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Categories: Economic, Expansion for Base-game, Trains, Transportation
Board Game Types: Strategy Games
Build America's Great Railways
1830...It is the dawn of the "Age of Railroading" in America. You're a wealthy investor and speculator betting that the new technology will revolutionize transport. Commerce will no longer depend on ruted roads and slow canals. Instead, it will ride the rails on swift, powerful "Iron Horses".
1830 is an acclaimed railroad investment and building game covering the years 1830 to present. You and your fellow players become the stockholders of America's first rai...
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Categories: Political
Board Game Types: Strategy Games
All elections are turning points, but the presidential election of 1960 holds a special place in American history. The 1950s had been a period of unparalleled economic growth and US global power under the stewardship of President Dwight Eisenhower and his Vice President, Richard Nixon. Nixon's humble origins gave him a common touch that appealed to small-town America and encompassed the idyllic spirit of the 1950s. Senator John F. Kennedy was in many ways Nixon's antithesis; charming, Harvard-ed...
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Categories: Ancient, Card Game, Civilization
Board Game Types: Family Games, Strategy Games
Lead one of the 7 great cities of the Ancient World. Exploit the natural resources of your lands, take part in the eternal march of progress, develop your commercial relationships and assert your military might. Leave your mark in the history of civilization by building an architectural marvel that will transcend the ages to come.
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Categories: Adventure, Fighting, Horror, Murder/Mystery
Board Game Types: Thematic Games
Tis' the dawn of the 19th century; an age of science, superstition, and witchcraft. Howling fills the night as a full moon rises over the small, secluded village of Shadowbrook. Gruesome murders have become a daily occurrence and terror haunts the streets at night. An evil creature has taken up residence here and the countryside is engulfed by a tide of darkness. But all is not lost...not yet.
A small group of heroic individuals, with the courage and strength to fight, have arrived in town. S...
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Categories: Economic
Board Game Types: Strategy Games
The Right Place at the Right Time - at the Right Price
As a powerful real-estate tycoon, there are only seven hotel chains in the world worthy of your attention. Using nothing but your wealth and wits, you must vie against other business magnates to manipulate construction and capitalize on mergers - buying, trading, and selling stocks in order to get the greatest return on your investments. Acquire challenges you to pit your resources and resolve against other players in this high-finance ga...
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Categories: Fantasy, Fighting, Novel-based
Board Game Types: Strategy Games, Thematic Games
THE AGE OF CONAN IS COMING...
It is an age of strife and sorcery. It is an age of might, splendor, and decadence.
In the world of Hyboria, powerful kingdoms fight for supremacy, ever striving to expand their borders and increase their riches.
Imperial Aquilonia marches its legions against the witches and monstrous creatures of frozen Hyperborea. Elsewhere, dusky Stygia pits its sorcerers and demonic servants against the horse-hordes and cunning diplomats of the plains kingdom of Turan.
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Categories: Civilization, Exploration, Video Game Theme
Board Game Types: Strategy Games
Revisit the Age of Discovery!
Take on the role of a colonial power seeking fame, glory, and riches in the new world. As you proceed through three centuries, you will launch expeditions or discovery, colonize regions, expand your merchant fleet, and develop your economy. As the competition heats up, you will recruit specialists (Merchant, Solider, Captain, and Missionary) to help you gain an edge over your opponents, declare wars, and build capital buildings that give your nation unique advant...
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Categories: Economic, Industry/Manufacturing, Transportation
Board Game Types: Strategy Games
The spread of the Industrial Revolution
Age of Industry is a development of the highly rate Warfrog game Brass. This is a pure business game, where you must seek the most efficient way to make a profit. By investing in a variety of industries you will make money to invest in more advanced ones. You must judge the market conditions well to determine which industries will give you the best return. Cotton and factories will certainly earn you money, but if you ignore coal mining and producing ir...
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Categories: Trains, Transportation
Board Game Types: Strategy Games
Relive the era of the pioneering US Railroad companies that built the track that transformed America's economy. The intense action is centered on the industrial nerve-center of the gorwing nation - Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chicago and Wheeling.
