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1930-- The Golden Age of Airlines Type: Economic Players: 2-6 Players Length: 90-120 minutes Status: Available Now Designer: Alex Sorbello Artist: Todd Sanders The Golden Age of Airlines 1930 is a game set in the early stages of aviation. The players take on the roles of aviation investors, promoters, and presidents with the general objective of making money. A player’s wealth is accumulated mainly through owning Stock Tokens of stock in the ten Aviation Airlines included in the game. Stock Tokens make money in two ways – they can provide ready cash via dividend payments paid during the Income Action and they can increase in value over the course of the game. The player with the most assets in cash and stock at the end of the game is the winner. /wp-content/uploads/2022/12/1930_Rules.pdf

Chateau Roquefort Type: Memory Players: 2-4 Players Length: 30-60 minutes Status: Available Now Designer: Bernard Weber & Jens-Peter Schliemann Artist: Victor Boden Monsieur de Montforte no longer lives in his Chateau. When he vacated the premises, the highly acclaimed gourmet left behind a collection of the finest cheeses in the world. As the years passed, the cheese aged, but so did the Chateau. Now the mice that search the Chateau for the cheese treasures must be careful or fall into holes which have opened in the floors as the building aged, making the Chateau one of the largest mouse traps under the starlit sky. Welcome to the craziest Chateau in the gaming world! The three-dimensional adventure takes place on four levels. At the top, the Chateau’s roof blocks the view of the inside. When a player peeks under the roof, he can see the lattice of walls and rooms and send his mice in search of treasure € cheese! However, once there, the mice must tread carefully as the floors slide unexpectedly under their paws and can reveal a deadly trap. For those who can avoid the traps, delicious cheese treasures await. Not only can children shine in Chateau Roquefort with their unbeatable memories, but they improve also their abilities to anticipate what lies ahead! Adults will also find the game an exciting challenge, again and again! And the game comes with a two-sided board for TWO DIFFERENT SCENARIOS! /wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Softproof_10036687-0001-RGG-Chateau-Roquefort-englishrulesanna.pdf

Beyond the Sun Type: Space Players: 2-4 Players Length: 90-120 minutes Status: Available Now Designer: Dennis K. Chan Artist: Franz Vohwinkel As Earth begins to die, it is time for humanity to look Beyond the Sun. The faction leaders that once ruled the planet separately, now work together to develop cutting-edge technology and explore the depths of space. However, only one leader will truly reign supreme in these new worlds. Will it be you? How it works: Players take turns to take an action available on the technology board, then produce resources. As more technologies are researched, more actions become available to the players. Actions allow players to improve their economy, move spaceships, colonize systems, and research new technologies. Those actions belong exclusively to the player who discovers them until the other players catch up! The game ends when a number of achievements are fulfilled, and the faction with the most points claims victory! Game Features: • Innovative technology tree – Each developed technology feeds into the next available technology. Dozens of variable tech cards are included which makes the possible technological advancements different from game to game. • Resource cycle of life – The game features a unique cyclical economic system that provides interesting challenges. Should you produce more money to grow your economic power or more food to increase the population needed for further expansion? • Multiple paths to victory – Become a technological powerhouse, build an impressive fleet of warships, or colonize the most planets. All possibilities are open to you as you strive for the ultimate triumph! Winner of the 2021 Diamant d’Or – top expert strategy game! /games/beyond-the-sun/ /gamepanel?game=beyondthesun

The June 2024 Rio Grande Games Newsletter is now available. We take this time to again thank all of those who have supported us throughout the year. Thanks! We updated the list of the arrival and expected arrival of our reprinted games and an update on our new games. /news/ /afyqm3i3r9pfe.html?t=1717681688

Dominion Rising Sun--Expansion Type: Deck Building Players: 2-4 Players Length: < 30 minutes Status: June /July 2024 Designer: Donald X Vaccarino We journey now to the islands to the east – or west, depending on where you are relative to them. Here your title is Emperor. They tell you you’re just a figurehead, though you can still order whatever breakfast you want. They may be right; you did get that breakfast. Your ceremonial sword and armor are made of paper. The samurai never let you into their tea parties, and the ninjas are always tying your shoelaces together. And the epic poem they wrote about you is only 17 syllables long. Rice has been adopted as currency, and no-one seems to even be trying to get your face onto the grains. But when you wake up each morning and look out over the land, life doesn’t seem so bad. Now, what’s for breakfast? This is the 16th expansion to Dominion. It has 300 cards, with 25 new Kingdom card piles. There are Shadow cards that leap out from your deck, and Prophecies that will someday happen and change everything. Debt and Events return. #Dominion

Colorado Midland -- Coming Early June 2024 Type: Train Games Status: Coming Soon Designer: John Bohrer Artist: Todd Sanders Fabulous riches are discovered in the nearly inaccessible Rocky Mountains. Gold and silver mines are opening in remote boomtowns and the mine owners want men and equipment and supplies to work the Mother Lode. Now, they say, is the time to build the rails through the Rockies! The sooner a railroad gets to a mine, the greater the profits for the mine owner before the mine is exhausted. The iron horse means money, and lots of it. Players are mine owners spurring the fledgling railroads through the daunting alpine terrain to the various booming mining districts. There is no luck during the game, just shared incentives and emergent alliances between players. A game for three to five players for less than an hour, designed by the modern master of train games. /wp-content/uploads/2024/02/ColoradoMidland.pdf

