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Evolution: The Origin of Speciesboard game

Evolution: The Origin of species is a great example of a popular science game. The author managed to combine science with great playability. This makes the game interesting for a wide variety of public.

Animals of different species live and develop, receive new abilities and compete for food. To become a speedy carnivore or a big water dweller, it all depends on the habitat. By trying to create a stable population of animals that will dominate in the ecosystem, players learn to understand the basics of animal evolution, the concept of the survival of the fittest.

In 2010 Evolution: The Origin of species received 5 awards as the best Russian board game. Evolution: Time to fly, the first expansion set to the game, was released in April 2011.

Game author - Dmitri Knorre - Ph.D. in Biology, graduate of the Biological Faculty at Moscow State University

Evolution never stands still. In the core game you created poisonous carnivores, hid them in burrows, made complex cooperation chains between creatures. Your animals gained fat, fell into hibernation and could cast away their tail.

The expansion opens new horizons for you. Now you can teach your creatures to hide in shells, spit ink at opponents and even fly!

Evolution board game expansionsTime to Fly

Different abilities and combinations of traits. Ancient continents and the Ocean for new populations of animals.

Continents

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Evolution board game expansions

Another forms of living organisms were added to the game. These forms are various plants and fungi! Now plants produce food, which means that you no longer have to use dice and play randomly. With this feature you’ll know exactly how much food your animals get each round.

The second amazing feature is that the plants can evolve and players can affect this process by adding various traits to the plants.

Plantarum

New traits are here in this sub-expansion set! With these new traits you get some strategical possibilities that might have lacked before. Now it’s possible to generate new animals right from the deck, to redistribute food tokens among your animals, to take extra tokens from the bank and so on… New traits mean new tactics!

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Evolution: Random Mutationsboard game

Random Mutations is a new game of the Evolution popular scientific game family dedicated to life development on the Earth.

Players try to save and increase their populations of animals by giving them traits useful for survival. Random Mutations has the same aim but the way of reaching it differs. Players develop the whole species not the separated creatures, and getting new traits for the species is random. The scientific authenticity has increased: players don’t point the evolution by their own way, only decide which species are doomed to extinct and which are worthy of further development.

Random Mutations is not an expansion set for the original Evolution, it’s a self-sufficient game that has inherited much from its forerunner.* - you can find this board game and other Russian board games in RuBrand (www.rubrand.com) store


Potion-making: Practiceboard game

Potion-making: Practice is the first Russian board game bestseller. In 2010 it was chosen as the "best Russian board game in the last 5 years“!

Each player in the game is considered an alchemist. He or she will need to create elixirs, potions, powders and even avatars of magical creatures. By following formula and using spell cards each player tries to create as much potions as possible. The stronger the potion or elixir, the more points a player receives.Game author - Sergey Machin - one of the leading game developers in Russia. He has been designing and releasing games since 2002.



Expansions for Potion-making: Practice board game

University courseThere are more spells, more elements and artifacts and therefore more opportunities in the expansion. Besides the great number of new cards you'll see some changes in the rules here. New spells included in "University course" are very useful and helpful - of course if you put them to their proper use.

Guild of AlchemistsWith this expansion you not only make potions and get points but you strain after a great goal: you have to create the Philosopher's Stone. There are three different cards of Magnum Opus and each leads to the Stone. When someone creates it the game ends and that lucky potion-maker gets additional points.



The Enigma of Leonardoboard game

The goal of this simple and funny logical game is to collect a set of Mysterious Keys. You receive a Key whenever you complete a sequence of similar symbols drawn on the cards. The location of the symbols changes each turn depending on what new card is played. The game mechanic is based on a popular game "ouths and crosses" or as it's called in English "tick-tack-toe".In 2010 the game was awarded with the "Intellectual training simulator" award.

A set for hardcore players with more complex rules, The Enigma of Leonardo: Quintis Fontis, was released in 2010. Game author - Sergey Machin. The "Quintis Fontis" set was created with the help of Alexei Pahomov.



The Kingdoms of Crusadersboard game

and Ordonnance expansionThe game is dedicated to crusades and the conflict between knightly orders after the taking of the Holy Land. All players' goal is to take control of as many provinces as they can by gathering the strongest armies there. In 2007 the game was considered "the best Russian game of the year".Game author - Goryunov Danila. Graduate of bio-chemical faculty at Moscow State Pedagogical University. Scientific specialization - mirmicologist.

The expansion Ordonnance gives players new possibilities. The Kingdoms of Crusaders core set was a game for only two players, now you can play up to four players. The game also has new cards that allow building stronger troops, changing troops on a certain territory, moving your own, or destroying enemy forces.



SHINOBI War of clansboard game

At the turn of the XVI century in Japan both the Emperor and the shogun lost the control under the country. It was the very time for pushful and ambitious daimios to subdue islands. It was the very time for strong warriors to demonstrate their boldness and great warlords to show their art. It was the time when cunning secret agents decided a battle of the clans.

