Vendor: Sorry we are French
Type: Board Games
Price: 49.99

Twenty years after his expedition around the world, Charles Darwin is writing On the Origin of Species. He wants to gather new information about animal life, particularly about continents he hardly explored. Who other than young naturalists, eager for discovery, could help the renowned scholar finish writing his most famous work?

In In the Footsteps of Darwin, players are junior naturalists who have just arrived aboard the Beagle to help Charles Darwin finish his book On the Origin of Species. During this journey, you will study animals, carry out cartographic surveys, publish your findings, and develop theories. Starting with the naturalist controlling the Darwin token, naturalists take turns in clockwise order, performing these two steps in order:

• Study an animal or take inspiration from a character: Choose one of the three tiles facing the Beagle and place it onto your naturalist's notebook. It may be either an animal to study or a character from the Beagle's previous journey who will inspire you. Gain the bonuses depicted or any additional scoring bonuses triggered by the tile's placement.

• Voyage of the Beagle: After placing a tile on your notebook, move the Beagle as many spaces forward as the distance between the Beagle and the tile you just selected (1-3 spaces), then draw a new tile to replace the empty space on the journey board.

Your goal is to score more points than your opponents to determine who contributed the most to On the Origin of Species.

Vendor: Looney Labs
Type: Card Games
Price: 22.99

Number of Players: 2-6
Playing Time: 5-30 Minutes
Recommended Ages: 8+

Fluxx is a card game in which the cards themselves determine the current rules of the game. By playing cards, you change numerous aspects of the game: how to draw cards, how to play cards, and even how to win.

At the start of the game, each player holds three cards and on a turn a player draws one card, then plays one card. By playing cards, you can put new rules into play that change numerous aspects of the game: how many cards to draw or play, how many cards you can hold in hand or keep on the table in front of you, and (most importantly) how to win the game.

Around the World Fluxx uses the basic gameplay of Fluxx, but now you're on visiting famous landmarks around the globe. Discover man-made wonders across all seven continents, from Stonehenge to the Taj Mahal, including the Galápagos Islands, Panama Canal, Angkor Wat, and the Statue of Liberty.

Around the World Fluxx offers a bonus mini-timeline game and can be combined with Across America Fluxx for double the bucket list fun!

Vendor: HABA
Type: Board Games
Price: 41.99

Number of Players: 1-4 Players
Playing Time: 10 Minutes

Head Out to the Orchard

Board games provide hours of entertainment, but little hands require larger play pieces that are easy to handle. Playing the First Orchard game gives your toddler the chance to enjoy the original Orchard game, but in a way that’s meant to be enjoyed by small hands and curious minds. HABA USA offers My Very First Games for children so that they can have fun with a kid-friendly version of the timeless game. Your child can learn to play with the family or with friends.

The sturdy fruit basket provides another game on its own! The solid wooden fruit can be used for the game (with game boards and die) and also as pretend play food for your play kitchen.

Game Idea: Working as a team, the children try to pick the fruits from the trees before the raven reaches the end of the path.

If the players succeed in harvesting all the fruit before the raven reaches the orchard, they win together! If the raven gets there first, they lose together against the quick, ravenous raven.

This cooperative Orchard game is designed to foster social skills and understanding of game rules, develop color recognition skills, and teach counting by ones.
If you are looking for a fantastic toddler gift to go with this First Orchard game, take a look at the Orchard Themed Toddler Gift Set Bundle that also includes a Raven Puppet, fun to include in game play or on its own, and the NEW Orchard Threading Game, great for a child's imagination and fostering dexterity and eye-hand coordination skills.

Includes:

1 Raven, 1 fruit basket, 4 green apples, 4 red apples, 4 yellow pears, 4 blue plums, 5 path cards, 4 trees, 1 color-symbol die, set of game instructions

Vendor: InsideUp
Type:
Price: 56.99

Earth is an open-world engine builder for 1 to 5 players with simple rules and countless strategic possibilitie

With its encyclopedic nature and a near-infinite number of tableau combinations, every single game will allow you to discover new synergies and connections, just as our vast and fascinating world allows us to do!

Players will create a self-supporting engine of growth, expansion, and supply by drafting from a deck of over 364 unique cards and strategically placing them in their tableau.

GAME DETAILS

Vendor: Greater Than Games (GREUG)
Type: Board Games
Price: 74.99

Wingspan 

• Includes 4 first-round walkthrough guides
• Includes 10 promo bird cards
• For 1-5 players. Ages 10+. 40-70 minute playing time
• A competitive bird-collection, engine-building game
• Ages 14+

You are bird enthusiasts—researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, and collectors—seeking to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves. Each bird extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your habitats (actions). These habitats focus on several key aspects of growth: gain food tokens via custom dice in a birdfeeder dice tower lay eggs using egg miniatures in a variety of colors draw from hundreds of unique bird cards and play them the winner is the player with the most points after 4 rounds. If you enjoy terraform mars and gizmos, we think this game will take flight at your table. Featured components: 170 unique bird cards (57x87mm) 26 bonus cards (57x87mm) 16 automa cards (57x87mm) 103 food tokens 75 egg miniatures 5 custom wooden dice 5 player mats 1 birdfeeder dice tower 2-piece game trays custom tray 1 goal mat 8 goal tiles 1 first-player token 40 action cubes (8 per player) 4 clear plastic resource containers 1 scorepad (50 sheets; 1 sheet used for all players each game) 3 guidebook (core, automa, and appendix).