Game On! Holiday Gift Guide

Game On! HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE

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HOLIDAY FUN & GAMES! THE HOLIDAYS ARE RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER! To mark the occasion, we’ve assembled this special selection of our favourite board games, perfect to bring you and your loved ones together in round after round of festive cheer!

Proven icebreakers, these games will add the play to your holiday, and keep you entertained for hours, whether you’re across the table or across the country from one another.

So, whether you’re celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Ōmisoka or just the thrill of being with your family and friends, the whole gang at Asmodee Canada wishes you happy holidays and a healthy and joyful New Year!

Child’s Play!

Whoever said childhood should be all fun and games wasn’t kidding—especially when your kids are playing games that make learning child’s play. These titles top our list because they’ve been shown to actually help children improve their communication, coordination, or cooperation skills.

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CATAN JUNIOR PUBLISHER: CATAN STUDIO

$43.99 Explore the seas! CATAN Junior takes place on a ring of islands where players build hideouts and encounter the mysterious Spooky Island, home to the Ghost Captain.

Players use the resources they acquire to build ships and hideouts, or get help from Coco the Parrot. CATAN Junior introduces a modified playing style to the classic CATAN, giving players as young as six a perfect introduction to the series!

• Easy for younger players to enjoy while teaching them basic math.

Age

Players

Play time

6+

2–4

30–45 min

MY FIRST CARCASSONNE PUBLISHER: Z-MAN GAMES

$46.99 The streets of Carcassonne are filled with kids; the city has never been so alive!

This version of the modern classic, Carcassonne, has been adapted to allow players of all ages to play together. Each turn, players place a tile to build the city. When they close a street with one or more kids of their colour, they put their pawn on the board. The first to place all their pawns wins!

• Introduces the basics of strategic thinking and tactics.

Age

Players

Play time

4+

2–4

15–30 min

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SPOT IT! 1, 2, 3 PUBLISHER: ZYGOMATIC

$14.99 Find the common symbol on the two cards; there will always be one, but only one!

Spot it! 1, 2, 3 allows children to improve their recognition of numbers and colours. A purple rectangle, a yellow 6, and an orange circle are a few examples of the symbols to identify.

• Great for learning shapes, colours, and numbers.

Age

Players

Play time

3+

1–5

10 min

MY VERY FIRST GAMES – RHINO HERO JUNIOR PUBLISHER: HABA

$41.99 Rhino Hero Junior is a superhero in training who aims high. In three different games, children practise their fine motor skills, work on a basic understanding of numbers and quantities, and also train their memories.

Floor by floor, the fun and learning curve just gets steeper and steeper, until the heroic rhino reaches the top and the kids win as a team.

• Three game modes that encourage fine motor skills and counting.

Age

Players

Play time

2+

1–4

15 min

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BRAINTOPIA 3 PUBLISHER: ZYGOMATIC

$20.99 Braintopia 3 is a simple game that will test your skills of observation, quick thinking, and coordination.

The game is made up of eight fast-paced challenges that keep you on your toes as you race to refocus your mind and solve each puzzle before your opponents.

New and exciting challenges appear in this third version of Braintopia, that includes Scent cards!

• Helps develop memory, hand-eye coordination, and much more.

Age

Players

Play time

8+

2–6

15 min

TICKET TO RIDE: FIRST JOURNEY PUBLISHER: DAYS OF WONDER

$49.99 Easy to learn and quick to play, Ticket to Ride: First Journey is the perfect introduction to board games.

Players collect train cards, claim routes on the map, and try to connect the cities shown on their tickets to achieve victory. So climb aboard and embark on your very own railway adventure!

• Stimulates planning, organization, and strategic flexibility!

Age

Players

Play time

6+

2–4

15–30 min

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Quality Family Time!

Board games are a fun and affordable way to entertain the whole family. They also foster openness, discussion, teamwork, and friendly competition every time you play. Don’t just share the moment. Share the joy and laughter that comes from learning to play and work together.