In the tactical card game “Shinobi” players will take on the role of secret agents of the most powerful clans in feudal Japan. The aim of the game is supporting your clan with military advantage – the clan which will have the most troops by the end of the game is considered to be a winner. Game author - Danila Goryunov, a scientist and a former teacher, who has also created "The Kingdoms of Crusaders" and "ZOMBIE! Run for your lives!".



Japanese castleboard game/construction kit

Calmness and concentration. Just one right motion and the card will be fixed in the needed position. Step by step, card by card and just in front of you a fragile and elegant tower of a Japanese castle appears. There are different game rules: you can play alone or in a team, you can win by finishing the building first or by constructing a castle as tall as possible and so on. So we daresay that Japanese Castle is many games in one box! Game author - Sergey Machin - one of the leading game developers in Russia.



Confetti board game

Confetti is a fun fast paced action game. A little bit of logic, a bit more attention and victory will be yours. You will need to think fast because you have only got one minute for the round and you do not have any spare time to waste. To make things extremely ecstatic and to keep the players from getting used to the rules the game has an alternative mode – the dark side of the cards. There is even a forever alone mode to this game but we guarantee that it’s much more fun in a company of friends. After all it’s just like New Years! Game author - Sergey Machin - one of the leading game developers in Russia.



The JAM family board gameThis is a card game where you

can make jam from various fruits and berries, and also cook salads and bake pies! The JAM is a great family game that will make parents and kids, and maybe even grandparents, sit together at the dining table and enjoy the game process.There are also the rules for kids 5+ and the rules for travelers: you can play The JAM in any place and at any age! Game author - Sergey Machin - one of the leading game developers in Russia.



Zombie! Run for your lives!board gameBoo! You and your friends are

suddenly surrounded by hordes of very aggressive zombies. But do not fret, we have some good news – one of you will definitely get out alive!This game is recommended for 3 or more people. Remember! If you and your friends are running away from zombies you don’t have to outrun the zombies, you just need to outrun your friends. The important part of the game is that the more people are playing, the quicker it’s played. There’s always someone in a big team who’d gladly push a team mate in to a hungry zombie just to save his own neck!



Big Brain Bangboard game

Big Brain Bang is a board game for dexterity and accuracy that offers to look at the thought process from an unexpected side. In the role of the brain here is a gaming table where players build a neural network from cardboard nerve cells. In the game everything depends on the accuracy of the throw. The winner will be one of the players whose neural network at the end of the game will be the most powerful.Big Brain Bang is a witty and innovative version of classic games on accuracy.



Bug Raceboard game

Bug race board game is a race

competition in which each player is trying to lead to victory his or her own bug that consists of seven pieces: a body and six legs! Participants of the race play the cards, which allow you to move forward with one or other legs and pull the body followed by the extremities. One of the players whose bug will be the first to crawl over the finish line is the winner and will become globally famous.

It’s an easy but very interesting family game. Simple rules, bright game design, the ability to plan your actions and to affect on your opponents makes Bug Race a great alternative to the old race games based on the principle of “throw the dice, move а token”.



Founders of the Empireboard game

Founders of the Empire is a family European style board game for 2-4 players. In this game every player is a leader of the small ancient nation. In the beginning of the game each player receives few territory tiles. By adding to their holdings new lands, developing trade and craft, attacking on land rivals, and erecting temples, players earn victory points. One more thing is that in the game process players will have a chance to use special tokens, which will gave them some interesting possibilities and, of course, extra points!The civilization that in the finale of the game will be the most advanced will have the right to be called the founders of the Empire.* - you can find this board game and other Russian board games in RuBrand (www.rubrand.com) store


Kitchen Gardenboard game

Kitchen Garden is a funny board game for kids and their parents who want to be masters of farming. The game box contains everything you will need to make your land fertile – beds, seeds, a market, a worker. Just sit around, sip on some tea, draw those cards while the garden digs itself up and grows over with grass. There’s even a Holiday to help you relax and a Crow to steal crops from your neighbors!



Kings under mountainsboard gameKings under mountains is a quick,

dynamic and simple board game where every player is the leader of one of the Fantasy nations: Dwarfs, Giants, Orcs and Goblins. The troops of four races are fighting among themselves, trying to capture the richest and most convenient place to develop the mine. The game could end suddenly, and it means that the careless gold digger may lose a lot of victory points!If you want to win, you need to use your troops in the right place at the right time to capture profitable mines and give opponents a disadvantage and develop their own mines for getting victory points.

Swords and Bagpipesboard game

A totally original, authentic, award-wining, and critically-acclaimed board game of an amazing depth, balance, and playability. Based on First Scottish War of Independence; inspired by Braveheart movie.

You are one of the clan leaders, defending your country from invading English forces. In the flames of the First Scottish War of Independence, the victory is possible only if all the clans unite. But the English King Edward I, nicknamed Hammer of the Scots, pays generously to those, who prefer to join his side. Each round you gather troops under your banners, prepare your forces for coming battle, and then you choose: either to support Scotland and freedom... or to betray for gold. Sometimes joining the winning side is not cowardice but wisdom!

Swords and Bagpipes is a unique combination of social deduction and strategy game. In this war, the right choice is the key to victory!

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