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Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Dominion: Menagerie & Gulf, Mobile & Ohio from Rio Grande Games!

Order by Date: February 21, 2020
Release Date: April 2020


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Dominion: Menagerie

$44.95 SRP

Dominion, that’s what you’re trying to achieve. This time with animals! They each have a lesson to teach, whether it’s how to spit really far, or what kind of grass tastes the best. It’s a lot to keep track of, but you’re like an elephant: you remember everything. And you’re afraid of mice. You’ve taken up riding. Horses are intimidating; they say you can lead a horse to water, but you haven’t managed it. So you’re working your way up, starting with dogs. So far so good; the dog hasn’t bucked you off yet. Your menagerie got off to a poor start, with just a goat, two rats, and the advisor who suggested starting a menagerie. You couldn’t get that fox you wanted, but it was probably bad anyway. Now you’ve got some camels, which are just as useless for sewing as you’d been warned, and a turtle that can hold its breath for longer than anyone can stay interested. Soon the animal kingdom will be yours.

This is the 13th expansion to Dominion®. It has 400 cards, with 30 new Kingdom cards. There are Horses that save a draw for later, Exile mats that cards can be sent to and rescued from, and Ways that give Actions another option. Events return.

Dominion®: Menagerie is an expansion, and cannot be played by itself; to play with it, you need the Basic cards and rulebook (Dominion® provides both). Dominion®: Menagerie can also be combined with any other Dominion® expansions you have.


Order by Date: March 20, 2020
Release Date: April 2020
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Gulf, Mobile & Ohio

$34.95 SRP

In Gulf, Mobile & Ohio, the third entry in Winsome Games's Historic Railroads System, players build railroads in the South that existed between 1830-1860, with the game board featuring cities from Richmond to New Orleans, and from Memphis to Savannah. Twenty-three different railroad lines exist in the game, each represented by two shares of stock: a charter share for the player who founds this railroad, and a common share that might be auctioned later in the game. Eight railroads are designated as starting lines, and initially only the shares for these eight lines are available to players. Railroad lines will be represented on the game board with wooden cubes that come in six colors, with the number of cubes ranging from 6 to 32.

3-5 players
45-60 minute play time

Thursday, August 15, 2019

Puerto Rico Deluxe Edition—New from Rio Grande Games

Street Date: August 20, 2019

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Puerto Rico Deluxe Edition

$54.95 SRP

A new, deluxe edition of the classic game, Puerto Rico, is now available for the first time! A fresh new look for this top-selling title! 

Deluxe Edition includes:
  • The Puerto Rico base game
  • The New Buildings expansion
  • The Nobles Expansion
  • New Cover and art
  • Dual-sided buildings with alternate artwork

2-5 players
Ages 13+
90-150 minute play time

Contents:
  • 5 Player boards
  • Game board
  • 8 Role placards
  • Governor placard
  • 49 buildings
  • 58 Island tiles
  • Colony ship
  • 5 Cargo ships
  • Trading house
  • 50 Goods
  • 100 Colonists
  • 50 VP chips
  • 54 Doubloons
  • Rulebook


Thursday, January 3, 2019

Gambit Royale & Concordia: Venus! Coming Soon from Rio Grande Games!

Release Date: December 2018

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Gambit Royale


$24.95 SRP

Gambit Royale, the fast-moving family game first released under the name Ruse & Bruise, is now available with 5 new cards. The players use their royal households to manipulate the court and gain the most fame(victory points). 

Each player has a deck of influence cards and starts with a hand of three cards. At the beginning of a round, new goal cards worth 1-5 victory points are revealed.

On their turn, a player plays a card face down below a goal card, then draws a replacement; if a face-down card is already present beneath this goal, the player reveals it and executes its action. 

Once all goals have as many cards below them as their VP value, the round ends. Remaining face-down cards are revealed. Then, end of round characters, if any were played, are resolved. 

Whichever player has the most influence on a goal claims that goal. After six rounds, players tally their goal cards to determine their final score. 

