Good times in the tiny kingdom of Emara: During the reign of King Thedorius the Wise, wars, uprisings, and other inconveniences became a thing of the past. Thedorius always cared more for the well-being of his subjects than for power or riches. Therefore, only the nobleman who is able to care for Emara's citizens as well as Thedorius himself did shall become Thedorius' successor and wear the Crown of Emara.

To test the skills of all aspirants, Thedorius and his counselors issue a challenge of practical use: Whoever can persuade the majority of the newly arrived citizens in the capital to support their claim shall become the future king of Emara. To achieve this, players have to cater to the citizens' needs and — most importantly — offer proper housing for everyone. This means that promoting the building activities in town will be one of the major tasks of the candidates.

Crown of Emara skillfully combines card actions with worker movement actions, allowing players to plan their turns carefully during their downtime. The two counselors available to every player move in two separate roundabouts, requiring players to optimize every move. Additionally, two scoring tracks lead to a multidimensional playstyle as only the lower score counts towards victory and thus both tracks have to be advanced equally.

1-4 Players
45-75 Min
Age: 12+

Build your own town in Design Town! In this deck-building game, you have no hand at all; instead, you play cards directly from the top of your deck. Winning the game requires delicate strategies... and some luck as well!!

A turn consists of two phases: card playing and building.

Players play cards directly from the top of their deck and may choose to continue unless they have three cry-face icons in play, which ends their turn immediately. When they choose to stop, they move to the building phase.

During the building phase, a player can use the coins gained from their previously played cards to buy a new card or to upgrade a card in their personal discard pile. To upgrade a card, pay the cost and flip it over; upgraded cards remain in the discard pile.

Since all cards in this game are double-sided, be careful not to flip them over accidentally when placing cards into your discard pile or when shuffling your deck. Whenever a player gains eight or more VP during a single card playing phase, that player wins immediately!

This edition of Design Town consists of the original Design Town from Homosapiens Lab as well as the Design Town: Reuse expansion that adds two more double-sided cards to the game.

1-4 Players
30-60 Min
Age: 10+

It is known far and wide that the country gentleman Don Quixote has a very particular attachment to windmills and knights. So he is now not only attempting to provide his little principality with two fortresses, some churches, and orderly roads, but a complement of knights and windmills as well.

Each player has an identical set of 24 tiles and, in the course of the game, places these on designated fields of his (initially empty) principality. The fields are covered in the identical order for all players, so there’s an almost exactly level playing field.

Whichever player connects the fields of his principality the most ingeniously and protects his castles and borders with knights will receive the most points, emerge victorious, and perhaps even win the heart of fair Dulcinea one day...

Game Components:
• 4 Game Boards
• 96 Tiles
• 24 Cards
• 4 Reference Sheets
• 1 Score Board
• 4 Wooden Figures
• 1 Rules Booklet

Players: 1 - 4
Playing time: 20 - 30 Minutes
Age: 8 and up
Game Designer: Reinhard Staupe
Illustrations: Oliver Freudenreich

A dream comes true; players have acquired their own dungeon! Today they visited it for the first time and found a gigantic cave! Hold on a second, the cave is empty! Where’s the dungeon? There aren’t any maze-like walls, no sneaky traps, and above all, no hero-slashing monsters!

So they hastily go shopping at the dungeon construction shop and then they make a quick visit to the local monster tavern to hire some monsters. Now they’ll be ready to defend their treasures from any invading heroes. Will they manage to surpass their rivals and be celebrated as the most malicious dungeon master?

Doodle Dungeon combines the rewarding elements of creating and then defending one’s own dungeon, and mixes it with engaging draft-&-draw gameplay.

2–4 Players
45–60 Min
Age: 1

Rippling rivers, rustling forests, wheat fields swaying in the wind and here and there a cute little village - that's Dorfromantik! The video game from the small developer studio Toukana Interactive has been thrilling the gaming community since its Early Access in March 2021 and has already won all kinds of prestigious awards. Now Michael Palm and Lukas Zach are transforming the popular building strategy and puzzle game into a family game for young and old with Dorfromantik.

In Dorfromantik, up to six players work together to lay hexagonal tiles to create a beautiful landscape and try to fulfill the orders of the population, while at the same time laying as long a track and as long a river as possible, but also taking into account the flags that provide points in enclosed areas. The better the players manage to do this, the more points they can score at the end. In the course of the replayable campaign, the points earned can be used to unlock new tiles that are hidden in initially locked boxes. These pose new, additional tasks for the players and make it possible to raise the high score higher and higher.

Players: 1-6
Duration: 30-60 min
Age: 8+

A game that is designed by a big name (Reiner Knizia), and originally published and released in Korea for the first time. Two players each try to build stronger rows and columns of numbered tiles into an imaginary 5 by 5 grids. At the end of the game, compare the weakest row and column from both players to determine the winner.

Based on the early Reiner Knizia games Sono and Prisma, reworked as Robot Master

Note: the rules in the Victory Point Games promo edition are slightly different:
1) There are only 20 dragon cards in the deck. Players are each dealt 8 cards; the remaining 4 are discarded without the players knowing their values.
2) The grid size is only 4x4, rather than 5x5.
3) Each row or column is worth the sum of its values. A pair of cards in the same row/column counts as 10x the value (e.g., 2 "2" cards in a row would be worth 20 points). Three or more cards of the same value in a row/column scores 100 points.

