Here Be Books & Games play a nal game with both the Leaders and Cities expan- • Foam Uzis for use in regular play. Staring down the It Takes Two: 7 Games confusing until you learn how to play. Of course Tim and up to choose in which column(s) you’ll advance your Aton - One of my favorite for the round, then score each temple. e player with the majority of but you have no idea what he's holding. While you can take and use his discards, he can take and use yours, too! It's a Tim loves this two-player game, but there’s too much conict for my taste. It’s too sions or perhaps the Babel expansion instead. Boards will I would be happy to teach you. Full run-down of game barrel of that, there are going to be a lot less punks feeling We Love to Play as a working cones. You can only advance up to three cones two-player games stones in each temple, scores for that temple. For Temple 1, the player game of give and take and loads of fun. Now for a history lesson. bad, the artwork looks really cool! be assigned randomly in each game. lucky that day! You’ll have to participate in the event to play later in this newsletter. each turn, pressing your luck by rolling again. If you roll with the most stones in Temple 1 scores points equal to the dierence Couple Designed by Reiner Knizia, Lost Cities was rst published in 1999 and quickly won several awards: e base game of Star Realms supports 2 players ages 12 and up. With two 7 Wonders Champion have a chance to win one of these puppies! 4. Ticket to Ride. numbers that don’t match any of the columns your Aton is an abstract strategy game with an in the players’ stone count. For example: if blue has 5 stones and red 1, e Champion will also receive a While there 1999 Fairplay À la carte Winner sets, 4 can play. Non-collectible expansion packs – they look like booster News emblem to embellish his or her Game Night name badge Admission: $10 per person. e rst 30 gamers who Tim and I have been are two Ticket to Ride maps working cones are in, you lose all progress made that turn. Egyptian theme. I’m not blue scores 4 points. For Temple 2, the player with the majority of packs, but each pack contains exactly the same cards – are also available to 1999 Meeples' Choice Award playing games together I told you it was press your luck! It’s also addicting. usually a fan of abstract stones scores a straight 5 points - which would be red in the picture and have their picture posted on our Wall of Champions register by Tuesday, March 19, 2016 will receive a expressly made for two to three 2000 International Gamers Awards - General Strategy; Two-players spice up the game. Play time is about 20 minutes. on Facebook. since we met. It’s how players (Switzerland and Nordic strategy games, but for (right). e player with the majority in Temple 3, scores 1 point for Issue 35 February 2016 Giant Cthulhu. While I could certainly make this list even longer, space is e spin-o of Star Realms that supports up to 4 players, we met, actually in Countries), we’ve found the this one, I make an each of his stones there. In this case, neither player scores any points for In 2008, two board games were spun o Lost Cities: Lost Cities: Admission is $10 per person. e rst 20 gamers who Sign up now in-store at Here Be Books & Games or on limited, so seven will have to do - in the newsletter Cthulhu Realms, has you trying to drive your opponents insane. at is, February 1987. We’ve boards that support up to four exception. With four Temple 3. e player with the majority in Temple 4, scores 3 points for e Board Game, published by Rio Grande Games here in the register by Tuesday, February 16, 2016 will receive the our web site. anyway. In the store, we’ve set up a special display of your goal is to reduce your opponents’ sanity to insanity or have the most remaining sanity yourself Save the Date! been together ever since: or ve players to provide closer ways to win, you have to each stone she has on a blue square. In the picture, blue would score 6 U.S. (recently republished by ames & Kosmos) and Keltis, new Palace promo card with their registration. two-player games to celebrate Valentine’s Day. And, of when the deck runs out. Typical Cthulhu mythos madness. Cthulhu Realms supports 2 to 4 players Saturday, February 6, 6 pm living proof that the couple who competitions for two, particu- watch your opponent with a points. Finally, the player with the majority of stones on grey spaces, published by Kosmos in Germany. Lost Cities: e Board Game Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club course, we’d be happy to teach you how to play them! ages 14 and up with a playtime of 25 to 45 minutes. Game Night Sign up now at Here Be Books & Games or online via plays together stays together. larly the original with the USA 1910 hawk’s eye, while also trying to further your own strategy. scores 8 points - blue here. If neither player has achieved 40 points, both players remove one of their stones from each of features the same archaeological look, theme and feel as Lost our web site. Current read: In nity Welcomes e rulebook can be a bit confusing until you learn how the temples, collect their stones from the Kingdom of the Dead and continue playing. Cities, supports 2 to 4 players and adds a few new twists to the Saturday, February 13, 1-5:30pm With February being the month for lovers, I’ve put expansion, the 10 Year Anniversary Edition and Europe. Learn to Play Ticket to Ride U.K. Careful Drivers by Grant Naylor Jaipur - Send Your to play. Of course Tim and I would be happy to teach game with card play still always in ascending order. Niya - Beautiful Fun together a list of our favorite games to play together - just 5. Pandemic. I just love a good cooperative Aton supports two players ages 8 and up and plays in about 30 minutes. and Pennsylvania (Jason) Camels to Trade you. Niya Connect 4 us two. Not all of these games are made for just two, game! What could be better than working Keltis, however, has a bright is a type of game – with a twist – and lovely Japanese artwork. You begin by Saturday, February 20, 6 pm Read the book and we'll meet though many are, but all of them provide excellent game together as a team saving the world from a In Jaipur, a ere are four ways to win in Aton: 1) Fill a temple Lost Cities - An Expedition for Two green, Irish Celtic theme shuing the 16 beautiful tiles and arranging them in a 4×4 square. Each tile shows one of 7 Wonders Tournament & Friday, February 19 at 6 p.m. at completely with your stones, 2) Place your stones on all of along with its new twists, four types of vegetation (maple, cherry, pine or iris) and one of four types of poetic symbols play for two players. four-virus Pandemic? Saving the world from set-collection card Lost Cities is the rst Euro card game my husband and I ever owned. Tim picked it up Game Night HBB&G to discuss it. the green spaces on the board, 3) Fill all of the yellow plus the added ability to play cards in either ascending or descending order - you (rising sun, bird, rain or tanzaku – the small pieces of paper on which people sometimes I consider a game excellent for two when the contest is four viruses - one a virulent strain - and a game of trading and at a thrift store in San Diego and put it in our game cabinet, where I'm ashamed to Friday, February 26, 6 p.m. We’ve started a new list. (Note: fth mutated virus in Pandemic: On the selling goods, your spaces with your stones, or 4) score 40 points. e game choose for each expedition. ere are a few other minor dierences, too. write wishes). To begin the game, the start player removes one of the tiles along the edge Sci Fi/Fantasy Book Club always close and engaging, when you have to be say it remained until after we moved to South Carolina. It wasn't until we played it at and places one of her tokens there. e other player does likewise, but may only choose a you have to be attending meet- Brink! Or better yet, playing it campaign- camels are an essential tool ends immediately when any one of the winning condi- Keltis then spun o an expansion board with mind-boggling twists and turns - constantly aware of what your opponent is up to and another gamer's house that we realized we had a treasure - undiscovered in our game tile that depicts either the same type of vegetation or poetic symbol as on the tile the start Saturday, March 5, 6 pm ings for your book selection to be style with an ongoing storyline, like charac- of the trade. Here’s a quick run- tions is met. Keltis: Neue Wege, Neue Ziele (New Paths, New Ways); the card game Keltis: Das modify your play accordingly. What I don’t like is head- cabinet. I'm proud to say that now the cards are well-worn due to the number of times player set aside. Play continues, with each player removing a tile (that matches one of the Game Night eligible as the next reading ters in a TV series, where the results of every game carry down of the game play in this Each player has a deck of cards numbered 1 to 4. Each Kartenspiel; and the travel game Keltis: Mitbringspiel (Bring-Along, aka Keltis: Stones) to-head conict, so you won’t nd any war games or we’v played it since then. Recently teaching it to a couple who happened in our store a symbols on the previously removed tile) and placing one of her tokens until one of the Saturday, March 19, 6pm choice.) Here are the submissions forward into your next game. I’m talking Pandemic: beautiful and fun card game. turn you’ll both draw four cards and simultaneously in 2009. Another board game featuring a spiral path - Keltis: Das Orakel (e Cash ’n Guns Organized Play war-like games on this list, though I have provided a few weeks ago helped put it the front of my mind when I began planning my two- following conditions is met: Ca$h ’n Guns Organized Play I’ve received so far, in alphabetical order by title: synopsis of a popular head-to-head conict two-player Legacy baby! You can nd full reviews of Pandemic and its On your turn you can either take one good into your assign your cards to the four Cartouches on your side of player game reviews for Valentine's Day. So, on to the treasure that is Lost Cities. Oracle) - and the dice game Keltis: Würfelspiel followed in 2012. Keltis has achieved honors Special Game Night Saturday, March 19, 6 p.m. expansions, and Pandemic: Legacy Season 1 on my game the board. When you’re both ready, reveal the card on of its own: winning the coveted Spiel des Jahres award in 2008 and nominated for numerous other • A player forms a line with four of her tokens in any direction. • Dawn by Octavia Butler (Tim) game my husband loves later in this newsletter: Star hand (hand limit of 7) from the marketplace (the 5 In Lost Cities, your goal is to make the most protable expeditions - determined after 3 review blog e Glass Meeple (www.theglassmeeple.com). face-up cards between you and your opponent); take all of your rst Cartouche at the same time. e player with the awards as well. Both Lost Cities and several of the Keltis games are available on iOS. Of course, they're • A player forms a 2×2 square with four of her tokens. Cash 'n Guns - Second Edition is a loot-splitting party • Minerva Wakes by Holly Lisle (Brandie) Realms. rounds of play. Expeditions are represented by columns of cards in 5 colored suits (red, 7 Wonders Tournament - Saturday, February 20, 6 p.m. higher value card scores double the dierence between the more fun to play live, in person with other people. at’s the end of our history lesson. • A player chooses a tile which doesn’t allow her opponent to place a token. game of, well, cash and guns. e scene: an abandoned A jolly good competition or a cooperative romp against 6. Castles of Burgundy. A great, the camels there (camels don’t count against your hand yellow, green, blue and white). Each suit includes 3 Investment cards and the numbers 2 thru 10. As soon as you start an • Mutant by Henry Kuttner or Destroyer Men #1 by Taylor two cards. 7 Wonders has been enthralling gamers since its release in 2010. It won the prestigious Spiel des Jahres award in 2011. warehouse where you and your fellow gangsters are the board makes for a great time. row in some owers medium-weight Euro game that’s surpris- limit); exchange camels from your stable and/or goods expedition (play the rst card to one of the ve columns), you're immediately in the hole 20 points. e only way to Lost Cities' components are top-notch. e cards are beautifully illustrated, at player wins. Anderson (Carmen) ingly quick when played with just two. from your hand for an equal number of goods in the If you haven’t had a chance to play 7 Wonders enough recently, here’s your chance: a whole evening dedicated to 7 Won- splitting up the loot from your latest heist. Of course, you and chocolate and you’ve got the makings for a very fun Next reveal the cards on your second Cartouche. The make that expedition protable is to play enough cards in that column to add up to more than 20 points. Any Invest- large, easy to read and have a nice feel to them. e coordinatingly illus- ere’s more strategy in this little game than at rst appears • Star Wars: e Force Awakens by Alan Dean Foster Castles is my favorite game of all time. It’s marketplace; or sell goods of one type for the available ders. Plus, you’ll have the chance to win some fabulous prizes: can’t all agree on who gets what, which is where the foam and special Valentine’s Day - in my book player with the lower value executes the rest of their turn ment cards you play will double, triple or quadruple the points you score in that column, whether negative or positive. trated board provides designated spots for the discard piles and guides because where you play directly aects and limits the guns come into play. Soon everyone is aiming at everyone. (Tina) anyway. On to the games. been #1 on my Top 10 list for several coins in the treasury. You’ll earn a bonus chip if you sell at rst. en the other player player does the same. In the And if you play 8 or more cards in a single column, you'll earn a 20-point bonus. e trick is, you have to play your placement of each player's expedition cards. e box recently got a cover choices of where your opponent can play. at and • New Palace promo card fancied up with new artwork by Miguel Colimbra. e rst 20 gamers to register for the e richest surviving gangster wins the game! years now. It’s a bit dicult to describe: least 3 goods. Sell 4 or 5 for a bigger bonus. case of a tie, the player with the lower value card on the art makeover and is the usual Kosmos 2-Player Game size. Lost Cities is e Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club was founded in January 1. Lost Cities, a card game of hard cards in ascending order after any Investment cards. the beautiful artwork and lovely components make tournament by Tuesday, February 16, 2016 are guaranteed to receive this there’s tile placement, dice rolling and rst Cartouche goes rst. If there’s still a tie, play War: easily my favorite game from that series. While so many games in that INSIDE: Cash ’n Guns is a hilarious game that hooks people the 2013. Since then we’ve all discovered and read many choices if ever there was one. It’s one of Players begin with a hand of 8 cards. On your turn, you must for a fun and interesting game. prize. multiple paths to victory. It’s very tacti- reveal the top card of your deck - lowest goes rst. Repeat series are high-conict, Lost Cities is denitely not. It is competitive, rst time they pick up a foam pistol. excellent books and had - and continue to have - a great the rst Euro games Tim and I played play or discard one card face up, then draw a card. ere are You can play Niya as just a single game, as a best of three • 7 Wonders Tournament • Stunning 7 Wonders Art Pack featuring gorgeous alternative artwork for all time discussing them and lots of other geeky media and cal: you have to make the most of the options available to if necessary until the tie is resolved. though, and you do have to pay attention to what your opponent is doing, but you don't have to take him out. Our organized play kit includes exclusive promotional regularly. A full review follows after this you. Each player board oers a new and dierent chal- ve discard piles, one for each color suit. You can draw either series, or as a point-based match, with the winner of a game • Cash ‘n Guns Organized Play seven of the original Wonder boards - with both A and B sides. A great way subjects. To execute the rest of your turn, reveal the cards on your Interestingly, only the original Lost Cities was designed for just two players. All of its spin-os support 2 to 4 players. Lost items you won't want to split with anyone: list so you can read all about it. lenge. What your fellow players do aects your available the top card of the draw pile or the top card from one of the earning as many points as the number of tiles remaining in the grid to brighten up your game. Tournament prize for both 1st and 2nd place. third and fourth Cartouches. e value of the card on the Cities is one of the select two-player games I recommend most often. (With two copies of Lost Cities, you can play a • Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club How do we choose what books to read? Everyone attend- 2. Jaipur, a set-collection card game of acquiring options as do the dice you roll, though you can augment discard piles. When the draw pile is exhausted, the game ends when she wins. In the last case, the player who rst collects ten points • Beautiful 7 Wonders Playmat that helps structure the play area and game • New Giant Cthulhu character second Cartouche determines how many of your partnership variant that is extremely fun and exciting, particularly if you love partnership cards.) Play time is about 30 ing adds a title to our reading list. We pick one to read and selling goods, which features beautiful your dice rolls with workers. It’s simply an awesome game! immediately. If you still have cards you want to play and the deck is running low, wins the match. • 7 Games We Love As A Couple setup. Grand prize for 1st place. standee, designed by John opponent’s stones you can remove (its value minus 2), the minutes. If you're short on time, you can play just one round in about 10 minutes. e rules say to add the scores of each month - usually the one we’ve been able to acquire artwork and interesting game play. We never get And it plays beautifully and quickly with just two. you might want to draw from a discard pile - even if it's a card you don't need or Niya supports 2 players ages 8 and up and can be played in as little as 10 Kovalic that stands twice third Cartouche which temples you can work in, and the three rounds to determine the winner. Love it, highly recommend it. What else can I say? • Game Reviews: We'll play 7 Wonders Tournament-style - with an emphasis on casual fun, not the most copies of. Rinse and repeat until they’re all read, tired of it. A brief run-down of the game play can't use - just to prolong the game and get your cards played. minutes. Matches with multiple rounds will take a little longer. Packaged in a nice as tall as the other gang- 7. Can’t Stop. I’ll warn you now. fourth Cartouche how many of your own stones you can hard-core competition. All participants will get to play at least three games of then we start a new list. You can view the complete list of follows this list. Lost Cities is a game of hard choices. Do you wait until you have enough cards to conduct a protable expedition before tin with lovely bits, Niya is beautiful fun. • Jaipur • Star Realms sters. Players are going to is push-your-luck dice game is Play continues with players alternating turns until 3 types place. If you played a 1 on the second Cartouche, you 7 Wonders: books we’ve read on our web site. you begin it and risk not having enough time to play all of them? Do you start an expedition now and hope you draw the Star Realms - Fast-Paced Outer Space Deck-Building Combat for Two • Aton • Niya have to think twice when 3. Aton, an abstract strategy game with an totally addicting. Don’t be of goods coins have run out. e player with the most have to remove one of your own stones (2 - 1 = -1). (No If you’d like to join our Book Club, simply read the cards you need to add up to 20 plus? And what do you do when you have the 5, 8 and 10 of the same suit? at's a Star Realms is a fast paced deck-building card game of outer space combat. It combines the fun of a • Lost Cities 1. 7 Wonders base game only. Cthulhu is aiming his gun Egyptian theme. I’m not usually a fan of surprised if you can’t stop playing camels receives a bonus chip, then you count your coins stones may be removed at all in the very rst round of the Be one of the current book selection and attend our next meeting. You protable expedition right there, but there are still 3 Investment cards, a 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 9 out there. Do you wait for deck-building game with the interactivity of trading-card-game-style combat. As you play, you make 2. 7 Wonders with Leaders expansion. at them! abstract strategy games, but for this one, I it. Your goal is to win three and award the Sultan’s Favor to the player with the most. game, though.) When you remove stones from a temple, can also sign up to receive automatic updates and remind- them before beginning the expedition? If you play your 5 now, you won't be able to play the 2, 3, 4 or any Investment use of Trade to acquire new Ships and Bases from the cards being turned face up in the Trade Row • New Arrivals & Back In Stock rst 30 people to register make an exception. With four ways to win, columns, by reaching their tops Best two out of three games wins. place them in the Kingdom of the Dead: the row of 3. 