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Videos from Spiel 2014 XXVI: Tash Kalar: Everfrost, Dungeon Lords Anniversary, Astro Jam, Kryptos & Family Bingo

Videos from Spiel 2014 XXVI: Tash Kalar: Everfrost, Dungeon Lords Anniversary, Astro Jam, Kryptos & Family Bingo
Board Game: Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends – Everfrost
• After a couple of off days (uh oh), it's time to continue with the game demonstrations recorded in the BGG booth during Spiel 2014.

At that convention, Czech Games Edition unveiled a new edition of Vlaada Chvátil's Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends — an edition that CGE will be handing off to distributors in the U.S. as it's now publishing English-language editions of its own titles instead of licensing them to others — and in addition it released a new faction for use with that game: Everfrost. Paul Grogan lets you know what you'll find inside the box:





Board Game: Dungeon Lords: Happy Anniversary
• For the fifth anniversary of Vlaada Chvátil's Dungeon Lords, CGE stepped onto Kickstarter to offer a supersized edition complete with the expansion and other bits, and 2,300 people backed one version or another (or just the new bits) of Dungeon Lords: Happy Anniversary, which is something of a shelf hog in its final form.





Board Game: Astro Jam
• The basic description of Trefl's Astro Jam from designers Michal Kolos and Wojciech Rzadek will be reminiscent of Space Alert — you and your fellow players are on a damaged space station and must repair all the damaged systems before time runs out — but of course that's the nature of basic descriptions: You leave out all the details that make things not the same. That's what video game demonstrations are for...





Board Game: Kryptos
• For the best Spiel experience, one should probably not wait until a month after the convention to read the descriptions of games being presented there, especially when the games are being presented by non-U.S. publishers that might be more difficult than usual to acquire (me being in the U.S., that is), but such is the case with Piotr Siłka's Kryptos from Trefl, this being a deduction game in which you're trying to figure out which cards the other players are holding based on color clues and some revealed information. Ah, well, given that we included Kryptos in our Spiel line-up, the BGG library should have a copy on hand that I can check out — although I'll remember to do that in December when it's also far, far too late.





Board Game: Family Bingo
• As a German-only or Polish-only family party game, I can see why Reiner Knizia's Family Bingo from Trefl has not made waves on BGG (other than the lone 1 hate rating), but the game itself seems fine for what it's trying to do: Mesh the victory condition of Bingo, i.e., make a line of chips on a grid, by accomplishing party game-type feats, such as guessing what image someone is creating out of sticks.

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