Stack World

Drew Krehel & Ed McCreary

1st Place

Score 8.9444

Semi-Finalist

Stack World is a tile based, 4X, competitive legacy game targeted towards hobby gamers. It provides a uniquely three dimensional, infinitely evolving board state that persist from match to match, and is 100% driven by player interaction, rather than story instructions. 2-4 players compete with the goal of building the greatest dynasty over the many seasons and ages of Stack World. This tile based approach to legacy allows the system to function without ever needing to buy additional material.

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Cocubu

Kevin Kotowski

2nd Place

Score 8.3750

Semi-Finalist

I love polyominoes, but I love crafting polycubes even more! If you are looking for an original twist on polyomino puzzles, Cocubu delivers. In Cocubu, you draft cubes from a randomizing deck, then satisfyingly build them into polycubes you can pick up and manipulate, with a goal of matching scoring patterns. While building polycubes is done in chunky 3D, the puzzle remains accessible in 2D. Building your own polycubes is just the right amount of brain burn from a simple set of rules.

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Braila: City of Progress

Stefan Calin

3rd Place

Score 8.2000

Semi-Finalist

Play as aspiring entrepreneurs, expand your businesses, develop, innovate, and grow. Braila: City of Progress is a story-rich euro urban builder. Choose 1 of the 6 unique characters, follow personal goals while collectively writing the city's story with your opponents. The game uses an innovative card activated multi-queue system of public actions. Constant interaction in the public action space along with unique strategies for each character creates a deeply immersive and exciting experience.

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Tabula Rasa

Mary Flanagan, Max Seidman, Spring Yu, Emma Hobday

4th Place

Score 7.8636

Semi-Finalist

Tabula Rasa is a complex “write and fight” strategy game that comes in a very small package. Each game of Tabula Rasa is played on a unique map of a region of Minervia printed on a single sheet of paper. The game comes in a book of over 100 beautiful maps, and every map is unique - procedurally generated from over 50 different map features! It's perfect for traveling or just about anywhere.

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Nomads: Origin Stories

Piotrek Chojnowski

5th Place

Score 7.7333

Semi-Finalist

NOMADS takes you on a journey to the beginnings of mankind. Inspired by Yuval Harari's Sapiens, it is an epic experience of human advancement through exploration, discovery and survival. This dice worker-placement game involves area control, player development and skillful interaction with other tribes. Lead your people to inhabit the world around you while forming human DNA, inventing tools, creating art and building shelter along the way. How will you shape humanity's future? (2-4p/2h/10yr+)

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Skyrift

Mitchell and Will Brannan

5th Place

Score 7.7333

Semi-Finalist

Players will assemble their teams of 4 Skywalkers, and face off in a battle of the wits against an opponent to conquer the rift. However, this will be anything but straightforward. The rift will erupt natural disasters, elevate, and rotate terrain when it is least expected, demanding that strategies remain fluid, making every decision a crucial one. With countless opportunities to creatively find new ways to win, players will be guaranteed a new and thrilling experience each time they play.

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Sleeping Giants

Jeff Johnston

7th Place

Score 7.5625

Semi-Finalist

Sleeping Giants™: A fully co-op fantasy feast! 1-5 players, ~20 mins, ages 10+ Serve up the perfect meal or you’re next on the menu! Play as the Elf, Cleric, Mage or others with unique abilities all desperately trying to figure out how to appease the Giants at the royal feast. Use logic and timing to ensure victory in this colossal capers caper. Will your peas please in the clever logic puzzle that changes with each dish you serve?

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Duwen

Jeremy Lounds

8th Place

Score 7.5500

Semi-Finalist

Duwen is an abstract strategy game for 2 players with a unique "3D" pyramid-shaped board game. Instead of capturing or surrounding your opponents, your goal is to "push" the gem off the edge of the board. Your pieces start off at the bottom with "6" strength and increment down as they move up, or sideways. And if they move down a level, they gain strength back! If your piece has enough "umph", you can move your opponent's pieces out of your way, too! (Ages 12+, 5-30 minutes)

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Heading Forward

John du Bois

9th Place

Score 7.5333

Semi-Finalist

Heading Forward is a one-player resource management card game that abstracts the process of head injury rehabilitation. Use your brains, spoons, and skills to progress and complete treatment hierarchies and recover before insurance ends your therapy!

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Uranus!

Ellie Dix

10th Place

Score 7.4375

Semi-Finalist

Catastrophic asteroid attacks are threatening your moon, and those of your neighbours. In this cooperative 'write and erase' network builder, you must optimise the ever-changing landscape of your individual moon and exploit its resources, before the moon is destroyed. Use your asymmetric powers to help your closest allies, for all races must make the journey to Uranus to be saved.

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Defenders of Yellowstone

Justin Schroeder

11th Place

Score 7.3750

Semi-Finalist

You and your fellow animals are tired of hikers traipsing through the middle of your home in Yellowstone Park like they own the place; this year you’re taking a stand! Build a three-dimensional polyomino fortress and deploy some of your forest's fiercest animals there in an attempt to scare those destructive hikers away. Simultaneous play and a variable scoring setup create an engaging and enjoyable puzzle, but only the most intimidating forest will survive unscathed!