7 Wonders with Cities expansion. cards you draw later. No chance of earning that 8-cards-in-a-column bonus then. I'm telling you, the choices are tough. from the Trade Deck. You use the Ships and Bases you acquire to either generate more Trade or to • Used Games for Sale by Tuesday, March 19, 2016 ers via our Meetup group at: www.meetup.com/Here-Be- you have to watch your opponent with a rst with your cones. You advance Jaipur supports 2 players ages 12 and up and plays in spaces below the temples. e top players will go on to to get yours! hawk’s eye, while also trying to further your your cones with dice rolls. Each ere's a lot of strategy, avored with risk-taking in Lost Cities. You can see exactly what your fellow player has played, generate Combat to attack your opponent and their bases. When you reduce your opponent’s score Books-and-Games-Book-Club. We look forward to meeting you! about 30 minutes. When the Kingdom of the Dead is full, nish your turns • Game Library Additions own strategy. e rulebook can be a bit turn you roll 4 dice and must pair them (called Authority) to zero, you win! Issue 35 Here Be Books & Games News February 2016 play a nal game with both the Leaders and Cities expan- • Foam Uzis for use in regular play. Staring down the It Takes Two: 7 Games confusing until you learn how to play. Of course Tim and up to choose in which column(s) you’ll advance your Aton - One of my favorite for the round, then score each temple. e player with the majority of but you have no idea what he's holding. While you can take and use his discards, he can take and use yours, too! It's a Tim loves this two-player game, but there’s too much conict for my taste. It’s too sions or perhaps the Babel expansion instead. Boards will I would be happy to teach you. Full run-down of game barrel of that, there are going to be a lot less punks feeling We Love to Play as a working cones. You can only advance up to three cones two-player games stones in each temple, scores for that temple. For Temple 1, the player game of give and take and loads of fun. Now for a history lesson. bad, the artwork looks really cool! be assigned randomly in each game. lucky that day! You’ll have to participate in the event to play later in this newsletter. each turn, pressing your luck by rolling again. If you roll with the most stones in Temple 1 scores points equal to the dierence Couple Designed by Reiner Knizia, Lost Cities was rst published in 1999 and quickly won several awards: e base game of Star Realms supports 2 players ages 12 and up. With two 7 Wonders Champion have a chance to win one of these puppies! 4. Ticket to Ride. numbers that don’t match any of the columns your Aton is an abstract strategy game with an in the players’ stone count. For example: if blue has 5 stones and red 1, e Champion will also receive a While there 1999 Fairplay À la carte Winner sets, 4 can play. Non-collectible expansion packs – they look like booster Tim and I have been Ticket to Ride working cones are in, you lose all progress made that turn. Egyptian theme. I’m not blue scores 4 points. For Temple 2, the player with the majority of emblem to embellish his or her Game Night name badge Admission: $10 per person. e rst 30 gamers who are two maps 1999 Meeples' Choice Award packs, but each pack contains exactly the same cards – are also available to playing games together I told you it was press your luck! It’s also addicting. usually a fan of abstract stones scores a straight 5 points - which would be red in the picture and have their picture posted on our Wall of Champions register by Tuesday, March 19, 2016 will receive a expressly made for two to three 2000 International Gamers Awards - General Strategy; Two-players spice up the game. Play time is about 20 minutes. on Facebook. since we met. It’s how players (Switzerland and Nordic strategy games, but for (right). e player with the majority in Temple 3, scores 1 point for Giant Cthulhu. While I could certainly make this list even longer, space is e spin-o of Star Realms that supports up to 4 players, we met, actually in Countries), we’ve found the this one, I make an each of his stones there. In this case, neither player scores any points for In 2008, two board games were spun o Lost Cities: Lost Cities: Admission is $10 per person. e rst 20 gamers who Sign up now in-store at Here Be Books & Games or on limited, so seven will have to do - in the newsletter Cthulhu Realms, has you trying to drive your opponents insane. at is, February 1987. We’ve boards that support up to four exception. With four Temple 3. e player with the majority in Temple 4, scores 3 points for e Board Game, published by Rio Grande Games here in the register by Tuesday, February 16, 2016 will receive the our web site. anyway. In the store, we’ve set up a special display of your goal is to reduce your opponents’ sanity to insanity or have the most remaining sanity yourself been together ever since: or ve players to provide closer ways to win, you have to each stone she has on a blue square. In the picture, blue would score 6 U.S. (recently republished by ames & Kosmos) and Keltis, new Palace promo card with their registration. two-player games to celebrate Valentine’s Day. And, of when the deck runs out. Typical Cthulhu mythos madness. Cthulhu Realms supports 2 to 4 players living proof that the couple who competitions for two, particu- watch your opponent with a points. Finally, the player with the majority of stones on grey spaces, published by Kosmos in Germany. Lost Cities: e Board Game Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club course, we’d be happy to teach you how to play them! ages 14 and up with a playtime of 25 to 45 minutes. Sign up now at Here Be Books & Games or online via plays together stays together. larly the original with the USA 1910 hawk’s eye, while also trying to further your own strategy. scores 8 points - blue here. If neither player has achieved 40 points, both players remove one of their stones from each of features the same archaeological look, theme and feel as Lost our web site. Current read: In nity Welcomes e rulebook can be a bit confusing until you learn how the temples, collect their stones from the Kingdom of the Dead and continue playing. Cities, supports 2 to 4 players and adds a few new twists to the With February being the month for lovers, I’ve put expansion, the 10 Year Anniversary Edition and Europe. Careful Drivers by Grant Naylor Jaipur - Send Your to play. Of course Tim and I would be happy to teach game with card play still always in ascending order. Niya - Beautiful Fun together a list of our favorite games to play together - just 5. Pandemic. I just love a good cooperative Aton supports two players ages 8 and up and plays in about 30 minutes. (Jason) Camels to Trade you. Niya Connect 4 us two. Not all of these games are made for just two, game! What could be better than working Keltis, however, has a bright is a type of game – with a twist – and lovely Japanese artwork. You begin by Read the book and we'll meet though many are, but all of them provide excellent game together as a team saving the world from a In Jaipur, a ere are four ways to win in Aton: 1) Fill a temple Lost Cities - An Expedition for Two green, Irish Celtic theme shuing the 16 beautiful tiles and arranging them in a 4×4 square. Each tile shows one of Friday, February 19 at 6 p.m. at completely with your stones, 2) Place your stones on all of along with its new twists, four types of vegetation (maple, cherry, pine or iris) and one of four types of poetic symbols play for two players. four-virus Pandemic? Saving the world from set-collection card Lost Cities is the rst Euro card game my husband and I ever owned. Tim picked it up HBB&G to discuss it. the green spaces on the board, 3) Fill all of the yellow plus the added ability to play cards in either ascending or descending order - you (rising sun, bird, rain or tanzaku – the small pieces of paper on which people sometimes I consider a game excellent for two when the contest is four viruses - one a virulent strain - and a game of trading and at a thrift store in San Diego and put it in our game cabinet, where I'm ashamed to We’ve started a new list. (Note: fth mutated virus in Pandemic: On the selling goods, your spaces with your stones, or 4) score 40 points. e game choose for each expedition. ere are a few other minor dierences, too. write wishes). To begin the game, the start player removes one of the tiles along the edge always close and engaging, when you have to be say it remained until after we moved to South Carolina. It wasn't until we played it at and places one of her tokens there. e other player does likewise, but may only choose a you have to be attending meet- Brink! Or better yet, playing it campaign- camels are an essential tool ends immediately when any one of the winning condi- Keltis then spun o an expansion board with mind-boggling twists and turns - constantly aware of what your opponent is up to and another gamer's house that we realized we had a treasure - undiscovered in our game tile that depicts either the same type of vegetation or poetic symbol as on the tile the start ings for your book selection to be style with an ongoing storyline, like charac- of the trade. Here’s a quick run- tions is met. Keltis: Neue Wege, Neue Ziele (New Paths, New Ways); the card game Keltis: Das modify your play accordingly. What I don’t like is head- cabinet. I'm proud to say that now the cards are well-worn due to the number of times player set aside. Play continues, with each player removing a tile (that matches one of the eligible as the next reading ters in a TV series, where the results of every game carry down of the game play in this Each player has a deck of cards numbered 1 to 4. Each Kartenspiel; and the travel game Keltis: Mitbringspiel (Bring-Along, aka Keltis: Stones) to-head conict, so you won’t nd any war games or we’v played it since then. Recently teaching it to a couple who happened in our store a symbols on the previously removed tile) and placing one of her tokens until one of the choice.) Here are the submissions forward into your next game. I’m talking Pandemic: beautiful and fun card game. turn you’ll both draw four cards and simultaneously in 2009. Another board game featuring a spiral path - Keltis: Das Orakel (e Cash ’n Guns Organized Play war-like games on this list, though I have provided a few weeks ago helped put it the front of my mind when I began planning my two- following conditions is met: I’ve received so far, in alphabetical order by title: synopsis of a popular head-to-head conict two-player Legacy baby! You can nd full reviews of Pandemic and its On your turn you can either take one good into your assign your cards to the four Cartouches on your side of player game reviews for Valentine's Day. So, on to the treasure that is Lost Cities. Oracle) - and the dice game Keltis: Würfelspiel followed in 2012. Keltis has achieved honors Saturday, March 19, 6 p.m. expansions, and Pandemic: Legacy Season 1 on my game the board. When you’re both ready, reveal the card on of its own: winning the coveted Spiel des Jahres award in 2008 and nominated for numerous other • A player forms a line with four of her tokens in any direction. • Dawn by Octavia Butler (Tim) game my husband loves later in this newsletter: Star hand (hand limit of 7) from the marketplace (the 5 In Lost Cities, your goal is to make the most protable expeditions - determined after 3 review blog e Glass Meeple (www.theglassmeeple.com). face-up cards between you and your opponent); take all of your rst Cartouche at the same time. e player with the awards as well. Both Lost Cities and several of the Keltis games are available on iOS. Of course, they're • A player forms a 2×2 square with four of her tokens. Cash 'n Guns - Second Edition is a loot-splitting party • Minerva Wakes by Holly Lisle (Brandie) Realms. rounds of play. Expeditions are represented by columns of cards in 5 colored suits (red, 7 Wonders Tournament - Saturday, February 20, 6 p.m. higher value card scores double the dierence between the more fun to play live, in person with other people. at’s the end of our history lesson. • A player chooses a tile which doesn’t allow her opponent to place a token. game of, well, cash and guns. e scene: an abandoned A jolly good competition or a cooperative romp against 6. Castles of Burgundy. A great, the camels there (camels don’t count against your hand yellow, green, blue and white). Each suit includes 3 Investment cards and the numbers 2 thru 10. As soon as you start an • Mutant by Henry Kuttner or Destroyer Men #1 by Taylor two cards. 7 Wonders has been enthralling gamers since its release in 2010. It won the prestigious Spiel des Jahres award in 2011. warehouse where you and your fellow gangsters are the board makes for a great time. row in some owers medium-weight Euro game that’s surpris- limit); exchange camels from your stable and/or goods expedition (play the rst card to one of the ve columns), you're immediately in the hole 20 points. e only way to Lost Cities' components are top-notch. e cards are beautifully illustrated, at player wins. Anderson (Carmen) ingly quick when played with just two. from your hand for an equal number of goods in the If you haven’t had a chance to play 7 Wonders enough recently, here’s your chance: a whole evening dedicated to 7 Won- splitting up the loot from your latest heist. Of course, you and chocolate and you’ve got the makings for a very fun Next reveal the cards on your second Cartouche. The make that expedition protable is to play enough cards in that column to add up to more than 20 points. Any Invest- large, easy to read and have a nice feel to them. e coordinatingly illus- ere’s more strategy in this little game than at rst appears • Star Wars: e Force Awakens by Alan Dean Foster Castles is my favorite game of all time. It’s marketplace; or sell goods of one type for the available ders. Plus, you’ll have the chance to win some fabulous prizes: can’t all agree on who gets what, which is where the foam and special Valentine’s Day - in my book player with the lower value executes the rest of their turn ment cards you play will double, triple or quadruple the points you score in that column, whether negative or positive. trated board provides designated spots for the discard piles and guides because where you play directly aects and limits the guns come into play. Soon everyone is aiming at everyone. (Tina) anyway. On to the games. been #1 on my Top 10 list for several coins in the treasury. You’ll earn a bonus chip if you sell at rst. en the other player player does the same. In the And if you play 8 or more cards in a single column, you'll earn a 20-point bonus. e trick is, you have to play your placement of each player's expedition cards. e box recently got a cover choices of where your opponent can play. at and • New Palace promo card fancied up with new artwork by Miguel Colimbra. e rst 20 gamers to register for the e richest surviving gangster wins the game! years now. It’s a bit dicult to describe: least 3 goods. Sell 4 or 5 for a bigger bonus. case of a tie, the player with the lower value card on the art makeover and is the usual Kosmos 2-Player Game size. Lost Cities is e Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club was founded in January 1. Lost Cities, a card game of hard cards in ascending order after any Investment cards. the beautiful artwork and lovely components make tournament by Tuesday, February 16, 2016 are guaranteed to receive this there’s tile placement, dice rolling and rst Cartouche goes rst. If there’s still a tie, play War: easily my favorite game from that series. While so many games in that Cash ’n Guns is a hilarious game that hooks people the 2013. Since then we’ve all discovered and read many choices if ever there was one. It’s one of Players begin with a hand of 8 cards. On your turn, you must for a fun and interesting game. prize. multiple paths to victory. It’s very tacti- reveal the top card of your deck - lowest goes rst. Repeat series are high-conict, Lost Cities is denitely not. It is competitive, rst time they pick up a foam pistol. excellent books and had - and continue to have - a great the rst Euro games Tim and I played play or discard one card face up, then draw a card. ere are You can play Niya as just a single game, as a best of three • Stunning 7 Wonders Art Pack featuring gorgeous alternative artwork for all time discussing them and lots of other geeky media and cal: you have to make the most of the options available to if necessary until the tie is resolved. though, and you do have to pay attention to what your opponent is doing, but you don't have to take him out. Our organized play kit includes exclusive promotional regularly. A full review follows after this you. Each player board oers a new and dierent chal- ve discard piles, one for each color suit. You can draw either series, or as a point-based match, with the winner of a game seven of the original Wonder boards - with both A and B sides. A great way subjects. To execute the rest of your turn, reveal the cards on your Interestingly, only the original Lost Cities was designed for just two players. All of its spin-os support 2 to 4 players. Lost items you won't want to split with anyone: list so you can read all about it. lenge. What your fellow players do aects your available the top card of the draw pile or the top card from one of the earning as many points as the number of tiles remaining in the grid to brighten up your game. Tournament prize for both 1st and 2nd place. third and fourth Cartouches. e value of the card on the Cities is one of the select two-player games I recommend most often. (With two copies of Lost Cities, you can play a How do we choose what books to read? Everyone attend- 2. Jaipur, a set-collection card game of acquiring options as do the dice you roll, though you can augment discard piles. When the draw pile is exhausted, the game ends when she wins. In the last case, the player who rst collects ten points • Beautiful 7 Wonders Playmat that helps structure the play area and game • New Giant Cthulhu character second Cartouche determines how many of your partnership variant that is extremely fun and exciting, particularly if you love partnership cards.) Play time is about 30 ing adds a title to our reading list. We pick one to read and selling goods, which features beautiful your dice rolls with workers. It’s simply an awesome game! immediately. If you still have cards you want to play and the deck is running low, wins the match. setup. Grand prize for 1st place. standee, designed by John opponent’s stones you can remove (its value minus 2), the minutes. If you're short on time, you can play just one round in about 10 minutes. e rules say to add the scores of each month - usually the one we’ve been able to acquire artwork and interesting game play. We never get And it plays beautifully and quickly with just two. you might want to draw from a discard pile - even if it's a card you don't need or Niya supports 2 players ages 8 and up and can be played in as little as 10 Kovalic that stands twice third Cartouche which temples you can work in, and the three rounds to determine the winner. Love it, highly recommend it. What else can I say? We'll play 7 Wonders Tournament-style - with an emphasis on casual fun, not the most copies of. Rinse and repeat until they’re all read, tired of it. A brief run-down of the game play can't use - just to prolong the game and get your cards played. minutes. Matches with multiple rounds will take a little longer. Packaged in a nice as tall as the other gang- 7. Can’t Stop. I’ll warn you now. fourth Cartouche how many of your own stones you can hard-core competition. All participants will get to play at least three games of then we start a new list. You can view the complete list of follows this list. Lost Cities is a game of hard choices. Do you wait until you have enough cards to conduct a protable expedition before tin with lovely bits, Niya is beautiful fun. sters. Players are going to is push-your-luck dice game is Play continues with players alternating turns until 3 types place. If you played a 1 on the second Cartouche, you 7 Wonders: books we’ve read on our web site. you begin it and risk not having enough time to play all of them? Do you start an expedition now and hope you draw the Star Realms - Fast-Paced Outer Space Deck-Building Combat for Two have to think twice when 3. Aton, an abstract strategy game with an totally addicting. Don’t be of goods coins have run out. e player with the most have to remove one of your own stones (2 - 1 = -1). (No If you’d like to join our Book Club, simply read the cards you need to add up to 20 plus? And what do you do when you have the 5, 8 and 10 of the same suit? at's a Star Realms is a fast paced deck-building card game of outer space combat. It combines the fun of a 1. 7 Wonders base game only. Cthulhu is aiming his gun Egyptian theme. I’m not usually a fan of surprised if you can’t stop playing camels receives a bonus chip, then you count your coins stones may be removed at all in the very rst round of the Be one of the current book selection and attend our next meeting. You protable expedition right there, but there are still 3 Investment cards, a 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 9 out there. Do you wait for deck-building game with the interactivity of trading-card-game-style combat. As you play, you make 2. 7 Wonders with Leaders expansion. at them! abstract strategy games, but for this one, I it. Your goal is to win three and award the Sultan’s Favor to the player with the most. game, though.) When you remove stones from a temple, can also sign up to receive automatic updates and remind- them before beginning the expedition? If you play your 5 now, you won't be able to play the 2, 3, 4 or any Investment use of Trade to acquire new Ships and Bases from the cards being turned face up in the Trade Row rst 30 people to register make an exception. With four ways to win, columns, by reaching their tops Best two out of three games wins. place them in the Kingdom of the Dead: the row of 3. 