Streamer PlayingBoardGames is giving away Sonic The Hedgehog Crash Course from IDW. Tweet and follow required.

A Games & Puzzles bundle at Humble Bundle includes …For Dummies books on Poker, Chess, Dungeons & Dragons, and more.

Everything is 30% in Victory Point Games’ Christmas Sale.

Mom’s Choice Awards is giving away Blurble from North Star Games.

Family-friendly RPGs are discounted in DriveThruRPG’s Teach Your Kids to Game Sale.

Pangea Games on Facebook is giving away Scythe from Stonemaier Games.

Iello is giving away Decrypto.

Save on a variety of games in Eagle-Gryphon’s Stocking Stuffer Sale, plus an additional 10% with orders of $50 and 20% with orders of $99.

The Family Gamers is giving away the Home Alone Game from Big G Creative this evening.

Bundle of Holding has two Cyberpunk offers from R. Talsorian Games, Cyberpunk 2020 and Cyberpunk Boost. The latter includes the game’s third edition core rulebook. Also at Bundle of Holding is a Warhammer RPP 1E offer with this game’s first edition rulebooks and Enemy Within campaign.

Board game deals at Walmart include:

• Founders of Gloomhaven from Cephalofair Games for 54% off.
• Twister from Hasbro for 53% off.
• Rubik’s Race from University Games for 55% off.
• Monopoly Gamer from Hasbro for 55% off.
• One Night Ultimate Werewolf from Bezier Games for 48% off.
• Perplexus Rookie from Spin Master for 49% off.

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North Star Games has brought to the American market The Quacks of Quedlinburg ($55), winner of the 2018 Kennerspiel des Jahres (Connoisseur’s Game of the Year) award. Nothing to do with ducks, the game is about concocting miracle cures from such fantastical ingredients as toadstools, mandrake, spiders, pumpkin, and crow skull.

Each round, players draw ingredients from their personal bags and place them around the swirling spaces of their cauldrons. Depending on how far they’ve gone that round, and assuming they’ve managed to avoid blowing up the concoction, they’ll score victory points and purchase additional ingredients.

Some of the ingredients also allow for special actions when placed in the cauldron. For example, crow skulls may allow a player to draw bonus ingredients and mandrake may help prevent blow-ups. Alternate ingredient books are included with the game to vary these impacts.

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Brain Games’, who’s big hit is the penguin-flicking Ice Cool, has remade Curse of the Mummy (previously published by Ravensburger) also with a penguin theme. Game-play is essentially the same. Pyramid of the Pengqueen ($30) has a two-sided, vertical, magnetic game board. On one side, a group of players move penguin pieces around the pyramid to collect sets of treasure. On the other, one opposing player moves the mummy piece trying to catch the penguins with its magnet.

Passing on the penguins, Brain Game’s Orc-Lympics ($15) goes with a fantasy theme. Players draft teams of human, goblin, dwarf, elf, halfling, djinn, and orc contestants for a variety of sporting events. Each group has strengths for certain of the sports but at the end of the draft, each player can keep representatives from at most three of the fantasy races.

Pikoko ($30) is a trick-taking card game where players wager on the number of tricks they can take. There’s a twist, though. Instead of seeing one’s own hand of card, players only get to see everyone else’s cards.

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Hollandspiele’s Hollandays Sale includes all the company’s games. Additionally, use discount code “MONSTERDEAL” for 10% off orders of $100 or more.

Michigan Savings and More is giving away Utter Nonsense Family Edition from PlayMonster.

Auroch Digital’s Steam games are on-sale. Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics is 20% off and Ogre is 50% off.

At DriveThruRPG:

• Goodman Games’ Holiday Modules for Dungeon Crawl Classics are 40% off.
• WarDrumRPG’s isometric mapping tools are available in an Epic Isometric Bundle at 50% savings.
• Shadows of Esteren titles from Agate RPG are 66% off.
• Raging Swan Press’ Christmas PDF Megabundle is priced at a savings of 93% and the Christmas Print Megabundle is priced at a savings of 33%.

Amazon roleplaying game deals:

• Mouse Guard Boxed Set for 54% off.
• Paizo’s Starfinder Core Rulebook for 53% off, Armory for 54% off, and Alien Archive 2 for 55% off.
• WOTC Dungeons & Dragons’ Player’s Handbook for 55% off; Dungeon Master’s Guide and Monster Manual for 58% off; Starter Set for 40% off; Xanathar’s Guide to Everything for 58% off; Dragon Heist for 58% off; and Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica for 58% off.
• Paizo’s Pathfinder Bestiary 4 for 40% off and Pathfinder Unchained for 43% off.

Amazon board game deals:

• New York 1901 from Blue Orange Games for 58% off.
• Dominion and Dominion Intrigue from Rio Grande Games for 37% off. Dominion Prosperity for 41% off.
• Broom Service from Ravensburger for 39% off.
• Betrayal at House on the Hill from WOTC for 47% off.
• Terraforming Mars from Stroghold Games for 36% off.
• Above and Below from Red Raven Games for 46% off.
• Pandemic Iberia from Z-Man for 54% off.
• Battle Sheep from Blue Orange for 38% off.
• Portal: The Uncooperative Cake Acquisition Game from Cryptozoic for 44% off.
• Massive Darkness from CMON for 45% off.
• In the Year of the Dragon from Ravensburger for 58% off.
• Santorini from Spin Master for 38% off.
• The Rose King from Kosmos for 46% off.
• Dice City from AEG for 43% off.
• Survive Space Attack! from Stronghold Games for 45% off.
• Abaddon from Toy Vault for 75% off.

