THIS SCHEDULE IS NOT FINAL! WE’RE IN THE PROCESS OF UPLOADING THE FINAL SUBMISSIONS AND FITTING THEM IN - THINGS MAY CHANGE! Game signups will open on Sunday September 20th at 2 pm. Tickets purchased on Zeffy will be uploaded daily in the evening, and we’ll announce in the Discord when that has happened. You’ll also get an automated email from Sched when your ticket has been uploaded, with instructions on how to log in.
A curse has been placed on the Valley of Life. Hearing the spirits of nature cry out for aid, clans of druids have arrived, determined to use their blessings to heal the land and rescue the spirits. It will require courage and also caution, as the curse can overwhelm the careless who wield too much power.
In Mystic Vale, 2 to 4 players take on the role of druidic clans trying to cleanse the curse upon the land. Each turn, you play cards into your field to gain powerful advancements and useful vale cards. Use your power wisely, or decay will end your turn prematurely. Score the most victory points to win the game!
Mystic Vale uses the innovative "Card Crafting System", which lets you not only build your deck, but build the individual cards in your deck, customizing each card's abilities to exactly the strategy you want to follow.
Race across the universe as a Frollik on a mission: find the galaxy's most jaw-dropping hidden gem tourist destinations before anyone else does.
For a Frollik, it's not just about the destination — it's about being the first one to plant their antenna there. Pack your bags and join this raucous race across the space!
Welcome ashore! Merchants Cove is a highly asymmetrical eurogame where each player assumes the role of a different fantasy merchant with a unique shop. The merchants contend to sell their goods to the arriving adventurers at the cove’s piers—the most famous markets in the Five Realms. Each player uses their own set of role-specific components and gameplay mechanisms to produce their goods, increase their shop’s efficiency, and—most importantly—get rich!
Though the merchants work independently in their specialized shops, they compete against each other to attract customers, influence the demands for goods, and secure sponsorships from the four faction halls. To get an edge, merchants can employ local townsfolk to work in their shops as staff. Or if they dare to cut corners, they can gain leverage from the corrupt lair of rogues—but at what cost? After three days of selling at the markets, the wealthiest merchant shall be declared the winner!
"For once, Zeus, Greek god of thunder and sky, is in high spirits. Hence, he decides to offer a generous gift to a worthy mortal and invite him, or her, to his realm, to Olympus. To determine a sufficient candidate, Zeus hosts a competition for his entertainment. Twelve legendary tasks are imposed upon the fearless participants: to erect graceful statues, to raise awe-inspiring sanctuaries, to offer capacious offerings, and to slay the most fearsome monsters. The first participant to master all the posed assignments wins the favor of the father of the gods himself.
Indubitably, you will not pass up this golden opportunity, so you clear your ship and rally your crew to follow on the trails of legendary Odysseus through the dangerous waters of the Aegean. But how could you find the righteous path onward? There is but one who can help you. Visit the mysterious oracle of Delphi and let her answers guide your ways.
In Stefan Feld's new game The Oracle of Delphi, the player's ships travel across a large variable game board of hexagonal tiles showing islands and the surrounding waters. Each player aims to reach certain islands to perform the twelve tasks given by Zeus: e.g., to collect offerings of different colors and to deliver them to corresponding temples, or to slay monsters of a specific type (and color), all of which can be discovered on the islands.
In order to execute these color-dependent actions, you are given three colored dice each turn, the so-called "oracle dice". Rolling the dice (at the start of the turn) is equivalent to consulting the oracle, whereas the results represent her answers. The answers determine which actions you will be able to take, but you will always have three actions per turn. However, a slight divergence from your fate is often possible.
In addition to the oracle, you can request support from the gods and you can acquire favor tokens, companions, and other special abilities that will help you win the race against othe
The game is played over eight rounds. You start each round by drafting your tiles from the sets available in the common pool, then you place your routes in front of you, trying to make as many connections as possible; be careful not to lock yourself in with choices that are too constraining. Each round, you can also place cars, trains, or travelers to populate the tiny little landscape you're creating - as long as you have free space on your tiles. The available actions change from round to round, so you need to prepare in advance!
