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Spiel 2015 Preview: Spookies, or Roll for the Most Ghosts

Spiel 2015 Preview: Spookies, or Roll for the Most Ghosts
Board Game: Spookies
German publisher HABA is well-known as a publisher of children's games — heck, the publisher of children's games for many people — but in the second half of 2015 it's launching a family game line with three new releases, perhaps trying to retain some of their audience as they age instead of simply recapturing them a couple of decades later when they have children of their own.

The simplest of these three titles is Spookies, a press-your-luck die game by Stefan Kloß, who debuted in 2014 with Beasty Bar from Zoch Verlag. While that game featured special-powered animals that had tricky interactions, Spookies is far more straightforward, with my six-year-old handling the gameplay (albeit playing more like a chump than a champ).

I'll post preview videos of the other two HABA family titles — Rüdiger Dorn's Karuba and Kramer & Kiesling's Adventure Land — in the near future.


From gallery of W Eric Martin


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