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Spielwarenmesse 2014 — Game Previews XI: Scharfe Schoten, Leg los!, Cherry Picking, Putz die Wutz, Zicke Zacke Ei Ei Ei & Enigma from Zoch Verlag

Spielwarenmesse 2014 — Game Previews XI: Scharfe Schoten, Leg los!, Cherry Picking, Putz die Wutz, Zicke Zacke Ei Ei Ei & Enigma from Zoch Verlag
Board Game: Scharfe Schoten
• Yes, I still have more game preview videos to run through from the vast archives that John K. and I shot at Spielwarenmesse 2014, the annual toy and game fair held in Nürnberg, Germany. This time I have a handful of demos from German publisher Zoch Verlag, but unless a game comes with language-specific components — which isn't the case for any of the titles below — Zoch typically includes rules in English, German, French and Italian, so these title aren't limited to a German-speaking audience, not that German-only rules stops anyone on BGG anyway!

First up is Arve D. Fühler's Scharfe Schoten, whose name I blow when announcing the game on the video. Arrgh! Earlier that day I had recorded game demos with Arnd Fischer from KOSMOS, and I goofed. I hate making mistakes like this, but that's the hazard of recording stuff at conventions as you often don't know about mistakes until it's too late and you can't time travel to do another take. (If I could time travel, I would probably not be re-recording game demo videos, but I hate making mistakes enough that I might squeeze them in anyway.) Apologies, Herr Fühler!




Board Game: Zicke Zacke Ei Ei Ei
• If you know one thing about Zoch Verlag, you know that it publishes lots of chicken-themed games from company co-founder Klaus Zoch. That habit continues with the April 2014 release of Zicke Zacke Ei Ei Ei, the cover of which is an instant eye-catcher for kids of all ages. Maybe it's just me, but I can't imagine kids walking past this in stores and not pointing it out to siblings and parents.




Board Game: Leg los!
• One of the benefits of attending trade fairs like Spielwarenmesse is that you can run into designers and get them to explain their own games, as is the case here with Carlo A. Rossi and his Leg los! The downside, however, is that sometimes the designer can't answer every question put to him by a pesky interviewer as a few years have likely passed since he designed the game, and it's possibly been changed in the meantime by the publisher and its internal developers. Ah, well — thanks for being a good sport, Carlo!




Board Game: Cherry Picking
• Zoch Verlag was an outlier at Spielwarenmesse 2014 as I received game demoes from a different person for almost every new release. Lots of folks on hand to show off what they're doing! For Jeroen Geenen's Cherry Picking, due out in March 2014, Zoch's Andreas Preiss showed off the game since he was the editor in charge of its development.




Board Game: Putz die Wutz
• Preiss was also the editor for Thierry Chapeau's Putz die Wutz, a name that elicits a giggle from me each time I say it. Yes, sometimes I'm still a ten-year-old at heart. Andreas has a great voice for demonstrations and gets off nice lines as well: "As you get wiser in the ways of piggie-scrubbing..." I know exactly what you mean, Andreas!




Board Game: Enigma
• Finally, Zoch has a new version of Touko Tahkokallio's Enigma due out in April 2014, with rules in its usual four languages (English, German, French and Italian), but rather than spend time shooting an overview of this new version I was content to show off (once again) the video that I recorded with the original version from Finnish publisher Competo. Note that the graphics have been overhauled in the Zoch version — as shown in the image below that I shot in Nürnberg — and note as well that Z-Man Games and Filosofia Édition will be releasing the Zoch version in English- and French-specific editions at some point in 2014.

From gallery of W Eric Martin

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