7 Wonders with Cities expansion. cards you draw later. No chance of earning that 8-cards-in-a-column bonus then. I'm telling you, the choices are tough. from the Trade Deck. You use the Ships and Bases you acquire to either generate more Trade or to by Tuesday, March 19, 2016 ers via our Meetup group at: www.meetup.com/Here-Be- you have to watch your opponent with a rst with your cones. You advance Jaipur supports 2 players ages 12 and up and plays in spaces below the temples. e top players will go on to to get yours! hawk’s eye, while also trying to further your your cones with dice rolls. Each ere's a lot of strategy, avored with risk-taking in Lost Cities. You can see exactly what your fellow player has played, generate Combat to attack your opponent and their bases. When you reduce your opponent’s score Books-and-Games-Book-Club. We look forward to meeting you! about 30 minutes. When the Kingdom of the Dead is full, nish your turns own strategy. e rulebook can be a bit turn you roll 4 dice and must pair them (called Authority) to zero, you win! Issue 35 Here Be Books & Games News February 2016 play a nal game with both the Leaders and Cities expan- • Foam Uzis for use in regular play. Staring down the It Takes Two: 7 Games confusing until you learn how to play. Of course Tim and up to choose in which column(s) you’ll advance your Aton - One of my favorite for the round, then score each temple. e player with the majority of but you have no idea what he's holding. While you can take and use his discards, he can take and use yours, too! It's a Tim loves this two-player game, but there’s too much conict for my taste. It’s too sions or perhaps the Babel expansion instead. Boards will I would be happy to teach you. Full run-down of game barrel of that, there are going to be a lot less punks feeling We Love to Play as a working cones. You can only advance up to three cones two-player games stones in each temple, scores for that temple. For Temple 1, the player game of give and take and loads of fun. Now for a history lesson. bad, the artwork looks really cool! be assigned randomly in each game. lucky that day! You’ll have to participate in the event to play later in this newsletter. each turn, pressing your luck by rolling again. If you roll with the most stones in Temple 1 scores points equal to the dierence Couple Designed by Reiner Knizia, Lost Cities was rst published in 1999 and quickly won several awards: e base game of Star Realms supports 2 players ages 12 and up. With two 7 Wonders Champion have a chance to win one of these puppies! 4. Ticket to Ride. numbers that don’t match any of the columns your Aton is an abstract strategy game with an in the players’ stone count. For example: if blue has 5 stones and red 1, e Champion will also receive a While there 1999 Fairplay À la carte Winner sets, 4 can play. Non-collectible expansion packs – they look like booster Tim and I have been Ticket to Ride working cones are in, you lose all progress made that turn. Egyptian theme. I’m not blue scores 4 points. For Temple 2, the player with the majority of emblem to embellish his or her Game Night name badge Admission: $10 per person. e rst 30 gamers who are two maps 1999 Meeples' Choice Award packs, but each pack contains exactly the same cards – are also available to playing games together I told you it was press your luck! It’s also addicting. usually a fan of abstract stones scores a straight 5 points - which would be red in the picture and have their picture posted on our Wall of Champions register by Tuesday, March 19, 2016 will receive a expressly made for two to three 2000 International Gamers Awards - General Strategy; Two-players spice up the game. Play time is about 20 minutes. on Facebook. since we met. It’s how players (Switzerland and Nordic strategy games, but for (right). e player with the majority in Temple 3, scores 1 point for Giant Cthulhu. While I could certainly make this list even longer, space is e spin-o of Star Realms that supports up to 4 players, we met, actually in Countries), we’ve found the this one, I make an each of his stones there. In this case, neither player scores any points for In 2008, two board games were spun o Lost Cities: Lost Cities: Admission is $10 per person. e rst 20 gamers who Sign up now in-store at Here Be Books & Games or on limited, so seven will have to do - in the newsletter Cthulhu Realms, has you trying to drive your opponents insane. at is, February 1987. We’ve boards that support up to four exception. With four Temple 3. e player with the majority in Temple 4, scores 3 points for e Board Game, published by Rio Grande Games here in the register by Tuesday, February 16, 2016 will receive the our web site. anyway. In the store, we’ve set up a special display of your goal is to reduce your opponents’ sanity to insanity or have the most remaining sanity yourself been together ever since: or ve players to provide closer ways to win, you have to each stone she has on a blue square. In the picture, blue would score 6 U.S. (recently republished by ames & Kosmos) and Keltis, new Palace promo card with their registration. two-player games to celebrate Valentine’s Day. And, of when the deck runs out. Typical Cthulhu mythos madness. Cthulhu Realms supports 2 to 4 players living proof that the couple who competitions for two, particu- watch your opponent with a points. Finally, the player with the majority of stones on grey spaces, published by Kosmos in Germany. Lost Cities: e Board Game Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club course, we’d be happy to teach you how to play them! ages 14 and up with a playtime of 25 to 45 minutes. Sign up now at Here Be Books & Games or online via plays together stays together. larly the original with the USA 1910 hawk’s eye, while also trying to further your own strategy. scores 8 points - blue here. If neither player has achieved 40 points, both players remove one of their stones from each of features the same archaeological look, theme and feel as Lost our web site. Current read: In nity Welcomes e rulebook can be a bit confusing until you learn how the temples, collect their stones from the Kingdom of the Dead and continue playing. Cities, supports 2 to 4 players and adds a few new twists to the With February being the month for lovers, I’ve put expansion, the 10 Year Anniversary Edition and Europe. Careful Drivers by Grant Naylor Jaipur - Send Your to play. Of course Tim and I would be happy to teach game with card play still always in ascending order. Niya - Beautiful Fun together a list of our favorite games to play together - just 5. Pandemic. I just love a good cooperative Aton supports two players ages 8 and up and plays in about 30 minutes. (Jason) Camels to Trade you. Niya Connect 4 us two. Not all of these games are made for just two, game! What could be better than working Keltis, however, has a bright is a type of game – with a twist – and lovely Japanese artwork. You begin by Read the book and we'll meet though many are, but all of them provide excellent game together as a team saving the world from a In Jaipur, a ere are four ways to win in Aton: 1) Fill a temple Lost Cities - An Expedition for Two green, Irish Celtic theme shuing the 16 beautiful tiles and arranging them in a 4×4 square. Each tile shows one of Friday, February 19 at 6 p.m. at completely with your stones, 2) Place your stones on all of along with its new twists, four types of vegetation (maple, cherry, pine or iris) and one of four types of poetic symbols play for two players. four-virus Pandemic? Saving the world from set-collection card Lost Cities is the rst Euro card game my husband and I ever owned. Tim picked it up HBB&G to discuss it. the green spaces on the board, 3) Fill all of the yellow plus the added ability to play cards in either ascending or descending order - you (rising sun, bird, rain or tanzaku – the small pieces of paper on which people sometimes I consider a game excellent for two when the contest is four viruses - one a virulent strain - and a game of trading and at a thrift store in San Diego and put it in our game cabinet, where I'm ashamed to We’ve started a new list. (Note: fth mutated virus in Pandemic: On the selling goods, your spaces with your stones, or 4) score 40 points. e game choose for each expedition. ere are a few other minor dierences, too. write wishes). To begin the game, the start player removes one of the tiles along the edge always close and engaging, when you have to be say it remained until after we moved to South Carolina. It wasn't until we played it at and places one of her tokens there. e other player does likewise, but may only choose a you have to be attending meet- Brink! Or better yet, playing it campaign- camels are an essential tool ends immediately when any one of the winning condi- Keltis then spun o an expansion board with mind-boggling twists and turns - constantly aware of what your opponent is up to and another gamer's house that we realized we had a treasure - undiscovered in our game tile that depicts either the same type of vegetation or poetic symbol as on the tile the start ings for your book selection to be style with an ongoing storyline, like charac- of the trade. Here’s a quick run- tions is met. Keltis: Neue Wege, Neue Ziele (New Paths, New Ways); the card game Keltis: Das modify your play accordingly. What I don’t like is head- cabinet. I'm proud to say that now the cards are well-worn due to the number of times player set aside. Play continues, with each player removing a tile (that matches one of the eligible as the next reading ters in a TV series, where the results of every game carry down of the game play in this Each player has a deck of cards numbered 1 to 4. Each Kartenspiel; and the travel game Keltis: Mitbringspiel (Bring-Along, aka Keltis: Stones) to-head conict, so you won’t nd any war games or we’v played it since then. Recently teaching it to a couple who happened in our store a symbols on the previously removed tile) and placing one of her tokens until one of the choice.) Here are the submissions forward into your next game. I’m talking Pandemic: beautiful and fun card game. turn you’ll both draw four cards and simultaneously in 2009. Another board game featuring a spiral path - Keltis: Das Orakel (e Cash ’n Guns Organized Play war-like games on this list, though I have provided a few weeks ago helped put it the front of my mind when I began planning my two- following conditions is met: I’ve received so far, in alphabetical order by title: synopsis of a popular head-to-head conict two-player Legacy baby! You can nd full reviews of Pandemic and its On your turn you can either take one good into your assign your cards to the four Cartouches on your side of player game reviews for Valentine's Day. So, on to the treasure that is Lost Cities. Oracle) - and the dice game Keltis: Würfelspiel followed in 2012. Keltis has achieved honors Saturday, March 19, 6 p.m. expansions, and Pandemic: Legacy Season 1 on my game the board. When you’re both ready, reveal the card on of its own: winning the coveted Spiel des Jahres award in 2008 and nominated for numerous other • A player forms a line with four of her tokens in any direction. • Dawn by Octavia Butler (Tim) game my husband loves later in this newsletter: Star hand (hand limit of 7) from the marketplace (the 5 In Lost Cities, your goal is to make the most protable expeditions - determined after 3 review blog e Glass Meeple (www.theglassmeeple.com). face-up cards between you and your opponent); take all of your rst Cartouche at the same time. e player with the awards as well. Both Lost Cities and several of the Keltis games are available on iOS. Of course, they're • A player forms a 2×2 square with four of her tokens. Cash 'n Guns - Second Edition is a loot-splitting party • Minerva Wakes by Holly Lisle (Brandie) Realms. rounds of play. Expeditions are represented by columns of cards in 5 colored suits (red, 7 Wonders Tournament - Saturday, February 20, 6 p.m. higher value card scores double the dierence between the more fun to play live, in person with other people. at’s the end of our history lesson. • A player chooses a tile which doesn’t allow her opponent to place a token. game of, well, cash and guns. e scene: an abandoned A jolly good competition or a cooperative romp against 6. Castles of Burgundy. A great, the camels there (camels don’t count against your hand yellow, green, blue and white). Each suit includes 3 Investment cards and the numbers 2 thru 10. As soon as you start an • Mutant by Henry Kuttner or Destroyer Men #1 by Taylor two cards. 7 Wonders has been enthralling gamers since its release in 2010. It won the prestigious Spiel des Jahres award in 2011. warehouse where you and your fellow gangsters are the board makes for a great time. row in some owers medium-weight Euro game that’s surpris- limit); exchange camels from your stable and/or goods expedition (play the rst card to one of the ve columns), you're immediately in the hole 20 points. e only way to Lost Cities' components are top-notch. e cards are beautifully illustrated, at player wins. Anderson (Carmen) ingly quick when played with just two. from your hand for an equal number of goods in the If you haven’t had a chance to play 7 Wonders enough recently, here’s your chance: a whole evening dedicated to 7 Won- splitting up the loot from your latest heist. Of course, you and chocolate and you’ve got the makings for a very fun Next reveal the cards on your second Cartouche. The make that expedition protable is to play enough cards in that column to add up to more than 20 points. Any Invest- large, easy to read and have a nice feel to them. e coordinatingly illus- ere’s more strategy in this little game than at rst appears • Star Wars: e Force Awakens by Alan Dean Foster Castles is my favorite game of all time. It’s marketplace; or sell goods of one type for the available ders. Plus, you’ll have the chance to win some fabulous prizes: can’t all agree on who gets what, which is where the foam and special Valentine’s Day - in my book player with the lower value executes the rest of their turn ment cards you play will double, triple or quadruple the points you score in that column, whether negative or positive. trated board provides designated spots for the discard piles and guides because where you play directly aects and limits the guns come into play. Soon everyone is aiming at everyone. (Tina) anyway. On to the games. been #1 on my Top 10 list for several coins in the treasury. You’ll earn a bonus chip if you sell at rst. en the other player player does the same. In the And if you play 8 or more cards in a single column, you'll earn a 20-point bonus. e trick is, you have to play your placement of each player's expedition cards. e box recently got a cover choices of where your opponent can play. at and • New Palace promo card fancied up with new artwork by Miguel Colimbra. e rst 20 gamers to register for the e richest surviving gangster wins the game! years now. It’s a bit dicult to describe: least 3 goods. Sell 4 or 5 for a bigger bonus. case of a tie, the player with the lower value card on the art makeover and is the usual Kosmos 2-Player Game size. Lost Cities is e Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club was founded in January 1. Lost Cities, a card game of hard cards in ascending order after any Investment cards. the beautiful artwork and lovely components make tournament by Tuesday, February 16, 2016 are guaranteed to receive this there’s tile placement, dice rolling and rst Cartouche goes rst. If there’s still a tie, play War: easily my favorite game from that series. While so many games in that Cash ’n Guns is a hilarious game that hooks people the 2013. Since then we’ve all discovered and read many choices if ever there was one. It’s one of Players begin with a hand of 8 cards. On your turn, you must for a fun and interesting game. prize. multiple paths to victory. It’s very tacti- reveal the top card of your deck - lowest goes rst. Repeat series are high-conict, Lost Cities is denitely not. It is competitive, rst time they pick up a foam pistol. excellent books and had - and continue to have - a great the rst Euro games Tim and I played play or discard one card face up, then draw a card. ere are You can play Niya as just a single game, as a best of three • Stunning 7 Wonders Art Pack featuring gorgeous alternative artwork for all time discussing them and lots of other geeky media and cal: you have to make the most of the options available to if necessary until the tie is resolved. though, and you do have to pay attention to what your opponent is doing, but you don't have to take him out. Our organized play kit includes exclusive promotional regularly. A full review follows after this you. Each player board oers a new and dierent chal- ve discard piles, one for each color suit. You can draw either series, or as a point-based match, with the winner of a game seven of the original Wonder boards - with both A and B sides. A great way subjects. To execute the rest of your turn, reveal the cards on your Interestingly, only the original Lost Cities was designed for just two players. All of its spin-os support 2 to 4 players. Lost items you won't want to split with anyone: list so you can read all about it. lenge. What your fellow players do aects your available the top card of the draw pile or the top card from one of the earning as many points as the number of tiles remaining in the grid to brighten up your game. Tournament prize for both 1st and 2nd place. third and fourth Cartouches. e value of the card on the Cities is one of the select two-player games I recommend most often. (With two copies of Lost Cities, you can play a How do we choose what books to read? Everyone attend- 2. Jaipur, a set-collection card game of acquiring options as do the dice you roll, though you can augment discard piles. When the draw pile is exhausted, the game ends when she wins. In the last case, the player who rst collects ten points • Beautiful 7 Wonders Playmat that helps structure the play area and game • New Giant Cthulhu character second Cartouche determines how many of your partnership variant that is extremely fun and exciting, particularly if you love partnership cards.) Play time is about 30 ing adds a title to our reading list. We pick one to read and selling goods, which features beautiful your dice rolls with workers. It’s simply an awesome game! immediately. If you still have cards you want to play and the deck is running low, wins the match. setup. Grand prize for 1st place. standee, designed by John opponent’s stones you can remove (its value minus 2), the minutes. If you're short on time, you can play just one round in about 10 minutes. e rules say to add the scores of each month - usually the one we’ve been able to acquire artwork and interesting game play. We never get And it plays beautifully and quickly with just two. you might want to draw from a discard pile - even if it's a card you don't need or Niya supports 2 players ages 8 and up and can be played in as little as 10 Kovalic that stands twice third Cartouche which temples you can work in, and the three rounds to determine the winner. Love it, highly recommend it. What else can I say? We'll play 7 Wonders Tournament-style - with an emphasis on casual fun, not the most copies of. Rinse and repeat until they’re all read, tired of it. A brief run-down of the game play can't use - just to prolong the game and get your cards played. minutes. Matches with multiple rounds will take a little longer. Packaged in a nice as tall as the other gang- 7. Can’t Stop. I’ll warn you now. fourth Cartouche how many of your own stones you can hard-core competition. All participants will get to play at least three games of then we start a new list. You can view the complete list of follows this list. Lost Cities is a game of hard choices. Do you wait until you have enough cards to conduct a protable expedition before tin with lovely bits, Niya is beautiful fun. sters. Players are going to is push-your-luck dice game is Play continues with players alternating turns until 3 types place. If you played a 1 on the second Cartouche, you 7 Wonders: books we’ve read on our web site. you begin it and risk not having enough time to play all of them? Do you start an expedition now and hope you draw the Star Realms - Fast-Paced Outer Space Deck-Building Combat for Two have to think twice when 3. Aton, an abstract strategy game with an totally addicting. Don’t be of goods coins have run out. e player with the most have to remove one of your own stones (2 - 1 = -1). (No If you’d like to join our Book Club, simply read the cards you need to add up to 20 plus? And what do you do when you have the 5, 8 and 10 of the same suit? at's a Star Realms is a fast paced deck-building card game of outer space combat. It combines the fun of a 1. 7 Wonders base game only. Cthulhu is aiming his gun Egyptian theme. I’m not usually a fan of surprised if you can’t stop playing camels receives a bonus chip, then you count your coins stones may be removed at all in the very rst round of the Be one of the current book selection and attend our next meeting. You protable expedition right there, but there are still 3 Investment cards, a 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 9 out there. Do you wait for deck-building game with the interactivity of trading-card-game-style combat. As you play, you make 2. 7 Wonders with Leaders expansion. at them! abstract strategy games, but for this one, I it. Your goal is to win three and award the Sultan’s Favor to the player with the most. game, though.) When you remove stones from a temple, can also sign up to receive automatic updates and remind- them before beginning the expedition? If you play your 5 now, you won't be able to play the 2, 3, 4 or any Investment use of Trade to acquire new Ships and Bases from the cards being turned face up in the Trade Row rst 30 people to register make an exception. With four ways to win, columns, by reaching their tops Best two out of three games wins. place them in the Kingdom of the Dead: the row of 3. 7 Wonders with Cities expansion. cards you draw later. No chance of earning that 8-cards-in-a-column bonus then. I'm telling you, the choices are tough. from the Trade Deck. You use the Ships and Bases you acquire to either generate more Trade or to by Tuesday, March 19, 2016 ers via our Meetup group at: www.meetup.com/Here-Be- you have to watch your opponent with a rst with your cones. You advance Jaipur supports 2 players ages 12 and up and plays in spaces below the temples. e top players will go on to to get yours! hawk’s eye, while also trying to further your your cones with dice rolls. Each ere's a lot of strategy, avored with risk-taking in Lost Cities. You can see exactly what your fellow player has played, generate Combat to attack your opponent and their bases. When you reduce your opponent’s score Books-and-Games-Book-Club. We look forward to meeting you! about 30 minutes. When the Kingdom of the Dead is full, nish your turns own strategy. e rulebook can be a bit turn you roll 4 dice and must pair them (called Authority) to zero, you win! Issue 35 Here Be Books & Games News February 2016 play a nal game with both the Leaders and Cities expan- • Foam Uzis for use in regular play. Staring down the It Takes Two: 7 Games confusing until you learn how to play. Of course Tim and up to choose in which column(s) you’ll advance your Aton - One of my favorite for the round, then score each temple. e player with the majority of but you have no idea what he's holding. While you can take and use his discards, he can take and use yours, too! It's a Tim loves this two-player game, but there’s too much conict for my taste. It’s too sions or perhaps the Babel expansion instead. Boards will I would be happy to teach you. Full run-down of game barrel of that, there are going to be a lot less punks feeling We Love to Play as a working cones. You can only advance up to three cones two-player games stones in each temple, scores for that temple. For Temple 1, the player game of give and take and loads of fun. Now for a history lesson. bad, the artwork looks really cool! be assigned randomly in each game. lucky that day! You’ll have to participate in the event to play later in this newsletter. each turn, pressing your luck by rolling again. If you roll with the most stones in Temple 1 scores points equal to the dierence Couple Designed by Reiner Knizia, Lost Cities was rst published in 1999 and quickly won several awards: e base game of Star Realms supports 2 players ages 12 and up. With two 7 Wonders Champion have a chance to win one of these puppies! 