Letter Jam Release Kit—New from Czech Games Edition!

Order by Date: August 16, 2019
Release Date: October 2019

CGE00052KIT Letter Jam Release Kit $80.00 SRP The kit includes: 4 copies for sale 1 demo copy 1 promotional puzzle 5 bonus chips (1 for each copy) Extra guessing sheet pads Instruction Sheet for retailers While Quantities Last. Brick & Mortar only. Limit 1 kit per store.

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CGE00052 Letter Jam $19.95 SRP Letter Jam is a 2-6 player cooperative word game, where players assist each other in composing meaningful words from letters around the table. The trick is holding the letter card so that it’s only visible to other players and not to yourself. At the start of the game, each player receives a set of face-down letter cards that can be rearranged to form an existing word. The setup can be prepared by using a special card scanning app, or by players selecting words for each other. Each player then puts their first card in their stand to face the other players without looking at it, and the game begins. The game is played in turns. Each turn, players simultaneously search other players’ letters to see what words they can spell out (telling the others the length of the word they can make up). The player who offers the longest word can then be chosen as the clue giver. The clue giver spells out their clue by putting numbered tokens in front of the other players. Number one goes to the player whose letter comes first in the clue, number two to the second letter etc. They can always use a wild card which can be any letter, but they cannot tell others which letter it represents. Each player with a numbered token (or tokens) in front of them then tries to figure out what their letter is. If they do, they place the card face down before revealing the next letter. At the end of the game, players can then rearrange the cards to try to form an existing word. All players then reveal their cards to see if they were successful or not. The more players that have an existing word in front of them, the bigger their common success is. 2-6 players Ages 8+ 30-60 minute play time

Codenames: Pictures XXL! New from Czech Games Edition!

Release Date: Q4 2018

CGE00050 Codenames: Pictures XXL

$39.95 SRP The whimsical, mind-twisting illustrations of Codenames: Pictures are now available in the XXL format. The larger size is visually impressive, and it offers more comfortable gameplay for bigger groups. All components are nicely sorted in a special insert created for the XXL product line. 2-8 players Ages 10+ 15 minute play time

Pictomania! New from Czech Games Edition!

Release Date: Q2 2018

CGE00047 Pictomania

$19.95 SRP Is she drawing an elk or a moose? Is he drawing a pegasus or a unicorn? There's no time to draw a complex masterpiece. Players sketch the essence of the word with a few quick lines, and try to guess the others' drawings while there's still time. Pictomania is the drawing game where everybody draws and everybody guesses - all at the same time! And now it's even better. All the word cards have been revised for this new edition with a brand new look. Contents: 30 scoring tokens in 6 colors 6 black scoring tokens 42 guessing cards in 6 colors 13 black cards 2 card holders 99 double sided word cards in 4 difficulty levels Rulebook

Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends: Etherweave Expansion Deck! New from Czech Games Edition!

Order by Date: December 15, 2017 Release Date: January 2018 CGE00044 Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends: Etherweave Expansion Deck $12.95 SRP Ethereal phantoms weave through the arena, intertwining space and time, bringing visions of things yet to come. Location and causality are mutable things when you pursue the tactics of Etherweave. In the third expansion to Tash-Kalar, you will discover effects that can be used even before you summon the being. But Beware! Altering causality has its consequences. Once you have used the being's effect, it strongly desires to be summoned. To be a master etherweaver, it is not enough to see the future: You must shape it.

Pulsar 2849 from Czech Games Edition! Releasing this November!

Order by Date: October 20, 2017
Release Date: November 2017

CGE00042 Pulsar 2849

$59.95 SRP It is the year 2849, and humanity has harnessed the power of the pulsars. Now we must find a way to distribute this power throughout the stars. In this Euro-style game, players explore space, claim pulsars, and discover the technologies that will help them build energy-distribution infrastructure on a cosmic scale. Dice are used to purchase actions, and players choose their dice from a communal pool. There are many paths to victory, so you can blaze your own trail to a bright future.

That's a Question! from Czech Games Edition- Releasing this September!

Order by Date: August 18, 2017
Street Date: September 15, 2017

CGE00041 That's a Question

$20.00 SRP In this party game, players take the roles of squirrels climbing a mountain. As they climb, they ask each other questions. Because, you know, that's just what squirrels do. Why squirrels? That's a question! On your turn, you choose a player to answer a personal question that you make from the cards in your hand. Everyone else has to guess that player's answer. Trickier questions lead to more wrong guesses, which score more points for you. 3-6 Players Ages 15+ 30 minute play time

FREE Codenames: Oversized Retailer Demo Kit Promotion

Order by Date: September 1, 2017
Release Date: Q4 2017

FREE Oversized Demo Kit 

with Qualifying Codenames purchase!

