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New Titles from Gamewright for the Discerning Gamer
Gamewright titles are normally aimed at youngsters and the mass market, but the company is releasing a few games at the upcoming New York Toy Fair that sound of interest to BGN readers, starting with Ka-ching!, a two-player stock game for players ages 10 and up. Here’s a description from Gamewright:
| Buy low, Sell high! Making money is the name of the game in this high stakes duel for dollars. Compete against your opponent to turn the biggest profit by strategically buying and selling stock cards. Buy cards at face value and then sell them in pairs for the greatest possible return, all while preventing your opponent from doing the same. Accumulate the most cash and you’re in the money! |
And in the “why didn’t I think of that” category is a party game called Hit or Miss, which sounds like a hybrid of Scattergories and Eye To Eye:
| Sharpen your pencils—and your intuition—for this quick-playing “think-in-sync” party game. Draw a category card and in 45 seconds, list as many related words that come to mind. When the timer runs out, roll the die - if it lands on HIT, pick a word that you think everyone wrote; if it lands on MISS, pick one that only you wrote. Choose wisely and you score big points. The player with the highest score wins. |
Boardgame News has plenty of deduction fans among its readership, so here’s the low-down on Three of a Crime, a 15-minute deduction game for 2-6 players, ages 8 and up:
| Calling all detectives! A gang of thieves has just been nabbed, but only three members actually committed the crime. Using keen eyes, quick thinking and deduction, try to figure out who’s part of the guilty trio. Was it Loose-Eye Lenny, Kid Cassidy and Pencil Top? Or was it Louie St. Louis, Jonny Cortex and No Neck Nick? The first to name the right three suspects is the master sleuth. |
If I ever have a son, I’m definitely naming him Jonny Cortex…
Finally, in the category of “Scott Tepper’s winning game names,” we have Toss Your Cookies, a speed game and inspiration for oodles of vomit gags:
| Hungry for fun? Look no further than this outrageously delicious game of quick cookie collecting. Try to gather five of the same cookie by following the dice actions: Pass cookie cards to your neighbor, swap them with an opponent, or steal the milk card. Watch out for half-eaten cookies that will spoil your set. And if you roll “Toss All,” get ready for an all-out cookie flinging frenzy! Be the first to get five of a kind plus the milk and you’re one fortunate cookie. |
For more on these and other Gamewright titles, check out the complete list of Gamewright games on the company’s website.
Source: Gamewright
Posted by W. Eric Martin on Feb 1, 2007 at 11:01 PM in Game News, Boardgame News / 950
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What the....? Looking at Three of a Crime, you have cards that contain three different suspects, and number tokens that are placed on top of the cards. That doesn’t look AT ALL like Black Vienna. Any idea if they managed to license that holy grail? Posted by Frank Branham on Feb 2, 2007 at 10:19 AM | #
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Sorry, Frank, Three of a Crime is actually a reworking of Gauner Trio by Heinz Meister. As for other German designers infiltrating Gamewright, Ka-Ching! is a new version of Combit, by Klaus Palesch and Horst-Rainer Rösner. Peter Neugebauer is responsible for another Gamewright title, Duck Duck Bruce, a push-your-luck game aimed at a slightly younger audience. Posted by W. Eric Martin on Feb 2, 2007 at 11:16 AM | #
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There’s also Ricochet, which is a remake of Reinhard Staupe’s Ikarus (and subsequent Leonardo). In addition, PDQ looks an awful lot like a simplified version of Knizia’s My Word!, but the game is credited to Jay Thompson. You’re right, Eric, Hit or Miss does sound like a clever idea. I’m also very happy to see an American version of Combit, which I think is an excellent game. Posted by Larry Levy on Feb 2, 2007 at 12:36 PM | #
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"Tossing Cookies"--wow, that name alone just inspired me to think of a dexterity game using straws and pieces of foam--you could call it “Blowing Chunks” And just so Frank would be proud, throw in some unsuspecting meeples and other favorite game figures to knock over with the chunks! Any publishers reading this? Posted by Jeff Allers on Feb 2, 2007 at 01:50 PM | #
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