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So, plenty of options to choose from. We need to focus on many things. Once again it is essential to trigger cascading effects. Well, a proper Suchý, you could say. On BGG, the designer mentions that in terms of complexity, the game is on one level with Praga Caput Regni and Underwater Cities. (ab/cs)
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More crimes. That neatly sums up the fans’ expectations for this fall. After MicroMacro Crime City became Spiel des Jahres (game of the year) and also came in second at the Deutscher Spielepreis (German game award), one fact was clear: The community wants more. And the Full House box con- tains 16 new cases, plus hints to parents where accidents, murders and corpses are included, or where things get even more explicit. Parents are well advised to play through a case without their chil- dren first, and then decide whether their offspring should investigate the story. Four of the cases are marked this way, seven others the authors Johannes Sich, Daniel Goll and Tobias Jochinke consider suitable to be played with children. And in the firefighter case ”Ein ganz normal- er Held“ (Quite a Normal Hero), there‘s
even a little salute to German punkrock
There are also two new buildings and a cow that grows when you visit Kansas City. Calf, heifer and cow of the Simmen- tal breed are included in the deck for a new variant. (ab/cs)
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Rolling Realms was developed by de- signer Jamey Stegmaier during his Co- rona-induced isolation, so he could play online with people. This half-hour roll & write game is now also available on the German market as a physical board game. In three rounds, two six-sided dice are rolled nine times each and the results recorded on score cards with an erasable pen. They represent games from the Stonemaier program, but the cards‘ functions have little to do with the orig- inal games. For example, in Wingspan, players are supposed to achieve a specific wingspan value by writing down the dice numbers.
Each player enters the results of the two dice on their own cards, aiming to score as many points as possible in the interme- diate scoring after nine rolls. Before each round, three worlds/games for entering the dice rolls are drawn from a total of eleven. These, in turn, unlock extras like pumpkins, hearts or coins, which are col-
lected on a separate card and activated if need- ed, to change dice results or create new
player dice, if only for a imited time. (sd/cs)
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Mombasa, and even more so Great Western Trail, were the two games that established Alexander Pfister‘s almost legendary fame in the gaming scene. There is now a second edition of the lat- ter, after a full graphical design overhaul and with even more new features. Above all, it will be published as a trilogy. In 2021 eggertspiele, now a label of Plan B Games, will publish the original game, followed by Argentina next year, and fi- nally New Zealand in 2023.
Sophie Gravel and her team paid par- ticular attention to the redesign in terms of making the game more attractive for international markets. Three cloth bags now enable a faster setup, and dou- ble-layered player boards prevent markers from sliding about. Another eye-catcher: the wooden cowboy meeples with their colored, removable hats.
The game itself has only subtly changed. For example, the solo mode de- veloped by Steve Schlepphorst, assisted by Wil Gerken and David Lavoie, which has two difficulty levels, is included now.
Great Western Trail.
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In Leo Coloviniʼs ERIANTYS, islands float high up among the clouds, where magical beings from five realms go to school; Guided by famous professors, little red dragons, pink fairies, yellow gnomes, blue unicorns and green frogs learn magic to lead their own academies to success.
Two to four players, ages eight and up, build new areas in magical towers and invite as many creatures as possible to dinner; if professors join them, they influence all the crea- tures in a realm. When Mother Nature comes to visit, she rewards the school with the most influenced creatures with
a new tower. But the studentsʼ loyalties change quickly, and even the teachers like to switch to another academy. Who is the smartest tactician and manages to control the moves of the other players? (th)
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