Welcome, WELCOME!
All aboard the hype train! Next stop: your soonest board-gaming night!
Choooooooooooo!
We are so tremendously excited to have this game on Board Game Arena right now for all to play, 20 years after its first release.

You do not know about it?
With elegantly simple gameplay, Ticket to Ride can be learned in under 15 minutes. Players collect cards of various types of train cars they then use to claim railway routes in North America. The longer the routes, the more points they earn. Additional points come to those who fulfil Destination Tickets– goal cards that connect distant cities- and to the player who builds the longest continuous route.

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

Since its introduction and numerous subsequent awards, Ticket to Ride has become the epitome of a "gateway game." It is simple enough to be taught in a few minutes, but with enough action and tension to keep all players involved and in the game for the duration.

You want to have a look at the game? Try this link:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=tickettoride

And if you want to learn the rules in an interactive-way, why not try our tutorial by clicking here ?

There are plenty of people to thank for bringing this game online, but most of our love will go first to thoun, who developed the game for Board Game Arena. It was not easy to bring the same level of quality the original app has, and thanks to him, you can play it effortlessly on pretty much any web-connected device. And if you encounter any bugs, just let us know using the bug report system.

Nothing would have been possible without Alan R.Moon, who designed the game, and of course the wonderful team behind Days of Wonders who publish this game and gave the green light.

What about expansions, you may ask?
Some will come. Later. But for now, please consider playing the good old map that made your first dive into this game. It may be a long time since you have played it, so it might be good for you to feel again what you like or not about this never-aging game.

And that's it for this weeks WRT!

Let's bet on the audience: will it beat Catan? Or Wingspan? Will it replace Carcassonne?
Only the future will tell.
And where we're going,
we don't need roads...
But rails!

See you next week, and until then, take care and play fair!

You have just taken home your new bookshelf and now it is time to put your favorite items on display: books, boardgames, portraits... Who will show the best organized shelfie?

During your turn, you must take 1, 2, or 3 item tiles from the living room board (shared by all the players), following these rules:

• The tiles you take must be adjacent to each other and form a straight line.
• All the tiles you take must have at least one side free at the beginning of your turn.

Then, you must place all the tiles you have picked into 1 column of your bookshelf (a 3D display) to meet the personal goal cards (they grant points if you match the highlighted spaces with the corresponding item tiles) or the common goal cards (that grant points if you achieve the illustrated pattern). You also score points also if you connect item tiles of the same type.

The first player who fills all the spaces of their bookshelf takes the end game token that grants additional points. The game continues until the end of the turn of the player sitting on the right of the player holding the first player token.

The player who scores the most points wins the game.

A game of strategy and glance, different every time thanks to the variety of common and personal goals. The beautiful images of the item tiles will really give you the feeling of tidying up your precious shelf.

Curious? Check out the game page here:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=myshelfie

There is, of course, a tutorial available for you to learn how to play it!

We would love to thank Phil Walker-Harding & Matthew Dunstan, as well as the Cranio Creations team for their authorization to bring the game to Board Game Arena.
All of the hard work to bring this title online was done by BROT42, who deserves a lot of thanks and congratulations from us.

That's it for today,
See you on Wednesday for our WRT.
Until then, take care and play fair!

It's so simple you can't be salty.

Sea, Salt and Paper is an abstract family card game about set collection, take that, and hand management.
Draw cards from the deck or the discard piles in order to make sets of cards that are either played in order to activate effects or kept in hand for points later. After a a certain threshold of points is met, the game is over, and the person with the most points will be the winner!

But do you think you are the one with the most points in hand?
You will have to choose: stop the round immediately or give the others an extra turn to try to extend the gap? Is it worth taking the risk?
You can play it with 2 to 4 players, and a game lasts about 30 minutes.

It will take time to learn the effects and different combos, and it will require a few plays to realise how deep the game is.
Give it a chance, it is probably worth a try for you, especially if you love games like Sushi Go.

Click here to see the game page, look at the gorgeous artwork, and try it:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=seasaltpaper


There is no reason to pass on it, as we also provide a nice tutorial for you to learn it. Check it out here: here.
We would like to thank the Bombyx Team, as well as Bruno Cathala & Théo Rivière, the game designers, for bring this compact card-game to Board Game Arena.
The game has been developed by thoun, and this one has been ported brilliantly for all to play, so we would like to thank him for the work done here, again.

