First sight at @ToyFairNY: Game of the year winner Simon Swipe. We're in the land of the mainstream here! —WEM pic.twitter.com/cCuH8MyJNL
— BoardGameGeek (@BoardGameGeek) February 14, 2015
Toy of the year winner Gravity Maze; I usually love the @ThinkFun logic puzzles, but haven't tried this one yet. —WEM pic.twitter.com/tkxz6rIFV4
— BoardGameGeek (@BoardGameGeek) February 14, 2015
Takenoko Chibis, an expansion for Takenoko, is due out at Gen Con 2015 from @Toinito & @StudioBombyx. —WEM pic.twitter.com/s7c4VEhbSK
— BoardGameGeek (@BoardGameGeek) February 16, 2015
Nine panda cubs join the game w/ Takenoko Chibis, but in tile form, mind you, not miniature figures. —WEM pic.twitter.com/zM5K5Lhv6G
— BoardGameGeek (@BoardGameGeek) February 16, 2015
Components of @Ascensiongame Collector's Edition. First printing is sold out; second printing will be the last. —WEM pic.twitter.com/y1BT0RQqF8
— BoardGameGeek (@BoardGameGeek) February 15, 2015
Every card in @Ascensiongame Collector's Edition is shiny w/ the new card layout. All year 1 promos included. —WEM pic.twitter.com/LDAedEPGDa
— BoardGameGeek (@BoardGameGeek) February 15, 2015
Even the game board in @Ascensiongame Collector's Edition is shiny, w/ artwork embossed all over it. —WEM pic.twitter.com/2w7N90BEy5
— BoardGameGeek (@BoardGameGeek) February 15, 2015
Maze Racers (@FoxMind) has players build mazes simultaneously, then race in one another's maze. Proto components. WEM pic.twitter.com/7iDUxO9ITE
— BoardGameGeek (@BoardGameGeek) February 15, 2015
To elaborate on Maze Racers a bit, to start the game you roll a die that determines in which quadrants you place the start (green) and end (red) gates, then you race to build a maze from the parts, which in the prototype show above have a magnetic edge in order to attach to the metal base. At any point during the construction, one of the players can call time after which the other player flips a sand timer, then has one minute to finish construction. Players then swap boards and attempt to race a marble from one gate to another, and whoever does so first wins.
What popped to mind when I heard this description was Inception, with players racing to build as complex a maze as possible in next-to-no time. I assume that the game has specific construction rules so that you can't plop a gate in an empty area and force someone to roll a marble into it from nowhere. We'll see...
In Stinker (@Nick__Bentley & @FoxMind), use letter tiles to answer crazy questions, then a judge awards points. —WEM pic.twitter.com/4KDhlpqCma
— BoardGameGeek (@BoardGameGeek) February 15, 2015
In Speedy Words (@FoxMind), race to shout an answer in the category shown starting w/ the letter in same color. —WEM pic.twitter.com/WRi9JTO9rZ
— BoardGameGeek (@BoardGameGeek) February 15, 2015
In Majority Rules! (@FoxMind), players have an odd question, choose 1 of 5 names & hope to guess same as others. —WEM pic.twitter.com/fcYTLJM9F7
— BoardGameGeek (@BoardGameGeek) February 15, 2015
Zany Chain (@MindWareToys) challenges you to create shapes w/only a chain for others to guess. It's tough! —WEM pic.twitter.com/KwWWoWGeEz
— BoardGameGeek (@BoardGameGeek) February 15, 2015
In Castle Blast (@MindWareToys), you try to knock certain figures from the castle; collect all 3 tokens to win. —WEM pic.twitter.com/GwiEJW6bs6
— BoardGameGeek (@BoardGameGeek) February 15, 2015
Choice Words (@MindWareToys) has both the guess-the-same-as-others half & answer-differently-from-others half. —WEM pic.twitter.com/cGcvBU8vPp
— BoardGameGeek (@BoardGameGeek) February 15, 2015
Animal Trivia Challenge (@MindWareToys) is pretty much that w/easy&hard ?s. Collect secret pt tokens when right. —WEM pic.twitter.com/WdkeClwY9e
— BoardGameGeek (@BoardGameGeek) February 15, 2015
In Leaps and Ledges (@MindWareToys), play cards to get 4 guys atop the tower, knocking down others if possible. —WEM pic.twitter.com/Zua9FaTNgO
— BoardGameGeek (@BoardGameGeek) February 15, 2015
New cover for @ThamesAndKosmos' English edition of Lost Cities; same interior contents. 3-4p rules to be online. —WEM pic.twitter.com/f27HFyvsBV
— BoardGameGeek (@BoardGameGeek) February 16, 2015
Kahuna returns in a new English edition from @ThamesAndKosmos; due out March 2015 in the U.S. —WEM pic.twitter.com/Fc5GsV6yfi
— BoardGameGeek (@BoardGameGeek) February 16, 2015
The 2015 English edition of Ubongo from @ThamesAndKosmos includes the timer app introduced in the German edition. WEM pic.twitter.com/sgD9cHMQDc
— BoardGameGeek (@BoardGameGeek) February 16, 2015
Dimension: You must place colored balls on a grid quickly while following placement rules. Due in U.S. May 2015. —WEM pic.twitter.com/J6Uek6X6KT
— BoardGameGeek (@BoardGameGeek) February 16, 2015
Lost Cities: The Board Game returns March 2015 from @ThamesAndKosmos, w/ German edition to adopt Lost Cities IP. —WEM pic.twitter.com/5s2uWPTDqd
— BoardGameGeek (@BoardGameGeek) February 16, 2015
Klaus Teuber's Dohdles appears in English in May 2015 from @ThamesAndKosmos, just 2 months after the German one. —WEM pic.twitter.com/gpxxGab8B7
— BoardGameGeek (@BoardGameGeek) February 16, 2015
Biggest news of @ToyFairNY 2015: @ThamesAndKosmos will release Michael Menzel’s Legends of Andor & its expansions in English. —WEM
— BoardGameGeek (@BoardGameGeek) February 16, 2015