Mechanically, it’s a simple word- and pattern-recognition game. Anomia is firmly in the latter category, and I’ve often worried that my more-competitive friends would lose their voices after playing. Then there are games that are so quick, with such engaging energy, that if you play them too late at night, your neighbors might end up filing a noise complaint. Why we love it: Some games require sharp focus, advance planning, and subtle strategy, and this can lead to a lot of intense, furrowed-brow looks around a silent table. Whoever collects the most gold (earned mostly by acquiring land) throughout the game wins. This continues for a number of rounds, depending on the number of players.

And on their next turn, players pick a new race/power combo to use. As players expand their empires and come into conflict with each other, they eventually run out of useful tiles, which they can then turn over (the game calls this “going into decline.”) The pieces stay on the board and can still accrue points (but they can no longer be used to gain new territory). Once a player picks their characters, they get a set of tiles representing their troops during their turn they use the tiles to take over land on the board.

For instance, if you pick up Wizards with a Flying power, you get bonus gold for occupying magic spaces (the Wizards feature), and you can send your troops anywhere on the board (the Flying feature). Each race is paired with a separately shuffled stack of powers, which modify what the troops of that race can do. With the help of 'Mother's' daughter Shaw goes deep undercover to save himself and to find out who is behind the plot, only to learn that there's more to this story than meets the eye.How it’s played: At the beginning of the game, every player gets to select a fantasy race to control from a shuffled stack. Synopsis: Wesley Snipes reprises his role in The Art of War II: Betrayal - the exhilarating high-action sequel to the $40MM worldwide box office hit Art of War - as Agent Neil Shaw who is called out of retirement as a Hollywood film consultant by the murder of his long-time martial arts mentor, 'Mother.' But Shaw soon finds himself in the midst of Washington intrigue as he uncovers a plot to assassinate several leading Senators and then finds himself set-up to take the wrap of a recent killing. Sub: Chinese (Mandarin Traditional), English (US), French (Parisian), Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Latin Am), Thai Stars: Athena Karkanis, Ryan McDonald, Lochlyn Munro, Winston Rekert, Wesley Snipes

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