The versatile strategies, endless replay value, and exciting combinations of card effects that come with tableau-building board games always make for a exciting game night. There are tons of fantastic tabletop titles out there that utilize this mechanic, but they’re often vastly different in terms of difficulty, theme, and play style. While any list of the best tableau builders will of course be highly subjective as a result of these variances, we’re going to highlight some of the ones that we think are the most mechanically satisfying and strategically engaging. What is a tableau building board game? In board games with a tableau building system, players work to assemble a collection of cards or other similar developments to build up victory points. Each card or tile the player adds to their tableau has a distinct ability that typically activates when it’s played or when it’s triggered by other effects. Sometimes there’s a benefit to collecting sets of cards; in other cases, there might be rewards for placing the tableau components in a specific order. 12. Ex Libris In Ex Libris , you and your opponents are book-collecting enthusiasts who are all competing for the best job at your village’s local library. To win this prestigious position, you’ll need to seek out the best novels and histories and then shelve them as neatly as possible. When the game ends, you’ll get points for having your titles in alphabetic order, for the stackability of your reading selection, and for the variety of material that you have on hand. The theme is goofy yet immensely enjoyable, and the worker placement system that comes with your assistants works great. 11. 7 Wonders : Duel The goal of 7 Wonders: Duel is simple: lead your civilization to historic greatness. However, there are so many different ways you can complete this objective, and your options might greatly depend on the other players. You’ll need to start by mining or farming for resources and drafting the cards you need most. From there, you can proceed by fighting wars, building universities, and researching new scientific advancements. By the end of the game, you’ll be constructing grand monuments in your name to get even more victory points. 10. Forest Shuffle Forest Shuffle is a cozy card game that tasks players with assembling a thriving ecosystem using different combinations of plants and animals. To begin with, you’ll need to plant some trees since they allow you to attach all of the game’s other cards to either their bottom, sides, or top. Mushrooms and ferns, for example, fit on the bottom of your trees, while birds and butterflies are played on top instead. One of the game’s strongest attributes is its divided cards, which make up most of the deck and give you a ton of options to choose from when it’s your turn. 9. Maracaibo In Maracaibo , players take on the role of sailors journeying through the Caribbean during the Golden Age of Piracy. There are two central aspects of the game’s mechanics. The first is its tableau-building system, in which you’ll need to decide whether you’re going to play a card for an ongoing effect or discard it for resources. The second key mechanic here is the game’s rondel map, which turns exploring the island nations into an exciting race. There are also opportunities for completing quests, fighting naval battles, and upgrading your ship. 8. Earth Earth is a board game that perfectly reflects the incredible environmental diversity of our planet. There are numerous biomes, terrains, and plants to manage, and every card comes with unique benefits and drawbacks. Your tableau can consist of up to sixteen cards, but you can also build canopies on them to further extend their scoring value. If you love mid-weight strategy games, then this tabletop title could be a perfect addition to your collection. 7. Everdell In Everdell , your goal is to build a thriving town full of adorable animals. To accomplish this, you’ll need to send your workers out into the trees to pick up branches, pebbles, and berries, which together serve as the game’s resources. You can then spend money from your reserves to construct buildings or hire additional inhabitants. As the seasons change, you can also complete journeys or card pairing objectives for additional points. To make Everdell an even better tableau-building experience, I’d recommend getting the game’s Spirecrest expansion. 6. It’s a Wonderful World If you enjoy tableau builders but want to try something that’s a bit shorter than most of the other board games on this list, then you’ll love It’s a Wonderful World. In less than an hour, you’ll build up a powerful engine to outscore your opponents and conquer a futuristic dystopia. There’s a straightforward yet thought-provoking drafting system, and when you don’t need a card, you can simply recycle it for more resources. As a result, there’s never a dead card in your hand. When it comes to putting cards on the table, placement order also matters, so you’ll have to think at least a few steps ahead at all times. 5. Gaia Project Gaia Project is great board game for players who love in-depth strategy, complex mechanics, and satisfying interstellar exploration. It’s a spiritual successor of the popular tabletop title Terra Mystica but features a more variable setup in terms of its map tiles. You’ll have a home planet and associated tableau-like player board when the game begins, and to claim victory, you’ll need to expand your influence as far as possible. You can do this by terraforming neighboring systems, investing in artificial intelligence and technology, and navigating to new star systems. From there, you can eventually find a federation of worlds. 4. Deus Deus is a fantastic tableau-building board game because it isn’t just about playing cards- it’s also about putting your buildings in smart positions around the board’s randomized landscapes. This encourages more direct interaction between players and keeps things fiercely competitive. There are six different color-coded categories for your developments, and each category has a different primary benefit for either your resource or point generation engines. Green cards, for example, are all about production, whereas orange cards mostly have victory point bonuses instead. 