4. Ticket to Ride. numbers that don’t match any of the columns your Aton is an abstract strategy game with an in the players’ stone count. For example: if blue has 5 stones and red 1, e Champion will also receive a While there 1999 Fairplay À la carte Winner sets, 4 can play. Non-collectible expansion packs – they look like booster Tim and I have been Ticket to Ride working cones are in, you lose all progress made that turn. Egyptian theme. I’m not blue scores 4 points. For Temple 2, the player with the majority of emblem to embellish his or her Game Night name badge Admission: $10 per person. e rst 30 gamers who are two maps 1999 Meeples' Choice Award packs, but each pack contains exactly the same cards – are also available to playing games together I told you it was press your luck! It’s also addicting. usually a fan of abstract stones scores a straight 5 points - which would be red in the picture and have their picture posted on our Wall of Champions register by Tuesday, March 19, 2016 will receive a expressly made for two to three 2000 International Gamers Awards - General Strategy; Two-players spice up the game. Play time is about 20 minutes. on Facebook. since we met. It’s how players (Switzerland and Nordic strategy games, but for (right). e player with the majority in Temple 3, scores 1 point for Giant Cthulhu. While I could certainly make this list even longer, space is e spin-o of Star Realms that supports up to 4 players, we met, actually in Countries), we’ve found the this one, I make an each of his stones there. In this case, neither player scores any points for In 2008, two board games were spun o Lost Cities: Lost Cities: Admission is $10 per person. e rst 20 gamers who Sign up now in-store at Here Be Books & Games or on limited, so seven will have to do - in the newsletter Cthulhu Realms, has you trying to drive your opponents insane. at is, February 1987. We’ve boards that support up to four exception. With four Temple 3. e player with the majority in Temple 4, scores 3 points for e Board Game, published by Rio Grande Games here in the register by Tuesday, February 16, 2016 will receive the our web site. anyway. In the store, we’ve set up a special display of your goal is to reduce your opponents’ sanity to insanity or have the most remaining sanity yourself been together ever since: or ve players to provide closer ways to win, you have to each stone she has on a blue square. In the picture, blue would score 6 U.S. (recently republished by ames & Kosmos) and Keltis, new Palace promo card with their registration. two-player games to celebrate Valentine’s Day. And, of when the deck runs out. Typical Cthulhu mythos madness. Cthulhu Realms supports 2 to 4 players living proof that the couple who competitions for two, particu- watch your opponent with a points. Finally, the player with the majority of stones on grey spaces, published by Kosmos in Germany. Lost Cities: e Board Game Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club course, we’d be happy to teach you how to play them! ages 14 and up with a playtime of 25 to 45 minutes. Sign up now at Here Be Books & Games or online via plays together stays together. larly the original with the USA 1910 hawk’s eye, while also trying to further your own strategy. scores 8 points - blue here. If neither player has achieved 40 points, both players remove one of their stones from each of features the same archaeological look, theme and feel as Lost our web site. Current read: In nity Welcomes e rulebook can be a bit confusing until you learn how the temples, collect their stones from the Kingdom of the Dead and continue playing. Cities, supports 2 to 4 players and adds a few new twists to the With February being the month for lovers, I’ve put expansion, the 10 Year Anniversary Edition and Europe. Careful Drivers by Grant Naylor Jaipur - Send Your to play. Of course Tim and I would be happy to teach game with card play still always in ascending order. Niya - Beautiful Fun together a list of our favorite games to play together - just 5. Pandemic. I just love a good cooperative Aton supports two players ages 8 and up and plays in about 30 minutes. (Jason) Camels to Trade you. Niya Connect 4 us two. Not all of these games are made for just two, game! What could be better than working Keltis, however, has a bright is a type of game – with a twist – and lovely Japanese artwork. You begin by Read the book and we'll meet though many are, but all of them provide excellent game together as a team saving the world from a In Jaipur, a ere are four ways to win in Aton: 1) Fill a temple Lost Cities - An Expedition for Two green, Irish Celtic theme shuing the 16 beautiful tiles and arranging them in a 4×4 square. Each tile shows one of Friday, February 19 at 6 p.m. at completely with your stones, 2) Place your stones on all of along with its new twists, four types of vegetation (maple, cherry, pine or iris) and one of four types of poetic symbols play for two players. four-virus Pandemic? Saving the world from set-collection card Lost Cities is the rst Euro card game my husband and I ever owned. Tim picked it up HBB&G to discuss it. the green spaces on the board, 3) Fill all of the yellow plus the added ability to play cards in either ascending or descending order - you (rising sun, bird, rain or tanzaku – the small pieces of paper on which people sometimes I consider a game excellent for two when the contest is four viruses - one a virulent strain - and a game of trading and at a thrift store in San Diego and put it in our game cabinet, where I'm ashamed to We’ve started a new list. (Note: fth mutated virus in Pandemic: On the selling goods, your spaces with your stones, or 4) score 40 points. e game choose for each expedition. ere are a few other minor dierences, too. write wishes). To begin the game, the start player removes one of the tiles along the edge always close and engaging, when you have to be say it remained until after we moved to South Carolina. It wasn't until we played it at and places one of her tokens there. e other player does likewise, but may only choose a you have to be attending meet- Brink! Or better yet, playing it campaign- camels are an essential tool ends immediately when any one of the winning condi- Keltis then spun o an expansion board with mind-boggling twists and turns - constantly aware of what your opponent is up to and another gamer's house that we realized we had a treasure - undiscovered in our game tile that depicts either the same type of vegetation or poetic symbol as on the tile the start ings for your book selection to be style with an ongoing storyline, like charac- of the trade. Here’s a quick run- tions is met. Keltis: Neue Wege, Neue Ziele (New Paths, New Ways); the card game Keltis: Das modify your play accordingly. What I don’t like is head- cabinet. I'm proud to say that now the cards are well-worn due to the number of times player set aside. Play continues, with each player removing a tile (that matches one of the eligible as the next reading ters in a TV series, where the results of every game carry down of the game play in this Each player has a deck of cards numbered 1 to 4. Each Kartenspiel; and the travel game Keltis: Mitbringspiel (Bring-Along, aka Keltis: Stones) to-head conict, so you won’t nd any war games or we’v played it since then. Recently teaching it to a couple who happened in our store a symbols on the previously removed tile) and placing one of her tokens until one of the choice.) Here are the submissions forward into your next game. I’m talking Pandemic: beautiful and fun card game. turn you’ll both draw four cards and simultaneously in 2009. Another board game featuring a spiral path - Keltis: Das Orakel (e Cash ’n Guns Organized Play war-like games on this list, though I have provided a few weeks ago helped put it the front of my mind when I began planning my two- following conditions is met: I’ve received so far, in alphabetical order by title: synopsis of a popular head-to-head conict two-player Legacy baby! You can nd full reviews of Pandemic and its On your turn you can either take one good into your assign your cards to the four Cartouches on your side of player game reviews for Valentine's Day. So, on to the treasure that is Lost Cities. Oracle) - and the dice game Keltis: Würfelspiel followed in 2012. Keltis has achieved honors Saturday, March 19, 6 p.m. expansions, and Pandemic: Legacy Season 1 on my game the board. When you’re both ready, reveal the card on of its own: winning the coveted Spiel des Jahres award in 2008 and nominated for numerous other • A player forms a line with four of her tokens in any direction. • Dawn by Octavia Butler (Tim) game my husband loves later in this newsletter: Star hand (hand limit of 7) from the marketplace (the 5 In Lost Cities, your goal is to make the most protable expeditions - determined after 3 review blog e Glass Meeple (www.theglassmeeple.com). face-up cards between you and your opponent); take all of your rst Cartouche at the same time. e player with the awards as well. Both Lost Cities and several of the Keltis games are available on iOS. Of course, they're • A player forms a 2×2 square with four of her tokens. Cash 'n Guns - Second Edition is a loot-splitting party • Minerva Wakes by Holly Lisle (Brandie) Realms. rounds of play. Expeditions are represented by columns of cards in 5 colored suits (red, 7 Wonders Tournament - Saturday, February 20, 6 p.m. higher value card scores double the dierence between the more fun to play live, in person with other people. at’s the end of our history lesson. • A player chooses a tile which doesn’t allow her opponent to place a token. game of, well, cash and guns. e scene: an abandoned A jolly good competition or a cooperative romp against 6. Castles of Burgundy. A great, the camels there (camels don’t count against your hand yellow, green, blue and white). Each suit includes 3 Investment cards and the numbers 2 thru 10. As soon as you start an • Mutant by Henry Kuttner or Destroyer Men #1 by Taylor two cards. 7 Wonders has been enthralling gamers since its release in 2010. It won the prestigious Spiel des Jahres award in 2011. warehouse where you and your fellow gangsters are the board makes for a great time. row in some owers medium-weight Euro game that’s surpris- limit); exchange camels from your stable and/or goods expedition (play the rst card to one of the ve columns), you're immediately in the hole 20 points. e only way to Lost Cities' components are top-notch. e cards are beautifully illustrated, at player wins. Anderson (Carmen) ingly quick when played with just two. from your hand for an equal number of goods in the If you haven’t had a chance to play 7 Wonders enough recently, here’s your chance: a whole evening dedicated to 7 Won- splitting up the loot from your latest heist. Of course, you and chocolate and you’ve got the makings for a very fun Next reveal the cards on your second Cartouche. The make that expedition protable is to play enough cards in that column to add up to more than 20 points. Any Invest- large, easy to read and have a nice feel to them. e coordinatingly illus- ere’s more strategy in this little game than at rst appears • Star Wars: e Force Awakens by Alan Dean Foster Castles is my favorite game of all time. It’s marketplace; or sell goods of one type for the available ders. Plus, you’ll have the chance to win some fabulous prizes: can’t all agree on who gets what, which is where the foam and special Valentine’s Day - in my book player with the lower value executes the rest of their turn ment cards you play will double, triple or quadruple the points you score in that column, whether negative or positive. trated board provides designated spots for the discard piles and guides because where you play directly aects and limits the guns come into play. Soon everyone is aiming at everyone. (Tina) anyway. On to the games. been #1 on my Top 10 list for several coins in the treasury. You’ll earn a bonus chip if you sell at rst. en the other player player does the same. In the And if you play 8 or more cards in a single column, you'll earn a 20-point bonus. e trick is, you have to play your placement of each player's expedition cards. e box recently got a cover choices of where your opponent can play. at and • New Palace promo card fancied up with new artwork by Miguel Colimbra. e rst 20 gamers to register for the e richest surviving gangster wins the game! years now. It’s a bit dicult to describe: least 3 goods. Sell 4 or 5 for a bigger bonus. case of a tie, the player with the lower value card on the art makeover and is the usual Kosmos 2-Player Game size. Lost Cities is e Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club was founded in January 1. Lost Cities, a card game of hard cards in ascending order after any Investment cards. the beautiful artwork and lovely components make tournament by Tuesday, February 16, 2016 are guaranteed to receive this there’s tile placement, dice rolling and rst Cartouche goes rst. If there’s still a tie, play War: easily my favorite game from that series. While so many games in that Cash ’n Guns is a hilarious game that hooks people the 2013. Since then we’ve all discovered and read many choices if ever there was one. It’s one of Players begin with a hand of 8 cards. On your turn, you must for a fun and interesting game. prize. multiple paths to victory. It’s very tacti- reveal the top card of your deck - lowest goes rst. Repeat series are high-conict, Lost Cities is denitely not. It is competitive, rst time they pick up a foam pistol. excellent books and had - and continue to have - a great the rst Euro games Tim and I played play or discard one card face up, then draw a card. ere are You can play Niya as just a single game, as a best of three • Stunning 7 Wonders Art Pack featuring gorgeous alternative artwork for all time discussing them and lots of other geeky media and cal: you have to make the most of the options available to if necessary until the tie is resolved. though, and you do have to pay attention to what your opponent is doing, but you don't have to take him out. Our organized play kit includes exclusive promotional regularly. A full review follows after this you. Each player board oers a new and dierent chal- ve discard piles, one for each color suit. You can draw either series, or as a point-based match, with the winner of a game seven of the original Wonder boards - with both A and B sides. A great way subjects. To execute the rest of your turn, reveal the cards on your Interestingly, only the original Lost Cities was designed for just two players. All of its spin-os support 2 to 4 players. Lost items you won't want to split with anyone: list so you can read all about it. lenge. What your fellow players do aects your available the top card of the draw pile or the top card from one of the earning as many points as the number of tiles remaining in the grid to brighten up your game. Tournament prize for both 1st and 2nd place. third and fourth Cartouches. e value of the card on the Cities is one of the select two-player games I recommend most often. (With two copies of Lost Cities, you can play a How do we choose what books to read? Everyone attend- 2. Jaipur, a set-collection card game of acquiring options as do the dice you roll, though you can augment discard piles. When the draw pile is exhausted, the game ends when she wins. In the last case, the player who rst collects ten points • Beautiful 7 Wonders Playmat that helps structure the play area and game • New Giant Cthulhu character second Cartouche determines how many of your partnership variant that is extremely fun and exciting, particularly if you love partnership cards.) Play time is about 30 ing adds a title to our reading list. We pick one to read and selling goods, which features beautiful your dice rolls with workers. It’s simply an awesome game! immediately. If you still have cards you want to play and the deck is running low, wins the match. setup. Grand prize for 1st place. standee, designed by John opponent’s stones you can remove (its value minus 2), the minutes. If you're short on time, you can play just one round in about 10 minutes. e rules say to add the scores of each month - usually the one we’ve been able to acquire artwork and interesting game play. We never get And it plays beautifully and quickly with just two. you might want to draw from a discard pile - even if it's a card you don't need or Niya supports 2 players ages 8 and up and can be played in as little as 10 Kovalic that stands twice third Cartouche which temples you can work in, and the three rounds to determine the winner. Love it, highly recommend it. What else can I say? We'll play 7 Wonders Tournament-style - with an emphasis on casual fun, not the most copies of. Rinse and repeat until they’re all read, tired of it. A brief run-down of the game play can't use - just to prolong the game and get your cards played. minutes. Matches with multiple rounds will take a little longer. Packaged in a nice as tall as the other gang- 7. Can’t Stop. I’ll warn you now. fourth Cartouche how many of your own stones you can hard-core competition. All participants will get to play at least three games of then we start a new list. You can view the complete list of follows this list. Lost Cities is a game of hard choices. Do you wait until you have enough cards to conduct a protable expedition before tin with lovely bits, Niya is beautiful fun. sters. Players are going to is push-your-luck dice game is Play continues with players alternating turns until 3 types place. If you played a 1 on the second Cartouche, you 7 Wonders: books we’ve read on our web site. you begin it and risk not having enough time to play all of them? Do you start an expedition now and hope you draw the Star Realms - Fast-Paced Outer Space Deck-Building Combat for Two have to think twice when 3. Aton, an abstract strategy game with an totally addicting. Don’t be of goods coins have run out. e player with the most have to remove one of your own stones (2 - 1 = -1). (No If you’d like to join our Book Club, simply read the cards you need to add up to 20 plus? And what do you do when you have the 5, 8 and 10 of the same suit? at's a Star Realms is a fast paced deck-building card game of outer space combat. It combines the fun of a 1. 7 Wonders base game only. Cthulhu is aiming his gun Egyptian theme. I’m not usually a fan of surprised if you can’t stop playing camels receives a bonus chip, then you count your coins stones may be removed at all in the very rst round of the Be one of the current book selection and attend our next meeting. You protable expedition right there, but there are still 3 Investment cards, a 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 9 out there. Do you wait for deck-building game with the interactivity of trading-card-game-style combat. As you play, you make 2. 7 Wonders with Leaders expansion. at them! abstract strategy games, but for this one, I it. Your goal is to win three and award the Sultan’s Favor to the player with the most. game, though.) When you remove stones from a temple, can also sign up to receive automatic updates and remind- them before beginning the expedition? If you play your 5 now, you won't be able to play the 2, 3, 4 or any Investment use of Trade to acquire new Ships and Bases from the cards being turned face up in the Trade Row rst 30 people to register make an exception. With four ways to win, columns, by reaching their tops Best two out of three games wins. place them in the Kingdom of the Dead: the row of 3. 7 Wonders with Cities expansion. cards you draw later. No chance of earning that 8-cards-in-a-column bonus then. I'm telling you, the choices are tough. from the Trade Deck. You use the Ships and Bases you acquire to either generate more Trade or to by Tuesday, March 19, 2016 ers via our Meetup group at: www.meetup.com/Here-Be- you have to watch your opponent with a rst with your cones. You advance Jaipur supports 2 players ages 12 and up and plays in spaces below the temples. e top players will go on to to get yours! hawk’s eye, while also trying to further your your cones with dice rolls. Each ere's a lot of strategy, avored with risk-taking in Lost Cities. You can see exactly what your fellow player has played, generate Combat to attack your opponent and their bases. When you reduce your opponent’s score Books-and-Games-Book-Club. We look forward to meeting you! about 30 minutes. When the Kingdom of the Dead is full, nish your turns own strategy. e rulebook can be a bit turn you roll 4 dice and must pair them (called Authority) to zero, you win! Issue 35 Here Be Books & Games News February 2016 play a nal game with both the Leaders and Cities expan- • Foam Uzis for use in regular play. Staring down the It Takes Two: 7 Games confusing until you learn how to play. Of course Tim and up to choose in which column(s) you’ll advance your Aton - One of my favorite for the round, then score each temple. e player with the majority of but you have no idea what he's holding. While you can take and use his discards, he can take and use yours, too! It's a Tim loves this two-player game, but there’s too much conict for my taste. It’s too sions or perhaps the Babel expansion instead. Boards will I would be happy to teach you. Full run-down of game barrel of that, there are going to be a lot less punks feeling We Love to Play as a working cones. You can only advance up to three cones two-player games stones in each temple, scores for that temple. For Temple 1, the player game of give and take and loads of fun. Now for a history lesson. bad, the artwork looks really cool! be assigned randomly in each game. lucky that day! You’ll have to participate in the event to play later in this newsletter. each turn, pressing your luck by rolling again. If you roll with the most stones in Temple 1 scores points equal to the dierence Couple Designed by Reiner Knizia, Lost Cities was rst published in 1999 and quickly won several awards: e base game of Star Realms supports 2 players ages 12 and up. With two 7 Wonders Champion have a chance to win one of these puppies! 