The King's Guild is a worker placement style game where players compete to hire workers, build their guildhall, and collect resources to complete quests.
You are bird enthusiasts—researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, and collectors—seeking to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves. Each bird extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your habitats (actions). These habitats focus on several key aspects of growth:
Gain food tokens via custom dice in a birdfeeder dice tower Lay eggs using egg miniatures in a variety of colors Draw from hundreds of unique bird cards and play them The winner is the player with the most points after 4 rounds.
In Lorenzo il Magnifico, each player takes the role of the head of a noble family in a city during the Italian Renaissance to gain more prestige and fame — that is, victory points (VP) — than anyone else. To do so, you send your family members to different areas of town, where they can obtain many achievements. In one location, they get useful resources; in another development cards that represent newly conquered territories, sponsored buildings, influenced characters, or encouraged ventures; and somewhere else they activate the effects of their cards.
The guilds have assembled in the mythical town of Buttonville. The larger the group, the better their reward, so gather well and put them to work at just the right time. In this game, you’ll draft cards from a central display, forming sets in your hand, then playing them to your personal tableau. Each character provides a different bonus and bigger sets provide better rewards. But you’ll need to watch your hand limit, so timing is a key element.
This event includes a full explanation of the rules, and the complexity is low, so all players are welcome. Learning and playing the game should take about 60 minutes.
The Quick Play Zone features games that are easy to learn, play in less than an hour, and have fun friendly themes. If you’re interested in this game but the scheduled event is full, stop by any time during the weekend and I’ll set it up for you!
I love playing games, talking about games, teaching games, and I especially love introducing new folks to this awesome hobby. You can find me on BoardGameGeek.com as user MikeTuna. While you're there, be sure to join the Tucson Guild at http://boardgamegeek.com/guild/214.
Take your place at the starting line with this award winning dexterity racing game for 1-6 players. Featuring characterful and wacky miniatures, Dodos Riding Dinos is a fun game for all the family. Flick eggs, throw bananas, drop meteorites, roll logs, toss the feather and dash with the Dodo token to win the race!
Waterdeep, the City of Splendors – the most resplendent jewel in the Forgotten Realms, and a den of political intrigue and shady back-alley dealings.
In Lords of Waterdeep, a strategy board game for 2-5 players, you take on the role of one of the masked Lords of Waterdeep, secret rulers of the city. Through your agents, you recruit adventurers to go on quests on your behalf, earning rewards and increasing your influence over the city. Expand the city by purchasing new buildings that open up new actions on the board, and hinder – or help – the other lords by playing intrigue cards to enact your carefully laid plans.
During the course of play, you may gain points or resources by completing quests, constructing buildings, playing intrigue cards, or having other players use the buildings you have constructed. After eight rounds, the player with the most points wins.
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!
A spinoff of the engine-building game Wingspan, Wyrmspan is a fun new take on this system using dragons. Explore, excavate, and entice dragons to come and live in your caverns. Although similar it follows unique mechanisms that differ from Wingspan.
Venture into the frozen wilderness beyond Scythe in this card-driven game of exploration, engine building, and towering mechs! Discover mysterious locations, recruit workers, gather power and guile, and race to complete the most glorious expedition. Gears of Corruption raises the danger with hidden map rewards, versatile hero workers, new characters and mechs, and a corrupted machine roaming the land. Adventure, discovery, and glory await!
Become an Egyptian God, open the gates of your city, and let your troops sing the song of war to please you and claim your dominance as master of Egypt.
Dominoes with a kingdom building twist. Each turn, connect a new domino to your existing kingdom, making sure at least one of its sides connects to a matching terrain type already in play. The game mechanics for obtaining the tiles is clever: the order of who picks first depends on which tile was previously chosen. Make sure to secure tiles with crowns- these royal treasures help to multiply the worth of your kingdom at the end of the game! The game ends when each player has completed a 5x5 grid, and then points are counted based on number of connecting tiles and crowns.
