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Solo Variants

The Solo Robot Variant gives the player competition and adds randomness to the burning of the Library. Thus, the end of the game is not completely in your control, much like it is in the multiplayer game.

The Lone Librarian Variant does not use a Robot; it's up to you to save as many books as you can in the given number of turns.

For either Solo Variant, follow the Setup as normal.

In the first round, the player can choose any of the Turn Order Cards. …

In Cartographers, players compete to earn the most reputation stars by the time four seasons have passed.

Each season, players draw on their map sheets and earn reputation by carrying out the queen's edicts before the season is over. The player with the most reputation stars at the end of winter wins!

Components

• 100 Map Sheets
• 13 Explore Cards
• 16 Scoring Cards
• 4 Ambush Cards
• 4 Season Cards
• 4 Edict Cards
• 4 Pencils
• Instructions

Setup

1. Give each player a blank map sheet. Players collectively decide whether to use the wilderness side (A) or the wastelands side (B). …

Letter Jam is a cooperative game for 2 to 6 players. In each round, every player has a letter that everyone else can see. But no one can see their own letter!

Players try to find words that can be made with the letters they see. The player with the best clue spells it by marking the letters with numbered tokens. Your letter's position in the clue helps you guess what it might be.

Then you can move on to a new one! Guess them all before clues run out, and unscramble your hidden word. …

During the Ming dynasty, two princesses are kept in the Forbidden City of Beijing. Princess Jing and her sister Fang are promised to two aged allies of the Emperor, and have been prohibited to see any other men.

Ignoring the ban, they confide in two captains of the Imperial Guard and two idylls begin through the screens of their suite. Determined to win their freedom, they run away through the chamber of screens despite the vigilance of the magic mirror holders. …

You're living the dream! You are in a band and about to go on tour! It's your job to schedule the band's stops over the 100-day tour, visiting as many states as possible.

Components

• 4 Player maps
• 4 dry erase markers
• 1 Rulebook
• 41 Cards
• 2 Ten-sided dice
• Instructions

Game Elements

Regions

Your map is divided into 5 regions: North & South / East, Central, & West.

The 5 regions combine to form 6 individual areas: Northwest, North-Central, Northeast, Southwest, South-Central, and Southeast.

Each state resides in the intersection of two regions. (i.e. New Mexico is in the South & West regions). …

Components

• 1 Game Board
• 16 Share Certificates
• 95 Locomotives
• 5 Railway Dividend disks
• 30 Dividend cubes
• 1 Bag
• 70 Currency cards
• Instructions

Setup

1. Place the Game Board in the center of the table.

2. Separate the Share Certificates into their matching colors. Arrange the Shares so they ascend from the highest-valued Certificate on the bottom to the lowest-valued on the top.

3. Place the Share Certificates next to their corresponding positions on the edge of the board.

4. Place the matching Locomotives next to their corresponding Share Certificates.

5. Place the 5 Railway Dividend disks next to the Dividends Per Share box. …

Components

• 300 advice cards
• 100 to-do lists
• 8 wooden pawns
• 1 advice die
• 1 game board

Object of the Game

Score the most points by giving the best, funniest, and/or most appropriate advice to other players to help them accomplish their specific chosen activities.

Setup

1. Place the game board and advice die in the middle of the playing area.

2. Each player chooses a pawn and places it on the Start space on the board.

3. Shuffle the To-Do lists and stack 20-30 of them face down in the designated "To-Do list" space on the board. Place the rest back in the box. …

Feed The Woozle is a great way for young kids to learn body awareness, fine motor skills, dexterity, gross motor skills, and counting-all while having fun!

In addition, children practice rolling a die, spinning a spinner, taking turns, and working cooperatively. The game has three levels of play with specific rules designed for age and developmental capability. As a child grows, she moves to the next level of play, adding challenges at each age and level.

Feed The Woozle is a cooperative game. All Peaceable Kingdom Preschool Skills-Builder Games are cooperative. That means all players play together against a common obstacle, not against each other. …

Components

• 72 diamond-shaped tiles
• 45 challenge chips
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Score the most points over three rounds by quickly arranging your tiles to form patterns that match a series of challenge chips.

Setup

Shuffle and deal each player a stack of 12 tiles. Note that each tile has a mix of four colors and six numbers in the corners.

Turn all the challenge chips face down and mix them. Then place three chips per player face-up in the center of the playing area. (Stack the rest off to the side for future rounds). …

Components

• 2-Piece Base
• 2 Palm Trees with Toucan Lever and Vine String
• Orangutan
• 14 Hanging Game Pieces
• Die
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Carefully hang fruit and jungle friends on the Orangutan without making him go twaaang!

Setup

• Assemble the game base and trees as shown

• Pull the Toucan Lever up until it clicks.

• Remove the Orangutan from the box window and hang him from the string that connects the trees.

• Place all of the game pieces in the base and set the die out on the playing area. …