Planepita

• Designer: Eisuke Fujinawa, Kazunori Hori 
• Publisher: Szpi lab
• Players: 2-4
• Age: 10+
• Time: 15 min
• order link – https://szpilab.myshopify.com
• Played with review copy provided by publisher

Planepita is a dexterity game where players flick discs onto a central playing area. Discs in inner rings are worth more points than discs on outer rings.

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Uber den Wolken

• Designer: Konstantinos Karagiannis
• Publisher: Zoch
• Players: 2-4
• Age: 10+
• Time: 45 minutes
• Played with review copy provided by publisher

Winter is coming, so it’s time to head south!  In Über den Wolken (“Above the Clouds”), players maneuver their birds to ideal starting points for their great migratory journey, whether that’s at the front of the flock or nestled somewhere amongst their companions. To set up, shuffle three birds for each player with three neutral birds, then place them at random on the rows of the game board.

On a turn, you either take one of the four standard actions — with the cost of an action increasing for each subsequent player — or pay the cost of a a maneuver card in hand, then play it. The standard actions allow you to swap adjacent birds, add a new bird to the flock, or take a new maneuver card, whereas the maneuver cards let you swap distant birds or take unique actions. (You can pass as well, but that still has a cost.)

Once all players have exhausted their action cubes, the first bird in each column lands. The more birds you land at once, the more you score — with a bonus if you land a male and female pair at the same time. What’s more, you can use maneuver cards to score birds still in flight should they be in ideal positions. After the first and second rounds, move birds in flight forward, then fill gaps with birds from the deck. After three rounds, whoever has the most points wins.

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Lords of Worlds

• Designer: Michael Kiesling, Wolfgang Kramer
• Publisher: Mojito Studios
• Players: 2-4
• Age: 12+
• Time: 45-60 mins
•  Played with review copy provided by publisher

In Lords of Worlds, players compete to create the most valuable world by purchasing various types of terrain tiles and adding them to their personal planet.  Hire various assistants and utilize them wisely to secure optimal deals, then follow the instructions of your architects to ensure the construction of a gorgeous land!

In Lord of Worlds, you collect Terrain tiles and add them to your Planet trying to create chains of tiles of the same type: the longer a chain is, the more Victory points it will be worth at the end of the game. On your turn, you can either:

– Hire Assistants, adding cards to your hand
OR
– Play cards you have in your hand and use them to Move your Cart and/or Collect a tile.

The game has different ending conditions, depending on the number of players. When any of the ending conditions is met, conclude the current round, so that each player plays the same amount of turns. The player with the most Victory Points is the winner.

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Dewan

• Designers:  Johannes Goupy, Yoann Levet 
• Publisher: Space Cowbows
• Players: 2-4
• Age: 10+
• Time: 40 min
• Played with review copy provided by publisher

 “Our territory was limited, and resources were scarce, we marched from camp to camp in pursuit of victory.” —Traditional Dewan song

Dewan is a fast-paced, competitive area-placement game for 2-4 players that features racing, placement, and hand strategy. During play, you collect terrain cards and spend them to strategically place your camps on the territory. Make the best use of terrain and resources so that you can satisfy the requirements on your story tiles. Along the way, gather berries and master fire to earn additional points.

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