2-6 players
Ages 13+
30 minute play time

Contents:
  • 36 Goal cards 
  • 6 Reference sheets 
  • 186 Conspirator Cards (31 cards in 6 sets of 6 colors)
  • Rulebook 
  • Crown


Release Date: January 2019 

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Concordia: Venus PLUS


$79.95 SRP

The newest expansion to the hugely popular game,Concordia.

This expansion includes new personality cards, two new maps: Hellas & Ionium, and rules that enable teams of two players to play against one another. 

Venus Plus also includes the base game, two additional maps: Imperium & Cyprus, as well as all the components necessary to play the game as individual players and in teams of two.


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Concordia: Venus

$39.95 SRP

The newest expansion to the hugely popular game,Concordia.

This expansion includes new personality cards, two new maps: Hellas & Ionium, and rules that enable teams of two players to play against one another.

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

New Releases from Rio Grande Games!

Order by Date: March 30, 2018
Release Date: April 2018

Epoch
$59.95 SRP

Award winning game author Martyn F takes you back to the start of civilization. You take on the role of a clan leader and explore the landscape, discover new tools and offer to holy places. All this to gather as much status as possible.

Epoch: Early Inventors is very thematic and tries to stay as close to reality as possible.

1-4 players
Ages 14+
45-90 minute play time

Contents:
  • 4 Carrier boards
  • 44 Player huts
  • 4 Clan leaders
  • 16 Offer tokens
  • Start player token
  • 64 Food cubes
  • 58 Status counters
  • 44 Landscape tiles
  • 16 Ceremonial tiles
  • 2 Player overviews
  • 3 Last round markers
  • Setup sheet
  • Appendix
  • Game rules
  • Resource counters


Beta Colony

$59.95 SRP

In Beta Colony, you play as one of five Directors working to create prosperous colonies. If you earn the most Confidence Points (CP), you will be elected as the first leader of Victus. Players will collect the needed building materials to produce and erect colonization pods – Defense Stations, Science and Tech Towers, Living Quarters, Agriculture Pods, and Water Treatment Centers – on the varied terrain of Victus.

Using a unique "rolldell" mechanism (dice + rondel), Beta Colony is a mid-weight strategic game for players of all levels. Each round, the start player rolls their set of four colored dice. All other players duplicate that roll with their own dice. Players take two actions each round, one action at a time in turn order, with each action using two dice. Players will use one die to move and one die to activate the location to which they moved. Die color and value affect how each of the seven unique locations are used. Players will build colonization pods at each of three colonies to gain the confidence of the settlers and lead them to glory!

2-4 players
Ages 14+
30-60 minute play time

Contents:
  • Game board
  • Round marker
  • 5 Player markers
  • 16 Player markers
  • 16 Artifact markers
  • 16 Dice
  • 9 Cycle tiles
  • 30 Fuel markers
  • 60 Crew markers
  • 16 Artifact markers
  • 4 Player spaceships
  • Start player marker
  • 8 Cultural achievements
  • 8 Cultural achievement tiles
  • 40 Colonization pod tiles 

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

New from Rio Grande Games! Race for the Galaxy: Jump Drive!

Release Date: January 2017


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Race for the Galaxy: Jump Drive

$24.95 SRP

From the same Designer of the award-winning Race for the Galaxy!

Jump Drive is a stand-alone game intended to introduce players to some Race for the Galaxy concepts with simpler rules and shorter game play.

Contains:

  • 112 game cards
  • 4 survey team cards
  • 4 reference cards
  • 8 explore markers
  • 84 victory point chips

2-4 players
Ages 13+
30 minute playtime  


Monday, December 5, 2016

New Dominion: Big Box Second Edition From Rio Grande Games!

Release Date: January 2017

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Dominion: Big Box Second Edition


$75.00 SRP

Includes 2nd Edition Dominion and 2nd Edition Dominion: Intrigue

Also includes additional base cards to allow game play for 5-6 players.

