Rules.

Become the best of meca-botanists!

In a strange world where life mixes mechanics and vegetation, two scientists compete to create a formula made from flowers.

Each players creates a pipe network using tiles placed in a common registry.​

2 Players
20 Min
Age: 12+

Take a trip to the US in the 1920s and tear the veil concealing the unspeakable threats from Elsewhere.

As agents working for the Bureau of Investigation, you’re tasked with investigating paranormal cases inspired by H.P Lovecraft’s writings.

Explore Boston, Arkham and exotic lands! Follow leads, question witnesses, find clues and take action to solve these five brand new and strange cases.

This is a cooperative and standalone game based on the Sherlock Holmes Consulting detective system, with some twists and new mechanics.

1–8 Players
120–240 Min
Age: 14+

A classic game is back!

As one of the first worker placement games, Caylus stands among the true board game classics of the 2000s. The original designers' team, together with the Space Cowboys, have now created a revamped version!

The mechanisms of Caylus 1303 have been streamlined and modernized for an intense and shorter game. Don't be fooled, though, as the game has kept both its depth and ease of play while a lot of new features have been added:

* Variability of the starting position for a virtual infinity of possibilities. No more pre-set strategies!
* Characters with special abilities, with a wavering loyalty, offer their services to the players.
* And of course, brand new graphics!

The King calls you again, so it's time to go back to Caylus!

2–5 Players
60–90 Min
Age: 10+

Become the best god and craft your most prosperous universe!

Lands populated with worshipers are lost in the Aether. Select and assemble these regions to create the most beautiful universe!

Manage your regions and personify the best god. A tactical game for all in the tradition of Splendor. Simple rules for playing fast and smooth games. A positive game: at the end of the game, whether or not you win, each player will have made their own world!

Orbis is a tactical game of world development and strategic resource management, in which players take on the roles of gods creating their best universes. Utilizing lands lost in the aether, players accumulate worshippers to spend on even more fruitful lands — some of which grant game-changing bonuses. The key to victory lies in having the most creation points (CPs) at the end of the game!

On your turn, you must take a tile from either the nine region tiles in the center of the table or the available God tiles. (A player may take only one God tile throughout the game.) Every time you take a region tile, worshippers of the same color as the tile taken are placed on adjacent tiles, making the tiles left behind more enticing for the next player. Restrictions apply to region tile placement, making each decision tougher than the last!

After fifteen rounds, the game ends when all players have created their universe, at which point CPs are calculated, bonus tiles awarded, and a winner is crowned. Beautifully simple yet rich in strategy, Orbis is a different game each and every time you play it.

2-4 Players
45 minutes
Ages 10+

Ten Fully Revised Cases for Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective

Important note: The ten cases in The Thames Murders and Other Cases are the same ten cases released in the Ystari version of the game Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective, now fully revised and retranslated. The solutions and contents of some cases have changed.

The gaslit streets of Victorian London. Horse-drawn broughams, hansoms, and dog-carts rattle over the cobblestone streets, pulling their passengers through the pea-soup fog. On every street corner, you pass booksellers, clubs, prisons, music halls, doctors, tea houses, and steamship companies. Yet in the shadows and dark alleys of this great city, horrible and cunning crimes are committed daily, confounding the policemen of Scotland Yard. Still, even the most ingenious crime is only a puzzle for the world’s only consulting detective—Sherlock Holmes!

Ten fully revised cases for the Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective line from Space Cowboys will soon be available with the newest standalone box, The Thames Murders and Other Cases. Like the previously released Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures, The Thames Murders and Other Cases offers ten thrilling cases, each one drawing you into the mystery surrounding a deadly crime in the world of Sherlock Holmes. Whether you’re playing alone or with up to eight players, you’ll need everyone’s wits to solve the case.

Join the Baker Street Irregulars
Like previous adventures in the Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective line, every case in The Thames Murders and Other Cases draws you into a perplexing mystery on the streets of Victorian London. Each case begins the same way—with an introduction read aloud, relaying the facts of the case.

From that starting point, the city of London opens up before you. Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective offers a drastic departure from every other board game—even other cooperative games. You and your friends are not confined by taking turns, one after another. You aren’t even limited in where you can go. The entire city of London is yours to investigate and explore, spread out on a physical map for you to pore over.