7th Sea: City of Five Sails is an expandable card game set in the swashbuckling world of the 7th Sea roleplaying game by John and Jennifer Wick, and Kevin Wilson. Players control one of five factions as they fight to influence, control, and explore the independent and unruly city of Five Sails. It is typically played with two players, but multiplayer variants will allow more players to get into the game.
During the game, each player represents a leader who, along with their allies, explore locations and fight both with swords and with wits for overall influence over the city. Along with each player’s individual deck, 7th Sea: City of Five Sails also includes an element of randomness in the form of a separate, shared deck that represents the city itself with unusual characters, items, and events that change the focus of the game. Combat is resolved in a unique “back and forth” style reminiscent of challenging swordplay.
Betrayal at House on the Hill is a tile game that allows players to lay out the haunted house room by room, tile by tile, creating a new game board every time. The game is designed for three to six people, each of whom plays one of six possible characters.
Players explore the haunted house, gathering items and discovering secrets, until one of the characters triggers a haunt and one of a hundred unique scenarios occur, ranging from fighting monsters to crumbling reality tearing the house apart.
The 2000 MB version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer board game included seasons 1-4 of the TV series. I've created season 5-7 AND a bonus game based on the season 3 episode "The Wish"! Players will get to play as "new" Good characters (Angel, Cordelia, Spike, Tara and Faith) and "new" villains (Anyanka, Glory, the Trio, Dark Willow, The First Evil and Caleb) as well as the characters included in the original game!
Based on simple and intuitive hand management, Heat: Pedal to the Metal puts players in the driver's seat of intense car races, jockeying for position to cross the finish line first, while managing their car's speed if they don't want to overheat. Selecting the right upgrades for their car will help them hug the curves and keep their engine cool enough to maintain top speeds. Ultimately, their driving skills will be the key to victory!
Drivers can compete in a single race or use the "Championship System" to play a whole season in one game night, customizing their car before each race to claim the top spot of the podium. They have to be careful as the weather, road conditions, and events will change every race to spice up their championship. Players can also enjoy a solo mode with the Legends Module or add automated drivers as additional opponents in multiplayer games.
Mythic Duels is a 2-hour gaming session dedicated to games designed specifically for two players. Choose from a selection of quick, engaging head-to-head games, each offering a different challenge. From tactical battles and clever card play to spatial puzzles and strategic competition.
Featured games include Flamecraft: Duel, Toy Battle, Smitten, and High Tide. Whether you’re looking for a tense tactical showdown, a clever puzzle, or a lighthearted competition, these games are built for two.
Pick your opponent, choose your game, and see who will emerge as the legend!
Peace and tranquility await. In this game, as a koi pond gardener you’ll select cards and other bonuses from the central display, then add fish, statues, flowers, and other peaceful elements to your personal area. Gather the best team of helpers and plan well to create the most beautiful pond.
This event includes a full explanation of the rules, and the complexity is very low, so all players are welcome. Learning and playing the game should take about 60 minutes.
The Quick Play Zone features games that are easy to learn, play in less than an hour, and have fun friendly themes. If you’re interested in this game but the scheduled event is full, stop by any time during the weekend and I’ll set it up for you!
I love playing games, talking about games, teaching games, and I especially love introducing new folks to this awesome hobby. You can find me on BoardGameGeek.com as user MikeTuna. While you're there, be sure to join the Tucson Guild at http://boardgamegeek.com/guild/214.
The Basics The Transformers TCG is a battle-based card game where players control teams of Transformer characters and a deck of Actions and Upgrades defeat all of their opponent's characters before they defeat yours.
Each character has a star ? value, and your team can have up to 25?. Your deck must have a minimum of 40 battle cards, but you can have as many as you want.
Carcassonne is a tile placement game in which the players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape represented on it. The tile might feature a city, a road, a cloister, grassland or some combination thereof, and it must be placed adjacent to tiles that have already been played, in such a way that cities are connected to cities, roads to roads, et cetera. Having placed a tile, the player can then decide to place one of their meeples in one of the areas on it: in the city as a knight, on the road as a robber, in the cloister as a monk, or in the field as a farmer. When that area is complete that meeple scores points for its owner.
