Collect Shells for Castles, Dump Sweets for Points, and Wait to Collect Just the Right Cards

Collect Shells for Castles, Dump Sweets for Points, and Wait to Collect Just the Right Cards
• German publisher Zoch Verlag has announced three titles for release in October 2021, with Strand Unter qualifying as its big-box game with a physical element to gameplay.

Board Game: Strand unter

This 45-minute game for 2-4 players is the first published design from Christian Raczek, and here's the introductory pitch from the publisher:
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Strand Unter is a three-dimensional family game in which everyone places their castles in the sand so that they are close to the water, while trying to stay out of the way of the tide.

Plenty of shells can be found in the ankle-deep sand trenches, and those who collect enough of them in competition with their fellow players can build a total of four sand castles. These castles differ in size, value, and required building material. In the end, the best castles are those that escape the approaching tide by a hair's breadth...
Okay, that description doesn't give you a lot to go on, but this image suggests a lot of the elements of gameplay:

Board Game: Strand unter

Board Game: Kings & Creatures
• Designer Nicko Böhnke is debuting three games in 2021: a pair of memory-based storytelling games from HUCH! — Fabula Rasa: Crime and Fabula Rasa: Seemannsgarn — and Kings & Creatures from Zoch, also due out in October 2021.

Here's an overview of this 2-6 player card game:
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Kings & Creatures is a set-collection game in which you take what you want to get what others need.

Board Game: Kings & Creatures

All players help themselves to a heroic selection of great cards to create valuable collections — but only those who combine courageous taking with clever waiting will get hold of the most fabulous heroes. Access to grandiose cards is given only to those who choose modest cards...but those who want only to preserve their future chances with clever restraint may discover that the true heroes have long been elsewhere.
• Oh, wait, turns out that Zoch Verlag has two big box games with physical elements on its late 2021 release schedule! Kipp mir Saures is a 2-4 player game from first-time designer Emmanuel Albisser, and Google translate is suggesting that "Kipp mir saures" means "Kill me sour", yet "kipp" also means "tilt", which is far more relevant to the following description, so perhaps "Tilt sours for me" or even the Def Leppard inspired "Pour some sours on me" — except that the "sours" in question here are sour-flavored candies, so the original Def Leppard song would work even better here, and I'm sure that Zoch has reached out to the band to consider licensing opportunities.

Board Game: Kipp mir Saures

In any case, here's a summary of what's going on:
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In Kipp mir Saures, three tubes are filled with dice in a tactically clever way until they dump out sweets.

In a spectacular three-dimensional rack, flavor, shape, and pack tubes are waiting to be filled with dice cubes. Once the weight of the cubes causes the tubes to tip, all the cubes tumble out. At these moments, players may grab new treats, fit candy on their cards, and pack what they've collected. The tactically clever thing to do is to use the different weights and colors of the dice in such a way that the tastiest treats arrive in their own packages.
And once again here's a highly suggestible component shot to bring the previous description to life:

Board Game: Kipp mir Saures

• Wait a second — three titles? Hasn't Zoch released four titles every six months consistently for years? Perhaps something else is in the pipeline waiting for just the right moment to be announced...

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