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Rising Waters

Scout Blum

12th Place

Score 7.3529

Semi-Finalist

While most Americans dance the Charleston & drink bootlegged liquor, the Mississippi Delta faces a flood of epic proportions in 1927. If battered river levees collapse, everything important to you will be washed away. Rising Waters is an area control, set collection coop game where players become laborers confronting two powerful & arbitrary forces - landowners and nature. Draw on hidden strength like your family, church, culture, and migration. Can you manage the rising waters to stay alive?

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Tear-a-Form on Mars

Adam Singer

13th Place

Score 7.2941

Semi-Finalist

Tear-a-Form on Mars is a “Speak-and-Write” variant on the Roll-and-Write genre. It has been years since colonization! Mars now has an atmosphere and your team is moving full throttle to build cities! Players will be filling a grid to complete shapes, while simultaneously influencing the direction of their mars-rover to explore for helpful resources!

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Scoinga

Justin Bari

14th Place

Score 7.1667

Semi-Finalist

A dot-guessing game that was inspired by Glenn Doman's method for teaching babies math. The game is played for three rounds in 30-45 minutes, ages 9 and up.The number of dots goes anywhere from one to 96, and no two cards are exactly alike! This will bring lots of amusing moments as players are often surprised by the results and pressured by the player countdown! If your baby learned math beforehand, they might beat you at it!

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Just Dandy!

Chace Daley

15th Place

Score 7.0667

Semi-Finalist

In Just Dandy! you control Dandelions trying to prosper in a world full of danger. Your dream is to reach high in the sky and bask in the sun. Just Dandy! is a lightweight puzzle game for 2-5 players ages 8+. Players will draw tiles and place them in patterns on their Board to build Dandelions. Players can choose to grow upward (to grow Flowers & score Sun Points) or grow downward (to grow Roots which can help your Dandelion survive). Game ends when the last Tile is drawn - most Sun Points win.

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Watchsmith

Robert Fisk

15th Place

Score 7.0667

Semi-Finalist

Watchsmith is a game about 17th Century English Watchsmiths. Players travel to 8 different London locations to gain resources, convert resources, and fulfill watch orders. Watchsmith features worker placement, pattern building, and an engine builder. With no traditional rounds, play is quick with the winner being the player who is the first to finish their masterpiece.

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Drawing Conclusions

Perry Kleinhenz

17th Place

Score 7.0625

Semi-Finalist

Drawing Conclusions is a team based drawing party game. Players are split into two teams and are each given a piece of paper, a crayon and 30 seconds to draw a picture. Then each team gets one chance to guess each player’s drawing. However your opponents are the first ones to guess your drawing, your team only gets a chance to guess if your opponents guess wrong. This makes the game not one of pure artistic skill but of ambiguity, bluffing, deduction and guesswork.

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The Restorers

Amy Price

18th Place

Score 7.0000

Semi-Finalist

You’re an elite artisan tasked with maintaining the world’s artistic heritage… But you still have to navigate office politics. Paint, fill galleries, collect and spend favors: there are many paths to having the most prestige and winning the game, and whether you play nice or cutthroat is entirely up to you. The Restorers is a mid-light game of resource management and action selection via rondel movement. 2 to 5 players, 1 to 1:45 minutes.

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Zodiac War

Paul Starr

18th Place

Score 7.0000

Semi-Finalist

Zodiac War is a family game for 2-4 players with a one-hour play time. The astrological theme is authentic, and the game plays with a full 78-card tarot deck. You choose a zodiac sign and its unique special ability to attract the faith of people on Earth. Faith is the game's currency and is collected by playing tarot cards to rotate the board, aligning planets and elements with your zodiac sign. Faith is used to purchase tarot cards and star crystals with three star crystals winning the game.

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Scission

Alexandre Larrain & Elena Marimon

20th Place

Score 6.8889

Semi-Finalist

Scission is a multiplayer battle card game for 2 to 4 players. A game lasts about 40’. It is set in a steampunk universe with beautiful original artwork. Scission introduces a number of novel mechanics and strategies among similar games. Continuous resource allocation decisions and incomplete information provide variety and keep players engaged. Well crafted combat rolls yield a certain amount of uncertainty and spice. Although highly strategic, it works great for casual play.

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Mush!

Asa Bari

21st Place

Score 6.8000

A cooperative board game for 1-4 players set in arctic temperatures. Play lasts 30 minutes for ages 5 and up. You are trying to rescue the residents from the outlaws who are lurking while wind gusts can either work for or against you in this elegant and unique Alaskan mission.

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Distilled

Dave Beck

22nd Place

Score 6.7333

Distilled is a highly thematic strategy card game about crafting spirits in a distillery, with deck management, set collection, and push-your-luck elements. In the game, you have inherited a distillery and are hoping to someday achieve the title of master distiller through purchasing goods, building up your distillery, and creating the world’s most renowned spirits!

