Heirs to an exceptional knowledge that has survived the ages, it is now up to you to preserve the vestige of your civilization. Ancient Knowledge is a strategic card game in which you erect monuments and build artefacts to pass on your knowledge. Time will make your constructions ephemeral,so make the right decision and combine the many cards at your disposal, because all knowledge is doomed to disappea. It's up to you to find the best synergy so that you can pass down knowledge before the decline of the emblematic monuments you have constructed, monuments we still find nowadays in the four corners of the globe. From Mexican pyramids to the Sphinx of Giza, passing through the famous cities of Tiwanaku and Babylon, only the cleverest builder will shine through the ages and seize victory. In this game, your only enemy is time.
Archeologic
Publisher
Ludonaute
Age Range
12
Player Range
1 to 4
A city in the mountains was discovered, but no one dares to venture there without having mapped the place. Here is finally a mission for you, an archaeologist with implacable logic. ArcheOlogic is a competitive deduction game whose goal is to first find the exact location of the buildings of the city. To help you? An Archeoscope, the only research instrument capable of reading the coded cards left by the Ancients. Ask the Archeoscope your questions by adjusting its cogs, note the precious answers, and replace the buildings on your plan. Think carefully as some questions will take more time than others, but maybe their answer will help you win...
Bird Bash
Publisher
MindWare
Age Range
8
Player Range
2 to 4
Bring your whole flock together to explore the world of birds! Well-suited for classroom games as well as general board games for kids, Bird Bash improves critical thinking, strategic planning and problem-solving skills, providing an interactive and educational gameplay experience for kids. High-quality materials and colorful artwork help to make Bird Bash a favorite family board game for years to come! Each player of this classic board game tries to throw the best bird bash around by serving up tasty treats that attract birds to their feeder. They collect birds (and points) by playing wild cards and action cards to gather their favorite foods. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins in this party game that rules the roost!
Fluffy Valley
Publisher
Loki
Age Range
6
Player Range
1 to 4
Little nests on the prairie! It’s time to fill them with supplies for winter. Scamper around the grasslands to gather fruit, hay, honey and more to bring back to the burrow. But be careful, winter may arrive sooner than expected and other animals will mess up your plans!
Foodie Forest
Publisher
IELLO
Age Range
8
Player Range
2 to 5
This Reiner Knizia concoction is a sort of a trick-taking game, but instead of everybody playing one card and seeing which one wins the trick, everybody takes turns adding cards until the total adds up to 10 or more and the player who added that card takes the whole pile. This can be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on the player's goal for that particular round! There are five rounds in the game and exactly five different goals to be fulfilled: to take as many mushroom cards as you can, or as many pea soup cards, or as many onion cards, or as many chili pepper cards, or to take no cards at all. (The pepper cards, incidentally, count minus 1 unless your goal for the round is to collect them.) Goals are revealed simultaneously, so you may or may not be in competition with another player for the same cards during the round. And you can't choose a goal you've already chosen, so things can get pretty tough especially on the last hand, where no matter what cards you're dealt, you *have* to go for whichever of the five goals you haven't done already.
Forbidden Jungle
Publisher
Gamewright
Age Range
10
Player Range
2 to 5
In Forbidden Jungle, your team has crash-landed on a mysterious jungle planet, and you need to work together to survive. Search the ruins of an abandoned outpost for an elusive escape portal, all while fending off an ever-growing horde of venomous creatures and an escalating chain of collapsing locations. Shift tiles to power up the portal and live to see another day!
Get on Board: Paris and Rome
Publisher
IELLO
Age Range
8
Player Range
1 to 5
Who will have the best Metro line? Organize your passengers' trips across the most romantic cities in the world! Feel free to double up with other players and create connections that will earn you even more points. Over multiple rounds in Get on Board: Paris & Roma, you reveal a new route card, then plot the ideal route to cross off the best passenger and place spaces. Complete your objectives, and try to get the most points!
