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Games & Puzzles
Game – Azul
In the game Azul, players take turns drafting colored tiles from suppliers to their player board. Later in the round, players score points based on how they’ve placed their tiles to decorate the palace. Extra points are scored for specific patterns and completing sets; wasted supplies harm the player’s score. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins.
Game – Monikers
Monikers is a party game based on the public domain game Celebrities, where players take turns attempting to get their teammates to guess names by describing or imitating well-known people. In the first round, clue givers can say anything they want, except for the name itself. For the second round, clue givers can only say one word. And in the final round, clue givers can’t say anything at all: they can only use gestures and charades.
Game – Cascadia
Cascadia is a puzzly tile-laying and token-drafting game featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest. Players compete to create the most harmonious ecosystem in Cascadia. Turns are simple – select a tile/token set and place each into your expanding ecosystem. Earn points by fulfilling wildlife goals, and creating the largest habitat corridors.
Game – Fiasco
A game about powerful ambition and poor impulse control, Fiasco is an award-winning, GM-less game for 3-5 players, designed to be played in a few hours with six-sided dice and no preparation. During a game you engineer and play out stupid, disastrous situations, usually at the intersection of greed, fear, and lust. It’s like making your own Coen brothers movie, in about the same amount of time it’d take to watch one!
Game – Tabletop shuffleboard and curling
Bring the shuffleboard and curling courts to the tabletop with this 2-in-1 game design, where you can effortlessly transition from shuffleboard to curling by just flipping the gameboard! The full set includes 8 mini rollers, including 4 red and 4 blue pieces, for both games. The rollers easily glide across the surface just like real shuffleboard and curling courts!
Puzzle – Women in art
This jigsaw puzzle features a diverse array of fifteen accomplished artists, from well-known figures such as Frida Kahlo and Georgia O’Keefe to lesser-known trailblazers including nineteenth-century African American sculptor Mary Edmonia Lewis and Hopi-Tewa ceramic artist Nampeyo.
Instruments & Music
Mustang micro guitar headphone amp
Mustang Micro is a complete personal guitar amplifier featuring a wide selection of tones from the wildly popular Mustang series amps. Plug Mustang Micro directly into your guitar, connect a pair of headphones, and choose your amp and effects. This all-in-one personal headphone amplifier with onboard DSP has 12 amp models from Mustang GTX for a wide range of clean and dirty tones. It also offers 13 effect models with parameter modify control. It’s ideal for any player from beginner to pro, making it quick and easy to get great tones when jamming silently at home or on the go. And you can play along to your favorite tracks or instructional videos using the built-in Bluetooth audio connection.
Portable Bluetooth speaker
The JBL GO 3 is a full-featured IP67 waterproof and dustproof wireless Bluetooth speaker with a shockproof Megen case. JBL Pro Sound delivers surprisingly big audio and punchy bass from GO 3’s ultra-compact size, with up to 5 hours of playtime on a single charge.
Art prints
Storytelling by Trevor Grabill
“I grew up in central Michigan, and have spent my life in small cities and villages around the great lakes. My work draws on these places, which represent a combination of incredible natural beauty, rust belt decay, and rural midwestern neglect. These are places (or their inhabitants) that are readily passed by, rendered neutral by force of habit. My work highlights the essential strangeness, both beautiful and terrible, of the everyday. Our world is shaped by very specific forces (often capitalism or resistance to capitalism) and, as such, absolutely nothing is inevitable.”
Tiguaq (Adopted) by Ninginkulu Teevee
Born May 1963, Ninginkulu is one of the most versatile and intelligent graphic artists to emerge from the Kinngait Studios. Since her first prints appeared in the collection in 2004, she has demonstrated a comprehensive knowledge of Inuit legends and a fine sense of design and composition. Ninginkulu has had numerous solo shows of her bold and resplendent drawings and some of her work has been featured in exhibitions in major public galleries and museums.
Summaries and images adapted from publishers.