Beginning your investigation is simply a matter of deciding where you want to go on the map. Perhaps you and your fellow investigators decide to visit the scene of the crime and search the area for clues. Every location on the map corresponds to a simple set of coordinates—by looking up those coordinates in your case book, you’ll be able to read what you find at the scene of the crime. The passages within this case book give you the chance to notice suspicious objects and read your interviews with suspects… but you won’t find your way too far without consulting some of the other resources at your disposal.

Alongside your map and your case book, you have some other pertinent items, starting with your London Directory. Within this short booklet, you’ll find the addresses of countless people within London. Perhaps you learn that a certain Leticia Garcia may have been implicated in your latest case. By looking her up in the London Directory, you can find her address, allowing you to turn to her section in the case book and continue your investigation!

And of course, you wouldn’t be fully equipped for your job without a detective’s most overlooked tool: the daily issue of The Times newspaper, available for you to peruse and scan for any relevant information. Even though the clues in The Times may not be plainly laid out for you, there’s still plenty of information that may prove crucial to interpreting a clue and deciding on your next step—if you can find it mixed in among articles, obituaries, and advertisements.

The clues are all before you, and ten unique cases await in The Thames Murders and Other Cases. From the curious case of The Munitions Magnate, to The Pilfered Paintings, to The Mummy’s Curse, every case offers a new challenge for your deductive skills. It’s up to you and your friends to conduct your own investigations, visiting the witnesses, the suspects, and the scene of the crime in order to piece together the narrative behind each crime.

Do you have the cunning and the deductive prowess to solve your way through ten more cases for Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective? Even if you’ve played these cases before, some of our new tweaks and changes may surprise you.

It is the close of the nineteenth century. As pea soup fogs blanket London, mysterious figures meet in dark alleys, disreputable restaurants, and opium dens. Robberies, murders, forgeries, arson—every crime imaginable can be found in Victorian London, and though few have the skill to follow these invisible threads, they all trace inexorably back to one man: Professor James Moriarty, the Napoleon of crime. Yet Scotland Yard and the people of London are not helpless in this master criminal’s clutches. The people have their champion, the world’s only consulting detective: Sherlock Holmes.

Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective is a cooperative game of observation, logic, and the science of deduction for one to eight players. You and your fellow players take on the roles of members of the Baker Street Irregulars, Holmes’s cadre of young agents, whom he employs to gather information in his cases. Armed with the facts of the case, the London Directory, a map of Victorian London, the daily issue of The Times, and your own wits, you must unravel ten devilishly complex cases, each with a unique casebook. If your mind is sharp and your logic unflawed, you may even outshine the great detective himself!

The Facts of the Case

At the beginning of a game of Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective, you and your compatriots lay the map of London at the center of the table. Here, you’ll see Holmes’s London divided into five districts, each with dozens of locations representing the homes, parks, police stations, theaters, banks, museums, and countless other buildings that make up the city. In the course of your investigations, you will visit these places to gather clues—calling on Scotland Yard for the official reports, going closely over the scene of the crime, and visiting the assortment of ambassadors, innkeepers, waiters, gunsmiths, doctors, tobacconists, and others who may have information on your case.

You also have at your disposal a copy of the London Directory and the daily issue of The Times. The London Directory offers a list of London’s inhabitants and where they can be found, as well as lists of various categories, such as barristers, booksellers, hospitals, churches, or music halls that you can reference to narrow your possible targets. While the London Directory offers highly organized, but limited information, The Times has an assortment of specific information on a variety of subjects—if only you can suss out what parts of the paper actually pertain to your case. Do the results of a riflemen competition have any bearing on the murder of a munitions magnate? Does a fatal explosion in St. Petersburg or the arrival of a young Egyptian dancer have any connection to your current case? You must determine what is useful from the official news and learn the rest on the streets of London!

Your final asset in these cases is a list of your allies: those you can reliably go to for useful information. Porky Shinwell and Fred Porlock have valuable insight into the workings of London’s underworld, while Henry Ellis and Quintin Hogg are journalists who may well know a few more tidbits about information printed in the official news. Sir Jasper Meeks is the Head Coroner at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, and he would certainly have autopsied any corpse discovered in an investigation, while others can offer clarity to the nuances of law, give you access to archived documents, or keep you up to date on London gossip. You may even turn to Sherlock Holmes himself for a bit of advice.

