The tea ceremony lies at the heart of Japanese culture, giving life the most essential and elemental concepts of hospitality, respect, and Zen philosophy. There, they believe that tea, which came from China in the 13th century, resolved the health problems of the Buddhist monks who drank it. Over the years, the tea ceremony evolved to offer the samurai a place of calm, far from the chaos of the battlefield.


In The White Castle: Matcha, you will have to deal with a new place in which to influence the court using new members of your clan. Having members of your clan in good seats within the Chashitsu (tea room) will help you achieve a greater level of influence within the court of Himeji. Also, you will have one additional action each round. Will that be enough?

Ticket to Ride Map Collection 8: Iberia & South Korea gives you the chance to set up rail networks on two peninsulas with wildly different settings.

On the Iberian peninsula, players start the game by drafting six destination cards, then keeping four of them — a process they repeat before the train deck runs out the first time. While you're trying to fulfill those eight destination cards with only 35 trains, you can possibly pick up festival cards along the way. The deck is seeded with 54 festival cards, and when one is drawn, you place it next to the city on the game board. If you build a route that connects to one or two cities with festival cards, you choose one of those cities and collect all of the festival cards near it. The more you collect from a city, the more they're worth at game's end!


In South Korea, you start the game as in Iberia by drafting six destination cards, then keeping four of them. All of the routes are grouped by color: blue in the northeast, yellow in the northwest, and so on. When you claim a route, you can also place one of your trains on the province mat on an empty space of the matching color showing the number of cards you played of that color; you can play more cards than required to claim a route should you want to place on a higher number. Additionally, each player has a set of "express train" cards (+1, +2, +3), and you can spend a card on your turn to either draw more train cards, draw more destination tickets, or claim a higher number on the province mat. At game's end, evaluate each color on the province mat, with the player (or players) with the highest sum of values claimed earning bonus points.

A greek mythology paragraph game (a la Tales of the Arabian Nights). I know this is probably a pipe dream, but you would have a really great shot at getting this signed if able to make it happen.

Tales of Myth & Legend is a paragraph book game set in the time of ancient Greece. Players each control a fledgling hero or heroine that has their sights set on power and glory. The players compete not only with each other, but also against the Alexander the Great himself.


In each round of the game, players simultaneously play a movement card that determines how far they will travel. Based on the results, the turn order will be adjusted, with players traveling farther distances going last, and those traveling shorter going first. In turn order, each player visits a city or location and has an encounter there, choosing a type — e.g., political, religion, or strength — based on the types available. The encounter is read aloud to the player, then they have to choose how to proceed.

Tales of Myth & Legend features many surprises and hidden components that are unlocked only based on certain events! With thousands of possible stories and encounters, this is a game you'll be playing for years to come!

In Tales of the Arthurian Knights, you are a hero or heroine in a story of adventure and awe! You and your fellows will travel the land at the behest of the renowned King Arthur. Through a series of quests, you will make impactful choices that will steer the course of your journey. Secure your place in history by achieving glorious feats, lest your efforts be doomed to obscurity. Gather your band of Knights around the table to enjoy your own epic tale as it unfolds!


Building on the mechanisms from the classic storytelling game Tales of the Arabian Nights, you now find yourself in the age of chivalry alongside Lancelot, Merlin, and many other characters from Arthurian lore. Quests will lead to glorious battles, daring rescues, and the discovery of such marvels as the Holy Grail.

As you navigate through this paragraph-driven experience, an updated victory point system will track your success. Tales of the Arthurian Knights eliminates matrixes and charts in favor of a streamlined method of dictating the paragraphs that will shape your adventure. After making your choices, a single roll plus skill bonuses will determine success or failure.

Choose your actions carefully, and you will be rewarded with skills, renown, and nobility. Choose poorly, and be scorned, cursed, or made a pariah. Bring the age of King Arthur to life in this incredibly replayable board game with a plethora of tales that are sure to challenge, amuse, surprise, and entertain!

White, white, nothing but white. You scan the snowy expanse of the Arctic, hoping to catch a glimpse of the inhabitants that live there. The more animals of a type that you see together, the better — yet you also want to diversify your sightings, while moving your totem animal toward the pack ice as far as possible.

In Arctic, you move across the landscape and spot animals, creating a pile of animal cards in front of you. The card on top of your personal pile is your "visible" animal card. Each animal card contains four pieces of information:

— A placement value
— The main animal depicted on the card
— A companion animal
— A draw value

At the start of your turn, place as many cards from your hand into your personal pile as the placement value of your visible animal card. (On your first turn, place one animal from your starting hand of three cards.) For each card you can't place, draw a card facedown from the deck and place it in a personal penalty pile. Next, using your new visible animal card, move the token of the main animal forward one space on the landscape and the companion animal backward one space or vice versa. Finally, draw as many animal cards from the "river" of six animal cards as the draw value of your visible animal card. (If you now have more than seven cards in hand, discard into your penalty pile until you have seven.)


Each time you place an animal on your pile, take the matching animal power card from the center of play or whoever currently has it. You can use the listed power each turn for as long as you hold this card, such as moving an animal token an additional space, drawing from your penalty pile, or refilling the river after each card you draw.

When the deck runs out, you finish the round, then place cards one more time, then score points. For each type of animal, you score points based on the largest set of consecutive cards of this type you have in your pile. You score a bonus based on the number of sets you've completed. Reveal the animal token you received at the start of the game, and score based on how far it advanced across the landscape. Lose 1 point for each card in your penalty pile. Whoever has the highest score wins.