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Gusher Falls

Chace Daley

22nd Place

Score 6.7333

In Gusher Falls, you play as an heir to the estate of an oil baron whose Company is now without a president. The new president is to be selected by the baron’s trusted widow, Helen. Helen has devised the perfect way to select the next president of the family oil company. A competition to be held at the massive family ranch called Gusher Falls. Gusher Falls is a middleweight strategy game for 3-4 Players (ages 10+). The Game takes place over 9 rounds and takes 90 minutes to play.

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Elemancy

Stefan Barkow

24th Place

Score 6.6667

Elemancy is an abstract strategy game using 18 identical cards and a 'reverse tile-laying' mechanic. In this two player game for ages 12+, players cunningly use their control over fire, earth, and water to defeat their opponent by any one of three different victory conditions.

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Paint By Number

Arya, Gavin, and Graeme Jahns

24th Place

Score 6.6667

Get your paints out, mix your favourite colours, and customize your painting the way you want! Be careful though, you and your opponents are competing for an ever dwindling supply of paint. Fill in as many of your painting’s features as possible before the paint runs out, because when the game ends only your finished features will count for points, and the player with the most points wins! Are you ready to Paint by Number?

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The Red Herring

Mary Flanagan, Max Seidman, Spring Yu

24th Place

Score 6.6667

The famous Red Herring Diamond has been stolen at the charity gala at which is was being displayed, in this Agatha Christie-style competitive storytelling party game! A brilliant Consulting Detective and the Police arrive to find the diamond. The Host of the gala recounts what each suspect was doing leading up to the crime, and then the Consulting Detective must try to identify which of the suspects stole the diamond before the Police crack the case.

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Pollen Wars

Axel Kremer

27th Place

Score 6.6000

Times are hard... Bees are dying and pollen is rare. You are in charge and the decisions you make will determine the destiny of your colony. Send your bees to the flower field and form the correct pattern to gather pollen. Block your opponents or let them do the harvesting for you and raid their hives. Is your hive infested? You may have to go on a mission to find a cure… Or maybe you are a twisted queen and might decide to spread the infestation to your opponents to kill the competition…

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Empower Empathy

Angel Liang & Tina Shimizu

28th Place

Score 6.5556

Citizens of Empathropolis are troubled ever since the villain Goobi moved into the city sewers painting the town RED with emotional chaos. As members of the Super Squad, you are summoned to restore the City back to peace by resolving social dilemmas. As you chase Goobi around the city, various scenarios are unveiled as you identify as many emotions and appropriate responses are at play. You gain powers to strengthen your emotional powers and use them to banish Goobi back to his sewers.

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Pulsar Runner

Ryan Podany, Jay McNew, and Aaron Ocker

29th Place

Score 6.4737

Pulsar Runner is a co-op game where you and your crew mates build, explore, and take on enemies in a ship of your own design. Fight against the cards to clear the enemies out of the galaxy! Your crew of up to 4 players, ages 13 and up, can expect to spend around 2 hours customizing, strategizing, and blasting your way through the galaxy as you race towards the ever-looming bandit fleet hiding out at the edge of space.

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Catastrophic Contraptions

Stefan Barkow

30th Place

Score 6.4667

Catastrophic Contraptions is a simultaneous play, push-your-luck deckbuilder of steampunk explosions for 2 to infinite players. The game plays in 30 minutes and is designed to be played either in-person or remotely. In the game, players are steampunk tinkerers in a competition to build—and more importantly, explode—fantastical machines.

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Centuries

Pierson Guthrey

30th Place

Score 6.4667

Centuries is a game of nation-building in the form of a tableau builder. Collect funds and workers to complete projects, each of which give you a benefit for the rest of the game. The projects could be Military, Culture, Faith, Economic, Science or Political projects, and each category’s benefits have their own theme. Will you cooperate with other nations for mutual growth or fight to become the dominant nation?

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The Cat Catchers

Bert Hardeman

30th Place

Score 6.4667

The Cat Catchers is a cooperative game for 2-5 player of 12 years and older. Use sticks to travel around and capture cats. But be aware every turn the cats move in unpredictable ways and you lose when one escapes the city!

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Dependent Origination

Daniel Perez, Brandon Behl

33rd Place

Score 6.4000

DEPENDENT ORIGINATION takes players on an interactive journey through Rebirth and Reincarnation, advancing along the Wheel of Life and Death through the Realms of Body, Mind and Spirit...Past, Present and Future. Inspired by Buddhism and other Eastern and New Age Philosophies, Dependent Origination offers a Semi-Cooperative game play coupled with a unique Spiritual Theme. An experience that is both educational and uplifting!

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High Tides

Brian Compter

34th Place

Score 6.3333

Imagine a world where you and all your hermit crab friends are hard at work building sand castles on the shore hoping to build the biggest and best sand castle on the beach! High Tides is where medium weight strategy meets an approachable theme, featuring fast turns and a unique player driven round mechanic.

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Exploding Tracks

Zach Bearinger

35th Place

Score 6.2667

A tile-laying train game that has the added twist where tracks will be destroyed. Each turn players will lay new track and a town as well. Towns have 2 number the size of the town and the fuel number. The size of the town determines the number of track segments away from existing towns it must be and how many passengers of random colors will be placed when made. The fuel number determines how many towns you go to on your move phase. You want to drop off passengers at their color town.

