No Excape from the Cold Thanks to Filosofia
Canadian publisher Filosofia will release Excape – a new version of the Reiner Knizia title Exxtra, which first appeared in 1999 from Amgio – is due for release in February 2009. To help promote Excape, reps from Filosofia ventured out into -28º C weather to demo the game:
For those who shy away from French or masochists, here’s a description of the game play: Each player has a pair of unique dice, and on a turn you roll the dice – possibly multiple times – to try to create a large, two-digit number. If you roll doubles, you advance 1-3 spaces and can keep rolling; if you roll an X, your turn ends. If you stop rolling, you place your number on a chart labeled 0-5, and if no one places a higher sum on a lower number before your next turn, you advance on the track a number of spaces equal to the number on which you placed the dice. The first player to reach the end of the track wins.
Posted by W. Eric Martin on Jan 24, 2009 at 05:00 AM in Game News, The Industry at Large / 786
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Okay, I’m Canadian, where I am today it’s -19 C, my French isn’t good, but I can assure you, these people are nuts! Posted by Len Robinson on Jan 24, 2009 at 05:00 PM | #
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Exxtra is one of the best hidden Knizia gems. And one of my favorites. I hope they sell a ton of these. The YouTube link is dead, by the way. Posted by William Bussick on Jan 25, 2009 at 03:55 AM | #
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Hmm, the video is working for me, William. Eric Posted by W. Eric Martin on Jan 25, 2009 at 04:39 AM | #
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I didn’t realise this was a Knizia game. The basic system is very good and very original but the game is totally ruined by the rule (not mentioned by Eric) that players advance 1,2 or 3 spaces when they throw doubles! Each game we have played has been won by the doubles, which makes it seem a very unlikely Knizia rule. Of course, the answer is to strike this rule through. - Derek Posted by Derek Carver on Jan 25, 2009 at 07:25 AM | #
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The video is back now. It was saying that the “video is no longer available” before. Posted by William Bussick on Jan 26, 2009 at 02:16 AM | #
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