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Our Play with thought of the day comes to us from Friedrich Nietzsche:
“You must become the man you are. Do what only you can do. Constantly become who you are, be the master and sculptor of yourself.”
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In 2 words game
2 words game Camel Up Off Season
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Today we are going to talk about Camel Up Off Season!
Desert merchants, from 3 to 5 players, from 8 years old from 45 minutes, optimize your goods to sell as much as possible.
The chaos of Camel Up racing is fading, but what do racing camels do during the off-season? They help merchants transport valuable goods!
However, some merchants are more ambitious than others when sourcing.
Will all the goods they have acquired be able to be properly loaded among the animals in their caravan or will they lose everything before even having the chance to sell them?
Take part in the most popular auction in the desert and use your talents to become the most successful merchant of all!
In Camel Up Off Season, each player plays a merchant with a caravan of camels. Players will bet on lots of merchandise with one goal in mind… generate profits!
However, if they are too greedy and collect too much goods, their camels will be overloaded, and the precious goods will fall and be lost forever in the desert.
Each round begins with an auction to determine the 1st player. The type of bid for the current round is indicated by the top card of the draw pile. However, most auctions follow the same rules as a standard auction, as described below.
Players secretly place coins in their fist. When all players are ready, the bets are revealed simultaneously.
The player with the highest bid wins the auction and returns his bid to the reserve. The other players recover their stake and return their pieces to their tents. The player who wins the auction receives the 1st player marker.
In the event of a tie, the second highest bid wins the auction. If the tie persists, the next highest bid wins the auction.
If all players are involved in a tie, each player gets their stake back and the auction is restarted from the beginning.
During this round, if no player wins, the first player keeps it and everyone gets back their stake. If this happens during the first round of the game, randomly determine the 1st player.
During the market phase and starting with the 1st player, each player supplies goods from a Market tile.
On his turn, the player performs the following actions in order:
1/ Choose a Market tile that has not already been chosen this round and, if applicable, take any coins found there.
2/ Activate a market tile. Each Market tile has a power whose effect can be applied immediately, or which can provide you with a token (+1) to use in a subsequent phase.
3/ Take all the Merchandise cards placed under this Market and reveal those that are face down, if applicable.
Place the collected Goods cards on the camels in your caravan. After performing these actions, their turn is over and it is the next player's turn, in clockwise order.
Phase 2 ends when all players have performed these actions.
4/ Place the goods cards on your camels. The player must place all the Goods cards on his camels.
It is possible to collect 4 types of goods during the game. A player must assign a different type of merchandise per camel.
Once a type of goods is loaded onto one of their camels, that type cannot be reassigned to another free camel until that player has sold all goods of that type.
After placing all the goods on his camels, the player checks to see if any of his camels collapse under the excessive weight of their loads.
The number written under each camel in a caravan indicates the maximum number of Goods cards it can carry (from 3 to 6).
When you have placed 1 or more cards on a camel, if the total number of cards now loaded on its back is greater than its limit, it collapses.
All goods on his back, including those you collected this turn, are lost and you must discard these cards.
During the sales phase and starting with the 1st player, each player can sell a batch of goods.
Each player, going clockwise, can sell the load, in whole or in part, of just one of their camels.
Discard the cards that are part of the set. Cards that have not been sold remain on the camel.
Overview cards are divided into 3 sections:
1. The header indicates the sale restriction for this type of merchandise.
2. Coins indicate the amount of money a player receives based on the quantity of merchandise included in the prize.
3. The numbers associated with the goods pictured indicate the number of cards of each variety included in the deck.
When all players have had the opportunity to make a sale, place 1 Egyptian pound from the reserve on the Market tile that was not chosen during the Market phase.
Turn the chosen ones over to their other side. Next, fill the Market tiles with Goods cards from the Tower.
If the Tower does not contain enough Merchandise cards to fill all the markets, the end of the game is triggered. Shuffle the cards from the discard pile and fill in the remaining markets for the final round. The next round can begin with a new Auction phase.
When activating the power of a Market tile which asks you to draw Merchandise cards, if the Tower does not contain enough, the end of the game is triggered. Shuffle the cards from the discard pile and continue drawing. Continue the current round, and the next round will be the last of the game.
During the Sell phase of the final round, players can make a sale from each of their camels, as described in the Sell phase rules.
When the last round is over, each player counts the number of Egyptian pounds they have. The richest player wins the game.
