Abstract Strategy

In the tile-laying game Click A Tree, players embody Ghanaian farmers. They have adapted to climatic conditions and learned to make use of their surroundings, planting their crops in the shade of trees. In this game, you want to plant trees in a strategic arrangement, deploy your harvest workers skillfully, and reap the most harvest.

To set up, randomly draw nine of fifteen tasks; each player places the matching task strips in the empty spaces at the top of their player board, then places seven fruit markers on level 1 of their board. Each player shuffles their fourteen harvest tiles and reveals two of them. Place the seven fruit markers in a circle, then place a random landscape tile between each pair of markers to form the market. Each tile shows one of six trees, one or two fruit types, and either A, B, or AB. Each player starts with a random landscape tile in front of them.

On a turn, choose a fruit marker on your player board, lower it by one space, then collect the two landscape tiles surrounding this marker in the market. Add these tiles to your board, then choose one of your face-up harvest tiles and add it to your forest. Each sickle on the harvest tile adjacent to a landscape tile earns you one fruit of that type for each tile in that fruit group, e.g., placing a sickle next to avocados in a connected group of four tiles will raise your avocado marker four spaces on your player board.

Except sometimes it won't. A fruit marker can't rise to level 2 until you complete a task and remove that strip from your board. To complete a task, you need to arrange trees of the same type in specific configurations, or create a long line of trees, or connect trees with the same letter, or use harvest tiles in defined ways. Whenever you complete a task, you remove that strip, then push all remaining tasks up, giving your fruit markers room to move up.

You also harvest fruit when you place a landscape tile next to a sickle already in play. When all sickles on a harvest have been used, that tile is fulfilled, which lets you lower a number marker on your player board. When enough of your fruit markers move past a number marker — e.g., two past the 2 near the top of the player board, five past the 5, or all seven past the 7 — the game ends at the end of that round. If only one player has triggered the end of the game, they win; if multiple players have, they sum the value of their fruit to determine a winner.

Successfully align four shapes of your color before anyone else, either in a row (including diagonals) or in a column (stacked).

Each candy consists of two shapes. There are three types of shapes: round, square, and star.
Each shape comes in two sizes: small or large. The small shapes can fit inside the large ones; the large ones can cover the small ones.

On your turn, place one of your candies:
in an empty space on the board
inside or on top of another candy already placed on the board.
Only candies of the same shape fit together: a circle inside a circle, a square inside a square, a star inside a star.

You can block an opponent by covering one of their small shapes on the board with one of your large ones. Only use visible shapes to count your lines of four consecutive shapes!

The game ends when one of you manages to make a row or column of four shapes of your color, or when no one has any more candies to place.

Play cards in numerical order or different colors to try and match the dice in the center of the pile. Do you take the pile now or do you keep it going to score more when you do take it?

Take your Qwirkle strategy in a whole new direction! Tiles with three different backgrounds create surprising opportunities to score diagonally. Points add up quickly when you place even one tile that scores in multiple directions. Adjust your focus from foreground shapes to background colors for the thrill of next-level maneuvers.

How flexible is your Qwirkle stategy?

Knitting Circle is a stand-alone follow up to the puzzle game Calico! In this tile-laying game for the whole family, players are knitters competing to create the coziest, most beautiful assortment of garments.

Rounds are simple - collect yarn from the central basket and knit it into garments while trying to get your color combinations and patterns just right! Earn victory points by completing garments, adding buttons, and fulfilling bonus scoring goals. Along the way, your furry feline friend can help you out by reaching their grabby paws into the bag to secure you the best yarn!

With variable scoring goals, and dozens of unique template cards, each game of Knitting Circle brings a new spatial puzzle to your table!