All product must ship at the same time as the oversized kit. 
Limit 1 promo kit per store.  While supplies last.

New Codenames: Marvel & Codenames: Disney Family from USAopoly!

Release Date: August 2017

USAopoly is teaming up with Czech Games and Disney to offer two new versions of Codenames! One will be the Disney Family Edition, which will include characters and locations from some of Disney Pixar's most popular films. The other will be a Marvel Edition, which will be styled more like a party game with characters from Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers, Doctor Strange, and Spider-Man.

USOCE011000
Codenames: Marvel

$24.95 SRPNPI

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Codenames: Disney Family

$24.95 SRPNPI

New from Czech Games Edition! Alchemists: King's Golem & Adrenaline!

Release Date: November 2016

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Alchemists: King's Golem

$39.95 SRP

This expansion to Alchemists, the innovative deduction game, brings you a new logic puzzle with new rewards and consequences. Can you figure out how to animate a golem? And equally important: can you convince the king you are making progress?

The King‘s Golem actually contains 4 expansions: Startup Funding and Busy Days will be just fine for beginners. The Royal Encyclopedia is for players accustomed to the logic puzzle of the base game.

The Golem Project is for advanced players who want a new deduction challenge.


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Adrenaline

$69.95 SRP

Adrenaline brings the classic first-person shooter video games to your table. Grab some ammo, take a gun, and start shooting.

Build up an arsenal for a killer turn. Combat resolution is quick and diceless and if you get shot, you get faster!

Game includes 5 large scale combatant miniatures.

Coming in September from Czech Games Edition! Codenames: Pictures!

Street Date: September 30^th!

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Codenames: Pictures

$19.95 SRP

Codenames can now be played with pictures!  Whimsical, mind-twisting illustrations are used instead of word cards.  Can you find one word that ties your team's pictures together?

Can be played with or instead of the original Codenames.  The rules of the game are the same: Two rival spymasters give one-word clues that can point to multiple pictures on the table.  Their teammates try to guess pictures of their color while avoiding those that belong to the opposing team.

Players: 2-8+

Ages: 10+

Time: 15 minutes

New from Czech Games Edition! Codenames!

Coming Soon!

Visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8RWBooJivg for a how to play video!

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Codenames

$20.00 SRP

In the game of espionage and spies, a Codename is something a spy keeps close to their vest and protects their true identity from falling into the wrong hands. One misstep, one mistake, can cost a spy their life. In this high stakes game, can you find your spies by Codename alone?

Two rival Spymasters know the secret identities of their agents and are giving their teammates clues as to what their Spies’ Codenames are in order to find them and rescue them from danger. Which team can work together to find their agents before the Assassin strikes and their cover is blown?

At the start of the game, 25 random Codename cards are laid out in a 5 x 5 grid on the table and 2 random Key cards, one for each Spymaster, are selected that show what Codenames are Spies, Civilians or the Assassin. The team to go first is also given the Double Agent card in order to level the playing field between the teams.

On a turn, the Spymaster gives their teammates a clue which contains a word and a number such as ‘Car 4’. Those teammates then select cards (up to the number given) which they think the Spymaster might have in mind for the clue. If the team choses the correct Codename card, that card is covered with one of their Spy cards. However, if the Codename card chosen is a rival Spy then the opposing team gets to claim their spy or, if the Codename card is a Civilian, that Codename card is covered with a Civilian card and that teams’ turn ends. Even worse still, if the Codename card chosen is the Assassin, then that team automatically loses the game! Assuming neither team falls to the assassin, the winner of the game is the first team to uncover all of their own Codenames and identify their Spies.

With only 25 codename cards being chosen at random from over 200 possible, the replay value and variations are almost endless! Win or lose, it’s fun to figure out the clues and deduct who your secret agents are! Can you outwit your enemy and identify your agents Codenames in time?

2-4 players

Ages 14+

15+ minute play time

Contents;

16 Agent cards in two colors (red and blue)

1 Double agent card

7 Innocent bystander cards

1 Assassin card

40 Key cards

1 Rule book

1 Card stand

1 Timer

200 double-sides Codename cards with 400 total Codenames possible!

New from Czech Games Edition! Alchemists, Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends, Dungeon Lords and more!

Coming Soon!

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Alchemists

$59.95 SRP

NPI

A little mandrake root, a little raven’s feather. Toss them in the cauldron and see what they make. Should you drink it? Maybe not. After all, that’s what students are for.