Follow the Leads
Once you’ve read through the initial facts of the case as presented to Holmes and Watson at 221B Baker Street, your investigation begins! Each turn, one player is the lead investigator, and after the group discusses their best options, that player decides where you will go in London to follow up on your initial leads. For instance, at the start of the case you may choose to head immediately to the scene of the crime, or you may visit the Head Coroner at St. Bart’s to find out more about the body of the deceased.

Every location in London has an address that can be found in the London Directory. Perhaps you wish to go to Simpson’s Restaurant to check a suspect’s alibi—simply look up the address in the Directory. Once you've found it, you’ll turn to the corresponding section in the casebook of your current investigation. The text you read determines what you find there, what observations you make, and the questions you ask. Once you’ve received this new influx of information, the next player becomes the lead investigator, and you and your friends begin making deductions and exploring new possibilities.

Ultimately, your goal is to explain the mysteries of the case to the satisfaction of all involved. At the end of the casebook are two sets of questions. The first group of questions pertains directly to the case, such as the culprit’s identity, motive, and the truth behind any loose ends. The second set of questions regards items that are only incidentally related to the case, but successfully answering these questions can further illuminate events and increase your final score. After you and your fellow investigators have decided on your answers to these questions, you may proceed to the solution, wherein Holmes discourses and explains the case in full, allowing you to see which aspects you correctly deduced and where you went wrong. Although it’s certainly difficult, you may even be able to solve the case by following fewer leads than Sherlock Holmes himself!

Crime Is Common. Logic Is Rare.
Enter the streets of Victorian London in Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective, a game that will test your logic and reasoning to their fullest extent. Can you oppose the crimes orchestrated behind the scenes by Professor Moriarty? Follow your leads, exercise your logic, and solve ten of the most difficult cases to ever enter 221B Baker Street. The game is afoot!

• A new standalone box for Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
• Cooperate with your friends to solve each case in a shared deductive experience
• An utterly unique game structure draws you into the world of Sherlock Holmes
• Contains ten cases, fully revised and retranslated from the Ystari version

Contents:
* Rules
* 1 map of London
* 10 casebooks
* 10 newspapers
* 1 London directory

1–8 Players
60–120 Min
Age: 10+

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Aspire to riches as a Renaissance jewel merchant!

Splendor is a fast, elegant, and intuitive game in which two to four players compete to build Renaissance Europe's most lucrative and prestigious jewelry business. You begin by collecting raw gems and use those to fund the development of mines throughout the world. Once you've mined more gemstones, you must acquire the means to transport them, artisans to shape them, and finally a storefront where you can sell your polished jewels. If you produce exactly the right jewelry, a powerful Noble may become your patron, but even then they won't just hand you victory: the player whose business earns the most prestige wins. Deceptively easy to learn, Splendor involves quick strategic thinking and produces intense interpersonal competiton!

The European Renaissance opened up more ways of becoming rich than the continent had ever known before. New frontiers were emerging throughout America, Africa, and Asia. Global trade routes became a reality. Nobles once content with large castles and fur robes now sought dark sapphires and glittering diamonds. Craftsmen ceased working with iron and began shaping gold; merchants turned their attention away from spices and towards gemstones.

Take on the role of a Renaissance merchant striving to become rich in Splendor, a fast, elegant, and intuitive game for two to four players. You begin by collecting raw gems, then use those to fund the development of mines throughout the world. Once you've mined more gemstones, you will need the means to transport them, artisans to shape them, and finally a storefront where you can sell your polished jewels. If you produce exactly the right jewelry, a powerful noble may become your patron. The player whose jewelry business earns the most prestige wins!

Lavish Gems
The game begins with a tableau of tokens, which represent gems, and development cards, which represent a range of investments, spread out before you. Each player has one action per turn. At first you have only two options. You can take three different-colored tokens or, as long as four tokens of a single color are available, two of same color.

Those tokens are then spent in purchasing or reserving development cards (purchasing or reserving a single development counts as an action). Each development card costs a number of gem tokens, but in return, it offers a bonus gem that you can keep and use repeatedly to pay for other development cards. Many also offer you the prestige points that you need to win.

Lucrative Developments
In the early stages of the game, you will want to focus on amassing the gems and bonuses that allow you to purchase more expensive cards. Level 1 cards, representing gemstone mines throughout the world, typically offer only a bonus, while a scattered few also grant you a single prestige point. Level 2 cards, which represent artisans and modes of transportation, offer both a bonus and prestige points. The most expensive and valuable of all are Level 3 cards, which represent the European storefront of your distinguished business.