PUBLISHER: Z-MAN GAMES

$59.99 Can you save humanity in this cooperative game, where deadly viruses are spreading across the globe?

Together, treat diseases, share knowledge, and fly all over the world to prevent outbreaks and slow down the epidemic. The fate of humanity is in your hands!

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PANDEMIC

• Easy to learn and teach with different difficulty levels included.

Age

Players

Play time

8+

2–4

45 min

Age

Players

Play time

10+

3–4

60–120 min

CATAN PUBLISHER: CATAN STUDIO

$69.99 Embark on a quest to settle the isle of Catan. Guide your settlers to victory by clever trading and cunning development.

Use resource combinations to buy handy development cards and build roads, settlements, and cities. Acquire resources through trades, cards, or lucky dice. But beware! You never know when the robber might steal some of your precious gains!

• Civilization-building board game of harvesting and trading resources.

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TICKET TO RIDE: NORDIC COUNTRIES PUBLISHER: DAYS OF WONDER

$74.99 Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries takes you on a wintry adventure through Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Players collect cards of various types of train cars to claim railway routes and pass through tunnels and onto ferries, as they connect cities throughout the Nordic countries. Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries is a complete board game designed specifically for two to three players.

• A remarkable strategy game that will make you want to play all day.

Age

Players

Play time

8+

2–3

30–60 min

CARCASSONNE – HUNTERS AND GATHERERS PUBLISHER: Z-MAN GAMES

$54.99 Thousands of years before the people of Carcassonne built mighty walls and castles, their ancestors roamed the land, hunting, fishing, and gathering what they needed to survive. Players take turns placing tiles to expand a prehistoric landscape full of forests, rivers, lakes, and grasslands, and then score each natural feature.

• A simple game of tile placement that provides ample strategic choices.

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Age

Players

Play time

8+

2–5

30–45 min

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AZUL PUBLISHER: NEXT MOVE GAMES

$49.99 Get transported back to Portugal during the time of Manuel I with Azul. Players have been challenged by the Portuguese king to decorate the walls of his palace with Moorish ornamental tiles. Earn points by laying tile designs and completing specific patterns on the game board.

• Simple mechanics, beautiful components, and endless strategic options.

Age

Players

Play time

8+

2–4

30–45 min

7 WONDERS DUEL PUBLISHER: REPOS PRODUCTION

$39.99 In 7 Wonders Duel, each player leads a civilization and will, over the course of three ages, construct Buildings and Wonders. Each card represents a building, which helps the player strengthen their army, make scientific discoveries, or develop their city. 7 Wonders Duel is specially made for two players with ongoing tension between the two for a heated battle to achieve victory.

• A strategic duel where many paths may lead to victory.

Age

Players

Play time

10+

2

30 min

Prices in-store may vary.

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DIXIT ODYSSEY PUBLISHER: LIBELLUD

$49.99 Dixit is a classic, simple, light-hearted game of storytelling and guesswork, where your imagination unlocks the tale. Each round, cards are revealed. Their connection: one enigmatic sentence.

Be careful! Only one picture represents the correct answer; the others are decoys.

• Use your imagination and powers of creative interpretation to guess the correct card associated with the story or phrase.

Age

Players

Play time

10+

2–4

30–45 min

Age

Players

Play time

8+

3–12

30–45 min

Age

Players

Play time

10+

1–6

60 min

SPLENDOR MARVEL PUBLISHER: SPACE COWBOYS

$59.99 Bring together a team of superheroes and prevent Thanos from ending the world!

The Infinity Stones are scattered throughout the Multiverse. Use their essence to recruit heroes and villains to gain Infinity Points.

If you are keen on Splendor, learning the rules will be easy, but mastering the game is hero’s work. Are you up to the challenge?

• Includes 90 characters from the Marvel Universe.

