Category: Ω Board Games

Circus Flohcati

| T3d-1978

Board Game Overview

In Circus Flohcati, you’re competing to collect all 10 acts (colors) from the flea circus before anyone else can. You do so by flipping through cards from the deck – but be careful! You don’t want the same-colored cards, you’ll only score one card for each act. If you do ever have three cards of the same color in your hand, though, you can play them to get an automatic 10 points. Push your luck in this fun and easy game!

Game Mechanics:

  •  Open Drafting
  • Push Your Luck
  • Set Collection

Game Specifications:

  • 2 – 5 Players
  • 15 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.23

Chomp

| T3d-1978

Board Game Overview

It’s eat or be eaten in the land of the dinosaurs!

Well, not quite. It’s eat or DIE. In Chomp, you will be placing tiles to create herds of dinosaurs and trying to score the most points. But in order to score any points, you have to make sure your dinos can eat! Herbivores need access to lots of leafy greens, and carnivores need access to fresh meat – which could very well be your other dinosaurs. Dead dinos won’t score any points! Keep an eye out for other hazards like tar pits, and nests to grow your dino population. 

Instead of taking a land tile, you can also grab a goal tile which will give you even more end game points – as long as you accomplish it. Build up your land, feed your dinos, and don’t die!

Game Mechanics:

  •  Open Drafting
  • Pattern Building
  • Tile Placement

Game Specifications:

  • 1 – 4 Players
  • 20 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.60

Anarchy, The 🟠

| T3d-1978

At the end of 1135, Henry I, King of England, died unexpectedly leaving no male heir to reign in his stead. Henry’s daughter, Empress Matilda, believed she should rule by succession. However, the late king’s favorite nephew, Stephen de Blois (“blue-a”), was quicker to the throne, and with the help of his brother, the Bishop of Winchester, was crowned king.

Those loyal to the empress were enraged by Stephen’s coronation and would not accept him as their new ruler. Over the next eighteen years, England saw a breakdown in law and order as civil war spread throughout the country. This conflict came to be known as “The Anarchy”…

In The Anarchy, players take on the role of English nobles loyal to King Stephen. Over five rounds, players must build their domain, defend their castle from attacks by the approaching Angevin armies, and storm strongholds loyal to Matilda with their own crafted siege weapons. The player who can accumulate the most bravery, loyalty, influence and might — while avoiding discontent — will prove to King Stephen they are his most loyal ally, thereby earning his largest earldom.

Game Mechanics:

  • Chaining
  • Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game
  • Solo / Solitaire Game
  • Tech Trees / Tech Tracks

Game Specifications:

  • 1 – 4 Players
  • 60 – 90 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 4.00

Ancient Terrible Things: Reawakened 🟢

| T3d-1978

Ancient Terrible Things: Reawakened is a pulp-horror tabletop game for 1-4 players.
You play the role of an intrepid and foolish adventurer exploring a dark jungle river for Secrets.
Each turn you must travel to a Fateful Location and face an Ominous Encounter.
If you overcome the Encounter (using a combination of dice, tokens and cards) you gain Secrets.
The object of the game is to be the player with the most Secrets when the game ends at the Inexplicable Event.

Game play involves rolling dice to achieve combinations: runs, pairs, three or more of a kind, and single die showing a particular number or higher. Dice combinations are spent to overcome Encounters and to acquire the four resources used in the game: Focus, Mystery, Treasure and Feat tokens.

  • Focus tokens are used to activate Swag cards to better manipulate dice results.
  • Mystery tokens are spent to overcome any Encounter when visiting the Yawning Chasm.
  • Treasure tokens are spent to purchase useful Swag cards from the Trading Post which give you a permanent game effect.
  • Feat tokens are spent to play one-shot Feat cards from your hand.

Ancient Terrible Things: Reawakened is the third implementation of the Dicequest game system as previously used in Ancient Terrible Things (1st/2nd Edition) and Konja.
The third edition incorporates edited and revised content from all previous iterations and expansions of the game, renovated art and language-independent graphic design into a new and definitive edition of ATT.

Game Mechanics:

  • Push Your Luck
  • Re-rolling and Locking
  • Set Collection
  • Solo / Solitaire Play

Game Specifications:

  • 1 – 4 Players
  • 40 – 120 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 2.17

Big Boss

| T3d-1978

Big Boss is a game of founding companies, expanding existing companies, taking over smaller companies and share buying. The game is explicitly based on the Sid Sackson classic Acquire and shares many similarities to that game though mergers are not as prevalent or crucial in Big Boss. The main differences between the two games include the three dimensional aspect of Big Boss, and the existence of a strong monetary incentive to expand companies that you do not control.