2-6 players
Ages 13+
30+ minute playtime 

Thursday, September 22, 2016

New Dominion Releases From Rio Grande Games!

Release Date: September 2016

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Dominion 2nd Edition


$44.95 SRP

You are a monarch, like your parents before you, a ruler of a small pleasant kingdom of rivers and evergreens. Unlike your parents, however, you have hopes and dreams! You want a bigger and more pleasant kingdom, with more rivers and a wider variety of trees. You want a Dominion!  In all directions lie fiefs, freeholds, and feodums. All are small bits of land, controlled by petty lords and verging on anarchy. You will bring civilization to these people, uniting them under your banner.But wait! It must be something in the air several other monarchs have had the exact same idea. You must race to get as much of the unclaimed land as possible, fending them off along the way. To do this you will hire minions, construct buildings, spruce up your castle, and fill the coffers of your treasury. Your parents wouldn't be proud, but your grandparents, would be delighted.

2-4 players
Ages 10+
30 minute playtime


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Dominion: Intrigue 2nd Edition


$39.95 SRP

Dominion: Intrigue adds rules for playing with up to 8 players at two tables or for playing a single game with up to 6 players. This game adds 25 new Kingdom cards and a complete set of Treasure and Victory cards.

The game can be played alone by players experienced in Dominion or with the basic game of Dominion.

2-4 players
Ages 10+
30 minute playtime 





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Dominion: Intrigue 2nd Edition Update Pack



$14.95 SRP

Contains the 25 new Kingdom cards and a complete set of Treasure and Victory cards from the Dominion: Intrigue Second Edition game.

Requires Dominion Intrigue base game to play.







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Dominion 2nd Edition Update Pack



$14.95 SRP

Contains the Dominion: Intrigue second edition cards only.

Requires Dominion Intrigue base game to play. 

Monday, March 7, 2016

New from Rio Grande Games! Dominion: Empires!

Street Date: May 18th!
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Dominion: Empires
$44.95 SRP

The world is big and your kingdom gigantic. It’s no longer a kingdom really; it’s an empire. Which makes you the emperor. This entitles you to a better chair, plus you can name a salad after yourself.

It’s not easy being emperor. The day starts early, when you light the sacred flame; then it’s hours of committee meetings, trying to establish exactly why the sacred flame keeps going out. Sometimes your armies take over a continent and you just have no idea where to put it.

And there’s the risk of assassination; you have a food taster, who tastes anything before you eat it, and a dagger tester, who gets stabbed by anything before it stabs you. You’ve taken to staying at home whenever it’s the Ides of anything. Still overall it’s a great job and you wouldn’t trade it for the world; especially given how much of the world you already have.

A copy of  Dominion is required to play.

2-4 players
Ages 14+
30+ minute play time

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

New from Rio Grande Games! Café International!

Coming in August!
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Café International
$39.95 SRP

Café International is a meeting place where guests from many different nations get together. Here, guests may have a nice chat with others while enjoying a glass of wine or a cup of coffee and some pie. That is why you will often find guests from different nations sitting at one table. If there is no seat available at the tables, guests may also sit at the bar.

The purpose of the game is to bring as many people into the Café International as possible by placing your guests at the tables or at the bar in a clever way. Players score each round by seating guests at tables. They “record” their scores by taking the different colored chips (black = 1 point, red = 5 points, and blue = 10 points). Players may also lose points when seating guests at the bar or having un-seated guests at the end of the game.

2-4 players
Ages 13+
30-60 minute play time

Thursday, January 22, 2015

New from Rio Grande Games! Dominion: Adventures!

Coming in April!
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Dominion: Adventures
$44.95 SRP

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. You’re not sure which, but at least you’ve narrowed it down. You are rich with life experiences, but have had trouble trading them for goods and services so it’s time to seek your fortune, or anyone’s really, in order to achieve your dreams!

