Awesome List Updates on Oct 09 - Oct 15, 2023
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1. Awesome Webaudio
Packages / Libraries
- html-midi-player (⭐646) - HTML elements for easy MIDI playback and visualization, without the need to write any custom JS code, but scriptable and stylable as needed.
2. Awesome List
Security
- Prompt Injection (⭐153) - A type of vulnerability that specifically targets machine learning models.
Miscellaneous
- Biological Image Analysis (⭐108) - Interpreting biological phenomena using images.
- HPC (⭐82) - High Performance Computing.
3. Awesome Vue
Components & Libraries / UI Components
- vue-surf (⭐24) - A very customized animated svg wave Vue component. Online Demo
- vue-cool-box-selector (⭐11) - Fancy versatile, box / button / image selector for Vue 2 and 3 🪄✨ ~1KB
- vue-stage-play (⭐33) - Step-by-step guided tour components for Vue3.
4. Awesome Mongodb
Libraries / JavaScript
- Neuledge (⭐237) - Universal schema-based ORM with multi-state representation for entities
5. Webcomponents the Right Way
Components
<active-table>
- Editable table web component.
<deep-chat>
- Web component for chat with AI capabilities.
6. Awesome Opentofu
Official
Community
Features
Media / Helpers
Podcasts / Helpers
7. Ai Collection
Art & Image Generator
Name: Illusion Diffusion
Title: Illusion Diffusion 🌀 Create your own AI art illusions for Free Online.
Description: Transform your creative ideas into captivating visuals using our cutting-edge Illusion Diffusion AI image generation tool. Unlock endless possibilities today.
Offer Free Version: ✅
Name: Niji Journey
Title: Niji Journey - Let's make magic anime pictures!.
Description: Welcome to niji・journey, a state-of-the-art AI that draws custom anime illustrations, just for you! A magical collaboration, designed together between brilliant minds at Spellbrush & Midjourney. Whether you’re looking for a cute chibi character or a dynamic action scene, niji・journey can bring your vision to life. We can’t wait to see what you create!.
Offer Free Version: ✅
Name: NSFW Art Generator AI
Title: You can generate quality NSFW AI images with total ease.
Description: With our NSFW AI Generator. You can generate quality NSFW AI images with total ease. The tool allows users to explore and create AI images, including real, anime, hyperreal and fantasy options.
Offer Free Version: ❔
Name: This campsite does not exist
Title: This Campsite Does Not Exist - 100% AI Generated Campsites 🤖.
Description: AI generated campsites featuring stunning locations, tents, and weather all created by AI using stable diffusion. 100% AI generated campsites using Stable Diffusion. New campsites are added every hour which can be viewed on the new page. Click upvote on any campsite if you like it, view most upvoted campsites on the top page.
Offer Free Version: ❔
Chat Bot
Name: AChatsimple
Title: ChatGPT Business Chatbot Made Simple for you.
Description: ChatSimple is a platform that specializes in creating conversion-oriented chatbots for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in just 5 minutes. The platform focuses on three key functionalities: lead generation, FAQ management, and prequalification question handling. By enabling SMBs to build their own chatbots with domain-specific expertise,.
Offer Free Version: ✅
Name: Beam
Title: Beam - the most efficient ChatGPT UI for macOS.
Description: Like the launcher app, Beam provides a floating chat window you can open with a single keyboard shortcut and chat with the model without leaving your current window. Switch GPT models and personas, use pre-made templates, interact with any app on your Mac, and many other features are all available in one click!.
Offer Free Version: ✅
Name: Muah AI
Title: Muah AI - Hardcore Uncensored AI Girlfriend.
Description: Muah.ai lets you engage in AI-powered companion NSFW chat, exchange photos, and even have voice chats. Some of Muah AI’s key features include an uncensored chat, photo exchange (ability to receive and send photos), voice interaction, real-time phone call (over live phone call), photo X Ray, and even 4K photo enhance.
Offer Free Version: ✅
Name: SiteSpeakAI
Title: Automate your customer support with ChatGPT.
Description: Create a custom trained AI support chatbot using your own content, support docs, PDF's, API or database. Then add it to your website with a single line of code to respond to your visitors questions in real-time and reduce your support tickets.
Offer Free Version: ✅
Code & Database Assistant
Name: Scale
Title: Scale Ai: Power Generative AI With Your Data.
Description: Trusted by world class companies, Scale delivers high quality training data for AI applications such as self-driving cars, mapping, AR/VR, robotics, and more. Make the best models with the best data. Scale Data Engine leverages your enterprise data, and with Scale Generative AI Platform, safely unlocks the value of AI.
Offer Free Version: ❔
Customer Support
Name: ChatFlow
Title: Unlock the Power of ChatGPT for Your Website.
Description: Create AI-powered chatbots to engage your customers, increase conversions, and boost revenue. Perfect for SaaS, E-commerce or any online business.
Offer Free Version: ✅
Gift Ideas
Name: GiftList Genie: AI-Powered Gift Ideas Generator
Title: GiftList Genie: AI-Powered Gift Ideas Generator.
Description: Genie is an AI-powered gift ideas generator which provides thoughtful and relevant gift ideas along with top-rated products from 1,000s of retailers. Products have aggregated ratings, real-time pricing, and links to buy. Genie is free to use and does not require sign up, however if you do have a GiftList account, you can add items directly to your gift lists from Genie.
Offer Free Version: ✅
Legal
Name: Compliance Quarter
Title: Expert Compliance Systems and Resources - Compliance Quarter.
Description: Regulatory compliance management system and expertise for energy, financial services and other regulated industries. We offer expert systems and services to take regulatory burden off your shoulders.
Offer Free Version: ❔
Meeting Assistant
Name: Wudpecker
Title: Wudpecker is an AI meeting tool that sets the new default for storing meeting knowledge. Get summaries, action items, and insights from your Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams meetings.
Description: - Offers chatGPT-powered summaries and transcripts, making it easy to review meetings and find important insights quickly. - Supports 100+ languages - Recognizes different speakers and languages in the same meeting. - Allows users to easily share recordings, making it easy to collaborate - User-friendly and easy to onboard.
Offer Free Version: ✅
Organization & Automation
Name: Looti
Title: Hyperqualified leads to supercharge your growth.
Description: Generate B2B leads in a few clicks thanks to AI - Turn your leads into revenue - Already 10 000+ generated leads with hypergrowing companies.
Offer Free Version: ❔
Productivity & Personal Growth
Name: Podwise
Title: Podwise, The premier AI learning app for podcast listeners.
Description: With Podwise, you can learn from structured knowledge and selectively listen to chapters that pique your interest. This feature enables you to optimize your learning experience and focus on the content that matters most to you.
Offer Free Version: ✅
Sales & Marketing
Name: Ampifire
Title: Organic Traffic Done For You With Content & Brand Amplification Enhanced by A.I.
Description: Get more organic targeted buyer traffic from the biggest and best traffic source in the world so more people buy your stuff. The AmpiFire Method to grow your brand works in 3 steps: 1. Create 2. Repurpose 3. Distribute: which improves your brand presence & reputation online and increases conversions across all your traffic sources.
Offer Free Version: ❔
Speech
Name: SpeechGen.io
Title: With 150 text-to-speech languages and numerous accent options, Speechgen.io ensures a wide range of choices for users, catering to global and multicultural audiences.
Description: Transform text into realistic speech for various applications. Perfect for video makers, educators, and marketers. Offers a wide range of voices, languages, and accents. Customize voice settings including speed, pitch, and emphasis. Ideal for creating voiceovers, e-learning materials, and advertising. A versatile and comprehensive text-to-speech solution.
Offer Free Version: ✅
Writing Assistant
Name: AssignmentGPT AI
Title: AssignmentGPT AI is a revolutionary new writer tool website that provides users with a powerful AI-powered writing assistant Craft outstanding assignments, essays, blogs, lesson plans.
Description: AssignmentGPT AI - Writing Assistant Features Unlock the power of AI to get precise answers to your questions. Ideal for students, professionals, and anyone in need of quick, reliable information. Stuck on a tough assignment? Get step-by-step solutions across various subjects. Make homework less stressful and more educational.
Offer Free Version: ✅
8. Awesome Bash
Shell Script Development
- bats (⭐4.8k) - Bash Automated Testing System.
- bunit (⭐196) - A unit testing framework for Bash scripts.
