New Game Round-up: Terra Mystica Coming to U.S. and Canada, Timeline Keeps Growing & a New Dot Box Drops

Each Timeline card depicts a historical event on both sides, with the year in which that event occurred on only one side. Players take turns placing a card from their hand in a row on the table. After placing the card, the player reveals the date on it. If the card was placed correctly with the date in chronological order with all other cards on the table, the card stays in place; otherwise the card is removed from play and the player takes another card from the deck.

The first player to get rid of all his cards by placing them correctly wins. If multiple players go out in the same round, then everyone else is eliminated from play and each of those players are dealt one more card for another round of play. If only one player has no cards after a bonus round, he wins; otherwise play continues until a single player goes out.

While On the Dot was part of the Gamewright line, two of the biggest comments we received were, "This is a fantastic solitaire game." and "This would be great for travel if it were only smaller." So when we were developing our Brainwright line, we knew that On the Dot was the perfect candidate for a redesign. We streamlined the package to maximize portability and focused on letting people know about the solo play mode.