Welcome to the world of Alchemists! Perform experiments to discover the magical properties of your ingredients. Demonstrate your knowledge by selling potions. Use the money to buy artifacts that further your research. Publish, publish, publish! Earn grants. And expose the fallacies published by those fools who think they can be your rivals.

Alchemists is a game of strategy, risk assessment, and deduction. Do you experiment to get more knowledge or do you publish now to get more points? Pay to endorse the latest theory of toads or save your money for an artifact? And should you really be selling that potion to the large axe-wielding barbarian when you aren’t quite sure of its effects? The choices you make will prove whether you are the world's greatest alchemist.

2-4 players

Ages 13+

120 minute play time

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Bunny Bunny Moose Moose

$29.95 SRP

NPI

Once again, the hunter prowls the forest. All the animals flee in terror! Well, not really. Only a dumb animal would call attention to itself. In our forest, the animals are smart, otherwise their heads would be decorating the hunter’s mantelpiece. Our animals just casually saunter away, while convincing the hunter that he must be looking for something else. “Are you hungry for rabbit, Mr. Hunter? Well, you see, I’m a moose. Oh, no, not a moose with antlers like that…”

In this merry game, players take on the roles of rabbits and moose. While the hunter strolls through the forest, players are trying to look like an animal the hunter won’t shoot. And because they do so by making rabbit ears or moose antlers of various shapes on their heads, the spectators enjoy the game as well as the players.

3-6 players

Ages 9+

20 minute play time

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Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends

$39.95 SRP

NPI

Tash-Kalar is the ancient art of magical combat performed in arenas and combat pits throughout the known world. Tash-Kalar is also the name of the oldest and most famous arena, the place where the game began. You can play the game with 2, 3, or 4 players, in teams or individually.

Whether you are playing the High Form or a deathmatch, all games of Tash-Kalar have the same basic rules: Players take turns creating magical stones and placing them in patterns that allow them to summon fantastical beings. Here you will find the mystical intrigues of the Sylvan, the brutal fury of the Highlanders, and the incisive tactics of the Imperials.

Your beings can move around the arena, disrupt opponents’ patterns, and form new patterns that allow you to summon more beings. Each form of Tash-Kalar has its own means of scoring and deciding on a victor. Lay your plans, strengthen your position, then unleash your full power as you summon a tremendous creature of legend to dominate the arena of Tash- Kalar.

2-4 players

Ages 13+

30 minute play time

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Tash-Kalar: Everfrost

$12.95 SRP

NPI

Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends: Everfrost consists of a new faction for use with the Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends, a deck of powerful beings that live in the frozen lands of never-ending winter on snow plains, on cold mountains or in palaces of ice.

The new interesting and unique effects of the Everfrost beings (marked by the little snowflake) introduce a new mechanism: frozen effects. Frozen effects do not have to be performed immediately when the being was summoned; instead a player may store them for later and use them at the right moment to gain a tactical advantage.

2-4 players

Ages 13+

60 minute play time

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Dungeon Lords

$64.95 SRP

NPI

In Dungeon Lords, you are an evil dungeon lord who is trying to build the best dungeon out there. You hire monsters, build rooms, buy traps and defeat the do-gooders who wish to bring you down. Each turn, players use a hand of cards to choose where to place their worker imps. Actions vary from mining gold, hiring monsters, buying traps etc. Each action has three spots available - with each spot having different effects (e.g., mining gold lets you mine more gold in each spot). When using the cards, two cards will become locked and will not be able to be used next turn.

The entire game lasts two “game years”, and each year consists of four seasons (a.k.a. turns). At the start of each season, players see the heroes and events to come in the following season, allowing them to prepare. At the end of each season after the first, heroes are allocated to each player according to the players’ level of evilness. Heroes range from mighty heroes to sneaky thieves. Each hero has its own power for which the player needs to prepare for. At the end of each year, the heroes travel into the dungeons to fight.

2-4 players

Ages 12+

90 minute play time

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Dungeon Lords: Festival Season

$39.95 SRP

NPI

The game is still played over two years, but now each year has five rounds instead of four: winter, spring, summer, autumn and festival season. More time to build your dungeon, but also more time for adventurers to gather a larger party. There are new monsters, rooms, and traps to prepare your dungeon for the battle, but also new nasty spells for the adventurers and sneaky bards who encourage them to perform so-called “heroic” deeds – not to mention two paladins for each year, now ready to punish up to two evil players.

Would you like to push other players toward evil instead of moving yourself toward good when visiting the city? What about making an investment instead of traditional gold digging? Or what about repairing conquered tunnels or rooms instead of digging new ones? Only eight actions are still available to you, but each season one of those actions is replaced by an alternate set of spaces that offer new and intriguing options.

And did we mention that it has recently become fashionable for Dungeon Lords to have their own personal pets?

