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Knitting Circle is a stand-alone follow up to the hit spatial puzzle game Calico! In this gorgeous puzzly tile-laying game for the whole family, players are knitters competing to create the coziest, most beautiful assortment of garments. Learn to play this brand-new game with its creator and RinCon special guest, Emily Vincent (Pink Hawk Game).
Kohaku is a peaceful koi-pond-building, tile-laying game. Each turn, players will draft both a Koi and Feature tile from the central pond board to place into their personal koi pond.
Score points by surrounding flowers with koi containing matching colors, placing frogs next to koi tiles that have dragonflies, and ensuring that baby koi have a safe place to hide by placing them near rocks.
Butterflies score based on line of sight, so make sure to line them up with similar-colored koi. Turtles and statues bring a sense of balance to your pond and score points more easily, but sometimes aren’t as valuable as some of the other features.
You must carefully plan the placement of your tiles, because once they are in your pond, they can’t be moved! With no restrictions on the shape of your pond, you can build a unique layout to maximize your koi pond’s appeal.
After there are no koi tiles available to refill the central pond board, the game ends. Players will total the points scored by each feature in their pond. The player with the most points wins.
Come play Pandemic in the Quick Play Zone! Pandemic is a cooperative game with players representing doctors and scientists racing to cure diseases around the globe. This is a light strategy game open to anyone, and a full rules explanation will be provided. Rules and gameplay should take about 60 minutes.
In CATAN (formerly The Settlers of Catan), players try to be the dominant force on the island of Catan by building settlements, cities, and roads. On each turn dice are rolled to determine what resources the island produces. Players build by spending resources (sheep, wheat, wood, brick and ore) that are depicted by these resource cards; each land type, with the exception of the unproductive desert, produces a specific resource: hills produce brick, forests produce wood, mountains produce ore, fields produce wheat, and pastures produce sheep.
Dead of Winter is a meta-cooperative psychological survival game. This means players are working together toward one common victory condition, but for each individual player to achieve victory, they must also complete their personal secret objective, which could relate to a psychological tick that's fairly harmless to most others in the colony, a dangerous obsession that could put the main objective at risk, a desire for sabotage of the main mission, or (worst of all) vengeance against the colony! Games could end with all players winning, some winning and some losing, or all players losing. Work toward the group's goal, but don't get walked all over by a loudmouth who's looking out only for their own interests!
Dead of Winter is an experience that can be accomplished only through the medium of tabletop games, a story-centric game about surviving through a harsh winter in an apocalyptic world. The survivors are all dealing with their own psychological imperatives, but must still find a way to work together to fight off outside threats, resolve crises, find food and supplies, and keep the colony's morale up.
Dead of Winter has players making frequent, difficult, heavily-thematic, wildly-varying decisions that often have them deciding between what's best for the colony and what's best for themselves. The rulebook also includes a fully co-operative variant in which all players work toward the group objective with no personal goals.
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!
Meadow is an engaging set collection game with over two hundred unique cards containing hand-painted watercolor illustrations. In the game, players take the role of explorers competing for the title of the most skilled nature observer. To win, they collect cards with the most valuable species, landscapes, and discoveries. Their journey is led by passion, a curiosity of the world, an inquiring mind, and a desire to discover the mysteries of nature. The competition continues at the bonfire where the players race to fulfill the goals of their adventures.
Escape from Planet Argon is a cooperative tile-laying game where players work together to escape an intergalactic prison planet before it is destroyed.
In Mountain Goats you work to move your goats to the top of 6 different mountains where they can score points as long as they stay there. You can share spaces with other goats on the way up, but there is only room for one goat at the top of each mountain. If someone else's goat moves to the mountain top, they will kick you off and you'll have to start your trek over.
It's a game about timing. You need to not just get to the top of the mountain, but get there when no one else is in position to knock you off.
It's a game about keeping your eye on your opponents. Maximizing your score, but also making sure you don't let anyone else score too much.
There is the fun chance to knock each other off the mountain. But it doesn't feel too mean because you can only knock back goats that are in a scoring position, and it isn't a huge setback. It is just a normal part of the cycle of the game.
In Sequoia you are trying to grow the tallest trees in 11 different forests. After your 10 turns, if you have the tallest tree, then you get the victory points from that forest. Second place gets a small consolation prize.
Each turn, you get to grow two of your trees. Which trees you choose will determine if you win or lose. Do you keep fighting in a forest with competition, or start growing your tree somewhere else? You'll have to wrestle with the dice to grow the tree you want.
Race to collect a winning hand of colorful Galaxy Children and Dracos in this all-ages card and dice game. But Explorers beware! There are dangers lurking in the depths of space, and your decisions – combined with fate – may save or doom fellow players. Demo game winners can earn up to 6 limited edition Explorer Badges!
Illustrator and Designer, SaReSai: The Art of Sarah Rebecca
Sarah Rebecca has been illustrating and storytelling for nearly 20 years. From comics to artbooks to novels to card games, she endeavors to bring her unique view of the world into every project she creates. She can often be found selling her work at numerous Arizona conventions and... Read More →
Knitting Circle is a stand-alone follow up to the hit spatial puzzle game Calico! In this gorgeous puzzly tile-laying game for the whole family, players are knitters competing to create the coziest, most beautiful assortment of garments. Learn to play this brand-new game with its creator and RinCon special guest, Emily Vincent (Pink Hawk Game).
