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Answer: Unnatural Axe

Munchkin is a dungeon crawler card game first released in 2001. The game requires players to play cards in order to kill monsters, collect treasure and try to level up their character all the way. The game at times mocks some of the conventions of traditional role playing games. Munchkin 2 - Unnatural Axe is the first expansion for the original game and adds 112 cards to the base game.

The new cards introduce new foes, allies and weapons including the titular Unnatural Axe.

Answer: The Princess and the Dragon

Carcassonne is a tile laying game in which players have to create a Medieval French landscape and gain points for completing various features such as roads, cities and monasteries. Players 'claim' features by placing one of their person shaped playing pieces on them, these playing pieces are referred to as 'meeples'. Carcassonne was first released in 2000 and won Game of the Year in the 2001 Spiel des Jahres board game awards.

The Princess and the Dragon is the third expansion for Carcassonne and was first released in 2005. The main additions to the game are the fairy and dragon pieces, the dragon joins the game when a volcano tile is placed and when a player plays a 'dragon nest' tile each player moves the dragon one tile with players alternating moves until the dragon has moved 6 tiles or cannot move further (the dragon cannot land on the same tile more than once in a move sequence). Any meeples on tiles the dragon lands on are removed from the board and returned to the player they belong to. The Fairy can be placed on a tile with a meeple and this stops the dragon from being able to land on that tile.

This expansion also includes princess tiles which allow the player to remove a meeple from the city it is added to and magic portal tiles which allow the player to place a meeple on a previously laid tile.

Answer: Explorers and Pirates

Catan is a board game in which players have to develop the fictional island of Catan by building features such as roads and settlements and trading resources with other players. The game was originally released in Germany in 1995 and was originally called The Settlers of Catan but the name was changed in 2015 to simply Catan.

Explorers and Pirates is the fourth main expansion to Catan and was released in 2013. The expansion adds extra tiles to the board making the playing area larger and features scenarios centred on maritime exploration and trade.

Answer: Prosperity

Dominion is a deck builder card game designed by Donald X. Vaccarino and first released in 2008. Players start out with a limited number of cards and must buy cards to build their decks with the ultimate aim being to acquire the most victory points by the end of the game.

Prosperity is the fourth expansion to Dominion which was first released in 2010 with an updated second edition released in 2022. The Prosperity expansion focuses on treasure cards and cards with a high cost. Prosperity introduces the Platinum treasure card which costs 9 treasure and is worth 5 treasure when played and Colony, which is a new victory card worth 11 victory points.

Answer: On the Brink

Pandemic is a co-operative board game where players take on the role of different experts and must work together to combat a deadly disease outbreak.

On the Brink is the first expansion for the game and adds new cards to the game including new roles for players to take on. This expansion also includes cards to enable a five player version of the game.

Answer: Map Collection 5: United Kingdom & Pennsylvania

Ticket to Ride is a board game which requires players to complete railway routes linking cities on a game board depicting a stylised map with points being earned for completing routes as set out on the player's route card. The original game, first published in 2004 was based around a map of the USA and Southern Canada.

A number of different maps have been released for Ticket to Ride with some of them, such as Europe, stand-alone games and others only including the board / route cards and requiring elements of a full game to play. The 5th map collection expansion for Ticket to Ride features a double-sided board with a map of the UK and Ireland on one side and Pennsylvania on the other. The maps also add different elements to the game play with the UK map requiring players to purchase certain technologies before they are able to build some routes and Pennsylvania adding stock bonuses for completing routes of different railroad companies.

Answer: Peloton

Flamme Rouge is a board game set in the world of professional cycling which was first released in 2016. Players have a team of two riders and race to be the first to cross the finishing line. The riders move depending on cards played and can be teamed up to benefit from advantages such as slipstreams.

Peloton is the first expansion for Flamme Rouge and adds extra cards to the game including a chasing pack that enables up to 6 players to play whereas the original game was only for up to 4 players. Peloton also adds tiles that represent cobblestoned sections of races which affect how the riders can navigate these sections.

Answer: Imploding Kittens

Exploding Kittens is a card game of Russian Roulette - but featuring cats. Each turn players have to draw a card from the deck and must avoid drawing an exploding kitten card. If players draw an exploding kitten they are knocked out of the game, unless they can diffuse it with an appropriate card. Players can try to avoid drawing a card by playing cards that enable them to look at the cards in the deck, shuffle the cards, skip their draw turn or force other players to draw instead.

Imploding Kittens is the first expansion pack for Exploding Kittens and introduces more card types to the game. These cards enable players to reverse the order of play, alter the top cards on the deck or force a specific player to draw next. The game also adds the imploding kitten card which works similarly to an exploding kitten but cannot be diffused.

Answer: Venus Next

Terraforming Mars is a game released in 2016 where players have to develop projects designed to make the planet Mars inhabitable by humans. The game can be played with up to 5 players and also has a single player mode.

Venus Next is the second expansion for Terraforming Mars and was released in 2017. This expansion means that alongside Mars players also have to manage projects on the planet Venus.

Answer: Tuscany

Viticulture is a board game set in historical Tuscany in which players have to grow and manage their vineyard. Players have to allocate workers and look after visitors in order to create a successful winery.

Tuscany is an expansion for the base Viticulture game which includes a larger board that expands the game play area, new structure cards and workers with special abilities.