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HOLIDAY CATALOG 2011

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TWO BY TWO / Valley Games $39.95VLY206

The Floodwaters are Rising! Move your ark around a steadily deteriorating landscape to find matching pairs of animals to bring aboard before your opponents raise the waters. There are six animals of every type, except for the unicorn, of which there are only two. Animals that are rare at the end of the game are worth more points. The game is for 2-4 players aged 8 and up and takes around 45 minutes to play. This game offers both the family and the seasoned gamer the opportunity to have a great deal of fun.

BEARS / Fireside Games $19.95FSG3001

No Lions, No Tigers, Just Lots of BEARS!

You and your friends are on a relaxing camping trip. But as you hammer in the last stake, you hear rustling. Bears are romping through the campsite! Who will survive the rampage? And who will be eaten by bears? Bears! is a fast-playing, competitive game for 2 to 4 players, ages 7 and up, in which you score points by pairing dice. Shoot bears and run from tents for a few points, or take a risk and score big by sleeping through the attack! But watch out! If Bears are left at the end of the round, your sleeping campers are done for!

CROWS / Valley Games $29.95VLY207

Nevermore! Crows are smart, but they have a weakness for shiny objects. You have a shiny object, but so do your friends. There are too many shiny objects demanding the crows’ attention! Players take turns placing tiles and then positioning their shiny objects to attract the most crows. Crows flock to the shiny objects based on simple rules. It is going to take some wits to attract the most crows! When the deck of tiles has been exhausted, the player who has scored the most points wins.

Crows is for 2-4 players, ages 10 and up.


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CASTLE PANIC / Fireside Games

Castle Panic is a unique, cooperative strategy game for 1 to 6 players ages 10 and up.

Players must work together to defend their castle, in the center of the board, from monsters that attack out of the forest, at the edges of the board. Players trade cards, hit and slay monsters, and plan strategies together to keep their castle towers intact. The players either win or lose together, but only the player with the most victory points is declared the Master Slayer.

Players must balance the survival of the group with their own desire to win.

$35.00 FSD1001

SUMMONER WARS Master Set Plaid Hat Games

Summoner Wars is the exciting card game of fantastic battlefield combat that puts you in the grandiose role of a Summoner. Strategy shapes the composition of each deck of cards and how they are used. Tactics determine the effectiveness of those cards in battle. The Summoner Wars Deluxe Set contains 6 different complete factions to choose from. Play as the Shadow Elves and conceal your plans in swirling darkness! Choose the Benders and confound your foe, turning his own troops against him! Command the Vargath, mountainous goatfolk who call lightning from the heavens! Select the nefarious Sand Goblins and delight in malicious trickery! Muster the Deep Dwarves and control the forces of Geomancy! Lead the ferocious Swamp Orcs to war and hack upon your foes as they are snared in your vines!

$49.95 SWMSPHGJoin the Neverending War!

THE WIZARD’S TOWER Game Expansion

$24.95 FSD1002

Monsters, Monsters, Everywhere!

The Wizard’s Tower is an expansion to Castle Panic for 1 to 6 players ages 12 and up.

A friendly Wizard has joined your forces and as long as his Tower stands, you and your friends have access to powerful magic spells.

And you’ll need them, for the Monsters have returned stronger, faster, smarter, and with new abilities to threaten the Castle. You’ll fight against magical imps, evasive flying creatures, and more. Make your stand against six new, dangerous Mega Boss Monsters, including the Dragon and Necromancer. Use fire to attack the Monsters, but beware, your Walls and Towers can be burned down as well!



Aim to become the greatest and most famous master builder of the Middle Ages. Employ master craftsmen, foremen, tradesmen and apprentices. Bid on building contracts and construct buildings with your workforce. Of course, your opponents have the same goal. So, a lively contest will develop for supremacy in the building trade. The winner will be the player who has the most money at the end of the game. Master Builder is a game for 2 to 4 players aged 10 and up and takes approximately 60 minutes to play. Designed by Wolfgang Kramer and Harmut Witt.