- modernish (⭐739) - Library with various features for shell scripting.
9. Awesome Mac
Utilities / Productivity
- MindMac - Feature-rich & privacy-first native ChatGPT app to use OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, OpenRouter all in one place.
Utilities / Finder Tools
- Default Folder X - Quick access to your files and folders in every app.
10. Awesome Generative Deep Art
Autonomous LLM Agents / Prompt Engineering for Text-to-image
- Conceptual Framework for Autonomous Cognitive Entities: a paper that "introduces the Autonomous Cognitive Entity (ACE) model, a novel framework for a cognitive architecture, enabling machines and software agents to operate more independently"
- Mindstorms in Natural Language-Based Societies of Mind: a paper that evaluates the natural language-based societies of mind (NLSOMs), leveraging mindstorms in them to solve some practical AI tasks
- AutoGen | Microsoft: multi-agent conversation framework as a high-level abstraction by Microsoft [github (⭐30k)]
Autonomous LLM Agents / Multi-agents
- OpenBMB/ChatDev (⭐25k): create customized software using natural language idea (through llm-powered multi-agent collaboration)
11. Awesome Zsh Plugins
Plugins / superconsole - Windows-only
- php-version-switcher (⭐1) - Changes php versions if a
.php-version
file is found.
- zautoload (⭐4) - Autoloader for ZSH config files.
Completions / superconsole - Windows-only
- git-recent-branches (⭐1) - Makes it easy to check view and checkout recently checked-out branches.
- ngrok (⭐1) - Auto-loads ngrok and its completions into the shell.
Themes / superconsole - Windows-only
- skiff (⭐0) - Lightweight ZSH theme with
git
status and current directory decorators.
12. Awesome Webxr
Communities / LinkedIn
- WebXR - WebXR LinkedIn Group
Content Hubs / Reddit
- PICO Browser Start Page - The default start page for PICO Browser.
- Wolvic Start Page - The default start page for the Wolvic browser.
13. Awesome Connectivity Info
Periodic Global Connectivity Reports
14. Awesome Db Tools
Monitoring/Statistics/Perfomance / Samples
- Metis - Metis provides observability and performance tuning for SQL databases.
15. Awesome Azure Openai Llm
The Problem with RAG
- The Problem with RAG
- A question is not semantically similar to its answers. Cosine similarity may favor semantically similar texts that do not contain the answer.
- Semantic similarity gets diluted if the document is too long. Cosine similarity may favor short documents with only the relevant information.
- The information needs to be contained in one or a few documents. Information that requires aggregations by scanning the whole data.
Vector Database Comparison / Vector Database Options for Azure
- azure-vector-db-python\vector-db-in-azure-native.ipynb: sample code for vector databases in azure
Semantic Kernel / Semantic Function
- Semantic Function - expressed in natural language in a text file "skprompt.txt" using SK's Prompt Template language (⭐21k). Each semantic function is defined by a unique prompt template file, developed using modern prompt engineering techniques. cite (⭐21k)
Semantic Kernel / Semantic Kernel Glossary
Glossary in Git (⭐21k) / Glossary in MS Doc
Term Short Description ASK A user's goal is sent to SK as an ASK Kernel The kernel orchestrates a user's ASK Planner The planner breaks it down into steps based upon resources that are available Resources Planning involves leveraging available skills, memories, and connectors Steps A plan is a series of steps for the kernel to execute Pipeline Executing the steps results in fulfilling the user's ASK
Prompt Guide & Leaked prompts / Prompt Template Language
Survey on Large Language Models / GPT series release date
- Picked out the list by [cited by count] and used [survey] as a search keyword. The papers on a specific topic are included even if few [cited by count].
16. Mind Expanding Books
Education
Name: Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life
Author: Jim Kwik
Goodreads Rating: 4.09
Year Published: 2020
Health / Miscellaneous
Name: Brain Food: The Surprising Science of Eating for Cognitive Power
Author: Lisa Mosconi
Goodreads Rating: 3.92
Year Published: 2018
Name: Super Human: The Bulletproof Plan to Age Backward and Maybe Even Live Forever
Author: Dave Asprey
Goodreads Rating: 3.86
Year Published: 2019
17. Awesome Board Games
Family
The Crew: Mission Deep Sea
In the trick-taking card game The Crew: Mission Deep Sea, you and the other players work together to search for the lost continent of Mu. This new adventure takes your crew deep down into the abyss on a search for the fabled sunken land. How far you get depends entirely on how well you work together as a team. Card by card, trick by trick, your search party will discover the challenges that lie ahead and forge a path to Mu.
This new version of The Crew has the same innovative co-operative trick-taking mechanism as the highly lauded original game — but with some exciting new surprises! While communication between your crew members is severely limited by your submerged state, it is also critical to your success; finding the hidden land in the murky depths depends not only on winning tricks, but also on carefully negotiating the order in which they are won. If things don't go as planned, you might just be able to salvage the operation, but it will take near flawless execution and perhaps a little luck to finally reach Mu.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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2 - 5 | 10 | 20m |
That's Pretty Clever
Choose your dice cleverly in Ganz schön clever (German for "That's Pretty Clever") to enter them into the matching colored areas on your score sheet, putting together tricky chain-scoring opportunities, and racking up the points! The dice you don't use are as important as those you do, because every die with a lower value than the chosen one can be used by the other players, keeping everyone in the game at all times.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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1 – 4 | 8 | 30m |
Wingspan
Wingspan is a competitive, medium-weight, card-driven, engine-building board game from Stonemaier Games. It's designed by Elizabeth Hargrave and features over 170 birds illustrated by Beth Sobel, Natalia Rojas, and Ana Maria Martinez.
You are bird enthusiasts—researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, and collectors—seeking to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves. Each bird extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your habitats (actions). These habitats focus on several key aspects of growth:
- Gain food tokens via custom dice in a birdfeeder dice tower
- Lay eggs using egg miniatures in a variety of colors
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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1 - 5 | 10 | 40-70m |
Clank!: Catacombs
The catacombs of the skeletal dragon Umbrok Vessna are mysterious and dangerous. Portals transport you all around the dungeon depths. Wayshrines offer vast riches to intrepid explorers. Prisoners are counting on you to free them. Ghosts, once disturbed, may haunt you to death. Despite all that, it's time to leave the board behind with Clank! Catacombs, a standalone deck-building adventure.
Each trip into the catacombs is unique since you lay tiles to create the dungeon. You can play using only the all-new dungeon deck, or you can include cards from previous Clank! expansions.
Find your fortune (and escape the dragon!) in Clank! Catacombs.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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2 – 4 | 13 | 45–90m |
Lost Ruins of Arnak
On an uninhabited island in uncharted seas, explorers have found traces of a great civilization. Now you will lead an expedition to explore the island, find lost artifacts, and face fearsome guardians, all in a quest to learn the island's secrets.
Lost Ruins of Arnak combines deck-building and worker placement in a game of exploration, resource management, and discovery. In addition to traditional deck-builder effects, cards can also be used to place workers, and new worker actions become available as players explore the island. Some of these actions require resources instead of workers, so building a solid resource base will be essential. You are limited to only one action per turn, so make your choice carefully... what action will benefit you most now? And what can you afford to do later... assuming someone else doesn't take the action first!?
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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1 - 4 | 12 | 30-120 |
Istanbul
There's hustle and bustle at Istanbul's grand bazaar as merchants and their assistants rush through the narrow alleys in their attempt to be more successful than their competitors. Everything must be well organized: wheelbarrows must be filled with goods at the warehouses, then swiftly transported by the assistants to various destinations. Your goal? Be the first merchant to collect a certain number of rubies.
In Istanbul, you lead a group of one merchant and four assistants through 16 locations in the bazaar. At each such location, you can carry out a specific action. The challenge, though, is that to take an action, you must move your merchant and an assistant there, then leave the assistant behind (to handle all the details while you focus on larger matters). If you want to use that assistant again later, your merchant must return to that location to pick him up. Thus, you must plan ahead carefully to avoid being left with no assistants and thus unable to do anything...
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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2 – 5 | 10 | 40–60m |
Everdell
Within the charming valley of Everdell, beneath the boughs of towering trees, among meandering streams and mossy hollows, a civilization of forest critters is thriving and expanding. From Everfrost to Bellsong, many a year have come and gone, but the time has come for new territories to be settled and new cities established. You will be the leader of a group of critters intent on just such a task. There are buildings to construct, lively characters to meet, events to host—you have a busy year ahead of yourself. Will the sun shine brightest on your city before the winter moon rises?
