Winner of the prestigious 2003 Spiel des Jahres (German Game of the Year)
In Granada, one of the most impressive building projects of the Middle Ages has begun: the construction of Alhambra. A palace, fortress, and a small city - all in one - Alhambra is made up of the world's most beautiful gardens, pavilions, chambers and towers. In the middle ages, the Moors in Spain enjoyed the most advanced civilization in Europe. That included beautiful palaces such as the famous Alhambra. Players try to build their Alhambra to gain points. Tough choices come from having more choices than you can do in a turn. Alhambra is a tile playing game, but you have to buy them with money instead of the random drawing of many games. It's a popular game with enthusiastic reviews and prestigious awards.
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This edition of the American smash-hit family and party game, Apples to Apples, contains hundreds of new cards specifically designed for players from the British Isles and those familiar with the area, and its cultures and history.
APPLES TO APPLES is the wild, award-winning card and party game that provides instant fun for four to ten players!
It's as easy as comparing "apples to apples"... just open the box, deal the cards, and you're ready to play! Select the card from your hand that you think is best described by a card played by the judge. If the judge picks your card, you win that round. And everyone gets a chance to be the judge!
Each round is filled with surprising and outrageous comparisons from a wide range of people, places, things and events. Fastmoving and refreshing, Apples to Apples is perfect for any get-together with family and friends!
Family Board Game for 4 to 20+ players, ages 12+
By Drumond Park
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When you play Absolute Balderdash, the better you are at telling a fib or two, the more likely you are to win!
Family Board Game for 2 or more players aged 12 to adult.
By Drumond Park. Extract from Drumond Park Web Site
Players develop the area around Carcassonne, a southern French city famous for its unique Roman and Medieval fortifications and deploy their followers in various locations around it. (2-5 players, 60min)
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Welcome to Cat Attack: a brand new game for all the family that is guaranteed to appeal to board game enthusiasts, cat lovers and lunatics everywhere!
Cat Attack is a fast action, classically hilarious strategy boardgame for the family and for serious gamers. Inspired by the close observation of the ordinary domestic cat in its natural environment: attitude, treachery, cunning and theft.
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Board Game, 3-6 Players, Ages 8+ by Out of the Box
CLOUD 9 will take you straight up through the clouds! The higher the balloon rises, the more points you can score. But watch out, the balloon can fall at anytime - how long are you willing to stay on and risk losing it all?
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"The Game for Your Whole Brain!"
Cranium is the hot, new, outrageously fun board game created by and for British brains to bring friends together through a variety of activities. Whether you're an aspiring actor, artist, trivia buff or wordsmith, Cranium gives you and your team a moment to shine. Each turn, your team will harness its collective brain power to advance around the board. The first team to reach Cranium Central wins the game! You will not believe what your friends can do!
by Cranium Inc
Contains a complete set of 800 new cards for the Cranium Boardgame.
Think you know what gifts your family and friends want? Find out when you play GiftTRAP. Watch them rate potential gifts before they open yours - you might be surprised at what they choose. It's fast, fun, and revealing. GiftTRAP - the better you give, the more you get.
At the Pole Penguins jump from ice floe to ice floe hunting for fish. They block their Penguin rivals whenever they can while trying to secure the best fishing grounds. The clever Penguin flock that catches the most fish wins!
Card game, 3-8 players.
A game of speed, observation, and raucous laughter where the goal is to rid yourself of all of your playing cards. But to do so, you must grab the carved Totem at precisely the right time, and not a moment too soon! An entertaining game for the entire tribe in which sharp reflexes and good judgment are beneficial.
Contents: playing board, 34 maze cards, 24 treasure cards, 4 playing pieces
Be the first to collect all of your treasures by shifting the walls of the Labyrinth to create a clear path to get to them. Watch out for traps as the walls constantly move. This mysterious maze game is magic!
"It's better by Tube". Take 6 secret destination tickets and get ready for a trip on the Underground. You'll have to think carefully and plan ahead for it's the person who commutes from a main line station of their choice and back again who'll be the winner.
