New Game Round-up: Pigeons, Builders, Witches and Chupacabra – Three More Releases for Spiel 2013 & One for Other Days

New Game Round-up: Pigeons, Builders, Witches and Chupacabra – Three More Releases for Spiel 2013 & One for Other Days
Board Game: Kupferkessel Co.
• German publisher franjos Spieleverlag will release a new edition of Günter Burkhardt's Spiel des Jahres recommended Kupferkessel Co. in October 2013 in time for the annual Spiel convention in Essen, Germany. This new version of the game, titled Glastonbury, goes from a two-player-only game to a game that supports 2-4 players, and it includes additional ingredient cards and new spell cards that allow special actions. Here's an overview of the game:

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In Glastonbury, the players are witches and wizards who shop for ingredients for their magic potions. Your token moves around the perimeter of an array of ingredient cards, and you pick one from the row or column where you stop. The number on the card you pick dictates how many spaces you move on your next turn.

To score points, you need to collect sets of four matching ingredients; if you have only one of a particular ingredient, you'll score penalty points instead. The scoring rules can be made more complicated if the players desire, but for most the basic rules are satisfying. A touch of memory is involved since you can see only the most recently chosen ingredient on your stack of cards.
Board Game: Chupacabra: Survive the Night
• In April 2013, U.S. publisher Steve Jackson Games announced that it was interested in acquiring games from established publishers, presumably to bring those games to a larger audience and make some money on the side. Now SJG has unveiled a title picked up in just this way: Chupacabra: Survive the Night from designers David Blanchard, Brian Frodema and John Jacobsen, which was first published by the Haywire Group in 2012. Here's a description of the game, which is due out from SJG in November 2013:

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Turn out the lights and try to be the last mammal standing in this survival dice game based on Latin American folklore. Can you survive the night?

In Chupacabra: Survive the Night, which includes 24 glow-in-the-dark dice, each player rolls six dice at the start of the game and uses their rolled Chupacabra to steal other players' chickens, goats, and bulls. One Chupacabra can capture up to two chickens or one goat, and two Chupacabra can capture a bull – but animal packs are immune to Chupacabra so be sure to roll a lot of the same animal! (As if you have the power to control your dice rolls...)

Once a player is down to three dice, he becomes "Chupacabra Loco" and can capture all of one type of another animal from a player.
Board Game: The Builders: Middle Ages
• French publisher Bombyx has a new addition to its line of card games in tin boxes: Les Bâtisseurs from designer Frédéric Henry, which is due out in October 2013. The game details are scant at the moment, but here's what we've got:

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In Les Bâtisseurs, the cards represent buildings or workers. Players score points (and gain money) by completing the construction of buildings, while placing a worker on a construction site costs money.

Each building has four characteristics (carpentry, masonry, architecture, tilery) rated between 0 and 5, and the workers have the same characteristics valued in the same range. To complete a construction, the player must add enough workers to cover the four characteristics of the building.
• In 2013, French publisher Ludocom will release a small expansion for Laurent Escoffier's pigeon-breeding game Columba. Columba: Officia adds six characters with special powers to the game, with players randomly taking 1-2 characters at the start of the game depending on the number of players. Spend two "domesticated pigeon" tiles later in the game, and you can acquire a character previously unchosen – or one owned by an opponent.

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