Everdell is a game of dynamic tableau building and worker placement.
On their turn a player can take one of three actions:
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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1 - 4 | 13 | 40-80m |
Crokinole
Crokinole is a traditional dexterity game.
Crokinole is played on a circular wooden board, with wooden circular disks as playing pieces. Players take turns shooting disks across the circular wooden board by flicking the disks with their fingers. Players try to land their disks in scoring regions on the board, with the highest scoring area the recessed hole in the very center of the board. Each round, each player/side alternately shoots a set number of disks (usually 12 or 8), shooting one disk each turn.
As a traditional game, there are often many variations played, but the following method is based on the National Crokinole Association's rules which also govern the World Crokinole Championship.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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2 - 4 | 8 | 30m |
Welcome To
As an architect in Welcome To..., you want to build the best new town in the United States of the 1950s by adding resources to a pool, hiring employees, and more.
Welcome To... plays like a roll-and-write dice game in which you mark results on a score-sheet...but without dice. Instead you flip cards from three piles to make three different action sets with both a house number and a corresponding action from which everyone chooses one. You use the number to fill in a house on your street in numerical order. Then you take the action to increase the point value of estates you build or score points at the end for building parks and pools. Players also have the option of taking actions to alter or duplicate their house numbers. And everyone is racing to be the first to complete public goals. There's lots to do and many paths to becoming the best suburban architect in !
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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1 – 100 | 10 | 25m |
Cascadia
Cascadia is a puzzly tile-laying and token-drafting game featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest.
In the game, you take turns building out your own terrain area and populating it with wildlife. You start with three hexagonal habitat tiles (with the five types of habitat in the game), and on a turn you choose a new habitat tile that's paired with a wildlife token, then place that tile next to your other ones and place the wildlife token on an appropriate habitat. (Each tile depicts 1-3 types of wildlife from the five types in the game, and you can place at most one tile on a habitat.) Four tiles are on display, with each tile being paired at random with a wildlife token, so you must make the best of what's available — unless you have a nature token to spend so that you can pick your choice of each item.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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1 - 4 | 10 | 30-45m |
Heat: Pedal to the Metal
Based on simple and intuitive hand management, Heat: Pedal to the Metal puts players in the driver's seat of intense car races, jockeying for position to cross the finish line first, while managing their car's speed if they don't want to overheat. Selecting the right upgrades for their car will help them hug the curves and keep their engine cool enough to maintain top speeds. Ultimately, their driving skills will be the key to victory!
Drivers can compete in a single race or use the "Championship System" to play a whole season in one game night, customizing their car before each race to claim the top spot of the podium. They have to be careful as the weather, road conditions, and events will change every race to spice up their championship. Players can also enjoy a solo mode with the Legends Module or add automated drivers as additional opponents in multiplayer games.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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1 - 6 | 10 | 30-60m |
The Quest for El Dorado
In The Quest for El Dorado, players take the roles of expedition leaders who have embarked on a search for the legendary land of gold in the dense jungles of South America. Each player assembles and equips their own team, hiring various helpers from the scout to the scientist to the aborigine. All of them have one goal in mind: Reaching the golden border first and winning all of the riches for themselves. Whoever chooses the best tactics will be rewarded!
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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2 - 4 | 10 | 30-60m |
The Quacks of Quedlinburg
In The Quacks of Quedlinburg, players are charlatans — or quack doctors — each making their own secret brew by adding ingredients one at a time. Take care with what you add, though, for a pinch too much of this or that will spoil the whole mixture!
Each player has their own bag of ingredient chips. During each round, they simultaneously draw chips from their bags and add them to their pots. The higher the face value of the drawn chip, the further it is placed in the pot's swirling pattern, increasing how much the potion will be worth. Push your luck as far as you can, but if you add too many cherry bombs, your pot will explode!
At the end of each round, players gain victory points and coins to spend on new ingredients, depending on how well they managed to fill up their pots. But players whose pots have exploded must choose points or coins — not both! The player with the most victory points at the end of nine rounds wins the game.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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2 - 4 | 10 | 45m |
SCOUT
SCOUT is a ladder-climbing game in which cards have two potential values, players may not rearrange their hand of cards, and players may pass their turn to take a card from the current high set of cards into their hand.
More specifically, cards are dual-indexed, with different values on each half of the card, with the 45 cards having all possible combinations of the numbers 1-10. During set-up, whoever is shuffling the cards should randomize both the order of the cards in the deck and their orientation. Once each player has been dealt their entire hand of cards, they pick up that hand without rearranging any of the cards; if they wish, they can rotate their entire hand of cards in order to use the values on the other end of each card, but again they cannot rearrange the order of cards in their hand.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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2 - 5 | 9 | 15m |
Splendor Duel
Confront your rival guild in a race for victory. Take Gem and Pearl tokens from the common board, then purchase cards, gather bonuses, royal favours, and prestige.
Discover new twists and strategic opportunities derived from Splendor, the original best-selling game. Acquire cards with impressive powers, take advantage of special Privileges, and fight over scarce access to Pearls.
Splendor Duel is a two-player only standalone game based on Splendor that retains some of the main gameplay mechanisms of that design, while being a bit more complex, dynamic, interactive, rich, tense, and mean.
The game features a main board shared by both opponents, card powers, and three victory conditions.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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2 | 10 | 30-60m |
Azul
Introduced by the Moors, azulejos (originally white and blue ceramic tiles) were fully embraced by the Portuguese when their king Manuel I, on a visit to the Alhambra palace in Southern Spain, was mesmerized by the stunning beauty of the Moorish decorative tiles. The king, awestruck by the interior beauty of the Alhambra, immediately ordered that his own palace in Portugal be decorated with similar wall tiles. As a tile-laying artist, you have been challenged to embellish the walls of the Royal Palace of Evora.
In the game Azul, players take turns drafting colored tiles from suppliers to their player board. Later in the round, players score points based on how they've placed their tiles to decorate the palace. Extra points are scored for specific patterns and completing sets; wasted supplies harm the player's score. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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2 - 4 | 8 | 30-45m |
Azul: Summer Pavilion
At the turn of the 16th Century, King Manuel I commissioned Portugal's greatest artisans to construct grandiose buildings. After completing the Palaces of Evora and Sintra, the king sought to build a summer pavilion to honor the most famous members of the royal family. This construction was intended for the most talented artisans — whose skills meet the splendor that the royal family deserves. Sadly, King Manuel I died before construction ever began.
In Azul: Summer Pavilion, players return to Portugal to accomplish the task that never began. As a master artisan, you must use the finest materials to create the summer pavilion while carefully avoiding wasting supplies. Only the best will rise to the challenge to honor the Portuguese royal family.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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2 – 4 | 8 | 30–45m |
Patchwork
In Patchwork, two players compete to build the most aesthetic (and high-scoring) patchwork quilt on a personal 9x9 game board. To start play, lay out all of the patches at random in a circle and place a marker directly clockwise of the 2-1 patch. Each player takes five buttons — the currency/points in the game — and someone is chosen as the start player.
On a turn, a player either purchases one of the three patches standing clockwise of the spool or passes. To purchase a patch, you pay the cost in buttons shown on the patch, move the spool to that patch's location in the circle, add the patch to your game board, then advance your time token on the time track a number of spaces equal to the time shown on the patch. You're free to place the patch anywhere on your board that doesn't overlap other patches, but you probably want to fit things together as tightly as possible. If your time token is behind or on top of the other player's time token, then you take another turn; otherwise the opponent now goes. Instead of purchasing a patch, you can choose to pass; to do this, you move your time token to the space immediately in front of the opponent's time token, then take one button from the bank for each space you moved.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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2 | 8 | 15-30m |
Cartographers
Queen Gimnax has ordered the reclamation of the northern lands. As a cartographer in her service, you are sent to map this territory, claiming it for the Kingdom of Nalos. Through official edicts, the queen announces which lands she prizes most, and you will increase your reputation by meeting her demands. But you are not alone in this wilderness. The Dragul contest your claims with their outposts, so you must draw your lines carefully to reduce their influence. Reclaim the greatest share of the queen’s desired lands and you will be declared the greatest cartographer in the kingdom.