MASTER BUILDER / Valley Games$54.95 VLY204

Homesteaders is an auction and resource management game in which players bid on the right to build certain types of buildings, and then build their desired building of that type. Each round features an income phase, where players acquire resources, and an auction and building phase, in which players bid for available land, and then spend their resources to develop a building on that land. The game is played over 10 turns, made up of 3 stages.

Become a Homesteader with a new claim and help develop a Township into a thriving City! The player who contributes the most will be declared the winner and have the city named after them!

HOMESTEADERS 2nd Edition Tasty Minstrel Games$49.95 TTT1002

The latest release from the designer of Dominion! In Kingdom Builder, the players create their own kingdoms by skillfully building their settlements, aiming to earn the most gold at the end of the game. Build an engine to control more tiles, which give access to more abilities -- which help you earn more gold! Each game, players will use a random set of Kingdom Builder cards (3 of the total of 10 cards), special actions (4 of possible 8), and terrain sectors to build the map (4 of 8 tiles), ensuring you won’t play the same game twice! This game is for 2-4 players, ages 10 and up.

KINGDOM BUILDER Queen Games

$59.95 QNG60833



25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition!

Crack your code first! You can see your opponents’ codes but not your own. Using questions and logic, try to deduce which three numbers are hidden in front of you. Once you’re reasonably sure, then you can take a guess. But if you’re wrong, you have to start over with a fresh set of tiles. 2-5 players

CODE 777 / Stronghold Games$34.95 SG1001

The ceiling in the cathedral is getting on a bit and is in urgent need of restoration. The bishop is awaiting important visitors and wants to show off his church from its best side. The players slip into the role of the fresco painters in this colourful family game and have to prove their abilities. But only the player who plans cleverly can win! This fascinating game already contains 3 expansion modules which can be combined with the basic game in any desired manner to influence the scope of the game. Elaborately structured game cards, additional coloured pieces and lots of bonus counters provide even more excitement! Fresco is for 2-4 players, ages 10 and up.

FRESCO / Queen Games

$62.95 QNG60592

Being a show manager you engage a cast for your production. Celebrate your big triumphs or suffer your worst crashes. The best performances grant the most victory points, but competition is fierce in showbiz! Curtain up for the opening night!! The players put together four shows in any order: Queenie, Wolf, King Lear, and Ballet. To accomplish this, players draft actor cards from a constantly changing queue of cards. Each card represents actors of varying skills at roles. Once a player puts together all the needed roles for a show, the value is judged against all the other productions of that type, with points given relative to the other productions. A card game for ages 10 and up.

SHOW MANAGER / Queen Games

$62.95 QNG60601



Urs Hostettler’s party game of creating some “thing” is now being printed in English. Originally released as Ein Solches Ding, this game has been a HUGE success in Germany. Such A Thing is a game where players have to think of a thing that fits a number of given characteristics. It’s made of metal, could be used to catch mice, and is talked about at parties. Is there Such a Thing?

With each new card, you must think of a new thing that fits all the cards. It has hair but no teeth, needs fuel, and is essentially flat. There’s no way there is Such a Thing!

The first player to empty their hand and name Such a Thing wins the game.

SUCH A THING / Valley Games $19.95VLY601

The Game of Impractical Functionality. It all starts with a simple push… The Impossible Machine is the game where players build ridiculously complicated contraptions to do simple things. Why turn on the tv, when you can have the bowling ball hit a pin, to pull a string, to let the marble loose!? Players earn points by getting their parts, with the right type of momentum, into the machine as they work together to build ever bigger and better machines. Play with 2-4 players. This game is for ages 6 to adult.

THE IMPOSSIBLE MACHINE Sandstorm Productions

$14.95 GLW40110

JAB is a 2 player strategic boxing game for ages 10 and up and isn’t like anything you’ve played before. In JAB, you get direct control over your boxer’s fists, providing an experience as close as possible to real boxing without getting punched in the face. JAB is real-time. There are no turns. You can play as fast as you want, but remember: playing smart is more important than playing fast. Finally, you can beat up your friends and family, without the annoying assault charges and anger management classes!

JAB / Tasty Minstrel Games

GET READY TO RUMBLE!

