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LOTS OF NEW GAMES FOR PRE-ORDER OR DIRECTLY AVAILABLE
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LOTS OF NEW GAMES FOR PRE-ORDER OR DIRECTLY AVAILABLE

LOTS OF NEW GAMES FOR PRE-ORDER OR DIRECTLY AVAILABLE

Dear Customers,

it is this time of the year again. Lots of new games are getting announced and some are already available.
There are also some older games available again.
Our publishers have some great games for everyone. Enjoy browsing the new games.

NOVGOROD
NOVGOROD

The Hanseatic League in the 15th century: you try to create a network of offices in the important cities, transport the commodities from the offices to the artisans that produce luxury goods for you enabling you to complete missions for seals (victory points). You may also use salt, jewelry or clothes to move on your career step by step. Improve your ship and buy more offices to travel to more cities per turn and do more actions. Find your strategy in every single game, as the artisans are assigned to the cities by random during the setup.
The variant in setup and the expert rules guarantee longterm fun.
Easy to learn and expert rules make the game fun for all kind of players.

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HAI NOON
HAI NOON

Hai Noon is a card driven game, where the players are divers trying to avoid to get attacked by the surrounding sharks.
Both, the divers and sharks are represented by doublesided tiles that form the play area. For all player counts the setup is identical. There is a four by four grid of tiles with the divers on the four center spots and the sharks on the outside. For the basic game only the four sharks in the corners are hungry (hungry side face up). In turn order player play cards to either move the divers or the sharks or use a special card like shark cage. The cards come in four color variants, and on each side of the grid, only one color can be played. Also, if a color is already present at one side, cards of the same color must be played on that side. If the third card is placed on a side, the sharks on that side attack. Unless a player is protected by e.g. a shark cage, the shark succeeds. If this is the first successful attack, the diver tile is flipped. If it is already flipped, this player loses and all the other players - and the sharks - win.

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BIOS: GENESIS 2ND EDITION
BIOS: GENESIS 2ND EDITION

You start as an ingredient in the primordial soup, and try to create life. Solitaire, competitive, and cooperative play options. This is the first game in the Bios:Trilogy, being followed by Bios:Megafauna 2 and Bios:Origins 2. The Bios games are linked yet independent.
Compared to the 1st edition, there are components now for 4 instead of 3 organisms for each player, 100 new commissioned artworks, 68 page rules/ science background, & a folding player aid.

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BIOS: MEGAFAUNA 2ND EDITION
BIOS: MEGAFAUNA 2ND EDITION

Start as a plant or animal making first landfall half a billion years ago, then evolve it on drifting continents in the face of competition and huge ecological events: Win if become the dominant herbivore or carnivore.
In the full game you can grow from 200 grams to 20 tonnes. The atmosphere is tracked for oxygen, cloud cover, and greenhouse gases, and the decisions the players make influence the climate.
Bios Megafauna comes with 8 "continents" that can drift around, 160 mutation cards, 140 wooden laser-cut creeples of flying, burrowing, swimming, and armored creatures, various tokens of fossils and monsters, 110 wooden cubes, 42 climate disks, and 20 dice (mainly to track creature size). For the full game, there are 3 latitude strips and a climate board that tracks oxygen, clouds, and greenhouse gases. The game is the second game of the "Bios" trilogy, which can be played together or separately.

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NEANDERTHAL 2ND EDITION
NEANDERTHAL 2ND EDITION

Humanity's evolution as a species has accelerated over the last 30,000-40,000 years in a manner unparalleled in the evolution of life on Earth. What triggered this change? Genetic mutation? Probably not. Our brains and anatomy have remained relatively unchanged for 4 million years. An encounter with different hominid species? Perhaps...
As a player, you will play through the critical epoch during which this change occurred. After millions of years of an uninterrupted, modest nomadic existence, we suddenly developed complex language, began forming tribes and building villages. You play as one of the human species existing at that time. The game system enables you to follow your tribe's evolution as well as that of the environment in which you live.
In Ice Age Europe, you are either the Archaic, Neanderthal, or Cro-Magnon species. Assign your males to hunt megafauna while avoiding predators. Specialize your elders for fire, inventions, war, or animal husbandry. Choose your mating strategy - promiscuous, harems, or pair bonding. Intermarriage leads to increased vocabulary and cognitive fluidity.

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PALAVAN
PALAVAN

A paradise island landscape is regrettably separated into different pieces. The aim is to connect the islands again!
At the basic level, the South Seas puzzle has multiple solutions and as many spellbinding panoramic views of the island. A player can choose to set the goal higher in challenging game variants in search of the perfect island.
PALAVAN is a mind-teasing game of solitaire. And there’s more! In the duo version, players take turns to place their tiles. The object is to lay out all personal tiles and to make life difficult for the opponent. Life can sometimes get mean, even in an island paradise ...

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RETTET RAPUNZEL
RETTET RAPUNZEL

How can we free Rapunzel from her dark tower? No, not by climbing up her braids of hair! We simply deconstruct the tower, piece by piece. By defying all logic, we don’t start at the top but at the bottom of the tower! Using a wooden disc, we perfect our aim to knock out the tower piece at the base – but without the tower collapsing!
It’s all because of the law of gravity. Of course, not every go is successful – and that’s half the fun … After all, the other players also want their turn. Who will bring Rapunzel safely down to terra firma?

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VOLTERRA
VOLTERRA

In medieval times in Volterra, Tuscany, it was custom for rival families to compete to construct buildings. The higher the tower, the wealthier the family. To this day, the vestiges of this contest – the ‘dynasty towers’ – remain visible in many Tuscan towns.
Wealth is not important in the tactical game VOLTERRA. Here, the towers rise upwards thanks to the tactical skill of the master builders. The pieces in play are stacked on top of each other, step by step. The play counters do their utmost to defend their own-coloured towers. Building continues on the shrinking play area until no counters can move. Now, who is sitting atop the highest tower?

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ALL-STAR DRAFT
ALL-STAR DRAFT

Don’t get cold feet! Prove yourself as manager by drafting the best players and sending them to this year’s All-Star Cup to secure victory. Keep in mind, a well-coordinated team will attract more fans! Finally, if you made your way through the Regular Season, the Playoffs await. You’re skating on thin ice now, because those who lose are eliminated straightaway!

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At the Spiel direkt eG you will find a unique range of games of exceptional publishers.
Just have a look.

Best regards
Henning Poehl
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