In Cartographers: A Roll Player Tale, players compete to earn the most reputation stars by the time four seasons have passed. Each season, players draw on their map sheets and earn reputation by carrying out the queen's edicts before the season is over. The player with the most reputation stars at the end of winter wins!
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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1 - 100 | 10 | 30-45m |
Welcome to the Moon
You've built housing for humanity in neighborhoods and New Las Vegas. Now you need to save humanity through space colonization...
Welcome to the Moon uses the same flip-and-write game mechanisms as the earlier title Welcome To..., but now you can play in a campaign across eight adventure sheets. On a turn, you flip cards from three stacks to create three different combinations of a starship number and a corresponding action, then all players choose one of these three combinations. You use the number to fill a space in a zone on your adventure sheet in numerical order, and everyone is racing to be the first to complete common missions.
The eight adventure sheets feature very different mechanisms from the classic concept, and when you play in campaign mode, you'll make choices that change the next adventure, which means that each campaign will differ from the previous one.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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1 - 6 | 10 | 25-30m |
Wingspan Asia
In this third expansion to Wingspan, we welcome new species to our habitats by exploring the vibrant, intriguing, and magnificent birds of Asia. These birds were chosen from the over 2,800 species that live in Asia. Wingspan Asia is several different things: A stand-alone game for 1 player or 2 players (Duet mode that can be used with any bird/bonus cards), a card expansion to the original Wingspan (any bird/bonus cards across any Wingspan game or expansion can be combined), and a 6-7 player expansion via the new Flock mode (for which the player components from the core game are necessary). —description from the publisher
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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1 - 2 | 10 | 40-70m |
The Isle of Cats
The Isle of Cats is a competitive, medium-weight, card-drafting, polyomino cat-placement board game for 1-4 players (6 with expansions).
In the game, you are citizens of Squalls End on a rescue mission to The Isle of Cats and must rescue as many cats as possible before the evil Lord Vesh arrives. Each cat is represented by a unique tile and belongs to a family, you must find a way to make them all fit on your boat while keeping families together. You will also need to manage resources as you:
- Explore the island (by drafting cards)
- Rescue cats
- Find treasures
- Befriend Oshax
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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1 - 4 | 8 | 60-90m |
Strategy
Blood Rage
"Life is Battle; Battle is Glory; Glory is ALL" In Blood Rage, each player controls their own Viking clan’s warriors, leader, and ship. Ragnarök has come, and it’s the end of the world! It’s the Vikings’ last chance to go down in a blaze of glory and secure their place in Valhalla at Odin’s side! For a Viking there are many pathways to glory. You can invade and pillage the land for its rewards, crush your opponents in epic battles, fulfill quests, increase your clan's stats, or even die gloriously either in battle or from Ragnarök, the ultimate inescapable doom. Most player strategies are guided by the cards drafted at the beginning of each of the three game rounds (or Ages). These “Gods’ Gifts” grant you numerous boons for your clan including: increased Viking strength and devious battle strategies, upgrades to your clan, or even the aid of legendary creatures from Norse mythology. They may also include various quests, from dominating specific provinces, to having lots of your Vikings sent to Valhalla. Most of these cards are aligned with one of the Norse gods, hinting at the kind of strategy they support. For example, Thor gives more glory for victory in battle, Heimdall grants you foresight and surprises, Tyr strengthens you in battle, while the trickster Loki actually rewards you for losing battles, or punishes the winner.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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2–4 | 14 | 60–90 Min |
Puerto Rico
In Puerto Rico, players assume the roles of colonial governors on the island of Puerto Rico. The aim of the game is to amass victory points by shipping goods to Europe or by constructing buildings. Each player uses a separate small board with spaces for city buildings, plantations, and resources. Shared between the players are three ships, a trading house, and a supply of resources and doubloons. The resource cycle of the game is that players grow crops which they exchange for points or doubloons. Doubloons can then be used to buy buildings, which allow players to produce more crops or give them other abilities. Buildings and plantations do not work unless they are manned by colonists.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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3–5 | 12 | 90–150 Min |
Barrage
In the dystopic 1930s, the industrial revolution pushed the exploitation of fossil-based resources to the limit, and now the only thing powerful enough to quench the thirst for power of the massive machines and of the unstoppable engineering progress is the unlimited hydroelectric energy provided by the rivers. Barrage is a resource management strategic game in which players compete to build their majestic dams, raise them to increase their storing capacity, and deliver all the potential power through pressure tunnels connected to the energy turbines of their powerhouses. Each player represents one of the four international companies who are gathering machinery, innovative patents and brilliant engineers to claim the best locations to collect and exploit the water of a contested Alpine region crossed by rivers.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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1–4 | 14 | 60–120 Min |
Too Many Bones
Too Many Bones comes loaded for bear by breaking into a new genre: the dice-builder RPG. This game takes everything you think you know about dice-rolling and turns it on its head. Dripping with strategy, this fantasy-based RPG puts you in the skin of a new race and takes you on an adventure to the northern territories to root out and defeat growing enemy forces and of course the infamous "baddie" responsible. Team up or go it alone in a 1-4 player Coop or Solo play campaign. With over 100+ unique skill dice and 4-7 classes to choose from, every battle is its own mini challenge to figure out. Your adventure will consist of 8-12 battles before you reach your final destination and face off against one of a number of possible kingpins in order to win. Along the way, you will be faced with storyline decisions that will quickly have you weighing risk/reward, odds, and logic - with dice woven into every aspect! Your party will also be faced with other decisions: when to rest, when to explore, or even which fights to pursue! The Encounter cards offer fun plot twists and some comic relief, all while setting the stage for your next battle.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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1–4 | 12 | 60–120 Min |
Orléans
During the medieval goings-on around Orléans, you must assemble a following of farmers, merchants, knights, monks, etc. to gain supremacy through trade, construction and science in medieval France. In Orléans, you will recruit followers and put them to work to make use of their abilities. Farmers and Boatmen supply you with money and goods; Knights expand your scope of action and secure your mercantile expeditions; Craftsmen build trading stations and tools to facilitate work; Scholars make progress in science; Traders open up new locations for you to use your followers; and last but not least, it cannot hurt to get active in monasteries since with Monks on your side you are much less likely to fall prey to fate.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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2–4 | 12 | 90 Min |
Shogi
Shogi, also known as Game of Generals, is a Japanese board game similar to chess, played on a 9x9 grid with 20 pieces per player. The objective is to checkmate the opponent's king, but pieces can be promoted upon reaching the enemy's promotion zone. Shogi offers a dynamic and strategic gameplay experience with unique piece movements and captures. It is much more complex than international chess.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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2 | 8 | 30-120m |
Pandemic Legacy: Season 0
1962 — The Cold War continues as a new threat looms on the horizon, a deadly new Soviet bioweapon, something called "Project MEDUSA". You and your fellow medical graduates have been recruited by the CIA for the critical mission of investigating and preventing its development. Travel the world using carefully constructed aliases to move swiftly between Allied, Neutral, and Soviet cities. Your missions will require you to neutralize enemy agents, acquire specific targets, and set up other CIA agents on location to execute your operations without a hitch. As you complete objectives over the course of twelve months, each success or failure will bring you closer to the truth. Combatting this dangerous new pathogen is of utmost importance, but it's not the only threat you'll encounter in the field. Enemy agents are taking root in all parts of the world, and it's critical to your mission that you keep them contained before they can escalate international tensions. Luckily for you, you won't be without backup. Coordinate with other covert operatives for assistance and make strategic use of these teams at different locations to clean up the board and keep your eye on your main objectives.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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2–4 | 14 | 45–60 Min |
Agricola
Description from BoardgameNews In Agricola, you're a farmer in a wooden shack with your spouse and little else. On a turn, you get to take only two actions, one for you and one for the spouse, from all the possibilities you'll find on a farm: collecting clay, wood, or stone; building fences; and so on. You might think about having kids in order to get more work accomplished, but first you need to expand your house. And what are you going to feed all the little rugrats? The game supports many levels of complexity, mainly through the use (or non-use) of two of its main types of cards, Minor Improvements and Occupations. In the beginner's version (called the Family Variant in the U.S. release), these cards are not used at all. For advanced play, the U.S. release includes three levels of both types of cards; Basic (E-deck), Interactive (I-deck), and Complex (K-deck), and the rulebook encourages players to experiment with the various decks and mixtures thereof. Aftermarket decks such as the Z-Deck and the L-Deck also exist.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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1–5 | 12 | 30–150 Min |
Gaia Project
Gaia Project is a captivating board game, a spiritual successor to Terra Mystica. In this game, players take on the roles of fourteen distinct factions, each native to one of seven unique types of planets. To thrive and expand, these factions must terraform neighboring planets into their own habitats, all while competing with other groups for resources and space. Gaia planets serve as common grounds for colonization, and Transdimensional planets can be transformed into Gaia planets, creating additional layers of strategic complexity. All factions can enhance their skills across six key areas of development: Terraforming, Navigation, Artificial Intelligence, Gaiaforming, Economy, and Research, leading to advanced technology and unique bonuses. Each faction boasts its own set of skills and abilities, adding depth to the gameplay. The game board consists of ten sectors, offering a variable setup for enhanced replayability, making Gaia Project an engaging and strategic experience for players looking to explore the frontiers of interstellar colonization.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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1 - 4 | 12 | 60-150m |
Pax Pamir: Second Edition
