New Game Round-up: A Handful of Games from Rio Grande, Bohnanza Turns 15 & Burgess Enters Publishing Babylon

Roll for the Galaxy is a dice game of building space empires for 2-5 players. Your dice represent your populace, whom you direct to develop new technologies, settle worlds, and ship goods. The player who best manages his workers and builds the most prosperous empire wins! This dice version of Race for the Galaxy takes players on a new journey through the Galaxy, but with the the feel of the original game.

The Cinque Terre are five coastal villages in the Liguria region of Italy known for their beauty, culture, food, and proximity to one another. Produce carts are commonly found in each village marketplace.

In this game of strategy, players compete to sell the most valuable produce in the five villages. Players act as farmers and operate a cart in which they will harvest produce and deliver them to the five villages to sell. Additionally, players will compete for Produce Order cards, which reward Lira points for selling desirable produce in specific villages. Players track sold produce in each village using their Fulfillment Cards. The winner is the player who gains the most Lire by selling valuable produce, gaining popularity in the villages, and fulfilling Produce Orders.

Come play a game of mischief, magic, mirth, and lore. Delve into the Book of Fate to reveal mysterious fortunes: realms near and far, resources wondrous and wild. Cast your lot with a crew of assorted (and sordid) characters. If you pay your dues and play your hand right, you may just win a fool's fortune.

A Fool's Fortune is a two-player card game in the tradition of Rummy in which players race to make sets – but with several wily twists. Found within the deck of 77 unique cards are five suits of Fortunes and a host of talented characters for players to put to use.

In Theme Park, players take on the role of theme park managers that all work for the Earl Synergy Company, an entertainment giant that has spent the last 75 years making movies, television and theme parks for families around the world. Players take on the role of executives running their own regional Synergyland theme park. Over the course of four years, each player makes the best use of his management team and resources to maximize his own Synergyland's performance by building out his parks; ensuring the right mix of attractions, shops and shows to draw tourists to his park; taking advantage of marketing opportunities to promote his own parks, both building overall attendance and his own block of it; and developing out his roster of executive staff. The player with the most victory points (including special "Brownie Points" for being a "company man") at the end of four years becomes the new CEO of the Earl Synergy Company and wins the game.

Each turn in Synergyland, players place their differently skilled executive pieces on the various company spaces to claim resources, attractions, shows, marketing opportunities and other items that will help build out their park so they can grab the highest attendance and revenue when the tourists are distributed throughout the year. Each year, different factors will affect the company as a whole, new marketing campaigns and brands will be developed that executives may or may not want to harness to drive the masses to their parks. But the trick to getting more value out of your company executives is that the more they collaborate, the better the synergy. When more than one executive is placed on a specific location, they generate more of an advantage, a more valuable park addition or a greater marketing campaign or they just make the item cheaper in the long run – although there are certainly some times when too much help means too many ideas...so be careful to get into that "sweet spot" for collaboration.