Lunar Laser Frogs

• Designer: Andreas Preiss
• Publisher: Loosey Goosey
• Players: 3-8
• Age: 8+
• Time: 15 minutes
• Played with review copy provided by publisher

Lunar Laser Frogs is the laser-fast dice game for up to 8 players! The dice feature icons in three colors as well as blank faces. When it is your turn, you roll three times to cast all six dice. At the same time, and even before you are finished, each other player tosses one face down card onto a shared pile. The fastest opponent to play a particular color card will get one point per matching die. However, if you do not roll a particular color at all, it will be “lasered” onto every die and suddenly be worth six points.

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Time Collectors

• Designer: Mareva Beauchamps & Florian Sirieix 
• Publisher: Lubee Edition
• Players: 2-4
• Age: 10+
• Time: 30 minutes
• Played with review copy provided by publisher

The year is 8053. Time travel is possible now.

Time Collectors invites you to travel through time to combine dice, collect cards, and earn more points than your opponents.

1. Roll your 4D10 dice and organize them to select the year to which you want to travel.
2. Use time crystals to alter your results.
3. Collect the riches of the past on your personal board.
4. Collect achievements cards, and win with the most beautiful collection…of all time!

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Djinn

• Designer: Benjamin Schwer
• Publisher: H@ll Games
• Players: 1-4
• Age: 14+
• Time: 60-90 min
• Played with copy purchased at Spiel 2023

Once your ancestors found or created a source of magic – the exact knowledge of its origin, as far as you know, has long been lost. A small community has developed around the source, which seeks to protect this place and keep it as secret as possible.

Unfortunately, some magical beings — half corporeal, half ethereal — have now tracked down this source. These beings of dubious character, which you call “Djinn”, have appeared in various places of the city to dispute your access to the source. You are young members of the Magic Guild, and to prove your abilities, you are tasked with capturing the Djinn so that they can do no harm. You can control them permanently only if you catch them in special Djinn bottles. To seal these bottles, you also need corks made from the bark of a tree near the magic source.

Whichever of you succeeds best in protecting your small town will be accepted into the inner circle of the Magic Guild and will soon be allowed to learn even more secrets…

In Djinn, you take turns moving across a map that shows thirteen locations. These locations are linked to actions where you can get the resources you need and catch the Djinn that are in six locations. In those locations you can do things like receive bottles and corks, collect magical power, buy magical items, hire mages to accompany you, discover secret passages, and more.

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Tiwanaku

• Designer: Olivier Gregoire
• Publisher: Sit Down!
• Players: 1-4
• Age: 14+
• Time: 60 minutes
• Played with review copy provided by publisher

It is said that Wiraqocha created the sun and the pre-Columbian tribes of the Andes. Under his leadership, those who will train the mighty Inca people came out of their caves to discover new horizons in order to subsist and grow in harmony with nature. They venerated Pachamama, Mother Earth, the basis of all living things, plants and minerals, on earth and under the earth.

In Tiwanaku, first announced as Pachamama, you lead your tribe into unknown territory in search of new lands to cultivate. Your goal: To explore regions and draw outlines to develop cultures according to the customs and legacies of Pachamama. If you honor Her by respecting the great principles of diversity and complementarity, Nature will reward you; otherwise, you will suffer his wrath. In this race, risk-taking, deduction, intuition, and a good sense of timing should allow you to get through.

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