In Pax Pamir, players assume the role of nineteenth century Afghan leaders attempting to forge a new state after the collapse of the Durrani Empire. Western histories often call this period "The Great Game" because of the role played by the Europeans who attempted to use central Asia as a theater for their own rivalries. In this game, those empires are viewed strictly from the perspective of the Afghans who sought to manipulate the interloping ferengi (foreigners) for their own purposes. In terms of game play, Pax Pamir is a pretty straightforward tableau builder. Players spend most of their turns purchasing cards from a central market, then playing those cards in front of them in a single row called a court. Playing cards adds units to the game's map and grants access to additional actions that can be taken to disrupt other players and influence the course of the game. That last point is worth emphasizing. Though everyone is building their own row of cards, the game offers many ways for players to interfere with each other directly and indirectly.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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1–5 | 13 | 45–120 Min |
Twilight Struggle
Twilight Struggle is a compelling two-player board game that encapsulates the forty-five-year geopolitical struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States, characterized by intrigue, prestige, and the occasional outbreak of warfare. Set against the backdrop of post-World War II Europe and spanning until 1989, the game delves into the complex dynamics of the Cold War. Players engage in a dance of influence, intelligence, and diplomatic maneuvering, representing the two superpowers' efforts to shape the world according to their ideologies. Based on the renowned card-driven game tradition, Twilight Struggle presents a low-complexity, quick-playing experience in which players use cards and units strategically on a world map to gain allies and control key regions. Historical events, from the Arab-Israeli conflicts to the Cuban Missile Crisis, are vividly portrayed through Event cards, and players must navigate nuclear tensions and the Space Race while avoiding the looming threat of nuclear war. Twilight Struggle offers an immersive journey through one of the most critical periods in modern history.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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2 | 13 | 120-180m |
Great Western Trails
America in the 19th century: You are a rancher and repeatedly herd your cattle from Texas to Kansas City, where you send them off by train. This earns you money and victory points. Needless to say, each time you arrive in Kansas City, you want to have your most valuable cattle in tow. However, the "Great Western Trail" not only requires that you keep your herd in good shape, but also that you wisely use the various buildings along the trail. Also, it might be a good idea to hire capable staff: cowboys to improve your herd, craftsmen to build your very own buildings, or engineers for the important railroad line
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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2 - 4 | 12 | 75-150m |
Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization
Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization is a strategic board game that combines elements of card drafting, civilization building, and resource management. In this digital implementation, players guide their civilizations through the ages, from antiquity to the modern era, focusing on advancements in technology, the construction of wonders, and the development of a strong military. Weaker aspects of a player's civilization can be exploited by opponents, making military strength a vital component. Victory is achieved by accumulating the most culture by the end of the modern age. With its deep gameplay and historical context, Through the Ages offers a challenging and immersive strategy experience for players aiming to build the most prosperous civilization.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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2 - 4 | 14 | 120m |
Kanban EV
Electric vehicles (EVs) have become more common since 2014 and are the future of the automobile industry. They are superior vehicles due to them being more efficient, easier to maintain, cleaner, and cheaper to run. They are computerized machines that use AI to improve safety and in the near future will provide autonomous driving. They receive software upgrades during their lifetime and are constantly improving, unlike their traditional combustion-engine counterparts, which start to become obsolete as soon as you start using them. You will be overseeing the production of these vehicles in Kanban EV, with "kanban" (看板) being the name for a scheduling system that supports an efficient assembly line, just-in-time production, and a smooth workflow process. Over the course of the game, players take on the role of rookie employees who are trying to secure their career. You need to manage suppliers and supplies, improve and innovate automobile parts, and get your hands greasy on the assembly line in order to boost production and impress the factory manager.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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1–4 | 14 | 60–180 Min |
The Castles of Burgundy
The Castles of Burgundy is an immersive board game set in the Burgundy region of High Medieval France. Players assume the roles of aristocrats seeking to expand their princedoms by building settlements, constructing formidable castles, engaging in river trade, exploiting silver mines, and harnessing the knowledge of travelers. The core gameplay revolves around selecting settlement tiles from the game board and placing them onto a personal player board, with each tile having a unique function. These tiles must be placed in regions that match their type. The game unfolds in five phases, each comprising five rounds. Players roll dice at the start of each round, with one player determining the availability of goods tiles. On their turns, players can perform two of four possible actions: taking settlement tiles from the game board, placing tiles on their player board, delivering goods, or obtaining worker tokens to adjust dice rolls. Bonus points are awarded for various accomplishments, and the game concludes after the fifth phase. Victory points are tallied, and the player with the most points emerges as the winner. With both basic and advanced rules, The Castles of Burgundy offers a deep and engaging gameplay experience, and it is part of the Alea big box series.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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2 - 4 | 12 | 30-90m |
Brass: Lancashire
Brass: Lancashire, formerly known as Brass, is an engaging economic strategy game that immerses players in the competitive world of cotton entrepreneurs during the industrial revolution in Lancashire. The objective is to develop, construct, and expand your industrial network to meet the high demand for iron, coal, and cotton. The game unfolds in two phases, the canal phase, and the rail phase, with victory points (VPs) being the ultimate goal. Players take turns, with each round offering two actions to choose from a set list, which includes building industries, constructing canals or rails, developing industries, selling cotton, or taking a loan. The turn order depends on the amount of money spent, creating strategic opportunities for those who go later in the order. After the canal phase, a scoring round occurs, followed by the rail phase with expanded building possibilities. After another scoring round, the game concludes, and the winner is determined. The game's unique card system dictates where industries can be built while allowing flexible use for other actions, encouraging strategic card management. Resources are shared, adding depth to competition, as players often rely on each other's production. This 2018 edition by Roxley Games features new artwork and rules enhancements, making it a captivating and improved experience for players aiming to build the most prosperous industrial empire in Lancashire.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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2 - 4 | 14 | 60-120m |
Eclipse: Second Dawn Galaxy
A game of Eclipse places you in control of a vast interstellar civilization, competing for success with its rivals. You explore new star systems, research technologies, and build spaceships with which to wage war. There are many potential paths to victory, so you need to plan your strategy according to the strengths and weaknesses of your species, while paying attention to the other civilizations' endeavors.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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2 - 6 | 14 | 60-200m |
Mage Knight Board Game
The Mage Knight board game puts you in control of one of four powerful Mage Knights as you explore (and conquer) a corner of the Mage Knight universe under the control of the Atlantean Empire. Build your army, fill your deck with powerful spells and actions, explore caves and dungeons, and eventually conquer powerful cities controlled by this once-great faction! In competitive scenarios, opposing players may be powerful allies, but only one will be able to claim the land as their own. In cooperative scenarios, the players win or lose as a group. Solo rules are also included. Combining elements of RPGs, deck-building, and traditional board games the Mage Knight board game captures the rich history of the Mage Knight universe in a self-contained gaming experience.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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1–4 | 14 | 60–240 Min |
Android: Netrunner
Android: Netrunner is a strategic asymmetrical Living Card Game for two players set in a cyberpunk future. One player represents a powerful megacorporation aiming to score agendas by advancing them, protected by a web of security ice programs, while the other player assumes the role of a lone hacker, or runner, attempting to infiltrate and disrupt the corporation's plans by acquiring resources, hardware, and ice-breaker programs. With a goal of reaching seven points, players face high-stakes risks, including brain damage and bad publicity, in their quest for victory in this futuristic battle for control and information.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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2 | 14 | 45m |
Underwater Cities
In Underwater Cities, which takes about 30-45 minutes per player, players represent the most powerful brains in the world, brains nominated due to the overpopulation of Earth to establish the best and most livable underwater areas possible. The main principle of the game is card placement. Three colored cards are placed along the edge of the main board into 3 x 5 slots, which are also colored. Ideally players can place cards into slots of the same color. Then they can take both actions and advantages: the action depicted in the slot on the main board and also the advantage of the card. Actions and advantages can allow players to intake raw materials; to build and upgrade city domes, tunnels and production buildings such as farms, desalination devices and laboratories in their personal underwater area; to move their marker on the initiative track (which is important for player order in the next turn); to activate the player's "A-cards"; and to collect cards, both special ones and basic ones that allow for better decision possibilities during gameplay.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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1–4 | 12 | 80–150 Min |
Agon | Queen Guard | Royal Guard
Queen's Guard, also known as Agon, is a strategic board game played on a hexagonal board consisting of 91 smaller hexagons, with a central hexagon known as the throne. The board features alternating colors of hexagons in rings, radiating from the throne. Each player has one queen piece and six guard pieces, which start in alternating positions along the outer ring of the board. Players take turns moving their pieces towards the center of the board, either forward or laterally. A player's piece can be captured by an opponent if it is surrounded on two sides in a straight line, and the captured piece must then be relocated to the outer ring. To win the game, a player must successfully maneuver their queen onto the throne while also surrounding it with all six of their guard pieces. Queen's Guard is a strategic game that requires careful planning and tactical thinking to achieve victory.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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2 | 9 | 30m |
Field of Fire
Fields of Fire is a solitaire tactical wargame published by GMT Games, designed to simulate historical campaigns from World War II to the present day. The game revolves around a card-based system, employing two decks—the terrain deck and action decks. Players are tasked with constructing maps for various missions within a historical campaign, employing turn-based strategic actions to achieve their objectives. A single game comprises several missions, each lasting approximately 3 to 5 hours. Fields of Fire has received recognition for its excellence, including Games Magazine's award for Best New Historical Simulation Game in their 2010 Games 100 issue. It offers a deep and immersive strategic experience for players interested in historical warfare simulations.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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1 | 12 | 60-300m |
Ambush!