3. Race for the Galaxy In Race for the Galaxy , you and your fellow players are competing in an exciting competition for intergalactic dominance. You can build settlements on new worlds, explore uncharted star systems, and play develop cards to score points. The main hallmark of the game is its action-taking system. When a round begins, each player selects one action phase to take place in that round. There are seven possible options, but only five of them will actually occur (or less, depending on the number of players). This mechanic adds incredible depth to the game and encourages you to pay close attention to what your opponents are working on. 2. Terraforming Mars Transform the surface of the Red Planet in Terraforming Mars by planting greeneries, building cities, and mining for resources. Initiate investment projects on cards with Earth tags, construct moon bases and colonies with the aid of space tag cards, and harness asteroids to your advantage. As the rounds progress, you’ll have an increasing number of actions available to you based on your resource production levels, which you will continually raise by playing cards. When you get this board game, I’d highly recommend picking up its Prelude expansion alongside it since it speeds past some of the earlier rounds and cuts right to the engine-building action. 1. Wingspan The immensely popular tableau builder Wingspan has many exciting features that together make the game constantly enjoyable and endlessly replayable. The deck of birds with which you can populate your forest, grasslands, and marshes doesn’t have any repeats whatsoever. This means you’ll never see the same combination of card powers twice. The end-of-round objective board is also completely randomized, and the bonus scoring cards add even more depth. Triggering a full row of “when activated” abilities is an immensely satisfying tableau-building experience that takes this game right to the top of our list. It’s easy to learn but tough to master, and that makes it a great gateway for getting your friends into board gaming.AI can reveals hidden hazards of chemical mixtures in rivers: StudySyrian army command tells officers that Assad's rule has ended, officer sayspanalo999 app 。

Hypland Readies Second ‘One Piece’ Apparel DropCOPPER MOUNTAIN, Colo. — For a pair of lower-level downhill events, this sure had plenty of Olympic medal-capturing and World Cup-winning ski racers. The stage belonged to Lindsey Vonn, the 40-year-old who took another step on her comeback trail Saturday with her first races in nearly six years. Vonn wasn't particularly speedy and finished in the middle of the pack on a cold but sunny day at Copper Mountain. Times and places weren't the mission, though, as much as getting used to the speed again and gaining the necessary points to compete on the World Cup circuit this season. Vonn accomplished both, finishing 24th in the first downhill race of the day and 27th in the second. She posted on social media after the FIS races that she had enough points to enter World Cup events. The timing couldn't be more perfect — the next stop on the women's circuit is Beaver Creek, Colorado, in a week. Vonn, who used to own a home in nearby Vail, hasn't committed to any sort of timetable for a World Cup return. “Today was a solid start and I had a blast being in start with my teammates again!” Vonn wrote on X. “While I’m sure people will speculate and say I’m not in top form because of the results, I disagree. This was training for me. I’m still testing equipment and getting back in the groove.” Her competition — a veritable who's who of high-profile ski racers — applauded her efforts. “I don't expect her to come back and win — just that she comes back and she has fun,” said Federica Brignone of Italy, a former overall World Cup champion and three-time Olympic medalist. “She's having fun, and she’s doing what she loves. That’s the best thing that she could do.” In the first race on a frigid morning, Vonn wound up 1.44 seconds behind the winning time of 1 minute, 5.79 seconds posted by Mirjam Puchner of Austria. In her second race through the course later in the morning, Vonn was 1.53 seconds behind Cornelia Huetter of Austria, who finished in 1:05.99. Huetter is the reigning season-long World Cup downhill champion. “It’s really nice to compare with her again, and nice to have her (racing) again,” Huetter said. “For sure, for the skiing World Cup, we have a lot of more attention. It's generally good for all racers because everyone is looking.” Also in the field were Nadia Delago of Italy, who won a bronze medal in downhill at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, and Puchner, the Olympic silver winner in super-G in Beijing. In addition, there was Marta Bassino of Italy, a winner of the super-G at the 2023 world championships, and two-time Olympic champion Michelle Gisin of Switzerland. “For me, it was really a training, but it was fun to have a World Cup race level right here,” Gisin said. “It was a crazy race.” Vonn remains a popular figure and took the time after each run to sign autographs for young fans along with posing for photos. When she left the sport, Vonn had 82 World Cup race victories, which stood as the record for a woman and within reach of the all-time Alpine record of 86 held by Swedish standout Ingemar Stenmark. The women’s mark held by Vonn was surpassed in January 2023 by Mikaela Shiffrin, who now has 99 wins — more than any Alpine ski racer in the history of the sport. Shiffrin is currently sidelined after a crash in a giant slalom event in Killington, Vermont, last weekend. Vonn’s last major race was in February 2019, when she finished third in a downhill during the world championships in Sweden. The three-time Olympic medalist left the circuit still near the top of her game. But all the broken arms and legs, concussions and torn knee ligaments took too big a toll and sent her into retirement. She had a partial knee replacement last April and felt good enough to give racing another shot. “It's very impressive to see all the passion that Lindsey still has,” Gisin said. Also racing Saturday was 45-year-old Sarah Schleper, who once competed for the United States but now represents Mexico. Schleper was the next racer behind Vonn and they got a chance to share a moment between a pair of 40-somethings still racing. “I was like, ‘Give me some tips, Lindsey,’” Schleper said. “She’s like, ‘Oh, it’s a highway tuck, the whole thing.’ Then she’s like, ‘It’s just like the good old days.’"AI can reveals hidden hazards of chemical mixtures in rivers: Study