Buy your way to fame & fortune with Modern Art, the high stakes gallery auction game. Each player runs a gallery, choosing which pieces of art to sell from the collection, and which pieces to buy from other galleries. Bid on the right one and at the end of the round you could be rolling in the dough. Mistake a Pissaro for a Picasso and you could be out of luck and money. Perfect for the armchair art critic.
Players play on a 3D board, representing the Niagara River and the falls. Canoes float down the river as the river flows, but players can row their canoes up-river or down-river to collect gems, to return them to shore, and to avoid the waterfall. This game is great fun for the family, but is strategic and gives players the chance to plan and steal from one another.
From the outset, you have to weave, jostle, accelerate, slow down, and choose the best trajectories. Only the most skillful will manage to avoid running off the track! PitchCar is a game of dexterity and of racecars, combining carom with Formula One. Superbly manufactured, this wooden game lets you to construct ten different circuits over 12 feet long. Entertaining and family oriented, PitchCar will enchant players of all ages.
Important note to owners of Carabande: PitchCar is NOT compatible with Carabande. There is a slight difference in track thickness between the two; and contrary to popular belief, the jigsaw-cut ends of the PitchCar track segments which attach onetrack segment to the next do NOT match with those in Carabande.
Project X is a new visual search made by game inventor Arne Lauwers and the 'doodle' artwork of Euegene.
Playable from 2 players on with no maximum number of players, it is a simple to learn, hard to win piece of art you can play wwith. Project X is playable from the age of 6 and lasts 15 to 40 minutes.
On an ever changing game board you need to be the first to accomplish 6 missions successfully. There are over 100 missions in 3 different categories. There are individual missions, outbid missions and missions where you need to be the first to find the unique item.
The classic Game of Global Domination. A favorite for over 40 years! Includes 360 military miniatures. 2 to 6 Players.
Board Game; 2-8 Players; Ages 12+ by Hasbro/Avalon Hill
With the help of celebrity game designer Dr. Richard Garfield, Avalon Hill is re-launching RoboRally, Garfield's classic game of battling robots. RoboRally has been out of print since the late '90s. RoboRally is a fast-moving robot race. Each player tries to be the first to cross a series of checkpoints by manoeuvring a robot across the floor of the "Grid Widget Factory."
The course is laced with perils such as lasers, crushers, missile launchers, and conveyer belts.
The 2005 edition of RoboRally includes new design and play mechanics that differ from the game's original 1994 release, but it's still completely compatible with the first edition.
One player is Mr X, on the run somewhere in London. The other players are detectives and work together to catch Mr X before time runs out. With strategy and teamwork the detectives can trap Mr X but if he escapes, he wins the game.
For 3-6 players, aged 10+
Contents: 1 board, logbook, 6 playing pieces, 20 cards, 125 tickets, visor.
Players are recent immigrants to the newly populated island of Catan. Expand your colony through the building of settlements, roads, and villages by harvesting commodities from the land around you. Trade sheep, lumber, bricks and grain for a settlement, bricks and wood for a road, or try to complete other combinations for more advanced buildings, services and specials.
Trade with other players, or at local seaports to get resources you might lack. The first player to achieve 10 points from a combination of roads, settlements, and special cards wins.
Extend your The Settlers of Catan? game to include more players and more scenarios. More tiles, more resource cards, more development cards, and components (settlements, villages, roads) for two additional players.
Allows for two additional players to be added to The Settlers of Catan?.
"The Best Game Ewe Ever Herd!"
Ah, do ewe long for the life of a sheep? Bright summer days filled with games of tag and attempts to flock closer to Roger, the Heartthrob Ram? But Watch Out! The shearer wants to drag you away from all the fun and games!
In Shear Panic, ewe maneuver your ewes to score points, playing tag, standing close to Roger, or trying to avoid the shearing scissors! Will your brave sheep score the most points, or will it be "Off with the wool" for ewe?
Shear Panic includes:
9 sheep figures, 1 Roger figure, 1 Shearer figure, 4 player boards, 1 scoring board, 1 sheep panic die, 1 "return to flock" die, 5 track markers, 48 "mutton buttons" (12 each in four colors) Rules sheet.