In Splendor, competition is fierce. Other merchants want to own the same mines, fill the cargo holds of the same ships, employ the same artisans. Yet there is one way to prevent your opponents from acquiring the resources that you desire most. You can use your action to reserve a card, taking it from the middle of the table and placing a gold “joker” token on it. Whenever you can afford to pay the cost of the card you’ve reserved, you use an action to do so, and the gold token counts as any single gem towards that cost. You can also reserve a card from the deck without looking at it or revealing it to your competitors, if you want to have a secret investment up your sleeve.

Nobility and Prestige
All these gems, developments, and polished jewels are a means to earn prestige points: permanent renown that ensures your prosperity. Once one player has accumulated fifteen prestige points, the other players have one last chance to surprass that player. Whoever has the most prestige wins the game.

There is another way to get prestige beyond purchasing developments, however. If you can gather exactly the right jewels in the form of bonuses, a wealthy, powerful noble will come to patronize your business. It could be the shrewd, patriotic Anne of Brittany, the glamorous and just Queen Isabella of Castile, or even England’s Henry VIII, seeking an adornment for his newest wife. Nobles pay no attention to raw gems, nor to the amount of prestige that you already have, only to the polished jewels that specifically appeal to their discriminating tastes.

Earning a noble’s patronage does not require any action on your part whatsoever—one will simply come to you when you have the right jewels. Yet while nobles grant prestige, they do not ensure victory. They simply offer another means to get ahead in the hotly competitive European jewelry market.

Aspire to Great Wealth
The Renaissance is a time of unprecedented possibility. The New World is being explored and colonized. Ships are returning from as far away as India, Africa, and China full of exotic wares. Meanwhile, the people of Europe are richer than ever before, eager to show off their prosperity with just the right necklace, brooch, or ring. You, too, can aspire to great wealth… and even achieve it, with Splendor.

FEATURES:
• Limited actions and resource management.
• Challenging economic theme.
• Beautiful art.

Contents:
* 35 precious gem tokens
* 5 gold tokens
* 90 development cards
* 10 noble cards
* rules

Players: 2-4
From: 10 years
Gametime: 30 minutes

Rules.

For whom the duel tolls!

Confront your rival guild in a race for victory. Take Gems and Pearl from the common board, and gain royal favors and prestige!

2 Players
30 Min
Age: 10+

In T.I.M.E. Stories: Madame, the T.I.M.E. Agency sends Agents to 17th Century Versailles to infiltrate high society and test a new technology.

It is recommended to have already played at least one scenario before attempting the Madame scenario.

In The Marcy Case, the first expansion to the revolutionary T.I.M.E Stories system, you and your fellow T.I.M.E agents travel back to 1992 in search of a missing girl. You'll soon discover as you explore the streets of Rhineland, Wisconsin that there are far worse things happening in this small town than the kidnapping of a child. Developed by Sebastien Pauchon with Nicolas Normandon and featuring original artwork by Looky and Pascal Quidault, this combat-heavy sceanrio offers danger, action, and mystery unlike any version of the 1990s that you may have experienced before.

The Marcy Case contains:
* Rules
* 137 cards

TIME Stories: Base + Asylum is required to enjoy this expansion.

Something has gone wrong. The time stream has altered, and the Middle Ages aren't what they used to be. It's up to you to repair the temporal fault in A Prophecy of Dragons, the second expansion to T.I.M.E. Stories.

What will you find when you step into your caisson and go through with the Tachyon Insertion? The receptacles in A Prophecy of Dragons have been chosen for their involvement in the local guilds, and it's up to you to use their contacts to gather clues about the nature of the temporal fault. You'll also need to make good use of your receptacle's talents. Your mission isn't without a certain measure of peril. There are traps and foes that will fight you. Also, these Middle Ages aren't like those you would have studied in your history classes; they're permeated by magic, and that magic can be used against you.

Developed by Manuel Rozoy and Sébastian Pauchon, with art by Vincent Dutrait, A Prophecy of Dragons turns history on its head, reminding you that in T.I.M.E. Stories you can be anyone, anywhere, and at any time.

A Prophecy of Dragons contains:
* 209 cards

TIME Stories: Base + Asylum is required to enjoy this expansion.

