NY Toy Fair 2012: Playroom Entertainment Expands Existing Lines: Drei Magier, Bright Idea & One Million Bunnies

In 1, 2, 3 ... ganz viele! ("1, 2, 3 ... lots!"), players work together to try to lay down cards in the right order. If they complete two rows of ten cards each, they win.

At the start of the game, shuffle the deck of fifty cards – five cards each with numbers 1-10, with ten different images appearing as pips on the cards: horseshoes, mushrooms, springs, and so on – and deal five cards to each player.

On a turn, a player must lay down a card, if possible. Cards must be laid in numerical order, so the first card in a row must be 1, the second card 2, and so on. At the same time, the same image cannot be placed into a row twice. If a player can legally play a card, she does so, then draws a replacement from one of the two draw stacks; if she can't, she lays a card aside out of the game, then draws a new card. (The cards have color-coded icons on their backs – red, blue, etc. – which can aid players in deciding which card to draw.)

If the players create two rows of cards numbered 1-10 before both decks run out and they can't play any more cards, they win; if not, they lose.

A competitive variant is included in 1, 2, 3 ... ganz viele! with players taking cards numbered 1-7 from two colors (e.g., red and blue), then laying them out in two rows. On a turn, a player turns over one of the number 1 cards, then one of the number 2s, and so on. If she reveals a card that shows an image already present on a card revealed earlier, her turn ends and she flips all cards face-down again. If a player reveals cards numbered 1-7 without revealing matching images, she wins the round. The first player to win three rounds wins.

Zozzle challenges players to complete a nine-piece puzzle before any opponent, but players will need a good memory to put all the pieces in the right place.

To start the game, the 45 tiles – five tiles each of nine different images, with the nine images combining to form a 3x3 square – are placed face down and shuffled. On a turn, a player turns over two tiles. If the images match and that player doesn't already have that image in her puzzle, she claims one of the tiles, turns the other face down, and takes another turn. If the images don't match or the player has previously claimed that tile, she turns the two tiles face down and ends her turn. Finish your image before anyone else, and you win.

In Speak Up!, everyone plays in one of five languages – German, English, French, Spanish or Italian – and not knowing the language won't necessarily be a detriment.

To set up the game, lay out 49 of the fifty cards on the table with the picture side faceup; next to the picture is the name of the item in five languages. The back of each card features the name of some other item in five languages.

To start play, take the card set aside during set-up and read one of the words on the back, say "Markt" (the German word for "market"). Everyone then races to find the card depicting the market, which will also have the various words for "market" next to the picture. Whoever finds it keeps the card, then flips it over and reads the German word on the back. This process continues until all the cards have been claimed. Whoever has the most cards wins!