Come play Splendor in the Quick Play Zone! Splendor has players collecting gems and trading them for tiles, which provide points as well as discounts towards more valuable gems. This is a light strategy game open to anyone, and a full rules explanation will be provided. Rules and gameplay should take about 45-60 minutes.
Tanto Cuore is a deck building card game for 2-4 players. The players take the roles of “master of the house,” employ a lot of cute maids, and are served by them while slowly filling out their house (card deck). But be careful! The maids can become sick or get bad habits. When the game ends, the player who has the most victory point-gaining maids in his staff (all his cards) is the “perfect master” and the winner of the game. Purchase on this website includes a promo pack!
Somewhere on a doomed and distant planet, life has emerged, competing for supremacy until the world’s inevitable destruction. The object of the game is to score the most points by the time the world ends. Score points by playing Traits for your Doomlings’ species, making them more adaptable, resilient, and mischievous. As your Doomlings assert their dominance, Catastrophes will befall the planet, causing setbacks for each competing species. When the third Catastrophe inevitably strikes, the world ends, and the Doomlings with the strongest set of traits gets to look the Apocalypse in the eye and declare…“I scored the most points!”
When bees are creating honeycomb, they connect their legs together to form a chain, called a festoon. In this game, players compete the be the first to form a festoon. Players take turns placing hexagonal bee tiles adjacent to the other tiles on the table one at a time. The first player who places four bees in a straight line wins.
As players create advantageous patterns and block others, Festoon becomes a game of competitive cooperation. Players must decide whether it is more advantageous to block another player's festoon or set themselves up for victory. The simple rules and strategic gameplay mean that anybody can play it, but victory can only be achieved by the player whose strategy comes out on top.
Fliptown is a flip-and-write game in which you are trying to earn stars by exploring a wild west town. The game uses a standard poker deck to drive an open world-style of game play, along with dry erase boards that serve as each player's map.
Each turn, flip over three cards, assigning one card to represent your suit, one card to represent your value, and one card to represent your poker card. The suit dictates which of four regions you activate, the value dictates which site within that region you get to circle, and the poker card goes toward a five-card poker hand that is resolved at the end of each round. Each of the four regions — Trail, Badlands, Mine, and Town — offers a different puzzle to master, while each site within a region provides a unique reward such as cash, gold, helpful items like guns, horses and tools, or bonus actions to create powerful combinations.
Race to collect a winning hand of colorful Galaxy Children and Dracos in this all-ages card and dice game. But Explorers beware! There are dangers lurking in the depths of space, and your decisions – combined with fate – may save or doom fellow players. Demo game winners can earn up to 6 limited edition Explorer Badges!
Illustrator and Designer, SaReSai: The Art of Sarah Rebecca
Sarah Rebecca has been illustrating and storytelling for nearly 20 years. From comics to artbooks to novels to card games, she endeavors to bring her unique view of the world into every project she creates. She can often be found selling her work at numerous Arizona conventions and... Read More →
Come play Gizmos in the Quick Play Zone! Collect the right marbles to buy new parts for your machine, making future actions more powerful and creating fun combos. This is a light strategy game open to anyone, and a full rules explanation will be provided. Rules and gameplay should take about 60 minutes.
Play a conservation expert in I Heart Manatees, building your own manatee habitat one tile at a time. Rescue manatees from the ocean, adding them to a habitat that you can fill with their favorite food and fishy friends to score points. Watch out, though, as other players can sabotage your habitat with the menacing bull shark — oh, the hu-manatee...
Tanto Cuore is a deck building card game for 2-4 players. The players take the roles of “master of the house,” employ a lot of cute maids, and are served by them while slowly filling out their house (card deck). But be careful! The maids can become sick or get bad habits. When the game ends, the player who has the most victory point-gaining maids in his staff (all his cards) is the “perfect master” and the winner of the game. Purchase on this website includes a promo pack!
Widgets n' Digit$ is a race against the clock engine builder about building your own business! Each turn you'll make and sell Widgets, using the profits to purchase resources and upgrade your business. Unique market mechanics allow demand from your competitors to set prices creating dynamic market-driven play!
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. 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.
Doomtown: Weird West Edition is a poker-driven, territory control card game, updated from (and fully compatible with) the 2014 release of Doomtown: Reloaded, which was based on the 1998 Origins Awards Best Trading Card Game, Deadlands: Doomtown by Alderac Entertainment Group!
All aspects of the game that require randomization are controlled via a poker mechanism as every card has a suit and value. Preparing for the hands you want to draw is as much a part of deck building as choosing the actions and dudes you'll want to play. Your deck is built around an Outfit, one of the six main groups attempting to control Deadwood.
Combat is resolved via poker hands. Deciding who goes first is decided by drawing the top five cards from your deck and the lowest poker hands go first.
Players take one action each, in turn which can include: Hiring a new dude (getting you influence in town) Purchasing a new deed (getting you control in town) Shopping for gear for your dudes Start a shootout with your opponents to try to remove their influence. When each player passes, you reach
The catacombs of the skeletal dragon Umbrok Vessna are mysterious and dangerous. Portals transport you all around the dungeon depths. Wayshrines offer vast riches to intrepid explorers. Prisoners are counting on you to free them. Ghosts, once disturbed, may haunt you to death. Despite all that, it's time to leave the board behind, because in Clank! Catacombs, you "build" the dungeon as you explore.
