Scott McGuigan
In Acquire, each player strategically invests in businesses, trying to retain a majority of stock. As the businesses grow with tile placements, they also start merging, giving the majority stockholders of the acquired business sizable bonuses, which can then be used to reinvest into other chains. All of the investors in the acquired company can […]
A redesign of Stefan Feld’s Macao. In the game, players are merchants in Amsterdam near the turn of the 20th century. At the start of the game, two district cards are placed on each of the twelve spaces on the designated board. At the beginning of a round, the next two district cards, as well […]
A redesign of the Stefan Feld classic Bruges, a worker-placement/deck-building Euro. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/314580/hamburg
In Kingsburg, players are Lords sent from the King to administer frontier territories. The game takes place over five years, a total of 20 turns. In every year, there are 3 production seasons for collecting resources, building structures, and training troops. Every fourth turn is the winter, in which all the players must fight an […]
Compete with other influential families in the city to achieve the most honorable titles through the skillful use of assistants and resources at your disposal. The player who succeeds in doing this best becomes the new “Obermufti” of Marrakesh. Marrakesh is played over three rounds, with each round consisting of four turns. On each turn, […]
A redesign of Stefan Feld’s Rialto. A game of New York City is played over 5 game rounds. First, players each draw 3 cards from the deck. Then deal out cards in sets of two cards equal to two times the number of players plus one additional. In turn order, players draft a pair of […]
Sheepshead is a trick-taking card game where your “team” changes each time the cards are dealt. We will play and teach a variety of traditional and “house rules” versions of the game, and let the table decide which to keep. There is no end condition for this game, so the game will use the entire […]
Sheepshead is a trick-taking game, with a unique trump hierarchy. A “cheat sheet” will be provided to help ease players into the game. Unique from Euchre, Sheepshead players compete for an individual score, but their partner(s) change each time the cards are dealt. No defined end game conditions exist for this game, so plan on […]
Set in ancient Rome, Trajan is a development game in which players try to increase their influence and power in various areas of Roman life such as political influence, trading, military dominion and other important parts of Roman culture. The central mechanism of the game uses a system similar to that in Mancala or pit-and-pebbles […]
Tzolkin: The Mayan Calendar presents a new game mechanism: dynamic worker placement. Players representing different Mayan tribes place their workers on giant connected gears, and as the gears rotate they take the workers to different action spots. During a turn, players can either (a) place one or more workers on the lowest visible spot of […]
Life in the village is hard – but life here also allows the inhabitants to grow and prosper as they please. One villager might want to become a friar. Another might feel ambitious and strive for a career in public office. A third one might want to seek his luck in distant lands. Each player […]
Wayfarers of the South Tigris is set during the height of the Abbasid Caliphate, circa 820 AD. As brave explorers, cartographers and astronomers, players set off from Baghdad to map the surrounding land, waterways, and heavens above. Players must carefully manage their caravan of workers and equipment, while reporting back regularly to journal their findings […]