Ghost Fightin’ Treasure Hunters Anniversary Edition

• Designer: Brian Yu
• Publisher: Mattel
• Players: 2-5
• Age: 8+
• Time: 30 minutes
• Played with review copy provided by publisher
• Amazon affiliate link: https://amzn.to/3MvYd3u

Within the crumbling walls of a haunted manor, jealous ghosts guard eight precious jewels. Are you and your friends brave enough to seek out the treasure? Work together to explore the spook-filled halls. Each roll of the die allows you to move deeper into the house but might also summon another ghost! As the spirits’ numbers grow, the danger increases! Everyone must work together to find all the jewels, battle the greedy ghouls, and escape before the house becomes fully haunted. And if you fail… a few new ghosts might be moving in. Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!

Now includes 2 ways to play:

• Cooperative Mode – All players work together to win!
• Head Haunter Mode – Brand new One VS All mode where one player controls the ghosts against up to 4 other players!

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Rebel Princess Deluxe Edition

• Designers: Daniel Byrne, Gerardo Guerrero, Kevin Pleaez, Tirso Virgos
• Publisher: Bezier Games
• Players: 3-6
• Age: 10+
• Time: 30-45 minutes
• Played with review copy provided by publisher

Snow White, The Little Mermaid, Cinderella, and many other fairy tale princesses are celebrating a five-day party. The prince charmings, who have not been invited, will try to infiltrate the ball to propose marriage to the girls. As a princess, you have to avoid marriage proposals and remain single and independent after the celebrations.

Rebel Princess takes place over five rounds, representing the five days of a party, and each round has a special rule that makes each game totally different. The general mechanisms are those of trick-taking games, in which each player plays a numbered card into each trick, following one of the four suits in the game. The player with the highest number of the suit that started the trick takes all the cards of that trick — but that’s not necessarily good as players want to avoid taking cards with prince charmings, who each bring one marriage proposal, aside from the enchanted frog who brings five proposals. The player with the fewest marriage proposals after five rounds wins.

Importantly, each player assumes the role of a different fairy tale princess and has a special ability that they can use once per round.

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Pixies

• Designer: Johannes Goupy
• Publisher: Pandasaurus / Bombyx
• Players: 2-5
• Age: 8+
• Time: 20-30 minutes
• Played with review copy provided by Pandasaurus

In Pixies, you move through the seasons to meet little creatures emerging from a flower or sheltering in the hollow of a tree. Choose one of the revealed cards, but be careful which ones you leave to your opponents!

Place that card in your playing area according to its number. Cards placed one on top of another are validated and earn you points at the end of the round, as do your largest color zone and your spirals. Easy…yet you’ll find that the other players won’t be short of bad advice.

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Neodreams

• Designer: Ivan Lashin
• Publisher: Hobby World
• Players: 2-4
• Age: 12+
• Time: 30-60 minutes
• Played with review copy provided by publisher

In the near future, an astonishing new technology has been developed that allows the sleeping mind and machine to be connected. It is called Oneiroshunt, and with it, the business of crafting and selling dreams has become a thriving industry. For the right price, clients can learn new skills, overcome deep-seated fears, and travel to the most extraordinary locations all from the comfort of their beds.

In Neodreams, each player is the CEO of a company that is developing and using this technology, and they must expand fast to keep up with the competition. In this economic strategy game, players will deploy their Oneironauts to gather resources, craft stunning experiences, improve dreamscapes, and gain clients. The player who accumulates the most wealth once enough dreams have been created will dominate the Oneiroshunt industry for years to come!

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Fairy Ring

• Designers: Laurence Greniew and Fabien Tanguy
• Publisher: Repos
• Players: 2-4
• Age: 8+
• Time: 30-40 minutes
• Played with review copy per Asmodee NA
• Amazon affiliate link: https://amzn.to/3B2nSye

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.

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