Unlock! is a series of cooperative card-based escape adventures for up to six players. Each Unlock! game consists of sixty cards depicting objects, maps, and puzzles that can be activated, solved, or combined in an effort to access other cards and areas. The free companion app tracks the time allotted to win the game, while also offering hints and unlocking new, and necessary, elements. When the players believe they have figured out the code to escape each adventure, they will input the number into the app and escape the danger, or lose even more time in finding the real sequence.

The Tools to your Escape
Each Unlock! game begins with a starting card (or two), featuring an introduction to the adventure on one side and your initial location map on the other side. Across this first card will be a series of numbers, indicating which other cards you can access as soon as the clock begins counting down. In order to progress through the deck, you must examine the cards and figure out how they

Green machines and yellow codes are two card types you'll encounter that require some problem-solving. Machines feature an array of numbers associated with a visual, and determining which numbers are relevant will allow you to assign a value to the card and use it later on. To bypass a yellow cards, you will need to enter a four-digit code into the game app. Solving both codes and machines will require you to locate hidden information or recall clues provided on other cards. It is possible, then, that you will be faced with a code or machine that you cannot solve until the associated cards have been revealed.

In the deck, you will also come across object cards, both blue and red. In order to move on from these cards, you will have to combine them, adding together the card values in order to access another card in the deck. For example, combining a red card numbered 35 and a blue card numbered 11 will give you access to card 46—if it exists. Sometimes, you will also be able to combine these cards with solved machines and discovered modifiers. Many combinations will be possible throughout each game, but with tricks and traps all over the place, you may not always want to know what's on the other side of the card you've accessed.

Risk and Reward
Combining and solving cards is the only way to progress in the game, but it may not always work out in your favor. Incorrect code guesses and unfortunate card pairings will cause you to take penalties in the app, which will shave off remaining time and lower your final score. However, a bold choice may also be the one thing that gets you out of each sticky situation, so you'll need to keep a close eye on every hidden clue before making any risky moves.

Once you have cycled through the deck and think you have figured out the ultimate solution, you will have to enter a code into the app to see your score. Your rating will be determined by your use of hints, incorrect guesses, and the duration of your game. Every play of the game will get you closer and closer to that perfect run and a five-star score, so don't dismiss your defeats, for every mistake may be the key to your success the next time around!

In this Splendor-sized box, you’ll find one tutorial and three stand-alone adventures: The island of Dr. Goorse, Squeek & Sausage and The formula

Ages 10+
Players 1 - 6
60 minutes per adventure

Choose your adventure, read the first card of the deck and launch the app... Will you find the way out in less than an hour? Look for hidden clues, combine items, crack the codes and solve the puzzles! This will be the exciting second edition of the narrative and cooperative game "Unlock"!

There will be 3 new adventures with attractive themes: the pirates, the Nautilus and a haunted mansion.

• The Nautilus' Traps: Attack by a sea monster during a dive, you seek shelter by opening an old hatch in an old submarine. Find a way back to the surface!
• The House on the Hill: What's going on in this run down manor? Explore the sinister pieces and foil the curse that haunts this desolate place. About the same difficulty as Squeak and Sausage.
• The Tonipal's Treasure: Captain Smith hid his treasure on Tonipal Island. Unravel the mystery before Johnson, another treasure hunter, beats you to it! The most difficult of the three but still easier than Island of Doctor Goorse.

2–6 Players
45–75 Min
Age: 10+

Unlock! Secret Adventures features three new "escape room" scenarios that you can play on your tabletop.

Unlock! is a cooperative card game inspired by escape rooms that uses a simple system which allows you to search scenes, combine objects, and solve riddles. Play Unlock! to embark on great adventures, while seated at a table using only cards and a companion app that can provide clues, check codes, monitor time remaining, etc.

* A Noside Story: A new smoking plan by Professor Noside threatens the region. It's time to stop it!
* Tombstone Express: A train, a precious cargo and a mysterious plot in the Wild West!
* The Adventurers of the Land of Oz: Travel the land of Oz, challenge the witch of the West and return to Kansas!

Conquer puzzles and discover the secrets of the new challenges!

Unlock! Secret Adventures is an independent box.

Contents:
* 1 rulebook,
* 186 cards
* 10 card tutorial
* Board of tokens
* Map of the Land of Oz