Based on simple and intuitive hand management, Heat: Pedal to the Metal puts players in the driver's seat of intense car races, jockeying for position to cross the finish line first, while managing their car's speed if they don't want to overheat. Selecting the right upgrades for their car will help them hug the curves and keep their engine cool enough to maintain top speeds. Ultimately, their driving skills will be the key to victory!
Drivers can compete in a single race or use the "Championship System" to play a whole season in one game night, customizing their car before each race to claim the top spot of the podium. They have to be careful as the weather, road conditions, and events will change every race to spice up their championship. Players can also enjoy a solo mode with the Legends Module or add automated drivers as additional opponents in multiplayer games.
Paint the Roses is a 2-5 player cooperative puzzle game set in the whimsical world of Alice in Wonderland. You and your teammates have been appointed the new Royal Gardeners for the Queen of Hearts but fail to arrange the garden according to the Queen's changing whims and the last thing you hear will be, "Off With Their Heads!".
The Deluxe Edition includes upgraded components like acrylic tiles, a custom GameTrayz insert and the Escape the Castle expansion all in one box.
Paint the Roses Deluxe includes Escape the Castle an expansion to Paint the Roses. After years of being trapped in the castle grounds, you and your fellow gardeners hatch a dangerous plan - to gain the help of a Wonderland friend, trick the Queen of Hearts, and make a daring escape to freedom.
A strategic card game with shapes and lines for players to use in a competition to have the most dots visible at the end of the game! Up to six players build a different board each time they play.
The girl reached into the wood ash and grabbed a palmful, and as she blew it from her palm, the ashes swirled and churned as they moved skyward, lighting up the once dark skies.
The Girl who Made the Stars is a worker placement/tile-laying puzzle game for 1-4 players based on a San African myth about the creation of the milky way and the stars.
In the time of the first people, the night sky was dark and featureless. The village elders prohibited venturing out into the dark starless night for fear of the dangers that lurked there. One night after her mother cooked dinner, a young girl, frustrated with these restrictions, took a bit of ash and roots and cast the red and white embers into the sky, forming the milky way and the other stars, in an attempt to illuminate the night so the villagers could safely collect resources necessary for their survival.
This is a spinoff of the classic game Betrayal at House on the Hill, flavored with Scooby-Doo lore and featuring simpler, family-friendly rules. Everyone starts off exploring a mansion, looking for clues. Then, a member of the gang disappears and that player takes on the role of the villain.
Discover the ancient art form of Tea Dragon care-taking within The Tea Dragon Society Card Game, based on the graphic novel The Tea Dragon Society. Create a bond between yourself and your Tea Dragon that grows as you progress through the seasons, creating memories to share forever.
Each player's deck represents their own Tea Dragon. From turn to turn, players choose to draw a card — triggering effects and strengthening their position — or buy a card, improving their deck or scoring points. The game takes place over four seasons, starting in spring and ending in winter. At the end of winter, the player who has the most points wins.
Deep Rock Galactic takes 4 dwarves with different specialties and sends them barreling into a bug infested planet in a mining pod, and hopes they return. You along with your allies with be exploring the map, mining resources, all while fighting off the local inhabitants and trying not to die, and the longer you take, the more dangerous it is
Power Grid, the classic Euro game about economy efficiency with the newest expansion map, the city of Bremen. This map reduces the number of cities available to connect and eliminates nuclear power from the game. The step 2 and end game city count triggers are lowered and connection costs are now a flat cost for each city.
An interesting, shorter twist on the base game for experienced players, but will teach from scratch for those unfamiliar. 3 to 6 players.
Discover the spectacular birds of Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean in a small-group, 3-player Wingspan adventure! The new hummingbirds flutter between your preserve and a shared garden: Attract them for immediate rewards, return them to advance specialized tracks, and use their constant movement to build clever new combos. With colorful new birds, nectar, and more player interaction, this is Wingspan with an energetic tropical twist!