Samantha has been largely absent from Telugu cinema for over a year and a half, taking a break after her film Khushi. She took time off to treat her myositis and traveled extensively. She's recently become active again, but reportedly not in Telugu projects. She's reportedly focusing on Bollywood and starred in the Citadel web series on Amazon Prime. Samantha is active on social media, sharing updates and photos with fans. Recently, shocking AI-generated photos of her with a baby bump went viral. Shocking photos of Samantha with a baby bump have gone viral, leading to confusion and shock. These AI-generated images appear realistic, raising concerns about the misuse of technology. The realistic nature of the AI-generated photos has caused widespread shock. Fans are outraged by the misuse of AI technology and demand action against those responsible. The viral spread of these AI-created photos has shocked many. Samantha's fans are demanding legal action against those who created and circulated the images. After her divorce from Naga Chaitanya, Samantha focused on her career and sought solace in spirituality. She's been busy with films, modeling, and foreign tours. After battling myositis, she recently returned with the web series 'Citadel: Honey and Bunny'. Her upcoming projects remain undisclosed.The US Supreme Court sidestepped on Friday a decision on whether to allow shareholders to proceed with a securities fraud lawsuit accusing Meta's Facebook of misleading investors about the misuse of the social media platform's user data. The justices, who heard arguments in the case on Nov. 6, dismissed Facebook's appeal of a lower court's ruling that allowed a 2018 class action led by Amalgamated Bank to proceed. The Supreme Court opted not to resolve the underlying legal dispute, determining that the case should not have been taken up. Its action leaves the lower court's decision in place. The court's dismissal came in a one-line order that provided no explanation. The Facebook dispute was one of two cases to come before the Supreme Court this month involving the right of private litigants to hold companies to account for alleged securities fraud. The other one, involving the artificial intelligence chipmaker Nvidia, was argued on Nov. 13. The Supreme Court has not ruled yet in the Nvidia case. The complainants in the Facebook case claimed the company unlawfully withheld information from investors about a 2015 data breach involving British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica that affected more than 30 million Facebook users. They accused Facebook of misleading investors in violation of the Securities Exchange Act, a 1934 federal law that requires publicly traded companies to disclose their business risks. Facebook's stock fell following 2018 media reports that Cambridge Analytica had used improperly harvested Facebook user data in connection with Donald Trump's successful US presidential campaign in 2016. The investors have sought unspecified monetary damages in part to recoup the lost value of the Facebook stock they held. At issue was whether Facebook broke the law when it failed to detail the prior data breach in subsequent business-risk disclosures, and instead portrayed the risk of such incidents as purely hypothetical. Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone expressed disappointment "in the Supreme Court's decision not to clarify this part of the law." "The plaintiff's claims are baseless and we will continue to defend ourselves as this case is considered by the district court," Stone said. Facebook argued that it was not required to reveal that its warned-of risk had already materialized because "a reasonable investor" would understand risk disclosures to be forward-looking statements. President Joe Biden's administration supported the shareholders in the case. US District Judge Edward Davila dismissed the lawsuit but the San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals revived it, prompting Facebook's appeal to the Supreme Court. George Washington University law professor Alan Morrison said that following the Supreme Court's dismissal of Facebook's appeal, the complainants would be expected to seek discovery, a process that involves the exchange of information among parties in a case. Morrison added that Facebook "might renew their motion to dismiss under a somewhat different standard - partially for purposes of delay." The Cambridge Analytica data breach prompted US government investigations into Facebook's privacy practices, various lawsuits and a US congressional hearing. The US Securities and Exchange Commission in 2019 brought an enforcement action against Facebook over the matter, which the company settled for $100 million. Facebook paid a separate $5 billion penalty to the US Federal Trade Commission over the issue. The Supreme Court in prior rulings has limited the authority of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the federal agency that polices securities fraud. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.) Track Latest News Live on NDTV.com and get news updates from India and around the world

