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Marrakech Wins French Game of the Year
Tric Trac has announced the winner of the As d’Or, the French Game of the Year: Marrakech, designed by Dominique Ehrhard and released by Gigamic. Here’s a brief description of the game:
| The merchant players want to display as many of their fine carpets as possible in addition to having lots of lucre. Players take turns moving Omar, the sultan’s servant, around a playing surface, laying down rugs for sale that may cover half of an opponent’s. In time, the interwoven rugs come to resemble a giant carpet. You must pay to move Omar onto an opponent’s rug with the cost based on the size of the carpet’s total area. The player who performs the best wins. |
Zoch Verlag is releasing the title, with more brightly colored carpets, under the name Suleika in March 2008. Early in 2007 Family Games Inc. had announced that it would carry Marrakech in North America – I even saw the Gigamic reps demonstrating the game at NY Toy Fair – but the title has since vanished from the Family Games website. I’ll be at Toy Fair again tomorrow and will ask about the game’s status.
The best children’s game is Burg-Ritter, by Christian Tiggemann and (of course) HABA. Players cooperatively try to build towers using a funky elasticized device to pick up certain blocks (as determined by random draw) and stack them.
The special jury prize went to Princes of Florence, designed by Wolfgang Kramer and Richard Ulrich. This version, released by Ystari and the first time the game is available in French, contains expansions not available in the original alea/Rio Grande edition.
Posted by W. Eric Martin on Feb 16, 2008 at 11:00 AM in Game News, Boardgame News / 500
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Since I didn’t see it mentioned in your other articles, did you confirm the North American release? This was one of the games I was most interested in from Essen, but seems like I was the only one based on most of the post-con hype. Posted by Sean Brown on Feb 18, 2008 at 05:22 PM | #
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Sean, the Gigamic line has been picked up by Fundex, after previously being carried by the Canadian publisher Family Games Inc. I saw Fundex today at NY Toy Fair and will post something about the line in one of my reports to be published later today or tomorrow. Eric Posted by W. Eric Martin on Feb 18, 2008 at 10:11 PM | #
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