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Categories: Economic, Farming
Board Game Types: Strategy Games
Players start the game with two family members living in a two-room wooden hut. In each round, each member of their family may choose one action.
If they collect wood and reed, they can extend their hut and then add to their family.
Family growth allows additional actions, but has the disadvantage that more food must be produced.
And to get food, the players plow fields and plant seeds.
The planted grain and vegetables are harvested during the Harvest, when animals breed as well. To ...
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Categories: Expansion for Base-game
Board Game Types: Family Games
Meet Alvin & Dexter, Ticket to Ride's wackiest characters.
Stomp your opponents and zap their tickets with this fun yet challenging Monster expansion!
NOT A STAND-ALONE game. An original copy of one of the Ticket to Ride games is required to play.
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Categories: Ancient, Farming
Board Game Types: Strategy Games
Everyone knows of the pyramids on the Nile - eternal monuments of a powerful and beautiful culture, that can still take our breath away. The pharaohs choose their sites, build their pyramids, and thank Amun Re and the other Gods for their bounty.
Each player wants, as pharaoh, to build the most pyramids. To accomplish this, he must first acquire a province, where he can trade and farm. With his profits, he can buy new provinces and building stones to erect pyramids. For all his actions, the p...
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Categories: Murder/Mystery, Science Fiction
Board Game Types: Thematic Games
I looked down at the victim's body. We'd come a long way since the Dark Ages. We'd built a city on the moon. We'd constructed a gigantic elevator that streched up into space. We'd colonized Mars and fought a war over it. But I couldn't help feeling we were still burning witches at the stake.
The cause of this latest trouble was easy to see: androids. Two companies, Haas-Bioroid and Jinteki, had invented two different types of artificial human within a year of each other. They've been selling ...
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Categories: Card Game, Humor, Party, Word
Board Game Types: Family Games, Party Games
The Hilarious Game Where Everyone's Opinion Counts
APPLES to APPLES is the wild, award-winning card and party game that provides instant fun for four to ten players!
It's as easy as comparing "apples to apples"...just open the box, deal the cards, and you're ready to play! Select the card from your hand that you think is best described by a card played by the judge. If the judge picks your card, you win that round. And everyone gets a chance to be the judge!
Each round is filled with su...
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Categories: Adventure, Fighting, Horror, Novel-based, Science Fiction
Board Game Types: Thematic Games
The year is 1926. The place is Arkham, Massachusetts. Gateways to places horrible beyond imagination are opening up all over town, releasing hideous creatures into streets to stalk the night. Worse yet, if enough of these gates open up, then a creature of unfathomable power will be unleashed on the world.
Pitted against these overwhelming odds is a small band of investigators determined to beat back the uncaring forces of the universe. They'll have to delve deep into the mysteries of the...
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Categories: Adventure, Expansion for Base-game, Fighting, Horror, Novel-based, Science Fiction
Board Game Types: Thematic Games
Darkness Falls on Dunwich!
The disturbances in H.P. Lovecraft's New England don't stop at the Arkham city line. Nearby Dunwich is also being wracked by horrible events and otherwordly forces. Now, in addition to the threat of the Ancient One awakening, the investigators will have to contend with the wrath of the Dunwich Horror...
Dunwich Horror introduces several new game concepts to the Arkham Horror board game, including gate bursts, Madness and Injury cards, tasks and missions, and a ne...
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Categories: Adventure, Expansion for Base-game, Fighting, Horror, Novel-based, Science Fiction
Board Game Types: Thematic Games
Return once more to H.P. Lovecraft's vision of Massachusetts, this time to explore the dream-haunted shores of misty Kingsport, a city where the dimensional barriers are at their thinnest. But this place also has powerful guardians, so perhaps the investigators will find someone - or something - willing to help them in their battle against the Ancient One.
Kingsport Horror introduces new game concepts to the Arkham Horror board game, including wandering dimensional rifts, Epic Battle cards, G...
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Categories: Adventure, Exploration, Horror, Miniatures, Murder/Mystery, Puzzle, Science Fiction
Board Game Types: Thematic Games
THE WALLS ARE INFESTED WITH EVIL.
