Board Games for the Family and Friends

This expansion contains 7 new tiles for the original Carcassonne and 5 new tiles for Carcassonne: Hunters & Gatherers.

Continuo is a small tile placement game. After the initial setup of four tiles, players take turns adding tiles onto the edges of previously layed tiles and receive points for aligning paths of colors. One point is awarded for each smaller square in a new path giving a score of 2 to 30 or more depending upon the length of the path. Play continues until all tiles have been used. The highest score wins.

Number of players: 2 - 4
Duration of play : 20 minutes

Created by Maureen Hiron, Ron Badkin & Caron Badkin. Only one rule - but lots of ways to score! A colourful new twist on a popular family game. Takes the best selling "Continuo" to new dimensions. Players get points for matching numbers and/or colours on as many sides of the hexagons as they can. Matching both colour and number means double score! Highest score wins. 1-4 players. Age 8+. Game time; 25-30 minutes.

Number of players: 1 - 4
Duration of play : 25 - 30 minutes

Players lead the main characters from the novel on a journey into one volcano, across an underground ocean, and up another volcano while trying to discover fossils and observe strange creatures.

Number of players: 2 - 4
Duration of play : 60 minutes

Deluxe version including die cast metal playing pieces and leatherette die shaker in luxury presentation tin.

Travel in the past era of the great steam engines. Visit different destinations - but beware of the hazards - changing lines. A nostalgic family game full of excitement.

Players: 2 - 6
Duration: 30 - 60 minutes

Note from ZonZab: Great fun!

London Game Deluxe Tin!

Travel in the past era of the great steam engines. Visit different destinations - but beware of the hazards - changing lines. A nostalgic family game full of excitement.

Players: 2 - 6
Duration: 30 - 60 minutes

Note from ZonZab: Great fun!

Welcome to Perplex City. Test your grey matter and challenge your friends in this delightfully devious battle of wits.

- Game features over 1,200 puzzles
- Taps into the current boom surrounding puzzles and brain training
- Players solve puzzles in order to collect six puzzle stones scattered across Perplex City
- Engaging gameplay involves opportunity to challenge opponents and 'relieve' them of their puzzle stones
- Wide range of puzzles for all skill levels - optical illusions, riddles, logic, number trivia, anagrams and much more.
- The game is based on the enigmatic world of Perplex City - A cross-media experience that is played by tens of thousands of people around the world. www.perplexcity.com
- Includes 8-page mini-magazine with background information on the world of Perplex City.

Number of players: 2 - 16
Duration of play : 60 minutes
Age range: 15+

Players are recent immigrants to the newly populated island of Catan. Expand your colony through the building of settlements, roads, and villages by harvesting commodities from the land around you. Trade sheep, lumber, bricks and some grain for a settlement, bricks and wood for a road, or try to complete other combinations for more advanced buildings, sevices and specials. Trade with other players, or at local seaports to get resources you might lack. The first player to achieve 10 points from a combination of roads, settlements, and special cards wins.

4rd US Edition, English Language.

Number of players: 3 - 4
Duration of play : 30 - 60 (minutes)
Age range: 10+

Expand your Settlers Games to include more players and more scenarios. More Tiles, more resource cards, more development cards, and components (settlements, villages, roads), for two additional players.

Allows for 2 additional players to be added to Settlers of Catan, ages 10 and up.

Requires ownership of The Settlers of Catan to Play.

With elegantly simple gameplay, Ticket to Ride can be learned in 3 minutes, while providing players with intense strategic and tactical decisions every turn. Players collect cards of various types of train cars they then use to claim railway routes in North America. The longer the routes, the more points they earn. Additional points come to those who fulfill Destination Tickets goal cards that connect distant cities; and to the player who builds the longest continuous route.

The rules are simple enough to write on a train ticket each turn you either draw more cards, claim a route or get additional Destination Tickets, says Ticket to Ride author, Alan R. Moon. The tension comes from being forced to balance greed adding more cards to your hand; and fear losing a critical route to a competitor.

Ticket to Ride continues in the tradition of Days of Wonder's big format board games featuring high-quality illustrations and components including: an oversize board map of North America, 225 custom-molded train cars, 144 illustrated cards, and wooden scoring markers.

One of the best family board games to come out in the history of the world!

Number of players: 2 - 5
Duration of play : 45 - 60 minutes
Age range: 9+

Ticket to Ride: USA 1910 is a card expansion for the original Ticket to Ride boardgame, winner of the 2004 Spiel des Jahres. It contains 181 large format cards (the same size as Ticket to Ride Europe and Ticket to Ride - Märklin Edition), including: 35 brand new Destination Tickets, a GlobeTrotter bonus card for completing the most tickets, and a complete replacement deck of all the cards from the original game deck.

Also included is a rulebook from legendary game designer Alan R. Moon that gives you three different ways to play the game:

- The 1910 Rules - The year has changed, and competition over the rail network of North America is tighter than ever. Play Ticket to Ride a whole new way, using only the new Destination Tickets;
- The Big Cities Rules - For an even more cutthroat game; circle the wagons around the game's biggest cities only - in this variant, all destination tickets start and end in a major metropolis well known to everyone;
- The Mega Game, featuring all of the game's tickets.

Regardless of the version you opt to play, the Ticket to Ride - USA 1910 deck will force even long time Ticket to Ride veterans to reconsider their well mapped-out strategies, and develop fresh tactics. It is sure to bring your family and friends hundreds of hours of further enjoyment, riding the rails across a new America!

The limited edition expansion comes in a tin box.

In the black of a silent room, the only sound is the pulsating beat of your pounding heart. You are about to embark on the investigation of a lifetime, to go where no other mortal soul has ever dared to tread. Yvette Fielding's Ghosts is a game where intrepid investigators search for the answer to the ultimate question: Is There Really Life After Death? No two investigations are the same! Whether you're an investigator or a ghost, you're in the thick of the action, sharing dark and dangerous corridors, walking through imposing doors, wondering just what - if anything - will be captured tonight! Using specialist equipment, the investigators' ultimate goal is to gather documentary evidence of a ghost and to prove its identity. But investigators need to beware, they only have one night and time is running out fast. Ghosts must try to avoid capture by using special tactics such as scaring an investigator to another part of the building or possessing them and their equipment! Meanwhile, they walk through walls and play gruesome tricks on anyone who gets too close to the truth. Ghosts is not for the faint-hearted, you are about to become one of the Antix crew or something from another plane and now only one question remains: Are You Brave Enough To Play?

Players: 2 or more
Duration: 60 - 120 minutes
Age: 8+