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1969 - the year when man reached the moon. You experience the time before the first launch to the moon as a member of a space agency. You'll train astronauts, check various safety issues, assemble rockets and launch missions into space to get closer to your goal, the manned moon landing, step by step. If you test your systems well and train your crew for all situations, you have a good chance of getting there. But unpredictable problems can always occur and push you back.



Who will be the first to get their astronauts not only safely to the moon, but also just as safely back to Earth?



Space Missions is a competitive board game for 2 to 4 experienced players aged 12 and up. Using a deck sizing mechanism, players optimize multiple decks at once that determine the success or failure of their space missions. Playtime is approximately 60 to 90 minutes.

The Smoky Valley is a heavy economic and industrial development game set around the Lachine Canal, which is located in the Griffintown neighborhood in Montréal, Canada.

In The Smoky Valley, you are an investor during the 19th century, contributing to the standing of Griffintown as a key industrial area in North America by building and upgrading industries, producing and transforming goods, & shipping goods abroad.

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Besides these activities for the good of Griffintown and your own wealth, you will also have to stimulate the development of the city to boost economic activities, provide public services, and increase the quality of life of citizens. If your actions are well received by the citizens and your popularity raises faster than your opponents, you may even become mayor of the city. This office will offer you the chance to influence the city's development for the best of your interests - as well as your citizens', of course!



Do you have what it takes to be remembered as the greatest builder of The Smoky Valley?

Weird Stories is a one-shot, zero-prep, dice-less, and GM-less story-editing roleplaying game where players will tell stories similar to the films of David Lynch, novels by Haruki Murakami or Jeff VanderMeer, and the TV series Lost. These stories have many more questions than answers, and remain shrouded in mystery throughout.



Weird Stories is capable of giving you a cryptic allegory, or a dreamy tale of illogic, or a nightmarish fantasy, or a hilarious fever dream, or straight-up horror. Any of these stories are able to hit us on a subconscious level and stick with us long after playing.

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[h2]Let’s get weird.[/h2]

Maharaja is a new edition of the classic game by the authors Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling. In this new version of the game which now supports 1 to 4 players and is enriched with new graphics and components, you build statues of your God of reference to please the Maharaja during their visit and score victory points at the end of the game depending on the majority you reach.

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During the game, players take the role of priests who travel to different cities in India, building statues and shrines dedicated to their favorite Gods to expand their worship. To do so, they are assisted by several characters with different abilities. Every year, the Maharaja, the great king of India, will change his residence and players will receive rewards according to their Gods' worship value. At the beginning of each year, players plan their actions in a secret phase to be played simultaneously.

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At the end of the seventh year or when a player builds their seventh statue, the game ends, then the player with most prestige wins.



[h2]The Tabletopia version of the game has been updated from the prototype components to the retail version![/h2]

Dinamine is a mine building strategy game for 2-4 players. The goal is to build the most valuable mine in 10 rounds. Players must build tunnels and mine veins. The deeper the veins, the more valuable the gems that are mined from them.



On each turn, a player will build one or more tunnels in their mine by obtaining tunnel tiles that add up to the number of points obtained from round token + dice roll. The tiles chosen must be of equal or lesser value, as long as the number of points acquired does not exceed the value of the tunnel tile(s). In some cases, players can perform an extra action depending on the tile type.



The game ends when the last round token is played. (There are 10 rounds) The victory point (VP) count is then performed to determine who is the winner. The player with the most victory points (VP) after counting veins, altars, wells, rewards, items and missions is the winner!