A fearsome dragon is threatening to burn all the villages in the kingdom! Luckily, dragons are greedy, so if you can bribe him with treasures from the battlefield like a barbarian's axe or a phoenix feather, you might persuade him to spare your village. Unfortunately, other villagers in the kingdom have the same idea. Who can best time their bribes to ensure their treasures are most valued by the dragon when the game comes to an end?
In Please Don't Burn My Village!, which is set in the world of Castle Panic, you want to bribe with the right treasure at the right time to keep the dragon's attention — while buying treasures at the black market and cursing the other villagers' treasures. When no treasure remains, the dragon will burn all of the villages except one. Will yours be the one that survives?
In more detail, players hold a hand of treasure cards that they can use to 1) bribe the dragon, 2) buy more treasure cards from the black market, or 3) draw a treasure card. When they bribe the dragon, they place the cards in sets in front of them, move the token up in value in the dragon's favor, and deal more cards into the black market.
If they instead choose to buy at the black market, they pay from their hand the number of cards indicated on a black market stall, take the cards from that stall into their hand, and move down a treasure in the dragon's favor that matches one of the cards they used to buy their cards. The number of spaces a player moves a token up (when bribing the dragon) or down (when buying at the black market) equals the number cards played. If players don't want to affect the values in the dragon's favor or are out of cards, they can simply draw a card.
The game features a push-your-luck ending: every time someone bribes the dragon, cards are turned over and placed in the black market spaces until a matching card or wild is revealed. When no card is found and the deck runs out, the game ends, play stops and players add any cards in their hand
What is the Uzzle? It is the most fun, competitive, and challenging game you will ever play.
We combined the challenge of puzzles with the competitiveness of board games, and were able to develop the Uzzle.
Shuffle the playing cards and leave them stacked in the center of the table. Then distribute 5 blocks to each player. Flip over the top card and race to see who can solve the Uzzle first by matching the blocks to the pattern on the card. Once you finish, shout "Uzzle!" and grab the card. After taking the card, let the other players examine whether you have correctly arranged your blocks. If you have correctly solved the Uzzle, you get to keep the card and now have 1 win. Players vote on how many wins to play to.
Welcome to The Grimm Forest, where family members of the legendary Three Little Pigs are having an epic house building competition. But this is no ordinary competition as all the most famous Fairy Tale characters will be looking on and occasionally lending a hand.
A fearsome dragon is threatening to burn all the villages in the kingdom! Luckily, dragons are greedy, so if you can bribe him with treasures from the battlefield like a barbarian's axe or a phoenix feather, you might persuade him to spare your village. Unfortunately, other villagers in the kingdom have the same idea. Who can best time their bribes to ensure their treasures are most valued by the dragon when the game comes to an end?
In Please Don't Burn My Village!, which is set in the world of Castle Panic, you want to bribe with the right treasure at the right time to keep the dragon's attention — while buying treasures at the black market and cursing the other villagers' treasures. When no treasure remains, the dragon will burn all of the villages except one. Will yours be the one that survives?
In more detail, players hold a hand of treasure cards that they can use to 1) bribe the dragon, 2) buy more treasure cards from the black market, or 3) draw a treasure card. When they bribe the dragon, they place the cards in sets in front of them, move the token up in value in the dragon's favor, and deal more cards into the black market.
If they instead choose to buy at the black market, they pay from their hand the number of cards indicated on a black market stall, take the cards from that stall into their hand, and move down a treasure in the dragon's favor that matches one of the cards they used to buy their cards. The number of spaces a player moves a token up (when bribing the dragon) or down (when buying at the black market) equals the number cards played. If players don't want to affect the values in the dragon's favor or are out of cards, they can simply draw a card.
The game features a push-your-luck ending: every time someone bribes the dragon, cards are turned over and placed in the black market spaces until a matching card or wild is revealed. When no card is found and the deck runs out, the game ends, play stops and players add any cards in their hand
An expanded version of the tasty and cute Sushi Go! card game that makes it easier for more players to join in. The rules give lots of options on different set ups so each game can be its own experience. Earn points by creating sushi combos and compete against the other players to collect the most types of sushi cards.
