Fairy Lights Board Game $9 + Delivery ($0 with Prime/ $59 Spend) @ Amazon AU

Infinity Gauntlet A Love Letter Game $15 (2 in Stock)

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Infinity Gauntlet A Love Letter Game

Amazon are price matching The Gamesmen again. For whatever reason they aren't on BGO. I saw this yesterday thanks to this post by Damannation. I picked up a few things but managed to hold off purchasing either of these two games. Doing my best to support the independents as there wouldn't be anything to price match if they aren't around. Amazon also generally stick to the more popular games. Need the indepedents to stick around if you want to go deeper down the rabbit hole.

Cheap stocking fillers but I don't have any friends to give them to. Supposed to be OK games but there are a lot of similar games out there. I did think more about getting Infinity Gauntlet A Love Letter Game but it's supposed to be awful at lower player counts and it's hard enough for me to get the minimum number of players let alone more players.

Fairy Lights

Rated 6.5 on BGG
Price History on BGO

Push your luck with Fairy Lights to collect as many points as possible!

To play, shuffle the deck and place it face down. Cards in the deck show 1 or 2 bulbs in one of five colors, and each card is worth 0-2 points. At the start of your turn, see how many cards are in the "shop", the central area of play:

• If the shop has 5 cards, you can only take cards on your turn.
• If the shop has 1-4 cards, you may draw from the deck.
• If the shop has 0 cards, you must draw.

When you draw, place the revealed card at the end of the shop line. If it's the same color as the last card in the shop, your turn ends immediately. Otherwise, if the shop doesn't contain five cards, you can choose to draw again, or you can end your turn and take cards. If five cards are now in the shop, you must take cards.

When you take cards, if 1-4 cards are in the shop, take all cards of a single color from the shop and add them to your collection; if five cards are in the shop, take all cards of two colors from the shop instead. If the number of bulbs in a color in your collection is now a multiple of three (3, 6, 9, 12), score those cards, placing them face down in a corner of your playing area. If you have 1-2 bulbs of a color, leave those cards where they are. If you have four or more bulbs of a color and didn't score them, discard all bulbs of that color. The next player then takes their turn.

When the final card is revealed from the deck, the active player finishes their turn, then the game ends. Add the points on your scored cards, then subtract the points showing on all cards that remain in your playing area. Whoever ends up with the most points wins!

Love Letter: Infinity Gauntlet

Rated 6.9 on BGG
Price History on BGO

The Mad Titan Thanos seeks the Infinity Stones to bend the universe to his indomitable will, but courageous heroes are assembling to stand in his path to ultimate power. Based on the beloved card game and set in the Marvel Universe, Infinity Gauntlet: A Love Letter Game features the elegant mechanics of the original, re-imagined in a one-vs-many twist for thrilling team play. While one player takes on the role of Thanos on a crusade to change the universe as we know it, 1-5 other players must deploy iconic heroes to defeat him before he can achieve his aims.

Throughout the game, players take turns drawing a card and playing a card, then executing its effect. Hero players can call upon the likes of Iron Man, Spider-man, Thor, and Scarlet Witch for their abilities to battle and gather intel about their opponent’s schemes. A worthy adversary, Thanos plays with a two-card hand, drawing from his own deck of minions and powerful Infinity Stones. The heroes will have to use their abilities in strategic combinations to knock his health down to zero before he can do the same to them—or find all six Infinity Stones and win with a snap of his fingers. Who will prevail in this battle for the universe?