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Flora

Dallas E. Caldwell

35th Place

Score 6.2667

Flora is a dice drafting, spatial orientation game for 1-6 players that takes about 30 minutes to play. In Flora, players compete to become the Gardener of the Year by drafting flowers to place into their garden, completing columns and rows for points.

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Furrenzy

Jeremy Lounds

35th Place

Score 6.2667

Semi-chaotic, card-swap social deduction with charade twist! Furrenzy will have your party guests making frantic and ridiculous gestures as they try to "speak" to one another while trading cards in quick, 60-second rounds. But watch out! There is one sneaky player setting traps! Can you figure out who, and perhaps warn others in time? After the dust settles, you can wager points in your hand as to who really was the fur trapper, and potentially double your points!

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Ballerina Battle Arena

Caleb Segura

38th Place

Score 6.2500

Ballerina Battle Arena! A real time, bag builder, area control, competitive experience. It highlights a simple and unique combat mechanism that brings the humorous theme of fighting Ballet Troupes to life. Thank you for your time and interest!

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Lunarynth

Robin O'Connor

39th Place

Score 6.2222

A competitive strategy puzzle. Embodying the concepts of emergence and order from chaos, Lunarynth is built from the complex interactions of simple parts. Its theme is full of fun, mystery and mischief. Its mechanics are unique.

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IMIT

Corey Young

40th Place

Score 6.2000

IMIT (pronounced "I'm it!") is a 3-player, trick-taking card game that plays in about 20 minutes. Each round, one player faces off against the other two, attempting to take the exact number of tricks that they bid. The lone player gets 2 points by correctly bidding how many tricks they will take while the other players get 1 point each for preventing the lone player from getting their bid. The game is unique because each hand, the lone player plays 2 cards and the other 2 players play one each.

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Chromabuild

Andrew & Hillary Allan

41st Place

Score 6.1875

Chromabuild is a color based deck building game. Chromabuild is for 2-5 players, plays for 30 min and is for ages 8+. Players use primary colors to collect secondary and tertiary colors in order to build their deck, accomplish goals, earn points, and win the game. This fun and intuitive game is great for all audiences.

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Planetus

John C Gonzalez

42nd Place

Score 6.1250

Planetus is a strategic card game where players discover planets and build their own solar system around a star. Players extract light energy from their star to create resources, technologies, and explore new planets and moons. Use your resources wisely in order to maximize efficiency and increase your production while being the first to colonize enough planets in your system to win the game.

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Solo Una Noche

Eric Wahlstrom

43rd Place

Score 6.0667

Solo Una Noche is silly luchador wrestling fun! Simple card play mechanics offer interesting choices and great story telling potential and is great for everyone 10 and up. It plays 10 minutes per player and is great for family game night or beer and pretzels at the bar.

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Huff and Puff

Matt Harding

44th Place

Score 6.0588

In Huff and Puff you play as the three little pigs and their little sister Pitchfork Peg, who pilots her very own scarecrow mech, against a pack of ladder toting, fire spreading, huff puffing wolves. The game unfolds as a Three Act gateway weight roll and write that incorporates building/crafting, tower defense, and miniatures combat, and plays in 30 minutes for 1-3 players. It's a unique melding of two genres that are not usually seen together: Roll & Write and Tactical Combat.

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Skyhook

Patrick Rauland

45th Place

Score 6.0000

An engine building space exploration game designed for 2-infinity players (perfect in a pandemic). Gather resources, fly to new planets, and build. You can go purely for points or you can build your engine of Skyhooks to move ships around the galaxy effortlessly. 20-30 min.

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Squirrel island!

Rasmus Karlsson and Robin Karlsson

45th Place

Score 6.0000

A fast-paced strategic card game, where you take on the role of an aspiring squirrel leader. Your goal is to collect more nuts than your rivals before time runs out. Squirrel Island is played from 2-5 players with a game length of approximately 13min/player. It got elements like resources management, engine building, take that, and a little bit of puzzle-solving. Thanks to the randomly selected mission tiles and a big card pool you can enjoy the game be replayed many times.

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Scents and Sensibility

David Bruglia, Carla Kopp, Nick Kopp

47th Place

Score 5.8824

An engine building game for 2 - 4 players. 15 minutes per player. Key Mechanisms: Engine building, engine deconstructing, quick turns, different player scoring, victory points Theme: Victorian/Steampunk woodland creatures, flowers.

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Infamous

Michael Brown

48th Place

Score 5.8750

Infamous! is a card-based engine building game that introduces a new mechanic called “effect building.” In effect building, players combine multiple cards to build new abilities. Which allows players to tailor the effects of cards to their play style. It has seen a lot of playtesting, and though it is still actively being developed it has received lots of feedback from the members of the Board Game Design Guild of Utah. It takes about half an hour to play and supports from 2 to 4 players.