4. Ticket to Ride. numbers that don’t match any of the columns your Aton is an abstract strategy game with an in the players’ stone count. For example: if blue has 5 stones and red 1, e Champion will also receive a While there 1999 Fairplay À la carte Winner sets, 4 can play. Non-collectible expansion packs – they look like booster Tim and I have been Ticket to Ride working cones are in, you lose all progress made that turn. Egyptian theme. I’m not blue scores 4 points. For Temple 2, the player with the majority of emblem to embellish his or her Game Night name badge Admission: $10 per person. e rst 30 gamers who are two maps 1999 Meeples' Choice Award packs, but each pack contains exactly the same cards – are also available to playing games together I told you it was press your luck! It’s also addicting. usually a fan of abstract stones scores a straight 5 points - which would be red in the picture and have their picture posted on our Wall of Champions register by Tuesday, March 19, 2016 will receive a expressly made for two to three 2000 International Gamers Awards - General Strategy; Two-players spice up the game. Play time is about 20 minutes. on Facebook. since we met. It’s how players (Switzerland and Nordic strategy games, but for (right). e player with the majority in Temple 3, scores 1 point for Giant Cthulhu. While I could certainly make this list even longer, space is e spin-o of Star Realms that supports up to 4 players, we met, actually in Countries), we’ve found the this one, I make an each of his stones there. In this case, neither player scores any points for In 2008, two board games were spun o Lost Cities: Lost Cities: Admission is $10 per person. e rst 20 gamers who Sign up now in-store at Here Be Books & Games or on limited, so seven will have to do - in the newsletter Cthulhu Realms, has you trying to drive your opponents insane. at is, February 1987. We’ve boards that support up to four exception. With four Temple 3. e player with the majority in Temple 4, scores 3 points for e Board Game, published by Rio Grande Games here in the register by Tuesday, February 16, 2016 will receive the our web site. anyway. In the store, we’ve set up a special display of your goal is to reduce your opponents’ sanity to insanity or have the most remaining sanity yourself been together ever since: or ve players to provide closer ways to win, you have to each stone she has on a blue square. In the picture, blue would score 6 U.S. (recently republished by ames & Kosmos) and Keltis, new Palace promo card with their registration. two-player games to celebrate Valentine’s Day. And, of when the deck runs out. Typical Cthulhu mythos madness. Cthulhu Realms supports 2 to 4 players living proof that the couple who competitions for two, particu- watch your opponent with a points. Finally, the player with the majority of stones on grey spaces, published by Kosmos in Germany. Lost Cities: e Board Game Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club course, we’d be happy to teach you how to play them! ages 14 and up with a playtime of 25 to 45 minutes. Sign up now at Here Be Books & Games or online via plays together stays together. larly the original with the USA 1910 hawk’s eye, while also trying to further your own strategy. scores 8 points - blue here. If neither player has achieved 40 points, both players remove one of their stones from each of features the same archaeological look, theme and feel as Lost our web site. Current read: In nity Welcomes e rulebook can be a bit confusing until you learn how the temples, collect their stones from the Kingdom of the Dead and continue playing. Cities, supports 2 to 4 players and adds a few new twists to the With February being the month for lovers, I’ve put expansion, the 10 Year Anniversary Edition and Europe. Careful Drivers by Grant Naylor Jaipur - Send Your to play. Of course Tim and I would be happy to teach game with card play still always in ascending order. Niya - Beautiful Fun together a list of our favorite games to play together - just 5. Pandemic. I just love a good cooperative Aton supports two players ages 8 and up and plays in about 30 minutes. (Jason) Camels to Trade you. Niya Connect 4 us two. Not all of these games are made for just two, game! What could be better than working Keltis, however, has a bright is a type of game – with a twist – and lovely Japanese artwork. You begin by Read the book and we'll meet though many are, but all of them provide excellent game together as a team saving the world from a In Jaipur, a ere are four ways to win in Aton: 1) Fill a temple Lost Cities - An Expedition for Two green, Irish Celtic theme shuing the 16 beautiful tiles and arranging them in a 4×4 square. Each tile shows one of Friday, February 19 at 6 p.m. at completely with your stones, 2) Place your stones on all of along with its new twists, four types of vegetation (maple, cherry, pine or iris) and one of four types of poetic symbols play for two players. four-virus Pandemic? Saving the world from set-collection card Lost Cities is the rst Euro card game my husband and I ever owned. Tim picked it up HBB&G to discuss it. the green spaces on the board, 3) Fill all of the yellow plus the added ability to play cards in either ascending or descending order - you (rising sun, bird, rain or tanzaku – the small pieces of paper on which people sometimes I consider a game excellent for two when the contest is four viruses - one a virulent strain - and a game of trading and at a thrift store in San Diego and put it in our game cabinet, where I'm ashamed to We’ve started a new list. (Note: fth mutated virus in Pandemic: On the selling goods, your spaces with your stones, or 4) score 40 points. e game choose for each expedition. ere are a few other minor dierences, too. write wishes). To begin the game, the start player removes one of the tiles along the edge always close and engaging, when you have to be say it remained until after we moved to South Carolina. It wasn't until we played it at and places one of her tokens there. e other player does likewise, but may only choose a you have to be attending meet- Brink! Or better yet, playing it campaign- camels are an essential tool ends immediately when any one of the winning condi- Keltis then spun o an expansion board with mind-boggling twists and turns - constantly aware of what your opponent is up to and another gamer's house that we realized we had a treasure - undiscovered in our game tile that depicts either the same type of vegetation or poetic symbol as on the tile the start ings for your book selection to be style with an ongoing storyline, like charac- of the trade. Here’s a quick run- tions is met. Keltis: Neue Wege, Neue Ziele (New Paths, New Ways); the card game Keltis: Das modify your play accordingly. What I don’t like is head- cabinet. I'm proud to say that now the cards are well-worn due to the number of times player set aside. Play continues, with each player removing a tile (that matches one of the eligible as the next reading ters in a TV series, where the results of every game carry down of the game play in this Each player has a deck of cards numbered 1 to 4. Each Kartenspiel; and the travel game Keltis: Mitbringspiel (Bring-Along, aka Keltis: Stones) to-head conict, so you won’t nd any war games or we’v played it since then. Recently teaching it to a couple who happened in our store a symbols on the previously removed tile) and placing one of her tokens until one of the choice.) Here are the submissions forward into your next game. I’m talking Pandemic: beautiful and fun card game. turn you’ll both draw four cards and simultaneously in 2009. Another board game featuring a spiral path - Keltis: Das Orakel (e Cash ’n Guns Organized Play war-like games on this list, though I have provided a few weeks ago helped put it the front of my mind when I began planning my two- following conditions is met: I’ve received so far, in alphabetical order by title: synopsis of a popular head-to-head conict two-player Legacy baby! You can nd full reviews of Pandemic and its On your turn you can either take one good into your assign your cards to the four Cartouches on your side of player game reviews for Valentine's Day. So, on to the treasure that is Lost Cities. Oracle) - and the dice game Keltis: Würfelspiel followed in 2012. Keltis has achieved honors Saturday, March 19, 6 p.m. expansions, and Pandemic: Legacy Season 1 on my game the board. When you’re both ready, reveal the card on of its own: winning the coveted Spiel des Jahres award in 2008 and nominated for numerous other • A player forms a line with four of her tokens in any direction. • Dawn by Octavia Butler (Tim) game my husband loves later in this newsletter: Star hand (hand limit of 7) from the marketplace (the 5 In Lost Cities, your goal is to make the most protable expeditions - determined after 3 review blog e Glass Meeple (www.theglassmeeple.com). face-up cards between you and your opponent); take all of your rst Cartouche at the same time. e player with the awards as well. Both Lost Cities and several of the Keltis games are available on iOS. Of course, they're • A player forms a 2×2 square with four of her tokens. Cash 'n Guns - Second Edition is a loot-splitting party • Minerva Wakes by Holly Lisle (Brandie) Realms. rounds of play. Expeditions are represented by columns of cards in 5 colored suits (red, 7 Wonders Tournament - Saturday, February 20, 6 p.m. higher value card scores double the dierence between the more fun to play live, in person with other people. at’s the end of our history lesson. • A player chooses a tile which doesn’t allow her opponent to place a token. game of, well, cash and guns. e scene: an abandoned A jolly good competition or a cooperative romp against 6. Castles of Burgundy. A great, the camels there (camels don’t count against your hand yellow, green, blue and white). Each suit includes 3 Investment cards and the numbers 2 thru 10. As soon as you start an • Mutant by Henry Kuttner or Destroyer Men #1 by Taylor two cards. 7 Wonders has been enthralling gamers since its release in 2010. It won the prestigious Spiel des Jahres award in 2011. warehouse where you and your fellow gangsters are the board makes for a great time. row in some owers medium-weight Euro game that’s surpris- limit); exchange camels from your stable and/or goods expedition (play the rst card to one of the ve columns), you're immediately in the hole 20 points. e only way to Lost Cities' components are top-notch. e cards are beautifully illustrated, at player wins. Anderson (Carmen) ingly quick when played with just two. from your hand for an equal number of goods in the If you haven’t had a chance to play 7 Wonders enough recently, here’s your chance: a whole evening dedicated to 7 Won- splitting up the loot from your latest heist. Of course, you and chocolate and you’ve got the makings for a very fun Next reveal the cards on your second Cartouche. The make that expedition protable is to play enough cards in that column to add up to more than 20 points. Any Invest- large, easy to read and have a nice feel to them. e coordinatingly illus- ere’s more strategy in this little game than at rst appears • Star Wars: e Force Awakens by Alan Dean Foster Castles is my favorite game of all time. It’s marketplace; or sell goods of one type for the available ders. Plus, you’ll have the chance to win some fabulous prizes: can’t all agree on who gets what, which is where the foam and special Valentine’s Day - in my book player with the lower value executes the rest of their turn ment cards you play will double, triple or quadruple the points you score in that column, whether negative or positive. trated board provides designated spots for the discard piles and guides because where you play directly aects and limits the guns come into play. Soon everyone is aiming at everyone. (Tina) anyway. On to the games. been #1 on my Top 10 list for several coins in the treasury. You’ll earn a bonus chip if you sell at rst. en the other player player does the same. In the And if you play 8 or more cards in a single column, you'll earn a 20-point bonus. e trick is, you have to play your placement of each player's expedition cards. e box recently got a cover choices of where your opponent can play. at and • New Palace promo card fancied up with new artwork by Miguel Colimbra. e rst 20 gamers to register for the e richest surviving gangster wins the game! years now. It’s a bit dicult to describe: least 3 goods. Sell 4 or 5 for a bigger bonus. case of a tie, the player with the lower value card on the art makeover and is the usual Kosmos 2-Player Game size. Lost Cities is e Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club was founded in January 1. Lost Cities, a card game of hard cards in ascending order after any Investment cards. the beautiful artwork and lovely components make tournament by Tuesday, February 16, 2016 are guaranteed to receive this there’s tile placement, dice rolling and rst Cartouche goes rst. If there’s still a tie, play War: easily my favorite game from that series. While so many games in that Cash ’n Guns is a hilarious game that hooks people the 2013. Since then we’ve all discovered and read many choices if ever there was one. It’s one of Players begin with a hand of 8 cards. On your turn, you must for a fun and interesting game. prize. multiple paths to victory. It’s very tacti- reveal the top card of your deck - lowest goes rst. Repeat series are high-conict, Lost Cities is denitely not. It is competitive, rst time they pick up a foam pistol. excellent books and had - and continue to have - a great the rst Euro games Tim and I played play or discard one card face up, then draw a card. ere are You can play Niya as just a single game, as a best of three • Stunning 7 Wonders Art Pack featuring gorgeous alternative artwork for all time discussing them and lots of other geeky media and cal: you have to make the most of the options available to if necessary until the tie is resolved. though, and you do have to pay attention to what your opponent is doing, but you don't have to take him out. Our organized play kit includes exclusive promotional regularly. A full review follows after this you. Each player board oers a new and dierent chal- ve discard piles, one for each color suit. You can draw either series, or as a point-based match, with the winner of a game seven of the original Wonder boards - with both A and B sides. A great way subjects. To execute the rest of your turn, reveal the cards on your Interestingly, only the original Lost Cities was designed for just two players. All of its spin-os support 2 to 4 players. Lost items you won't want to split with anyone: list so you can read all about it. lenge. What your fellow players do aects your available the top card of the draw pile or the top card from one of the earning as many points as the number of tiles remaining in the grid to brighten up your game. Tournament prize for both 1st and 2nd place. third and fourth Cartouches. e value of the card on the Cities is one of the select two-player games I recommend most often. (With two copies of Lost Cities, you can play a How do we choose what books to read? Everyone attend- 2. Jaipur, a set-collection card game of acquiring options as do the dice you roll, though you can augment discard piles. When the draw pile is exhausted, the game ends when she wins. In the last case, the player who rst collects ten points • Beautiful 7 Wonders Playmat that helps structure the play area and game • New Giant Cthulhu character second Cartouche determines how many of your partnership variant that is extremely fun and exciting, particularly if you love partnership cards.) Play time is about 30 ing adds a title to our reading list. We pick one to read and selling goods, which features beautiful your dice rolls with workers. It’s simply an awesome game! immediately. If you still have cards you want to play and the deck is running low, wins the match. setup. Grand prize for 1st place. standee, designed by John opponent’s stones you can remove (its value minus 2), the minutes. If you're short on time, you can play just one round in about 10 minutes. e rules say to add the scores of each month - usually the one we’ve been able to acquire artwork and interesting game play. We never get And it plays beautifully and quickly with just two. you might want to draw from a discard pile - even if it's a card you don't need or Niya supports 2 players ages 8 and up and can be played in as little as 10 Kovalic that stands twice third Cartouche which temples you can work in, and the three rounds to determine the winner. Love it, highly recommend it. What else can I say? We'll play 7 Wonders Tournament-style - with an emphasis on casual fun, not the most copies of. Rinse and repeat until they’re all read, tired of it. A brief run-down of the game play can't use - just to prolong the game and get your cards played. minutes. Matches with multiple rounds will take a little longer. Packaged in a nice as tall as the other gang- 7. Can’t Stop. I’ll warn you now. fourth Cartouche how many of your own stones you can hard-core competition. All participants will get to play at least three games of then we start a new list. You can view the complete list of follows this list. Lost Cities is a game of hard choices. Do you wait until you have enough cards to conduct a protable expedition before tin with lovely bits, Niya is beautiful fun. sters. Players are going to is push-your-luck dice game is Play continues with players alternating turns until 3 types place. If you played a 1 on the second Cartouche, you 7 Wonders: books we’ve read on our web site. you begin it and risk not having enough time to play all of them? Do you start an expedition now and hope you draw the Star Realms - Fast-Paced Outer Space Deck-Building Combat for Two have to think twice when 3. Aton, an abstract strategy game with an totally addicting. Don’t be of goods coins have run out. e player with the most have to remove one of your own stones (2 - 1 = -1). (No If you’d like to join our Book Club, simply read the cards you need to add up to 20 plus? And what do you do when you have the 5, 8 and 10 of the same suit? at's a Star Realms is a fast paced deck-building card game of outer space combat. It combines the fun of a 1. 7 Wonders base game only. Cthulhu is aiming his gun Egyptian theme. I’m not usually a fan of surprised if you can’t stop playing camels receives a bonus chip, then you count your coins stones may be removed at all in the very rst round of the Be one of the current book selection and attend our next meeting. You protable expedition right there, but there are still 3 Investment cards, a 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 9 out there. Do you wait for deck-building game with the interactivity of trading-card-game-style combat. As you play, you make 2. 7 Wonders with Leaders expansion. at them! abstract strategy games, but for this one, I it. Your goal is to win three and award the Sultan’s Favor to the player with the most. game, though.) When you remove stones from a temple, can also sign up to receive automatic updates and remind- them before beginning the expedition? If you play your 5 now, you won't be able to play the 2, 3, 4 or any Investment use of Trade to acquire new Ships and Bases from the cards being turned face up in the Trade Row rst 30 people to register make an exception. With four ways to win, columns, by reaching their tops Best two out of three games wins. place them in the Kingdom of the Dead: the row of 3. 7 Wonders with Cities expansion. cards you draw later. No chance of earning that 8-cards-in-a-column bonus then. I'm telling you, the choices are tough. from the Trade Deck. You use the Ships and Bases you acquire to either generate more Trade or to by Tuesday, March 19, 2016 ers via our Meetup group at: www.meetup.com/Here-Be- you have to watch your opponent with a rst with your cones. You advance Jaipur supports 2 players ages 12 and up and plays in spaces below the temples. e top players will go on to to get yours! hawk’s eye, while also trying to further your your cones with dice rolls. Each ere's a lot of strategy, avored with risk-taking in Lost Cities. You can see exactly what your fellow player has played, generate Combat to attack your opponent and their bases. When you reduce your opponent’s score Books-and-Games-Book-Club. We look forward to meeting you! about 30 minutes. When the Kingdom of the Dead is full, nish your turns own strategy. e rulebook can be a bit turn you roll 4 dice and must pair them (called Authority) to zero, you win! Issue 35 Here Be Books & Games News February 2016 play a nal game with both the Leaders and Cities expan- • Foam Uzis for use in regular play. Staring down the It Takes Two: 7 Games confusing until you learn how to play. Of course Tim and up to choose in which column(s) you’ll advance your Aton - One of my favorite for the round, then score each temple. e player with the majority of but you have no idea what he's holding. While you can take and use his discards, he can take and use yours, too! It's a Tim loves this two-player game, but there’s too much conict for my taste. It’s too sions or perhaps the Babel expansion instead. Boards will I would be happy to teach you. Full run-down of game barrel of that, there are going to be a lot less punks feeling We Love to Play as a working cones. You can only advance up to three cones two-player games stones in each temple, scores for that temple. For Temple 1, the player game of give and take and loads of fun. Now for a history lesson. bad, the artwork looks really cool! be assigned randomly in each game. lucky that day! You’ll have to participate in the event to play later in this newsletter. each turn, pressing your luck by rolling again. If you roll with the most stones in Temple 1 scores points equal to the dierence Couple Designed by Reiner Knizia, Lost Cities was rst published in 1999 and quickly won several awards: e base game of Star Realms supports 2 players ages 12 and up. With two 7 Wonders Champion have a chance to win one of these puppies! 