This is deck-building meets tile laying, in the Clank! universe.
John is a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) programmer. He has been a software developer for more than 25 years. He is the designer of "Treasure Fleet" the card game, published in 2006. He has been a Tucson resident for 17 years.
In Dominion, each player takes turns repeatedly drawing through their own personal deck of cards. Each player's deck starts small, but players can purchase new cards from a common supply to upgrade their deck; these new cards can then be drawn and used on future turns. Players ultimately seek to build the strongest deck with the most victory points needed to win the game.
I have a few expansions I'll bring as well & we can probably fit in a couple of playthroughs.
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!
Skyrose is a cooperative medieval fantasy game. Players battle to conquer an impenetrable island stronghold. The castle is occupied by a dragon and an elite army, and protected by rings of deadly terrain. Each player embarks on missions to acquire treasure and other resources before attacking the central island. Players can use gold to purchase weapons for their armies, buy ships, hire mercenaries, and enlist monsters to help them win the day.
Everdell is a streamlined worker placement game that features a detailed world realized through stunning artwork. Utilizing a tableau-building mechanic, players will work to build a city of critters and constructions. Everdell is easy to learn, yet offers satisfying strategic depth and endless replayability.
In this Euro-style game, players explore space, claim pulsars, and discover technologies that will help them build energy-distribution infrastructure on a cosmic scale. Dice are used to purchase actions, and players choose their dice from a communal pool. There are many paths to victory so you can blaze your own trail to a bright future. Teach 15 minutes Playtime 90 to 120 depending on player count
Travel the amazing 800 mile long Arizona Trail from Mexico to Utah, through Saguaro National Park, the Four Peaks, San Francisco Peaks and the Grand Canyon and so many other beautiful sites. Create a personal mural of your journey through sightings of Flora and Fauna along the way. Seek the aid of the Lost Dutchman and the Jackalope while avoiding the Gila Monster as you manage your resources to amass the most Superstition Gold and Arizona Grit. Happy Trails...
"Company of Heroes", the World War 2 board wargame, is based on the video game from Relic/Sega. It closely captures the choices, tactics and mission strategies of the videogame. In teams, or as individuals, players will maneuver units and battle for control points to collect manpower, munitions and fuel. Players spend these resources to construct new buildings, purchase units and upgrade abilities, eventually unlocking the powerful end-game units of their nation.
We will be playing in cooperative mode, with the Covenant expansion.
A "sequel" to the 1981 grail game, Return to Dark Tower is a game for 1-4 players who take the role of heroes. Together, they gather resources, cleanse buildings, defeat monsters, and undertake quests to build up their strength and discern what foe ultimately awaits them. When the heroes face the tower, the game shifts into its dramatic second act, where the players have one chance to defeat the enemy once and for all.
Take command of your own unique faction as you explore, build, quest, and battle your way to victory over the course of 6 rounds. 6 Asymmetric factions to choose from. NOTE: Has a dinner break at 6:00 PM.
Somewhere on a doomed and distant planet, life has emerged, competing for supremacy until the world’s inevitable destruction. The object of the game is to score the most points by the time the world ends. Score points by playing Traits for your Doomlings’ species, making them more adaptable, resilient, and mischievous. As your Doomlings assert their dominance, Catastrophes will befall the planet, causing setbacks for each competing species. When the third Catastrophe inevitably strikes, the world ends, and the Doomlings with the strongest set of traits gets to look the Apocalypse in the eye and declare…“I scored the most points!”
When bees are creating honeycomb, they connect their legs together to form a chain, called a festoon. In this game, players compete the be the first to form a festoon. Players take turns placing hexagonal bee tiles adjacent to the other tiles on the table one at a time. The first player who places four bees in a straight line wins.
As players create advantageous patterns and block others, Festoon becomes a game of competitive cooperation. Players must decide whether it is more advantageous to block another player's festoon or set themselves up for victory. The simple rules and strategic gameplay mean that anybody can play it, but victory can only be achieved by the player whose strategy comes out on top.
Play a conservation expert in I Heart Manatees, building your own manatee habitat one tile at a time. Rescue manatees from the ocean, adding them to a habitat that you can fill with their favorite food and fishy friends to score points. Watch out, though, as other players can sabotage your habitat with the menacing bull shark — oh, the hu-manatee...
Come play Scout in the Quick Play Zone! This is a "ladder-climbing" card game where players play cards from their hand to try to beat the most recent set. But plan carefully, because you cannot change the order of the cards in your hand. This is a light strategy game open to anyone, and a full rules explanation will be provided. Rules and gameplay should take about 45-60 minutes.
Widgets n' Digit$ is a race against the clock engine builder about building your own business! Each turn you'll make and sell Widgets, using the profits to purchase resources and upgrade your business. Unique market mechanics allow demand from your competitors to set prices creating dynamic market-driven play!
Everybody loves the clicky-clacky math rocks! Try your hand at a selection of dice games, including Martian Dice, Farkle, and Tenzi. Play a new game or join others in playing an old favorite!