Horrific monsters and spectral presences lurk in manors, crypts, schools, monasteries, and derelict buildings near Arkham, Masschusetts. Some spin dark conspiracies while others wait for hapless victims to devour or drive insane. It's up to a handful of brave investigators to explore these cursed places and uncover the truth about the living nightmares within.
Mansions of Madness is a macabre game of horror, insanity, and mystery. Each game takes place wit...
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Categories: Adventure, Fighting, Horror, Novel-based, Science Fiction
Board Game Types: Thematic Games
A dangerous cult has risen in Arkham! Meeting in secret, these heretics and madmen consort with the dark powers and offer up sacrifices to the Ancient One, while hordes of vicious monsters descend on the town. It's up to a small band of investigators to infiltrate the cult and learn from these dark rituals, yet even the most pure-hearted may find himself corrupted in the process. Will their efforts be enough to stop the Ancient One from awakening, or will the investigators succumb, one by one,...
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Categories: Adventure, Fighting, Horror, Novel-based, Science Fiction
Board Game Types: Thematic Games
An ancient and malicious curse has fallen on Arkham. It is whispered that some of the strange artifacts on display as part of the "Legacy of the Pharoahs" exhibit have vanished. Those who seek these treasures find nothing but unspeakable horrors. Meanwhile, a dark and mysterious figure, garbed in ancient Egyptian raiments, has been seen roaming the streets. This man, it is said, is a living curse to all he encounters. Fear grips the city, and it falls to a small group of investigators to stop ...
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Categories: Adventure, Fighting, Horror, Novel-based, Science Fiction
Board Game Types: Thematic Games
An ancient and malicious curse has fallen on Arkham. It is whispered that some of the strange artifacts on display as part of the "Legacy of the Pharoahs" exhibit have vanished. Those who seek these treasures find nothing but unspeakable horrors. Meanwhile, a dark and mysterious figure, garbed in ancient Egyptian raiments, has been seen roaming the streets. This man, it is said, is a living curse to all he encounters. Fear grips the city, and it falls to a small group of investigators to stop ...
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Categories: Economic, Farming
Board Game Types: Strategy Games
China, 2000 years ago.
Loyang has risen to become the capital of the Han Dynasty and one of the four main capitals of ancient China. In the booming economic climate, the people of this flourishing city require an improved supply of basic foodstuffs. These are supplied by local farmers who grow wheat, pumpkins, turnips, cabbages, beans and leeks in their fields.
After each harvest, the farmers regularly meet at the gates of Loyang to trade their produce. They make deliveries to their regula...
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Categories: Economic, Industry/Manufacturing
Board Game Types: Strategy Games
Automobile carries you back to the birth of America's car industry, when inventors, craftsmen, and entrepreneurs created a wild array of marvels and misfortunes. You step into this rough, romantic trade hoping to create a fortune by building and selling cars. Tapping the talents of men like Ford, Sloan, Kettering, Howard, Durant, and Chrysler, you balance quality versus quantity, mass production versus premium branding, and innovation versus distribution and aggressive sale. Lose your balance an...
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Categories: WarGame, World War II
Board Game Types: Wargames
SPRING 1942, THE WORLD IS AT WAR!
Five major powers struggle for supremacy: Germany and Japan are aligned against the great alliance of the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and the United States. Designed for 2-5 players, the game is set in 1942 - the historical high-water mark of Axis expansion. Controlling one of the Axis or Allied powers, you will command both your country's military forces and its war-time economy. Show that you are a brilliant military strategist by planning your attack...
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Categories: WarGame, World War II
Board Game Types: Wargames
June 6, 1944
You are on the beaches of Normandy, and ahead lies an uncertain future. The fate of the world hangs in the balance, as you struggle for control over the cities of Cherbourg, St. Lo, and Caen. Savage, quick, and decisive, D-Day was the major turning point in the European theater, with liberty itself on the line. Designed for 2 to 3 players, Axies & Allies: D-Day accurately captures this dramatic conflict and places you squarely in the middle of one of the greatest battles of the 2...
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