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The conquest of space was one of the greatest achievements of the 20th century.
In 1957, the first satellite - named Sputnik 1- was launched into orbit. Just four years later, Yuri Gagarin was the first human in space, aboard the spaceship Vostok 1.

This game is dedicated to the early space explorers: all the outstanding people who worked to make space travel possible. As Yuri Gagarin said at the moment of his launch: “Let's go!”

You are the head of a Research & Development Hub in a Space Research Center, competing with other such Hubs in the spirit of the Golden Age of Astronautics. Your goal is to complete large- scale space projects by gathering the best and brightest minds humanity has to offer.

Thanks to your efforts, satellites, manned spaceships, and orbital stations will be launched into space!

You score Progress points by recruiting Specialists and completing Projects. The game ends when all available Projects are completed, or you have recruited 12 Specialists to your Hub. The player who made the most Progress is the winner!

Key game features:

Closed loop resource system: when recruiting a Specialist to your team, you pass Research tokens to a player to your left.
Specialists are assigned to the Divisions according to their skills. The more Specialists you have in a Division, the easier it is to recruit new ones to that Division.
All Specialists have unique abilities. Only the ability of the top card in each stack is active. Therefore, by adding a new Specialist, you often get a new ability but lose the other one. Think carefully what is more important for you at that moment in the game!

Port Royal: Big Box contains the Port Royal, the first expansion Just One More Contract..., the second expansion The Adventure Begins..., the Gambler promo card, and the standalone game Port Royal: Unterwegs!.

This edition of the game features new graphics and art.

Rabble is a party game for two teams played across three rounds. Teams alternate 45-second turns and compete to correctly guess all of the words on their team’s Rabble Cards the fastest. Each team guesses the same cards each round but each round has restrictions on the clues that players can give teammates.

Round 1 - Words, sounds, and gestures are allowed but players can’t say the card, part of the card, or spell the card.

Round 2 - Only one word per card but players can’t say the card or part of the card.

Round 3 - No words or sounds, only gestures.

Challenge Cards place additional effects on players (and make them do hilarious things), increasing the difficulty of completing each round. The same Rabble Cards are used each round so players need to remember the words and clues from previous rounds.

—description from the publisher

Based on the public domain game known as Celebrities.

Koi Garden is a tile-laying card game where you use your wildlife, with all different scoring styles and movement, to score through your ever changing pond. Your pond changes as you build and the wildlife tend to become obstacles, the more the pond is built up.

—description from the designer

Gutenberg is a board game for 1-4 people in which players will play as the pioneers of printing in the 15th century. By carrying out orders, they will build their wealth and fame. By improving their printing workshops and gaining the support of patrons, they will develop their production capacity. The game will be won by a printer who boasts the greatest recognition and wealth.

By bidding for specific actions, players will develop their workshop, acquire new fonts, inks and decorations. The unique system of rotating gears allows you to combine bonuses and earn a large number of points.

The game is won by the player with the most points after six rounds.