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(TNS) — New Jersey schools may be required to develop policies to limit students from using cellphones and electronic devices during class. A bill introduced by State Sen. Paul Moriarty (D., Gloucester) would require the New Jersey Department of Education to help K-12 schools develop policies to prohibit students from using the devices during instruction. It thrusts New Jersey into a growing national movement by some schools to implement cellphone bans or restrictions to ease classroom distractions. Educators say the devices hinder learning and student mental health. "I think it's something we need to address," Moriarty said. "Students are addicted to cellphones. I just think it's hard to learn when you have a cellphone in your hand." The bill, S-3695, would task acting Education Commissioner Kevin Dehmer with developing a model policy for New Jersey's more than 600 districts. Local boards would be required to adopt a policy, but allowed some flexibility to meet their needs. If adopted, the bill would take effect immediately, and the policies would be expected to go into effect the first full school year following passage. The bill unanimously cleared the state Senate Education Committee this month. There has been some opposition to cellphone restrictions, especially from parents who want their children to have access to their device in the event of an emergency. The bill would allow districts to decide how to implement the restrictions, which could include sealed magnetic devices that allow students to keep phones in their possession but locked until the end of the day, or could require them to keep devices in lockers or backpacks. Exceptions will be made for students who have individual education plans or health conditions that require wireless communication devices. Policies would cover smartphones, smartwatches, and any type of cellphone. "When they're in a school environment we just want them to be able to concentrate on learning," said Assemblywoman Rosaura Bagolie (D., Essex), a cosponsor. Bagolie, superintendent of the East Newark school system in Hudson County, said students quickly adjusted to a cellphone ban she implemented there six years ago. Students are required to put the phones in a bin at the beginning of school, she said, and can use office phones in case of an emergency. Nationally, most public schools prohibit cellphone usage for nonacademic purposes, with 76 percent enacting bans of some kind in the 2021-22 school year, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. At least six states have passed laws or enacted policies that ban or restrict students' use of cellphones or encourage local districts to enact their own bans. The U.S. Department of Education is urging states and districts to adopt school cellphone policies. The agency didn't say what action should be taken but said parents and students should be included in the decision-making, along with educators. The New Jersey School Boards Association supports the "spirit and intent" of the Moriarty bill but wants to make sure districts have leeway to adopt a policy that meets their needs, said spokesperson Thomas Parmalee. "As technology constantly changes, school districts should be able to adjust their policies over time," he said. Around the region, cellphone policies vary, and enforcement can be inconsistent even within a single school. Some South Jersey districts, including Cherry Hill and Cinnaminson, have already put restrictions in place this school year to curb cellphone use. Washington Township plans to update its policy in a few months, a spokesperson said. Woodbury School Superintendent Andrew Bell said that banning cellphones this year was a game-changer for middle and high school students. "It was one of the best decisions I have ever made," Bell said. "I love the bill. I think it is something that has to be done." Bell said the changes have been notable in his district since the ban — fewer disciplinary problems, a decline in cyberbullying, and a better school climate. Woodbury spent $30,000 in federal pandemic relief funds to purchase Yondr pouches, which magnetically lock phones. Bell said students have mostly been compliant, with only a few infractions a week. "I would tell any superintendent cellphones are just a distraction for kids," Bell said. "We needed the pouches." In Cherry Hill, a policy that took effect in September requires students to keep their devices silenced and in a locker or backpack during grade-bearing classes such as math, science, history, and physical education. "It's literally a fight for their attention," said Superintendent Kwame Morton. Morton said the district believed the Yondr pouches were too restrictive because the cellphones would be inaccessible all day. Students are allowed to use the devices during study hall, lunch, and recess. "They've done a fantastic job adhering to the policy," Morton said. At Cinnaminson High School, teachers are allowed to set their own technology policies and that seems to work, said Superintendent Stephen Cappello. Kerry DiSimone, principal at Cinnaminson's middle school, implemented a cellphone ban this year, despite pushback from some students and parents. The new policy requires students to keep all devices, except district-issued Chromebooks, in their backpacks in their lockers, DiSimone said. "I knew it wasn't going to be popular," she said. "Whether they all agree or not, we did what was best for them."Jamiya Neal’s 19 points help Creighton beat UNLV 83-65

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean officials are struggling to determine what caused a deadly plane crash that killed 179 people, with the nation saddened, shocked and ashamed over the country's worst aviation disaster in decades. Many observers also worry how effectively the South Korean government will handle the aftermath of Sunday's crash as it grapples with a leadership vacuum following the recent successive impeachments of President Yoon Suk Yeol and Prime Minster Han Duck-soo, the country’s top two officials, amid political tumult caused by Yoon’s brief martial law introduction earlier this month. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.ICEYE expands its Earth Observation capabilities with launch of two SAR satellites for mid-inclination orbit on the Bandwagon-2 mission with SpaceX