Five new, promising places await the bazaar merchants in the second expansion for the multi-award-winning board game Istanbul, Letters & Seals. Now, players can deliver letters on behalf of the embassy and gain seals in return – a valuable resource for which the secret society of Istanbul is willing to pay with rubies from secret sources – which also affects the price for rubies. Kiosk and auction house on the other hand allow actions in which all players participate. And players who manage to bring their companion into play have a partner on the board, who can act independently from the merchant.

More flexibility, more interaction and the option to play on a huge 5x5 bazaar: the expansion Letters & Seals adds many more possibilities to the popular board game Istanbul but also manages to keep its flow and unusual fast gameplay for a family plus game. May the hunt for rubies continue.

Expansion – base game required

Those who have mastered the trade, why don’t you plan to expand your range of goods with coffee? The expansion Mokka & Bakschisch offers you four new places with services and the opportunity to exchange rubies for coffee.

Welcome to the Bazaar of Istanbul! As cunning merchants, players need to outdo their competitors in order to become the sole Master of the Trade Guild. Turn after turn, they contend with each other for money and goods. Their faithful assistants, represented by custom dice, support the players in their endeavours. Using their income wisely, players can invest in improved abilities or purchase the mush-desired rubies. With a little bit of luck and the right strategy, the first player to collect a certain amount of rubies will come out victorious as the next Master of the Trade Guild.

Istanbul – Das Würfelspiel maintains the charm and look of its big brother, but compresses it into a fast and easy-to-learn family game. This makes it appealing for fans of the board game as well as newcomers who are slowly proceeding to more advanced games.

Contents:
1 Game Board
42 Goods Markers
3 Gold Coins
6 Silver Coins
27 Copper Coins
9 Custom Dice
33 Bazaar Cards
24 Mosque Tiles
31 Rubies
12 Crystals
4 Action Summary Aids
2 Rule Books (English, German)

It's a beautiful spring day — the perfect weather for a walk in the forest! You put on your jacket, lace up your boots and set out.

The leaves rustle on the trees, and the sunlight shines through the branches. A gentle breeze blows as you take a deep breath of forest air. Lost in your thoughts, you turn once here and then again there, sometimes going left and sometimes turning right... Suddenly you hear something rustling behind you in the bushes. You take a few cautious steps towards the noise and discover...a goose?! And it's talking to a goblin? Then all of a sudden, your friends are standing next to you in the forest...

Umm. You decide it might best to head home quickly. There seems to be something wrong with this forest...

Which is the shortest way back? You're in luck as the fairy tale characters decide to show you, but your friends are constantly changing the path in Memorinth in their own attempts to get home the quickest. However, with a bit of luck and memory, you'll be the first to get out of the labyrinth!

Crimes happen in the city!

With the view for details you'll be searching for facts: Look for the scenes that provide you with the correct facts to solve the crime cases.

The giant city map (75 x 110 cm) is home to a myriad of hidden information. Different difficulty levels lead the players step by step into the game.

Players must work closely together to find out what happened.

The case cards contain questions for which the group must find the right answers. Every criminal case is unique and hides amazing information!

1-4 Players
15-45 Min
Age: 10+

Crimes have taken place all over the city, and you want to figure out exactly what's happened, so you'll need to look closely at the giant city map (75 x 110 cm) to find all the hidden information and trace the trails of those who had it in for their foes.

MicroMacro: Crime City – Full House includes 16 cases for you to solve. Each case includes a number of cards that ask you to find something on the map or uncover where someone has gone or otherwise reveal information relevant to a case. The city map serves as a map in time as well as space, so you'll typically find people in multiple locations throughout the streets and buildings, and you need to piece together what happened, whether by going through the case card by card or by reading only the starting card in the case and trying to figure out everything that happened for yourself. Will you be able to answer all questions about the case without fail?

Unlike the original MicroMacro: Crime City, Full House marks each case with symbols so that parents can decide which cases the youngest investigators are cleared to research.

1-4 Players
15-45 Min
Age: 10+

MicroMacro: Crime City 3 - ALL IN is the next entry in the MicroMacro series. It has its own story so no need to have played the others!

Crimes keep taking place all over the city, and you want to figure out exactly what's happened, so you'll need to look closely at the giant city map (75 x 110 cm) to find all the hidden information and trace the trails of those who had it in for their foes.

1-4 Players
15-45 Min
Age: 10+

Insidious individuals with murderous intentions and greedy thieves stalk the streets of Crime City, waiting in dark alleys and ambushing the poor citizens. In Crime City there are numerous new crimes just waiting to be solved by you!

Players: 1-4
Playing time: 15-45min
Age: 12+

The pugs are out of control! Bright colours and many, many pugs bring joy, fun and also trouble in this turbulent and fast nightcap game! You have to recognize the right pugs in the right number quickly. A little confused is everything at Mopseinander.

