to reduce their influence. Reclaim the greatest share of the queen’s desired lands and you will be declared the greatest cartographer in the kingdom.

In Cartographers: A Roll Player Tale, players compete to earn the most reputation stars by the time four seasons have passed. Each season, players draw on their map sheets and earn reputation by carrying out the queen's edicts before the season is over. The player with the most reputation stars at the end of winter wins!

—description from the publisher

Exit: The Game – Advent Calendar: The Missing Hollywood Star [Game] BGG
other title: EXIT: Das Spiel – Adventskalender: Der verschwundene Hollywood-Star / Exit: Het Spel – Adventskalender: De verdwenen Hollywood-ster
genre: Murder / Mystery / Puzzle platform: Boardgame publisher: KOSMOS / 999 Games
Hollywood is calling! By chance, you have ended up in one of the largest film studios in the dream factory. The shooting for the new Christmas blockbuster should actually be in full swing here — but the set is dark and deserted. Where's the film crew? And why hasn't the movie star shown up yet? Something is wrong here!

Exit: The Game – Advent Calendar: The Missing Hollywood Star is an Exit game and a 24-part adventure story in one. To unravel the mystery of the vacant studio lot, you must open a little calendar door every day. Behind each, you will find a new puzzle, the solution of which will help you to move onto the next room. Only if you follow the clues and solve all 24 puzzles will you find the missing star...

The Isle of Cats Duel [Game] BGG
genre: Animals / Fantasy platform: Boardgame publisher: The City of Games
In The Isle of Cats Duel — a competitive, standalone game designed specifically for two players — you are citizens of Squalls End on a rescue mission to the Isle of Cats and must save as many cats as possible before the evil Lord Vesh arrives. Each cat is represented by a unique tile and belongs to a family; you must find a way to make them all fit on your boat while keeping families together.

The Isle of Cats Duel replaces the card drafting from the original The Isle of Cats game with a new movement system. Guided by an Oshax cat, players take turns moving around the island. Where you move determines which cats, treasures, and lessons you can access and will shape the options available to your opponent on their next turn.

In the end, the player who best balances rescuing cats, completing lessons, and limiting their opponent's options will prove themselves as the ultimate cat rescuer.

—description from the publisher

BOOoop. [Game] BGG
other title: HUUupp / БУУууп.
genre: Abstract Strategy / Animals platform: Boardgame publisher: Smirk & Dagger Games / Delirium Games
A deceptively cute, deceivingly challenging & SPOOPY abstract strategy game for two players.

Every time you place a kitten on the bed, it goes “boop.” Which is to say that it pushes every other kitten next to it one space away. Line up 3 kittens in a row to graduate them into cats… and then, get 3 cats in a row to win.

But that isn’t easy with both you AND your opponent constantly “booping” kittens around. It’s like… herding cats!
And now, things just got boopier and spoopier -
with NEW Ghost Cats that float between the spaces. And so scary, cats will leap right over each other to get away!


Approachable but challenging abstract game following the incredible success of the original "boop" as a limited seasonal game.
Features a new quilted, fabric board that lays over the back of the box, completing the minature bed playing surface. 34 adorable wood cat and kitten playing pieces!
NEW Ghost Cats can boop cats over other pieces as they move across the board between spaces.


—description from the publisher

Pirate Days [Game] BGG
genre: Card Game / Pirates platform: Boardgame publisher: Farplace Animal Rescue
Fill your week of pirates, scoring the most points in the process. Lots of new cards, and the first of the Days series of games to include Dice - for blasting pirates with a Cannon card or duelling with an opposing pirate. A short take-that strategic game.

Each turn you draw a card or play a card until one player fills their week of pirates - then you add up the current scores to see who has won.

One deck is needed per two people playing.

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