In Kamigami Battles, you will play as one of the Gods of mythology competing for dominion over the realm. You will recruit ancient Warriors and Disciples to fight in epic battles against the Gods trying to conquer your world! Each God has a pool of life force called energy, and by reducing a God to 0 energy, you can either kill or seal that God away! Players can choose to pair up with their friends in Team Match or wage war on all those who oppose them in Free-For-All. In a Team Match, 4 or 6 players team up in pairs of two, with one player the Main God and the other the Support God, to be the last standing after eliminating all of the opposing Main Gods. In Free-for-All, 2 to 6 players battle for dominance by either eliminating all other Gods or by being first to reach 25 energy.
Long Shot is YOUR ticket to the track. In this exciting family-friendly horse racing board game, up to 8 players bet, buy horses, and strategize as the race unfolds.
Long Shot includes over 100 unique cards allowing players to combine strategies and resources for maximum control of the race. Will you buy a horse or two in the hopes of winning some of the purse, or will you bet it all on the long shot?
Whether a novice or a horse racing enthusiast, everyone's a winner in this interactive strategy game where anytime is post time!
You are a child of Zeus poised to conquer all of Greece, but first you must prove your worth to the gods, as there is another who contests your claim. To determine who shall rule, gods have devised a contest and lent their most powerful forces to both sides of the conflict. Omen: Reign of War is a head-to-head strategic card game where you compete to gain the favor of the pantheon of gods, and prove that you are the rightful heir of Zeus. Powerful forces of antiquity and legend are at your command as you raze and pillage cities, strategically manage your resources, and eliminate your rival’s forces. Choose your battle strategy with rules for standard and draft play, and expand your war with other, fully compatible, games from the 'Omen Saga'!
Container is a game about big ships and big production. Each player will play both as a producer and shipper of goods. Players will decide which products they want to produce, and which of the OTHER players' goods they want to ship out to a remote island. During these phases, players will be able to set the prices for their goods and try to maximize their cash!
Once the goods have reached the island, players will play the part of the purchaser for their tiny island. Players bid for the goods arriving each day by ship, and the highest bidder collects these goods for conversion into points at the end of the game.
Sounds simple? It is! But the real challenge is turning your home production into goods for your island. Your government is willing to subsidize your purchases, but just how much money do you want to give to your competitors for that lovely crate of goods your island desperately needs?
Over three weeks (rounds), players will use their hand of cards, workers, and resources to do their part in rebuilding the great city of Jerusalem. After six days of work comes a Sabbath day of rest when food will be needed, and the week's work will be reflected upon. The game ends after the third Sabbath has been completed.
A medium-heavy game from Garphill Games that combines several mechanisms from the West Kingdom trilogy.
Come play 7 Wonders in the Quick Play Zone! This is a drafting card game where players will select one card from their hand to play, then pass the rest to the next player. The cards you choose will provide discounts, points, and other various benefits as the game progresses. This is a light strategy game open to anyone, and a full rules explanation will be provided. Rules and gameplay should take about 60 minutes.
When bees are creating honeycomb, they connect their legs together to form a chain, called a festoon. In this game, players compete the be the first to form a festoon. Players take turns placing hexagonal bee tiles adjacent to the other tiles on the table one at a time. The first player who places four bees in a straight line wins.
As players create advantageous patterns and block others, Festoon becomes a game of competitive cooperation. Players must decide whether it is more advantageous to block another player's festoon or set themselves up for victory. The simple rules and strategic gameplay mean that anybody can play it, but victory can only be achieved by the player whose strategy comes out on top.
Widgets n' Digit$ is a race against the clock engine builder about building your own business! Each turn you'll make and sell Widgets, using the profits to purchase resources and upgrade your business. Unique market mechanics allow demand from your competitors to set prices creating dynamic market-driven play!
Fun is in the cards for you at this event! Choose from a selection of great games like Spot it!, Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza, Sushi Go, SET, and Exploding Kittens. Time flies when you're playing cards with others so come play an old favorite with new friends or learn your new favorite card game to share with others!
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. 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.
Doomtown: Weird West Edition is a poker-driven, territory control card game, updated from (and fully compatible with) the 2014 release of Doomtown: Reloaded, which was based on the 1998 Origins Awards Best Trading Card Game, Deadlands: Doomtown by Alderac Entertainment Group!
All aspects of the game that require randomization are controlled via a poker mechanism as every card has a suit and value. Preparing for the hands you want to draw is as much a part of deck building as choosing the actions and dudes you'll want to play. Your deck is built around an Outfit, one of the six main groups attempting to control Deadwood.
Combat is resolved via poker hands. Deciding who goes first is decided by drawing the top five cards from your deck and the lowest poker hands go first.
Players take one action each, in turn which can include: Hiring a new dude (getting you influence in town) Purchasing a new deed (getting you control in town) Shopping for gear for your dudes Start a shootout with your opponents to try to remove their influence. When each player passes, you reach
Cascadia is a tile-laying and token-drafting game featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest.
In the game, you take turns building out your own terrain area and populating it with wildlife. You start with three hexagonal habitat tiles (with the five types of habitat in the game), and on a turn you choose a new habitat tile that's paired with a wildlife token, then place that tile next to your other ones and place the wildlife token on an appropriate habitat. (Each tile depicts 1-3 types of wildlife from the five types in the game, and you can place at most one tile on a habitat.) Four tiles are on display, with each tile being paired at random with a wildlife token, so you must make the best of what's available — unless you have a nature token to spend so that you can pick your choice of each item.
