New November releases from Rio Grande Games

Order by Date: October 11, 2019
Street Date: November 15, 2019

RIO583
Queenz

$49.95 SRP Players are beekeepers, trying to bloom their fields in order to attract bees and to produce the most valuable honey of the country. On your turn, you have 2 choices; Taking new flower tokens from the garden and keeping them in your warehouse or Blooming one field. When a player blooms their 5th field, every players has one last turn. Then, each player will get some extra points for their hives: Each Hive gives 1 VP for each bee present on the 8 spaces surrounding this Hive. Player takes his VP for each of it’s Hive token. The player who has the highest score wins.

RIO584
The Way of the Bear

$49.95 SRP In the new, quick-playing strategy game, The Way of the Bear, the players are princes attempting to gain the favor of the 4 bear clans by erecting bear statues throughout the land. The game features amazing components and beautiful art. The bear statues are highly-detailed resin models, and the modular game board changes based on the number of players.

RIO586 Robin of Locksley $34.95 SRP Troubled times blight England since the good and just King Richard the Lionheart was captured in the Crusades. Meanwhile, Robin of Locksley is stealing from the rich Norman lords to free the King. In Robin of Locksley, you aim to collect loot tiles with your Robin and sell loot collections of the same color. Move forward on the racing track surrounding the 5" x 5" loot tiles by spending earned gold. Every field will give you a task to gather fame: You may fulfill the task, or you may spend one gold coin to pass it. Whoever first circles the racing track twice wins.

RIO570 Power Grid: Middle East/South Africa

$14.95 SRP Power Grid: Middle East/South Africa is a pair of expansion maps for Power Grid! For decades, there has been an abundance of oil in the Middle East. However, in the near future the so-called "peak oil" threatens this area: This is the point in time when the output of the oil wells begins to decrease. Already, a few countries of this region have nuclear power plants, and that number will increase in the future as the amount of oil from the wells diminishes. Most likely, other energy sources will play a part, too, such as the recycling of plastic waste. The players start the game with an excessive supply of oil. Additionally, the players have access to plenty of natural gas (using the coal tokens of the base game) and a few solar plants (the green power plants). However, at the start of the game the players cannot buy nuclear or garbage power plants. During Step 2, the abundance of oil and natural gas will run dry. Both nuclear and garbage power plants will then be available as alternatives. Thus, in the middle of the game the players are forced to adjust their power plant mix. The energy supply in South Africa is executed almost exclusively by a single trust, which is the seventh biggest energy supplier in the world measured against the production of energy. Roughly 90% of the energy is produced in coal power plants. Additionally, South Africa uses a few nuclear power plants and both water and wind ecological power plants. Because of its size, the trust also supplies half of the rest of Africa with energy. Thus, the game board contains six international power connections and a lot of available coal.

Order by Date: October 11, 2019 Street Date: November 30, 2019 _________________________________________________________ RIO579 Musical Chairs $29.95 SRP Musical Chairs is a whimsical card game that sends the players back to their youth. Timing is everything with card play simulating the crescendo of the music. Moving around the game board, players battle for the best chair cushions in order to plump up their scoring. The remaining cards in the players' hands can make spots even more lucrative. If multiple players end the round on the same spot, they battle "cheek-to-cheek" to see who gets the chair and who ends up on their derriere!