Long Shot

Next up from Z-man is Long Shot, a family friendly betting game!

Long Shot is YOUR ticket to the track. In this exciting family-friendly horse racing board game, up to 8 players bet, buy horses, and develop strategies as the race unfolds. Long Shot includes over 100 unique cards allowing players to combine strategies and resources for maximum control of the race.Will you buy a horse or two in the hopes of winning some of the purse, or will you bet it all on the long shot? Whether a novice or a horse racing enthusiast, everyone's a winner in this interactive strategy game where anytime is post time!

No. of players: 3-8 Ages: 10+ Playing time: 60 minutes

Bridge Troll

The first of several new games from Z-man this week.

In BRIDGE TROLL, you and your friends are hideous trolls who each guard a troll bridge. Each turn, you throw boulders to bid for travelers, who vary in number depending on the weather for that day.Travelers include fat merchants, pilgrims, poor monks (who make good eating), and if you are lucky, royal personages. As travelers come to your bridge, you use them to collect tolls. But watch out! Knights, bandits, dragons, and vicious Billy Goats Gruff prowl the countryside. You'll have to use some of your boulders to chase them away (which means you’ll have fewer left to use on your bridge!).

Although you need to collect tolls from travelers so you can buy building supplies, working on your bridge makes you hungry, so you will have to eat some of your travelers instead. It is important to balance tolls with food in order to make your bridge very appealing to travelers. If you eat too many travelers or just collect money, you won't be able to fix up your bridge. The player who uses toll-money,food, and boulders to build the most impressive troll bridge operation wins the game.

RRP £21.99

Buy Bridge Trill board game at Dicebay

Anima: Beyond Good and Evil

Anima: Beyond Good and Evil is the first stand-alone expansion for Anima: Shadow of Omega. You take control of a party of exceptional characters, wielding their cunning and magical powers to complete missions and ultimately stop the ultimate evil, Genesis. Be warned, however, other players will hinder your actions in order to claim victory for themselves.

Anima: Beyond Good and Evil continues the adventures in Gaïa for 2-4 players, playable in about an hour. Beyond Good and Evil can be played as an independent game, or it can be combined with Anima: Shadow of Omega Revised Edition for an even more epic gaming experience.

RRP £19.99

Buy Anima: Beyond Good and Evil for £16.99 at Dicebay

Eurorails 4th Edition

Discover a modern European classic. Celebrate one of the world's most vital and enduring passions: railroads. Use your initial investment to build track. Then pick up commodities where they are grown, mined, or manufactured and deliver them to a lucrative place of demand. Complete a delivery and make the money you need to buy larger, faster trains, and expand your railroad empire. Win the game by building the most effective railroad empire!

With over a million variations, Eurorails® never grows old. You decide where to lay your tracks. Your only obstacles are rival tracks and Europe's great mountains, channels, and rivers. So, ignore the borders. Capture the industrial spirit of Europe and learn to build an empire. Whether you share Eurorails as an evening with friends or as a rainy day activity with your family, you'll always find it captivating!

• Players: 2-6• Ages: 12+• Playing Time: 120-240 minutes

RRP £32.99

Buy Eurorails at Dicebay for £28.99

A Game of Thrones LCG A Time of Trials

All she wanted was to go home, but leaving King's Landing was not so easy as she had hoped. She had been sleeping in Flea Bottom, on rooftops, and in stables, wherever she could find a place to lie down, and it hadn't taken her long to learn that the district was well named...

A Time of Trials is the second monthly installment of 40 fixed cards for the King's Landing expansion to the A Game of Thrones card game, based on the George R.R. Martin's best-selling A Song of Ice and Fire saga. It contains 20 different never-before-seen cards designed to augment existing decks and add variety to the A Game of Thrones metagame.

This is not a stand-alone deck; an A Game of Thrones LCG core set is required to play.

RRP £8.99

Bag of Cthulhu

Take your gaming experience to a new level with the Bag of Cthulhu. This non-euclidian ensemble contains 24 smaller and 6 larger figures, all ink-washed, each a replica of Henry Anthony Wilcox’s Horror in the Clay, as described in H.P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu.

These figures are an ideal accessory to use as success and domain counters in Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game, but can be used as counters in any game hungering for bits of eldritch horror.

RRP £11.99