TDmonthly's ToyFair 2006 Preview--General Games Product Category

Moo & Baa by HABA USA/HABERMAASS CORP.

In this game for 2 to 4 players, kids help Farmer Bert find his lost animals. Awards: 2010 iParenting Media Award for Outstanding Product; Parents’ Choice Approved Award, Fall 2010 Games. 9/28/2010 (Price: $20.00) [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Young Learners! Yummy Scrummy by CREATIVE TOYSHOP

Young Learners! games bring a contemporary twist to traditional entertaining and educational board games. Designed to help children recognize sounds, colors and shapes, letters and numbers, as well as develop hand-eye-coordination, practice time telling and improve their social skills, many of the games also encourage children to think about their environment and make healthy choices. In Yummy Scrummy, kids guess what the hungry monsters have eaten as they race to find the healthy food. 9/24/2010 (Price: $15.99) [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Young Learners! Eat Your Words by CREATIVE TOYSHOP

Young Learners! games bring a contemporary twist to traditional entertaining and educational board games. Designed to help children recognize sounds, colors and shapes, letters and numbers, as well as develop hand-eye-coordination, practice time telling and improve their social skills, many of the games also encourage children to think about their environment and make healthy choices. Eat Your Words is a snappy word-building game that encourages first spelling and aims to improve letter recognition. Kids make their frog hop from leaf to leaf to the finish line and watch out for the hungry crocodile while building simple words.
Awards: Parent's Choice Award 2011 9/24/2010 (Price: $21.99) [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Cuponk by HASBRO INC.

With Cuponk, players compete to get a ball in a cup by trying to master a series of tricks to make the cup light up and sound off. 9/23/2010 (Price: $14.99) [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Fictionaire Collector's Set by DAYS OF WONDER

This set of trivia cards comes with a classic trivia deck and three themed decks. Players select a "host" who must read the question listed on the card drawn, and the other players pass the deck around, sliding the card up to reveal the correct answer to the question. One player reads the real answer, while the others make up fictional answers, and the host must decide which player is telling the truth. Players can gain points by guessing correctly or by tricking other players into guessing incorrectly, and the player with the most points at the end of the game wins. ( Watch Video) 9/14/2010 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Rivals for Catan by MAYFAIR GAMES INC.

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. 9/13/2010 (Price: $20.00) [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Ballpark Classics® Yankee Stadium™ Edition by BALLPARK CLASSICS, INC.

This detailed and accurate model of Yankee Stadium features hitting targets placed where the pros hit at the real Stadium, real Yankee Stadium mowing patterns and details, a New York Yankees logo emblazoned in short center-field and true-to-life Yankee Stadium distance markers, scoreboards, logos and dimensions. The tough playing field takes heavy play, and can be removed, autographed and replaced. The model can even be customized with replica ad stickers on the blue signature fence. 9/13/2010 (Price: $289.00)

Dexter Board Game by GDC-GameDevCo Ltd.

As the television character Dexter, players travel through the streets of Miami trying to hunt down a suspect that has slipped through the cracks of the justice system and make them their next victim. Players try to keep their day job by completing blood spatter reports to avoid any suspicion and reap the rewards of a job well done. In the meantime, they try to avoid their opponents, who will expose them, the first chance that they get. Once they have found the suspect and have collected the tools needed, players must head over to the Marina to get rid of the evidence and win the game. The game is for two to four players and contains a board, playing pawns, a six-sided die, on the job cards, on the prowl cards, calling Dexter cards, suspect tokens, tool tokens and mini garbage bags. 9/13/2010 (Price: $34.99) [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

12-in-1 Travel Game Pouch by WOOD EXPRESSIONS INC.

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. 9/13/2010 (Price: $12.99) [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Jumbo Red by MANHATTAN TOY

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. 9/7/2010 (Price: $120.00) [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Dominoes & More! by WOOD EXPRESSIONS INC.

This combination set includes double six Dominoes, a sliding lid cribbage board with pegs, a deck of cards, five wooden dice and a wooden box. Game Instructions are included for games including dominoes, dribbage, Dice 1000, One-O-Five, Three Dice Game, Twenty-One, Going to Boston, Chicago, Gin Rummy and Crazy 8’s. It comes in a handsome wooden box with a sliding lid. 8/26/2010 (Price: $29.95) [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

7-in-1 Combination Game by WOOD EXPRESSIONS INC.

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. 8/26/2010 (Price: $66.99) [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Classic Wooden Yo-Yo by WOOD EXPRESSIONS INC.

The yo-yo has been around for 2,500 years and is considered the second oldest toy in history, the oldest being the doll. A yo-yo was also the first toy in outer space. This classic wooden yoyo is designed to delight kids of all ages as it has through all the ages. 8/26/2010 (Price: $7.50) [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

10-in-1 Wooden Dice Game by WOOD EXPRESSIONS INC.

Dice can be found in almost every culture in the world, and the number of games that can be played with a set of dice are virtually limitless. Dice games, by their very nature, tend to rely much more on luck than skill. This wooden dice game includes instructions for 10 different games. It comes with a magnetic closure and is designed for travel. The old-world, palm-sized wooden treasure box contains eight wooden dice. 8/26/2010 (Price: $12.99) [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Cat & Mouse by WOOD EXPRESSIONS INC.

This game is a 5" solid wood set with marbles that store inside the board with a sliding magnetic closure. "This is a high quality game with a great price!" Wood Expressions manager Christine Oda told TDmonthly. 8/26/2010 (Price: $12.99) [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Nine Men's Morris by WOOD EXPRESSIONS INC.

This is a 5" solid wood game set features marbles that store inside the board with a sliding magnetic closure. Designed for travel, Nine Men's Morris is an abstract strategy board game for two players that emerged from the Roman Empire. The game's popularity peaked in Medieval England. This version of this historic game is crafted from wood. The pieces, "or men", store neatly inside the game when not in play. 8/26/2010 (Price: $12.99) [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Marble Solitaire 5” Travel Size by WOOD EXPRESSIONS INC.

This 5" solid wood game board includes marbles that store inside the board with a sliding magnetic closure. It is portable and designed for traveling. "Our game is a high quality product at a great price!" Wood Expressions manager Christine Oda told TDmonthly. 8/26/2010 (Price: $12.99) [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Square Shooters® Deluxe Set by HEARTLAND CONSUMER PRODUCTS, LLC

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. ( Watch Video) 8/25/2010 (Price: $19.99) [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Coin-in-a-Cup by PRECISION MATHEMATICS CORP. / THE MERBS™

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. 8/19/2010 (Price: $12.99) [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Sequence NUM6ERS by JAX LTD INC.

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. 8/9/2010 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

The Merbs™ Motivational Game System by PRECISION MATHEMATICS CORP. / THE MERBS™

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. 8/6/2010 (Price: $58.99) [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

S'Quarrels Card Game by LION RAMPANT IMPORTS

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. ( Watch Video) 8/6/2010 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Paradice by GAMEWHYS

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 8/4/2010 (Price: $12.95) [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Lemming Mafia by MAYFAIR GAMES INC.

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 8/2/2010 (Price: $35.00) [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Conflict of Heroes: Price of Honour - Poland 1939 by MAYFAIR GAMES INC.

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. 8/2/2010 (Price: $50.00) [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]