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In Cappuccino, players use stacks of coffee cups to capture other players' coffee cups.
Cappuccino features 64 beautiful plastic coffee cups in four different colors, with each player owning one color. At the start of the game, place all the cups face down on the table, shuffle them, then group them together. On a turn, a player can capture a stack that's adjacent to one of his own stacks as long as his stack is the same height as or taller than the adjacent stack. As long as a player's color stays on top of the stack, he controls that stack. If one or more stacks are isolated from the main group and all of these stacks are controlled by the same player, he can take possession of them, removing them from the game. When all the cups have been captured, players stack all of the cups they captured and whoever has the highest stack wins.
Cappuccino features 64 beautiful plastic coffee cups in four different colors, with each player owning one color. At the start of the game, place all the cups face down on the table, shuffle them, then group them together. On a turn, a player can capture a stack that's adjacent to one of his own stacks as long as his stack is the same height as or taller than the adjacent stack. As long as a player's color stays on top of the stack, he controls that stack. If one or more stacks are isolated from the main group and all of these stacks are controlled by the same player, he can take possession of them, removing them from the game. When all the cups have been captured, players stack all of the cups they captured and whoever has the highest stack wins.
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As soon as Hanabi won the SdJ, people wondered whether ABACUS and Bauza would release expansions for the game. Could they even do it? Is it possible to create expansions for a game that's so tight and minimal? Instead of going that route, ABACUS has instead opted to release Hanabi Deluxe, a special version of the game in a wooden box with high-quality tiles replacing the cards and chips in the standard game. Hanabi Deluxe carries a €60 MSRP and will be available at Spiel 2013, along with the other games listed above.
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Each turn in The Great Persuader, two players – the "Persuaders" – try to convince another player – the "Customer" – either that their "bad" offer (e.g., "Working as a scarecrow") is good for him, or that their "good" offer (e.g., "Winning the lottery") is not what he is looking for. The Customer listens to both Persuaders, then chooses the offer from one of them. In the meantime, all of the other players bet on which Persuader will prevail. The goal of the game is to get the highest score, proving that you are the great persuader!
The Great Persuader includes 220 offers as well as ten rule variants for experienced players.
• The other title from dV Giochi is the winner of the annual Miglior Gioco Inedito game design contest that's organized and run by dV Giochi, the Lucca Comics & Games convention, and manufacturing plant Cartamundi. The designs submitted for this contest must be card games, they must fit whatever theme was chosen by the organizers, and they must be the work of first-time designers, with the winner receiving publication in the subsequent year. The 2012 winner, which will debut at Spiel 2013, is Shooting Star from designers Isabella Amoretti and Valerio Zini, but the game description says little about the gameplay right now:The Great Persuader includes 220 offers as well as ten rule variants for experienced players.
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The card game Shooting Star is set in a distant galaxy, with the players scoring points by destroying planets, acquiring moons, and pursuing the aims of their secret missions.
More details to come on this title and many other games in the seven weeks remaining before Spiel 2013 opens. Only seven weeks – eep!
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