Hygge
Publisher
Helvetiq
Age Range
7
Player Range
2 to 4
Today we're having a party! But everyone's stuff is littered around the house, so before the guests arrive, we have to straighten up this place. Grandma and Grandpa will pitch in, too, but the guests might show up at any time. Try to quickly tidy up more stuff than anyone else. Can each family member finish straightening up, and get ready to receive the guests with out any mishaps?
Moon River
Publisher
Blue Orange
Age Range
8
Player Range
2 to 4
In the game, you will build a personal landscape of tiles to score points, but instead of tiling dominoes in your landscape, the game uses half-dominoes in which one edge has a jigsaw puzzle-style connection. You combine two of these half puzzle pieces to craft your own dominoes. This mechanism is meant to provide more variability and randomization in each play. Instead of building your landscape around a central castle, you start from the river and expand away from it. Also, the crowns (i.e., the victory point multiplier) from Kingdomino are replaced by cow meeples, with players being able to use cowboys to move them.
Morris the Dodo
Publisher
Blue Orange
Age Range
3
Player Range
2 to 4
Oh no, an explorer has arrived on the island! Working together, help Morris hide his eggs at the bottom of the waterfall to keep them away from this nosy man. When it’s your turn, make Morris slide down the waterfall and place his eggs in the hiding spots if they are whole. If the eggs are broken, they will be a clue for the explorer who will come closer to the nest! Empty the nest before the explorer discovers it!
Odin
Publisher
Helvetiq
Age Range
7
Player Range
2 to 6
In Odin, you want to empty your hand as quickly as possible, sending all your Vikings out into the world. The game lasts several hands, with each hand consisting of one or more rounds. The deck contains cards in six suits, each numbered 1-9, and each player starts with a hand of nine cards. The lead player for the hand lays a single card on the table. The next player either passes (but can play on a future turn) or plays the same number of cards (or one more than that number) with a higher value. When you play two or more cards, the cards must be the same number or color, and the value of these cards is created by placing their digits in order from high to low. For example, if you play a blue 3 and blue 6, their value is 63, not 36. When you play and are not the lead, you must take one of the cards from the previous play into your hand, then discard the rest. Play continues around the table until either a player is out of cards, which ends the round immediately, or all players have passed in succession. In the latter case, discard the cards last played; whoever played these cards lays a single card to start a new round. Alternatively, if the lead player has cards in hand of a single suit or number, they play all of these cards at once to end the hand. When a hand ends, each player scores 1 point for each card they still hold. If no player has at least 15 points, shuffle the deck and start a new hand. If someone does have 15 or more points, whoever has the fewest points wins.
On the Road
Publisher
Helvetiq
Age Range
8
Player Range
2 to 4
In On the Road, you play music bands that want to reach the Sunshine Festival with the most fans. During the game, you travel throughout the land in order to gather the highest number of fans. To win, you need to make sure they will also make it to the Festival to see you on stage — and won't get stuck in line at the toilet. On your turn, play a movement card to visit new places or travel back to beloved festivals. Each tile represents a different landscape. The more often you visit a type of landscape, the more fans you will get there, i.e., meeples you place in a bag. On the night tiles, you get a chance to draw from the bag. Your fans will be invited to watch you play, whereas other bands' fans will be sent to queue for the toilet. The game ends when all the tickets for the Festival are sold. The winning band is the one with the most fans on the floor.
Orbito
Publisher
FlexiQ Games
Age Range
7
Player Range
2
Try to get four marbles of your colour in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal row on the patented, shifting game board. But watch out! To finish your turn, you must press the 'Orbito'-button, which will make ALL marbles shift 1 position on their orbit! Stay focused as ALL marbles change position on every turn! Moreover, you can also disrupt your opponent's strategy by moving one of their marbles on your turn. Beware, this totally unique game element works both ways!
