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In teams, swap characters as quickly as possible to match the photo, and if you’re good enough, you’ll have additional challenges …

3… 2… 1… PHOTO! In Photoshoot, two teams face off against each other for the title of Best Photographer.

No wonder Katamino Family has become a milestone among educational games! Not only is it a progressive brain-teaser, it plays in duel between children and parents as well. Who will become the quickest to fill their board space with the selected pieces? Or complete the included solo challenges and explore thousands of possible combinations!

The sheer amount of playing modes and difficulty levels allow for multiple games to be played in a row, bringing the whole family together for memorable moments. Whether you are a beginner or a little genius, these quick experiences will delight children and parents alike.

Quarto has a 4×4 board and 16 pieces. Each piece has four dichotomous attributes — color, height, shape, and consistency — so each piece is either black or white, tall or short, square or round, and hollow or solid. The object is to place the fourth piece in a row in which all four pieces have at least one attribute in common. The twist is that your opponent gets to choose the piece you place on the board each turn.

Simple and tactical at the same time, Qawale finds its inspiration in piles of pebbles found along paths. Just like these wobbly rocks, prepare to be taken along the many twists and turns of this incredible game.

Each player gets 8 pebbles of their color. The third color is neutral and these pebbles are placed in the 4 corners of the board.

On their turn, players add a pebble to the top of an optional pile before moving it.

When a pile is moved, players must leave a pebble on each crossed space. The first player to get 4 pebbles of their color to line up from the top wins the game.

The game consists of 12 different pieces constructed of right angled blocks so each piece is made of 5 "squares". (Think Tetris pieces, but 5 squares instead of 4.)

Quarto! has a 4×4 board and 16 pieces. Each piece has four dichotomous attributes – color, height, shape, and consistency – so each piece is either black or white, tall or short, square or round, and hollow or solid. The object is to place the fourth piece in a row in which all four pieces have at least one attribute in common. The twist is that your opponent gets to choose the piece you place on the board each turn.

Quixo bears a superficial resemblance to Tic-Tac-Toe – with one player being crosses and the other circles, and with both trying to create a line of their symbol – but that's where the resemblance ends. The pieces in the game are cubes that have a circle on one side, a cross on another, and blank faces on the other four; to set up the game, players place the 25 cubes with blanks face-up on the 5x5 grid in the game board.

In Marrakech each player takes the role of a rug salesperson who tries to outwit the competition. Each player starts with 10 coins and an equal number of carpets.

Based on the popular "spot the differences" challenges found in books, newspapers and elsewhere, Difference challenges your abilities to observe and react quickly. The deck includes two sets of double-sided cards, with one set being more challenging than the other. Place one card in the center of the table, then deal the rest out to players as evenly as possible.

By the end of the 1001st night, the sultan Shahryar wishes to build the new realm of Almadi to honor the intelligence and wisdom of his wife Sheherazade. As the sultan’s advisor, you are the architect of this great work. Design a thriving territory with sumptuous palaces, fresh oases, opulent markets and majestic caravans. Skillfully arrange the landscapes and use their effects to turn your work into a great success!

Players build the Almadi realm in front of them by arranging the different Landscape types to the right of their starting tile. During their turn, each player chooses a Landscape tile from one of the rows on the central board and places it in the row with the same number in their realm. By placing this tile, the player can activate the effects of adjacent tiles.

At the end of the game, players score points based on the landscape layout in their realm, the number of rubies collected, the activation of certain effects and the royal objectives they have completed. They also score points if they have used the characters.

The player who scores the most points at the end of the game will be the winner.

Who will be the most cunning?

In Royal Secrets, you play as a spy of a foreign power in the French court. Your goal is to cunningly influence the decisions of the realm in favor of your country. For that purpose, you will have to send your team of allied courtiers to audiences with the king and queen where only the most influential will be heard. You will be forced to bluff but also to pool resources with your opponents. But only the most cunning will win.

It's 2035, and the world has changed little. Huge multinationals have taken over, and nanotechnologies are part of everyday life. Icarus was created to respond to the new challenges that this new way of life brings. Its goal: Investigate sensitive cases and undertake delicate operations.

Critical: Foundation – Season 1 is constructed like a television series, with each of the nine episodes taking 30 minutes to play. You can take on the role of Gamemaster, who directs the adventure, or play as one of the characters to put yourself in the story. The game provides an RPG-style experience with board game scaffolding via character cards and dice-based combat.

Quantik is a pure abstract strategy game. The goal is to be the first player to pose the fourth different forms of a line, a column or a square zone.

Each turn the players will put one of their pieces on the boardgame. It's forbidden to put a shape in a line, a column or an area on which this same form has already been posed by the opponent. We can only double a shape if we have played the previous one ourself. The first player who places the fourth different form in a row, column or zone wins the game immediately, no matter who owns the other pieces of that winning move.

A pure abstraction.

The goal is to be the first player to pose the fourth different forms of a line, a column or a square zone.