Ambush! is a strategy board game developed by Avalon Hill, known for its innovative approach to single-player gameplay in the wargaming genre. Released in 1983, it broke away from the traditional requirement of two players by allowing a solo player to engage in man-to-man combat scenarios. What made Ambush! unique was its use of tables, charts, and a "paragraph book" to control the opponent's actions, eliminating the need for an opposing player. This approach kept the enemy hidden until they became visible through gameplay, enhancing the element of surprise and realism. While it allowed for multiple players to participate by controlling different squads or soldiers, the complexity of scenario creation often required players to purchase expansion modules. Ambush! is a strategy game that offers an engaging and challenging experience for players seeking tactical warfare simulations.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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1 | 12 | 180-240m |
Brass: Birmingham
Brass: Birmingham is an intricate economic strategy game, serving as the sequel to Martin Wallace's classic Brass, and it immerses players in the dynamic world of Birmingham during the industrial revolution, spanning the years 1770-1870. In this game, players compete as entrepreneurs, striving to build, develop, and expand their industries and networks to capitalize on the shifting demands of the market. Actions in each round include building industries, expanding networks, developing industry value, selling goods through a new trader system, and even taking loans when necessary. The game unfolds in two eras, the canal era and the rail era, with the goal of accumulating the most victory points. Birmingham introduces strategic complexity with the addition of breweries, a range of manufactured goods, and pottery industries, along with a modified market for coal and iron. This sequel offers a fresh, captivating narrative and gameplay experience while retaining the essence of its predecessor, Brass.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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2 - 4 | 14 | 60-120m |
Power Grid
Is an economic and resource management board game that simulates the energy industry. Players take on the role of power company executives, competing to expand their power networks, purchase resources, and supply electricity to cities. The game is noted for its auctions, as players bid for power plants and resources, making strategic decisions about when and where to expand their networks. Success in Power Grid requires careful financial planning and a keen understanding of market dynamics.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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2 - 6 | 12 | 120m |
Blue and Gray
In Blue and Gray, each player begins with 17 guards and one captain set up on the line intersections of a 9 × 9 grid board. The object of the game is to advance the captain to the center of the board following an outlined path of 17 steps. However, the captain can only advance if the next step along the path is unoccupied by friendly or opposing guards. Guards can move along lines in any direction (except over the central point) and can capture each other by jumping, as in checkers.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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2 | 8 | 20m |
Party
On Mars
Following the success of unmanned rover missions, the United Nations established the Department of Operations and Mars Exploration (D.O.M.E.). The first settlers arrived on Mars in the year 2037 and in the decades after establishment Mars Base Camp, private exploration companies began work on the creation of a self-sustaining colony. As chief astronaut for one of these enterprises, you want to be a pioneer in the development of the biggest, most advanced colony on Mars by achieving both D.O.M.E. mission goals as well as your company’s private agenda. In the beginning, you will be dependent on supplies from Earth and will have to travel often between the Mars Space Station and the planet's surface. As the colony expands over time, you will shift your activities to construct mines, power generators, water extractors, greenhouses, oxygen factories, and shelters. Your goal is to develop a self-sustaining colony independent of any terrestrial organization. This will require understanding the importance of water, air, power, and food — the necessities for survival.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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1–4 | 14 | 90–150 Min |
Food Chain Magnate
Food Chain Magnate is a heavy strategy game about building a fast food chain. The focus is on building your company using a card-driven (human) resource management system. Players compete on a variable city map through purchasing, marketing and sales, and on a job market for key staff members. The game can be played by 2-5 serious gamers in 2-4 hours.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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2–5 | 14 | 120–240 Min |
Root
Root is a game of adventure and war in which 2 to 4 (1 to 6 with the 'Riverfolk' expansion) players battle for control of a vast wilderness. The nefarious Marquise de Cat has seized the great woodland, intent on harvesting its riches. Under her rule, the many creatures of the forest have banded together. This Alliance will seek to strengthen its resources and subvert the rule of Cats. In this effort, the Alliance may enlist the help of the wandering Vagabonds who are able to move through the more dangerous woodland paths. Though some may sympathize with the Alliance’s hopes and dreams, these wanderers are old enough to remember the great birds of prey who once controlled the woods.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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2–4 | 10 | 60–90 Min |
Viticulture Essential Edition
In Viticulture, the players find themselves in the roles of people in rustic, pre-modern Tuscany who have inherited meager vineyards. They have a few plots of land, an old crushpad, a tiny cellar, and three workers. They each have a dream of being the first to call their winery a true success. The players are in the position of determining how they want to allocate their workers throughout the year. Every season is different on a vineyard, so the workers have different tasks they can take care of in the summer and winter. There's competition over those tasks, and often the first worker to get to the job has an advantage over subsequent workers. Fortunately for the vineyard owners, people love to visit wineries, and it just so happens that many of those visitors are willing to help out around the vineyard when they visit as long as you assign a worker to take care of them. Their visits (in the form of cards) are brief but can be very helpful.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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1–6 | 13 | 45–90 Min |
Caverna: The Cave Farmers
Following along the same lines as its predecessor (Agricola), Caverna: The Cave Farmers is a worker-placement game at heart, with a focus on farming. In the game, you are the bearded leader of a small dwarf family that lives in a little cave in the mountains. You begin the game with a farmer and his spouse, and each member of the farming family represents an action that the player can take each turn. Together, you cultivate the forest in front of your cave and dig deeper into the mountain. You furnish the caves as dwellings for your offspring as well as working spaces for small enterprises. It's up to you how much ore you want to mine. You will need it to forge weapons that allow you to go on expeditions to gain bonus items and actions. While digging through the mountain, you may come across water sources and find ore and ruby mines that help you increase your wealth. Right in front of your cave, you can increase your wealth even further with agriculture: You can cut down the forest to sow fields and fence in pastures to hold your animals. You can also expand your family while running your ever-growing farm. In the end, the player with the most efficiently developed home board wins.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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1–7 | 12 | 30–210 Min |
Maracaibo
Maracaibo, a strategy game for 1-4 players by Alexander Pfister, is set in the Caribbean during the 17th century. The players try to increase their influence in three nations in four rounds with a play time of 40 minutes per player. The players sail on a round course through the Caribbean, e.g., you have city tiles where you are able to perform various actions or deliver goods to. One special feature is an implemented quest mode over more and various tiles, which tells the player, who chase after it, a little story. As a player, you move with your ship around the course, managing it by using cards like in other games from Alexander Pfister.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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1–4 | 12 | 30–120 Min |
Lisboa
Lisboa is a game about the reconstruction of Lisboa after the great earthquake of 1755. On November 1, 1755, Lisbon suffered an earthquake of an estimated magnitude of 8.5–9.0, followed by a tsunami and three days of fires. The city was almost totally destroyed. The Marques of Pombal — Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo — was the then Minister of Foreign Affairs and the King put him in charge of the reconstruction of Lisbon. The Marques of Pombal gathered a team of engineers and architects and you, the players, are members of the nobility; members who will use your influence in the reconstruction and business development of the new city. You will work with the architects to build Lisbon anew, with the Marquis to develop commerce and with the King to open all the buildings, but the true reason you do all this is not for greatness or fame or even fortune, but for the most important thing of all in that time: wigs.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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1–4 | 12 | 60–120 Min |
Wits & Wagers
Not a trivia buff? It doesn't matter! In Wits & Wagers, each player writes a guess to a question such as “In what year did the bikini swimsuit makes its first appearance?” or “How many feet wide is an NFL football field?” and places it face-up on the betting mat. Think you know the answer? Bet on your guess. Think you know who the experts are? Bet on their guess. The closest answer — without going over — pays out according to the odds on the betting mat. Strike it big and you'll be cheering like you just hit the jackpot! Wits & Wagers is a trivia game that lets you bet on anyone's answer. So you can win by making educated guesses, by playing the odds, or by knowing the interests of your friends. It can be taught in 2 minutes, played in 25 minutes, and accommodates up to 20 people in teams.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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3 - 7 | 10 | 25m |
Just One
Just One is a cooperative party game in which you play together to discover as many mystery words as possible. Find the best clue to help your teammate. Be unique, as all identical clues will be cancelled! A complete game is played over 13 cards. The goal is to get a score as close to 13 as possible. In case of a right answer, the players score 1 point. In case of wrong answer, they lose the current card as well as the top card of the deck. Thus losing 2 points. In case of lack of answer, the players only lose the current card, and therefore only 1 point. You have the choice – make the difference!