Renegade Game Studios is giving away a new game every day on Twitter though December 18th.

USAopoly is also giving away a new game every day, through December 12th, but the winner must follow the company on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

Get a free Christmas-themed miniature for every $40 of order from Reaper through the 16th.

Use promo code “GAMEAWARDS” for a free 25 card set in Magic: The Gathering Arena.

Try Small Things is giving away Googly Eyes, Mastermind, Wordsearch, and Sequence from Goliath Games and Pressman Toy.

Enter to win a weekly giveaway by Asmodee UK.

Terraforming Mars upgrades are 15% off at Top Shelf Gamer.

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Winning Moves’ newest games include an original abstract and two revived classics.

The abstract is Triple Cross ($20), which has players filling a vertical device with orange and green pieces to score the greatest number of three-in-a-row sets. The pieces slide in to horizontal rows and can be used to push an opponent’s pieces out the other side. Or a player can snap a clip on the end to fix that row.

Clue Master Detective ($30) is a super-sized version of the classic deduction game, with additional rooms, weapons, and suspects. The mansion board also has snoop spots, which allow a player to look another player’s cards.

A Milton Bradley title from the early ’90s, 13 Dead End Drive is kind of the inverse of Clue. Players divide up the game’s 12 characters in secret and then try to kill off all but their own. Each turn they can move any of the characters around a three-dimensional game board. When they manage to maneuver a character pawn in to one of the various danger spaces, they can press a little lever or switch and literally topple a statue or drop a chandelier on the piece to kill it. 13 Dead End Drive is exclusive to Go! Calendars & Games until January.

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At PAX Unplugged, AEG previewed Tiny Towns (April, $40), a title that pairs resource collecting with polyominoes. Players take turns calling out a resource type for everyone to place in one space of their 4×4 town board. Resource combinations that match specific patterns can then be replaced with a building type—all of the resource pieces are removed and the appropriate building is placed in one of the emptied spaces. Play continues until no one can possibly make another move.

Buildings score victory points, as well as potentially providing some benefits during play. In addition to those available for everyone to build, each player has their own secret building type (referred to as a monument), tougher to fit on the board but with greater benefits.

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Gamewright’s newest release is Twin It! ($15), a fast-play matching game with cards in more than 100 different patterns. Each player gets a stack and everyone turns over a new card at the same time. The first to correctly point to a pair of matching cards scores the point.

The cards are also two-sided, making the cards on top of each player’s stack fair-game for matching.

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For the 10th year of the company, Calliope plans a new release in the Tsuro line. Like previous entries, it’s a path-building game that takes up to eight players. But in this one, Tsuro Phoenix Rising (June, $40), players fly their phoenix pawns through a tile to promote any floating lanterns there in to stars. Then the lantern piece is moved to another tile with a matching colored lantern to show that it has now been released in to the air. The first player to promote seven stars is the winner.

In an advanced version of the game, players not only add new tiles to the sky, they can flip and rotate existing tiles as well.

Of course, the copy of the game previewed at PAX Unplugged was just a prototype. However, already I could see that Calliope’s plans should produce a game that looks as elegant as its theme.

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Dire Wolf Digital has announced plans for Clank! Legacy: Acquisitions Incorporated to release in the fall of 2019. This version of the company’s dungeon-exploring, deck-building game will have players building their own franchise of the fantasy adventuring company featured in the popular live roleplaying stream, Acquisitions Inc. Also, the board, the game, and the setting will evolve as the players progress through a campaign.

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Deluxe upgrades for Stonemaier Games’ Scythe, including metal mechs, are 15% off at Top Shelf Gamer.

Community News of Australia is giving away 20 copies of the 70th Anniversary Edition of Scrabble.

MeepleGamers is giving away the pair of Mint Works and Mint Delivery from Five24 Labs to three winners.

Complete Stonemaier Games’ survey for a chance to win $100 in store credit. The company will be giving away several.

The Cardboard Republic is giving away Dice Hospital from Alley Cat Games.

Board Game Tables is selling sample and demo game furniture for up to 20% off.

Ancient History Encyclopedia is running a photo contest for pictures of the seven wonders of the ancient world. The top prize is 7 Wonders from Repos Production.

In celebration of a new expansion, Asmodee is also giving away three copies of 7 Wonders, along with the expansion, Armada.

Asmodee Digital’s digital advent calendar means daily game giveaways, starting with Pandemic on Steam.

Coiledspring Games is doing a similar Advent Calendar daily giveaway of board games for U.K. residents.

And so is Orchard Toys, also for the U.K.

Or chip in $8 for Asmodee Digital’s Humble Board Game Bundle to get Small World, Agricola, Splendor, Le Havre, Pandemic, Pathfinder Adventures, and more.

Save 20% on new releases at HasbroToyShop.com with promo code “ALLNEW”.

Ottawa Mommy Club is giving away Trash Pandas from Gamewright (Canada residents only).

Casual Game Revolution is giving away six different games from ThinkFun and Pressman.

Chess.com is giving away $150 in Chess-themed clothes for children from Monica + Andy. The site has also arranged for a Wholesale Chess’ 20% Cyber Monday discount to be extended through the 25th. Use coupon code “CHESS.COM”.

HexBug’s 12 Deals of Hexmas bundles include savings on Battlebots and Gladiators sets.

The latest at Bundle of Holding includes Coriolis and Tales From the Loop from Free League Publishing.

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