$19.95 TTT3001



REINDEER GAMES / Steve Jackson Games$4.95 SJG4220

Naughty or Nice? Doesn’t Matter! Whether your Munchkin players have been good (not likely!) or very, very bad, they’ll love the new Christmas booster for Munchkin! Like the first two, Waiting for Santa and Santa’s Revenge, it’s got 15 Christmas-themed cards at a stocking-stuffer price. Play with 3 to 6 people, ages 10 and up.

MUNCHKIN DELUXE Steve Jackson Games

$29.99 SJG1483

What makes this edition “deluxe”? It’s got a big gameboard to keep your cards in place, and six colored pawns that you move on the gameboard as you level up! Plus a card to go with each pawn, to make it easy to remember who is what color and whose sex has changed! Go down in the dungeon. Kill everything you meet. Backstab your friends and steal their stuff. Grab the treasure and run. Admit it. You love it. Fast-playing and silly, Munchkin can reduce any roleplaying group to hysteria. And, while they’re laughing, you can steal their stuff.

MUNCHKIN AXE COP Steve Jackson Games

$24.95 SJG4401

Axe Cop is a cop. With an axe. And he knows how to use it.

Axe Cop is the hit webcomic written by Malachai Nicolle (age 5) and drawn by his brother Ethan (age 29). Along with his friends Dinosaur Soldier and Sockarang, Axe Cop fights crime . . . by fighting the bad guys and CHOPPING THEIR HEADS OFF. Fans know Axe Cop . . . it’s a webcomic (www.axecop.com) and a comic book series from Dark Horse. There’s only one game that can match the anything-goes feeling of Axe Cop: MUNCHKIN! Chop the bad guys’ heads off and TAKE THEIR STUFF!

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ALHAMBRA / Queen Games$39.95 QNG60267

NEW YORK / Queen Games$54.94 QNG09022

New York in the early 1930s – the city is in the middle of a construction boom. Skyscrapers are shooting out of the ground like mushrooms. As a player, you get involved in all the planning and building work as you help to create a fascinating metropolis bit by bit!

The easy-to-learn playing mechanism of this independent game is based on “Alhambra“, the Game of the Year 2003 by multiple award-winning bestseller game designer Dirk Henn. Play with 2-6 people, ages 8 and up.

The game is set in Granada at the beginning of the 13th century. Work has started on building the ALHAMBRA. The best master builders in the whole of Europe and Arabia want to demonstrate their skills. Employ the most suitable teams of Builders and make sure that you always have enough of the right currency.

Because no matter whether they are stonemasons from the north or horticulturists from the south - they all want a proper wage and insist on their “native” currency. Compete against your opponents to build the ALHAMBRA.

ALHAMBRA is for 2-6 people, ages 8 and up.



Resist the Corrupt Goverment...

The Resistance is a very intense social deduction game for 5-10 players. While it shares similiarities with games like Werewolf, Mafia and even Battlestar Galactica it has many very unique features such as a quick 30 minute play time, no moderator required and no player elimination.

Set in the near future, The Resistance pits a small group of resistance fighters against a powerful and corrupt government. The resistance has launched a series of bold and daring missions to bring the governement to its knees. Unfortunately spies have infiltrated the resistance ranks, ready to sabotage the carefully crafted plans. Even a single spy can take down a resistance mission team, choose your teams carefully or forever lose your chance for freedom.

THE RESISTANCE / Indie Board & Cards$19.95 RES1IBC

Secret conspiracies are everywhere, and where can you find the only truth? Certainly not in the game of Illuminati. Fnord. By popular demand, Deluxe Illuminati (not to be confused with the trading-card version, INWO) is back in print! This current edition features full-color cards and improved money chits... but it’s the same game you know and fear, of secret conspiracies battling for world control.

This great game is for ages 13 to adult and for 2 to 6 players.

DELUXE ILLUMINATI / Steve Jackson Games$34.95 SJG1305

They’re all around us.

