November 2010 New Specialty Toys — General Games

Build your domain to best your Rivals. The Rivals for Catan puts you in charge of one of the two factions developing newly-settled Catan. Use your under card mix to create your own principality. Explore and settle new lands, acquiring resources through card play and the luck of the dice. Use gold, response combinations, and trade to develop your domaine. Expand your settlements and cities, recruit heroes, and defend your lands through politics, invention, and intrigue. Your cunning and a dash of luck decides who will be Prince of Catan. The Rivals for Catan contains 180 Cards, Production Die, Event Die, Commerce Token, Knight Token, and Rules & Card Index. For 2 players.

This game set includes a wooden cribbage board, a deck of cards, five wooden dice and instructions for 12 different games. Twelve games are featured, but numerous other games can be played with the set.

Red has an exuberant and athletic nature. She also tends to be highly cynical and sometimes teases her friends. Like Gobo, Red likes to take the lead and they sometimes butt heads. This life-size Red plush has a yellowish orange complexion, orange hair, and wears a red sweater.

This combination game set features popular games including chess, checkers, backgammon, cribbage, dominoes, dice and cards. It comes in a wooden box with an old-world latch.

The 9 Square Shooters dice are printed with a full deck of 52 cards plus 2 jokers – you can use them to play almost any card game!  The patent-pending dice are designed so you can roll hands for rummy, poker, twenty-one and many more games. Includes Dice, Playing cards, Game cards, Scorekeeping chips, Dice cup and Instructions.

If you can bounce a ball you can play this fun party-ready game. With just two people, or a table full of friends, bounce the ball to victory. The first player to get all his/her coins in the cup wins. For two or more players.

For 2 to 6 players, or up to 3 individual players, Sequence Numbers is similar to the original Sequence game, except the cards are a mathematical equation, whose answer is a number found on the game board. First player or team to achieve the required amount of Sequences wins the game.

The Merbs™ Motivational Game System is an incentive-based program with a twist. This tool provides a game-based storyline that motivates kids to complete schoolwork. Students are challenged to help a populations of creatures, The Merbs™, build a civilization. They earn cash to buy game properties, creating an economy. The competition of the system encourages increased homework completion and class participation. This allows the instructor to evaluate students daily through simple game play. Parents can also use the System at home to motivate children to complete homework. For 2 or more players.

S’Quarrels is a card game based around the theme of squirrels collecting acorns before winter arrives. Under a nearby oak tree, embark upon the rigorous task of collecting and storing acorns before winter sets in. Your opponents are trying to take them all before you do. Whirlwinds, Ambushing, Quarreling, and Hoarding are all part of the game. Get the coveted Golden Acorn, while avoiding the Rotten Acorn. The player to store the most Acorns before Winter arrives wins.
— "What's selling really well for me is S'Quarrels," Jude Larene, owner of Izilla Toys in Seattle, told TDmonthly in July 2010. "I'm selling piles of it and I need to order more today. It gets into a neighborhood and everybody wants it."
— S’Quarrels received a great reaction from The Board Game Family. “Bring out the S’Quarrels cards,” they explained, “and kids can automatically picture being a little squirrel running around gathering acorns.” However, the reviewers cautioned that younger players may get “more frustrated when they aren’t quick enough to slap the hoard pile when that card is played.”
— As of 10/30/2012 this product had 4.6 out of 5 stars from 7 reviews on Amazon.com. Pros: Easy for kids to learn, but enough strategy is involved to appeal to adults; fun for groups. Cons: Not as fun with less than three players.

Players compete as Givers or Takers to save Paradice, a metaphor for the world, by uniting the humans to gain the power to give life back to the forests, before one human Takes too much and Paradice is lost for ever. The game includes 38 2” x 2” tiles, one die and rules. It is made in the USA from vegetable inks on recycled paper and is designed for one to two players. Awards: Dr. Toy Best Green Toy Award 2010

Lemming Mafia - a leap of a game by Michael Rieneck. Leap into the wild world of Lemming mafia! Bet on lemmings as they race to be the first to Jump. But yours more than a mere wager. Lemming bosses give you missions. You must slow some lemmings, or stop them altogether by putting them in concrete shoes. You must guide your favored lemmings, using jackhammers to cut off any concrete and limos to speed them along. Pick the right mission, and the swiftest Lemming, and you win! Laughingly Larcenous Leaping Lemmings.

Contains 1 Game Board, 6 Mafia-Lemmings, 36 betting cards, 18 mission cards, 2 Lemming Dice, 1 Regular die, 12 concrete markers, Rules.

For 3-6 Players

Conflict of Heroes merges the elegance of streamlined Eurogame rules with deep strategic wargames. The series is designed to create a tense and highly interactive game play experience. You must manage multiple command resources to move, attack, and take other actions with your units. This gives you great flexibility in executing your battle plans, but makes constant caution necessary as unit activations on either side can happen at any time. Price of Honor is an expansion and requires ownership of either Rise of Hero or Storms of Steel to play.

Price of Honour includes 2 new Polish landscape mounted boards, 2 Sheets of early war Polish, German and Russian tanks, airplanes and other units, 1 Sheet including all Awakening the Bear upgraded counters with new artwork and updated stats, 16 firefights. 10 playable with the AtB base game and 10 playable with the SoS base game, New summary sheets summarizing terrain and unit data for all of the Eastern Front games, Rule sheet adendum covering cavalry charges and other new unit data.

For 2 Players.

Las Vegas. The Strip. To the untrained eye, it's a sleepy desert crossroads. A wasteland of cheap hotels, gas stations, and dust. But to you, it is Paradise. Your brilliant plan? You will construct a magnificent chain of casinos and fill them with light. You will manufacture the ultimate dream of easy money and impossible luxury. You will sell-basically-nothing. You are not alone in this plan. In Lords of Vegas, you and your friends play rival developers, building on the Las Vegas Strip. You can get ahead by building the glitziest, most glamorous, and most popular casinos. But you can fall behind by letting your enemy become your boss. Lords of Vegas is a clever strategy game with all the thrills, risks, and rewards of the casino business. You start out with empty lots, build small casinos, and expand them as your bankroll grows. Your rivals can build next door, and they just might take you over with a clever paint job or a lucky roll of the dice. Buy, sell, trade, and gamble your way to the top as you build your empire along the storied Strip. So come on, roll the dice, and build your piece of Paradise!

For 2-4 Players.

Contains Snazzy game board, 4 turn summaries, 55 cards, 40 chips in 4 colors, 48 dice in 4 colors, 4 poker chips, Money, 45 casino blocks, Rules