4. Ticket to Ride. numbers that don’t match any of the columns your Aton is an abstract strategy game with an in the players’ stone count. For example: if blue has 5 stones and red 1, e Champion will also receive a While there 1999 Fairplay À la carte Winner sets, 4 can play. Non-collectible expansion packs – they look like booster Tim and I have been Ticket to Ride working cones are in, you lose all progress made that turn. Egyptian theme. I’m not blue scores 4 points. For Temple 2, the player with the majority of emblem to embellish his or her Game Night name badge Admission: $10 per person. e rst 30 gamers who are two maps 1999 Meeples' Choice Award packs, but each pack contains exactly the same cards – are also available to playing games together I told you it was press your luck! It’s also addicting. usually a fan of abstract stones scores a straight 5 points - which would be red in the picture and have their picture posted on our Wall of Champions register by Tuesday, March 19, 2016 will receive a expressly made for two to three 2000 International Gamers Awards - General Strategy; Two-players spice up the game. Play time is about 20 minutes. on Facebook. since we met. It’s how players (Switzerland and Nordic strategy games, but for (right). e player with the majority in Temple 3, scores 1 point for Giant Cthulhu. While I could certainly make this list even longer, space is e spin-o of Star Realms that supports up to 4 players, we met, actually in Countries), we’ve found the this one, I make an each of his stones there. In this case, neither player scores any points for In 2008, two board games were spun o Lost Cities: Lost Cities: Admission is $10 per person. e rst 20 gamers who Sign up now in-store at Here Be Books & Games or on limited, so seven will have to do - in the newsletter Cthulhu Realms, has you trying to drive your opponents insane. at is, February 1987. We’ve boards that support up to four exception. With four Temple 3. e player with the majority in Temple 4, scores 3 points for e Board Game, published by Rio Grande Games here in the register by Tuesday, February 16, 2016 will receive the our web site. anyway. In the store, we’ve set up a special display of your goal is to reduce your opponents’ sanity to insanity or have the most remaining sanity yourself been together ever since: or ve players to provide closer ways to win, you have to each stone she has on a blue square. In the picture, blue would score 6 U.S. (recently republished by ames & Kosmos) and Keltis, new Palace promo card with their registration. two-player games to celebrate Valentine’s Day. And, of when the deck runs out. Typical Cthulhu mythos madness. Cthulhu Realms supports 2 to 4 players living proof that the couple who competitions for two, particu- watch your opponent with a points. Finally, the player with the majority of stones on grey spaces, published by Kosmos in Germany. Lost Cities: e Board Game Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club course, we’d be happy to teach you how to play them! ages 14 and up with a playtime of 25 to 45 minutes. Sign up now at Here Be Books & Games or online via plays together stays together. larly the original with the USA 1910 hawk’s eye, while also trying to further your own strategy. scores 8 points - blue here. If neither player has achieved 40 points, both players remove one of their stones from each of features the same archaeological look, theme and feel as Lost our web site. Current read: In nity Welcomes e rulebook can be a bit confusing until you learn how the temples, collect their stones from the Kingdom of the Dead and continue playing. Cities, supports 2 to 4 players and adds a few new twists to the With February being the month for lovers, I’ve put expansion, the 10 Year Anniversary Edition and Europe. Careful Drivers by Grant Naylor Jaipur - Send Your to play. Of course Tim and I would be happy to teach game with card play still always in ascending order. Niya - Beautiful Fun together a list of our favorite games to play together - just 5. Pandemic. I just love a good cooperative Aton supports two players ages 8 and up and plays in about 30 minutes. (Jason) Camels to Trade you. Niya Connect 4 us two. Not all of these games are made for just two, game! What could be better than working Keltis, however, has a bright is a type of game – with a twist – and lovely Japanese artwork. You begin by Read the book and we'll meet though many are, but all of them provide excellent game together as a team saving the world from a In Jaipur, a ere are four ways to win in Aton: 1) Fill a temple Lost Cities - An Expedition for Two green, Irish Celtic theme shuing the 16 beautiful tiles and arranging them in a 4×4 square. Each tile shows one of Friday, February 19 at 6 p.m. at completely with your stones, 2) Place your stones on all of Lost Cities: The Board Game along with its new twists, four types of vegetation (maple, cherry, pine or iris) and one of four types of poetic symbols play for two players. four-virus Pandemic? Saving the world from set-collection card Lost Cities is the rst Euro card game my husband and I ever owned. Tim picked it up HBB&G to discuss it. the green spaces on the board, 3) Fill all of the yellow plus the added ability to play cards in either ascending or descending order - you (rising sun, bird, rain or tanzaku – the small pieces of paper on which people sometimes I consider a game excellent for two when the contest is four viruses - one a virulent strain - and a game of trading and at a thrift store in San Diego and put it in our game cabinet, where I'm ashamed to We’ve started a new list. (Note: fth mutated virus in Pandemic: On the selling goods, your spaces with your stones, or 4) score 40 points. e game choose for each expedition. ere are a few other minor dierences, too. write wishes). To begin the game, the start player removes one of the tiles along the edge always close and engaging, when you have to be say it remained until after we moved to South Carolina. It wasn't until we played it at and places one of her tokens there. e other player does likewise, but may only choose a you have to be attending meet- Brink! Or better yet, playing it campaign- camels are an essential tool ends immediately when any one of the winning condi- Keltis then spun o an expansion board with mind-boggling twists and turns - constantly aware of what your opponent is up to and another gamer's house that we realized we had a treasure - undiscovered in our game tile that depicts either the same type of vegetation or poetic symbol as on the tile the start ings for your book selection to be style with an ongoing storyline, like charac- of the trade. Here’s a quick run- tions is met. Keltis: Neue Wege, Neue Ziele (New Paths, New Ways); the card game Keltis: Das modify your play accordingly. What I don’t like is head- cabinet. I'm proud to say that now the cards are well-worn due to the number of times player set aside. Play continues, with each player removing a tile (that matches one of the eligible as the next reading ters in a TV series, where the results of every game carry down of the game play in this Each player has a deck of cards numbered 1 to 4. Each Kartenspiel; and the travel game Keltis: Mitbringspiel (Bring-Along, aka Keltis: Stones) to-head conict, so you won’t nd any war games or we’v played it since then. Recently teaching it to a couple who happened in our store a symbols on the previously removed tile) and placing one of her tokens until one of the choice.) Here are the submissions forward into your next game. I’m talking Pandemic: beautiful and fun card game. turn you’ll both draw four cards and simultaneously in 2009. Another board game featuring a spiral path - Keltis: Das Orakel (e Cash ’n Guns Organized Play war-like games on this list, though I have provided a few weeks ago helped put it the front of my mind when I began planning my two- following conditions is met: I’ve received so far, in alphabetical order by title: synopsis of a popular head-to-head conict two-player Legacy baby! You can nd full reviews of Pandemic and its On your turn you can either take one good into your assign your cards to the four Cartouches on your side of player game reviews for Valentine's Day. So, on to the treasure that is Lost Cities. Oracle) - and the dice game Keltis: Würfelspiel followed in 2012. Keltis has achieved honors Saturday, March 19, 6 p.m. expansions, and Pandemic: Legacy Season 1 on my game the board. When you’re both ready, reveal the card on of its own: winning the coveted Spiel des Jahres award in 2008 and nominated for numerous other • A player forms a line with four of her tokens in any direction. • Dawn by Octavia Butler (Tim) game my husband loves later in this newsletter: Star hand (hand limit of 7) from the marketplace (the 5 In Lost Cities, your goal is to make the most protable expeditions - determined after 3 Keltis review blog e Glass Meeple (www.theglassmeeple.com). face-up cards between you and your opponent); take all of your rst Cartouche at the same time. e player with the awards as well. Both Lost Cities and several of the Keltis games are available on iOS. Of course, they're • A player forms a 2×2 square with four of her tokens. Cash 'n Guns - Second Edition is a loot-splitting party • Minerva Wakes by Holly Lisle (Brandie) Realms. rounds of play. Expeditions are represented by columns of cards in 5 colored suits (red, 7 Wonders Tournament - Saturday, February 20, 6 p.m. higher value card scores double the dierence between the more fun to play live, in person with other people. at’s the end of our history lesson. • A player chooses a tile which doesn’t allow her opponent to place a token. game of, well, cash and guns. e scene: an abandoned A jolly good competition or a cooperative romp against 6. Castles of Burgundy. A great, the camels there (camels don’t count against your hand yellow, green, blue and white). Each suit includes 3 Investment cards and the numbers 2 thru 10. As soon as you start an • Mutant by Henry Kuttner or Destroyer Men #1 by Taylor two cards. 7 Wonders has been enthralling gamers since its release in 2010. It won the prestigious Spiel des Jahres award in 2011. warehouse where you and your fellow gangsters are the board makes for a great time. row in some owers medium-weight Euro game that’s surpris- limit); exchange camels from your stable and/or goods expedition (play the rst card to one of the ve columns), you're immediately in the hole 20 points. e only way to Lost Cities' components are top-notch. e cards are beautifully illustrated, at player wins. Anderson (Carmen) ingly quick when played with just two. from your hand for an equal number of goods in the If you haven’t had a chance to play 7 Wonders enough recently, here’s your chance: a whole evening dedicated to 7 Won- splitting up the loot from your latest heist. Of course, you and chocolate and you’ve got the makings for a very fun Next reveal the cards on your second Cartouche. The make that expedition protable is to play enough cards in that column to add up to more than 20 points. Any Invest- large, easy to read and have a nice feel to them. e coordinatingly illus- ere’s more strategy in this little game than at rst appears • Star Wars: e Force Awakens by Alan Dean Foster Castles is my favorite game of all time. It’s marketplace; or sell goods of one type for the available ders. Plus, you’ll have the chance to win some fabulous prizes: can’t all agree on who gets what, which is where the foam and special Valentine’s Day - in my book player with the lower value executes the rest of their turn ment cards you play will double, triple or quadruple the points you score in that column, whether negative or positive. trated board provides designated spots for the discard piles and guides because where you play directly aects and limits the guns come into play. Soon everyone is aiming at everyone. (Tina) anyway. On to the games. been #1 on my Top 10 list for several coins in the treasury. You’ll earn a bonus chip if you sell at rst. en the other player player does the same. In the And if you play 8 or more cards in a single column, you'll earn a 20-point bonus. e trick is, you have to play your placement of each player's expedition cards. e box recently got a cover choices of where your opponent can play. at and • New Palace promo card fancied up with new artwork by Miguel Colimbra. e rst 20 gamers to register for the e richest surviving gangster wins the game! years now. It’s a bit dicult to describe: least 3 goods. Sell 4 or 5 for a bigger bonus. case of a tie, the player with the lower value card on the art makeover and is the usual Kosmos 2-Player Game size. Lost Cities is e Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club was founded in January 1. Lost Cities, a card game of hard cards in ascending order after any Investment cards. the beautiful artwork and lovely components make tournament by Tuesday, February 16, 2016 are guaranteed to receive this there’s tile placement, dice rolling and rst Cartouche goes rst. If there’s still a tie, play War: easily my favorite game from that series. While so many games in that Cash ’n Guns is a hilarious game that hooks people the 2013. Since then we’ve all discovered and read many choices if ever there was one. It’s one of Players begin with a hand of 8 cards. On your turn, you must for a fun and interesting game. prize. multiple paths to victory. It’s very tacti- reveal the top card of your deck - lowest goes rst. Repeat series are high-conict, Lost Cities is denitely not. It is competitive, rst time they pick up a foam pistol. excellent books and had - and continue to have - a great the rst Euro games Tim and I played play or discard one card face up, then draw a card. ere are You can play Niya as just a single game, as a best of three • Stunning 7 Wonders Art Pack featuring gorgeous alternative artwork for all time discussing them and lots of other geeky media and cal: you have to make the most of the options available to if necessary until the tie is resolved. though, and you do have to pay attention to what your opponent is doing, but you don't have to take him out. Our organized play kit includes exclusive promotional regularly. A full review follows after this you. Each player board oers a new and dierent chal- ve discard piles, one for each color suit. You can draw either series, or as a point-based match, with the winner of a game seven of the original Wonder boards - with both A and B sides. A great way subjects. To execute the rest of your turn, reveal the cards on your Interestingly, only the original Lost Cities was designed for just two players. All of its spin-os support 2 to 4 players. Lost items you won't want to split with anyone: list so you can read all about it. lenge. What your fellow players do aects your available the top card of the draw pile or the top card from one of the earning as many points as the number of tiles remaining in the grid to brighten up your game. Tournament prize for both 1st and 2nd place. third and fourth Cartouches. e value of the card on the Cities is one of the select two-player games I recommend most often. (With two copies of Lost Cities, you can play a How do we choose what books to read? Everyone attend- 2. Jaipur, a set-collection card game of acquiring options as do the dice you roll, though you can augment discard piles. When the draw pile is exhausted, the game ends when she wins. In the last case, the player who rst collects ten points • Beautiful 7 Wonders Playmat that helps structure the play area and game • New Giant Cthulhu character second Cartouche determines how many of your partnership variant that is extremely fun and exciting, particularly if you love partnership cards.) Play time is about 30 ing adds a title to our reading list. We pick one to read and selling goods, which features beautiful your dice rolls with workers. It’s simply an awesome game! immediately. If you still have cards you want to play and the deck is running low, wins the match. setup. Grand prize for 1st place. standee, designed by John opponent’s stones you can remove (its value minus 2), the minutes. If you're short on time, you can play just one round in about 10 minutes. e rules say to add the scores of each month - usually the one we’ve been able to acquire artwork and interesting game play. We never get And it plays beautifully and quickly with just two. you might want to draw from a discard pile - even if it's a card you don't need or Niya supports 2 players ages 8 and up and can be played in as little as 10 Kovalic that stands twice third Cartouche which temples you can work in, and the three rounds to determine the winner. Love it, highly recommend it. What else can I say? We'll play 7 Wonders Tournament-style - with an emphasis on casual fun, not the most copies of. Rinse and repeat until they’re all read, tired of it. A brief run-down of the game play can't use - just to prolong the game and get your cards played. minutes. Matches with multiple rounds will take a little longer. Packaged in a nice as tall as the other gang- 7. Can’t Stop. I’ll warn you now. fourth Cartouche how many of your own stones you can hard-core competition. All participants will get to play at least three games of then we start a new list. You can view the complete list of follows this list. Lost Cities is a game of hard choices. Do you wait until you have enough cards to conduct a protable expedition before tin with lovely bits, Niya is beautiful fun. sters. Players are going to is push-your-luck dice game is Play continues with players alternating turns until 3 types place. If you played a 1 on the second Cartouche, you 7 Wonders: books we’ve read on our web site. you begin it and risk not having enough time to play all of them? Do you start an expedition now and hope you draw the Star Realms - Fast-Paced Outer Space Deck-Building Combat for Two have to think twice when 3. Aton, an abstract strategy game with an totally addicting. Don’t be of goods coins have run out. e player with the most have to remove one of your own stones (2 - 1 = -1). (No If you’d like to join our Book Club, simply read the cards you need to add up to 20 plus? And what do you do when you have the 5, 8 and 10 of the same suit? at's a Star Realms is a fast paced deck-building card game of outer space combat. It combines the fun of a 1. 7 Wonders base game only. Cthulhu is aiming his gun Egyptian theme. I’m not usually a fan of surprised if you can’t stop playing camels receives a bonus chip, then you count your coins stones may be removed at all in the very rst round of the Be one of the current book selection and attend our next meeting. You protable expedition right there, but there are still 3 Investment cards, a 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 9 out there. Do you wait for deck-building game with the interactivity of trading-card-game-style combat. As you play, you make 2. 7 Wonders with Leaders expansion. at them! abstract strategy games, but for this one, I it. Your goal is to win three and award the Sultan’s Favor to the player with the most. game, though.) When you remove stones from a temple, can also sign up to receive automatic updates and remind- them before beginning the expedition? If you play your 5 now, you won't be able to play the 2, 3, 4 or any Investment use of Trade to acquire new Ships and Bases from the cards being turned face up in the Trade Row rst 30 people to register make an exception. With four ways to win, columns, by reaching their tops Best two out of three games wins. place them in the Kingdom of the Dead: the row of 3. 7 Wonders with Cities expansion. cards you draw later. No chance of earning that 8-cards-in-a-column bonus then. I'm telling you, the choices are tough. from the Trade Deck. You use the Ships and Bases you acquire to either generate more Trade or to by Tuesday, March 19, 2016 ers via our Meetup group at: www.meetup.com/Here-Be- you have to watch your opponent with a rst with your cones. You advance Jaipur supports 2 players ages 12 and up and plays in spaces below the temples. e top players will go on to to get yours! hawk’s eye, while also trying to further your your cones with dice rolls. Each ere's a lot of strategy, avored with risk-taking in Lost Cities. You can see exactly what your fellow player has played, generate Combat to attack your opponent and their bases. When you reduce your opponent’s score Books-and-Games-Book-Club. We look forward to meeting you! about 30 minutes. When the Kingdom of the Dead is full, nish your turns own strategy. e rulebook can be a bit turn you roll 4 dice and must pair them (called Authority) to zero, you win! Issue 35 Here Be Books & Games News February 2016 play a nal game with both the Leaders and Cities expan- • Foam Uzis for use in regular play. Staring down the It Takes Two: 7 Games confusing until you learn how to play. Of course Tim and up to choose in which column(s) you’ll advance your Aton - One of my favorite for the round, then score each temple. e player with the majority of but you have no idea what he's holding. While you can take and use his discards, he can take and use yours, too! It's a Tim loves this two-player game, but there’s too much conict for my taste. It’s too sions or perhaps the Babel expansion instead. Boards will I would be happy to teach you. Full run-down of game barrel of that, there are going to be a lot less punks feeling We Love to Play as a working cones. You can only advance up to three cones two-player games stones in each temple, scores for that temple. For Temple 1, the player game of give and take and loads of fun. Now for a history lesson. bad, the artwork looks really cool! be assigned randomly in each game. lucky that day! You’ll have to participate in the event to play later in this newsletter. each turn, pressing your luck by rolling again. If you roll with the most stones in Temple 1 scores points equal to the dierence Couple Designed by Reiner Knizia, Lost Cities was rst published in 1999 and quickly won several awards: e base game of Star Realms supports 2 players ages 12 and up. With two 7 Wonders Champion have a chance to win one of these puppies! 