DUNGEON RUN / Plaid Hat Games

A tale of teamwork and betrayal. The mole ogre howled out as it collapsed into a bloody pile of rent flesh and broken bone. The aging knight bent over, panting heavily, and gave his dwarven peer an approving nod. It had taken great effort between them both to slay the beast, and they had each taken their share of wounds. But in the end their cooperation had paid off and they both knew it. And then their eyes found the treasure chest sitting in the corner of the room. They looked at each other. They looked back at the treasure… and then the real fight began. The game where YOU are the final boss! Dungeon Run is for 1-4 players, ages 9 and up.

$49.95 DR01PHG

Escape with the Fabled Summoning Stone.



It’s Hard to Find...

Congratulations! You have just finished your evil doctorate. Now it’s time for you to return to a castle on the outskirts of the town where your grew up - to begin your tyranny in the name of revenge. The townsfolk are about to feel the wrath of the monster you are about to create... Good Help is for 3-6 players ages 12 and up. Game play typically lasts 90 minutes.

GOOD HELP / Baksha Games$49.95 BAK001

Black Stories are fiddly, morbid and mysterious riddles for teenagers and adults. The players try to reconstruct the crime by asking, guessing and fiddling about. It’s a spooky card game just right for any party. Movie Edition now available!

In the Movie Edition, players ask their host questions about a murder mystery in order to solve the mystery. The mysteries come from well known films.

Play with 2-15 people, ages 14 and up.

BLACK STORIES / Kikigagne $14.95 BLSM1EKIK BLS1EKIK $14.95

Game Expansion

This is not a complete game, it requires “Good Help” in order to play. Get special abilities for your evil doctors! Build an angry mob to harass your monsters! Can you control the mob?

EVIL DOCTORS and an ANGRY MOB Baksha Games$9.95 BAK002



Eat More Brains!

Eat brains. Don’t get shotgunned. You are a zombie. You want brains. More brains than any of your zombie buddies. Zombie Dice is a quick and easy game for gamers and non-gamers alike. The 13 custom dice represent victims. Push your luck to eat their brains, but stop rolling before the shotgun blasts end your turn! Zombie Dice is a dice game for 3 to 8 players. Each game takes 10 to 20 minutes, and can be taught in a single round. Related Products: Zombies in a restaurant? Try Lord of the Fries! For dice game lovers, check out Cthulhu Dice.

ZOMBIE DICE / Steve Jackson Games$13.13 SJG131313

The space civilization building game you have been waiting for. Each player starts with the same deck of cards and every turn chooses a Role card to execute. After adding that Role card to their deck, their civilization gets better at it. You choose the direction and methods of your empire!

The immersive artwork, quick game play, and multiple strategies will keep your coming back for more. More importantly, your customers will repeatedly thank you for recommending Eminent Domain!

EMINENT DOMAIN Tasty Minstrel Games

$39.95 TTT1005

BUILD A THRIVING CIVILIZATION - IN UNDER AN HOUR!

Collect goods, assign workers to build cities and erect monuments, advance your civilization through cultural and scientific developments, but don’t forget to harvest enough food to feed your growing population.

This game is perfect for those who appreciate high quality components, medium-weight strategy and the chance to build through the Bronze Age.

Grab those dice and Roll Through the Ages in this addictive and strategic new civilization game!

ROLL THROUGH THE AGES / Gryphon Games$34.99 FDD101119

BUILD YOUR EMPIRE!



GOLD MINE / Stratus Games

Gold Mine is a unique tile-laying game in which 2-6 players, ages 8 and up, build a maze of mine tunnels and control miners that traverse the mine collecting gold nuggets. Players race to be the first to collect enough gold to exit the mine and stake a claim. It may sound easy, but the greedy miners have several tricks up their sleeves in order to gain an advantage - including sneaking through secret passages, fighting for gold, and scaring away other miners with bats.

With a different tile game every time, a great balance of luck and strategy, and the addition of optional rules, this game is bound to be a family favorite for years to come!

The Game of Exploration, Riches & Peril

$32.95 STT4653

Train of Thought is a party word game. Players take turns trying to get opponents to guess a particular word, giving only a 3 word clue – and one of those words must be from a prior answer! For each clue given, each player may make 1 guess. If none are correct, the clue-giver creates another clue, using one of the guesses and up to 2 other words. When the word is correctly guessed, the guessing player and the clue giver each get one point, and the clue giver draws a new card and continues making clues. Get as many as you can in 2 minutes!

