New from Rio Grande Games! Dominion: Empires!

Street Date: May 18^th!

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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

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

New from Rio Grande!

Releasing in December!

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Monster Factory
$ 29.95 SRP

In Monster Factory, the players take turns drawing and placing tiles, either adding to their own monsters or to those of their opponents. The goal is to make monsters that are big, but not so big that they go unfinished.

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Spin Monkeys
$ 39.95 SRP

In Spin Monkeys, you are a monkey in the jungle when one day a wayward carnival makes a stop. You and your fellow monkeys jump in the bumper cars and away you go. You have no idea why there is fruit all over the arena floor, but you aim to grab as much of it for yourself as possible!

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The Doge Ship
$ 49.95 SRP

In The Doge Ship, the players play the role of the most skilled shipbuilders of Venice who are called by the Doge to cooperate on the construction of the new ship. Each player has to build parts of the Ship in order to earn victory points, but also Gondolas to get money, and Barriers for the protection of the shipyard and the city. The task is not easy: At the beginning of each round, the cost of the actions might change, as well as the demands of the Doge. When the construction of the ship is finished, only one will be the winner and will gain the favour of the Doge.

In this game players have to manage their five actions per round competing with other players on these available. Players can work on a part of the Doge Ship to gain VP, on Gondolas to make money, or on Barriers to protect Venice from High Water effects and save their shipyard. Manage money

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Unexpected Treasures
$ 19.95 SRP

In Unexpected Treasures – a new edition of the 2002 release Fundstücke – you are on a mission to collect old furniture from a bulk waste collection site and turn a profit by selling those pieces to paying customers. It's first come, first served. What's more, you are able to take only a few items home at a time – and you have to be wary of a thief who is out on the prowl just waiting to steal your collected goods from your home.

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Antike Duellum
$ 34.95 SRP

Antike Duellum – previewed at Spiel 2011 under the name Casus Belli – is a two-player strategy game based on modified rules from Mac Gerdts' Antike. The game includes two scenarios: Punic Wars (Rome vs. Carthago) on one side of the board, and Persian Wars (Greeks vs. Persians) on the other. The goal of the game is to be the first to gain nine ancient personages (Kings, Scholars, Generals, Citizens, Navigators).

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Myrmes
$ 54.95 SRP

In Myrmes, originally shown under the name ANTerpryse, players control ant colonies and use their ants to explore the land (leaving pheromones in their wake); harvest "crops" like stone, earth and aphids; fight with other ants; complete requests from the Queen; birth new ants; and otherwise dominate their tiny patch of dirt, all in a quest to score points and prove that they belong at the top of the heap, er, anthill. After three seasons of scrabbling and foraging, each ant colony faces a harsh winter that will test its colonial strength.

Carcassone Line Expands

Coming in April

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Carcassonne: Phantom Expansion

$36.00 SRP

1 Each of the Six Different Colors

This expansion to Carcassonne includes 6 new translucent followers, 1 for each player color and rules for the use in the Carcassonne game. The set will be released with 6 different colored transparent meeple-shaped boxes to choose from.

Each player gets that phantom of its color. In the course, a player may place this phantom as a second follower on the board. In this way, he may place two followers on two different features on the same tile. When a player gets back the phantom, he may use it in a later turn as well. The phantom can also be used alone and always counts as a regular follower.

Expected in May

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Carcassonne: Dice Game

$17.50 SRP

 

2-5 Players

Ages 8+

10 Minutes

In the Carcassonne dice game, the players cleverly use dice roles try to build closed cities as large as they can - the bigger, the better.

They said it couldn't be done – oh, wait, no one ever said that. In fact, gamers have been predicting the release of this title for at least five years, and now is the time.

As part of the tenth anniversary celebrations for the Spiel des Jahres-winning Carcassonne, publisher Hans im Glück and designers Klaus-Jürgen Wrede and Olivier Lamontagne are releasing Carcassonne: Das Würfelspiel, a quick-playing dice game that will allow players to build cities faster than ever before. The game includes nine special dice, a pencil and a block of scoresheets packaged inside a meeple-shaped metal container.

Dominion Big Box Announced!

Arriving Shortly

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Dominion Big Box

$100.00 SRP

Get Dominion, Dominion: Alchemy and Dominion: Prosperity plus a play mat all in one large box.