It not an easy task to make a living selling the goods from your own farm – especially if the competing farmers try to do the same thing. In My Farm Shop players compete with their personal Farm Shops, represented by upgradeable player boards, which they set up in the market. Each round the active player rolls 3 dice. They then select 1 die to determine which upgrade they get this round. The sum of the remaining 2 dice triggers one action of the farm shop – this happens for all players. While players receive goods each turn, the efficiency of their harvest need to be improved with upgrades during their active turns. Harvested goods are then sold on the market and whoever earned most money wins.

My Farm Shop combines its unusual theme with an easy to grasp dice mechanism that allows for interesting choices each turn and keeps all players involved throughout the game.

The new moon is a symbol for a new beginning, the perfect time to start something new and to plan your future — and that is what Nova Luna (lat. for new moon) is all about. In each round of this abstract tile-laying game, you have to plan your future anew, developing a new strategy to cope with what the moon wheel has to offer you.

On each turn, you have to decide which new tile from the moon wheel to place in front of you. Every new tile brings a new task you have to fulfill. In order to do so, you need to place tiles of the correct color adjacent to the task you want to complete, but these of course again bring you new tasks. Each time a task is solved, you may place one of your markers on it. So decide wisely and be the first one to place all your markers.

1-4 Players
30-60 Min
Age: 8+

Calls for expeditions are not enough anymore, now you also must complete contracts – either in competition against each other or racing against the clock together. Even if you have nobody else to play with, you do not need to pass on a game of Port Royal! With all the new challenges ahead, support from new persons is more than welcome …

Ambition and a thirst for wealth have driven humanity to strive for ever greater progress. In America, during the 19th century, battles were waged between huge railway corporations that sought to connect state to state and coast with coast… making themselves filthy rich in the process. Railroad Revolution drops you straight into the middle of these tempestuous years; a time that changed America forever.

In Railroad Revolution, you will manage your own railroad company, ruthlessly competing to be the most powerful railroad tycoon across all America. You will build railroads, establish stations in your connected cities, expand the network of telegraph lines, and chase your objectives, increasing the value of your company with every action you take.

You start with mainly a team of non-specialized workers, but during the game you can hire additional ones with specific skill sets. The cost or effect of an action is determined by the type of worker that does it. To complete your company objectives, you will have to remove some of your workers from your active pool, promoting them to managerial positions. You must carefully assign each of your workers to perform the right action at the right time in order to exploit their specializations in the best way. You need to decide which ones to promote and which are instead still needed to take actions, as your priorities will change from turn to turn.

Railroad Revolution is a fast paced game with relatively simple rules, and it provides you with interesting and challenging decisions. Having a good strategy and finding the correct timing to implement it, is the key to winning the game.

Round the World is a real-time card game played simultaneously. The players are travel agents creating "trips" around the world for their customers. Each "flight card" shows two continents (each continent has its own color): a "departure" and a "destination" connected by an airplane/arrow. You try to get rid of your own 30-card deck within a period of exactly five minutes by creating "trips" card by card with matching colors from card to card until the trip is complete and can be "booked" (saved for scoring).

All players play at the same time, everybody to their own speed and rhythm. Holding your deck in one hand, you draw the top card as your sole "hand card" and add it to the ones you already placed in front of you to create "trips" — or you put it under the deck again. When you add a card, you may pick up the card from the other end of the trip and continue using this as your "hand card". You may also add cards to your opponents' trips and take cards (you desperately need) from them. All cards not "booked" (i.e., still in the deck or in incomplete trips) score against you, so if you empty your deck too soon, your opponents are able to lengthen your trips without completing them...

A game consists of two rounds of five minutes, plus two simple scoring phases. The focus of the game is on your perfect timing within the five minutes, keep an eye on cards with landmarks (better for scoring!), and on your opponents "offers". There are variants included shifting the focus and making the game more challenging.

2–4 Players
15 Min
Age: 8+

In Second Chance, each player starts with a 9×9 grid that they want to fill as completely as possible. To begin the game, everyone receives a different card with a starting tile and marks off its spaces on their grid.

Every turn, two puzzle tile cards are revealed, and each player chooses one of them, then marks off squares on their personal grid that match the shape of the image shown on their chosen card. Multiple players can choose the same card. If a player cannot fit either revealed shape into their grid, they get a second chance and reveal one card from the deck just for them. If they can fit this shape in their grid, they do continue normally next round; otherwise they are eliminated from play.

The game ends when all players have been eliminated, the deck of puzzle cards has run out, or a player has completely filled their grid. If someone has filled their grid, they win. If all players have been eliminated or the deck ran out of cards, then whoever has the fewest empty spaces wins.