The seven wonders of the ancient world stand at the heart of “7 Wonders: Architects”. Up to seven players will each manage the construction of one of these projects. Although it’s not strictly historically accurate, they all do so at the same time. There’s stiff competition for the necessary resources, represented by two face-up decks
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This classic magician’s trick never fails to delight adults as well as children. “Magic Rabbit” manages to cleverly capture this fascination with the magician’s act. As a group we have to work together to hide nine rabbits underneath nine matching hats. At the beginning of the game the hats numbered 1 to 9 are laid
With great risk comes great reward. That’s the motto of “My Gold Mine”. Players take on the role of brave dwarves, searching for hidden hoards of gold in a dangerous dungeon. Unfortunately the expedition has awoken the resident dragon and they’ve made it mad! Each round begins at this moment of escape. Everyone’s running straight
It’s thrilling to be able to use objects to listen to the soundscape of days gone by. As an investigator with supernatural abilities it’s our job to do just that in “Echoes: The Dancer”. An app lets us do this: by scanning picture cards showing objects related to the story we get to hear snippets
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You have eight square cards, each with four different words, arranged randomly on a plastic four-leaf clover to make four unusual word pairings. You need to come up with an umbrella term that connects these pairs, without using translations, abbreviations or parts of the words. So for the combination of “apple” and “man” you might
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The Himalaya mountain range forms the unusual backdrop to this clever and tactical dice game, with famous locations such as Sarangkot serving as score sheets with various degrees of difficulty. Each round, players must roll two dice showing results between 0 and 6 and make a result from these. The unique part is that players
Of course, everyone can count. But it’s difficult to say where exactly the difficulty lies in this game. That’s because after every successful round, another number between 1 and 20 is linked to a new task card. In every subsequent round, the number is replaced by an action, a noise or even another number. Suddenly
In traditional Indian teachings, the seven energy centres that link the physical body with the astral form are known as chakras. These chakras are depicted on players’ tableaus as coloured circles, each with three spaces. Competing against their opponents, players must fill these spaces with energy stones of the matching colour. The simple rule set
Urgent goods deliveries from Nuremburg, Paris, Amsterdam and Berlin need to be transported to Marseille by train. Players will need to use all of their forward thinking and planning talents to complete all the deliveries with a limited number of trains and a very tight deadline. Players play cards from their hand to place switches
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