Challenge your brain in a fun game that tests your thinking memory & speed skills Compete with other players in 8 different challenges which will make you use all your brain power olfactory tests observation analysis coordination & more Put your brain to the test of a new sense This edition of Cortex adds the olfactory challenge where players have to identify the smell on the card 2 to 6 players 15 Minutes play time Ideal for ages 8 & above ...

Cortex Challenge is the exciting new brain-busting card game by Esdevium Games which uses the same fast-paced approach to family fun popularised by Dobble & Jungle Speed! Cortex Challenge tests up to six players’ memory cognition & sensory perception It even

Includes:: texture cards that are used during ‘ Touch Challenges’ where players must guess what they are feeling adding a unique element that is often neglected in games Players’ brain powers are stretched to the max as they race to be the first to match symbols correctly remember all objects on a card or find the route out of mazes amongst many other tests! Winning challenges allows players to add pieces to their brain puzzle which they must complete before their opponents in order to win the game Cortex Challenge is sure to tax the mental abilities of players both young & old!

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Cortex Challenge is the exciting new brain-busting card game by Esdevium Games which uses the same fast-paced approach to family fun popularised by Dobble & Jungle Speed! Cortex Challenge tests up to six players’ memory cognition & sensory perception It even

Includes:: texture cards that are used during ‘ Touch Challenges’ where players must guess what they are feeling adding a unique element that is often neglected in games Players’ brain powers are stretched to the max as they race to be the first to match symbols correctly remember all objects on a card or find the route out of mazes amongst many other tests! Winning challenges allows players to add pieces to their brain puzzle which they must complete before their opponents in order to win the game Cortex Challenge is sure to tax the mental abilities of players both young & old!

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This coming year Cortex Challenge will feature two new versions for all the family to play easy & exciting brain games together Both of these new games offer 8 brand new challenges to have fun testing the sense of touch powers of observation coordination logic reasoning & imagination Cortex Challenge puts every kind of intelligence to the test at any age! Make up your own games by mixing up the boxes! Fun quick & easy to play! ...

Challenge your brain in a fun game that tests your thinking memory & speed skills Compete with other players in 9 different challenges which will make you use all your brain power touch tests duplicates logical series mazes colour puzzles & more Big brain party game
Includes: nine new challenges Comes with six limited edition 3D brains to track your score Train your brain with challenges based around patterns logical series mazes colour puzzles & more For 2 to 6 players 15 minutes play time Ages 8 & up
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The second volume in the definitive English language edition of Hugo Pratt&s masterpiece Corto Maltese presented in the original oversized B&W format & with new translations made from Pratt&s original Italian scripts " Mushroom Heads" begins in Maracaibo Venezuela where Corto Maltese & Professor Steiner lead an expedition on the trail of the legendary El Dorado financed by the antiquarian Levi Colombia In " Banana Conga" Corto has his first & nearly fatal encounter with the beautiful yet dangerous mercenary Venexiana Stevenson Within this framework of adventure Hugo Pratt weaves themes dealing with the exploitation of indigenous people the noble struggle to gain freedom & independence & how cowardice can poison men of all classes The action set in 1917 takes Corto Maltese from the Mosquito Coast to Barbados to a deadly struggle among Jivaro head-hunters in the Peruvian Amazon More from this Author Corto Maltes 5 Fabula de Venecia Fable of Venice Mid-Winter Morning&s Dream Corto Maltese the Early Years Corto Maltese Under the Sign of Capricorn Corto Maltes 6 Las Lejanas Islas Del Viento Corto Maltes 6 Remote islands of the wind ...

In this third volume in the definitive English language edition of Hugo Pratt’s masterpiece the action moves from South America to Europe against the backdrop of the First World War In these six stories Pratt further explores such complicated themes as patriotism & greed revolution & opportunism & betrayal & seduction Events take Corto from a small island in the Venetian lagoon where he comes face to face with a beautiful blonde spy to Stonehenge & an adventure with Merlin Morgana & Puck Along the way he meets Ernest Hemingway & future billionaire Aristotle Onassis Irish revolutionary Banshee O’ Danann the legendary Red Baron & an intense cast of characters who weave in & out of a series of labyrinthine plots & counter-plots ...

Nominated for both the Eisner & Harvey Awards for Best Foreign Language Publication! When Corto Maltese arrives in the Middle East & Africa in 1918 the shifting sands & loyalties reveal colonial powers still battling for domination over each other & the indigenous people The desert of Yemen controlled by the fading Ottoman Empire is the setting for “ In the Name of Allah the Merciful & Compassionate” where Corto meets Cush the Danikil warrior with whom he establishes a close yet conflicted relationship In “ The Coup de Grace” the stubborn racism of an English commander of a small fort in British Somaliland leads to conflict with Cush & the Dervish army of Sayyid Mohamed whom the British call “ The Mad Mullah” The action moves to Ethiopia amidst inter-tribal conflict in “…and of Other Romeos & Other Juliets” as Cush introduces Corto to the mysterious & powerful shaman Shamael who hears the voices of the dead & of devils German East Africa is the background of “ The Leopard-Men of the Rufiji” where Corto is engulfed in a dreamlike atmosphere that reveals how African justice operates outside the constraints of “white” law ...

" An Italian comics masterpiece is coming to America in a big way this year Under the Sign of Capricorn "
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In 1923 Buenos Aires while searching for a missing friend Corto finds himself locked in a dangerous yet elegant game of cat & mouse His investigation brings him up against an organized crime syndicate known as the " Warsavia" crooked police officials small-time crooks investigative journalists a worldwide prostitution ring &--manipulating the events from above--the far-reaching arm of the Argentine oligarchy Guiding his way through this labyrinth of deceit & intrigue is an old acquaintance from a long ago Patagonian escapade the legendary outlaw Butch Cassidy who with the Sundance Kid headed the notorious Wild Bunch & has been presumed dead for two decades! Just as Fable of Venice was Pratt&s homage to his hometown Tango is a nod to Buenos Aires where the cartoonist lived during his earliest creative successes in the late 1940s & 1950s The atmosphere of the story is steeped in the sensual music of the tango whose melodies almost seem to emerge from the artwork with close-ups of the dance steps framed by Pratt with extraordinary effectiveness The first English-language translation of Hugo Pratt&s graphic novel set in Argentina About the Author Hugo Pratt (1927-1995) is considered one of the great graphic novelists in the history of the medium His strips graphic works & watercolors have been exhibited at the Grand Palais in Paris & the Vittoriano in Rome & a landmark show in 2011 at the Pinacotheque in Paris drew 215000 visitors hailing Pratt as "the inventor of the literary comic strip" ...