4. Ticket to Ride. numbers that don’t match any of the columns your Aton is an abstract strategy game with an in the players’ stone count. For example: if blue has 5 stones and red 1, e Champion will also receive a While there 1999 Fairplay À la carte Winner sets, 4 can play. Non-collectible expansion packs – they look like booster Tim and I have been Ticket to Ride working cones are in, you lose all progress made that turn. Egyptian theme. I’m not blue scores 4 points. For Temple 2, the player with the majority of emblem to embellish his or her Game Night name badge Admission: $10 per person. e rst 30 gamers who are two maps 1999 Meeples' Choice Award packs, but each pack contains exactly the same cards – are also available to playing games together I told you it was press your luck! It’s also addicting. usually a fan of abstract stones scores a straight 5 points - which would be red in the picture and have their picture posted on our Wall of Champions register by Tuesday, March 19, 2016 will receive a expressly made for two to three 2000 International Gamers Awards - General Strategy; Two-players spice up the game. Play time is about 20 minutes. on Facebook. since we met. It’s how players (Switzerland and Nordic strategy games, but for (right). e player with the majority in Temple 3, scores 1 point for Giant Cthulhu. While I could certainly make this list even longer, space is e spin-o of Star Realms that supports up to 4 players, we met, actually in Countries), we’ve found the this one, I make an each of his stones there. In this case, neither player scores any points for In 2008, two board games were spun o Lost Cities: Lost Cities: Admission is $10 per person. e rst 20 gamers who Sign up now in-store at Here Be Books & Games or on limited, so seven will have to do - in the newsletter Cthulhu Realms, has you trying to drive your opponents insane. at is, February 1987. We’ve boards that support up to four exception. With four Temple 3. e player with the majority in Temple 4, scores 3 points for e Board Game, published by Rio Grande Games here in the register by Tuesday, February 16, 2016 will receive the our web site. anyway. In the store, we’ve set up a special display of your goal is to reduce your opponents’ sanity to insanity or have the most remaining sanity yourself been together ever since: or ve players to provide closer ways to win, you have to each stone she has on a blue square. In the picture, blue would score 6 U.S. (recently republished by ames & Kosmos) and Keltis, new Palace promo card with their registration. two-player games to celebrate Valentine’s Day. And, of when the deck runs out. Typical Cthulhu mythos madness. Cthulhu Realms supports 2 to 4 players living proof that the couple who competitions for two, particu- watch your opponent with a points. Finally, the player with the majority of stones on grey spaces, published by Kosmos in Germany. Lost Cities: e Board Game Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club course, we’d be happy to teach you how to play them! ages 14 and up with a playtime of 25 to 45 minutes. Sign up now at Here Be Books & Games or online via plays together stays together. larly the original with the USA 1910 hawk’s eye, while also trying to further your own strategy. scores 8 points - blue here. If neither player has achieved 40 points, both players remove one of their stones from each of features the same archaeological look, theme and feel as Lost our web site. Current read: In nity Welcomes e rulebook can be a bit confusing until you learn how the temples, collect their stones from the Kingdom of the Dead and continue playing. Cities, supports 2 to 4 players and adds a few new twists to the With February being the month for lovers, I’ve put expansion, the 10 Year Anniversary Edition and Europe. Careful Drivers by Grant Naylor Jaipur - Send Your to play. Of course Tim and I would be happy to teach game with card play still always in ascending order. Niya - Beautiful Fun together a list of our favorite games to play together - just 5. Pandemic. I just love a good cooperative Aton supports two players ages 8 and up and plays in about 30 minutes. (Jason) Camels to Trade you. Niya Connect 4 us two. Not all of these games are made for just two, game! What could be better than working Keltis, however, has a bright is a type of game – with a twist – and lovely Japanese artwork. You begin by Read the book and we'll meet though many are, but all of them provide excellent game together as a team saving the world from a In Jaipur, a ere are four ways to win in Aton: 1) Fill a temple Lost Cities - An Expedition for Two green, Irish Celtic theme shuing the 16 beautiful tiles and arranging them in a 4×4 square. Each tile shows one of Friday, February 19 at 6 p.m. at completely with your stones, 2) Place your stones on all of along with its new twists, four types of vegetation (maple, cherry, pine or iris) and one of four types of poetic symbols play for two players. four-virus Pandemic? Saving the world from set-collection card Lost Cities is the rst Euro card game my husband and I ever owned. Tim picked it up HBB&G to discuss it. the green spaces on the board, 3) Fill all of the yellow plus the added ability to play cards in either ascending or descending order - you (rising sun, bird, rain or tanzaku – the small pieces of paper on which people sometimes I consider a game excellent for two when the contest is four viruses - one a virulent strain - and a game of trading and at a thrift store in San Diego and put it in our game cabinet, where I'm ashamed to We’ve started a new list. (Note: fth mutated virus in Pandemic: On the selling goods, your spaces with your stones, or 4) score 40 points. e game choose for each expedition. ere are a few other minor dierences, too. write wishes). To begin the game, the start player removes one of the tiles along the edge always close and engaging, when you have to be say it remained until after we moved to South Carolina. It wasn't until we played it at and places one of her tokens there. e other player does likewise, but may only choose a you have to be attending meet- Brink! Or better yet, playing it campaign- camels are an essential tool ends immediately when any one of the winning condi- Keltis then spun o an expansion board with mind-boggling twists and turns - constantly aware of what your opponent is up to and another gamer's house that we realized we had a treasure - undiscovered in our game tile that depicts either the same type of vegetation or poetic symbol as on the tile the start ings for your book selection to be style with an ongoing storyline, like charac- of the trade. Here’s a quick run- tions is met. Keltis: Neue Wege, Neue Ziele (New Paths, New Ways); the card game Keltis: Das modify your play accordingly. What I don’t like is head- cabinet. I'm proud to say that now the cards are well-worn due to the number of times player set aside. Play continues, with each player removing a tile (that matches one of the eligible as the next reading ters in a TV series, where the results of every game carry down of the game play in this Each player has a deck of cards numbered 1 to 4. Each Kartenspiel; and the travel game Keltis: Mitbringspiel (Bring-Along, aka Keltis: Stones) to-head conict, so you won’t nd any war games or we’v played it since then. Recently teaching it to a couple who happened in our store a symbols on the previously removed tile) and placing one of her tokens until one of the choice.) Here are the submissions forward into your next game. I’m talking Pandemic: beautiful and fun card game. turn you’ll both draw four cards and simultaneously in 2009. Another board game featuring a spiral path - Keltis: Das Orakel (e Cash ’n Guns Organized Play war-like games on this list, though I have provided a few weeks ago helped put it the front of my mind when I began planning my two- following conditions is met: I’ve received so far, in alphabetical order by title: synopsis of a popular head-to-head conict two-player Legacy baby! You can nd full reviews of Pandemic and its On your turn you can either take one good into your assign your cards to the four Cartouches on your side of player game reviews for Valentine's Day. So, on to the treasure that is Lost Cities. Oracle) - and the dice game Keltis: Würfelspiel followed in 2012. Keltis has achieved honors Saturday, March 19, 6 p.m. expansions, and Pandemic: Legacy Season 1 on my game the board. When you’re both ready, reveal the card on of its own: winning the coveted Spiel des Jahres award in 2008 and nominated for numerous other • A player forms a line with four of her tokens in any direction. • Dawn by Octavia Butler (Tim) game my husband loves later in this newsletter: Star hand (hand limit of 7) from the marketplace (the 5 In Lost Cities, your goal is to make the most protable expeditions - determined after 3 review blog e Glass Meeple (www.theglassmeeple.com). face-up cards between you and your opponent); take all of your rst Cartouche at the same time. e player with the awards as well. Both Lost Cities and several of the Keltis games are available on iOS. Of course, they're • A player forms a 2×2 square with four of her tokens. Cash 'n Guns - Second Edition is a loot-splitting party • Minerva Wakes by Holly Lisle (Brandie) Realms. rounds of play. Expeditions are represented by columns of cards in 5 colored suits (red, 7 Wonders Tournament - Saturday, February 20, 6 p.m. higher value card scores double the dierence between the more fun to play live, in person with other people. at’s the end of our history lesson. • A player chooses a tile which doesn’t allow her opponent to place a token. game of, well, cash and guns. e scene: an abandoned A jolly good competition or a cooperative romp against 6. Castles of Burgundy. A great, the camels there (camels don’t count against your hand yellow, green, blue and white). Each suit includes 3 Investment cards and the numbers 2 thru 10. As soon as you start an • Mutant by Henry Kuttner or Destroyer Men #1 by Taylor two cards. 7 Wonders has been enthralling gamers since its release in 2010. It won the prestigious Spiel des Jahres award in 2011. warehouse where you and your fellow gangsters are the board makes for a great time. row in some owers medium-weight Euro game that’s surpris- limit); exchange camels from your stable and/or goods expedition (play the rst card to one of the ve columns), you're immediately in the hole 20 points. e only way to Lost Cities' components are top-notch. e cards are beautifully illustrated, at player wins. Anderson (Carmen) ingly quick when played with just two. from your hand for an equal number of goods in the If you haven’t had a chance to play 7 Wonders enough recently, here’s your chance: a whole evening dedicated to 7 Won- splitting up the loot from your latest heist. Of course, you and chocolate and you’ve got the makings for a very fun Next reveal the cards on your second Cartouche. The make that expedition protable is to play enough cards in that column to add up to more than 20 points. Any Invest- large, easy to read and have a nice feel to them. e coordinatingly illus- ere’s more strategy in this little game than at rst appears • Star Wars: e Force Awakens by Alan Dean Foster Castles is my favorite game of all time. It’s marketplace; or sell goods of one type for the available ders. Plus, you’ll have the chance to win some fabulous prizes: can’t all agree on who gets what, which is where the foam and special Valentine’s Day - in my book player with the lower value executes the rest of their turn ment cards you play will double, triple or quadruple the points you score in that column, whether negative or positive. trated board provides designated spots for the discard piles and guides because where you play directly aects and limits the guns come into play. Soon everyone is aiming at everyone. (Tina) anyway. On to the games. been #1 on my Top 10 list for several coins in the treasury. You’ll earn a bonus chip if you sell at rst. en the other player player does the same. In the And if you play 8 or more cards in a single column, you'll earn a 20-point bonus. e trick is, you have to play your placement of each player's expedition cards. e box recently got a cover choices of where your opponent can play. at and • New Palace promo card fancied up with new artwork by Miguel Colimbra. e rst 20 gamers to register for the e richest surviving gangster wins the game! years now. It’s a bit dicult to describe: least 3 goods. Sell 4 or 5 for a bigger bonus. case of a tie, the player with the lower value card on the art makeover and is the usual Kosmos 2-Player Game size. Lost Cities is e Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club was founded in January 1. Lost Cities, a card game of hard cards in ascending order after any Investment cards. the beautiful artwork and lovely components make tournament by Tuesday, February 16, 2016 are guaranteed to receive this there’s tile placement, dice rolling and rst Cartouche goes rst. If there’s still a tie, play War: easily my favorite game from that series. While so many games in that Cash ’n Guns is a hilarious game that hooks people the 2013. Since then we’ve all discovered and read many choices if ever there was one. It’s one of Players begin with a hand of 8 cards. On your turn, you must for a fun and interesting game. prize. multiple paths to victory. It’s very tacti- reveal the top card of your deck - lowest goes rst. Repeat series are high-conict, Lost Cities is denitely not. It is competitive, rst time they pick up a foam pistol. excellent books and had - and continue to have - a great the rst Euro games Tim and I played play or discard one card face up, then draw a card. ere are You can play Niya as just a single game, as a best of three • Stunning 7 Wonders Art Pack featuring gorgeous alternative artwork for all time discussing them and lots of other geeky media and cal: you have to make the most of the options available to if necessary until the tie is resolved. though, and you do have to pay attention to what your opponent is doing, but you don't have to take him out. Our organized play kit includes exclusive promotional regularly. A full review follows after this you. Each player board oers a new and dierent chal- ve discard piles, one for each color suit. You can draw either series, or as a point-based match, with the winner of a game seven of the original Wonder boards - with both A and B sides. A great way subjects. To execute the rest of your turn, reveal the cards on your Interestingly, only the original Lost Cities was designed for just two players. All of its spin-os support 2 to 4 players. Lost items you won't want to split with anyone: list so you can read all about it. lenge. What your fellow players do aects your available the top card of the draw pile or the top card from one of the earning as many points as the number of tiles remaining in the grid to brighten up your game. Tournament prize for both 1st and 2nd place. third and fourth Cartouches. e value of the card on the Cities is one of the select two-player games I recommend most often. (With two copies of Lost Cities, you can play a How do we choose what books to read? Everyone attend- 2. Jaipur, a set-collection card game of acquiring options as do the dice you roll, though you can augment discard piles. When the draw pile is exhausted, the game ends when she wins. In the last case, the player who rst collects ten points • Beautiful 7 Wonders Playmat that helps structure the play area and game • New Giant Cthulhu character second Cartouche determines how many of your partnership variant that is extremely fun and exciting, particularly if you love partnership cards.) Play time is about 30 ing adds a title to our reading list. We pick one to read and selling goods, which features beautiful your dice rolls with workers. It’s simply an awesome game! immediately. If you still have cards you want to play and the deck is running low, wins the match. setup. Grand prize for 1st place. standee, designed by John opponent’s stones you can remove (its value minus 2), the minutes. If you're short on time, you can play just one round in about 10 minutes. e rules say to add the scores of each month - usually the one we’ve been able to acquire artwork and interesting game play. We never get And it plays beautifully and quickly with just two. you might want to draw from a discard pile - even if it's a card you don't need or Niya supports 2 players ages 8 and up and can be played in as little as 10 Kovalic that stands twice third Cartouche which temples you can work in, and the three rounds to determine the winner. Love it, highly recommend it. What else can I say? We'll play 7 Wonders Tournament-style - with an emphasis on casual fun, not the most copies of. Rinse and repeat until they’re all read, tired of it. A brief run-down of the game play can't use - just to prolong the game and get your cards played. minutes. Matches with multiple rounds will take a little longer. Packaged in a nice as tall as the other gang- 7. Can’t Stop. I’ll warn you now. fourth Cartouche how many of your own stones you can hard-core competition. All participants will get to play at least three games of then we start a new list. You can view the complete list of follows this list. Lost Cities is a game of hard choices. Do you wait until you have enough cards to conduct a protable expedition before tin with lovely bits, Niya is beautiful fun. sters. Players are going to is push-your-luck dice game is Play continues with players alternating turns until 3 types place. If you played a 1 on the second Cartouche, you 7 Wonders: books we’ve read on our web site. you begin it and risk not having enough time to play all of them? Do you start an expedition now and hope you draw the Star Realms - Fast-Paced Outer Space Deck-Building Combat for Two have to think twice when 3. Aton, an abstract strategy game with an totally addicting. Don’t be of goods coins have run out. e player with the most have to remove one of your own stones (2 - 1 = -1). (No If you’d like to join our Book Club, simply read the cards you need to add up to 20 plus? And what do you do when you have the 5, 8 and 10 of the same suit? at's a Star Realms is a fast paced deck-building card game of outer space combat. It combines the fun of a 1. 7 Wonders base game only. Cthulhu is aiming his gun Egyptian theme. I’m not usually a fan of surprised if you can’t stop playing camels receives a bonus chip, then you count your coins stones may be removed at all in the very rst round of the Be one of the current book selection and attend our next meeting. You protable expedition right there, but there are still 3 Investment cards, a 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 9 out there. Do you wait for deck-building game with the interactivity of trading-card-game-style combat. As you play, you make 2. 7 Wonders with Leaders expansion. at them! abstract strategy games, but for this one, I it. Your goal is to win three and award the Sultan’s Favor to the player with the most. game, though.) When you remove stones from a temple, can also sign up to receive automatic updates and remind- them before beginning the expedition? If you play your 5 now, you won't be able to play the 2, 3, 4 or any Investment use of Trade to acquire new Ships and Bases from the cards being turned face up in the Trade Row The Glass Meeple rst 30 people to register make an exception. With four ways to win, columns, by reaching their tops Best two out of three games wins. place them in the Kingdom of the Dead: the row of 3. 7 Wonders with Cities expansion. cards you draw later. No chance of earning that 8-cards-in-a-column bonus then. I'm telling you, the choices are tough. from the Trade Deck. You use the Ships and Bases you acquire to either generate more Trade or to Game Reviews by Tina by Tuesday, March 19, 2016 ers via our Meetup group at: www.meetup.com/Here-Be- you have to watch your opponent with a rst with your cones. You advance Jaipur supports 2 players ages 12 and up and plays in spaces below the temples. e top players will go on to to get yours! hawk’s eye, while also trying to further your your cones with dice rolls. Each ere's a lot of strategy, avored with risk-taking in Lost Cities. You can see exactly what your fellow player has played, generate Combat to attack your opponent and their bases. When you reduce your opponent’s score Books-and-Games-Book-Club. We look forward to meeting you! about 30 minutes. When the Kingdom of the Dead is full, nish your turns www.theglassmeeple.com own strategy. e rulebook can be a bit turn you roll 4 dice and must pair them (called Authority) to zero, you win! Issue 35 Here Be Books & Games News February 2016 play a nal game with both the Leaders and Cities expan- • Foam Uzis for use in regular play. Staring down the It Takes Two: 7 Games confusing until you learn how to play. Of course Tim and up to choose in which column(s) you’ll advance your Aton - One of my favorite for the round, then score each temple. e player with the majority of but you have no idea what he's holding. While you can take and use his discards, he can take and use yours, too! It's a Tim loves this two-player game, but there’s too much conict for my taste. It’s too sions or perhaps the Babel expansion instead. Boards will I would be happy to teach you. Full run-down of game New Arrivals! Here Be Books & Games barrel of that, there are going to be a lot less punks feeling We Love to Play as a working cones. You can only advance up to three cones two-player games stones in each temple, scores for that temple. For Temple 1, the player game of give and take and loads of fun. Now for a history lesson. bad, the artwork looks really cool! be assigned randomly in each game. lucky that day! You’ll have to participate in the event to play later in this newsletter. each turn, pressing your luck by rolling again. If you roll with the most stones in Temple 1 scores points equal to the dierence Game Library Couple Designed by Reiner Knizia, Lost Cities was rst published in 1999 and quickly won several awards: e base game of Star Realms supports 2 players ages 12 and up. With two 7 Wonders: Duel Lords of Xidit 7 Wonders Champion have a chance to win one of these puppies! 