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Jump Drive by Thomas Lehmann is a 2017 card game that was originally touted as a lighter version of the award winning Race for the Galaxy . Jump Drive uses cards for most of aspects of the original Race - Technology and Planet cards are paid for with other cards. Money income from played cards translates into more card draws. And played cards bring in point income each turn. This turns Jump Drive into a very fast game - about 10 minutes once you know how to play.

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Nebel über Carcassonne , a cooperative version of Klaus-Jürgen Wrede ’s genre-defining tile laying game, was announced back in February 2022. Publisher Z-Man Games has confirmed the English version of this classic, titled Mists Over Carcassonne , coming soon. Carcassonne, winner of the 2001 Spiel des Jahres , has had numerous expansions and big box collections over the decades, but until now never a cooperative version.

Players work together through six levels of challenges, placing tiles and trying to stop the spread of ghosts, and contain haunted ground within cemeteries....

25th Century Games has announced a new card game, Gasha , which is themed around the Japanese vending machines. Gasha is designed by Jason Levine (no, not the Dice Tower Gaming Machine) and features artwork from Christine Alcouffe and Miguel Coimbra .

Gasha is a push your luck game where you are trying to collect the most valuable set of prizes. On your turn, you can either draw two cards or trade in sets of cards for points and half a ticket. As you collect tickets, you can...

North American Marketing Manager Danni Loe gave a livestream presentation from Hachette Boardgames which included many game and expansion announcements from the publisher. Hachette is a conglomerate of many French and French-Canadian game companies, so numerous studios have releases noted here.

Gigamic Games , known for beautiful wooden abstract games such as Quarto and Pylos , has announced Qawale , coming in February. Qawale is a mancala-like game of moving wooden pebbles over a 4x4 board. The first player lining up 4 pebbles of their...