Each player gets a a dry-erase pen and a board that has many random lines on it. At the start of each round, each player gets a card with a word on it and has to draw it on their board — but by drawing only on the lines. In effect, they have to find the image in the lines.

When everyone is done, as many cards as there are players are shuffled in with the cards originally dealt. These cards are spread openly on the table, then each player in turn picks a card with a word they think nobody drew on their board. Once everyone has had a turn, only the words that were originally dealt should remain on the table, so any face-up card that was not drawn by anyone is a mistake. After four rounds, the group wins if they have made fewer mistakes than there are players.


The cards feature words of two difficulty levels, and the group decides together which level to play.

In Moon Bunny, you take on the role of a master bunny alchemist inspired by folklore. Your task is to guide your bunny assistants on a journey through the lunar landscape to gather rare Asian herbs. Each assistant has their own unique hopping movement pattern, and it is up to you to choose the right ones for the task at hand. Once you have collected the necessary ingredients, bring them back to your workshop and arrange them in a specific pattern to brew the ultimate elixir of life. The bunny who is able to gift this elixir to the world, bringing health and happiness to all, wins the game.

A witch, a skeleton, a vampire, and a werewolf have taken a trip to the Moon, and now they want to make it their own.


Monsters on the Moon is a card-placement game in which every creature wants to expand their territory, collect moon crystals, and build walls, ideally spreading out over the surface in their quest for points.

You were part of a crew working on a moon base, but the other crew members were involved in a mysterious accident during an exploration mission, leaving you alone on the base. The mother ship is in a satellite orbit of the moon. You're completely isolated, alone — when a warning sound rings throughout the base: "There is not much oxygen left. The cause is unknown. Get out of the moon base quickly. To repeat, there's not much oxygen left."


Since the emergency power supply has been activated, it seems that most of the base functions are down due to electrical problems, which means soon the base won't be able to supply you oxygen, let alone communicate an SOS to whoever might be monitoring you.

There is not much time left for activities. Can you restore the rocket in time and return to the mother ship? The challenge to Escape from the Moon begins, with you constructing a deck and managing a hand of possible actions to get yourself to safety, with success or failure depending on the decisions you make and the difficulty of your chosen scenario.

In From the Moon, players are representatives of factions trying to complete missions departing from our Moon in order to help humankind survive elsewhere in the galaxy. Indeed, the fate of the Earth is sealed, and time is running out!


The plan is to launch three survival missions before all life on Earth ends. To do that, each faction will contribute by building parts of the ships and build their own lunar base to store the necessary resources.

In the end, which faction will be most suited to lead the future of our race out there, far away in space?

On a stormy night, rumor spreads about a luck potion that one can buy for twenty gold coins on the black market in Treos. As your run of bad luck has been going on for a while, you decide to take your chances. The realm is vast, its forests dark, and the roads dangerous. But courier runs pay richly, so you dare to venture outside the protective walls of your city...

Shuffle the ten prize cards and form a face-down draw pile, next to the ten TOP cards.

Shuffle the offer cards (everything else) and equally distribute them between players. Take all of your offer cards and keep them in your hand, facing up, so that you can see only the value of the card on the top of your deck. Flip a prize card for this round. Look at the top offer card in your hand; this is your current offer. You can keep it or discard it in front of you in a face-up pile. You can discard as many cards as you want this way until you are satisfied with your choice and say "NOW!" When everybody has said "NOW!", show your deck to everyone so that they can see your offer. Now, see who wins cards up for grabs:

➥ If you offered the closest value to the prize card without exceeding it, take the prize card and add it to your points.

➥ If you played the highest offer, take the TOP card and all of your offer cards discarded this round, and add them to your points.

You can win both the prize and TOP card at the same time. If nobody wins the prize card, discard it from the game. Discard any remaining offer cards from the table, then start another round by flipping a new prize card.

WARNING! There is no way to get your offer cards back, so use them wisely! If you run out of them, you will not be able to change your offer for the rest of the game.

END OF THE GAME AND VICTORY

The game ends after the tenth TOP card has been awarded. Discard any remaining offer cards in your hand and count your points:

• Each offer card is worth 1 point.
• Each TOP card is worth 2 points.
• Each prize card is worth 10 points.
• Each pair of prize cards adding up to 110 is worth 10 additional points.

The player with the most points wins.

A diverse team of outlaws have assembled for the gold heist of the century. Leveraging your unique skills and abilities, send your gang out into the territories to complete side objectives to help your efforts and fight off the Sheriff and Deputy as you try to steal gold from the train. You must act quickly, though! When the train reaches its final destination, your time to steal the gold is over, and you'll fail your mission.


Iron Horse features six unique characters with their own special abilities and unlockable upgrades.

Goal
Line up three tiles of the same color.

Game flow
Each player is assigned a color and has nine tiles: three each of leaves, stones, and scissors. To determine who goes first, the two players play a chifoumi with their hands. Starting with the chifoumi winner, each player in turn fills a square of the grid with a tile of their color: blue or yellow. A player can cover a tile already placed according to these rules:

• Stone covers scissors.
• Leaf covers stone.
• Scissors cover leaf.
• A maximum of two tiles can be played in a square.
• A player can cover their own tile, but they cannot cover all three squares in the same row.

End of game
If a player creates a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line of three tiles in their color and the opponent cannot disrupt this line on their turn, the first player wins the round. (Ties are possible in a round.) The first player to win two rounds wins the duel.