New Game Round-up: Grab More Things in the Jungle, Play with More Skulls on the Table & Snatch More Sweets than Anyone Else

The core gameplay is the same, with players turning over cards from their personal stacks one by one in front of themselves and reacting when certain cards or combinations of cards appear, but Jungle Speed Safari features five wooden totems to grab instead of one, and you interact with them in different ways, with every card that's revealed possibly triggering an action. If a player reveals a hungry animal card, for example, all players must race to grab the appropriate totem to satisfy the animal. Whoever grabs that totem adds the hungry animal card to his score pile.

Skull is the quintessence of bluffing, a game in which everything is played in the players' heads. Each player plays a face-down card, then each player in turn adds one more card – until someone feels safe enough to state that he can turn a number of cards face up and get only roses. Other players can then overbid him, saying they can turn even more cards face up. The highest bidder must then turn that number of cards face up, starting with his own. If he shows only roses, he wins; if he reveals a skull, he loses, placing one of his cards out of play. Two succcessful challenges wins the game. That's all. Skull is not a game of luck; it's a game of poker face and meeting eyes.

Relive your childhood with the simple rummy-style game Trick or Treat. Run around in your favorite costume and collect treats from your neighbors. As soon as you have a complete set of candy, dash home before your friends can and turn the treats in for points – but be careful as a bully is roaming the streets and has an eye on your candy. No Halloween memory would be complete without the haunted house. Lure your friends inside to make your victory that much sweeter...

What Would You Do for a Klondike Bar?, subtitled "The Original Game of Minor Skill and Major Will", transforms the advertising jingle for a frozen treat into a game that challenges players to do wacky and potentially embarrassing things.

On a turn, the active player rolls the challenge cube, then chooses one other player to participate in this challenge, which is a theatrical challenge (e.g., ask someone on a date while grunting like a caveman), a creativity challenge (e.g. think of a new use for bacon), or a speed challenge (e.g. write down three TV shows that start with your first initial). In the first case, the opponent acts, then the active player follows; in the other cases, players have thirty seconds to complete the challenge. In the speed challenges, the first player to complete the challenge wins, while in the others the remaining players vote on who completed the challenge in the best way. Ties are possible.

The player or players who win the challenge roll the flavor die once or twice, winning one of the six flavors of Klondike bars if they're lucky or stealing a flavor from someone else who is unlucky. The first player to collect all six types of bars wins.