Game and Jigsaw Puzzle Collection: Strategy Games

Designers: Michel Lalet, Laurent Levi
2 players
Duration of play: 20 min.

Go full steam ahead and join the international community of abolone fans! Two camps face off across a hexagonal board containing black and white marbles. Your objective: push six opposing marbles into the rails along the edge of the board. Sharpen your attack and refine your defense. Observe, plan... and weigh up your options at every move!

Designer: Michael Kiesling
2-4 players
Duration of play: 30-45 min.

Azul invites you, a tile laying artist, to embellish the walls of the Royal Palace of Evora. Introduced by the Moors, "azulejos" (originally white and blue ceramic tiles), were fully embraced by the Portuguese, when their king Manual I, on a visit to the Alhambra palace in Southern Spain, was mesmerized by the stunning beauty of the Moorish decorative tiles. The king, awestruck by the interior beauty of the Alhambra, immediately ordered that his own palace in Portugal be decorated with similar wall tiles.

Designers: Christopher Guild, Bryan Kinsella, Andrew Parks
2-4 Players
Duration of play: 30 min.

You and up to three other players are residents of District 12 trying to eke out an existence. Are you able to use your wits to survive or are you required to take Tessera and put your name once more into the drawing for The Hunger Games? Based on the bestselling book and move, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, work with or against your fellow players, but in the end it's the one who has acquired the most food, fuel, clothing, and medicine while avoiding becoming a tribute who wins this game. May the odds be ever in your favor!

Designer: William Julius Champion Jr.
2 players
Duration of play: 10 minutes

"Mancala" is a general name which applies to a group of very old Asian and African games in which stones or seeds were moved from cups on a game board or holes in the ground.

Designer: Dominique Bodin
1-4 players
Duration of play: 5-15 min.

Arrange four transparent squares so that they all overlap to perfectly duplicate the pattern of dots shown on a selected pattern card. You can play solitaire or against others.

Designer: Matt Leacock
2-4 players
Duration of play: 45 min.

As skilled members of a disease-fighting team, you must keep four deadly diseases at bay while discovering their cures. You and your teammates will travel across the globe, treating infections while finding resources for cures. You must work as a team to succeed. Pandemic is a cooperative game, all players win or lose together. The clock is ticking as outbreaks and epidemics fuel the spreading plagues. Can you find all four cures in time? The fate of humanity is in your hands!