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The Settlers of Catan

Players are recent immigrants to the newly populated island of Catan. Expand your colony through the building of settlements, roads, and villages by harvesting commodities from the land around you. Trade sheep, lumber, bricks and grain for a settlement,…

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  • #2 Attika

    Attika

    Rating: 4.50/5 (2 votes)

    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…

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  • China Rails

    Rating: 4.00/5 (2 votes)

    For centuries, trade has been a crucial factor of life in China. From the ancient "Silk Road" to modern ocean trade, the flow of goods and cargo was the very lifeblood of the great "Middle Kingdom." Once, bearers traveling on foot or carts pulled…

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    [Family]
    [Strategy]
  • Power Grid

    Rating: 4.25/5 (12 votes)

    Power Grid is the updated release of the Friedemann Friese crayon game Funkenschlag. The latest cooperative publishing effort from Friedemann Friese and Rio Grande Games,removes the crayon aspect from network building in the original editionwhile…

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  • Carcassonne

    Rating: 4.09/5 (11 votes)

    A clever tile-laying game. The southern French city of Carcassonne is famous for its unique Roman and Medieval fortifications. The players develop the area around Carcassonne and deploy their followers on the roads, in the cities, in the cloisters…

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    [Family]
  • Dragonriders

    Rating: 4.00/5 (2 votes)

    Climb aboard your trusty steed and lift off for the race of your life! The players race their dragons on a course in a deep and winding canyon. You have some magic to use to aid your cause, or hinder your opponents, but the real test is your skill…

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    [Fantasy]
  • Rollick!

    Rating: 4.08/5 (12 votes)

    The Hysterical Game of Clues and Collaboration. Rollick! is a new hit party game that’s a fast and furious team competition. With Rollick!, the entire team works together to act out clue words for one person to guess. It’s a hysterical,…

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    [Family]
  • Twisted Fish

    Rating: 4.00/5 (6 votes)

    Twisted Fish takes the old favorite “Go Fish” and casts it into the 21st century. The game offers guaranteed laugh-out-loud fun for the entire family and features outrageously humorous fishy characters, as well as tantalizingly unpredictable Zinger…

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    [Family]
    [Childrens]
  • Aqua Romana

    Rating: 4.00/5 (2 votes)

    It is Rome and they do not have enough drinking water. Master builders oversee their workers as they build the necessary aquaducts to bring the people the water they need. The winner will be they player who best manages his workers to build the longest…

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    [Family]
  • Age of Napoleon

    Rating: 3.67/5 (3 votes)

    Introduces 2 players to the Napoleonic times—an era of military conquests and diplomatic rivalries. One player represents France and its allies, the other the Coalition led by Britain. The game contains two shorter scenarios starting in 1809…

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    [Strategy]
    [War]
  • #11 Intrigue

    Intrigue

    Rating: 4.00/5 (1 vote)

    A Game of Bribery, Bluffing, Betrayal, and Banishment. Intrigue - a secret scheme... To achieve or force a result by manipulation, scheming, or underhanded means. Can you suppress your integrity and honor? Will only the money in your coffers have…

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  • Family Business

    Rating: 4.00/5 (1 vote)

    Be the boss in this fast-paced card game of survival on the mean streets. "Family Business" pits mobsters against each other - all working to make sure theirs is the last family standing! Your gang members get placed on the Hit List.…

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  • #13 Bausack

    Bausack

    Rating: 4.00/5 (1 vote)

    There are five variations on how to play. The goal in all of them, is to build a tower.The bag contains very different wooden pieces (i.e. an ashlar, an egg, a ring, a fir tree etc.), as well as a sack of beans for the „auction variation“ of the…

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    [Family]
  • Cadwallon: City of Thieves

    Rating: 4.00/5 (1 vote)

    In the dark of a moonless night, a lonely militiaman shuffles along a deserted alley. The sound of a small stone striking the pavers brings him about just in time to see a black-clad figure vanish around the corner. “Stop! Thief!” Kornak hollers.…

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  • #15 Australia

    Australia

    Rating: 4.00/5 (1 vote)

    Australia – the fifth and smallest continent - at the beginning of the 1920s. The economic crisis is yet to come – Australia is booming. Industrial modernisation and development are pursued with vigour to help the economy “down under” progress.…

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    [Strategy]
  • Empire Builder

    Rating: 4.00/5 (1 vote)

    Epic Railroad Building in North America! View the new Empire Builder® Pronto (Computer Game) below this product page! Discover a modern North American classic. Celebrate one of our most vital and enduring passions: railroads. Use your…

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