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Coming from Le Scorpion Masqué and parent company Hachette is the party word game Olé Guacamolé from designer Guillaume Sandance . In Ole Guacamole, players attempt to come up with a word related to a clue topic inside of 12 seconds. However, forbidden letters are listed on Avocado cards. For example, can you come up with a work related to "Mexico", but not containing V, T, O, or D? Each turn, more cards with more forbidden letters are revealed. Name an on-topic word and it moves to the next player's turn, but...

Queen Games has announced games 7 and 8 in their City Collection , Patliputra and Nassau, designed by Stefan Feld . Not much is known about these games, as we only have been told the titles and an image of a side of the box. Nassau is said to be a re-implementation of a previous Feld game, though it is unknown at this time. It also appears to feature at least one pirate ship. Patliputra is a new design, and a side of the box shows a temple.

There is no expected...

Publisher Oink Games debuted Quickity Pickity at Essen Spiel 2022. Oink is known for producing colorful smallbox games with an endearing visual appeal. Quickity Pickity appears to be right in their wheelhouse; Two to five players compete to pick the best sets of fruit from an array of scrambled tiles that start facedown. In real-time, using only one hand, players will begin flipping tiles over and grabbing ones they want into their personal supply. Each tile depicts a piece of fruit with a particular shape, color, and face (smiling or frowning). Players will score...

In 2018, the former BBG #1 game Tigris & Euphrates received a sequel game from designer, Reiner Knizia , called Yellow & Yangtze . This took the game set in ancient Mesopotamia and relocated it to ancient China. It also replaced the square grid board with a hex board, but much of the gameplay remained the same. You were still competing with civilizations, establishing and balancing their political, economic, and religious power across the board.

Yellow & Yangtze, previously from Holy Grail Games , is currently out of print, however Polish publisher...