Train of Thought can be played as a partnership or team game as well – guess as many words as you can in 2 minutes, see if the other team can beat that!

All Aboard! This party game challenges you to stay on track. Score points by giving clues and making guesses as you and your friends ride the Train of Thought! Play with 2 to 7 people, ages 10 and up.

TRAIN OF THOUGHT / Tasty Minstrel Games $19.95 TTT7001

The game begins with a single town tile in play. Players place tiles from their hands to create the board. Networks with new towns are created. With these towns come new goods that need to be delivered. Each tile a player places also generates steam for moving their train. When the time is right, players move their trains to pick up and deliver goods from town to town. But of course it is not that easy since hills require extra steam to cross and speeding around a curve may cause your train to derail! A different track layout and goods distribution each time challenge players to build efficient networks and carefully manage their steam in this fast paced train game. Days of Steam is for 2-4 players ages 12 and up and takes 30-45 minutes to play.

DAYS OF STEAM / Valley Games $49.95 VLY205



SPARTA / Queen Games$32.95 QNG60893

A game by Yannick Holtkamp for 2 players aged 10 years and up

Battle of the Spartans! This strategic game, set in 228 B.C., brings you the fascinating experience of skillfull Spartan and Achaeans warriors.Will Sparta seize power or will the Achaeans maintain their stance?

The 14 years young designer Yannick Holtkamp developed this strategic game at the age of 12. Still at school, he is en-rolled as a science student at the University of Dusseldorf.

A World of Beautiful Colors comes alive as players choose commission cards picturing 34 of the finest European art works of the past six centuries. Players score their commissions by mixing primary colors through clever tile placement, and recreating the palette of colors used by the masters who created these works. Explore the paintings, palettes and pasts of the artists in this unique and challenging game for the whole family. While placing hexagonal pieces to gain palette (color) cards, players become familiar with the different color combinations that produce the many hues of an artist’s palette... all listed on the Player Reference Card. Players also learn to recognize many great artists and their works as they complete commissions.

PASTICHE / Gryphon Games $49.99 FDD101279



FLASH POINT / Indie Board$39.99 IBCFPF1IBC

ERUPTION / Stratus Games$44.95 STT3787

A cooperative game of fire rescue. The call comes in... “911, what is your emergency?” On the other end is a panicked response of “FIRE!” Moments later you don the protective suits that will keep you alive, gather your equipment and rush to the scene of a blazing inferno. The team has only seconds to assess the situation and devise a plan of attack - then you spring into action like the trained professionals that you are. You must face your fears, never give up, and above all else work as a team because the fire is raging, the building is threatening to collapse and lives are in danger. You must succeed. You are the brave men and women of fire rescue, people are depending on you. This is what you do every day. Flash Point: Fire Rescue is a cooperative game. All the players are on the same team and everyone either wins or loses together. To win, the players must rescue the victims trapped inside a burning building before it collapses.

The inhabitants of the villages surrounding a dormant volcano were happily living in peace until — KABOOM! — the old volcano sprung back to life, unleashing rivers of molten lava in every direction and blasting volcanic rock into the sky. The villages, now faced with destruction, must do whatever they can to protect their homes from the incoming surge of lava. Your village is about to burn up — can you take the heat?

Confusion takes players back to the early 1960s and the Cold War between the United States and the USSR. Each player takes on the role of their selected nation’s spy agency: the CIA or the KGB. At the start of a game of Confusion, players aren’t aware of the talents and skills their spies possess! Your opponent can see what your spies can do, but you cannot. Your job as a wise leader is to first deduce exactly how each of your spies move, then employ your knowledge by using each spy for maximum effect. But be on alert, because your opponent has placed a double-agent in your team of spies! The first player to take the Top Secret Briefcase from the middle of the board and deliver it to his opponent’s side of the board is the winner.