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UNLOCK! – STAR WARS PUBLISHER: SPACE COWBOYS

$49.99 Unlock! is a cooperative card game inspired by escape rooms that uses a simple system that allows you to search scenes, combine objects, and solve riddles. Play Unlock! and embark on great adventures, while seated at a table using only cards and a companion app. Includes three separate scenarios from your favourite Star Wars locations.

• A cooperative game where everyone wins or loses together.

Players

Play time

4+

2–4

15 min

ANIMAL UPON ANIMAL – CHRISTMAS PUBLISHER: HABA

$41.99

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Age

The animals climb all over each other to form an ever-taller Christmas pyramid. But which one will make it to the top? Players decide by carefully balancing squirrels, snow bunnies, penguins, and reindeer on stars, trees, sleds, and even on each other. The first player to safely place all of their figures on the pyramid wins this wobbly Christmas stacking game.

• An entertaining stacking game with different difficulty levels included.

PATCHWORK – CHRISTMAS PUBLISHER: LOOKOUT GAMES

$39.99 Patchwork – Christmas is a special edition of the now classic game, and offers the same great two-player fun in holiday style. During the game, each player works to create a Christmas-inspired patchwork quilt out of available patches, without leaving any empty spaces. The most beautiful quilt wins!

• Abstract strategy game.

Age

Players

Play time

8+

2

30 min

Prices in-store may vary.

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Party Hearty!

Whether you’re entertaining friends, family, or neighbours, there’s nothing quite like a great party game to break the ice and make people laugh, cheer, and have fun. Play these favourites virtually anywhere, in person or online, and in groups of two, twenty, or more. Party on!

MYSTERIUM PARK PUBLISHER: LIBELLUD

$39.99 Mysterium Park has many secrets to hide…

Grave secrets! The park’s director has disappeared.

Since then, strange events have started occuring.

You and your team of psychics decide to reveal the truth. Once on the fairgrounds, the ghost of the director communicates with you. With his help, will you be able to find the killer and the scene of the crime?

Age

Players

Play time

15+

4–10

45–60 min

• An enchanting and immersive game of intrigue!

HINT PUBLISHER: BEZZERWIZZER

$49.99 In Hint, your teammates have to guess what you are trying to tell them. Along the way you mime, draw, hum and talk about everything from “European capitals” and “movie villains” to “songs about winking” and “pizza toppings.”

You must be both quick and creative, but beware!

There is always one forbidden word that you may not use. An entertaining party game for everyone who gets the hint.

• A fun, fast-paced party game that will keep you wanting more!

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Age

Players

Play time

10+

2–6

28 min

PUBLISHER: REPOS PRODUCTION

Age

Players

Play time

8+

3–7

20 min

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JUST ONE $32.99

Just One is a cooperative party game in which you play together to discover as many mystery words as possible. Find the best clue to help your teammate. Be unique, as all identical clues will be cancelled!

• Watch as the active player searches deep within to figure out the word.

CONCEPT

Age

Players

Play time

PUBLISHER: REPOS PRODUCTION

10+

4–12

40 min

$54.99 WEREWOLVES – BEST OF PUBLISHER: ZYGOMATIC

$19.99 The Werewolves of Miller’s Hollow is a game that takes place in a small village haunted by werewolves. Each player is secretly assigned a role, and there is also a moderator, who controls the flow of the game. The game alternates between night and day phases.

At night, the Werewolves secretly choose a Villager to kill. During the day, the Villager who was killed is revealed and is out of the game.

In Concept, your goal is to guess words through the association of icons. A team of two players chooses a word or phrase that other players must guess. To do so, they indicate key icons on the game board. The first player to discover the word or phrase receives two victory points, and the team receives points as well.

• Don’t limit your imagination. Think outside the box!

• Social, interactive, and immersive party game.

Age

Players

Play time

10+

8–28

30 min

Prices in-store may vary.

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