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Excitement in the Chilean desert! Valuable mineral resources have been found in the 1,200 km long desert along the coast of the Pacific Ocean: gold, silver and copper. Several companies are already busy prospecting by erecting huge drilling rigs as the seams are deep under the surface. Due to security reasons, the drilling rigs cannot be installed too close to one another, so each new rig limits the possibilities for erecting new ones in the surrounding areas.

What's more, the mining rights have been limited by the government. The companies have received a concession for only two of the three commodities – and extracting the "wrong" type of commodity will result in penalties.

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1901: Welcome to Spindletop Hill, birthplace of the modern oil industry. The first sources of oil already have been found and all adventures head for Texas to find their fortune. However, the sources are limited. Who will find the right places to set up their oil rigs and produce the most oil?

In the basic game players roll dice to determine a position on the game board where they can then place either one of their own drilling rigs or a neutral oil marker. In phase 2 players decide in which order the drilling rigs score points for adjacent oil markers (which are removed from the board after scoring). The player with the most points wins the game.

The game will include at least two variants (and a second game board) to add more complexity.

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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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Outback Crossing is a tile placement game by Bruce Whitehill for 2-6 players ages 8 and up.

Six to seven animal species are crisscrossing the Australian outback. To control where they're going, players lay down tiles one at a time onto the grid, claiming ownership of different "trails", and change things around with the Action tiles. At the end of the game, single tiles won't score - except for the Tasmanian Devil - and the more tiles of one kind you have on a trail, the better the score; five (or six) different animals on a trail also score very well. The Tasmanian Devil has special value and scores even higher.

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¡Adiós Calavera! Playful get-together of the dead and the living by Martin Schlegel

Description:
Use the position of the other figures for your moves towards the light or the shade
On the central Zocalo, the living and the dead meet in a yearly get-together for a grand fiesta. The common dance will lead to the light or the shade and both parties are trying to get there first. The distance a figure may cover depends on the number of figures standing crosswise. And some figures have special abilities they can use for themselves of others.

PRICE ACTION IN JUNE

Chess simply different Schachen is a chess variant without a game board, which creates the fascination of a chess game in a compact way. Without long openings, the players enter directly into confrontation. The original rules of Chess are simplified/expanded by a few additional rules.

At the start of the game, each player has a king and four pawns. Cards for the remaining chess pieces form a deck from which the player draws three. The active player first moves a piece according to the original rules for chess, then (optionally) chooses one of the three cards in hand, places it next to an existing card, then draws a replacement card. Pawns must be placed beside another pawn, and all other figures must be placed behind a pawn. The aim of the game remains the same: Checkmate the opponent's king!

Schachen is for players who like and know chess, but who think the original game is too complex and takes too long.