Everyone is making the decisions for 1 family as they go on their summer vacation. 1 Family card is drawn at the start of the game. The family will comprise of a dad, mom, teen, preteen, and infant. Each character has different likes/dislikes/interests and depending on where the family travels will determine the happiness of each of these characters.

Each player starts the game with 1 goal card. This is a card that awards you points for different things, often it will be points for the happiness of certain characters. To win the game you will want to make sure those members of the family are happy when the 7th day of their vacation rolls around and the game ends.

The meat of the game is played out with the proposal cards. Each player will start with 8 proposal cards. There are 3 main types of proposal cards. Destinations, Time, and Character.

On your turn, play a destination card coupled with a character to propose a new location for the family to go to. This should be a location that will benefit the character(s) on your goal card. If no player challenges your proposal you successfully go to that location.

If either the player to your right or left doesn't like the new proposal they can challenge by playing a character that trumps the original character (Challenge priority goes to player on right.) The heirarchy is as follows. Infant < preteen < teen < mom = dad < infant. The infant is only a trump when played directly after a parent card. All other characters trump everything below it. Parents cannot trump each other unless a parent is the one who started the proposal.

The original player can counter-challenge with a higher ranking character, but the screaming infant always wins, in which case the family stays put. At any point in the challenge anyone can throw in a time card. Based on the current location after the challenge, take the smile and sad faced tiles and place them next to the characters on the family card (the card’s a jumbo card) corresponding to how that character responds to the type of activity at the location the family is now at. For each time card you add an extra tile to each character, amplifying the effect

Once a player is down to 3 cards or less they can restock their hand of proposal cards up to 8.

On your turn you can choose to play only a character or location, but it only becomes a proposal once another player adds the other component. Or you can play only a time card to prolong the stay at the current location.

Time cards must be played in the following sequence (morning, afternoon, evening). If the last time card played was morning, the next time card must be afternoon. After going through a cycle, the group draws a day card. When the 7th day card is drawn the game ends.

You find yourself in a dark room. Cursed you look around and see 3 other unlucky souls. And of course, the Dark Mirror in front of you. The price must be paid. Only one can break the mirror and be free.

Dark Mirror is a competitive card deck game based around breaking the named Dark Mirror. Cards run from 1 through 10, with each card having a specific action to be played. The action for a "1" card is to take control of the Dark Mirror. The action for a "10" card is to shatter the Dark Mirror if you control it. So the purpose of the game is try and break the mirror when you have control of it and when you do not think another player can play a "1" to snatch is away from you, starting the cycle over again.

Play goes as follows;
1) Everyone draws 3 cards. Person with the lowest card starts with ownership of the Dark Mirror. In the event of a tie the person with second lowest, so on and so forth. If you can not break ties, reshuffle and re draw.

2)Person with the Dark Mirror plays a card and follows the action.

3) The person to their left can either draw a card or play another card that has a higher number on it. (If player 1 plays card # 4, then player two must play #5 or higher).

4) The exception to this rule is that anyone can play a #1 card, giving them ownership of the Dark Mirror and starting the process up again.

5) If a player manages to play a "10" card while they have ownership of the Dark Mirror, and the other players in succession can not get control of the Dark Mirror from him he shatters it and wins.

6) If all the cards in the deck are played through and no one can shatter the Dark Mirror, everyone loses.

The cards in the deck for draw are as follows:

1 - Madness: Take control of the Dark Mirror. Can be played at any point in the sequence.

2- Glutton: Draw 5 cards.

3- Greed: Steal a card from each player, their choice.

4- Dominance: Force the Dark Mirror on someone else, and steal 2 cards from them.

5- Obsession: Bind your soul to another player, and copy their next card played.

6- Plague: Force everyone to discard their highest card.

7- Fatten: Draw a card per player plus 2. Give each player a card from your hand, your choice.

8- Decimate: All players discard their hand and redraw to 3 cards, one at a time.

9- Covet: Prevent the Dark Mirror from being destroyed until it is your turn again.

10- Freedom: Destroy the Dark Mirror, if you can......

Zero Point Players: 2 (Variant for 3 or more) Object: To be the player with the highest score at the end of the game.

Components:

• 6 cardboard “Point” tokens.
• A larger “Player 1” token.
• 54 card deck:
• Four each of 1-9.
• Sixteen “0"s.
• Two optional “Point” cards.

Setup: Deal each player four piles of 5 cards each. Players do not look at these piles. After the cards have been dealt, remaining cards are placed in the middle of the table to be used as the draw pile. Each player is then given one “Point” token.