Ideally you can place habitat tiles to create matching terrain that reduces fragmentation and creates wildlife corridors, mostly because you score for the largest area of each type of habitat at game's end, with a bonus if your group is larger than each other player's. At the same time, you want to place wildlife tokens so that you can maximize the number of points scored by them, with the wildlife goals being determined at random by one of the four scoring cards for each type of wildlife. Maybe hawks want to be separate from other hawks, while foxes want lots of different animals surrounding them and bears want to be in pairs. Can you make it happen?
Crypticolor is a fun and challenging code making and breaking game. Players are spies who are trying to break a rival network's secret code. The game combines guesswork, like in the game Battleship, with pattern recognition, like in the game Mastermind. This is a tournament, so players who win their games will play other game winners until there is one overall winner.
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!
In Long Shot: The Dice Game, you and up to seven other players will strategize and push your luck as the action unfolds in a tense race of eight horses. During the game you buy horses, place bets, influence race movement, and utilize special abilities. The roll of the dice determines which horses move and the options available each turn, so be ready to adapt your plans. Once three horses cross the finish line, earnings are totaled. While there are many ways to earn money during a horse race, only the player that makes the most money will be declared the winner. Will you play it safe, or risk it big on a long shot?
When bees are creating honeycomb, they connect their legs together to form a chain, called a festoon. In this game, players compete the be the first to form a festoon. Players take turns placing hexagonal bee tiles adjacent to the other tiles on the table one at a time. The first player who places four bees in a straight line wins.
As players create advantageous patterns and block others, Festoon becomes a game of competitive cooperation. Players must decide whether it is more advantageous to block another player's festoon or set themselves up for victory. The simple rules and strategic gameplay mean that anybody can play it, but victory can only be achieved by the player whose strategy comes out on top.
Race to collect a winning hand of colorful Galaxy Children and Dracos in this all-ages card and dice game. But Explorers beware! There are dangers lurking in the depths of space, and your decisions – combined with fate – may save or doom fellow players. Demo game winners can earn up to 6 limited edition Explorer Badges!
Illustrator and Designer, SaReSai: The Art of Sarah Rebecca
Sarah Rebecca has been illustrating and storytelling for nearly 20 years. From comics to artbooks to novels to card games, she endeavors to bring her unique view of the world into every project she creates. She can often be found selling her work at numerous Arizona conventions and... Read More →
Come play Trekking Through History in the Quick Play Zone! Select cards from the display representing iconic moments in mankind's history. Choose the right events to cover icons on your board in order to maximize points and gain other bonuses, while also trying to build the largest timelines. This is a light strategy game open to anyone, and a full rules explanation will be provided. Rules and gameplay should take about 60 minutes.
Widgets n' Digit$ is a race against the clock engine builder about building your own business! Each turn you'll make and sell Widgets, using the profits to purchase resources and upgrade your business. Unique market mechanics allow demand from your competitors to set prices creating dynamic market-driven play!
Join Chip, Sweep, and the other kids of Everdell to build the most spectacular make-believe city anyone has ever built. This easy-to-learn worker-placement and tableau-building game will provide family fun while getting the lil’ ones' brains a buzzin’, improving focus, and enhancing young learner skills.
Calico is a puzzly tile-laying game of quilts and cats, in which players compete to sew the coziest quilt as they collect and place patches of different colors and patterns. Try out this classic game with a new Knitting Circle twist! Knitting Circle is the brand-new game designed by RinCon special guest Emily Vincent (Pink Hawk Games), where the rondele mechanism dovetails with Calico.
After a long search in several comic bookstores and online stores, you managed to acquire the most important comic books of all your favorite heroes. Well, almost all of them! Some rare and important editions are still missing from your collection. The first appearance of your favorite villain, that special edition that influenced a generation of story lines, the spetacular debut of the new uniform, the memorable confrontation with the archenemy and the valuable number one! You already know where to find them and you also know that you are not the only one in search of these precious gems. Will you be able to collect all the comics needed to be recognized as the greatest collector of all time?
A ray of moonlight shines in the clearing. The fairies wake up and stretch their wings. Mushrooms pop up from the ground, forming a circle. The first fireflies start to land. Magic is returning to the forest, and now it's time to prepare for winter...
In Fairy Ring, you want to create a mushroom village to house the fairies in the clearing. Guide your fairy carefully, from village to village, through the fairy ring to gather as much mana as possible. You have two seasons to develop your village before winter begins. Each decision counts towards winning the game.
Rolldown Two players face off in a competition to curate odds in their favor. Players take turns rolling and removing dice from the board or playing cards. whoever removes the last pair of dice from the board wins the round. Rolldown is a true blend of luck and strategy.
Rules:
Pieces · Both players start with six dice: a d4, a d6, a d8, a d10, a d12, and a d20. · One player starts with a black set and one player starts with a white set. · The game board has two separate areas for either player to roll their dice in. · The game uses a standard deck of playing cards, jokers included.