Each turn the players will put one of their pieces on the boardgame. It’s forbiden to put a shape in a line, a column or an area on which this same form has already been posed by the opponent. We can only double a shape if we have played the previous one himself. The first player who places the fourth different form in a row, column or zone wins the game immediately, no matter who owns the other pieces of that winning move.

The game consists of 12 different pieces constructed of right angled blocks so each piece is made of 5 "squares". (Think Tetris pieces, but 5 squares instead of 4.)

The abstract strategy game Quoridor is surprisingly deep for its simple rules. The object of the game is to move your pawn to the opposite edge of the board. On your turn, you can either move your pawn or place a wall. You can hinder your opponent with wall placement, but not block him completely. Meanwhile, he tries to do the same to you. The first pawn to reach the opposite side wins.

The abstract strategy game Quoridor is surprisingly deep for its simple rules. The object of the game is to advance your pawn to the opposite edge of the board. On your turn you may either move your pawn or place a wall. You may hinder your opponent with wall placement, but not completely block him off. Meanwhile, he is trying to do the same to you. The first pawn to reach the opposite side wins.

To win Squadro, you need to be the first player to make a return trip with four of your five pieces.

Each player starts with their five pieces in troughs on their side of the game board, with players sitting perpendicular to one another. When you move a piece, you move it a distance based on the strength indicated in the trough that you're leaving. Once the piece has made its way across the board, you move it back based on the strength on the other side. If you pass over an opposing piece while moving, then that opposing piece must return to its last departing base and your moving piece advances one cell further than where the opposing piece was.

Although it is easy to reach a situation where moving any piece implies putting it at risk — therefore making you not want to move — it is important to note that having some of your pieces taken and making your opponent advance is often beneficial to you, since it reduces the amount of possible moves your opponent can perform and gives you extra moves. So do not be afraid or reluctant to place some of your pieces in front of your opponent's, because it can be good for you.

Sit next to your rival and have fun!

Greenville 1989 is a co-operative narrative game in which each player represents a character who has experienced or witnessed supernatural events.

Quixo is superficially similar to Tic-Tac-Toe - with one player setting crosses and the other circles, both trying to create a line with their symbol - but that's where the similarity ends. The pieces in the game are dice that have a circle on one side, a cross on the other, and blank faces on the other four; to set up the game, players place the 25 dice blank side up on the 5x5 grid on the game board.

In Pylos, you want to be the one to place the last ball at the top of the pyramid. Sounds simple enough, right?

At the start of the game, each player has fifteen marbles, either light or dark, and they take turns placing them on a sixteen-well game board in a 4x4 grid shape. When four balls are placed next to each other in a square, a ball can be placed on top of them, forming another game level. Players can then place marbles on this second level, which eventually allows a marble to be placed on the third level. When that level is full, requiring only four balls, a final ball can be placed on the fourth level and that player wins the game.

The best party game of physical constraints, Yogi, gets a companion game — Yogi Guru — with more cards that affect the lower half of your body and some wild cards.

On its own, this game offers a more challenging experience and will generally force more contortion. There is also more silliness. Mixed with the original deck, the combined game offers a full-body experience.

It's Obvious is a game in which you and your fellow players, as apprentices of telepathy, have to co-operatively — and secretly — select different image cards from the center of the table.

In more detail, you choose an image card on display that in some way has a connection to the two image cards in front of you, stating something like "My choice is obvious!" or "It's a bit of stretch" or "I'm going for the non-obvious card as I think someone else will pick it". You may not give specific clues about what you have chosen or how it relates to one or both of the image cards in front of you; only a vague sense of how the choice feels to you.

One more image card is on display than the number of players, and once you've chosen your target image, you indicate this choice on a numbered secret dial. Once all players have chosen, they reveal their choices. If you're the only one who picked an image, then you take that image card and cover one of the two images in front of you. If everyone chose different cards, then you win the round! If, however, not everyone chose different cards, then you lose the round and everyone who chose "incorrectly" draws a new image card at random from the deck to replace one of theirs. Sweep any remaining image cards from the center, then reveal the appropriate number of image cards to start a new round.

If you lose a round for the third time, you lose the game; if you manage to complete a number of rounds (7-10) based on the player count before this happens, then you win! You can adjust the difficulty of the game in several ways to make it more or less difficult.

Quetzal, the city of sacred birds, has just been discovered. You have five days to explore the site and collect the most beautiful objects that are buried there. Will you be able to manage the team entrusted to you on a daily basis to optimize your excavations?

Be smarter than the competition to emerge from Quetzal unscathed.

At the beginning of each turn, roll your meeple dice and discover your team. Send your groups to different places in the city to collect the artifacts you are most interested in. Be careful, even if you arrive first your opponents can still steal your place! Build the best collection of artifacts and deliver them at the right time to earn improvements and victory points. Do you have the spirit of an expedition leader?

Imagidés, first released in the early 2000s as Talking Dice, is primarily a storytelling device, with players rolling the six-sided dice, then using the images on them to create a story one die at a time. While initially developed in order to assist students with language learning, particularly a secondary language, Imagidés can also be used for games.