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New Game Round-up: Count the Colors, Memorize the Dice, and Keep Your Eyes Peeled for a Scary Bunny

New Game Round-up: Count the Colors, Memorize the Dice, and Keep Your Eyes Peeled for a Scary Bunny
Board Game: The Mind
• German publisher Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag specializes in karten for the playing of spiele, so you might not be surprised to find two new card games coming from NSV in the first half of 2018.

The Mind from Wolfgang Warsch seems to be taking a cue from NSV's The Game as it (1) features a disturbing cover image that's repeated on several cards, (2) is a cooperative game, and (3) will be difficult to find in searches on BGG. As for what's going on in the game, well, that's also difficult to find right now:
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The Mind is more than just a game. It's an experiment, a journey, a team experience in which you can't exchange information, yet will become one to defeat all the levels of the game.
Ooooookay. More info following BGG's trip to Spielwarenmesse in early February, I suppose, as we'll record game overviews there and ideally get first-hand exposure to that ghostly bunny.

• Warsch is also the designer of Illusion, which bears a slightly more descriptive description:
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Can you trust your eyes? How much color do you really see? These questions are what drive gameplay in Illusion, with rules that allow for gameplay to start immediately. Who has the right perspective not to be fooled?
Board Game: Illusion

• At first glance, Würfelland from Andreas Spies and Reinhard Staupe resembles Träxx, an NSV title from 2015 co-designed by Staupe in which players must draw one continuous track on a board based on card flips that show which colors can be marked on the board. Würfelland includes six colored dice and no cards, with dry-erase boards on which players will mark things off. In more detail:
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Würfelland is a racing dice game in which nothing has to be calculated. Every plays each turn based on the same roll of the dice, with all players racing to be the first to reach nine treasure fields and complete a territory of one chosen color. The game includes four double-sided wipeable playing boards for variety.
Board Game: Würfelland

Board Game: Bluff Jubiläumsausgabe
• Ravensburger has revealed a huge number of titles, with two dozen of them being part of its "Spielend Neues Lernen" series of learning games for young children. From among the other games, we find Bluff Jubiläumsausgabe, a 25th anniversary release of Richard Borg's Spiel des Jahres-winning Bluff that includes an orange die for each player that counts as two dice, making it more difficult to determine whether the odds are ever in your favor.

• Dackel Drauf! from Carlo A. Rossi uses dice in a memory game, with players needing to remember how many animals they saw before they closed the lid of the box. Perhaps there's more to the game than this given all the components depicted in the press shot, but that's all I know for now.

Board Game: Dackel Drauf!

Board Game: Black Jacky
Board Game: Tor-Duell
Board Game: La Cucaracha Card
• Johannes Krenner's Black Jacky is a souped-up Blackjack, with special powered cards that allow you to mess with who has which cards.

• Tor-Duell is a two-player football game from Michael Schacht that resembles a simultaneously-play card game of his from years back that I can't recall at the moment.

• KakerlaCard is the latest cockroach game from Inka and Markus Brand, with this being a travel game that uses only cards, with players scrambling to find their cockroaches first.

• As for the Brands' other release from Ravensburger — The Rise of Queensdale, a legacy game from the company's alea brand — we have an appointment to film an overview at Spielwarenmesse, so we'll have some (limited) info to share in mid-February ahead of the game's release in German in March. (The English-language release is aimed at Gen Con 2018 in August.)

Board Game: The Rise of Queensdale

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