2 Players
5–20 Min
Age: 8+

Based on the first novel of the Die Zwerge tetralogy Eng. The Dwarves by author Markus Heitz, the goal of the cooperative game Die Zwerge is to keep evil from flooding Girdlegard. During set-up, players choose one of the dwarves from the novel, each of which is equipped with a unique special ability and different stats for fighting, crafting, and movement.

In Evidence, as ambitious journalists, you go in search of evidence to prove the existence of some of the world’s greatest mysteries. You've been searching for a long time and now you're pretty sure that mysterious creatures from lore really exist! However, in order to convince the editor-in-chief and make it to the front page with your story, you will need some solid evidence. You'll have to keep searching and following even the smallest rumours until the signs get hot. But time is of the essence because your competitors have become aware of the story... There are 6 different creatures who are said to be found in different locations around the world – referred to as "mysteries". For each mystery, there are 6 rumours and each is assigned a unique colour and symbol. The rumours have different values ranging from -1 to 4. The higher the value of a rumour, the higher the probability that the mystery truly exists. Only one of these cards is the actual proof of the respective mystery - you must find out its value throughout the course of the game. This evidence is hidden under the overview cards and its value is unknown to you at the beginning of the game. All other cards are rumours. You hold these rumours in your hands and play them round by round, revealing information to everyone. Throughout the course of the game, you will take search cards by performing the "Search" action. These represent your findings on the various mysteries. Time-outs in the basic game allow you to exchange previously collected search cards in one mystery for another. These cards grant you the opportunity to bluff or alter wrong decisions. The professional tools of the variant introduce 6 unique actions into the game and take the game to a more strategic level.

In Fire & Stone, players lead their tribe through the Stone Age. They scout new lands, harvest nuts and mushrooms, and finally build villages. The aim of the game is to have the most successful tribe by exploring new lands, building huts, and gathering resources. With the invention of new tools and techniques like ship building or pottery, the expansion of your tribe can even be accelerated.

Each space the scouts can enter contains upside-down discover tokens. When a scout moves on one of those tokens for the first time, the token is revealed and triggers an effect. From now on these tokens can be used as a player action with a different effect. By the end of the game, the player who made the most victory points with villages and accomplishing tasks wins.

2–4 Players
45–60 Min
Age: 10+

The interaction between the other players is rather low, the course of the game is simple but, despite everything, a great strategy game. The rules at the beginning of the game may take some time, but the symbols on the cards make them more self-explanatory as the game progresses. Due to the complexity of the game, it can happen that it takes up to three hours.

But that doesn't detract from the fun. At the beginning of the game you can still decide for the A or B side of the tiles, which creates a good variance. This game has little to do with luck or chance, because strategy is particularly important here and you often have to be able to rethink quickly.

What a hustle and bustle! In Happy Hopping, the frogs jump into the ponds left and right. Everyone is on the hunt for colorful mosquitoes. Whose frogs can catch the most of them?

Over the course of eight rounds, the players try to complete tasks to collect chips. There are speed rounds, in which you need to be quicker than the other players, and normal rounds, in which all frogs may perform one jump. If the goal of a round is met, players gain frog chips – with the fastest players gaining a ladybug chip on top. They show mosquitoes in different colors. After the last round, a scoring tile determines which mosquito color scores points. Whoever has the most mosquitoes of that color, wins.

Happy Hopping cleverly integrates the game box into the game and jumping aids makes it easier for younger players to perform good jumps.

2–4 Players
15–20 Min
Age: 6+

The fresh country air, romantic sunsets, a picnic on a meadow - many people are fascinated by life in the country. A feeling of home is in the air. However, there is more to the life of a farmer than just the genial country life - it also requires many hours of hard work to bring in a rich harvest.

Players take on the roles of these settlers, developing their land and building farms. Each cultivated field yields victory points; however,each round players may decide to forego these points and save up for their farms instead, which also provide victory points. All the while, you need to keep an eye on your opponents, so that they do not grow too large and expand at your expense.

Game Components:
• 1 Game Board
• 107 Game Tiles
• 11 Wooden Buildings
• 30 Wooden Game Tokens
• 1 Rules Booklet, German
• 1 Rules Booklet, English

Players: 2 - 5
Playing time: 45 - 60 Minutes
Age: 8 and up
Game Designer: Jeffrey D. Allers
Illustrations: Tom Thiel, Torsten Hess

Return to the 2018 Kennerspiel nominated Heaven & Ale with the Kegs and More expansion!

After years of honing the craft of beer making, the monastery has been commissioned to deliver the glorious ale to the local taverns. Such a challenge requires foresight and planning on your part. In addition to managing resources to brew beer, the monks are also tasked to collect barrels to store the ale and collect hay to ensure your delivery mule is well fed and strong. With the new gameplay elements, Heaven & Ale reminds fans of its modern classic status!

Before winter arrives, a particularly warm autumn plunges the forest in a golden glow. New England blossoms in an Indian Summer one last time. Trees shine in countless shades, a lively rainbow of colors, and slowly fallen are the first leaves. On our hikes through the forest we discover all sorts of small treasures. We collect berries, nuts, mushrooms and feathers, as we watch the shy forest animals before we go home.

Indian Summer is designed by the great game designer, Uwe Rosenberg, and it is his follow up game to the hit game, Cottage Garden.

1–4 Players
15–60 Min
Age: 10+