Pyramido
Publisher
Synapses Games
Age Range
8
Player Range
2 to 4
The great Pharaoh Mino has passed, and rule passes to his eldest son: Pharoah Mido. Displeased with the plain appearance of the pyramid in which his father was buried, Mido turns his attention to his own legacy. He wishes for his own resting place to better reflect his majesty and has decreed that 2-4 architects build pyramids encrusted with jewels: a pyramido. The architect who builds the most impressive pyramido will be appointed Vizier and enjoy wealth and power beyond imagination. Pyramido is a tile-placement game in which each stage of the pyramid creates connections between them. Players take turns choosing from the available dominoes to create their pyramid. To maximize their points, players must match the jewel icons on the dominoes and place their markers of the same colors to activate the scoring areas. Each choice of domino and its positioning has a significant impact since the previous stages influence the score throughout the game.
Skor
Publisher
MindWare
Age Range
6
Player Range
2 to 4
Ready your shields to stack, connect and conquer! An exhilarating stacking experience awaits with this fun addition to your board games for kids and families. Match colors on the metal centers or outer rings of shields to collect three in a row and conquer the game board. This simple-to-learn family board game combines elements of strategy and luck, keeping players engaged and on their toes. But don’t go into battle without some strategy – stack shields, block your opponents or double your turn to keep everyone on their toes. Victory goes to the player who collects the most shields and earns the most points! With gameplay that can be enjoyed by 2 to 4 players and a quick 30-minute playtime, Skor has earned a spot among the best games for family game nights, classroom games or fun with friends. Packaged in an eye-catching design with rich colors, Skor is sure to be a highlight of your kid board games options! • This board game for kids and families combines a fun balance of strategy and luck
Sky Team
Publisher
Scorpion Masqué
Age Range
12
Player Range
2
Sky Team is a co-operative game, exclusively for two players, in which you play a pilot and co-pilot at the controls of an airliner. Your goal is to work together as a team to land your airplane in different airports around the world. To land your plane, you need to silently assign your dice to the correct spaces in your cockpit to balance the axis of your plane, control its speed, deploy the flaps, extend the landing gear, contact the control tower to clear your path, and even have a little coffee to improve your concentration enough to change the value of your dice. If the aircraft tilts too much and stalls, overshoots the airport, or collides with another aircraft, you lose the game...and your pilot's license...and probably your life. From Montreal to Tokyo, each airport offers its own set of challenges. Watch out for the turbulence as this could end up being bumpy ride!
Sushi go! Spin Some for Dim Sum
Publisher
Gamewright
Age Range
8
Player Range
2 to 6
A delicious spin on the classic Sushi Go game. Collect the best combination of dishes from the Spin Table. Each dish scores in a unique way. Collect menu items from the basket in front of you or use your Chopstick tokens to rotate the Spin Table and choose a different dish. Snag the Steamed Bun Squishy to spin the tray for free! Plus, if you have the most squishy tokens you get more points at the end of the game. Try to build the most valuable combinations of dishes. The game ends when everyone has 12 total dishes, highest score wins!
Unmatched: Tales to Amaze
Publisher
IELLO + Restoration Games
Age Range
9
Player Range
1 to 4
Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze, which is themed around the pulp adventures, tall tales, and local legends of the mid-20th century, gives you a whole new way to play Unmatched. In the game, players work together to defeat one of two villains: Mothman or the Martian Invader. Each villain has a unique battlefield with unique objectives. If the villain completes their objective (or defeats the heroes), the players lose. The villains are aided by a number of possible minions: Jersey Devil, Ant Queen, Loveland Frog, The Blob, Tarantula, and Skunk Ape. The enemies use special action cards and a simple targeting scheme to control their movement and attacks. The set comes with four new heroes: Nikola Tesla discharges his electrified coils to power up his effects; Annie Christmas gets stronger when she's fighting from behind; The Golden Bat, the world's first superhero, has a variety of powerful effects; and Dr. Jill Trent, Science Sleuth, calls on a collection of gizmos. Keeping to the Unmatched brand, you may use heroes from other Unmatched sets in Unmatched Adventures, and you can use the included heroes and battlefields to play competitive Unmatched.
