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Game Preview: Click & Crack, or Hey, That's Not Hey, That's My Fish!

Game Preview: Click & Crack, or Hey, That's Not Hey, That's My Fish!
Board Game: Click & Crack
It's interesting how some games seem to claim ownership of certain concepts. For those versed in modern games, if you see pieces of ice and penguins, Hey, That's My Fish! is probably going to spring to mind, even if said pieces of ice and said penguins aren't from that game.

Such is the case with Jun'ichi Sato's Click & Crack, which debuted from Junias at the Tokyo Game Market in late 2013 and is being released in a new multilingual version in time for Spiel 2014. In this quick-playing game for 3-4 players, you're not trying to eat more fish than the other birds but are instead trying to dominate more space by claiming bits of ice as your own.

And now that designers have covered penguins fighting for both food and land, I hope that someone will work on a design about penguins fighting for air or control of nuclear launch codes. One of those.

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