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Town 77

2023-12-27T14:54:01-05:00

Vendor: Oink Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 16.95

Designer	Christoph Cantzler Anja Wrede
Publisher	Oink Games
Players	1-5
Playtime	15 mins
Suggested Age	9 and up
Additional Info	402310/town-77 http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/402310/town-77/forums/63

The residents of Town 77 — located just down the road from Town 66, mind you — can't stand it when houses with the same shape or color are lined up with each other. Try to build as many houses as you can while keeping in mind which houses in your hand can be built at the end.

In Town 77, each player has a hand of tiles, with each tile showing one of seven house styles in one of seven colors/patterns. (The color/pattern of a tile also shows on its reverse side.) The game has 49 tiles in total, one of each possible combination. Each player starts with a hand of random tiles.

The first player places a tile in the upper-left corner of an imaginary 7x7 square, then on each subsequent turn a player adds a tile to a row or column in this square so long as this tile is adjacent to at least one other tile and the color/house style isn't already present in this row and column. After playing a tile, a player can choose to draw a new tile or not. Once you lower your hand size, you can't increase it again. If you can't play on a turn, you're out of the game, and once everyone is out, whoever has the fewest tiles in hand — or who played latest in the event of a tie — wins.

If you play your final tile, you win, but if you don't draw new tiles, you might find yourself unable to play!

Moo's Code

2022-09-15T02:38:47-04:00

Vendor: Asmodee
Type: Board Games
Price: 12.95

Designer	Anja Wrede
Publisher	Asmodee
Players	3-6
Playtime	15 mins
Suggested Age	5 and up
Additional Info	126771/moos-code http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/126771/moos-code/forums/63

Carole – the game that includes a spatula! A player in the role of Carole the cow wants to make funny recipes, but she's missing eggs, carrots, hazelnuts, and chocolate. She takes the wooden spatula, picks up a recipe card, then taps on the table with the spatula to tell her friends the number of syllables in the needed ingredient.

The other players listen carefully while watching the cards of ingredients and try to find one that corresponds to the information they hear.

The first player to collect five winning recipe cards wins the game.

Town 66

2022-08-27T15:25:54-04:00

Vendor: Oink Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 22.95

Designer	Christoph Cantzler Anja Wrede
Publisher	Oink Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	15 mins
Suggested Age	9 and up
Additional Info	361212/town-66 http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/361212/town-66/forums/63

The residents of Town 66 can't stand it when houses with the same shape or color are lined up with each other. Try to build as many houses as you can while keeping in mind which houses in your hand can be built at the end.

In Town 66, each player has a hand of tiles, with each tile showing one of six house styles in one of six colors/patterns. (The color/pattern of a tile also shows on its reverse side.) The game has 36 tiles in total, one of each possible combination.

The first player places a tile in the upper-left corner of an imaginary 6x6 square, then on each subsequent turn a player adds a tile to a row or column in this square so long as this tile is adjacent to at least one other tile and the color/house style isn't already present in this row and column. After playing a tile, a player can choose to draw anew tile or not. If you play your final tile, you win, but if you don't draw new tiles, you might find yourself unable to play!

Tales & Games: Lost in the Woods

2019-01-11T14:22:05-05:00

Vendor: Purple Brain Creations
Type: Board Games
Price: 28.04

Designer	Bruno Faidutti Anja Wrede
Publisher	Purple Brain Creations
Players	2-5
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	6 and up
Additional Info	257961/contes-jeux-le-petit-poucet http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/257961/contes-jeux-le-petit-poucet/forums/63

It's still dark when you run away from the ogre's home. To return to the cottage of your dear parents, you need to cross the forest and find your way in the dark, thanks to the trees. The first player arriving at the cottage will prevail and will be entitled to a good soup of broccoli! But beware of the ogre who would eat you willingly for his breakfast!

Contes & Jeux: Le Petit Poucet is a touch recognition game in which you have to find the right trees by their shape.

Zogen

2018-08-06T02:19:05-04:00

Vendor: Oink Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 22.95

Designer	Christoph Cantzler Anja Wrede
Publisher	Oink Games
Players	2-6
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	6 and up
Additional Info	249289/zogen http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/249289/zogen/forums/63

In Zogen, a.k.a. ゾーゲン, the player researchers want to rid themselves of their microorganism cards as quickly as they can, but they can do so only by observing the current lab environment and watching the one thing that changes, then "recording" it by playing their card.