CONFUSION / Stronghold Games$59.95 SG2001



The ONE RING / Cubicle 7

Smaug has been defeated, the Battle of Five Armies has been won, and Bilbo has returned to the Shire. The War of the Rings is still a generation away. In the relative peace, the Free People of the Wilderland look beyond their borders for the first time, establishing trade routes, renewing bonds between their cultures, and bringing prosperity to the region of northern Mirkwood, the Lonely Mountain, and the eastern slopes of the Misty Mountains. But much danger still remains, and from the Orc-holds of the mountains to the dark and corrupt depths of Mirkwood a darkness waits, recovering its strength, laying its plans, and slowly extending its shadow .

$59.99 CB71000

• The new role playing game based on The Lord of the Rings—the most influential property in fantasy • Set after the events of The Hobbit; future core game releases will expand the game to the era of the War of the Ring • Two core books in premium slipcover: Loremaster’s Guide for GMs and Adventurer’s Handbook for players. Slipcase with 2-book set, poster map, and 7 dice. Books softcover, 8.5” x 11”, full color, 300 pages

The Lord of the Rings™ RPG!

BATTLETECH Catalyst Game Labs

25th Anniversary Edition! This product contains all the info and materials needed to play BattleTech. This is the 2008 Origins Award Winning game, with updated packaging and content to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the BattleTech game line.

$59.95 CAT3500A2

• 24 plastic miniatures representing core BattleMechs

• One 12-page full-color quick-start rulebook

• 36-page book of pre-generated BattleMech Record Sheets

• One 80-page full-color rulebook

• Inner Sphere at a Glance, a 56-page full-color book of universe background

and BattleMech technical data

• One 16-page full-color Painting and Tactics Guide

• Two heavy-duty cards of compiled tables

• Two 18” x 24” game-board quality maps



Outpost™ takes place on the most distant planet in the known Universe. Each player takes on the role of a Colony Commander as they manage resources and build colony upgrades to construct the greatest Outpost on this remote world. As the Commander, your mission is to build and expand your colony to its fullest. You will purchase new factories, such as Titanium and Microbiotics, operating each of these with either Humans or Robots. You will also compete via bidding to acquire colony upgrades, such as Orbital Labs and Planetary Cruisers, making your colony more efficient and successful. Your success, as well as the success of all the other Commanders on the planet, will be judged based on how large and efficient your colony becomes. The Commander that builds the greatest colony gains the title of Outpost Director and wins! Outpost™ is a reprint of the highly sought-after “grail game” originally published in 1991. Stronghold Games’ edition of this great game contains vastly upgraded components plus the never-before released “Kicker Expansion” designed

OUTPOST / Stronghold Games$59.95 SG2003

The ancient Galactic Realm, ruled from the Core Worlds of the galaxy, is waning. Now, the barbaric kingdoms that lie beyond the galactic frontier are amassing their strength, choosing this pivotal moment to strike at the heart of the fading republic, establishing new empires built upon the ashes of decaying civilizations. But that is just the beginning. Core Worlds is a deck-building card game for 2-5 players. Each player controls a barbarian Star Empire represented by many cards. Throughout the game, players will invade Worlds and draft new Units and Tactics into their Empires. Each card lists its Empire Points in the upper right corner. The player whose Empire contains the most Empire Points at the end of the game is the winner!

CORE WORLDS / Stronghold Games$44.95 SG1002

Normandy, June 6th, 1944. As you land on the well defended beaches, a German machine gun nest is killing your comrades like flies... You must do something! In D-Day Dice, players are Allied soldiers trying to organize improvised units for an attack against the machine gun nest. Each player starts the game with a unit of a few soldiers and nothing else. As the game progresses, he will collect resources and advance on the beach, sector by sector, as his unit grows stronger and deadlier. He will succeed... or die trying. D-Day Dice is a multiplayer co-op game for 2-4 players, where all players play their turn simultaneously and must help each other in order to stay alive. It also includes solitaire optional rules. Although built around dice rolling, this game is about resource management (soldiers, specialists, items and courage) and knowing when to move your unit. Resources are kept from turn to turn, so the players can plan ahead.

D DAY DICE / Valley Games $39.95 VLY403

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