Hey PI-Fans,

Even as we inch into Novemember and the store prepares to load up for the year end Holiday Rush, the demand for new board games to excite the senses doesn’t stop.

Sure, we could just celebrate the fact that things like Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion, Root and Wyrmspan are topped up on the shelves, but if you’re here for new possibilities, those don’t do as much. Instead, we’ll focus on the arrival of CGE’s Starship Captains and Wiggles 3D’s real-time cooperative investigative game 5-Minute Mystery.

 

Just moments before the Museum of Everything was set to unveil its newest exhibit, the priceless MacGuffin, some criminal snuck in and stole it! Now it’s up to you, a team of detectives, to crack the case, find the culprit, and recover the missing MacGuffin.

Like a cooperative of Guess Who, 5-Minute Mystery sees a team of players working together to identify a criminal in (around) 5-Minutes against a ticking timer. To solve the case, players must search different scene cards for hidden symbols and correctly set them into a codex dial to gain clue tokens which are matched against symbols on the back of the culprit cards to determine if the culprit does or does not have certain features, allowing you to eliminate possible suspects from a pool of potential criminals.

You’ll have to search through many rooms as your rush to find out exactly who is responsible for stealing the MacGuffin in this real-time challenge. Will the detectives successfully identifying the correct culprit? Or will they get away.

5-Minute Mystery: 1-6 Players, 5-30 mins, Ages 8+

 

 

Welcome aboard and congrats on the promotion! Your “new” starship is ready to embark on its first big voyage. Just scrape off some of the rust, and she’ll do fine. And that crew? Might look a little green around the edges, but they’re your crew now. Make us proud.

As newly promoted Starship Captains, players are in command of their first starship and hungry to prove themselves in a galaxy full of space pirates, grumpy old androids, ancient artifacts, and interplanetary adventures. In this 1-4 player Eurostyle game, which mixes action selection and engine building, you’ll manage a diverse crew of cadets, ensigns, androids, and officers — each with different special roles and capabilities. synergy. Using its unique transmission belt system that returns crew to service at different times, this forces you to deploy your limited crew pool to the best of your abilities and occasionally overcome manpower shortages. By earning medals, you can promote and train your crew for even greater effectiveness. Similarly, you can upgrade your ship with powerful engine building technology for maximum

Do you have what it takes to deftly command your crew and become the best captain in the cosmos? We’ll see!

Starship Captains: 1-4 Players, 40-100 mins, Ages 12+

 

 

Board and Card Game New Releases:
5-Minute Mystery
Starship Captains

Board and Card Game Restocks:
Azul
Azul Mini
Bohnanza Anniversary Edition
Catan and 5-6 player Extension
Century Golem
Century Golem: Eastern Mountains
Century Golem: Endless World
Codenames
Equinox Golem
Gloomhaven – Jaws of the Lion
Here to Slay
Mysterium and Expansions
Mysterium Park
Sagrada
Splendor
Splendor Duel
Tiny Epic Crimes and Expansion
Tiny Epic Dungeon
Unfathomable
Wingspan and Expansions
Wyrmspan