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Pics from NY Toy Fair 2015 II: StoneBlade Entertainment, Bombyx, Kosmos, FoxMind and MindWare

Pics from NY Toy Fair 2015 II: StoneBlade Entertainment, Bombyx, Kosmos, FoxMind and MindWare
From gallery of W Eric Martin
Time for another round-up of tweets showing off new and nearly new games on display at NY Toy Fair 2015. I'm still posting more images on BGG's Twitter feed, and I'll post another round-up or two in this space in case you're not a twit like me.

















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...





























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