Gift Craft

• Designer: N2
• Publisher:  Arclight Games
• Players: 1-6
• Age: 6+
• Time:  10-20 minutes
• Played with review copy provided by publisher

Gift Craft is a quick and fun drafting game that is easy to jump into, but takes skill and forward thinking if you want to win.

• Don’t let their cute appearance fool you, these Plushie Pals long to be #1 and expect you to be the one to craft them with the precision necessary to be crowned victorious.
• Quick and Decisive Gameplay – Each game will feature 6 of the 50 total Plushie Pals that you and your opponents must choose from to be your champion.
• All 50 of the Plushie Pals have unique appearances and effects, offering a depth of variation in gameplay and replayability
• Compact Drafting Mechanic – Each game has 6 rounds of card drafting to build up your stock of resources.
• The fact that there are no turns, and everyone is drafting simultaneously keeps things intense and lets you finish a game in around 10 minutes.
• Just Once is Never Enough! – The combination of near-endless game variety and short playtime makes Gift Craft a game you and your friends will want to play over and over with reckless abandon!

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Calçada

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

There is a lot of activity on the Portuguese sidewalks. The first bars open and numerous people swarm out. Children scamper around happily, couples in love stroll through the alleys, while older passers-by relax on park benches in the shade following the hustle and bustle.

In Calçada, players take turns drafting pavement-tiles from the general display onto their player board via a mancala-inspired selection mechanism. Once someone completes a certain area, they get points based on the value of that area. This value then decreases. At the end, everyone gets extra points for connected objects or groups. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins.

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Charidice

• Designer: Jurgen Adams 
• Publisher: NSV
• Players: 2-4
• Age: 8+
• Time: 20 min
• Played with review copy provided by publisher

Take points, give points: Both can lead to success in Charidice. Charidice puts your generosity to the test. Donate your dice – don’t keep all the points for yourself.  If you’ve been particularly charitable, you’ll be awarded a valuable bonus at the end of the game.

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L.A.M.A. Kadabra

• Designer: Reiner Knizia
• Publisher: Amigo
• Players: 2-6
• Age: 8+
• Time: 15 minutes
• Amazon affiliate link: https://amzn.to/4eZnrE7 
• Played with review copy provided by publisher

The card game L.A.M.A. Kadabra plays similarly to the 2019 game L.L.A.M.A., but with a few additions that complicate gameplay and your choices of what to do.

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Skull Queen

• Designer: Stefan Dorra
• Publisher: Schmidt Spiele
• Players: 2-6
• Age: 8+
• Time: 30 minutes
• Amazon Affiliate Link: https://amzn.to/3C3y9dZ
• Played with review copy provided by publisher

Ahoy, mateys! Time to grab your pirate hats and set sail! Ready to claim the bounty of a lifetime?

You’re each the captain of a pirate ship, and your lookout has just spotted a ship full of bounty on the horizon. You need to line up your pirates so they are ready to board when you attack. Start by placing each Pirate on any one of the 5 spaces on your Plank. Be savvy when playing your cards so you can move your Pirates to the highest value spaces. But make sure you don’t lose a Pirate off your Plank—you don’t want a pirate ending up in the water! A Pirate that has fallen in the water cannot return to your Plank and so will score you 0 points later on. Once you’ve all played all your cards, for each Pirate you have on your Plank, you score the points shown on the space that Pirate is standing on.

Skull Queen is a trick-taking game in which you determine before the game starts whether you will win or lose tricks for every suit. The player who chooses wisely and outplays their opponents will be victorious.

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