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Die Versteckten: The Hidden Ones

Celeborn Stringham and Scott M. Stringham

49th Place

Score 5.8667

Die Versteckten: The Hidden Ones is a quick two-player bluffing card game with the intent of giving players insight into what it might have been like to be either a Suspect that is hiding a family of Jews, or a Nazi Interrogator trying to pry their location out of them. The Interrogator employs interrogation techniques and sends out search parties, while the Suspect throws them off the trail by moving their face-down cards around on the table and sending the Interrogator on wild goose chases.

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Jukebox

Eric Alvarado

49th Place

Score 5.8667

Jukebox is a 30 minute 2-player set collection game where players are loading 45s into their jukebox. Singles are collected by drawing tokens from their bag and placing them into one of two slots. When a slot has tokens that match a single, they spend the tokens and the 45 is added to the player's jukebox. A player may instead return their spent tokens along with two special tokens to their bag. The game continues until a player has collected nine singles and whoever has the most points wins.

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Jungled

Mantas Minkauskas

49th Place

Score 5.8667

The task is up to you, the great warlord, how to fight the opposing jungle tribes craving for revenge, chaos or glory. Utilize reveal mechanic and ever-changing masterplan to conquer the enemy village or find their totem. Use strengths of your tribe to choose the right hero for the skirmish, explore thickets, summon jungle spirits or revive fallen ones. Whatever you do, be smarter than your opponent and be smarter than the jungle.

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Polter-Diced

Mark Drejza

49th Place

Score 5.8667

POLTER-DICED is a push-your-luck dice game about ghosts trying to scare intruders out of a haunted house. It plays 2-5 players for ages 10+ and plays in 45-60 minutes. Roll psychokinetic “PsyKE” dice to challenge each intruder’s courage. Leverage special ghost abilities and ectoplasm to manipulate the dice and the material world. Roll more dice to increase your fright, but be warned--if you “scare them to death” instead, you lose points. The most courage conquered wins!

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Royal Chambers

Till

49th Place

Score 5.8667

Set in Europe's Renaissance, 0-7 players can play as the master architects of the realm. The game sports a number of variations and is highly customizable. Game mechanics can seamlessly be added or removed to the players' liking: Strategy, chance, bluff, memory, asymmetry, cooperative, bidding, push-your-luck and more. A treat is the adaptive AI to play against in solo or team mode. Cleverly build the royal chambers with cards form your hand to win the game.

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Corona Yuga-Board Game

Veer Kashyap

54th Place

Score 5.8333

I take this opportunity to share a BOARD GAME - Corona Yuga (Corona Period) (Yuga means Period or Era). My son Veer (AGE : 9 YEARS) has designed a creative and informative Board Game which educates about all precautions to be adhered during present pandemic.The game enhances awareness about Social Distancing, Wear Mask, washing hands, Buying grocery, penalties during seal down, and self Quarantine. The game also promotes YOGA and appreciates COVID Warriors.

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Amartisse

Stefan Calin

55th Place

Score 5.8000

Take on the role of critters in 1920s Paris and clean up the city by recycling junk into Works of Art! Move through the rondel of Paris, navigate the modular board while activating various locations, gather the junk and recycle it into your own works of art using critter cards from your deck. Next, feature your works of art for immediate VPs or donate them to beautify the city and gain endgame bonuses. Balance tactics, strategy and aesthetics to outwit your opponents and win!

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Knights of the Rectangle

Dustin Dowdle

55th Place

Score 5.8000

You have been tasked to assemble the Knights of the Rectangle! Each round you'll have a hand of 3 knights and you must choose to Play one, Keep one and Pass one! This is a very simple yet thinky game that scales from 2-9 players with no additional down time when adding players! Ample replayability with 18 suits of modular knights! Come one, come all and assemble the Knights of the Rectangle!

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Skull Canyon Ski Fest

Jason Klinke and Kip Noschese

55th Place

Score 5.8000

You're invited to the grand re-opening of the famed Skull Canyon Ski Resort. Compete against other skiers in a multi-day festival where you will need to balance strategy and tactics during the day on the slopes and in the village in the evening. If you're lucky, you may recruit Alpine Legends who can assist you on the mountain. But in the end, only one of you will become a new legend of Skull Canyon. The game features set collection, hand management, card drafting and some light area control.

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The eleMentals

Ben Hoban

55th Place

Score 5.8000

Struggling all girl rock band The eleMentals just gained superpowers. It's time to rescue their only fans, uncover the evil plan and take on the robot army of Dr Electro. The eleMentals is a co-op dungeon crawling adventure for 1-4 players aged 10+. The Saturday morning cartoon style theme is designed to appeal to the 10-14yo female demographic. The game features a range of simple but engaging mechanics and innovative thematic game-play, delivering a fresh and original take on the genre.

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Ye Olde Magick Shoppe

Clarence Simpson

59th Place

Score 5.6667

You are the owner of a magic item shop in a fantasy world, crafting items and researching spells to sell to the adventurers of the land. But your customers are impatient and will not hesitate to go to your competitors if they can't find what they want at your shop. Mechanically, the game is a thinky roll-and-write making unique usage of polyhedral dice. It also has a limited-time goal system based on customers rotating from player to player if the customer is not satisfied.

