Building Games

3HOUSE is a little 28 page glossy booklet with rules for three games you can play with the pyramids in three Treehouse sets. Includes rules to Secret Project 3H-1, Martian Chess, and Binary Homeworlds.

These airships are majestic as they rise to the heavens. It took a long time before the work on these giants could begin. Engineers had to be employed, a hangar built, materials procured and sponsors found. At last the day has arrived and a giant airship starts its maiden flight towards the horizon.

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No. of Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 45 to 60 minutes
Min. Age: 10
GamesLore Rating: 6
GL Price: £20.49        (RRP is £24.99)

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590BC. Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, marries the magnificent Amyitis, the king of Media’s daughter. But the beauty languishes for the lush vegetation of her land. Nebuchadnezzar wants to have splendid hanging gardens built for her. Now, the city is getting ready to take up the tremendous challenge ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 60 to 90 minutes
Min. Age: 12
GamesLore Rating: 7
GL Price: £28.99        (RRP is £34.99)

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The young, up-and-coming Roman kingdom needs a wide variety of things, but the one thing the big towns need above all the others is drinking water.

So experienced master builders and diligent workmen set about errecting mighty aquaducts to provide the people with water.

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No. of Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 60 minutes
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Each player is the owner of a water zoo. Each player tries to lure as many visitors as possible into his water zoo and earns points for the visitors that visit his zoo. To create a zoo that people want to visit, a player must collect animals. When a player’s water zoo is successful, he may want to ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 5
Duration: 45 to 60 minutes
Min. Age: 10
GL Price: £32.99        (RRP is £39.99)

Players build a town in Ancient Greece in friendly competition with each another. But there is a catch. Each building must be surrounded by the appropriate scenery otherwise points are deducted.

Compete with your fellow players for the most beautiful towers. Players take on the roles of famous architects and using their chicanery, try to obtain the best construction parts. With these the exuberant towers are erected. Think ahead, use your tactical sense and it will help you to stay ahead ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 45 to 60 minutes
Min. Age: 9
GL Price: £37.99        (RRP is £47.99)

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Basilica, a game for 2 players, presents the duel of two medieval master masons who are ordered to build a medieval cathedral together. Players are planning cathedral layout and overseeing work at the construction site in tandem, in the same time trying to gain advantage over the opposite player.

Complete the blueprints and restore Blue Moon City to its former glory! Guide the peoples of Blue Moon in their efforts to rebuild their home and earn the favor of the elemental dragons. Prove that you have what it takes to be the leader of all the peoples of Blue Moon.

In 1905, the last great North American gold and silver rush took place near Death Valley, in Nevada. Bullfrog Goldfield is a stock trading game where players attempt to cash in on the discovery of this ore. Players must develop mines to acquire the ore, construct towns to support the miners, and ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 5
Duration: 120 minutes
Min. Age: 16
GL Price: £32.99        (, RRP is £39.99)

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Burdigala is the Roman name for the city of Bordeaux. The game is about the growth of the city during the Roman times.

The board shows a map of the city, with various building sites and streets. At the beginning of the game, a tile is placed on each building site. Each tile shows a building ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 45 minutes
Min. Age: 8
GL Price: £22.99        (, RRP is £26.99)

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It's a game about the great Canal building era of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that captures the feel of the period and gives players plenty of decision making in their attempts to complete some of the most famous British canals.

Players will engage brilliant engineers such as James ...more...

Min. Age: 14
GamesLore Rating: 8
GL Price: £19.99        (RRP is £22.99)

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In Italy during the Middle Ages, it is of paramount importance to build castles at attractive locations – but unfortunately other landlords are also trying to gain power in the country.

The two expansion modules included – "Dilemma" and "Battle" – can be combined freely with the basic game. ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 45 minutes
Min. Age: 10
GL Price: £36.99        (, RRP is £44.99)

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More than 2500 years ago, the emperor of the Qin dynasty decided to protect his prolific provinces of northern China from the frequent barbaric invasions, building and joining several fortified fortresses. So he made an impressive series of defensive walls that stretch for over 6000 kilometres. Armies ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 60 minutes
Min. Age: 12
GamesLore Rating: 6
GL Price: £26.49        (RRP is £32.99)

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The players are builders in the Ancient Egypt, competing to get the most fame building different monuments requested by the Pharaoh (the Sphinx, the Obelisk, the Temple and the Pyramid).

