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Regional Board Games
Deriving play from a city or geographical area
Carcassonne
A clever tile laying game. The southern French city of Carcassonne is famous for its unique Roman and Medieval fortifications. The players develop the area around Carcassonne and deploy their followers on the roads, in the cities, in the cloisters, and in the fields. The skill of the players to develop the area will determine who is victorious.
Amazon Price: $24.56 (as of 01/04/2010) 
Inns and Cathedrals
The expansion offers all fans of Carcassonne new challenges: The Cathedral triples the value of a city, and the Inn doubles the value of a road but only when they are completed.
Amazon Price: $13.56 (as of 01/04/2010)
Mayfair The Settlers of Catan Board Game
In this award-winning board game for three or four players, Catan is an imaginary unexplored island, and players are explorers and settlers. The playing surface is made of hexagonal tiles that, depending on their placement, create a different environment each time the game is played.
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Settlers of Catan: 5-6 Player Expansion
Expansion pack for the award-winning Settlers of Catan.
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Seafarers of Catan
Ahoy, matey! This is an expansion to the award-winning game, The Settlers of Catan, which you will need in order to play The Seafarers of Catan. As a settler of the island of Catan, you use the resources of the island to build amenities and develop settlements.
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Puerto Rico
Prospector, captain, mayor, trader, settler, craftsman, or builder? Which roles will you play in the new world? Will you own the most prosperous plantations? Will you build the most valuable buildings? You have but one goal: achieve the greatest prosperity and highest respect!
Amazon Price: $39.37 (as of 01/04/2010)
The Farming Game Board Game
Literally invented on the seat of a tractor by a Goldendale, Washington farmer, The Farming Game has truly become a board game classic. Whether you''re a real farmer or an urban dweller, you''ll find The Farming Game to be an animated yet accurate portrayal of the highs, lows, risks, and gambles associated with the business of farming.
Amazon Price: $33.20 (as of 01/04/2010)
Scotland Yard Game by Ravensburger
This clever detective game has won awards and fans all over the world. Mr. X, a fixture on England's "Most Wanted" list, is on the run in London. Will Scotland Yard find and capture him before time runs out?
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San Juan
Puerto Rico's golden age returns, through you! Players travel now to the capital city of this beautiful island. Who will build the most important buildings? Players build palaces, poor houses, silver smelters, gold mines, and many others -- each with its own special features. The cleverest player will build well and win!
Amazon Price: $28.54 (as of 01/04/2010)
St. Petersburg
Baroque palaces, wide boulevards, and elegant bridges: St Petersburg. On May 16, 1703, Czar Peter the Great lays the foundation for the first building. Quickly impressive buildings are erected that are ever more grand and beautiful. Such buildings bring glory to the aristocracy and victory points to the players.
Amazon Price: $38.96 (as of 01/04/2010)
More geographically derived games
Through the Desert
Camels, caravan leaders, water holes and oases: This is a remarkably simple and versatile game to learn. It works well with a wide age range and also with few (even two!) or many people.
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Mayfair Games Silverton
Fun mining/train game set in the Colorado Rockies. Stake your claim, build your track, mine your claim and - when the market is right - deliver the goods!
Amazon Price: $35.99 (as of 01/04/2010)
Railroading Games
A genre unto itself!
Empire Builder
Live the American dream with Empire Builder. Build a railroad, transport much-needed commodities from place to place, use your earnings to expand your railroad empire. Players build their railroads by connecting the dots on the game board using the special wipe-off crayons included. You earn money by picking up and delivering goods.
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Australian Rails
Rail fans can experience the thrills of owning, building, and operating railroads in the land down under! Explore the outback, build your rail empire across mountains and deserts to build a fortune. But beware dangerous sandstorms and flooding rivers as you stretch your rails across this vast continent!
Amazon Price: $31.90 (as of 01/04/2010)
British Rails
Visit the enchanted misty island of Britain with this Empire Builder series game. British Rails features the exotic and interesting landscape of the island nation.
Amazon Price: $30.40 (as of 01/04/2010)
Mayfair Games Eurorails
Based on the award-winning Empire Builder game system, Eurorails allows players to amass fortune and power by picking up commodities from cities that produce them and delivering them to cities that need them.
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Mayfair Games India Rails
Another in the Empire Builder system, India Rails features the exotic land of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and parts of Pakistan. Build tracks from Bombay to Calcutta, cross the Thar Desert (beware of sand storms!), and pick-up and deliver gypsum, indigo, jute and rugs
Amazon Price: $30.39 (as of 01/04/2010)
Nippon Rails
Based on the award-winning Empire Builder System, Nippon Rails lets players experience the unique challenges of rail-building in Japan.
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Russian Rails
Based on the award-winning Empire Builder System, Russia Rails lets players experience the unique challenges of rail-building tin the former Soviet Union and the republics which have replaced it. Using erasable crayons, players design their own rail-networks across a geographically accurate map.
Amazon Price: $31.60 (as of 01/04/2010)
Ticket to Ride
Phileas Fogg accepted and then won a L20,000 bet that he could travel "Around the World in 80 Days". Now at the dawn of the century it was time for a new "impossible journey". Some old friends have gathered to celebrate Fogg's impetuous and lucrative gamble - and to propose a new wager of their own. The stakes: $1 Million in a winner-takes-all competition. The objective: to see which of them can travel by rail to the most cities in North America - in just 7 days.
Amazon Price: $40.53 (as of 01/04/2010)
Ticket to Ride - Europe
Get ready for a new train adventure as you travel across Europe with Ticket to Ride - Europe, the new edition of the worldwide hit from Days of Wonder. From Edinburgh to Constantinople and from Lisbon to Moscow, the game will take you on a ride to the great cities of turn-of-the-century Europe.
Amazon Price: $43.83 (as of 01/04/2010)
Links to Game Stores
- Game Outfitter
- Equipment for the imagination.
- BoardGames.com
- A complete listing of boardgames for every taste and gaming preference in many different game categories.
- Board Game Central
- This site is a central resource for board game information, rules, software, and links, focussed on the traditional and family board games that many people know and love, as well as new games you might not yet be familiar with, but which we think you'll enjoy.
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