4. Ticket to Ride. numbers that don’t match any of the columns your Aton is an abstract strategy game with an in the players’ stone count. For example: if blue has 5 stones and red 1, e Champion will also receive a While there 1999 Fairplay À la carte Winner sets, 4 can play. Non-collectible expansion packs – they look like booster Artifacts, Inc. Mage Wars: Academy One of the things that sets us apart Tim and I have been Ticket to Ride working cones are in, you lose all progress made that turn. Egyptian theme. I’m not blue scores 4 points. For Temple 2, the player with the majority of emblem to embellish his or her Game Night name badge Admission: $10 per person. e rst 30 gamers who are two maps 1999 Meeples' Choice Award packs, but each pack contains exactly the same cards – are also available to from other game stores in the area, as playing games together I told you it was press your luck! It’s also addicting. usually a fan of abstract stones scores a straight 5 points - which would be red in the picture Bruges: e Pets mini exp Oh My Goods! and have their picture posted on our Wall of Champions register by Tuesday, March 19, 2016 will receive a expressly made for two to three 2000 International Gamers Awards - General Strategy; Two-players spice up the game. Play time is about 20 minutes. well as online merchants, is our on Facebook. since we met. It’s how players (Switzerland and Nordic strategy games, but for (right). e player with the majority in Temple 3, scores 1 point for Castles of Mad King Ludwig: One Night Ultimate Vampire Giant Cthulhu. While I could certainly make this list even longer, space is e spin-o of Star Realms that supports up to 4 players, substantial Game Library. We use our we met, actually in Countries), we’ve found the this one, I make an each of his stones there. In this case, neither player scores any points for In 2008, two board games were spun o Lost Cities: Lost Cities: Secrets Exp. Admission is $10 per person. e rst 20 gamers who Sign up now in-store at Here Be Books & Games or on limited, so seven will have to do - in the newsletter Cthulhu Realms, has you trying to drive your opponents insane. at is, Orleans games to: February 1987. We’ve boards that support up to four exception. With four Temple 3. e player with the majority in Temple 4, scores 3 points for e Board Game, published by Rio Grande Games here in the register by Tuesday, February 16, 2016 will receive the our web site. anyway. In the store, we’ve set up a special display of your goal is to reduce your opponents’ sanity to insanity or have the most remaining sanity yourself Firey Playing Cards Sneaky Cards • Teach you how to play. been together ever since: or ve players to provide closer ways to win, you have to each stone she has on a blue square. In the picture, blue would score 6 U.S. (recently republished by ames & Kosmos) and Keltis, new Palace promo card with their registration. two-player games to celebrate Valentine’s Day. And, of when the deck runs out. Typical Cthulhu mythos madness. Cthulhu Realms supports 2 to 4 players Firey: e Whole Damn ’Verse • Host monthly Game Nights. living proof that the couple who competitions for two, particu- watch your opponent with a points. Finally, the player with the majority of stones on grey spaces, published by Kosmos in Germany. Lost Cities: e Board Game Star Wars: Empire vs. Rebellion Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club course, we’d be happy to teach you how to play them! ages 14 and up with a playtime of 25 to 45 minutes. Sign up now at Here Be Books & Games or online via plays together stays together. larly the original with the USA 1910 hawk’s eye, while also trying to further your own strategy. scores 8 points - blue here. If neither player has achieved 40 points, both players remove one of their stones from each of features the same archaeological look, theme and feel as Lost Galaxy Trucker: Missions Ticket to Ride: Map Collection 5 • Hold tournaments, organized Current read: our web site. In nity Welcomes expansion, the 10 Year Anniversary Edition and Europe. e rulebook can be a bit confusing until you learn how the temples, collect their stones from the Kingdom of the Dead and continue playing. Cities, supports 2 to 4 players and adds a few new twists to the Ghooost! - U.K. & Pennsylvania play and other gaming events. Careful Drivers by Grant Naylor With February being the month for lovers, I’ve put Jaipur - Send Your Niya - Beautiful Fun to play. Of course Tim and I would be happy to teach Aton supports two players ages 8 and up and plays in about 30 minutes. game with card play still always in ascending order. • Provide demos so you can, literally, (Jason) together a list of our favorite games to play together - just 5. Pandemic. I just love a good cooperative Hansa Teutonica: Britannia Exp Voyages of Marco Polo Camels to Trade you. Keltis, however, has a bright Niya is a Connect 4 type of game – with a twist – and lovely Japanese artwork. You begin by Try Before You Buy! us two. Not all of these games are made for just two, game! What could be better than working Koryo Why First? Read the book and we'll meet In Jaipur, a ere are four ways to win in Aton: 1) Fill a temple Lost Cities - An Expedition for Two green, Irish Celtic theme shuing the 16 beautiful tiles and arranging them in a 4×4 square. Each tile shows one of ink of how much money you can though many are, but all of them provide excellent game together as a team saving the world from a Legacy: e Testament of Duke Friday, February 19 at 6 p.m. at play for two players. set-collection card completely with your stones, 2) Place your stones on all of along with its new twists, four types of vegetation (maple, cherry, pine or iris) and one of four types of poetic symbols # of Titles In Stock: 800+ save by buying games you know you four-virus Pandemic? Saving the world from Lost Cities is the rst Euro card game my husband and I ever owned. Tim picked it up de Crecy - Five Families exp HBB&G to discuss it. four viruses - one a virulent strain - and a game of trading and the green spaces on the board, 3) Fill all of the yellow plus the added ability to play cards in either ascending or descending order - you (rising sun, bird, rain or tanzaku – the small pieces of paper on which people sometimes like to play! I consider a game excellent for two when the contest is at a thrift store in San Diego and put it in our game cabinet, where I'm ashamed to write wishes). To begin the game, the start player removes one of the tiles along the edge We’ve started a new list. (Note: fth mutated virus in Pandemic: On the selling goods, your spaces with your stones, or 4) score 40 points. e game choose for each expedition. ere are a few other minor dierences, too. So, take advantage of this incredible always close and engaging, when you have to be say it remained until after we moved to South Carolina. It wasn't until we played it at and places one of her tokens there. e other player does likewise, but may only choose a you have to be attending meet- Brink! Or better yet, playing it campaign- camels are an essential tool ends immediately when any one of the winning condi- Keltis then spun o an expansion board with mind-boggling twists and turns - Back in Stock! service. All you have to do is ask us. constantly aware of what your opponent is up to and another gamer's house that we realized we had a treasure - undiscovered in our game tile that depicts either the same type of vegetation or poetic symbol as on the tile the start ings for your book selection to be style with an ongoing storyline, like charac- of the trade. Here’s a quick run- tions is met. Keltis: Neue Wege, Neue Ziele (New Paths, New Ways); the card game Keltis: Das modify your play accordingly. What I don’t like is head- cabinet. I'm proud to say that now the cards are well-worn due to the number of times player set aside. Play continues, with each player removing a tile (that matches one of the We’ll teach you how to play! eligible as the next reading ters in a TV series, where the results of every game carry down of the game play in this Each player has a deck of cards numbered 1 to 4. Each Kartenspiel; and the travel game Keltis: Mitbringspiel (Bring-Along, aka Keltis: Stones) Carcassonne: Inns & Cathedrals Robo Rally to-head conict, so you won’t nd any war games or we’v played it since then. Recently teaching it to a couple who happened in our store a symbols on the previously removed tile) and placing one of her tokens until one of the choice.) Here are the submissions forward into your next game. I’m talking Pandemic: beautiful and fun card game. turn you’ll both draw four cards and simultaneously in 2009. Another board game featuring a spiral path - Keltis: Das Orakel (e Catan: Settlers of the Stone Age Sheri of Nottingham Cash ’n Guns Organized Play war-like games on this list, though I have provided a few weeks ago helped put it the front of my mind when I began planning my two- following conditions is met: I’ve received so far, in alphabetical order by title: synopsis of a popular head-to-head conict two-player Legacy baby! You can nd full reviews of Pandemic and its On your turn you can either take one good into your assign your cards to the four Cartouches on your side of player game reviews for Valentine's Day. So, on to the treasure that is Lost Cities. Oracle) - and the dice game Keltis: Würfelspiel followed in 2012. Keltis has achieved honors Hansa Teutonica East Exp. Stone Age Game Library Saturday, March 19, 6 p.m. expansions, and Pandemic: Legacy Season 1 on my game the board. When you’re both ready, reveal the card on of its own: winning the coveted Spiel des Jahres award in 2008 and nominated for numerous other • A player forms a line with four of her tokens in any direction. • Dawn by Octavia Butler (Tim) game my husband loves later in this newsletter: Star hand (hand limit of 7) from the marketplace (the 5 In Lost Cities, your goal is to make the most protable expeditions - determined after 3 Harbour Telestrations Additions review blog e Glass Meeple (www.theglassmeeple.com). face-up cards between you and your opponent); take all of your rst Cartouche at the same time. e player with the awards as well. Both Lost Cities and several of the Keltis games are available on iOS. Of course, they're • A player forms a 2×2 square with four of her tokens. Cash 'n Guns - Second Edition is a loot-splitting party • Minerva Wakes by Holly Lisle (Brandie) Realms. rounds of play. Expeditions are represented by columns of cards in 5 colored suits (red, 7 Wonders Tournament - Saturday, February 20, 6 p.m. higher value card scores double the dierence between the more fun to play live, in person with other people. at’s the end of our history lesson. • A player chooses a tile which doesn’t allow her opponent to place a token. Legendary: Dark City Exp. Tsuro of the Seas game of, well, cash and guns. e scene: an abandoned A jolly good competition or a cooperative romp against 6. Castles of Burgundy. A great, the camels there (camels don’t count against your hand yellow, green, blue and white). Each suit includes 3 Investment cards and the numbers 2 thru 10. As soon as you start an Castles of Mad King Ludwig • Mutant by Henry Kuttner or Destroyer Men #1 by Taylor limit); exchange camels from your stable and/or goods two cards. at player wins. Red Dragon Inn Allies We Didn’t Playtest is At All 7 Wonders has been enthralling gamers since its release in 2010. It won the prestigious Spiel des Jahres award in 2011. warehouse where you and your fellow gangsters are the board makes for a great time. row in some owers medium-weight Euro game that’s surpris- expedition (play the rst card to one of the ve columns), you're immediately in the hole 20 points. e only way to Lost Cities' components are top-notch. e cards are beautifully illustrated, Ghooost! Anderson (Carmen) ingly quick when played with just two. from your hand for an equal number of goods in the If you haven’t had a chance to play 7 Wonders enough recently, here’s your chance: a whole evening dedicated to 7 Won- splitting up the loot from your latest heist. Of course, you and chocolate and you’ve got the makings for a very fun Next reveal the cards on your second Cartouche. The make that expedition protable is to play enough cards in that column to add up to more than 20 points. Any Invest- large, easy to read and have a nice feel to them. e coordinatingly illus- ere’s more strategy in this little game than at rst appears • Star Wars: e Force Awakens by Alan Dean Foster Castles is my favorite game of all time. It’s marketplace; or sell goods of one type for the available Koryo ders. Plus, you’ll have the chance to win some fabulous prizes: can’t all agree on who gets what, which is where the foam and special Valentine’s Day - in my book player with the lower value executes the rest of their turn ment cards you play will double, triple or quadruple the points you score in that column, whether negative or positive. trated board provides designated spots for the discard piles and guides because where you play directly aects and limits the Used Games For Sale guns come into play. Soon everyone is aiming at everyone. (Tina) anyway. On to the games. been #1 on my Top 10 list for several coins in the treasury. You’ll earn a bonus chip if you sell at rst. en the other player player does the same. In the And if you play 8 or more cards in a single column, you'll earn a 20-point bonus. e trick is, you have to play your placement of each player's expedition cards. e box recently got a cover choices of where your opponent can play. at and Lords of Xidit e rst 20 gamers to register for the Airships Noble Celts understone: • New Palace promo card fancied up with new artwork by Miguel Colimbra. e richest surviving gangster wins the game! years now. It’s a bit dicult to describe: least 3 goods. Sell 4 or 5 for a bigger bonus. case of a tie, the player with the lower value card on the cards in ascending order after any Investment cards. art makeover and is the usual Kosmos 2-Player Game size. Lost Cities is e Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club was founded in January 1. Lost Cities, a card game of hard the beautiful artwork and lovely components make Alea Iacta Est Pantheon Dragonspire Oh My Goods! tournament by Tuesday, February 16, 2016 are guaranteed to receive this there’s tile placement, dice rolling and rst Cartouche goes rst. If there’s still a tie, play War: easily my favorite game from that series. While so many games in that Cash ’n Guns is a hilarious game that hooks people the 2013. Since then we’ve all discovered and read many choices if ever there was one. It’s one of Players begin with a hand of 8 cards. On your turn, you must for a fun and interesting game. understone: Ticket to Ride: U.K. & PA prize. multiple paths to victory. It’s very tacti- series are high-conict, Lost Cities is denitely not. It is competitive, Amerigo Paris Connection rst time they pick up a foam pistol. excellent books and had - and continue to have - a great reveal the top card of your deck - lowest goes rst. Repeat Doomgate Legion the rst Euro games Tim and I played cal: you have to make the most of the options available to play or discard one card face up, then draw a card. ere are You can play Niya as just a single game, as a best of three Tides of Time • Stunning 7 Wonders Art Pack featuring gorgeous alternative artwork for all time discussing them and lots of other geeky media and if necessary until the tie is resolved. though, and you do have to pay attention to what your opponent is doing, but you don't have to take him out. Bang! Heroes of the Storm Risk: Tin Edition understone: Wrath Our organized play kit includes exclusive promotional regularly. A full review follows after this you. Each player board oers a new and dierent chal- ve discard piles, one for each color suit. You can draw either series, or as a point-based match, with the winner of a game seven of the original Wonder boards - with both A and B sides. A great way subjects. To execute the rest of your turn, reveal the cards on your Interestingly, only the original Lost Cities was designed for just two players. All of its spin-os support 2 to 4 players. Lost Blokus Senji of the Elements Voyages of Marco Polo items you won't want to split with anyone: list so you can read all about it. lenge. What your fellow players do aects your available the top card of the draw pile or the top card from one of the earning as many points as the number of tiles remaining in the grid to brighten up your game. Tournament prize for both 1st and 2nd place. third and fourth Cartouches. e value of the card on the Cities is one of the select two-player games I recommend most often. (With two copies of Lost Cities, you can play a Cash-A-Catch Snorta! Witness How do we choose what books to read? Everyone attend- 2. Jaipur, a set-collection card game of acquiring options as do the dice you roll, though you can augment discard piles. When the draw pile is exhausted, the game ends when she wins. In the last case, the player who rst collects ten points Tikal II: Lost Temple • Beautiful 7 Wonders Playmat that helps structure the play area and game • New Giant Cthulhu character second Cartouche determines how many of your partnership variant that is extremely fun and exciting, particularly if you love partnership cards.) Play time is about 30 ing adds a title to our reading list. We pick one to read and selling goods, which features beautiful your dice rolls with workers. It’s simply an awesome game! immediately. If you still have cards you want to play and the deck is running low, wins the match. Conquest of Planet Earth Space Pirates Wicked Witches’ Way Titles in Library: 543 setup. Grand prize for 1st place. standee, designed by John opponent’s stones you can remove (its value minus 2), the you might want to draw from a discard pile - even if it's a card you don't need or minutes. If you're short on time, you can play just one round in about 10 minutes. e rules say to add the scores of each month - usually the one we’ve been able to acquire artwork and interesting game play. We never get And it plays beautifully and quickly with just two. Niya supports 2 players ages 8 and up and can be played in as little as 10 Doodle Quest Sun, Sea & Sand Wits & Wagers Kovalic that stands twice third Cartouche which temples you can work in, and the three rounds to determine the winner. Love it, highly recommend it. What else can I say? We’ll teach you how to play! We'll play 7 Wonders Tournament-style - with an emphasis on casual fun, not the most copies of. Rinse and repeat until they’re all read, tired of it. A brief run-down of the game play can't use - just to prolong the game and get your cards played. minutes. Matches with multiple rounds will take a little longer. Packaged in a nice as tall as the other gang- 7. Can’t Stop. I’ll warn you now. fourth Cartouche how many of your own stones you can Hotel Samoa Tempus World Series of hard-core competition. All participants will get to play at least three games of then we start a new list. You can view the complete list of follows this list. Lost Cities is a game of hard choices. Do you wait until you have enough cards to conduct a protable expedition before tin with lovely bits, Niya is beautiful fun. sters. Players are going to is push-your-luck dice game is Play continues with players alternating turns until 3 types place. If you played a 1 on the second Cartouche, you Nations Yahtzee 7 Wonders: books we’ve read on our web site. you begin it and risk not having enough time to play all of them? Do you start an expedition now and hope you draw the Star Realms - Fast-Paced Outer Space Deck-Building Combat for Two have to think twice when 3. Aton, an abstract strategy game with an totally addicting. Don’t be of goods coins have run out. e player with the most have to remove one of your own stones (2 - 1 = -1). (No If you’d like to join our Book Club, simply read the cards you need to add up to 20 plus? And what do you do when you have the 5, 8 and 10 of the same suit? at's a Star Realms is a fast paced deck-building card game of outer space combat. It combines the fun of a 1. 7 Wonders base game only. Cthulhu is aiming his gun Egyptian theme. I’m not usually a fan of surprised if you can’t stop playing camels receives a bonus chip, then you count your coins stones may be removed at all in the very rst round of the Here Be Books & Games Be one of the current book selection and attend our next meeting. You protable expedition right there, but there are still 3 Investment cards, a 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 9 out there. Do you wait for deck-building game with the interactivity of trading-card-game-style combat. As you play, you make 2. 7 Wonders with Leaders expansion. at them! abstract strategy games, but for this one, I it. Your goal is to win three and award the Sultan’s Favor to the player with the most. game, though.) When you remove stones from a temple, 4650 Ladson Road, Suite I, Summerville, SC 29485 can also sign up to receive automatic updates and remind- them before beginning the expedition? If you play your 5 now, you won't be able to play the 2, 3, 4 or any Investment use of Trade to acquire new Ships and Bases from the cards being turned face up in the Trade Row rst 30 people to register make an exception. With four ways to win, columns, by reaching their tops Best two out of three games wins. place them in the Kingdom of the Dead: the row of Phone: (843) 695-1498 • Hours: Tue - Sat 10am to 6pm 3. 7 Wonders with Cities expansion. by Tuesday, March 19, 2016 ers via our Meetup group at: www.meetup.com/Here-Be- cards you draw later. No chance of earning that 8-cards-in-a-column bonus then. I'm telling you, the choices are tough. from the Trade Deck. You use the Ships and Bases you acquire to either generate more Trade or to you have to watch your opponent with a rst with your cones. You advance Jaipur supports 2 players ages 12 and up and plays in spaces below the temples. Web: www.herebebooks.com • Online Store: www.herebebooks.com/onlinestore e top players will go on to to get yours! hawk’s eye, while also trying to further your your cones with dice rolls. Each ere's a lot of strategy, avored with risk-taking in Lost Cities. You can see exactly what your fellow player has played, generate Combat to attack your opponent and their bases. When you reduce your opponent’s score Books-and-Games-Book-Club. We look forward to meeting you! about 30 minutes. When the Kingdom of the Dead is full, nish your turns own strategy. e rulebook can be a bit turn you roll 4 dice and must pair them (called Authority) to zero, you win! Facebook: www.facebook.com/herebebooksandgames