Build your own factory. Pick valuable machines and build the best production chains. Optimally connect all your machines and reservoirs to create the most profitable factory.

Players race to grab the machines that best suit their factory floor. Purchase connections and output resorvoirs to ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 5
Duration: 45 minutes
Min. Age: 10
GL Price: £32.99        (RRP is )

Building in New York City is booming and everyone wants to get in on the new fad - building that touch the sky: skyscrapers! Players compete to build their sky scrapers in the best locations, but what is a good location? One with shopping - and the more shopping, the better!

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No. of Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 60 minutes
Min. Age: 12
GamesLore Rating: 7
GL Price: £24.99        (RRP is )

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In the role of architects, the players try to implement work contracts for the rich patrician families in Florence.

Through action cards both construction materials and influence are brought into the game. The pressure to build tightens the rivalry for materials and as each work contract is ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 45 to 90 minutes
Min. Age: 12
GL Price: £28.99        (RRP is £34.99)

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In Florenza, the players are the heads of the most powerful families in Florenza during the Renaissance period. The goal of the game is to become the most famous patron of the arts by hiring the most famous artists of the period and financing their works.

In this game, players incarnate clan leaders during the Golden Age of Easter Island. The board represents a simplified map of the island. Rock platforms are where the ahus (the rock platforms) Moaïs will be erected.

Your clan competes against others, and you will earn more prestige by building ...more...

Min. Age: 10
GL Price: £36.99        (RRP is £44.99)


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2212. Ginkgo Biloba, the oldest and strongest tree in the world, has become the symbol of a new method for building cities in symbiosis with nature. Humans have exhausted the resources that the Earth offered them, and humanity must now develop cities that maintain a delicate balance between resource ...more...

No. of Players: 1 - 5
Duration: 45 minutes
Min. Age: 13
GL Price: £40.99        (, RRP is £49.99)

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In Giza, the Great Pyramid™ you are the leader of one of four factions vying for Pharaoh’s favor. You have 10 years to outperform the other factions and contribute the most to his great pyramid, earning eternal gratitude and glory. You shall need to balance your labor! Farm and fish to feed your ...more...

No. of Players: 3 - 4
Duration: 90 minutes
Min. Age: 12
GL Price: £22.99        (RRP is £27.99)

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The day has come. The paperwork is complete, the registration filed, and the business cards purchased – you're open for business! So now what? Where do you spend your time? Where do you spend your money? Which tasks are most important? What should take priority? Should you hire new employees? Or ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 6
Duration: 90 to 120 minutes
Min. Age: 12
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The hanging gardens were one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world, as all history courses teach. But, did they actually exist? Nothing remains of their reported splendor, which was built for the eyes of Amyitis.

Without an exact reference to follow, the 2-4 players will re-establish the hanging ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 30 to 45 minutes
Min. Age: 8
GL Price: £22.99        (£22.99, RRP is £27.99)

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The sun, the wide-open sea, and a gentle breeze Five Hawaiians are enjoying the beach and the sun and all agree that the most recent choice of chieftain was good and the title well earned. And, each brags that next time, he will be the one chosen. To demonstrate their worth, each vows to build the ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 5
Duration: 60 to 90 minutes
Min. Age: 13
GL Price: £28.99        (RRP is £34.99)


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The Homestead Act of 1862 allowed Americans to claim 160-640 Acres of undeveloped land by living on and farming it for 5 years.

Also in the 1860s the Transcontinental Railroad was built across North America, linking rail networks between the east and west coasts. The development of the railroads ...more...

No. of Players: 3 - 4
Duration: 60 to 120 minutes
Min. Age: 13
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In INCA EMPIRE the players are "Apus" (leader of one of the four regions/suyus). Your job as an Apu is to increase your status in the eyes of the divine emperor ("Sapa Inca") by doing the best job of expanding and improving the empire.

In Island Fortress, you play a master builder chosen by Governor Cortland Hansen to help construct the mighty Fort Aldenford using the penal colony on Alcott Island. Your goal is to become the most distinguished architect with the help of your Taskmaster, Workers, and the Governor himself!