Starting a round · Both players start by rolling all their dice. · Both players draw 3 cards. White goes first, but black may reroll one of their own dice before the start of the game, because they are going second.
During play Players take turns back and forth and can use their turn to do one of the following: · Reroll. On their turn a player can choose to reroll one of the dice present on the board. This die may be under their control or the opponents. · Reduce. On their turn a player may remove one of their own dice from the board along with an enemy die that is displaying the same number or lower on its upward face. Because dice are always removed in pairs. You and your opponent should always have the same number of dice in play. · Play a card. A player may play a card in their hand to change a dice's value to a specific number rather than rerolling it. Either player's dice may be targeted by a card. A numbered card changes a dice's value to the number shown on the card. A numbered card cannot be played on a dice that cannot represent that value, for example you may not play a 9 on a D8 A jack turns any dice to a 1. A queen allows you to make two consecutive reroll actions. A king turns any dice to its max value. An ace turns any dice into 1 or its max value. A joker rerolls all the dice on the board. After a card is played it
Dive into the world of Dixit, where each player becomes a storyteller, using creativity to give clues that match beautifully illustrated cards. A captivating game for family and friends that sparks imagination.
Borderlands: Mister Torgue's Arena of Badassery! is a co-operative combat-action board game.
You and a team of Vault Hunters enter Mister Torgue's Arena of Badassery to face off against his collection of skags, bandits, and assorted psychos. You can play a one-off battle filled with explosions, slaughter-splosions, sauce-plosions, and loot-splosions!!! Or play a series of deadly fights in campaign-mode that will see your Vault Hunter level up between games. Visit vending machines to buy better gear, advance your character using unique skill trees, equip epic new guns, and enter the next game even more BADASS than before!!! Just make sure your tough enough to take on the final boss, an Ultimate Murder-Machine, hellbent on sending you back to the borderlands as moist and meaty skag-snacks.
You're an eager youth in the quaint village of Rainbow Corners, fighting to survive Doctor Sweet's gauntlet of terrifying carnival games in pursuit of her friendship and an infinite supply of candy. Come test this whimsical candy horror game with game inventor James Ernest.
James Ernest is a prolific tabletop game designer, and the founder of Cheapass Games. His best-known games include Kill Doctor Lucky, Lords of Vegas, Unexploded Cow, and Tak: A Beautiful Game. He is over nine feet tall, celebrates three birthdays each year, and is made entirely of... Read More →
Friday November 15, 2024 8:00pm - 10:00pm MST
BG22
In Kamigami Battles, you will play as one of the Gods of mythology competing for dominion over the realm. You will recruit ancient Warriors and Disciples to fight in epic battles against the Gods trying to conquer your world! Each God has a pool of life force called energy, and by reducing a God to 0 energy, you can either kill or seal that God away! Players can choose to pair up with their friends in Team Match or wage war on all those who oppose them in Free-For-All. In a Team Match, 4 or 6 players team up in pairs of two, with one player the Main God and the other the Support God, to be the last standing after eliminating all of the opposing Main Gods. In Free-for-All, 2 to 6 players battle for dominance by either eliminating all other Gods or by being first to reach 25 energy.
Kingdoms Unbound is a tactical trading card games that draws inspiration from both traditional TCGs and board games. Our unique movement system allows for a more tactile gameplay experience, which in turn allows for new players to learn the base gameplay quickly.
Last Light is a fast-paced 4x game with 3D planets and a rotating board in which players playing asymmetrical alien factions simultaneously gather light right before the heat death of the universe.
Each turn, players select an action card, then all players take their actions simultaneously, exploring planets, mining for resources, gaining new technologies, and commanding fleets all while racing to the center of a rotating board to the last known white dwarf star to gather light for their civilization to survive.
The first player to gather 20 light has what they need to overcome their rivals and lay claim to the last light in the universe and win!
The Midnight Queen is dead… As her kingdom weeps, the Queen’s dying command was to invoke the Rule By Midnight: a trial of combat and guile, where the Princesses of the Twelve Lands meet in secret to battle and scheme against one another. At the stroke of midnight, the most powerful Princess left standing will be crowned the new Midnight Queen! Queen By Midnight is a battle-royale deck-building card game of guile, deception, and brawn! Six Princesses each feature unique tactics to battle for the right of the Midnight Court, but only one (and maybe their inner circle) will be the winner.
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.
It is the late 1930s, and the world is in turmoil. Humanity is on the brink of war as imperialist nations in the Far East and Europe work aggressively to expand their domination. The Nazis have taken control of Germany and now spread darkness across the globe in their hunt for powerful occult artifacts that can give them the upper hand in the days to come. But the spirit of adventure and freedom won't be stamped out so easily. Heroic adventurers from around the world answer the call, racing against time to hunt down ancient artifacts, explore deadly temples, and fight back the powers of darkness from engulfing the world in flames. It is a race of good versus evil, and only a cunning and agile explorer can claim the ultimate prize of... Fortune and Glory!
Fortune and Glory: The Cliffhanger Game is a fast-paced game of high adventure, vile villains, edge-of-your-seat danger, and cliffhanger pulp movie action. Players take on the role of a treasure hunter, traveling the globe in search of ancient artifacts and fending off danger and villains at every turn in a quest for the ultimate reward of fortune and glory! So strap on your adventure boots and goggles, fire up the engines on the seaplane, and grab some extra ammo for your revolver...the Nazis already have a head start and in this race for fortune and glory, and there's no prize for second place!