Dungeon Lords: Festival Season is a big expansion that includes lots of Dungeon Lording goodness. Dungeon Lords: Festival Season includes the mini expansion Dungeon Lords: The New Paladins.

2-4 players

Ages 13+

120 minute play time

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Dungeon Lords: Happy Anniversary

$109.95 SRP

NPI

Dungeon Lords: Happy Anniversary includes the Dungeon Lords base game, the Festival Season expansion, stickers for food tokens, metal coins, a new “Dungeon Set-up” mini-expansion and other items that will enhance your Dungeon Lords experience.

2-4 players

Ages 13+

90 minute play time

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Last Will

$49.95 SRP

NPI

In Victorian England, the profits of the Industrial Revolution have given rise to a wealthy upper class of English ladies and gentlemen. Sadly, you are not among them but you do have a rich uncle, recently departed, who decided on his death bed to leave all his money to the relative who will enjoy it the most. To find out who that is, you and your cousins will each be given a substantial sum of money. Whoever can spend it the fastest will inherit all your uncle’s wealth or at least, what’s left of it.

2-5 players

Ages 12+

60 minute play time

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Last Will: Getting Sacked

$39.95 SRP

NPI

In Last Will: Getting Sacked, the lawyers have found a hidden clause in your uncle’s last will. Spending money faster than all your relatives will not be enough. To inherit your uncle’s fortune, you must also lose your job! After all, your uncle’s heritage can’t go to someone who’s employed!

With this expansion added to Last Will, each player begins the game with a job card that provides him with a regular income each turn and details a number of things the player must do in order to get fired. Unlike in real life, it can be difficult to persuade your employer to give you the old heave-ho. When you miss work, he’s inclined to be charitable because he liked your uncle and he’s sorry for your loss. To make him angry, you need to get caught living it up when you should be working. He won’t sack you straight away, but he will at least dock your salary. Even your kindly old boss has his limits, though; when you earn enough demotions to cancel out every line of income, you can discard your employment card. Congratulations: You have been sacked and are one step closer to winning the game!

You will also have a chance to find yourself a good, demanding wife. A wedding is such a romantic way to spend piles of money in a hurry, right? The expansion has six nuptial cards, so get down on one knee and ask the question!

2-5 players

Ages 13+

45-75 minute play time

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Dungeon Petz

$64.95 SRP

NPI

Become the leader of an imp family that has just started a new business – breeding and selling petz. Sound simple and safe? Well, we forgot to mention that those petz are for Dungeon Lords. This means magical, playful, sometimes angry monsters that constantly desire attention and at the very moment you want them to demonstrate their qualities to buyers they are sick or they poop. Sometimes you are even glad that you got rid of them but the profit is unbelievable.

Dungeon Petz is a standalone game set in the Dungeon Lords universe. The game consists of several rounds in which players use unusual worker placement mechanisms (players simultaneously prepare different sized groups of imps in order to play sooner than others) to prepare themselves for the uneasy task of raising creature cubs and pleasing their different needs (represented by cards) in order to sell them as grown and scary creatures to Dungeon Lords. In the meantime, they also attend various contests in which they show off their pets, scoring additional points.

2-4 players

Ages 13+

90 minute play time

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Dungeon Petz: Dark Alleys

$39.95 SRP

NPI

Bringing you more than just new pets, cages and magic items, the Dungeon Petz: Dark Alleys has a whole new district in the town. This is the heart of the expansion. It’s kind of a back alley district in the Imp town where all the weird existences live and try to do their business. So would you like to hire an illegal worker or buy a pet on the black market? Maybe book a facility that produces food for active dogs, cats and dragons? And what about a fancy ribbon or a cool spiked collar for your pet? Taking care of your pets will never be the same.

2-4 players

Ages 13+

90-120 minute play time

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Shipyard

$59.95 SRP

NPI

The year is 1870. For centuries, sails have ruled the seas, but now the steam engine is beginning to dominate. shipbuilders are experimenting with new designs, competing for the prestigious Blue Ribbon, which honors the fastest ship to cross the Atlantic. Their efforts are watched closely by the world’s imperial powers; for the strength of every empire depends on its commercial and military fleet. It is an exciting time to run a shipyard.

Found a company, build a fleet and show the world that your ships are the fastest, the safest, and the best.

You take the role of a shipyard owner. Your goal is to build the best ships within the allotted time. as your completed ships leave the yard, they are evaluated on many criteria and your company’s stock rises. You decide whether to build fast merchant ships, trans-ocean steamers, or small sailing yachts, while keeping in mind the bonuses you can receive from your secret government contracts.

2-4 players

Ages 10+

30 minute play time