That's it for today!
Next week: You won't believe what we've prepared for you (if you're kind enough). Can you guess which game will join BGA ?
Until then, take care and play fair!
Choooo chooooo....

Time for a very big release again.

Acclaimed since its release in 2019, with more than 50 nominations worldwide and numerous prizes and awards, Board Game Arena is proud to release:

WINGSPAN by Elizabeth Hargrave

Wingspan is a competitive, medium-weight, card-driven, engine-building board game from designer Elizabeth Hargrave and Stonemaier Games. It is the 2019 winner of the prestigious Kennerspiel des Jahres award.

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 bird feeder dice tower
- Lay eggs using egg miniatures in a variety of colors
- Draw from hundreds of unique bird cards and play them
The winner is the player with the most points after 4 rounds.

If you enjoy Terraforming Mars and Gizmos, this game should take flight on your screen.

Do you want to discover more about it? Rules and more? Or simply play it? Check this link to the game page:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=wingspan

We would like of course to send our warmest thanks to the Stonemaier Games team, who helped us bring the game to the platform, as well as Elizabeth Hargrave, the game designer, for her astonishing work on games about nature. Don't hesitate to check out her Twitter account.
And last but not least, send your love and spread your wings for paramesis, the developer who managed to make this title available through most of your web-enabled devices. It plays beautifully, and we are pretty sure you will enjoy it as much as we do!

Fond of a bird you couldn't find now on Wingspan ? Post your favorite birds in the comments. Who know... An expansion may come, if you spread the word.

That's it for today. Now you can fly away.
Don't forget to migrate soon, it's getting colder and colder. At least for some of us.
See you next week, and until then, take care and play fair!

Break the Code is a logical deduction game played with number tiles and question cards. You win if you can guess all of your opponent's tiles in a two-player game or if you can guess the face-down tiles in the center for a three- or four-player game. Put on your thinking cap!

The number tiles will be shuffled randomly and distributed. They will be displayed face up to you only, in numerically ascending order starting from the left, as if they were behind your screen in the physical version. You will see your opponents tiles face down. Any unused number tiles will be removed from the game. The question card deck will also be presented in a face down pile with the top six cards placed open at the top of the table.

Deduce all of your opponent's tiles (or the center tiles) and correctly guess their colors and numbers in order from left to right.

You can play it right now by clicking this link:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=breakthecode

And remember that if you want to learn it first, there is a tutorial available here.

We would like to thank the IELLO team, as well as the game designer Ryohei Kurahashi for their authorization to bring the game to Board Game Arena, as well as the wonderful work from stefano who developed it for you all to play! It's really a great game adaptation that's been done here, and we want you to send them some love. Or at least give a try to the game. It's worth it!

See you on Wednesday for our Wednesday Release Time (or WRT) and until then...
Take care and play fair!

Regicide is a cooperative, fantasy card game for 1 to 4 players, played using a standard deck of cards.

Players work together to defeat 12 powerful enemies. On their turn a player plays a card to the table to attack the enemy and once enough damage is dealt, the enemy is defeated. The players win when the last King is defeated. But beware! Each turn the enemy strikes back. Players will discard cards to satisfy the damage and if they can't discard enough, everyone loses.

Rich with tactical decisions and a deep heuristic tree, Regicide is a huge challenge for anyone who is brave enough to take it on.
Note that the game received a Dice Tower Seal of Approval, which should tickle your curiosity.

It's worth a try, and you can play it by clicking here:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=regicide

And you can, of course, learn the game by using the interactive tutorial provided here

But WAIT, there's more:
The publisher Badgers from Mars is also providing a second game : REGIDICE.
It's not just a joke about an anagram. It's also... a self-parody on the original game, published as an April Fool's joke.

Regidice was born when Luke Badger accidentally typed Regidice instead of Regicide. 24 hours later, Paul had given birth to the dice-based beast you see before you. Regidice was announced April 1st, 2021... Yes, April 1st...
You can however also play it on Board Game Arena. Yes.
Click here to go to the game page:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=regidice

We would like to thanks the Badgers from Mars publishing team, as well as the game designers, Paul Abrahams, Luke Badger & Andy Richdale.
Nothing would have been possible without the work done by ufm who developed these games for our platform. Kudos to him for this tour de force.