Dominion Cornucopia & Guilds Update pack Type: Card Games Players: 2-4 Players Length: < 30 minutes Designer: Donald X Vaccarino Artist: Jessi J Status: Available Now This update pack will update your copy of Dominion Cornucopia & Guilds 1st Edition to 2nd Edition. /wp-content/uploads/2024/02/CornucopiaGuilds.pdf

Dominion Cornucopia & Guilds Type: Deck Building Players: 2-4 Players Length: < 30 minutes Designer: Donald X Vaccarino Artist: Jess J Status: Available Now This is the second edition of Cornucopia & Guilds, replacing 8 kingdom cards and the Prizes from the first edition. CORNUCOPIA: Autumn. It seemed like the summer would never end, but that fortune teller was right. It’s over. Autumn, the time of the harvest. Agriculture has advanced significantly in recent years, ever since the discovery of the maxim, “leaves of three, let it be.” Autumn, a time of celebration. The peasants have spent a hard week scything hay in the fields, but tonight the festivities begin, starting with a sumptuous banquet of roast hay. Then, the annual nose-stealing competition. Then, two jesters, one who always lies, one who always tells the truth, both hilariously. Then, they fight to the death! This celebration will truly have something for everyone. GUILDS: Jobs, everyone’s worried about jobs. Whatever happened to tilling the fields in obscurity? The economy is just a trick, like stealing someone’s nose, but lately people seem to have seen through it, like when you realize someone hasn’t really stolen your nose. So now everyone’s joining a guild, learning a craft, and working on a masterpiece – a painting so beautiful it blinds you, or a cheese grater so amazing that you never eat cheese again. The only people left tilling the fields are the ones doing it ironically. The guilds cover everything – ironic tilling, butchering, baking, candlestick making, shoemaking, cheesemaking, cheese destruction. Your advisor is convinced that somehow, control of the stonecutters is key to world domination. Very well. You will have stone handled so expertly that the world trembles before you. /wp-content/uploads/2024/02/CornucopiaGuilds.pdf

Shipyard 2nd Edition Type: Economic Players: 1-4 Players Length: 90-120 minutes Designer: Vladimir Suchy Status: Available Now In the 19th Century, the Age of Sails met the Age of Steam, and for a time, ships moved across the ocean under power of both wind and coal. It was an exciting time to run a shipyard! Buy equipment. Hire crew. Build the ships that will power commerce, immigration, and naval supremacy. Will you build many small ships and try to score frequently, or will you put all your effort into one grand vessel that will score tons of points at once? The game is centered around a unique action-selection mechanism with constantly shifting options. Plan ahead, bide your time, then strike when the iron is hot. Build the fleets that built the world! For a detailed video of Vladimir Suchy showing how to construct the Ship and Commodity tiles (The Crane and the storage box combination of crew and equipment tiles, please see the video below. /wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Shipyard-2nd-edition.pdf

Ricochet Robots Type: Abstract Strategy Players: 1-100 Players Length: < 30 minutes Designer: Alex Randolph Status: Coming Soon We are happy to announce today, Alex Randolph’s birthday (Star Wars Day), our reprint of his great abstract game: Ricochet Robots. We expect to release the game later this year -- Summer 2024. Four robots move in a warehouse. As they have no brakes, they must rely on obstacles such as walls and other robots to stop. Once stopped, they use nozzles to move in a direction away from that obstacle, allowing them to turn. From time to time, they receive a request to move to one of the 17 targets in the warehouse and they rely on the players to provide them with instructions to move to the targets. Each turn, a player draws a chip to determine the next target and the robot that must reach it. The players search for the shortest moves to the target, using one or more of the robots. The player who finds the shortest route receives the chip as a reward. The player who takes the most chips, is the winner! Any number may play this game, making it a great party game. /en/alex100/ #alexrandolph #abacusspieleverlag #studiogiochi

New Frontiers Starry Rift--Expansion Type: Exploration Players: 1-5 Players Length: 45-90 minutes Designer: Tom Lehmann Artist: Claus Stefan, Martin Hoffmann, Mirko Suzuki Status: Available Now As empires expand into the Starry Rift, they encounter the Xenos, a violent xenophobic race. Historians scour the Alien Archives for how to defeat them. Meanwhile, a flexible Uplift race develops Bio-Terraforming technology. Welcome to The Starry Rift, the first New Frontiers expansion. New start colonies, developments, worlds, and goals provide lots of variety. Xeno colonies — once explored — must be conquered by game end, adding risk to military paths. 6 solo campaigns supply a new play experience. /wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Starry-Rift.pdf

Wabash Cannonball Type: Train Games Players: 3-6 Players Length: 30-60 minutes Designer: John Bohrer Artist: Todd Sanders Status: Available Now The savvy Robber Barons of 1830 America are building the railroads of the Eastern US and getting richer every day. Who will be the financial wizard in this economic battle? With no luck or randomness in this fight, the shrewdest will come out on top. Expand a railroad? Develop cities to increase railroad income? Invest in another, competing railroad? Vast wealth is possible to the sharp player, it is time to choose wisely and reap the benefits of opportunities missed by those less discerning. Players vie for dominance in the creation of America’s seminal railroads: The Pennsylvania, the Baltimore & Ohio, the Chesapeake & Ohio and the New York Central. They also increase their wealth and stock value by developing cities along the right-of-way. /wp-content/uploads/2023/02/WabashCannonball.pdf