The object of the game in Key Harvest is to score the most points. Players score points by placing tiles on their own country board. Each player has the same board, but there is only one of each tile, so there is competition when two players want the same tile. One point is scored for each field ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 60 to 90 minutes
Min. Age: 8
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Designed by Reiner Knizia (Through the Desert, Colossal Arena), Kingdoms is a fast-paced, strategic board game in which two to four players assume the roles of rival kings trying to increase their wealth by establishing castles across the land. By building castles in the richest regions, you stand ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 20 to 40 minutes
Min. Age: 14
GL Price: £19.99        (RRP is £23.99)

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London lies devastated after the Great Fire of 1666. This is your opportunity to build a new city on the ashes of the old. It is up to you how you employ the talents of the people of London to this end. Will you favour the business classes, who will earn you money? Or would you prefer to spend more ...more...

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In medieval times, famous masons competed to build the most beautiful and impressive cities. As we can see from what they left behind, they were perfectionists, but each had his own ideas about the best ways to design cities. Stately government buildings stand next to noble palaces with massive walls ...more...

Min. Age: 8
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The awe-inspiring Metropolys is in effervescence! Talented Urban planners and architects rival each other to make luxury, elegant buildings of glass and steel defying the laws of balance grow from the ground. Who will eventually impose their style to leave an indelible trail in the history of the ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 45 to 60 minutes
Min. Age: 8
GamesLore Rating: 8
GL Price: £32.99        (RRP is £39.99)

The settlement of the country is the work of the players in their role as noble builders in Milestones!

Many civilizations have come and gone over the course of human history. Some developed very advanced, inspiring cultures. Others remain unnoticed. Today we seek answers to countless questions left by our ancestors. Historians explore their ancient monuments, structures, and ruins that illuminate ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 45 to 60 minutes
Min. Age: 8
GL Price: £22.99        (RRP is £27.99)

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The players take on the roles of the heads of influential families in Paris at the end of the 14th century. In the shadow of the Notre Dame cathedral, the players compete for prosperity and reputation. Each family controls one of the 3 -5 boroughs that surround the site of Notre Dame. As head of ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 5
Duration: 45 to 90 minutes
Min. Age: 10
GamesLore Rating: 8
GL Price: £28.99        (RRP is £34.99)


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In ancient Greece, the city-states thrived increasing their population and culture, occasionally waging war against each other, erecting buildings and celebrating ceremonies to get the favour of the deities abiding on Mount Olympus.

Olympus is a strategy game, based on worker and resource management, ...more...

No. of Players: 3 - 5
Duration: 120 minutes
Min. Age: 12
GL Price: £40.99        (RRP is £49.99)

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In Ora and Labora, each player is head of a monastery in the Medieval era that acquires land and constructs buildings – little enterprises that will gain resources and profit. The goal is to build a working infrastructure and manufacture prestigious items – such as books, ceramics, ornaments and ...more...

No. of Players: 1 - 4
Duration: 120 minutes
Min. Age: 10
GL Price: £45.99        (RRP is £54.99)


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Who will build the most magnificent palace? In the game of Palazzo, set in the age of the late renaissance, the players slip on the roles of wealthy landowners, who compete against each other to build the most valuable palaces. As their constructions grow, the players must choose from the available ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 45 to 60 minutes
Min. Age: 10
GL Price: £18.99        (RRP is £24.99)

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Empires rise and fall. In the buffer areas and crossroads between civilizations, however, a clever ruler can sometimes adopt new ideas, establish trade, and found a city state -- such as the great Phoenician cities of Tyre and Sidon -- that will outlast many neighboring empires. Phoenicia about building ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 5
Duration: 60 minutes
Min. Age: 12
GL Price: £32.99        (RRP is £39.99)

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With "Ponte del Diavolo" Martin Ebel honors Alex Randolph's most famous game "Twixt" by bringing new elements to this excellent game. In this game, the players build stone bridges over the many canals of Venice. Players score for each successful bridging and for each connected island. Alternative ...more...

No. of Players: 2
Duration: 30 minutes
Min. Age: 10
GL Price: £16.49        (RRP is £19.99)

Over the course of 3 years, the players develop their principalities. When is the best moment for expanding your city, when is a harvest notably profitable, and how much defense is needed at your city walls? Keeping the timing always under control is the major key to success.

