Welcome aboard and congrats on the promotion! Your “new” starship is ready to embark on its first big voyage. Just scrape off some of the rust and she’ll do fine. And that crew? Might look a little green around the edges, but they’re your crew now. Make us proud.

The stars are calling, and adventure awaits!

Settle into the captain’s chair of your very first star cruiser and get ready to embark on an exciting voyage through the depths of space in this euro-style action selection and engine building game for 2-4 players.

The vibrant galaxy holds many peculiar mysteries to explore and uncover! Skillfully manage your team of cadets, ensigns, androids, and officers to make the most of their unique abilities—all while balancing essential ship roles, completing unique missions, and upgrading your ship with powerful engine-building alien technology.

Do you have what it takes to deftly command your crew and become the best captain in the cosmos? We’ll see. 2-4 players. Ages 12+. 25 minutes per player. Contents:

• 4 dual layer player boards
• Main star map board
• Faction tracks
• Missions deck
• Technology deck
• Miniatures
• Reference cards
• Scorepad
• Tokens

Codenames Duet keeps the basic elements of Codenames -- give one-word clues to try to get someone to identify your agents among those on the table -- but now you're working together as a team to find all of your agents. Players work together to reveal all fifteen agents -- without revealing an assassin -- before time runs out in order to win the game.

Either player can decide to give the first one-word clue to the other player, along with a number. Whoever receives the clue places a finger on a card to identify that agent. If correct, they can attempt to identify another one. If they identify a bystander, then their guessing time ends. If they identify an assassin, you both lose! Unlike regular Codenames, they can keep guessing as long as they keep identifying an agent each time; this is useful for going back to previous clues and finding ones they missed earlier. After the first clue is given, players alternate giving clues.

What are these strange symbols on the map They are code for locations where spies must contact secret agents! Codenames Pictures is the top- secret picture game where two rival spymasters know the agent in each location. They deliver coded messages telling their field operatives where to go for clandestine meetings. Operatives must be clever. A decoding mistake could lead to an unpleasant encounter with an enemy agent - or worse, with the assassin. Both teams race to contact all their agents, but only one team can win.

Give your expedition an edge by choosing one of six unique leaders, each equipped with different abilities, skills, and starting decks that offer different strategies and styles of play for you to explore.

In addition to the leader abilities, which bring a new element of asymmetry to the game, this expansion also contains alternative research tracks that offer even more variety and a bigger challenge, along with new item and artifact cards to create new combos and synergies.

Lost Ruins of Arnak is an award-winning board game that offers a unique combination of worker placement and deckbuilding, while each player attempts to uncover the lost island's secrets.