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Pawful

Jeremy Lounds

60th Place

Score 5.6471

Let out your inner, slightly-misbehaving cat in this light family game by "gently" nudging things - okay, actually custom dice - off the table. With a little luck and dash of dexterity, you will earn titles like "Cat Burglar", "Vandal", "Master Hunter", etc. It is played in real-time, but without time pressure, to keep 2 to 4 players (ages 6+) engaged the entire time.

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Dino-Lico

Simon Jutras

61st Place

Score 5.6000

Dino-Lico is an addictive solo game. It's somewhere between Solitary and Candy Crush. A really simple tiles stacking game where you try to do the highest score possible. Stack dinosaurs and unicorns, nail broken combos, unlock powerful bonus, plan ahead wisely and climb your way on the highest step of the leaderboard!

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Aspieteria: Khufu

Justin Bari

62nd Place

Score 5.5333

This is a cooperative game for 1-5 players where you move through a network of tunnels within Khufu's pyramid and place a new tile every turn. As you attempt to uncover and reclaim Khufu's treasures, a failure to place your tunnel tile will result in the pyramid's collapse. With six different types of tile, there is a high replay value.

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Graves & Goldmines

Anthony Broussard

63rd Place

Score 5.4706

Graves & Goldmines is a Wild West themed roll & write for 1 to N players. Players score points for having groups of the same Building connected on the hex grid. Goldmines, Graves, Ranches and Saloons - build your town in the Wild West!

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Automatown

Seth Jaffee, Michael Brown

64th Place

Score 5.4000

Automatown is a worker placement game with a conveyor belt of worker placement spots which change throughout the game. it supports 2-4 players, and takes about 1 hour. Players build a tableau of automa cards and gain more workers and eventually use their automa to take over the city.

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Skies of Steam

Chris Metivier & Harb

64th Place

Score 5.4000

You're an airship captain on the run trying to build a powerful enough engine to escape from the island you once called home. You power your ship by collecting and using resources from the land in order to earn upgrades by rescuing travelers, fulfilling contracts, and completing quests. Skies of Steam is a mid-weight, literal engine builder for 2-5 players, combining pickup-and-deliver with resource management for a 60-90 minute gaming experience.

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Avast and Set Sail

Dustin Dowdle

66th Place

Score 5.2667

You are the captain of a ship bound for islands and treasure! Push your luck to find landmarks on your map while avoiding hazards and curses! Make improvements to your ship and hire crew with special skills in order to help you along your way!

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Polychrome

Kelly Parker

66th Place

Score 5.2667

Join in the fast-paced challenge of Polychrome! Polychrome is a lightweight, abstract game for 1-4 players. During the game, players face-off to be the first person to arrange their hex tiles to complete the shape on the challenge card correctly. The first person to collect three cards wins! Quick to set up, easy to learn, fun to play!

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The Monte Carlo Heist Challenge

Manny Dominguez & Daniel Dominguez

68th Place

Score 5.2222

A one-of-a-kind jewel, priceless works of art, and a mysterious collector with a tempting proposition. In The Monte Carlo Heist Challenge, you will lead your crew of miscreants to compete against the best robbers in the business for one last big score. Heist is a 3-6 player family game, 30-minute game featuring hand management, simultaneous actions, bluffing, and a unique, two-step bidding system that packs a surprising amount of strategy into a lightning-fast game.

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Avoid the Cacti!

Joe Slack

69th Place

Score 5.2000

Avoid the Cacti! is a simultaneous choose-and-write game for 2-10+ players that plays in 20-30 minutes. You're buying flowers for your new garden, however, the florist sometimes sneaks in a cactus (negative points) when he's short of other flowers for his bouquets! Everyone chooses the bouquet they want and collects those flowers, but here's the catch: the most popular bouquet also comes with a cacti! Set collections score varying points and the risks increase every round.

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Fractal Worlds: Sidiah

Ian Reid

69th Place

Score 5.2000

Have you ever visited a fractal planet? Fractal Worlds offers a host of fractal planets to explore. In this first episode your crew of the Celestial Exploration Federation-CEF forced landed on planet Sidiah damaging your quantum travel spacecraft Nymia. Your mission, to swiftly gather required resources to repair Nymia. Sidiah is a morphing planet. and will reach maturity shortly. You must bolt from Sidiah before it implodes. Choose your escape strategy wisely. Your life is in the balance!

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POTUS: Race to the White House

Paul Klatzman

71st Place

Score 5.1333

Players compete to land the most important job in the Free World: President of the United States of America (POTUS). The game uses area control, diplomacy and game theory as Players compete to convince citizens to vote for them come Election Night. Campaign wisely and you may find yourself with a seat in the Oval Office!

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30 Seconds to Live

William Angus

72nd Place

Score 5.0667

30 Seconds to Live is a 2 player competitive zombie card game. It is designed to evoke the action and intensity of the season finale of your favorite zombie tv show. Players have 30s to take their turn before their opponent takes theirs. This is a game you don't jsut play, you experience.

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Street Thief

Asa Bari

72nd Place

Score 5.0667

Street Thief is a competitive 2-4 player board game set in a Middle Eastern tableau. It last 15-30 minutes. You must get three tiles of your own color and one lamp. Getting caught by the enemy will roll back your accomplishments. Who knew the insert from an empty box could become such a unique board game experience with hidden treasures and strategic use of die rolls? Welcome to the world of the Street Thief!