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No. of Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 45 to 90 minutes
Min. Age: 13
GL Price: £24.99        (RRP is £29.99)

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In Pyramidion, each player plays an Egyptian foreman in charge of a resource supply for the gigantic construction site of the Cheops pyramid. On your turn, you activate sites and play cards in order to gain the biggest influence on these sites. Each foreman will use his contacts among merchants, ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 60 minutes
Min. Age: 10
GL Price: £28.99        (RRP is £34.99)

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Québec puts you at the head of a rich family who wants to leave its name in history by building Québec city. The game spans four centuries during which you erect the most prestigious buildings and places of the city. Construction is not enough: you also have to ensure your presence in the great spheres ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 5
Duration: 60 to 90 minutes
Min. Age: 13
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Rudi Hoffmann's inspiration for Ramparts came from the great medieval towers of San Gimignano built in the Tuscany region of Italy. Now known as "The Manhattan of the Middle Ages", San Gimignano was home to 72 large towers during the 12th and 13th Centuries, only 15 of which remain standing today. ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 30 minutes
Min. Age: 12
GL Price: £21.49        (RRP is £24.99)

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Saint Malo is a light, dice-rolling strategy game in which the players draw their own city buildings, walls, and people on wipe-off boards.

In more detail, in Saint Malo players roll five dice to gain various resources; combinations of dice create enhancements like characters or buildings, ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 5
Duration: 60 minutes
Min. Age: 9
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St. Petersburg: Baroque Palaces, wide boulevards and elegant bridges: St Petersburg. On May 16, 1703, Czar Peter the Great lays the foundation for the first building. Quickly impressive buildings are erected that are ever more grand and beautiful. Such buildings bring the aristocracy glory and the ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 45 to 60 minutes
Min. Age: 10
GamesLore Rating: 8
GL Price: £22.99        (RRP is £27.99)


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The New Society adds 36 cards with purple dots to distinguish them and the parts to allow 5 players to play. In addition, the game adds several cards and provides other cards to replace those in the original game.

The Banquet adds 12 cards with gold dots to distinguish them. The deck includes ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 5
Duration: 45 to 60 minutes
Min. Age: 10
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The peaks of Snowdonia rise before you, encased in mist, their summits barely visible. The highest is Snowdon (Wyddfa) herself at 1,085 metres. The year is 1894, and the Snowdon Mountain Tramroad and Hotels Company Limited has been formed to build a branch line from Llanberis to the summit. You can ...more...

No. of Players: 1 - 5
Duration: 30 to 90 minutes
Min. Age: 10
GL Price: £27.99        (RRP is £31.99)


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Plan, build, and develop a small town into a major metropolis. Use hex-shaped building tiles to add residential, commercial, civic, and industrial areas, as well as special points of interest that provide benefits and take advantage of the resources of nearby towns. Your goal is to have your borough ...more...

No. of Players: 1 - 4
Duration: 90 minutes
Min. Age: 8
GL Price: £44.99        (RRP is £49.99)


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In the tile-laying game Sunrise City, players build a city with zone tiles, bid for control of those zones, then place building tiles on the city zones to their best advantage. Each round the players use role cards to grant them special abilities in the various game phases. Points earned during play ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 60 minutes
Min. Age: 13
GL Price: £35.99        (RRP is £39.99)

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In the year 79 A.D., the beautiful city of Pompeii sits at the foot of Mount Vesuvius. For years, the lovely town has attracted the best of Rome's citizens, and it is famous for both its businesses and luxuries. But a terrible secret lies deep beneath the slopes of the mighty mountain. A secret that ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 45 to 60 minutes
Min. Age: 10
GamesLore Rating: 7
GL Price: £28.99        (RRP is £34.99)

Each player is at the head of a princely family. The families were ordered by the King to build magnificent buildings in the various cities and enrich them with the most unusual objects. On special occasions, the families will invite the King so that he may inspect their progress. Depending on where ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 60 minutes
Min. Age: 14
GL Price: £36.99        (RRP is £44.99)

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A series of devastating tornadoes, unleashed by enemy mages in the recent war has left all the king's castles in ruin. Only the foundations of these once magnificent monuments remain. He has charged his sons with rebuilding his castles and promised the throne to the one who can rebuild the tallest ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 90 to 120 minutes
Min. Age: 12
GamesLore Rating: 8
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It's an all-new color of pyramids! Pink Treehouse is a set of 15 pyramids, all pink. Fast, easy and fun, just like regular Treehouse.

