Board Games From Days of Wonder

Days of Wonder publishes top-quality, family-oriented board games that are easy to learn and fun to play. Their name is derived from the "sense of wonder" we all experienced as children when we first fell in love with playing games.

While easy to learn and play, each game has tactical game play elements that guarantee you'll want to replay them again and again. Days of Wonder games also set the standard for the highest quality components and uncompromising production values.

Days of Wonder is responsible for three major board game series:

• BattleLore - The world of BattleLore meshes history and fantasy together -- putting players in command of a vast array of miniature troops on the battlefields of a Medieval Europe at the outset of the Hundred Years War.

• Memoir '44 - Memoir '44 is a unique historical game where players command a horde of little plastic Army men facing-off in dozens of World War II battles on an oversizes hex game board.

• Ticket To Ride - One of the most popular games ever designed, Ticket to Ride is a beautifully-illustrated coast-to-coast railroad journey, a simple yet strategic game of connecting cities with trains.

In addition to their series, Days of Wonder also produces a number of standalone games, many of them award-winners and best-sellers in their own right:

The pyramids are crubling, the temples are in ruins and even the nose of the great Sphinx looks like it might fall off any day now. Cleopatra is one unhappy queen! Now she has called on the members of the Society of Architects to build her a magnificent new palace in Alexandria - with a Pharaoh's ransom to the design that pleases her most. This is a fun and engaging family game unlike any you've played before. Inside this box you will find a three-dimensional palace that you race to build against your fellow players. Corrupt officials and building materials of dubious origin may help you stay ahead. But beware: the price of corruption is sure to be high!

Producing great spectacles in ancient Rome must have been very rewarding to all but the sometimes doomed participants. In the highly rated Colosseum board game, you'll step into the sandals of a Roman impresario with your job being to produce elaborate spectacles in your arena in order to attract the most spectators to your events. You'll earn wealth and glory for each event you run, using them both to build ever more ambitious events. You will need to build up your arena's infrastructure and manage your resources as though you were Caesar himself to produce larger and larger events that will attract more spectators. You'll also need to expand your amphitheater which will hold more spectators and give you an even better opportunity to influence the Emperor and other Roman nobles to attend. Achieve your goal of attracting the most spectators to one of your events and be granted the title of Grand Impresario and winner of Colosseum!

Gang of Four is an exciting game of cunning, strategy and power! Originating in the gambling backstreets of Hong Kong, Gang of Four is the most popular card game to emerge from Asia in decades. Filled with an endless variety of strategies and tactics, Gang of Four is fun, entertaining and full of surprises, yet is simple to learn and play. The game's premise is simple - be the first to rid yourself of all your cards and ascend to supreme power. But beware - a strategic misstep may find you in a struggle to survive. Gang of Four is terrific fun for adults and children and is a highly addictive card game for your family or friends.

Mystery of the Abbey is a new kind of "whodunit" game of deduction and intuition, set in a medieval abbey. Players compete and collaborate to solve the mystery by moving through the Abbey's beautifully rendered board and questioning their brethren. Brother Adelmo is dead and foul play is suspected. You are charged with the task of discovering which of the resident monks in this formerly quiet and peaceful abbey is responsible for this evil deed. Gameplay is in turn fun, captivating and tense; the atmosphere, vivid; the immersion, complete. Constant interactivity between the players, intelligent questioning and dynamic intrigue make Mystery of the Abbey the game of choice for an hour of fun with friends and family alike.

Come aboard and sail to Pirate's Cove, the legendary hideaway of thieving pirates and cutthroat buccaneers! Armed with a secret map and starting with a modestly outfitted sloop salvaged from last winter's storm, it's time to set sail for adventure. Your objective is to battle for the rights to plunder and become the most famed and feared pirate the world has ever seen. To do so you will need to navigate shrewdly, fight recklessly and pillage mercilessly. You will gain fame by winning battles; burying gold and treasure; and bragging about your exploits at the Tavern.

Shadows Over Camelot is a unique collaborative game featuring a malevolent twist! As the incarnation of the Knights of the Round Table, you join forces against the game itself in an attempt to protect Camelot. But beware, all is not as it seems among these noble Knights. One of your number might yet turn out to be a traitor-in-waiting, biding his time while sowing havoc and destruction from the shadows! Featuring a richly illustrated gameboard of Camelot and its surroundings, finely carved miniatures of the Knights and their foes, and seven Quests to embark upon - Shadows Over Camelot is your gateway to many a memorable game night among friends!

The world isn't big enough for everybody. Somebody has got to go and in Smallworld it's up to you to decide who! It's race against race in Smallworld, a territory building and area control game for those with annihilation in mind. There are fourteen unique fantasy races to choose from that include Trolls, Giants, Dwarves, Ratmen, Skeletons, etc. Twenty special powers will aid the races in their struggle to dominate the world. After choosing a race and special power combination, players must use their unique racial traits and skills to overrun and annex surrounding regions and amass Victory coins.