Umbra Via Strategy Board Game

Just beyond the towering vines lies an ancient pathway into the unknown. Push back the thorn-riddled stocks to discover a clandestine garden, blooming with mysterious vigor. Vivid colors mark the way to intricate tiles zigging and zagging through the green. Within the flowers lies the key to greater meaning....

In Umbra Via, players compete to control and complete the most cunning paths with a combination of blind bidding, area control, and route-building that's easy to learn but provides hours of challenge. Each turn, four tiles with paths are revealed, and players secretly vote on which they want most with wooden flower tokens. When players reveal their choices, things get delightfully tricky: tiles must be placed without rotation, so new paths and twists appear in every game. If the tile's paths are cut off, players earn "double-bidding" tokens based on their votes — first to claim all their tokens wins! With three variant tiles that add unique gameplay options, you can replay it over and over.

This game for 2 to 4 players takes approximately 30 to 40 minutes to play.