In the event of a tie, the players concerned make 1 additional sale per camel. The richest player concerned is declared the winner. If the tie persists, the victory is shared.
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My 1st is the 1st syllable of catastrophic.
My 2nd is the diminutive for Melanie.
My 3rd isn’t down.
My4th is the opposite of “on”
My 5th is composed of salted water.
My 6th is the 2nd syllable of Jason.
My everything is a strategic and management game that is moving, who am I?
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Maurice Bernard Sendak wanted to become a children's illustrator the day he saw Walt Disney's “Fantasia” for the first time at the age of 12.
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Today Monsieur and Up Off Season have a son, what do they call him?
Last week Mr and Mrs Ronchon had a son named Grumpf.
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Today we are going to play with the words of your choice “moon”, “stars”, “earth”, “sun”.
I'm going to sing "Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars.” and you?
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In JJV's Offs
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Welcome to a new opus of “JJV Offs”!
“The whole world is a theater, and everyone, men and women, are only actors. And throughout our lives we play several roles.”
When I started the store on June 25, 2018, I didn't imagine that I would experience so much.
We all play a role in the lives of those around us even if we are not always aware of it.
At the beginning I was, and I still am a little every day, the initiator of the world of games in Vaison and its surroundings.
Then I quickly became, and I continue to be, the master of the game during the different board game sessions that I offer you.
I am your daily games advisor within the store and your local smile with services close to you.
For some time now, I have become your discoverer of new games thanks to the Ca déboite videos on Fridays.
I am ready to take on all the roles that will be necessary for me to master in order to offer you the most beautiful things in the gaming world: sharing and memories.
Close to home and close to you to, I hope, offer you what suits you best on a daily basis.
I have not finished adapting to you to offer you even better, I am only in competition with myself to try to offer you always more of the fun world. ;)
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Hello everyone !
Our Play with thought of the day comes to us from William Shakespeare:
“The whole world is a theater, and everyone, men and women, are only actors. And throughout our lives we play several roles.”
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In 2 words game
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Today we're going to talk about Grumpf!
Go hunting for grumpy monsters, with 2 to 6 players, from 8 years old in 15 minutes, to complete a series and earn the most points.
Each player controls the members of a clan of Grumpfs. The players place their Grumpf pawns on the hunting boards at the same time. This is where they capture the Animals.
For each board, the players must achieve, together, a condition of success (strength, number, etc.). They must therefore cooperate, but only the strongest clans win the hunt.
The game takes place over 4 rounds, at the end of which the player who has caught the greatest number of sets of different Animals is declared the winner.
A game is made up of 4 rounds. Each round proceeds as follows:
— Place the Animals on the hunting boards.
We each place 12 animal tokens, drawn at random, on the board that corresponds to it.
—Hunting with the Grumpfs.
As soon as a player shouts “Grumpf”, we then all drop our pawns in hand onto the table in front of us.
With one hand, we return the grumps the number of times we want to find the values that interest us.
They will then be placed on the board in the order of the monsters on the free spaces on the board.
Grumpfs with clubs allow you to knock out valuable grumpfs but they will not be counted in the points at the end of the hunt.
We check whether the platform conditions are respected. We then count all the grumpfs of all the players present on the hunting board.
When a player has placed all his grumpfs or no longer wants to play a pawn, he will fold. He then places his old pawn on one of the free huts between the boards and shouts “blue grumpfs” for the blue player. He cannot be knocked out because he is lying down.
When all the Huts are occupied, this ends the round, the players immediately stop placing Grumpfs.
— End the hunt.
The players count the boards one by one, looking for each board to see if the condition is reached. To check if the condition is reached, count all the Grumpfs of all the players present on the board (except those who have been knocked out).
If the condition is not met, nothing happens. The Animals stay for the next round and the players take back their Grumpfs
If the condition is reached, the players divide the Animals starting with the strongest clan.
To determine the strength of the clans, players add up all the Grumpfs of their color on the relevant board.
The player with the highest value is first, the second second... In the event of a tie between players, it is the one with a Grumpf of his color highest on the track who wins.
The strongest players distribute the Animals among themselves following the specific rule indicated on each board. All Animals must be dealt, but not all players on the board will necessarily have them.
Once the round is resolved, the players begin the next round, and so on until the bag is empty of all Animal tokens (4 rounds).
When the last Animal token is placed on a board, the players play this last round and count down at the end of the game.
The game ends at the end of the fourth round, at the end of the turn during which the bag no longer contains Animals.
