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Cool Games from
Gen Con 2006
Valley of the
Pharaohs
Official Site
Cool metal figures, cloth board,
nice wooden box. If only it weren't a roll & move game!
Dread Pirate
Official Site
Also from Front Porch
Classics. Great components.
Pieces of Eight
Official Site
A pirate game you play with
funky metal coins
Dead Man's Treasure
BGG Entry
New pirate game from Reiner
Knizia.
Pecking Order
BGG Entry
Richard Garfield's strategy card
game of bird battling fun.
Conquest of Pangea
BGG Entry
Mid to high level strategy
game with cool moving continent boards
Voltage
BGG Entry
Lost Cities derivative.
Noteworthy since it is one of Mattel's first forays into the
euro-style game market.
Desert Bazaar
BGG Entry
Also Mattel. Another old
company reacting to rise in euro-game popularity!
Kineti-Go
Official Site
Tabletop wooden magnetic
shuffleboard game. Ultra cool!
Blue Moon City
Official Site
Board game set in the same
world as the card game. Card combos are cool.
Great Wall of
China
BGG Entry
Play card to sections of the
wall to gain favor with the Emperor.
Warrior Knights
Official Site
Fantasy Flight remake of
Games Workshop classic. Truckloads of Goober!
Tide of Iron
Official Site
Squad level WW II strategy board
game. Competitor for Memoir '44.
Marvel Heroes
Official Site
All the classic Marvel
heroes against the super villain greats. Looks great!
Shear Panic
BGG Entry
Rearrange your field of big plastic sheep
to win the game. Sounds like a kid's game but it isn't.
Weinhandler
BGG Entry
An auction game and a set
collecting game? Funky little wine bottle pieces.
Mesopotamia
BGG Entry
Collect wood and stone to make
offerings to the gods. Wacky octo-hexes.
Emira
BGG Entry
Princes compete to become
the best suitor to the harem.
Hold-It
Official Site
Unique
card holder for games. Great for games like Settlers of Catan.
Hobby Cube
Official Site
Modular wooden drawer units
with wide variety of drawer widths.
Chessex Dice
Official Site
Amazingly cool custom laser cut
dice for only $1 per die!
Utilikilts
Official Site
Free yourself from the
tyranny of trousers!
Wee Wickeds
Official Site
Funky demented art from Mark
Murphy.
Venus Needs Men
Official Site
Campy 50s sci-fi board
game.
Parlay
Official Site
Hold 'em Poker combined with
Scrabble. Cool!
Scavenger Hunt
Official Site
Scavenger Animals compete
for the best carcasses.
Mimic
BGG Entry
Safari themed card
matching/matrix game.
You've Been Sentenced
Official Site
Very inventive language
building game.
The Spoils
Official Site
Collectable strategy card game.
Interesting mechanics.
The Great Space Race
Official Site
Silly scifi spaceship race
from Kenzer & Co.
Wargods of
Aegyptus
Official Site
Amazingly cool fantasy egyptian
miniatures war game
Cadwallon
BGG Entry
Very unique tactical
fantasy miniatures game
Curse of the
Mummies Tomb
BGG
Entry
Classic Games Workshop. Dave got
it at the auction. Don't ask the price!
Kings & Things
BGG Entry
Classic Games Workshop
game. Dave got it at the auction!
Quest of the Magic
Ring
BGG Entry
Lord of the Rings themed board game I
hadn't seen since grade school. My auction find for the year!
Neolithibum
Official Site
Rock stacking game with a
caveman theme.
Errata
I called Gang of Four a board game. It's a card
game.
In Emira, you play a prince courting the harem,
not vice versa.
The name of the Arabian themed Euro style game
from Mattel is Desert Bazaar.
I'm sure there
are more goofs in there somewhere.
Let us know if (when?) you find one!
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