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On Fire!!!: Box Cover Front

How To Play: On Fire!!!

On Fire!!! is a fast, fiery strategy game where players build connected fire chains, claim valuable spaces, and push their luck for bigger scores. Each turn, choose when to expand, protect your progress, or stop before the flames backfire. Smart timing and careful reading of rivals lead to victory.

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Burger Joint: Box Cover Front

How To Play: Burger Joint

Burger Joint is a lively restaurant game where players hire staff, gather ingredients, cook meals, and serve hungry customers. Each turn brings fresh choices and tight decisions, so waste can hurt your wallet fast. Manage your kitchen, watch the orders, and build the most successful burger business before the game ends.

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Lord of the Rings: Box Cover Front

How To Play: Lord of the Rings

Lord of the Rings is a cooperative adventure game where players guide hobbits toward Mount Doom while managing cards, movement, and growing threats. Each turn brings tough choices: build the Fellowship, use special powers, and survive shadow events. Work together, because one careless move can ruin everyone's day.

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Quantum: Box Cover Front

How To Play: Quantum

Quantum is a space strategy game where players command fleets of numbered ships, roll dice, and use those results to move, fight, research, and build quantum cubes. Smart positioning matters, but luck can shove your grand plan out an airlock. Claim sectors, complete objectives, and outthink rival empires.

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Waters Edge: Box Cover Front

How To Play: Waters Edge

Waters Edge is a strategy game where players place workers, manage resources, and choose when to act in a shifting market. Gather what you need, watch your rivals, and balance safe choices with risky rewards. Plan each turn carefully, because poor timing can leave your crew—and your victory hopes—high and dry.

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Nomads - Nomads, Ludonaute, 2017 — front cover (image provided by the publisher) - Credit: W Eric Martin

How To Play: Nomads

Nomads is a tactical board game about moving wandering groups across the map, gathering resources, trading goods, and claiming useful spaces. On your turn, you choose actions carefully, watch rival routes, and time your moves before supplies run thin. Smart planning, flexible movement, and a little friendly backstabbing lead to victory.

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Home Sweet Home: Box Cover Front

How To Play: Home Sweet Home

Home Sweet Home is a light strategy game about building the best house from available rooms. On your turn, place rooms, chase useful bonuses, and balance comfort with clever scoring choices. Plan ahead, but stay flexible when the tiles change. The player with the happiest, highest-scoring home wins.

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Niagara: Box Cover Front

How To Play: Niagara

Niagara is a fast river race where players guide canoes, collect gems, and try not to tumble over the waterfall. Each turn, you secretly choose a paddle card to move the current and your boats. Plan carefully, watch your rivals, and bring back the right gems to win.

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How To Play: Dark Tower

Dark Tower is a fantasy adventure game where heroes explore lands, gather supplies, fight monsters, and complete quests. Players use the electronic tower to track events, issue commands, and reveal nasty surprises. Plan your moves, manage your gold, and reach the tower prepared, or its dark magic will ruin your day.

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How To Play: Medici

Medici is a fast auction game where players buy goods for their merchant ships. Each round, reveal cargo cards and bid against your friends, balancing tempting deals with a tight purse. Score points by shipping valuable goods and winning majorities, but spend too much and your trading empire may sink.

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Wildlands - Wildlands, Osprey Games, 2018 — front cover (image provided by the publisher) - Credit: W Eric Martin

How To Play: Wildlands

Wildlands is a fast fantasy skirmish game where rival warbands battle across a changing map. Players use cards to move fighters, attack enemies, claim objectives, and trigger special powers. Smart positioning matters, but so does knowing when to grab points and run. It plays best with bold plans and sneaky surprises.

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Distilled: Box Cover Front

How To Play: Distilled

Distilled is a lively strategy game about running a small spirits company. You buy ingredients, manage your cash, age recipes, and bottle drinks for profit. Each round brings tough choices as prices shift and rivals chase the same goods. Build your distillery wisely, complete secret goals, and become the best producer.

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Trade: Box Cover Front

How To Play: Trade

Trade is a fast trading game where players collect goods, swap resources, and plan clever deals. Each turn, you must weigh your current stash against future gains while watching what rivals want. Make smart trades, build your wealth, and finish with the most valuable collection to win.

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