The players line up their pawns by series of different Animals, creating the longest series possible. They count the points according to the scale:
-1 grumpf: 0 points
- 2 grumpfs: 1 point
- 3 grumps: 2 points
-4 grumpfs: 4 points
-5 grumpfs: 6 points.
It is possible to do several series and accumulate their points. Please note, an Animal can only count for one series.
The player with the most victory points is declared the winner. In the event of a tie, the player with the fewest Animals is declared the winner.
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My 1st is the 1st syllable grumbled.
My 2nd are the 2 1st letters of pfennigs.
My everything is a game of grouchy monsters, who am I?
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When writing, Stephen King sets a goal of 10 pages per day, including holidays.
No wonder he is one of the most prolific authors of his generation!
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Today Mr. and Mrs. Grouchy have a son, what do they call him?
Last week we went to the meeting of the bad guys with the assembly of villains.
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Hello everyone ! I hope you had a good weekend !
Today we are going to play with the word “photograph”.
I'm going to sing "We look the love in the photographs.” and you?
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In JJV's Offs
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Welcome to a new opus of “JJV Offs”!
“Speaking is a need, listening is an art.”
I must admit that I am a real chatterbox, because I like to share and discover through contact with the various people I meet every day at the store.
I love all our conversations, centered around games or any other cultural subject or one that is close to your heart.
When we talk about people, it is not to slander, but to find a game that suits them and that they will like.
And in the case of a surprise for your loved ones, it's you who speaks much more than me.
Quite simply, because I like to talk to you or your loved ones to find the games that you or them will like.
“To give better advice, you have to keep your ears alert. » My personal saying has followed me every day since June 25, 2018.
I don't see how I would be able to advise you what you like or what your loved ones like without listening to you talk about it.
This trust that you have in my store, I do my best to preserve it on a daily basis. It is very precious to me and I savor it with you every day.
I make it a point of honor to offer you advice which I hope is sound.
I want to never rest on my achievements and to adapt to you as much as possible to offer you ever more personalized game activities.
Even when I offer you used games, I make sure that they are complete and if they are damaged I tell you and show it to you so that you can see that I have nothing to hide on the state of the game that I propose to you.
I simply wouldn't want to be sold something damaged or incomplete knowing it and not telling me what's more!
I don't like dishonesty so I'm not dishonest, it's as simple as that. :)
So I like to chat, but I like to listen to you even more, to recommend games, open up to others and enrich myself humanly.
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Our Play with thought of the day comes to us from Goethe:
“Speaking is a need, listening is an art.”
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In 2 words game
2 words game Vilain's assembly
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Today we are going to talk about the assembly of villains!
The assembly of villains meets, from 6 to 12 players, from 10 years old to 30 minutes, but who will win, the loyal ones or the traitors?
Imagine a dark and devastated kingdom, ruled by misfortune and chaos, in which only the most evil and powerful villains can survive and thrive.
Face to face, with each other, they form the assembly of villains...
Now in this new kingdom, the ultimate struggle for power and control begins…
Which side will win?
The traitors who secretly want to defeat the loyal in hopes of ruling this new kingdom? Or the loyalists who want to stay in power?
The game consists of two camps, the loyal and the traitorous. The loyal must reveal and eliminate the traitors while the traitors must remain hidden and eliminate the loyal.
Each player discovers his character and the specificity he has without showing it to other players. Then they receive a secret alignment, loyal or traitorous.
During the night, traitors choose to eliminate a loyal one, while during the day they mingle among the loyal ones and can hide or sow doubt in people's minds to eliminate another loyal one.
The loyal are trying to find out who the traitors are before they are all eliminated.
The bad guys always walk around with their sidekicks who have no power except Diablo.
If they vote against their big bads and they were loyal, the sidekicks are eliminated along with their big bads.
Which of Maleficent and Diablo, Prince Jean and Persifleur, the Queen of Hearts and the King of Hearts, Mother Gothel and the Stabbington brothers, Captain Hook and Mister Fly, Hades and Pain and Panic, The Evil Queen and the Magic Mirror, Madame de Trémaine and Javotte and Anastacia will reign over the kingdom?
Without forgetting Shere Khan who has no sidekick, but who has claw marks which will leave their marks on other players and will not be without consequences.
As the light of day fades, darkness sets in and covers all the members of the assembly...
Traitors will always take advantage of the darkness to eliminate the loyal, but they are not the only troublemakers who come out at night...
But it is worth keeping one question in mind:
In a world of bad guys, who can you really trust?