Take the reins of your Civilization and make the choices that will make it the most prosperous. It doesn't matter which path you take, as long as it leads your people to glory. Research new technologies to improve your nation's Science, Military strength, Spirituality, Culture and Industrialization. Teach 20 minutes Playtime 120 minutes
The prehistoric players have already learned how to build huts and hunt food. Now they sit around the fire, gaze in wonder at the tribal matriarch, and wonder how they can look as good as her: "Why is my tooth just hanging?" "Honey, I also want something to make my skin look good."
In this expansion for Stone Age, style is the goal as ornaments and jewelry become part of the game – not to mention a merchant to handle such items. Players can now transform their raw materials into jewelry and other adornments.
This expansion includes a new location for the village, new cards, and new huts – not to mention components that allow game play with up to five Stone Age hunter-gatherers.
Travel the amazing 800 mile long Arizona Trail from Mexico to Utah, through Saguaro National Park, the Four Peaks, San Francisco Peaks and the Grand Canyon and so many other beautiful sites. Create a personal mural of your journey through sightings of Flora and Fauna along the way. Seek the aid of the Lost Dutchman and the Jackalope while avoiding the Gila Monster as you manage your resources to amass the most Superstition Gold and Arizona Grit. Happy Trails...
If you loved the show you will love the game. Take on the role of captain, and fly your ship across the 'verse. You will see familiar faces, and Misbehave to get paid.
Will have a variety of new and old social deduction theme games. Hand to hand wombat - a game about building towers, but is there a bad wombat amongst us sabotaging the effort? Secret Hitler - Determine who Hitler is and kill them before the fascists take power. Resistance - classic social deduction game! Coup - another classic claim your abilities and be prepared to challenge others. If you lie you die but only if you're caught. Note sometimes these type of games can get intense - ages 15 and up only please.
Join the Adventures in Board Gaming team of teachers to learn how to play some current popular games, like Andromeda’s Edge, Doggerland, Flip 7, Tidal Blades, Far Away, World Wonders, Ponzi Scheme, Wandering Towers, and Zoo Vadis. Visit one of their tables to see the AiBG's full library of games.
Join the Adventures in Board Gaming team of teachers to learn how to play some current popular games, like Andromeda’s Edge, Doggerland, Flip 7, Tidal Blades, Far Away, World Wonders, Ponzi Scheme, Wandering Towers, and Zoo Vadis. Visit one of their tables to see the AiBGs full library of games.
Rolldown Two players face off in a competition to curate odds in their favor. Players take turns rolling and removing dice from the board or playing cards. whoever removes the last pair of dice from the board wins the round. Rolldown is a true blend of luck and strategy.
Rules:
Pieces · Both players start with six dice: a d4, a d6, a d8, a d10, a d12, and a d20. · One player starts with a black set and one player starts with a white set. · The game board has two separate areas for either player to roll their dice in. · The game uses a standard deck of playing cards, jokers included.
Starting a round · Both players start by rolling all their dice. · Both players draw 3 cards. White goes first, but black may reroll one of their own dice before the start of the game, because they are going second.
During play Players take turns back and forth and can use their turn to do one of the following: · Reroll. On their turn a player can choose to reroll one of the dice present on the board. This die may be under their control or the opponents. · Reduce. On their turn a player may remove one of their own dice from the board along with an enemy die that is displaying the same number or lower on its upward face. Because dice are always removed in pairs. You and your opponent should always have the same number of dice in play. · Play a card. A player may play a card in their hand to change a dice's value to a specific number rather than rerolling it. Either player's dice may be targeted by a card. A numbered card changes a dice's value to the number shown on the card. A numbered card cannot be played on a dice that cannot represent that value, for example you may not play a 9 on a D8 A jack turns any dice to a 1. A queen allows you to make two consecutive reroll actions. A king turns any dice to its max value. An ace turns any dice into 1 or its max value. A joker rerolls all the dice on the board. After a card is played it
In this co-operative trick-taking card game, you and the other players work together to search for the lost continent of Mu. This new adventure takes your crew deep down into the abyss on a search for the fabled sunken land. How far you get depends entirely on how well you work together as a team. Card by card, trick by trick, your search party will discover the challenges that lie ahead and forge a path to Mu.
Join the Adventures in Board Gaming team of teachers to learn how to play some current popular games, like Andromeda’s Edge, Doggerland, Flip 7, Tidal Blades, Far Away, World Wonders, Ponzi Scheme, Wandering Towers, and Zoo Vadis. Visit one of their tables to see the AiBG's full library of games.
Join the Adventures in Board Gaming team of teachers to learn how to play some current popular games, like Andromeda’s Edge, Doggerland, Flip 7, Tidal Blades, Far Away, World Wonders, Ponzi Scheme, Wandering Towers, and Zoo Vadis. Visit one of their tables to see the AiBGs full library of games.
In Cascadia: Landmarks, players create sprawling habitats and place beautiful natural landmarks within them. An expansion to the award winning game Cascadia.
Rolldown Two players face off in a competition to curate odds in their favor. Players take turns rolling and removing dice from the board or playing cards. whoever removes the last pair of dice from the board wins the round. Rolldown is a true blend of luck and strategy.
