ACD Exclusives from Aporta Games! Santa Maria and Destination X!

Release Date: December 2017 ACD Distribution Exclusives! APG006 Santa Maria $54.99 SRP Santa Maria is the #2 most anticipated game for Essen/Spiel from The Dice Tower! Santa Maria is a streamlined, medium complexity euro-game in which each player establish and develop a colony. The game features elements of dice drafting and strategic engine building. The game is low on luck, has no direct destructive player conflict, and all components are language independent.  You expand your colony by placing tetris-like pieces with buildings on your colony board. Dice (representing migrant workers) are used to activate buildings: Each die activates a complete row or column of buildings in your colony. The buildings are activated in order (left to right / top to bottom), and the die is then placed on the last activated building to block this space. It is therefore crucial where you put new buildings in your colony, and also the order in which you use the dice.  You will produce resources, form shipping routes, send out conquistadors, and improve your religious power to recruit monks. Each recruited monk may be trained either as a scholar (for special abilities), as missionaries (for immediate rewards), or be appointed as a bishop (for possible end-game points). The player who have accumulated the most happiness after three rounds, wins the game. The available specialists, bishops and buildings varies from game to game, which makes for near endless replayability.  1-4 players Ages 12+ 45-90 minute play time Available Now APG005 Destination X $25.00 SRP Destination X is a game of one-against-many: One player takes the moderator role as a spy on the run, while the remaining players are detectives who must cooperate and use their deductive skills and geographical knowledge to track down the spy and identify their secret destination. At the beginning of each round, six destination cards are placed face up on the table. The spy secretly chooses one of the destinations, and flips to the chosen country's page in the handbook. Each detective is given three informant cards, and in turn each detective must play an informant to get information about the spy's secret destination. The spy must find the relevant information in the handbook and answer truthfully. The informants may provide information on various aspects such as population, industry, religion, history, economy, and so on. After a detective has played an informant, the detective must also eliminate one of the destinations on the table. At any time, the detectives can decide to guess on the spy's destination. If they guess correctly, the detectives win the round; otherwise the spy wins. The spy also wins if the detectives run out of informant cards, so the detectives must manage their resources well and not spend too much time or else the spy will manage to get away. The first side to win three rounds wins the game. No prior geographic knowledge is needed to play, but having some insight might still help you in deducing the spy's destination. Since Destination X is a team-based game, it can be played in groups of any number of players. 2-10 players Ages 10+ 20-40 minute play time

ACD Exclusives from Aporta Games! Capital Lux and Avenue!

Release Date: December 2016

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Capital Lux

$18.00 SRP

Will you play citizens into your own hometown for future points, or contribute them to the capital  and benefit from their special abilities?

In Capital Lux you always balance on a razor's edge. So will you take risks? Bluff? Or follow a carefully laid plan? The decision is yours in this unique and exciting card game, featuring beautiful art by American painter Kwanchai Moriya.

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Avenue

$18.00 SRP

Avenue is a quick and exciting family game that can be played with up to ten players with very little downtime. Players draw a network of roads on their player sheet, trying to connect their farms and castles to grapes. Each round, a card is drawn that shows which type of road the players must draw. Some cards are marked as scoring cards, and when the fourth scoring card is drawn, a new farm is scored. The order in which the farms are scored is revealed one-by-one throughout the game, so players must constantly adapt their strategies.

When a scoring takes place, you score points for every grape that your farm is connected to—but you shouldn't be too greedy because if a farm is not connected to more grapes than your previous farm, you lose points! Scoring many points early will therefore make things difficult later. This keeps the game exciting until the end.

An ACD Exclusive from Aporta Games! Automania!

Coming in October!

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Automania

$54.99 SRP

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In Automania, you run a car factory, trying to produce the most popular cars in the market. To achieve this, you buy tiles to upgrade and customize your factory, and hire specialist employees to help you.

Central to the game are the factory boards: each player has a factory with three assembly lines, and each assembly line produces one type of car. You can put machine tiles along your assembly lines to change the specifications of your cars. However, your three assembly lines intersect, so each machine tile placed might affect more than one type of car - which means you have to think carefully about where you put those machines.

When a car is produced, it must be sold in one of two markets, and the better the specifications of the car is in line with the demand in the chosen market, the more popular the car will be. The most popular cars reap the highest profits, earning money or prestige - which is what you need to win this game.

2-4 players

Ages 12+

60-90 minute play time