In more detail, each player starts with a hand of sixteen cards, with each card showing 0-4 types of microorganisms, which are named "Maru", "Tsuki", "Yama", and "Siri". The start player for the round places one of their cards face up on the table, then everyone plays at once, trying to lay down a card that differs from the initial card by exactly one microorganism, whether one more or one less.

Thus, if a card shows "Maru" and "Tsuki", you can lay down a card that shows either "Maru" or "Tsuki" or a card that shows "Maru" and "Tsuki" along with one of the previously missing microorganisms. You must say the name of the microorganism that is added or removed when you play a card, then everyone must match the card that you just played.

When a player has only three cards in hand, the round ends and players score points based on their rank in terms of how many cards they hold. Whoever has the most points after you've played the agreed-upon number of rounds wins.

Junggle

2017-07-04T22:34:22-04:00

Vendor: Z-Man Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 5.95

Designer	Bruno Faidutti Anja Wrede
Publisher	Z-Man Games
Players	2-10
Playtime	10-15 mins
Suggested Age	7 and up
Additional Info	229954/junggle http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/229954/junggle/forums/63

Junggle is a series of mini games that use the same deck of cards and the animal wheel inspired by the Chinese animals chess game. The rhino is afraid of the elephant, the lion is afraid of the rhino, etc.... but the big and mighty elephant is afraid of the tiny mouse. The games are:

King of the Jungle, a simultaneous action game
Lost in the Jungle, a memory and risk taking game
The Watering Hole, a double guessing game
Jungle Party, a bluffing and tactical game
Rumble in the Jungle, a simultaneous action game

Fearz!

2017-02-14T00:12:00-05:00

Vendor: Cosmic Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 17.95

Designer	Bruno Faidutti Anja Wrede
Publisher	Cosmic Games
Players	3-10
Playtime	5-10 mins
Suggested Age	5 and up
Additional Info	206321/fearz http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/206321/fearz/forums/63

In this fun and fast real time game, each player is afraid of one creature of the night - vampire, ghost, witch, werewolf.... Cards are flipped one after another, showing four or five creatures. Each time the creature a player is afraid of appears, he must shout. The goal of the game is to be the first to find out what the other players are afraid of.

The game can also be played with an app generating a random animation with creatures moving through the screen.

Take the Cake

2014-03-15T18:56:26-04:00

Vendor: Gamewright
Type: Board Games
Price: 13.95

Designer	Anja Wrede
Publisher	Gamewright
Players	2-4
Playtime	15 mins
Suggested Age	4 and up
Additional Info	65559/take-the-cake http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/710746/take-the-cake/reviews

A batch of yummy cupcakes is fresh out of the oven and it's time to decorate! Shake the sprinkle shaker and see what colorful shapes pour out. If any match a cupcake, add them to the card. Collect the most cards and winning is a piece of cake!

Dragi Drache

2014-02-28T22:20:26-05:00

Vendor: Ravensburger
Type: Board Games
Price: 36.95

Designer	Christoph Cantzler Anja Wrede
Publisher	Ravensburger Spieleverlag GmbH
Players	2-4
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	4 and up
Additional Info	129955/dragi-drache http://www.boardgamegeek.com/forum/1297530/dragi-drache/reviews

Note: This game is in German. English rules can be found here.

Dragon Dragi and his friends have one big wish: If only they could breathe fire like the adult dragons! So they practice a lot and eat lots of fiery-hot dragonfruits. Today they are having a fire-breathing contest. The participant who manages to blow the floating fire ball into the right volcano field gets to collect the highly sought-after dragonfruits.

Dragi Drache is a dragon-themed action game for children. At the center of the board is a cardboard volcano that divides the board into six sections. Underneath the board (in the box) is an airblower that when switched on keeps a little ball afloat. Each player gets an individual game board and six dragonfruit chits in the same color. One dragonfruit chit per player color is then placed on each section of the game board.

To play the game, someone turns on the air blower, then places the ball on the air jet at the center of the board so that it floats over the volcano. The active player each turn tries to blow the ball into one of the board sections with a dragonfruit chit of her color, with only one chance to get the ball in the right spot. If the ball lands on a board section with a dragonfruit of her color, she takes that chit and places it on her game board. Whether she gets it or not, though, the next player then takes his turn.

The first player to collect six dragonfruits of her color wins!