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Game Previews from the 2018 GAMA Trade Show: Nyctophobia, Senshi, Wonderland, Star Trek Fluxx, and Much from WizKids

Game Previews from the 2018 GAMA Trade Show: Nyctophobia, Senshi, Wonderland, Star Trek Fluxx, and Much from WizKids
Board Game Publisher: Pandasaurus Games
• Time for another batch of games previewed at the 2018 GAMA Trade Show, starting with the Gen Con 2018 release Nyctophobia from Catherine Stippell and Pandasaurus Games. This title needs to be experienced to get the full effect of what's going on, with all but one players being unable to see and trying to feel their way through the landscape to safety before the hunter catches any of them, but at least this video can give you a taste of what's coming:





Board Game Publisher: Arcane Wonders
• Senshi is a 2-4 player majorities game coming from Dan Manfredini and Arcane Wonders at the end of May 2018, and I play a complete game on camera with AW's Tony Gullotti so you can see how it works and imagine how you would have played to beat both of us.





Board Game: Fluxx
• Looney Labs will debut two new flavors of Fluxx at Gen Con 2018 in August: Star Trek Fluxx and Star Trek: The Next Generation Fluxx. Both games are playable on their own, but they'll have some overlap as well. At GAMA, designer Andy Looney didn't have artwork to show as that's still going through the approval process, but he did talk a bit about the design of these sets:





From gallery of W Eric Martin
• For International Tabletop Day, which takes place April 28, 2018, Renegade Game Studios has a special item available only through brick-and-mortar stores and only on a one-shot basis, that is, no reorders will be possible beyond a store's initial allocations. Sounds like an odd thing to do, yes? Create a product, then limit access to it? Still I'm talking about it here, so I guess the gimmick has worked to some degree.

Wonderland is a tiny two-player-only game from Daniel Solis in which each player has a deck of only seven cards. With these cards, they both create the values of rows and columns in a 3x3 playing area and compete to score those points by having majorities in those rows and columns. Steph Hodge and I explain the game and play it in just over four minutes.





Board Game Publisher: WizKids (I)
• WizKids is releasing at least one new game per month throughout 2018, so with limited time available at GAMA 2018, we ran through this quartet of games — Endless Pass, Fungeon Party, Doppelgänger, and Star Trek: Galactic Enterprises — in a very short time. Come Origins in June 2018, we'll have five days to fill with demos and more time to show off each of these games, but for now here's the WizKids Whitman sampler:

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