That's it for today, two released titles, and one to joke about.
See you next week for another amazing release. Or two.
Until then, take care and play fair!

It has been a year now since the original King of Tokyo was released here.
And so much has been done since then!

That is why the Iello team has prepared an infographic of the most important key numbers about the game, since it came to BGA!







With King of Tokyo: Power Up! expansion for the King of Tokyo base game we meet the new monster Pandakai, a giant panda bear.
After choosing a monster, each player takes the eight Evolution cards associated with that monster, shuffles those cards, and creates a personal deck. At the end of a player's turn, if they have three hearts, they draw one Evolution card and add it to their hand- even if they are in Tokyo (where hearts are normally useless) and even if the hearts are used for some other action, such as healing.

A player can reveal and play an Evolution card at any time. Some Evolutions are temporary, allowing a one-time bonus, while others are Permanent, such as Gigazaur's "Tail Sweep", which allows him to change one die to a 1 or 2 every turn. Each Evolution card also identifies whether a monster is a Mutant, Invader, or Robot, and while not relevant for Power Up!, this species identification could come into play in future expansions.

The rules for King of Tokyo: Power Up! contain a few variants: Players start with a random Evolution in play, draw two cards and choose the one they want, or draft a set of Evolutions prior to the start of play. However you play, the goal of the game remains the same: Score 20 points or be the last monster standing amid the rubble of what was once Tokyo.

You know the game, you know Kung-fu, you know everything needed to fight on Board Game Arena, now click the game page link to discover more: https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=kingoftokyo

And if you do not know how to be a King of Tokyo in King of Tokyo, click this link to our nice tutorial here:
https://boardgamearena.com/tutorial?gam ... torial=217

Of course, we would like to thank the fantastic Iello Team, who made this possible, as well as Richard Garfield for their autorization to bring the game to our platform.
Thoun is the name you're looking for: one of the most prolific developers on BGA has again ported this expansion to the site.
Play it from anywhere, tablets or phones, computers or e-readers: as long as there is an up-to-date web-browser on it, you should be able to play thanks to him.

That's it for today. No more expansions for the moment. For today. But you can count on us if something happens in the near future.
Who knows.
Where we're going we don't need roads!
Take care and play fair!

The Galactic Council is considering expansion into a recently discovered solar system, one with a yellow dwarf star and some interesting-looking planets, including one that holds a species that could soon develop the technology required to join them. Before establishing a permanent home in the system, the Council needs a space station as a base of operations. There are lucrative government contracts to be awarded, and the player who can build the best station will have the inside track.

You have assembled a rag-tag fleet of ships. They do not look like much, but they contain the one thing you need to build the station– Metal. You will need to dismantle this fleet, one ship at a time, to get it. Each time you turn a vessel into metal, your action options become more limited.

Do you dismantle your last fast Transport ship– your only lifeline back to the Council HQ? Or the Terran Expedition craft you use to travel down to that little blue planet to gather the food and water your workers need to survive?

Know your rules: Assemble your fleet to build Space Station Phoenix!

Space Station Phoenix is a worker-placement and resource management game set in one of Earth’s possible futures. The players are representatives of the Galactic Council, sent to Earth to build space stations to observe and perhaps interact with humanity.

Players begin the game with nine ships and a station hub. These ships act as action spaces that players use to gather resources, explore the nearby planets, and build their stations. Turns are fast and straightforward; either take a ship action or take income.

Many games start players off with a small resource engine which they build up to a bigger one. In Space Station Phoenix, players start with the best production engine they will ever have and proceed to break it down part by part. As the game progresses, their actions get more efficient, but the number of ways to take those actions starts to diminish.

You can check the game page right here:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?ga ... ionphoenix

And now you can even play a tutorial to learn the rules! Click here to start it. It only takes a few minutes.

We would like to thank, like always, the game designer Gabriel J. Cohn, as well as Rio Grande Games for their authorization to bring the game on your favorite platform!
A lot of effort has been made by Kayvon and Mogri, the developers that did a fantastic job bringing this game to Board Game Arena, so please send your warmest messages toward them. They clearly deserve them.