Gameplay: The game is played in 4 Rounds, consisting of 4 “Scores” each. At the beginning of each Round, without looking at the cards, players choose one of their four piles to use as their hand for that round.
For each Score, each player chooses a card from their hand and places it face down in front of them. When all have chosen, cards are revealed. Cards 1-9 are simply the value that they show. Players playing a 0 must draw the top card of the draw pile and place it either to the right or left of their card, creating a two digit number for their score. If a 0 is drawn, no further cards are drawn.

Player 1 may then take one action

• Play a 0 card from their hand and place it anywhere in or around their current score.
• Play a “Point” token (or card if used). The Point is played anywhere on an opponent’s score as a decimal point.

Player 2 may then take one of these same actions.

After both players have had a chance to take an action, compare the two scores using the current showing values, taking all zeroes and points into account. The Player with the highest value wins the Score and takes all played cards into their score pile. If the Score is a tie, all played cards are shuffled and placed under the draw pile. It may happen that a player may not have enough cards to play a card in the last Score of a Round. They are considered to have a value of zero and may not take any action.

If a player wins a Score without taking an action AND their total is 5 or less, they are awarded a Point token. A player may never have more than two Point tokens. For the following rounds, players take turns being “Player 1”.

End of the Game: After all four Rounds, players count up the cards in their score pile. Each card is worth their face value. Zeroes are worth zero. The player with the highest score wins. In the event of a tie, the winner is the player with the most zeroes in their score pile.

Playing with 3+: For 3 players, only deal 3 piles and play 3 Rounds. With more decks, the game can be scaled in multiples of 2 or 3 players.

Void

4 players

You play as Elemental Spirits, in a constant battle with each other. Spirits represent the creating force (the fifth element), forever changing and balancing the world. And by creating, also destroying. When elements disappear they leave a Void.

Cycle of dominance

Water extinguishes Fire

Fire consumes Air

Air erodes Earth

Earth absorbs Water

Content

1 Board with 64 squares.

Tiles (Face / Flipped)

16 Water / Earth + X

16 Fire / Water + X

16 Air / Fire + X

16 Earth / Air + X

Setup

Choose an Elemental Spirit (printed on the board), take their tiles.

Goal

Score most points. Flipped and taken tiles counts as points.

Game

Players take turn placing one of their tiles. Starting player’s first tile is placed on one of the middle four squares.

Then players always have to place their tiles adjacent to other tiles, sides and diagonals are considered adjacent. You can’t place a tile in between two tiles of the element dominating you. (Water can’t place a tile in between two Earth tiles.)

If you manage to flank tiles of the element you’re dominating, you flip those tiles. Think Othello rules when it comes to flanking!

You may flip any number of tiles in one or more rows in any number of directions at the same time - horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Just as long as the tiles are all of the dominated element. (Water may only flip Fire tiles.) If there’s a line of Water, Fire, Earth and Fire, and you place Water on the other end, you can’t flip the Fire, the Earth stops you from doing that.

Flipped tiles are marked with X. Next time that tile would be flipped, it is instead removed from the board, taken as points. Taken tiles can’t be placed or lost. (Flipped Fire becomes Water + X, it can then be flanked by Earth who takes it.) Now this space on the board is free to place tiles on again – a Void.

When all tiles have been placed, the game is over.

Scoring

Tiles taken = 1 point.

Tiles of your element + X still on the board = 2 points.

The difference in points reflects that it’s harder to keep flipped tiles on the board because they may be taken by someone. While tiles you’ve taken are safe.

Note that tiles you’ve placed don’t count as points.

Summary

If you are playing Water, you want to flank Fire, but you also want to be near Air because Air can turn to Fire and be possible for you to take! At the same time you want to avoid Earth. It can be tricky to keep track of all upcoming possible moves, but that is what makes the game fun! It can be played as a casual game as it’s pretty clear at any given moment what moves are available on the board. But there’s lots of room for tactics when you try to stop opponents, think ahead and plan your moves. The game will change the more you play it.

The Summer Queen and the Winter King are locked in eternal battle. Supported by the Spring Princess and the Autumn Prince, the armies clash in the forest, using whatever terrain they can to their advantage – hilltops, old stone walls, and impassable rivers. Winter attacks Spring. Spring heals Summer. Summer attacks Autumn. Autumn heals Winter. The cycle continues without end. Unless you can prevail.

Description:
Players: 2 or 4. In two player games, one player controls two allied armies; in four player games, one person controls each army, working together for a joint win.

