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Ambush!: Box Cover Front

How To Play: Ambush!

Ambush! is a solo or team-based World War II combat game where players guide hidden troops through tense missions. Move carefully, search locations, follow scenario rules, and react to enemy surprises. Good planning matters, but luck loves ruining brave plans. Keep your soldiers alive, complete objectives, and learn from every messy skirmish.

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Cobra: Game of the Normandy Breakout: Box Cover Front

How To Play: Cobra

Cobra is a tense strategy game where players manage cards, control routes, and try to outguess one another. Each turn brings chances to attack, block, or improve your position. Smart timing matters, but so does watching your friends for clues. Build pressure carefully, protect your options, and strike before your rivals can react.

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Lawless: Box Cover Front

How To Play: Lawless

Lawless is a gritty frontier board game where players manage outlaws, claim territory, and chase rewards while watching rivals closely. Each turn, choose actions, build your gang, and decide when to push your luck. Smart timing and careful planning usually beat reckless bravado.

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Wilderness: Box Cover Front

How To Play: Wilderness

Wilderness is a strategy game about exploring wild terrain, managing limited supplies, and choosing when to take bold risks. Players plan routes, gather useful resources, and make smart moves to survive the journey. Careful timing matters, since one greedy choice can leave your party stuck, hungry, and grumpy.

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Boomerang: Box Cover Front

How To Play: Boomerang

Boomerang is a quick card-drafting game about exploring Australia, collecting sets, and earning points for clever choices. Each round, players pick a card, pass the rest, and repeat until the deck runs out. Track animals, activities, and landmarks while racing to complete goals without wrecking your final score.

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How To Play: Red Flags

Red Flags is a fast party game where players pitch dates using perk cards, then sabotage them with horrible red flags. Each round, one player judges the offers while everyone else argues for their doomed dream date. Make the judge laugh, overlook the chaos, and collect points before your friends ruin romance forever.

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How To Play: Pictionary

Pictionary is a lively drawing game where teams race to guess words from rough sketches. On your turn, draw the secret clue without speaking while teammates shout guesses. The timer keeps everyone moving, and clear ideas beat fancy art. The team with the most points wins after plenty of questionable masterpieces.

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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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