And that's it for this Monday release!
Until Wednesday...
Until then, take care and play fair!

- Saul, are you sure you're ready to do this?
- If you ever ask me that question again Daniel, you will not wake up the following morning.
- He's ready.

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You know the song, you know the movie, now PLAY IT!

You do not know the song, the movies, or anything about bank heists? Now you will...

Burgle Bros. is a cooperative game for 1-­4 players. Players are unique members of a crew trying to pull off a robbery of a highly secure building-
without getting caught. The building has three floors (of 4x4 tiles), each with its own safe to crack. Players start on the first floor and have to escape to their helicopter waiting on the roof.

Each character has three stealth tokens. Whenever they are on the same tile as a guard, they lose one. If any player is caught without a stealth token, the game is over.
The game requires stealth, planning, and a little bit of luck. In the tradition of classic heist movies like Ocean's 11 and The Italian Job, you assemble your crew, make a plan, and pull off the heist of the century.

If your team can open all three safes and escape using the stairs to the roof, you have won.
You can then stare at the horizon, "Clair de Lune" from Debussy playing in the background while the loot is being divvied up.

It is a really fun game to play with a group of close friends using voice chat, and the Board Game Arena adaptation makes it easier to play than it is to crack a safe. Way easier. Especially because there is a tutorial available for you to learn how to play it, available right here.

You can find the game page for more information by clicking the link below:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=burglebros

The game shines on BGA thanks to our wonderful developers, baritonehands & cpasbanal, who did an amazing job by porting the game to our platform. Kudos to them!

Of course, no games without game designers, and it is all thanks to Tim Fowers and his publishing company Fowers Games that you can play this game now on Board Game Arena. We would like to warmly thank them for the laughs we had playing this game in 2015 when it was released, and for the many board game nights we spent quoting some of the most famous lines from movies, comics or other video games.

That's it for today, and it's time for you to find some friends to play.
Luckily, there are plenty of them online just waiting for you.
See you next week, and until then, take care and play fair!

It is time for another multiple-award-winning title to join Board Game Arena!

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 strategy game in which players compete to build their majestic dams, raise them to increase their storing capacity, and deliver all of 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 crisscrossed by rivers.

Barrage includes two innovative and challenging mechanisms. First, the players must carefully plan their actions and handle their machinery, since both their action tokens and resources are stored on a Construction Wheel and will only be available after a full turn of the wheel. The better you manage your wheel, the earlier your resources and actions come back to you.

Second, the water flow on the rivers depicted on the board is a shared and contested resource. Players have to intercept and store as much of the water as they can, build dams (upstream dams are expensive but can block part of the water before it reaches the downstream dams), raise the dams to increase their capacity, and build long tunnels to channel the water to their powerhouses. Water is never consumed- its flow is just used to produce energy, and it is instead released back to the rivers. Therefore, you have to strategically place your dams to recover the water diverted by you and the other players.

Over five rounds, the players must fulfill power requirements represented by a common competitive power track and meet specific requests of personal contracts. At the same time, by placing a limited number of engineers, they attempt to enhance their machinery to acquire new and more efficient construction actions and to build and activate special unique-effect buildings to forward their own developing strategy.

Check out the game page right now by clicking here:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=barrage

Also, if you want to learn how to play this fantastic game, you can check the interactive tutorial available here. It's a very fast and easy way to get into it within a few minutes.

There are no words to express our gratitude to our developers, Tisaac and Vincentt, who did an amazing job here, bringing you a top-notch gaming experience to play on nearly anything connected to Internet.

Of course, there couldn't be games without a team behind them. And thanks to Cranio Creations, the game designers Tommaso Battista & Simone Luciani, and the art from Mauro Alocci, Antonio De Luca, and Roman Roland Kuteynikov, this title is shining now on your favorite platform.
Thanks a lot to all of them for their support.

That's it for today's WRT (Wednesday Release Time).
We told you there would be water flowing on BGA, but next weeks release will be more about... Oceans. But how many of them? 10? or more?
Let this information sink in a moment, play fair and take care!