The board is a layout of hexes, with the appearance of three rivers converging in the middle. Each river has 1 bridge across it, effectively breaking the board into three sections. Hilltops and stonewall sections are unevenly dispersed throughout. Units are stacked tiles depending on FV. (Fae Vitality (FV) changes constantly. It represents the life force, attack force, and movement allowed for each creature. For Spring/Autumn creatures it also represents potential healing ability. As creatures are injured, their FV is reduced, reducing their ability to move, heal, or attack other creatures as effectively.)

Terrain Features:
Rivers – Running water is impassable. Only at bridges may units cross, attack, or heal.
Hilltops – No defensive effect. Add one to attacks for unit at summit.
Stonewalls – Passable. Defenders on the other side of a wall from an attack subtract one from damage.

Gameplay:

Deployment Phase
Either Summer or Winter deploys first. Turns then progress seasonally. Place two units from that season’s army anywhere on the board. When all pieces are placed, whichever season did not deploy first (Summer or Winter) acts first.

Starting Strenths:
Spring/Autumn :
1 Princess/Prince, FV =4
5 Dryads/Imps, FV = 2
10 Sprites/Pixies, FV = 1

Summer/Winter
1 Queen/King, FV = 5
6 Nymphs/Dryads, FV = 3

Action Phase.
Select two units from your season’s army to act. Each may move once each turn and attack OR heal once each turn. That unit doesn’t have to use it’s full FV movement allotment.

Attacking: Select an attacking unit and a target unit in an adjacent hex. Take into account terrain bonuses. Reduce target FV by attacker FV, following these seasonal rules. Remove target unit when FV is 0. When a Winter/Summer unit attacks a Spring/Autumn unit, Spring/Autumn is the only unit reduced. If Winter /Summer attack each other, both are reduced by the opposing units FV. Autumn/Spring can never attack Summer/Winter. Autumn/Spring may heal Winter/Summer instead of attacking. If so, the Winter/Summer unit is increased by the FV of the Spring/Autumn unit, and the Spring/Autumn unit is not decreased. They need to be in adjacent hexes for healing, and they may not be healed above their starting FV. Royalty may never attack other royalty – they only assault their chief foes through their minions. If all minions are killed before either King or Queen falls, you tie. Protect royalty! The King/Queen units may not be attacked until the Prince or Princess of their supporters is killed.

Premise
The seasons are vying for control of the globe. Each player is one of the four seasons and will use clever card play to emerge victorious.

Components
1 x Deck playing cards
1 x Season board (four spaces – one for each season, in chronological order)
13 x Victory Tokens
4 x Season Tokens

Game Structure
A trick-taking game played over a series of rounds. At the end of each round, allocate round victory tokens to the winner of the round.

Starting Setup
Assign one season to each player and give that player the corresponding season token.

Deal all 52 cards to the four players. Players select three cards from their starting hands to set aside (face down) until the beginning of the next round. Each player will now have a hand of 10 cards to play with this round.

Place the wooden pawn on the “Winter” space of the season track. This track determines the trump suit for the round and the end of round point bonuses. The seasons and associated “trump” suits are as follows:
• Winter = Spades
• Spring = Hearts
• Summer = Diamonds
• Fall/Autumn = Clubs

Gameplay
The “Winter” player will lead the first trick – they will play a card from their hand. Each player, in clockwise order, will play one card from their hand. After all players have played a card from their hand, determine the winner of the trick.

If no “trump” suit was played, then the player who played the card of the highest number value wins the trick. Value order is as follows: Lowest – A-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-J-K-Q-Highest. However, if a player (or multiple players) played a card of the “trump” suit (which will vary depending on the current season), the highest value “trump” card winds the trick. Ties result in the trick being set aside. The winner of the next trick takes these set aside cards from the previous trick. Won tricks are placed in face-down score piles in front of each player. The winning player begins the next trick.

End of Round
When all players have no cards left, the round ends. Players flip up their face-down piles of won tricks.

If a player has no cards of their suit:

That player(s) win the round automatically. That player receives one victory token.

Otherwise:
Players total the cards in their score piles. Numbered cards are worth numerical value (Aces are worth one). Face cards are worth 10 points. Cards in the suit of the current season (i.e. spades in winter) are worth double their value.

When a player collects their fourth round victory token, the game is over and that player wins. If not, continue to a new round. Shuffle the score piles, deal out the cards to each player, advance the season pawn to the next season. Players pick up their cards set aside from the previous round and take them into their hands. They then set aside three new cards and begin the round.