Hey PI-Fans,

We’re in the process of getting the store loaded again. This week sees a pair of zany party games arrive in the form of the Speed Reaction game Pickle Grab and the chaotic big group party action game No Loyalty from the Exploding Kittens Company hit the shelves. In addition, this week see’s the return of the classic board game Puerto Rico to our shelves in an extremely swanky collectors edition. Of course, if you’re looking for something smaller, both in terms of physical size and game length we can always recommend its sister game San Juan. On the big box end of things, SETI is back on the shelves, along with the expansion SETI – Space Agencies.

Of course, this isn’t all the stuff meandering back. We’re hard at work keeping basics like Pandemic and Harmonies on our shelves along with the ever-popular Codenames and Bomb Busters, so if you want something, we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate.

  • Kenneth, PI Games Manager

No Loyalty is a chaotic, laugh-out-loud party game where teams shuffle every round, alliances are temporary, and only one player walks away with five tokens and ultimate bragging rights. Flip, team up, complete the challenge, and betray again next round.

During a turn, players first flip over sets of challenges they have to perform in order to successfully score points. The catch in a game of No Loyalty is that players will one find out which teams they are randomly assigned to after the challenges are announced whereupon it becomes a mad scramble to find your teammates and perform the task before the opposing team successfully assembles themselves.

No Loyalty
For 4 or 20+ Players, 15-20 Minutes Playing Time, Ages 7+

 

 

Pickle Grab is part card game, part race, and part “game name you can’t say without smirking.”

Everyone takes turns flipping cards face up in front of them. Players take turns flipping cards, but the moment a Pickle or Plate card appears, it’s a race to snatch the pickle toy or plate from the center—before anyone else does! Be careful, some cards are just there to trick you and make you more sour than pickle juice. Grab the wrong object and you’ll lose cards instead of gaining them. The player with the most cards at the end of the game wins. 

Simple to learn, quick to play, and full of surprise twists.

Pickle Grab
For 2 to 6 Players, 15 Minutes Playing Time, Ages 7+

 

The Puerto Rico 1897: Special Edition Core Box features one of the most iconic board games. In this classic, you take on the role of an independent Puerto Rican farmer in a new era, competing against others to achieve prosperity. A genre-defining strategy game, Puerto Rico has won multiple international awards and continues to captivate players worldwide.

Puerto Rico 1897 takes place the year after Puerto Rico achieved political autonomy and separated itself from the colonial Spanish government. In the game, you take on the role of an independent Puerto Rican farmer in this new era and compete against others to hire workers to grow, sell, and trade valuable crops. You will also be in charge of resurrecting parts of the country as you attempt to build vital city infrastructure. Your goal throughout the game is to acquire more wealth and prestige than your opponents and become the most prosperous farmer across the country. Each player has their own small board with spaces for city buildings, plantations, and resources. Shared between the players are three ships, a trading house, and a supply of resources and doubloons.

With different roles, buildings, and strategies to explore, Puerto Rico provides endless replay value.

Puerto Rico 1897: Special Edition
For 1-5 Players, 90-150 Minutes Playing Time, Ages 14+

 

SETI: Space Agencies, an expansion for SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, introduces powerful asymmetric organizations — each with unique abilities, strategic advantages, and starting conditions that redefine how you approach the search for alien life.

As the leader of one of these institutions — ranging from private tech companies to global research networks — you’ll bring a distinct perspective and specialized tools to the mission, unlocking bold new strategies and rewarding long-term planning.

In addition to these organizations, the expansion adds three new alien species, each with their own unique twists, and over forty new project cards inspired by real-world initiatives. These integrate seamlessly into the main deck, providing even greater variety and strategic options.

SETI pays homage to space and planetary exploration, astronomy, the ongoing search for signs of life in the vastness of space, and efforts to understand the nature of life in the universe.

SETI – Space Agencies Expansion
For 1-4 Players, 40-160 Minutes Playing Time, Ages 14+

(SETI – Space Agencies is an expansion which requires the original SETI board game to function)