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My 1st is the 1st syllable of vilify.
My 2nd is the the past participle of lie.
My 3rd is the 1st syllable of assessment.
My 4th is the 1st syllable of sentence.
My 5th is bleed without D.
My everything is a game wickedly strategic and sly, who am I?
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Basically, Sherlock Holmes should have been called Sherrinford.
Arthur Conan Doyle's wife managed to change his mind.
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Let’s go for today’s Kezako!
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Game on !
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Today we are leaving to the meeting the bad guys, where are we going?
Last week, Mr. and Mrs. Beware of Dogs had a son named Garous, Beware of Weredogs.
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Hello everyone ! I hope you had a good weekend !
Today we are going to play with the word “envy”.
I'm going to sing "I envy the leaves that grow from a tree, ” and you?
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In JJV's Offs
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Welcome to a new opus of “JJV Offs”!
“Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.”
When I started the entertainment at Sereno, I was very nervous because I had never had only our elders perform.
I had intergenerational families play when I was a facilitator, but never our elders alone.
I didn't know if I had enough skills to offer them relevant games that they liked.
The first sessions in 2021, I thought I was going to stop because I couldn't find games that matched the basic games they had known.
Even with the recommendation of “top entertainment” from my former partner Mac Donald at Sereno, I wasn’t doing much…
And then I understood that I had to create this habit with my Sereno players, as during my other games animation times.
If I didn't confront the unknown with my Sereno players, I would never have had the good times around the games that we experience every Saturday...
And now as soon as new games arrive, my Sereno players get involved and discover them. Moreover, Trio, the 2024 golden ace, no longer has any secrets for them. ;)
So, just because the unknown scares us doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing. The unknown shakes up our habits, but to open us even more to novelty.
And then when we do things seriously and with passion, we end up having one activity which leads to another, then another….
The unknown has brought me many little joys on a daily basis and I am happy to be able to share them with you. ;)
Thank you to everyone who allowed me to make my project a reality so that in Vaison, we play the game. At your side, I plan to continue playing the game ;)
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Alone, as a couple, as a family, let’s celebrate love!
For 30 euros of purchase at the store, benefit from a reduction of 10% off your next purchase*1 and a surprise for any purchase at the store from the 10th to the 15th of February.
On Wednesday, February 12, enjoy a free origami heart creation workshop all day!*2
So it's up to you and see you soon at the store ;)
*1 reduction valid per basket and household until August 30, 2025 and cannot be combined with other reductions.
*2 presence of an adult required during the manual workshop. From 6 years old and 4 children maximum at the same time.
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Our Play with thought of the day comes to us from Victor Hugo:
“Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.”
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In 2 words game
2 words game Beware of weredogs
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Today we’re going to talk about Beware of Weredogs!
The adventure is waiting for you, from 1 to 2 players, from 7 years old in 20 minutes, to finish the quest!
Queen Eleanor Tador's doggies have been transformed into terrifying weredogs.
Choose your character and rush into the forest of Mordosse.
You must find wolfsbane there, plants which have the power to transform these ferocious beasts back into harmless dogs when shaken under their muzzles.
But be careful, the scent of aconite escapes once used and can only be used once.
You can be either the hunter or the huntress, the wereman or the werewoman or even the shepherd or shepherdess. Each character has their strength and weakness, it's up to you to see which one suits you best.
Let yourself be guided by following the card numbers for each mission and place the missions you have completed in front of you face up to know where you are in your adventure.
You can choose to follow the choice of the character you play or free choices that will guide you in your adventure.
The adventure is yours by following maps 1 to 44 and completing the missions. With each mission you are guided to another map for a new mission.
During your adventure, you will find wolfsbane which will be very useful to you against weredogs. So be careful not to lose them during your journey.
You win a doggie card every time you manage to transform a weredog back into a friendly doggie. They are a little distracted and you can lose them on the way.
If you have succeeded in your quest and transformed 4 weredogs back into friendly doggies, the queen will ennoble you by giving you a horse.
Will you save all the friendly doggies or will the weredogs still roam the forest of Mordosse?
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My 1st is the 1st syllable of garbage.
My 2nd is hostage without the famous place.
My 3rd is dog in French.
My 4th is the 1st syllable of garden.
My 5th is Lou withtout L.
My everything is a game of quest with nice dogs, who am I?
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Samuel Beckett wrote all day without stopping.
Then he would take scissors, cut out his sentences and paste them in a new order.
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