You have your sword, handed down through the generations, and your supplies packed. Polished your armor until it shone and distressed a damsel for good measure. You’ve recruited some recruits and hired some hirelings since who knows what the fifth direction will hold. You’ve put up a sign saying “Gone Adventuring” and, just in case, another sign saying “Beware of Dog” if people get any ideas. You saddle up your trusty steed and head into the sunset, hoping the mysterious fifth direction is all it’s cracked up to be.

This is the 9th addition to the game of Dominion and has 400 cards, 6 mats, and 60 tokens. There are 30 new Kingdom cards, including the return of Duration cards that do things on future turns, plus Reserve cards that can be saved for the right moment. There are also 20 Event cards that give you something to buy besides cards, including tokens that modify cards.

2-6 players
Ages 13+
30+ minute play time

Requires the Dominion main game to play.

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

New from Rio Grande Games! Antike II, Bohnanza: Ladies & Gangsters and more!

Coming in January!
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Concordia: Britannia/Germania
$24.95 SRP

Concordia: Britannia Expansion features a double-sided map for Concordia.  The Britannia map offers tight play with only 23 cities in ten provinces and players start in London and Calais, expanding Britannia from the south. The Germania map features 30 cities in twelve provinces again. The additional castles, different starting positions, and sea colonists moving along rivers bring new options into play.

2-5 players
Ages 12+

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Antike II
$59.95 SRP

Antike II is a challenging strategy game about evolution and competition among ancient civilizations. Ancient nations create cities, build temples, sail the seas, and discover new principles of science and technology. Their legions and galleys open new settlements and defend their people against attacks from their enemies. Two scenarios can be chosen as the game board is two-sided.

Every nation tries to win ancient kings, scholars, generals, citizens, and navigators for themselves. The nation that acquires a specified number (depending on the number of players) of ancient personalities first wins the game!

Lead one of these nations to victory but watch out for your enemies as they will want to conquer your cities to destroy your temples. The game depends not on the luck of dice or cards, but on thoughtful plans and skillful diplomacy.

Antike II differs from the 2005 Antike in several ways. To start, players now own city tokens, which allows them some degree of choice as to which resource a newly founded city shall produce. Military units have become more expensive, and the rules for the conquest of cities are considerably easier. The scientific progresses were altered as well. Neutral temples now exist, which may be destroyed, gaining VPs of a general, without harming other players. The game features two new maps in a new graphical design, and a new card named “BELLONA” (the ancient Roman goddess of war) has been introduced to counter the starting player’s advantage.

3-6 players
Ages 12+



Coming in February!
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Bohnanza: Ladies & Gangsters
$24.95 SRP
Ladies offers female versions of the beans used in Bohnanza with better payoffs than their male counterparts, for more money when the female beans are at the top of the harvest. Ladies is quite similar to Bohnanza, but gentleman and lady beans have different Beanometers within the same bean type; and baby beans have no Beanometer at all. When harvesting a field, the Beanometer showing on the top-most card (last card played) in the field is the one used for earning gold coins from the harvest.
Gangsters is for one or two players where they compete against a third entity, the Bean Mafia. The players need to have more profit than each other and the Bean Mafia in order to win. Also includes a few new beans with irregular beanometers.

3-5 players
Ages 13+
30-60 minute play time

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Bohnanza: Princes & Pirates
$24.95 SRP

With the Pirates expansion, Bohnanza goes to sea. With Bohnanza, when players harvested beans they immediately sold them for gold coins. With Pirates, players may load their harvested beans onto ships which will deliver them to other markets for higher profits. However, there are pirates on the sea and they lie in wait in their pirate ships to capture the cargoes of merchant ships carrying beans.

Pirates must be played with the Bohnanza basic game as this has the components necessary for up to seven players. Except for changes to the rules described herein, the game is played the same as basic Bohnanza.

Bean princes make their way to sleeping beauty in the king’s castle. They wrestle through thick, overgrown bean vines and must fulfill difficult tasks. The prince who reaches the Castle and has the most gold coins, may kiss sleeping beauty to awaken her, and win the game.

Princes must be played with Ladies or with Bohnanza.

2-7 players
Ages 13+
45-90 minute play time