Flick Dice, Grow Food, Lead the Celts, and Squeeze a Pile in 2020, Thanks to Pegasus Spiele

The Celtic Lord of the Wetterau is looking for a successor. To prove themselves worthy, players have to travel the region and trade with neighboring tribes. Each turn they have to perform one movement with their family members; other players at their starting location can decide to join them. While some locations allow players to collect goods, others have to be visited to fulfill goal cards which grant influence (victory points). The game ends immediately once a player has fulfilled five goal cards or chooses to reveal that they've collected one good of every kind. Players then tally up their points and the most influential Celt wins.

Celtic is an easily accessible family game for 2 to 4 players, ages 8 and up. Quick turns that allow inactive players to profit make for a light tactical game without downtime.

Well-flicked is half won in Dice Flick: In the game, 2-6 players compete to score 50 points first. To do so, they draw dice from a bag each turn and flick two of them onto the playing area, which is mounted inside the game box. Adjacent dice and dice landing in the middle of the playing area score points and are returned into the bag. While white dice serve as jokers, red dice trigger a special scoring. Players who make best use of the die abilities and have good aim are bound to win.

Growing food in your own garden, keeping livestock yourself — self-sufficiency is all the rage, but running an actual farm with a successful farm shop is a much bigger challenge than that.

In the family game My Farm Shop, players can live through that experience without leaving the house. Three dice are thrown on each turn. With one die, the active player selects a new expansion for their farm, and the combination of the other two dice dictates which field will be activated on the farm — not only for the active player, but for all others as well. The expansions enhance the actions that players use to milk cows, shear sheep, harvest honey, or collect eggs, and these raw materials can then be sold. In the end, whoever makes the most money wins.

All players roll their dice at the same time, trying to roll the number combinations shown on the other players' tiles. As soon as a player does this, they quickly squeeze the squeaky pile. All players must pause to see whether the combination is correct, and if it is, the player may take the tile. As soon as a player runs out of tiles, they're eliminated from the game.