Game Mechanics:

  • Hand Management
  • Market
  • Stock Holding
  • Tile Placement

Game Specifications:

  • 2 – 6 Players
  • ~90 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 2.36

Chili Mafia

| T3d-1978

Board Game Overview

Things are heating up in the Chili world, and you have all been assembled to come together to stop the reign of terror of the Chili Mafiosos. However, it’s not so easy to smooth over tensions, and despite holding a peace summit in Mexico, no one’s particularly interested in listening. That leaves one choice – you have to form your own chili gangs, overpower the Chili Mafiosos, and make them listen! In this fun set collection game, you’ll be forming gangs of different kinds of chilis – or all the same – using action cards to your advantage, and becoming more powerful than any of your opponents. Mafiosos don’t like ties, after all. 

Game Mechanics:

  • Set Collection
  • Take That
  • Team-Based

Game Specifications:

  • 2 – 8 Players
  • 20 – 40 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.83

Cheating Moth

| T3d-1978

Board Game Overview

No cheating? No way! Cheating Moth is the easy and fun card game that requires you to cheat to get ahead. Everyone starts with a hand of 8 cards, and your goal is to get rid of them. The official way is to discard them one at a time on the discard pile, but only if the number is 1 value higher or lower than the previous number which is really hard to do. But! You can also cheat to get rid of your cards – drop them on the floor, slip them up your sleeve, do a magic trick with them, anything you can think of as long as you don’t get caught by the Guard Bug – which is assigned to the oldest player at the beginning of the game. If you get caught, you have to draw another card and become the new Guard Bug, who can’t cheat! Be sly, be smart, and be the best cheating moth.

Game Mechanics:

  • Hand Management
  • Dexterity

Game Specifications:

  • 3 – 5 Players
  • 30 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.14

Challengers! Beach Cup

| T3d-1978

Challengers! Beach Cup is an interactive deck-management game for 1-8 players that plays in about 45 minutes independent of player count. With the tournament gameplay style, you meet another opponent every round.

In the Deck Phase, you choose new members and add them to your deck, which might consist of a wizard, alien, cat, gangster and kraken. Dozens of distinct characters with more than forty effects create a unique experience every game. Choose from seven different sets and discover new strategies and synergies every game.

In the Match Phase, stay in possession of the flag to win the trophy of that round. Try to get the most fans and trophies over the course of seven rounds to be able to qualify for the final. If you can best your opponent in the final, you win!

Challengers! Beach Cup contains a 16-card “Trainers” expansion that gives each player a unique power. Some give you bonuses when defending, some when you’re on the offensive, and others can extend your bench or even let you rearrange your deck.

Challengers! Beach Cup is a standalone game that can also be mixed with Challengers! to create new set combinations and new experiences.

– From Board Game Geek

Game Mechanics:

  •  Deck Building
  • Hand Management
  • Open Drafting

Game Specifications:

  • 1 – 8 Players
  • ~45 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 2.19

CATtitude!

| T3d-1978

This playful game pits you and your friends against each other to see which cat can cause the most trouble by collecting cards and moving around the board to steal, knock over, and destroy various items throughout the house! But be careful, players will also get a chance to play as the human and try to catch casts in the middle of their devious acts! Use evade cards to frame others for your mischief or sneak away to safety, but whatever you do– Don’t Get Caught!

Game Mechanics:

  • Pick-up and Deliver
  • Set Collection
  • Take That

Game Specifications:

  • 3 – 5 Players
  • 25 – 30 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 2.00

Catstronauts

| T3d-1978

As the Commander of a team of Catstronauts, you’ll take on fast-paced missions to visit planets across the solar system and rescue poor helpless kittens!

From the designers of Kittin, Catstronauts is a family speed and sequence game where players race to match their numbered catstronauts to each of the planet cards in the correct order.

With 16 ‘meeples’ that can be customized with 16 unique cat face stickers, players can build their purr-fect team of expert Catstronauts.

Catstronauts comes in the same small tin you expect and love from Kittin!

Game Mechanics:

  • Pattern Recognition
  • Pieces as Map
  • Real-Time

Game Specifications:

  • 2 – 4 Players
  • 10 – 15 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.00