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MAYFAIR GAMES INC.

MAYFAIR GAMES INC.


MSRP: $42.00
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Gender: Boys And Girls
Age: 12 and Up

Players are recent immigrants to the newly populated island of Catan. Expand your colony through the building of settlements, roads, and villages by harvesting commodities from the land around you. Trade sheep, lumber, bricks and grain for a settlement, bricks and wood for a road, or try to complete other combinations for more advanced buildings, services and specials.

Trade with other players, or at local seaports to get resources you might lack. The first player to achieve 10 points from a combination of roads, settlements, and special cards wins.

MSRP: $40.00
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Gender: Boys And Girls
Age: 8 to Adult

Look for hungry penguins in this fast playing and exciting boardgame. Hey! That's My Fish! is highly suitable for families and strategy gamers.

At the pole your penguins are jumping from ice floe to ice floe hunting fish. They’re also trying to block other penguins and secure the best fishing grounds for themselves. The penguin colony that catches the most fish by the end of the game wins.
 

MSRP: $49.00
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Gender: Boys And Girls
Age: 10 to Adult

It's moving day! You have lots of boxes to load, and a truck to load them into-but how are they going to fit? Maybe on their ends? Stacked on top of each other? You'll have to pack your unique truck as tightly as possible, and you lose points for packing too few pieces on your truck, or for leaving pieces you can't fit behind. Can you pack'em, stack'em and rack'em with the best?

Pack & Stack™ is a fast and funny, wild and crazy game about moving stuff on all sorts of odd trucks. Every interactive turn is a new adventure, where all the players discover new loads, grab new trucks, and then gamble on their planning and packing skills. So, test your wits and find your cool. It's time to get packin' and start stackin'!

MSRP: $49.00
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Gender: Boys And Girls
Age: 10 and Up

Descend deep into the interior of the earth, as you lead the three adventurers from Jules Verne’s classic novel: Professor Lidenbrock, his nephew Axel and their guide Hans. Begin your amazing journey with entry through the crater of the dormant Icelandic volcano Snaefells. Explore a dense forest of giant mushrooms, traverse a turbulent underground ocean, before you are hurled out of an Italian volcano to return to the earth's surface.

On your journey, collect fossils both small and large, collect gold and overcome obstacles through the prudent acquisition and use of select equipment. Explore the many parts of the subterranean cavern, using equipment and luck are critical to overcoming the obstacles within your path. The player who can escape with the best collection of artifacts is the winner. Will you direct our heroes on a journey of danger, discovery and fortune?
 

MSRP: $25.00
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Gender: Boys And Girls
Age: 7 and Up

Discover, explore, and settle Catan anywhere and anytime!...even solo!

The Catan Dice Game™ is a fast, fun way to experience Catan on-the-go. Play it in only 15-30 minutes! It's a great casual introduction to the world of Catan. With 6 colorful, high quality, embossed plastic dice, a generous pad of full color double-sided score sheets featuring two maps for alternate play, and an exquisite lidded leather dice cup. the dice cup will hold dice, rules and score pad. Roll your way to victory. So get ready to toss! Challenge the odds and discover a fresh way to master Catan!

MSRP: $42.00
I Want One
Gender: Boys And Girls
Age: 12 and Up

Discover a modern North American classic. Celebrate one of our most vital and enduring passions: railroads. Use your initial investment to build track. Then pick up commodities where they are grown, mined, or manufactured and deliver them to a lucrative place of demand. Complete a delivery and make the money you need to buy larger, faster trains, and expand your railroad empire. Win the game by building the most effective railroad empire!

With over a million variations, Empire Builder® never grows old. Capture the entrepreneurial spirit of North America and learn to build an empire. Whether you share Empire Builder® as an evening with friends or as a rainy day activity with your family, you'll always find it captivating!
 

MSRP: $20.00
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Gender: Boys And Girls
Age: 10 and Up

With the rising of a new dawn, another busy day at the Station begins. Harried passengers hustle about, looking for their trains. Behind the scenes the engineers and workers rush to connect carriages to engines. It would all be a fine mess if there wasn't someone to oversee everything. If there was no Station Master! Can you be that Station Master?

Can you balance the needs of your passengers with the carriages you have available? You will have to compete with your opponents to direct passengers to the proper trains while choosing the best place to assign your carriages. There are many unexpected things that can happen at the Station, so be prepared for anything! Will you be the Station Master who can most cleverly steer your passengers to the most advantageous trains? The only way to find out is to play a quick-paced game of Station Master!

MSRP: $49.00
I Want One
Gender: Boys And Girls
Age: 10 and Up

It's the 19th Century, and you have come to the lush tropical jungles of Amazonas in search of rare plants and animals. You must explore the twisting paths and waterways, leading your expedition from one village to another. Each village offers an opportunity to establish a new outpost. But beware the Amazonas is not for the timid! Fearsome crocodiles lurk in the tepid waters of the rivers, and hungry jaguars stalk the twilight paths. Do not shy from such dangers too long, for the cost to build a new outpost increases the longer it takes you to reach each new village. Your funds are very limited, so speed is essential. Your sponsor has also sent you a secret directive. You must fulfill the demands of this special mission, or you will lose much of your newly earned fame! Can you face the dangers of an unknown jungle and earn fame and recognition? Or will another explorer surpass you on the way to glory? Find out when you enter the land of Amazonas!
 

About MAYFAIR GAMES INC.

The Mayfair Games® brand encompasses a wide array of great board games, card games, dice games, and party games. These are fun and usually educational games full of intrigue and interaction. All offer great replay value. Besides being the world’s leading train game manufacturer, Mayfair publishes games about everything from collecting rare specimens in the Amazon to building city states in ancient Mesopotamia to creating trade routes in renaissance Italy! Manage a gang during the Roaring Twenties or try farming in arid Mexico!

MAYFAIR GAMES INC.
8060 St. Louis Ave
Skokie, IL 60076
847-677-6655
http://www.mayfairgames.com


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