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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3 - 7 | 8 | 20 - 60m |
Blood on the Clocktower
Blood on the Clocktower is a bluffing game enjoyed by 5 to 20 players on opposing teams of Good and Evil, overseen by a Storyteller player who conducts the action and makes crucial decisions. The goal of the game is to successfully deduce and execute the demons before they outnumber the townfolk. During a 'day' phase players socialize openly and whisper privately to trade knowledge or spread lies, culminating in a player's execution if a majority suspects them of being Evil. Of a 'night' time, players close their eyes and are woken one at a time by the Storyteller to gather information, spread mischief, or kill. The Storyteller uses the game's intricate playing pieces to guide each game, leaving others free to play without a table or board. Players stay in the thick of the action to the very end even if their characters are killed, haunting Ravenswood Bluff as ghosts trying to win from beyond the grave. If you arrive late to a game, you can enter after it's started as a powerful Traveller character with unusual talents and questionable allegiances. Each character comes with their own special ability and no two players in a game are ever the same character.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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5-20 | 15 | 30-120m |
Snake Oil
In the Old West, the wily snake oil salesman had a special talent, getting the most skeptical customers to buy the most dubious products. Now it's your turn! Invent your own zany two-word products – Rumor Mirror! Burp Balloon! – and sell them to all types of wacky customers. If the round's customer buys your product, you win the round! To set up Snake Oil, each player takes six purple word cards. The customer for the round draws a customer card and announces it. Inventors quickly combine two purple word cards from their hand to form a crazy new product to sell to that customer. When ready, each inventor quickly pitches his or her product directly to the customer. The customer can end any pitch that goes longer than thirty seconds. The customer decides which product to buy and gives the inventor of that product the round's customer card as the prize. Inventors discard all used word cards and take two new word cards each. The player to the left of the customer becomes the next round's customer. Play repeats until each player has been the customer once. Whoever collects the most customer cards wins the game.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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3 - 10 | 10 | 20-30m |
Bagh Chal
Bagh Chal (tiger game) is a strategic, two-player board game that originated in Nepal. The game is asymmetric in that one player controls four tigers and the other player controls up to twenty goats. The tigers hunt the goats while the goats attempt to block the tiger's movements. This game is also seen in southern India with a different board, but the rules are same. The game is played on a 5×5 point grid. Pieces are positioned at the intersection of the lines. Gameplay takes place in two phases. In the first phase the goats are placed on the board while the tigers are moved. In the second phase both the tigers and the goats are moved. For the tigers the goal is to capture five goats to win. A goat can be captured by jumping over it, although capturing is not obligatory. The goats win by blocking all of tiger's leagal moves.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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2 | 6 | 60m |
Kragmortha
Oh clever goblins, will you be able to avoid the wrath of the Dark Lord (Rigor Mortis, the Master of all Evils) while he wanders in his study? Terrible spells will be cast upon those who are hit by the glances of the Dark Lord! Kragmortha is a party game for 2-8 players that will be afflicted by exhilarating penances. No one will resist its humor! BEWARE! This game produces physical penances and is nocive (definition of nocive is : Hurtful or injurious) to the health! Kragmortha shares artwork with Aye, Dark Overlord! The Red Box
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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2 - 8 | 8 | 30-45m |
Animocrazy
How can the Jolly Pets resist the big bag of candies right in front of them? Everything goes well at the beginning when they calmly agree on the same amount of candies for each of them, but soon they come up with more and more ideas and a debate starts… the Pig says,“Those who weigh over 10kg should get an extra candy!”... the Dog says, “Whoever oversleeps should return a candy to the pool!” To resolve their hectic argument, they finally decide to form the House of Pets, at which the animal councilors will discuss proposals and vote on new laws. Who can get the most delicious candies in this exciting voting game? Based on Karl-Heinz Schmiel's Das Regeln Wir Schon, players attempt to pass laws which benefit themselves. The laws are either immediate or semi-permanent, and they can have all kinds of different effects: all players with beards get five points, vote cards must be played with the left hand, or some sort of re-evaluation or redistribution of the chips that each player has. The chips are the main way that players score, but their worth fluctuates constantly. On a turn, a player draws a card and then proposes a vote, and this continues until the End card is drawn.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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4 - 10 | 10 | 30m |
Geek Out
Geek Out! is a party game that can determine once and for all which player is the most knowledgeable about your favorite pop culture subjects! In the game, you draw cards asking you to list a certain number of things which fall under a certain category: comic books, fantasy, games, science fiction, and miscellaneous. Before you begin, however, the other players may try to steal your points (and bragging rights!) by bidding to list even more than the card requires. The bidding continues until one player is ready to "out-geek" their friends. Collect a predetermined number of cards, and you win!
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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2 - 99 | 10 | 30m |
Over/Under
In the game, which was first published as Die Größe macht's! in German, players start with a stack of question cards, with each card having three questions and the game having 200 cards. On a turn, the active player reads one question to the other players, who then collectively decide on a numerical answer for that question. The reader must then state whether the answer given is too high, too low, or exactly right. If the reader guesses wrong, he removes the card from the game and the next player chooses the next question; if he guessed "over" or "under" and was right, he keeps the card, then passes the deck; if he guessed "exactly right" and was right, he keeps the card, then reads the next question himself. Bonus! When the stack of cards runs out, the game ends and whoever has the most cards wins.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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2 - 99 | 10 | 15m |
Monikers
Monikers is a party game based on the public domain game Celebrities, where players take turns attempting to get their teammates to guess names by describing or imitating well-known people. In the first round, clue givers can say anything they want, except for the name itself. For the second round, clue givers can only say one word. And in the final round, clue givers can’t say anything at all: they can only use gestures and charades.
