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Prolix

[ZMG 4067]

In Prolix, players score points by coming up with words whose letters match those of the tiles on the board. Unlike other word games, you don't need all the letters of a word to be on the board to use that word. This means that you are free to use all those words you always wanted to use in other word games, but were always a few tiles or cards short! Of course, the letters in your word won't score if they aren't on the board, so even huge words can be stinkers if you don't use them at the right time.

Letters score based on how rare they are and where they are on the board. Once you finish scoring your letters, all tiles move across the board, changing their value. If you have a great word, but it's not your turn, you're allowed to interrupt another player's turn and score. But be careful, because you can lose points by interrupting with low-scoring words. And, of course, other players can interrupt your turn if they wish, or even force you to say a word by flipping the timer.

A new type of word game!

Burrows

[ZMG 4057]

Welcome to sunny Gopher Gulch, home of a unique gopher population known far and wide for their bright and colorful coats! Due to their particular diets, our local gophers have developed fur in remarkable shades of red, purple, and orange... this is a sight that has to be seen to be believed, and every season we get bus after bus of excited tourists like yourself, eager to see our little furry friends! Quite a few Gopher Ranchers have set up shop around town, and each of them will try to show you exactly what you've come to see. Thanks for visiting Gopher Gulch, please remember to tell your friends!
--The Gopher Gulch Tourism Board

Players are gopher ranchers in the town of Gopher Gulch, each placing tiles to build their own warren of burrows, hoping to attract all three types of gophers. It's a delicate balancing act where every tile counts. Build your warren, forming burrows of three different colors. Complete a burrow of a particular color that is longer than the current shortest burrow in that color, and the gopher living there moves into the new one; it stays there until it gets lured away again by an even bigger burrow! There is one less gopher of each color than there are players, so not everyone will be able to host all three gopher types at once.

Every once in a while the tour bus will arrive, and the tourists will be most excited to see the types of gophers promised to them by their tour schedule. If your ranch is missing those particular gophers, you'll get complaints from the tourists. At the end of the tourist season, the rancher with the fewest complaints, wins!

Malta

[ZMG 4056]

"Draw, play, and move, that's all you've got to do. But what can you play? You can Remove a Space to try to strand your opponent in the corner, but he might counter with an Allemande Left leaving you in the same situation. Maybe you can have a Party at My Place and then Teleport away. Or if things get desperate, you can always just Catapult someone clear across the board. But no matter what, don't forget to not lose!"

A crazy, chaotic, party game atmosphere card game where the object is to not lose.

Magical Athlete

[ ZMG 4064]

Duel of the Giants

[ ZMG 7051]

Road Kill Rally

[ZMG 7047]

King's Command

[ZMG 4068]

Bottle Imp

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As with many other trick-taking card games, the idea of the Bottle Imp is to acquire the most points. The Bottle Imp makes trumps out of the lowest cards. The player with the highest card less than the price of the Bottle earns the trick and also the Bottle Imp card. Then the price of the Bottle falls to that of the winning card. In this way the owner of the Bottle Imp changes until its value can no longer be undercut. Whoever has the Bottle Imp at the end of the hand earns negative points instead of positive ones.

Parade

[ZMG 4065]

Onirim

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What's Missing?

[ZMG 6100]

Based on the popular "spot the 7 differences" game, What's Missing? challenge your abilities to observe and react quickly. You need to quickly find the two differences between your illustration and the reference once, placed on the table for everybody to see.

Doublesided cards let you play at two difficulty levels, either with a mountain theme or a beach theme.

Neuroshima Hex Duel

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The Speicherstadt

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Hamburg around 1900 - the gate to the world. Within the harbour there stretches a unique complex of storehouses: Speicherstadt. The network of canals and bridges houses a terminal for spices, coffee, tea and carpets from all over the world.

As one of Hamburg´s wholesaler at the heyday of the Speicherstadt you acquire shiploads for the storehouses, not too expensive, of course, as you like to make a profit selling them. Who makes the best deals within a year and supplies his clients with the right goods will be the winner of the game. But beware! Sudden fires cause heavy losses. You might be adviced to invest in fire protection early.

Playing Speicherstadt you will be thrilled by the simple and original mechanism of acquiring desired action cards.

Rattus

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Europe, 1347. A disaster is about to strike. The Black Death reaches Europe, and during the next 4-5 years, the population of Europe will be halved.
The players settle in the various regions of Europe, while the plague spreads throughout all of the continent. The players gain help from the various classes of the middle ages: The Peasants provide population growth, the wise Monks keep the rats away, the rich Merchants flee when the plague approaches, the warfare conducted by the Knights spreads the plague to new areas, the Witches controls the spread through magic and witchcraft, whereas the Kings avoid the plague by staying in their fortified palaces. But the plague does not make any distinction: When the rats arrive, no one can feel safe.
When the plague withdraws and the game ends, the player with the highest surviving population wins.

Rattus ia a medium-strategy game which handles in the Dark Ages during the black plague. The players try to hold the disease.
To do this they get help from farmers, magicians, knights, nobles, ... But nothing helps as long as the rats keep coming.

The Swarm

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Perry Rhodan: The Cosmic League

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Mountain of Inferno

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During the journey, Xuanzang is trapped in the Mountain of Inferno with evil and hungry Buffalo Demon King family. Now it is up to his disciples to protect him, so he may continue his journey to the west safely.

Mountain of Inferno is played in number of rounds. Each round ends when any one Xuanzang is placed at the intersection of four unique disciples continuously in a row and another four in a column. Each player then calculates his points based on the location of his Xuanzang. After number of rounds, the player with highest score wins the game.

Players: 2 to 4
Time: 24.7 min
Age: 8+

Components:

• 54 cards
  • 9 × Monkey King (disciple)
  • 9 × Monk Pig (disciple)
  • 9 × Friar Sand (disciple)
  • 9 × Dragon Horse (disciple)
  • 3 × Buffalo Demon King
  • 3 × Princess Iron Fan
  • 8 × Red Boy
  • 2 × Guayin
  • 1 × Score track
  • 1 × Blank (player may add custom feature/character to the game
• Other Components
  • 4 × Token
  • 1 × English rule
  • 1 × Chinese rule

Tien Zi Que

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Tien Zi Que (TZQ) is an entertaining pocket MahJong for two. It uses unique selection of MahJong cards, and each card is added a color code (blue, green, red, white or black) for special scoring. With exceptional game play and color code, TZQ brings you more fun and strategy than the traditional MahJong. All you need is 5 cards on hand and little or no MahJong knowledge to play. The first player collects 30 points wins the game.

Tien Zi stands for son of the god, and it is also another name for the emperor of China.
Que stands for Sparrow.

Goal / Winning the Game
After creating a Set, player chooses to keep one of the cards for end of the Round scoring. When one player completes five Sets, he calls MahJong and wins the Round immediately. He then uses the one card from each Set to calculate the score point. Player’s score points are accumulated after every winning round, and the player who accumulates 30 or more points wins the game.

Components: 54 cards

Queen's Ransom

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The queen has been captured and is held for ransom!

You and your friends are detectives enlisted by the king. Who will be the first to determine who captured her and where she is being held captive.

A fun deductive-type game.

Queen's Ransom is a deduction card game for 2-5 players. The players are inspectors enlisted by the king to investigate the Queen's kidnapping (the king can't afford the ransom!)
The first player to find out who captured the queen and where she is being held wins the game. A player may buy information cards using money cards, or use special cards.

Martinique

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