Friday, April 10, 2015

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TAK696175
Lost Cities: The Board Game
$39.95 SRP
NPI

The Research teams are outfitted and ready to embark on their adventures to find five forgotten cities. Who will lead the way to fantastic discoveries?

Each player guides a team of explorers on up to five expeditions. To advance along an expedition path, a card in the path’s color must be played for each step forward. The card must be of equal or greater value to the player's card previously played on that path. After playing or discarding a card, the player draws a new card. Skilled team leaders assess when to play, hold, or discard their cards to move their own teams forward while at the same time preventing their opponent teams from getting ahead.

Points are awarded based on how far the explorers make it along their paths. Each step earns more points than the one before it, and the first three steps earn negative points. Along the way, players can increase points by finding artifacts, victory points, and shortcuts forward. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins!

2-4 players
Ages 10+
30-60 minute play time

TAK691820
Lost Cities: The Card Game
$19.95 SRP
NPI

Who will discover the ancient civilizations? Two explorers embark on research journeys to remote corners of the world: the Himalayan mountains, the Central American rainforest, the Egyptian desert, a mysterious volcano, and the bottom of the sea.

As the cards are played, the expedition routes take shape and the explorers earn points. The most daring adventurers make bets on the success of their expeditions. The explorer with the highest score after three rounds of expeditions wins. The rules of the game are simple, but beware: The lost cities hold many unseen mysteries!

2 players
Ages 10+
30 minute play time

TAK696184
Ubongo
$39.95 SRP
NPI

Ubongo is a fast-paced, addictive, and easy-to-learn geometric puzzle game. Players race against the timer and against each other to solve a puzzle of interlocking shapes. The faster you solve the puzzle, the more gems you get. The player with the most valuable gem treasure after nine rounds of solving puzzles wins!

3-6 players
Ages 10+
40 minute play time

TAK691806
Kahuna
$24.95 SRP
NPI

Who will rule the South Seas? Two Kahuna compete for dominance on an archipelago consisting of twelve small islands. Using their magic and wisdom, they struggle for control of the islands. They anxiously await the cards handed to them by fate. But when the time is right, they move to  capture one, two, or even more islands, trying to gain the upper hand. At the mercy of the magical powers of the South Seas, they quickly realize that even the best magic is no good without strategy.

2 players
Ages 10+
30 minute play time


TAK696163
Dohdles!
$39.95 SRP
NPI

Dohdles! is a reworking of the 1988 Spiel des Jahres-winning Barbarossa.

In the game players use clay to create objects - a mountain, an animal, a famous ruin - then they take turns asking one another questions about these objects or asking for a letter in the name of this object. Everyone hears these requests, though, so your efforts might lead opponents to the correct answer, too, and since anyone can throw their solution stones into the answer funnel at any time, you’ll need to think fast.

If you give the correct answer for a puzzle, both the creator and guesser score points - but if everyone guesses the answer, or conversely no one does, then the creator scores nothing. Who will find the ideal mix?
3-6 players
Ages 10+
40 minute play time

TAK692209
Dimension
$49.95 SRP
NPI

Dimension is a fast-paced, innovative puzzle game that takes place in three dimensions with 60 colorful spheres. All of the players play at the same time. Everybody tries to position the spheres on their trays to earn as many  points as possible. The task cards indicate how the spheres must be placed to earn points: for example, exactly two orange spheres must be on the stray, black and blue must touch each other, and blue must not touch white.

Complete these tasks while racing against the timer. you get a point for each sphere you use and a bonus token for using all five colors, but you lose two points for each task card you don’t follow correctly. Prove to your opponents that you are the master of multi-dimensional thinking!
1-4 players
Ages 8+
30 minute play time

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