This is essentially a "monochrome stash" and as such, is the perfect add-on to five regular Treehouse sets in order to play Volcano. Looks great with either ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 5 to 10 minutes
GL Price: £8.49        (RRP is £9.99)


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Urban Sprawl is a game for and abstractly models the growth of a town into a teeming metropolis.

Players assume the roles of entrepreneur, tycoon and politician—each helping in the development of a hypothetical “Anywhere, USA.” Wealth and Prestige will be earned and spent throughout the game. ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 4
Levels: 12 to
Duration: 90 to 180 minutes
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Urbania is a game of city renewal where you try your hand as a famous urban planner who is working on the re-development of a run-down city.

In Urbanization, the players follow the development of a rural area, from the beginning of the industrial revolution to modern times. They guide their villages through hard times and try to attract citizens by building houses. Later, factories are erected and the villages grow into prospering cities.

In Via Appia up to four players hope to secure their place in history among Rome’s greatest builders by leading the Appian Way, the queen of the long roads, as stated by Roman poet Statius, to the seaport of Brundisium at the Adriatic Sea. As is well known, all roads lead to Rome and in Via Appia ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 45 minutes
Min. Age: 8
GL Price: £36.99        (RRP is £44.99)

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It's simple and silly at the same time. First, create a stable 1 storey home using all the construction materials provided. Now convert this home into a 5 level mansion using the same materials you used to hold up 1 floor to support all 5 floors.

It's Chaos and Building, Mayhem at its Best!

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No. of Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 30 minutes
Min. Age: 8
GL Price: £20.49        (RRP is £24.99)

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Life in the village is hard – but life here also allows the inhabitants to grow and prosper as they please. One villager might want to become a friar. Another might feel ambitious and strive for a career in public office. A third one might want to seek his luck in distant lands.

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No. of Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 60 to 90 minutes
Min. Age: 12
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Village Inn, the first expansion for the award-winning game Village, adds two new buildings to the village: the brewery and the inn.

In Western Town, each player is a Marshal of an expanding town in the Old West of the U.S. in the early 1860s. Each Marshal wants to develop the most prosperous town, one which President Lincoln himself would be proud to visit.

Players are working together to build a town in the Wild West, making decisions based on the amount of money they are willing to invest. While the players appear to be building the town together, each of them has a secret agenda. The aim of each player is to have built at least 4 of the 6 objective ...more...

No. of Players: 4 - 8
Duration: 45 to 60 minutes
Min. Age: 8
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Each player uses small, large, wild and exotic animals and their young to try and attract as many visitors as possible to their zoo. But be careful - the zoo must be carefully planned. Before you know it, you have too many animals and no more room for them. That brings minus points! Luckily, your ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 5
Duration: 45 to 60 minutes
Min. Age: 8
GamesLore Rating: 8
GL Price: £28.99        (RRP is £34.99)


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Zooloretto Mini is the little brother to the 2007 "Spiel des Jahres" (Game of the Year). As in Zooloretto, each player is the zoo director of a small zoo. They must bring new animals into their zoos and arrange landscape tiles on the grounds. Points are awarded at the end of the game for both.

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No. of Players: 2 - 5
Duration: 30 minutes
Min. Age: 7
GL Price: £13.49        (RRP is £15.99)


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Now the zoo becomes more exotic with the building of a new jungle experience path with strange animals from all over the world. These new exotic animals attract a large number of curious visitors. And the stands pay double because of the increased business. Of course, the other zoos also have their ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 5
Duration: 45 minutes
Min. Age: 8
GL Price: £18.99        (RRP is £24.99)

This contains 5 expansions for Zooloretto:

Gorilla is a small expansion for the award-winning Zooloretto and the folow-on game Aquaretto.

For Zooloretto, it contains a savings book for each player and job boards. Savings books can be used to earn interest during the game and to break ties at the end of the game. It also contain job ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 5
Duration: 45 minutes
Min. Age: 8
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The zoo grows and prospers: new animals are added regularly and the animals provide offspring from time to time. Once a zoo is full and few new animals are added, it can become boring and customers want something new.

Also, zoo managers find it useful to share their animals by sending them ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 5
Duration: 45 to 60 minutes
Min. Age: 8
GL Price: £22.99        (RRP is £27.99)

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