Players | Min. Age | Time |
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4 - 16 | 17 | 30-60m |
18. Awesome Selfhosted
Software / File Transfer - Peer-to-peer Filesharing
- Deluge - Lightweight, cross-platform BitTorrent client. (Source Code)
GPL-3.0
Python/deb
Software / Manufacturing
- CNCjs - A web-based interface for CNC milling controller running Grbl, Smoothieware, or TinyG. (Source Code (⭐2.3k))
MIT
Nodejs
- Fluidd - Lightweight & responsive user interface for Klipper, the 3D printer firmware. (Source Code (⭐1.4k))
GPL-3.0
Docker/Nodejs
- Mainsail - A modern and responsive user interface for the Klipper 3D printer firmware. Control and monitor your printer from everywhere, from any device. (Source Code (⭐1.7k))
GPL-3.0
Docker/Python
- Octoprint - A snappy web interface for controlling consumer 3D printers. (Source Code (⭐8.2k))
AGPL-3.0
Docker/Python
Software / Media Streaming - Video Streaming
- Owncast - Decentralized single-user live video streaming and chat server for running your own live streams similar in style to the large mainstream options. (Source Code (⭐9.2k))
MIT
Go
Software / Money, Budgeting & Management
- OctoBot - Open-source cryptocurrency trading bot. (Source Code (⭐3.2k))
GPL-3.0
Python/Docker
Software / Recipe Management
- Specifically Clementines - Grocery shopping app (previously Groceries), providing reliable sync with multiple users/devices (web/Android/iOS), recipes and integration with Tandoor. (Demo, Source Code (⭐215))
MIT
Docker
19. Free for Dev
Testing
- seotest.me — Free on-page SEO website tester. 10 free website crawls per day. Useful SEO learning resources and recommendations on how to improve the on-page SEO results for any website regardless of technology.
Web Hosting
- Bohr — Free for non commercial projects + Developer-First Deployment and Development Platform that minimizes infrastructure hassle and speed up setup.
Payment and Billing Integration
- Glassfy – In-app subscriptions infrastructure, real-time subscription events and out-of-the-box monetization tools on iOS, Android, Stripe and Paddle. Free up to $10k monthly revenue.
20. Awesome Angular
Tailwind CSS Based / Google Developer Experts
- Flowbite - Open-source UI components built with Tailwind CSS with support for Angular.
UX Components / Google Developer Experts
- Zoom Image Library - A little yet powerful framework agnostic headless-library to zoom image on the web.
21. Awesome Devtools
Bookmarklets
- Make Bookmarklets - Online tool to turn JavaScript into a bookmarklet.
Tools / Debugging & Development
- endpoints.dev - View realtime HTTP requests using a endpoints.dev generated URL.
- Hoppscotch - A lightweight, web-based API development suite.
- JavaScript Visualizer 9000 - Loupe-inspired JavaScript execution visualizer
- JSONPlaceholder - Free fake API for testing and prototyping.
- RecipeUI - Open source Postman alternative with type safety built in.
Tools / Deobfuscation & Transformation
- Compiler Explorer - Run compilers interactively from your web browser and interact with the assembly
- Markdown to HTML - Paste or type your markdown and see it rendered as HTML. Download or copy the resulting HTML.
- Markdown Tools - Tools to convert Markdown to/from a number of formats. E.g. Html to Markdown, or a CSV to a Markdown table.
- SWC - compile JS/TS files using modern JS features and outputs valid code that is supported by all major browsers.
Tools / Diagramming & Scratch
- asciiflow - ASCIIFlow is a client-side only web based application for drawing ASCII diagrams.
- dbdiagram - Draw Entity-Relationship Diagrams, Painlessly.
- dot-to-ascii - Graphviz to ASCII converter using Graph::Easy.
- Excalidraw - Virtual whiteboard.
- JSON-to-Chart - Create beautiful charts from JSON data in your browser.
- nomnoml - A tool for drawing UML diagrams based on a simple syntax.
- Sequence Diagram - An online tool / software for creating UML sequence diagrams.
Tools / Generators
- JSONGenerator - Create random JSON data
- Readme - All in one tool to quickly generate a readme for your project or github profile.
Tools / Image
- JPEG.rocks - Privacy-aware JPEG optimizer
- PicPerf - Boost web performance with image optimization. Analyze and improve
<img>
tags,<style>
tags, and inline CSS.
- PNG-to-SVG - Free conversion from JPG or PNG images To vectorized SVG.
- SVG-to-backgroundImage - Convert your SVG files into CSS url (data URIs) by encoding it.
Tools / Performance
- Perflink - JS benchmarks
Tools / Playgrounds
- JSONCrack - Visualize CSV/JSON/TOML/XML/YAML instantly into graphs.
- Markmap - Visualize markdown as a feature-rich mindmaps.
Tools / Regex
- Regulex - JavaScript Regular Expression Visualizer.
Tools / Scripting & Copy/Paste
- crontab guru - The quick and simple editor for cron schedule expressions by Cronitor
- CSS Scan - Box Shadows - CSS, Ready to use, click to copy
- CSS Scan - Buttons - CSS, Ready to use, click to copy
- CSS Scan - Checkboxes - CSS, Ready to use, click to copy
- CSS Scan - Shapes - CSS, Ready to use, click to copy
- Devtools Tips - Copy-and-paste'able collection of useful cross-browser DevTools snippets.
Tools / Transformation
- Babel REPL - The compiler for next generation JavaScript
Tools / Presentation
- snapify - Snappify enables you to create stunning presentations, with first-class support for code snippets.
Resources / Cheat Sheets
- OWASP Cheat Sheet Series - A concise collection of high value information on specific application security topics.
Resources / Documentation
Resources / Glyphs & Icons
- Icônes - Over 150,000 open source vector icons.
Resources / Validation & Parsers
- Ada URL Parser - WHATWG-compliant and fast URL parser written in modern C++, online.
Security / Test
- HSTS Preload - Check HSTS preload status and elibility.
- Mozilla Observatory - A set of tools to analyze your website and inform you if you are utilizing the many available methods to secure it.
- Security Headers by Probely - An easy to use tool designed to help you better deploy and understand modern security features that are available for your website.
- Web Check - All-in-one OSINT tool for analysing any website.
22. Citizen Science
Tools and Equipment / 3D Printing and Fabrication
- Printables - Database of 3D-printable models with contests and an active community
23. Awesome Readme
Examples
- gowebly/gowebly (⭐779) - Clean project banner with logo. Useful badges and links (languages switcher, test cover, docs). Clear description of what the project does with quickstart, understandable feature list, links to the introduction video and article, well-documented CLI command examples, project philosophy notes ("motivation to create"), tables with project components, links to addons and helpers, list of stargazers, and more.
24. Web Development Resources
Chrome Extensions:
- Website: React Developer Tools
- Website: Vue Developer Tools
Website Optimization Tools:
- Website: SEOTester
25. Awesome Developer First
Deployment Hosting
- DeployBot - REST API to trigger deployments from GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket.
Monitoring
- Airbrake - Error monitoring in production.
26. Awesome Neovim
(requires Neovim 0.5)
- nvimtools/none-ls.nvim (⭐2.4k) - Null-ls.nvim reloaded / Use Neovim as a language server to inject LSP diagnostics, code actions, and more via Lua.
Search / Diagnostics
- nvimdev/hlsearch.nvim (⭐69) - Auto remove search highlight and rehighlight when using n or N.
Note Taking / Diagnostics
- gsuuon/note.nvim (⭐63) - Daily tasks with deep-linking and project spaces.
Utility / Diagnostics
- JMarkin/gentags.lua (⭐13) - Auto generate tag files by ctags.
Remote Development / Diagnostics
- niuiic/remote.nvim (⭐35) - Edit remote files with local configuration.
27. Ai Collective Tools
Image Generator
- Midjourney AI - Just enter your prompt and click the generate button.No code required to generate your image!
28. Free Programming Books (English, By Subjects)
Cloud Computing
Data Science
- Data Mining Concepts and Techniques - Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber, Jian Pei (PDF) (🗃️ archived)
Machine Learning
- The Little Book of Deep Learning - François Fleuret (PDF)
Mathematics
- A Cool Brisk Walk Through Discrete Mathematics - Stephen Davies (PDF)
- A Quick Steep Climb Up Linear Algebra - Stephen Davies (PDF)
Object Oriented Programming
- OOP – Learn Object Oriented Thinking and Programming - Rudolf Pecinovsky (PDF)
Professional Development
- How to Stand Out as a Software Engineer (⭐5) - Landry Monga (PDF)
Quantum Computing
- Quantum Information Theory - Mark M. Wilde (PDF)
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