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Banishing

Banishment teleports you to another planet and ends your turn. In combat, the winner decides where you are banished. When trapped, you are banished to your home planet. (Return any controlled envelope to the box).

Defenses

Defenses cancel the effects of specific cards on your opponent's side. When you play a defense in combat, it cancels any cards your opponent already played, as well as any cards they play later on in the same combat.

Scrying

Scrying means privately peeking inside a hand or planet. You may not take any of the cards you see. Ignore flip cards you discover while scrying. …

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  11 - Carrying Pole

  The player immediately gets 1 Thaler.

  
  
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  12 - Barn

  The player adds this additional building to his player board. With this building, the player can store 1 unit of wood, food or coal. If the resource stored during the winter storage phase is a food, the player gains 2 victory points.

  
  
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  13 - Pickaxe

  The player obtains the tile with the improved farmhand. The improved farmhand can do the same as the farmhand but the improved farmhand can also obtain development tiles, just like the farmer. …

You are a pastry chef in charge of putting delicious fillings in a variety of cakes, pastries, and baked goods.

By coming to work early and making use of your full pantry of supplies, you will earn money, customer reviews, and critical acclaim. With a little luck, you might win out over your rivals and be crowned Star Baker!

Components

• 50 standard recipe cards
• 10 advanced recipe cards
• 18 chef cards
• 6 reference cards
• 6 turn order cards
• Instructions

Setup

Supply the Chefs: Give each player a set of 3 chef cards and a reference card, all with a matching border color. Place any extras back in the box. …

Whether you're in it for wealth or for fame, this is where your quest begins! Rogue archaeology means getting to the bottom of shipwrecks, ancient ruins, forgotten tombs, and forbidden temples to look for the artifacts which will bring you the most fortune and glory. So grab your hat and leather coat-it's time to raid some tombs!

Your goal is to collect Artifacts worth the most points. You'll place your pawns on Treasure Sites to claim Artifacts (gems). The value of those Artifacts is hidden until the end of the game, but as you play you'll get hints about which locations may yield the best Artifacts. …

Components

• 1 trading post by the waterfall
• 44 diamond-shaped landscape tiles
• 11 triangle-shaped landscape tiles
• 96 various round landscape markers
• 90 various square markers
• 20 wooden timbers
• 1 die
• 1 ice block
• 4 prospectors
• 4 inventory sheets
• 4 price and cost lists
• Instructions

Object of the Game

All prospectors start at the same small Trading Post. Little by little, they explore the unfamiliar landscape on the far side of the cliff and waterfall.

When they discover promising sites, they build canals and mines in order to dig for gold. The works can be used by all diggers. …

In Masters Gallery, the players are art critics and gallery owners. All have their own favorite artist in this pantheon of greats - or at least they do until the game begins. Tastes and opinions about each artist's value change constantly in the world of Old Masters art.

No one has more influence on those values than the players in this game. Which player will exert the most influence? Who will best anticipate these changing tastes and opinions, and thus assemble the highest-valued collection of these masterpieces? …

Gift Wrapper

Gives 1 to your Vault (from the Supply) whenever a bot passes through it

Bots don't stop when passing through the Gift Wrapper

Upgrader

Upgrades a bot to the next model up.

When a bot enters the input hole, that bot is immediately replaced with the next more valuable model, placed into the output hole. A turns into a , and a turns into a . (A is just placed as-is in the output hole).

At the start of the next workday, the bot in the output hole will leave the improvement. …

Components

• Game Board
• Dice Bowl
• 7 Letter Dice + 1 Blank Joker Die
• 19 Category Discs
• 8 Pawns
• 8 Color Tokens
• Instruction

Object of the Game

Everyone plays against each other simultaneously, trying to be the first to move their pawn on the game board and all the way to the finish space. The player who reaches it first wins the game!

Setup

1. Carefully remove the category tiles and color tokens from the game board. (The arrow removed from the game board is not used in the game and can be thrown away). …

Components

• 1 Market Board
• 5 Food Court Dashboards
• 100 Food Stall Cards
• 10 Culture Cards
• 20 Flyer Tokens
• 1 10-sided Die
• 5 Special Chef Cards
• 20 Popularity Tokens
• 10 3-Coin Tokens
• 1 First Player Token
• 40 1-Coin Tokens
• 15 Player Markers
• Instructions

Setup

1. Place the Market Board in the center of the table. The board has two sides, so use the side matching how many players you have. (Either 2/3 players or 4/5 players).

2. Each player takes: 1 Food Court Dashboard and the 3 Player Markers of the same color. Place 1 Player Marker on the initial space of the Popularity Track on the Market board. …

The Inca called their empire "Tahuantinsuyu" which is their word for "Land of the Four Regions". In this game, you assume the role of an "Apu" - a leader of one of the four regions or "Suyus".

Your job as an Apu is to increase your status in the eyes of the divine emperor ("Sapa Inca") by doing the best job of expanding and improving the empire. Each Apu begins with the manpower of their region of the original empire. …