Put More Pop Culture on the Game Table with Rolling Stone, The Simpsons, and Rick and Morty

Put More Pop Culture on the Game Table with Rolling Stone, The Simpsons, and Rick and Morty
Board Game: Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone magazine isn't the cultural touchstone that it was in my youth when I scanned every issue to see whether any new album landed a five-star rating — I was ignorant of music throughout my teens, mostly buying random stuff from $1 bins — and to discover many aspects of U.S. life outside my suburban neighborhood, but it's still active, at least online.

That history of relevance, however, is undoubtedly why UK publisher Big Potato licensed the name for use on its Rolling Stone party game, which will debut in 2020. Rolling Stone is for four or more players who compete in teams, and gameplay is akin to that in Blockbuster, a movie-based party game named after another touchstone in U.S. culture. Here's an overview:
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Rolling Stone is a rock & roll music game for anyone who has ever heard a song. You don't have to be a music buff to win this game; you just need to know the names of some very famous bands and have heard a famous song or two.

To start, a player from each team competes in the Music Buzzer Battle. The winner of this round takes an advantage into Round 2: Triple Charades Jeopardy. Here, players try to get their team to guess the artist by describing them in one of three ways: quoting lyrics, humming or using one word. The first team to collect a disc from all eight genres wins.
Board Game: Codenames: The Simpsons
• Before the end of 2019, The OP plans to release Codenames: The Simpsons, the latest iteration of Vlaada Chvátil fantastic party game Codenames.

As with earlier Codenames titles from The OP, such as Codenames: Marvel, Codenames: The Simpsons will feature "field agent" cards that have a word or name printed on one side and a matching image on the opposite side.


Board Game: Codenames: The Simpsons


Board Game Publisher: Cryptozoic Entertainment
Cryptozoic Entertainment has already released several Rick and Morty games, with each of them being based (as far as I know) on a single episode from the 31 episodes of that show. Season 4 of Rick and Morty will debut on November 10, 2019, and Cryptozoic will release a roll-and-write dice game based on that very episode on November 11, 2019. Wow, fast work, y'all!

Cryptozoic's Dekan Wheeler writes, "The details of the game are still under embargo and will remain that way until after the episode airs. But we can reveal that it includes eight massive (1-inch) d6 dice and has an MSRP of $25." The game is for 2-4 players, ages 15+, with a 15-20 minute playing time. For ordering purposes, retailers have been given the title "Rick and Morty: 21CKM027Y53C237 Dice Game". Ask for it by name!


From gallery of W Eric Martin

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