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Z-Man Games is an American board game company, incorporated in 1999. It was named after its founder, Zev Shlasinger. The company is known for their Pandemic series of board games, as well as being the sole publisher for the English editions of popular Eurogames, such as Carcassonne and Terra Mystica.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
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Z-Man Games is an American board game company, incorporated in 1999. It was named after its founder, Zev Shlasinger. The company is known for their Pandemic series of board games, as well as being the sole publisher for the English editions of popular Eurogames, such as Carcassonne and Terra Mystica.2
Founded by Zev Shlasinger in 1999, in Mahopac.1
Z-Man Games was primarily formed to bring the collectible card game Shadowfist back into publication.
In 2011, Sophie Gravel, owner of Quebec-based publisher/distributor Filosofia, bought Z-Man Games, creating F2Z Entertainment. Shlasinger left Z-Man Games in January 2016. In 2016, F2Z Entertainment was acquired by Asmodee.
From Wikipedia’s article on Z-Man Games, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4
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A B-movie card game series consisting of games such as Grave Robbers From Outer Space and Cannibal Pygmies in the Jungle of Doom
1960: The Making of the President, an original creation by Z-Man Games
Agricola
Archaeology: The Card Game, a market-style card game
Arimaa, an abstract strategy game
Ascending Empires, a space based empire expansion game
Carcassonne, Z-Man Games has published the English version of this game in the US and Canada since 2012
Endeavor, a complex strategy game edited by Z-Man Games in 2009
Gheos, a game where players take on the role of deities
Neuroshima Hex!
Omlevex, a role-playing supplement for Mutants & Masterminds, Champions, and Silver Age Sentinels
Onirim, and the Oniverse series of short single-player games: Sylvion, Castellion, Nautilion, and Aerion
Pandemic, a cooperative board game
Saboteur, a mining path card game
Shadow Hunters
Shadowfist
Start Player by Ted Alspach, a card game to determine who goes first in the following game
Terra Mystica, by Jens Drögemüller and Helge Ostertag, winner of the 2013 International Gamers Award - General Strategy: Multi-player Winner
Ursuppe
The Walking Dead, a 2009 board games based on the comic of the same name
The Walking Dead: The Prison, "both a stand-alone game and an expansion module to the first game", funded through Kickstarter
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