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Periaspie: One Hundred to One

Justin Bari

74th Place

Score 5.0625

Cooperative modular board game for 1-8 players with one hundred tiles to explore, ages 10 and up. You must discover the eight keys and bring them to the jail before time runs out. Tiles detonate based on color. Players must use strategy and adequate timing to free the hostages before the building explodes! Play time is 45 to 60 minutes.

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Burnout

Brennan Smith

75th Place

Score 5.0000

Burnout is a deck building racing game designed for two to four players. In Burnout, you utilize your strategic skills to upgrade your core attributes (movement, fuel, hand size), buy new cards, and race around the track to score points for the end of the game. You need to make sure to minimize your potential of burnout while also avoiding being lapped. Do you have what it takes to score the most points and claim the ultimate prize?

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Compact Carnival

Kellen Freeman

76th Place

Score 4.9375

Compact Carnival uses drafting and tile laying for each player to build out their own amusement park plan. Attractions score in unique ways and whoever has the best designed plan wins the game. Extra scoring conditions and varied starting scenarios allow make each game a bit different than the last keeping your strategy fresh.

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Looters and Losers: A Roll and Raid Adventure

Nathaniel Ogborne

77th Place

Score 4.8125

Steal treasure and escape as fast as you can! This is a 2-4 player, 30 minute roll and write game where players steal treasure from the island and be the first one to make their escape. Players start in the middle of the island, drafting dice with compass directions to determine their path around the island. Players are racing around the island collecting treasure then racing to their boat. Do you take time to search for gems to give you bonuses or just go straight for the treasure?

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The Contraltos

Jason Costa

77th Place

Score 4.8125

The Contraltos is a fast and light 18-card game of mafia intrigue. It plays in under 10 minutes, and scales from 2-5 players. Players take the roles of siblings vying for control of the family business, sending henchmen to finish jobs at different clubs. Each player has a hidden objective that depends on crimes committed, gangsters knocked off, or tipoffs to the police. This game includes adult themes and is intended for players who are 18 or older.

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Dis-Enchanted Forest

Kendall Woffinden

79th Place

Score 4.8000

The Enchanted Forest is cursed! Now that it's Dis-Enchanted, the cuddly creatures are vicious and blood-thirsty! Will you be able to stay at least one step ahead of the curse taking over the forest, and defeat the evil witch in her castle? 1-6 Players Cooperative Age 5+ 30 Min Roll dice to defeat forest creatures. Successful: those cards become part of your trail. Unsuccessful: Advance the curse token, & add to the bottom of the deck, to become more difficult later.

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Enchanting

Candy Weber

80th Place

Score 4.7059

A strategic card game with an enchanting theme. Gather to enchant the world and fulfill prophecies, following one another’s actions until the fated Master Enchanter is revealed.

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Smorgasbord

Justin Antezana

81st Place

Score 4.6875

Smorgasbord is an abstract, puzzle-building, pile-stacking card game where you take turns stacking shape cards on dynamic pattern piles to score more points than your opponent. Pre-plan your cards wisely; each card you match, anti-match or sequence changes that pile challenge for you and your opponent. Master each pile challenge, out-stack your opponent and score the most points over 2 rounds to win! Smorgasbord is a fast-paced, competitive experience for two to four players in 30 minutes.

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Dicey Drafting

Kellen Freeman

82nd Place

Score 4.6667

Dicey Drafting has players rolling dice, then drafting scoring cards that best take advantage of the results they've rolled. It's up to clever dice placement and manipulation to turn a random hand into a winning one.

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25,374th Annual Galactic Pumpkin Festival

Alice Andersen

83rd Place

Score 4.6471

Gambling and Drafting game focused on Pumpkins festivals in Space! Draft an alien pumpkin species, a planet to grow it on, and gadgets to further cheat nature. Put your pumpkin on the line every round to face risks but potentially grow even bigger. Be careful as every round can potentially lead to disaster! Fully Transcribed captions are available in a watermarked duplicate video here: https://youtu.be/fjnmS3Gm5fc

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Word Hog

R. Wayne Lapidez

84th Place

Score 4.5625

Word HogTM recommended ages 8 and up, for 2 – 6 players, average playtime duration of 20 minutes. Played on a 120-hexagon board, with 5 playing pieces per player, a set of dice, dice cup, letter chips and deck of bumping cards. A great family or party game - very enjoyable. Based on luck and skill - all players have equal chance to win. A perfect tool for schools or home - helping children improve their vocabulary and spelling in a fun way. Once you start playing you don't want to stop!

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Otter Park

Matt Williams

85th Place

Score 4.5333

You work at an Otter Park, building Otter Slides to maximize Otter Satisfaction. Hire Workers, Gather Resources, Purchase Plans, and build your slide. Includes resource management, worker placement, pattern building, hidden victory conditions, and Otters!