Rules:
Pieces · Both players start with six dice: a d4, a d6, a d8, a d10, a d12, and a d20. · One player starts with a black set and one player starts with a white set. · The game board has two separate areas for either player to roll their dice in. · The game uses a standard deck of playing cards, jokers included.
Starting a round · Both players start by rolling all their dice. · Both players draw 3 cards. White goes first, but black may reroll one of their own dice before the start of the game, because they are going second.
During play Players take turns back and forth and can use their turn to do one of the following: · Reroll. On their turn a player can choose to reroll one of the dice present on the board. This die may be under their control or the opponents. · Reduce. On their turn a player may remove one of their own dice from the board along with an enemy die that is displaying the same number or lower on its upward face. Because dice are always removed in pairs. You and your opponent should always have the same number of dice in play. · Play a card. A player may play a card in their hand to change a dice's value to a specific number rather than rerolling it. Either player's dice may be targeted by a card. A numbered card changes a dice's value to the number shown on the card. A numbered card cannot be played on a dice that cannot represent that value, for example you may not play a 9 on a D8 A jack turns any dice to a 1. A queen allows you to make two consecutive reroll actions. A king turns any dice to its max value. An ace turns any dice into 1 or its max value. A joker rerolls all the dice on the board. After a card is played it
In this co-operative trick-taking card game, you and the other players work together to search for the lost continent of Mu. This new adventure takes your crew deep down into the abyss on a search for the fabled sunken land. How far you get depends entirely on how well you work together as a team. Card by card, trick by trick, your search party will discover the challenges that lie ahead and forge a path to Mu.
You're still trying to kill Doctor Lucky, and this time his mysterious private island is trying to kill you! Play The Island of Doctor Lucky with designer and RinCon special guest James Ernest and see if you can finally put the old man out of his misery!
James Ernest is a prolific tabletop game designer, and the founder of Cheapass Games. His best-known games include Kill Doctor Lucky, Lords of Vegas, Unexploded Cow, and Tak: A Beautiful Game. He is over nine feet tall, celebrates three birthdays each year, and is made entirely of... Read More →
Friday November 15, 2024 10:00pm - 11:00pm MST
BG22
Borderlands: Mister Torgue's Arena of Badassery! is a co-operative combat-action board game.
You and a team of Vault Hunters enter Mister Torgue's Arena of Badassery to face off against his collection of skags, bandits, and assorted psychos. You can play a one-off battle filled with explosions, slaughter-splosions, sauce-plosions, and loot-splosions!!! Or play a series of deadly fights in campaign-mode that will see your Vault Hunter level up between games. Visit vending machines to buy better gear, advance your character using unique skill trees, equip epic new guns, and enter the next game even more BADASS than before!!! Just make sure your tough enough to take on the final boss, an Ultimate Murder-Machine, hellbent on sending you back to the borderlands as moist and meaty skag-snacks.
The Midnight Queen is dead… As her kingdom weeps, the Queen’s dying command was to invoke the Rule By Midnight: a trial of combat and guile, where the Princesses of the Twelve Lands meet in secret to battle and scheme against one another. At the stroke of midnight, the most powerful Princess left standing will be crowned the new Midnight Queen! Queen By Midnight is a battle-royale deck-building card game of guile, deception, and brawn! Six Princesses each feature unique tactics to battle for the right of the Midnight Court, but only one (and maybe their inner circle) will be the winner.
Rolldown Two players face off in a competition to curate odds in their favor. Players take turns rolling and removing dice from the board or playing cards. whoever removes the last pair of dice from the board wins the round. Rolldown is a true blend of luck and strategy.
Rules:
Pieces · Both players start with six dice: a d4, a d6, a d8, a d10, a d12, and a d20. · One player starts with a black set and one player starts with a white set. · The game board has two separate areas for either player to roll their dice in. · The game uses a standard deck of playing cards, jokers included.
Starting a round · Both players start by rolling all their dice. · Both players draw 3 cards. White goes first, but black may reroll one of their own dice before the start of the game, because they are going second.
During play Players take turns back and forth and can use their turn to do one of the following: · Reroll. On their turn a player can choose to reroll one of the dice present on the board. This die may be under their control or the opponents. · Reduce. On their turn a player may remove one of their own dice from the board along with an enemy die that is displaying the same number or lower on its upward face. Because dice are always removed in pairs. You and your opponent should always have the same number of dice in play. · Play a card. A player may play a card in their hand to change a dice's value to a specific number rather than rerolling it. Either player's dice may be targeted by a card. A numbered card changes a dice's value to the number shown on the card. A numbered card cannot be played on a dice that cannot represent that value, for example you may not play a 9 on a D8 A jack turns any dice to a 1. A queen allows you to make two consecutive reroll actions. A king turns any dice to its max value. An ace turns any dice into 1 or its max value. A joker rerolls all the dice on the board. After a card is played it
In this co-operative trick-taking card game, you and the other players work together to search for the lost continent of Mu. This new adventure takes your crew deep down into the abyss on a search for the fabled sunken land. How far you get depends entirely on how well you work together as a team. Card by card, trick by trick, your search party will discover the challenges that lie ahead and forge a path to Mu.
