Infiltraitors

• Designer: John Kean and Liam Kean
• Publisher: Broadway Toys Limited
• Players: 2-5
• Age: 8+
• Time: 20-30 minutes
• Played with review copy provided by publisher

Your organization has been infiltrated by moles – nefarious informants from the enemy. As faithful agents, you must work together to uncover and eliminate all the traitors. Infiltraitors is a challenging deduction card game with 20 missions. Suspect cards are set aside at the start – these are the traitors that must be identified by suit and numbers. Players must manage their hands to give clues on the suspect cards. Clues may match with a traitor by having the same suit or where the number is either a multiple or a factor of the traitor’s. As the clues accumulate, players may deduce the identity of a traitor card, but can you catch them all before the time runs out?

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Jurassic Park: Digger

• Designer:Carlos Gonzalez Vilar
• Publisher: Gen X Games
• Players: 2-4
• Age: 8+
• Time: 20-30 minutes
• Played with review copy provided by Publisher

Dive into the exciting world of paleontology with this addictive and fun card game! Collect and combine dinosaur DNA, creating a unique Jurassic Park. Competition is fierce, and the goal is to revive as many dinosaur species as possible. Jurassic Park awaits you!

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Surfosaurus Max

• Designer: Ikhwan Kwon
• Publisher: Loosey Goosey Games
• Players: 2-6
• Age: 10+
• Time: 20 minutes
• Played with copy provided by publisher

Outcooperate the competition!
Surfosaurus MAX’s cards come in seven suits, with values from 01 to 12. The higher a card’s value, the fewer victory points are on it.
When it is your turn, you play a single hand card and draw a new one immediately. Once the right number of cards has been reached, the one strongest possible combination out of all the cards played by all the players wins. If you contributed a card to the winning combination, you get to score it.

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Redwood

• Designer: Christophe Raimbault
• Publisher: Sit Down!
• Players: 1-4
• Age: 10+
• Time: 45 minutes
• Played with review copy provided by publisher

From the rules: “At the fringes of a wild landscape, nature-loving photographers travel great distances and flex infinite patience to immortalize animals in their natural habitat.  In search of harmony, these trailblazers compose sumptuous shots that depict the marvels they encounter during their wanderings.”

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Challengers! Beach Cup

• Designers: Johannes Krenner and Markus Slawitscheck
• Publisher: Pretzel Games
• Players: 1-8 (well, maybe 1-16!)
• Age: 8+
• Time: 45 minutes
• Played with copy provided by publisher

Challengers! Was one of my favorite games of 2022. Challengers! Beach Cup is a followup, standalone expansion to this game which keeps most of the rules and feel of the original while adding a couple of things to spice it up.

We previously reviewed the original game here: https://opinionatedgamers.com/2022/12/15/simon-weinberg-review-of-challengers/

If you are unfamiliar with Challengers!, please read the above review and familiarize yourself with the game and how it works.  

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