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Westward

Alice Andersen

86th Place

Score 4.4667

Westward is an asymmetric game about colony construction and trailblazing. It's a softer look at traditional civ-style games that can be played in about 90 minutes. It's competitive or coop friendly and targeted at 3-4 players. This game is something I made for my weekly game group and we've enjoyed it so far.

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Grab-It Rabbit

Rob Greanias

87th Place

Score 4.3333

Grab it Rabbit is a fast paced game of dice rolling and resource grabbing. Using Yahtzee-style dice mechanics, players simultaneously match patterns to gather vegetables from different fields on the board. Points are scored based on resources collected and challenges accomplished.

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Researchers

Diego Burgos and Benjamín Valderrama

88th Place

Score 4.2667

Many discoveries changed the humankind. Do you know who are the minds behind them? Researchers is a trivia card game where you are a science historian. Using cards, you will make hypothesis about the nationality and sex of the mind who came up with some important discoveries, as well as the year when were made. You may use skills cards to investigate those facts you don't know. Will you become the best because of your knowledge and skills? Or you will reach the top by plagiarizing?

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Dogo Dash

Talita Rhein, Johanna Janiszewsky, and Margherita Barrera

89th Place

Score 4.2632

Dogo Dash is a fun and very colorful card game for 2 to 5 players of all ages. It has Rock Paper Scissors mechanics, but with some furry twists. The art is catchy and remarkable. You only need 10 minutes and a lot of interactions to play the game. The setup is easy: each player has a 4-card hand and all players show one at the same time to play in the round. The strongest card wins. For the final version, each card will have an exclusive illustration (a deck has 60 cards).

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The Mannequin

Sarah Trice

90th Place

Score 4.2222

The Mannequin is a competition to get your designs in the front store window. Players will buy and sell clothes in order to make their designs a reality. This game mixes the modern day party game feel, simultaneous voting, and drafting games with the old "May I?" or "Buy" mechanic that I've only really seen in Rummy card games.

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Dreadnought Defense

Zac Misener

91st Place

Score 4.2000

Dreadnought Defense is a co-operative, drafting, deck building game about fending off an alien invasion. Over the course of the game you'll need to improve your base and fleet, fend off alien attacks, overcome malfunctions and sabotage, and take down the alien flagship, the Dreadnought.

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Tournament of Dragons

Nathaniel Ogborne

92nd Place

Score 4.1333

Choose, train, and battle dragons to become the champion of the tournament! Tournament of Dragons is a 2-6 player, age 8+, 30-45 minute dice battling game that is played over 4 phases. Players will choose three unique dragons, upgrade them, and win special abilities to emerge victorious from the final battle at the end. But which dragon do you make the most powerful, and to which do you give the special abilities to? Your decisions will determine if you will be champion of the tournament!

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Super Trivia Bowl

Christopher Lynch & Eugene Gagliardi

93rd Place

Score 4.1250

SUPER TRIVIA BOWL INTRODUCING THE MOST UNIQUE TRIVIA BOARD GAME TO COME ALONG IN MANY YEARS. WITH THIS UNIQUE DESIGN ANY LEVEL OF TRIVIA KNOWLEDGE CAN COMPETE ON A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD. ALLOWING FOR A MUCH MORE ENJOYABLE EXPERIENCE FOR EVERYONE. LET ME INTRODUCE SUPER TRIVIA BOWL. SUPER TRIVIA BOWL IS A FOOTBALL TRIVIA BOARD GAME. SUPER TRIVIA BOWL HAS ALL THE NUANCES OF A PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL GAME. THE PLAYBOOK CONSIST OF KICK OFFS, RUN PLAYS, PASS PLAYS, PUNTS, FIELD GOALS AND TRICK PLAYS.

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Ship Race !

Yuta Yamada

94th Place

Score 3.9333

I designed ShipRace when was 8-years old. It’s a new type of family game, where you play board game with cards. The goal is to advance your ship on the board with sail cards, and the ship that gets to the Treasure Island first wins! But not so fast! Things can happen on your way. You can make things happen with Attack cards, defend yourself with Save cards, or bounce back with Proof cards with ShipRace bonus. There are also fun rules like Friend or Foe, and Mayday to get even more actions!

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Apocalypse Prepers

Kazimar Guenther

95th Place

Score 3.7333

You have seen the signs. The world is coming to an end in 15 days and you need to prepare for this upcoming apocalypse. Unfortunately, your neighbors have also predicted the world's end and are also preparing themselves. You cannot lose this resource war to them! Each player must build your base's engine to generate resources. Destroy your opponent's base to ruin their strategy. Prepare for the for whatever apocalypse comes at you.

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Adventurer's Life

Zac Misener

96th Place

Score 3.6000

Adventurer's Life is a keyword matching game where you must balance improving your character with advancing quests to towards victory and keeping rested so you can get the most out of each turn.

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Pugno

Deacon Gibbs

97th Place

Score 3.2667

Pugno is a combination of Secrecy, Preparation, Planning, and War. Players pieces start veiled, and as the game progresses your opponent slowly discovers your strategy. Each unit has specific and unique abilities, but be careful... to use an ability you must reveal them to the ENEMY! Once all pieces are revealed, you LOSE!

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