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Game Previews from NY Toy Fair 2013: The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings Card Game, Words of Art, Stop It! & Qwirkle Trio

Game Previews from NY Toy Fair 2013: The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings Card Game, Words of Art, Stop It! & Qwirkle Trio
From gallery of W Eric Martin
• Time for a few more game previews from NY Toy Fair 2013, with a trio of titles from Playroom Entertainment. (I would have had more four more videos featuring Playroom, but I botched the audio on them, leaving nothing more than a droning hum to accompany the visuals – one of many such goofs that I did on that first day of me trying to do everything on my own.)

In any case, Playroom has two titles coming that are based on The Lord of the Rings – more specifically, on the LotR texts and not the new Hobbit or old LotR films. The first title up is a new version of Keith Meyers and Michael Stern's The Hobbit board game, first released in 2001 by Fantasy Flight Games and many other publishers around the world.


From gallery of W Eric Martin
• The other half of Playroom's Lord of the Rings line-up is an English version of a 2012 Kosmos release from designer Andreas Zimmerman titled The Lord of the Rings Card Game. As with The Hobbit board game above, this design is aimed not solely at gamers but at families, which is Playroom's target audience.


Board Game: Words of Art
• Playroom also releases a few party games each year, and the one demonstration of such that survived my ineptness is for Maureen Hiron's Words of Art.


Board Game: Qwirkle
• Designer Susan McKinley Ross briefly gives the lowdown on MindWare's Qwirkle Trio, the U.S. version of Schmidt's Qwirkle Big Box, which debuted in October 2012.


Board Game: Stop It!
• We'll close with the fast-playing card game Stop It! from the U.S. branch of Winning Moves.

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