I hope no one reports Ted for child abuse! My wife accused me of just that when I challenged my kids to five star puzzles of Einfach Genial Knobelspass. Now I need to get this expansion and finally order a copy of Ubongo Extrem to step it up a notch.

Hopefully, this means that we’ll see a domestic release of Ubongo Extrem in the not-too-distant future.

A couple notes here:

1) The kids not only tested many of the tiles, but they designed 20 of them as well.

2) Zev was thinking about doing this, but the exchange rate made this impractical without charging something way too high ($50+). And the exchange rate is just getting worse and worse.

Thanks for the reply, Ted.

I think that you are correct about the exchange rates, but I note that game prices are rising all over the place these days.

Days of Wonder has raised their prices across the line.
Agricola’s list price is $70.
Fantasy Flight routinely cranks out games with list prices over $50.

I’m curious whether doing a pre-book (as was done with Agricola) might at least see if there was sufficient interest for Zev to consider doing it.

I’d imagine that many of the people who might be up for a pre-order have already aquired an imported copy, one way or another. Especially after Zev initially announced he was passing on it.

BTW, thanks Ted; my friends will either be praising you or cursing you shortly.  ;)

Great! Thanks Ted!