Leave it to Australians* to come up with a name like that.

Wattsalpoag publishes a number of games, including two that came out this year:

• Fruit Fair: Secretly select the trees you’re picking from, and then collect the fruit. Last to pick loses out. Unfortunately for me, the main mechanic looks a lot like the one I really don’t like in Slide 5. So probably if you like that game, you’ll like this one more.
• Jet Set: Buy to claim routes, or pay to use routes already claimed. Earn VPs from flights. This looks like a cool route planning game, which I’m a complete sucker for. Looking something like Ticket to Ride, but you can still use other players’ routes at a cost.

*Update: Turns out to be from Washington state.

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Triagonal, from sggc Acumen Games, is a game set played on a triangular board with little sticks and triangles. It’s available right now for a cool £5.

The basic game is played like the pen and paper game Dots and Boxes: place sticks on the board, and whenever you place the last stick to form a triangle, you capture the triangle. Only, its a multiplayer game, which makes planning that long setup impossible, and it also leaves you at the mercy of one stupid opponent who hands the game to another.

It adds some special scoring rules for forming a line or a hexagon of tiles. Several variants to the game include rolling special dice which come with the game, but most of the variants look pretty awful. Additional variants are available on line.

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Identity Crisis is a game from sggc Ibble Dibble Industries. It’s a party game based on a very old drinking game.

Get a card with an identity and place it in front of you so that you can’t see it, but the other players can. Then superfluously roll the dice and ask questions as to your identity.

Identity Crisis is “TM pending” according to the site. I’m assuming so that one can’t confuse it with this game called Identity Crisis, or perhaps this game called Identity Crisis, or maybe this game called Identity Crisis, or perhaps this comics, anime, and toy series called Identity Crisis.

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Call Sign 7 is the name of the publisher, not the name of the game, which took me a while to figure out when visiting their site. The name of the game is Battle of Britain.

It’s a 3D 2-player war game about the air war on Britain by Germany. Each game requires you to fulfill a series of unique missions.

They’re giving away $1000 to whomever sends them a picture of a game in session in an “unusual place”.

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Confucius is the latest release from Surprised Stare Products (evidently named after what the publishers receive when responding to requests as to what they do for a living).

Confucius is a political game of limited action cubes, bribes, area control, repaying favors, and so on, wrapped in an ancient Chinese theme.

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Scene It?, the DVD movie trivia game from 2002 that helped launch the DVD game craze has already gone through dozens of licensed versions. This year’s most popular version is Scene It? Seinfeld.

Not too surprising, as thousands of clips from the show live on in perpetuity on video sharing sites around the internet. Now you can legally watch hundreds of hilarious clips from all nine seasons on your DVD player, and oh yeah, there’s a trivia game, too.

From the comments I’ve read, Seinfeld fanatics will have little problem answering most of the questions, apart from the questions about the actors’ other roles in movies and television.

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Students from the Red River Technology Center chapter of Health Occupations Students of America painted over Main Street in Duncan, OK with pictures and scenes from the board game Candyland.

Why?

It starts setting the mood for the upcoming Main Street programs, including the Holiday Stroll and the Christmas parade. It heightens the aesthetic appeal of the street during the holiday season. It gives the HOSA students a sense of accomplishment, while getting them ready to help others.

By lending aid to the community service project, the students are learning what it takes to help someone else, which is a trait necessary to be a nurse… [it helps] gives the HOSA members an outlet when dealing with their stress.

Plus, it gives students a chance to get out of school for a while, which helps freshen up the lessons.

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RPG Overstock has some pretty awesome deals on lots of games.

And it’s not only RPGs. They also have a large selection of Euro games, board games, war games, card games, minis, and other stuff.

Worth a visit.

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Chess USA, a Chess store, is hosting Chess for Charity, an online tournament with the aims of helping feed the hungry in California.

Sign up on Chess for Dollars, pay the $2.00 entry fee, and play in the tournament which starts around November 25. Some of the money goes for the tournament winner, some to the 2nd Harvest Food Bank serving Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, some goes to cover PayPal fees, and a small amount that’s left goes to the organizer, Bob Burkhalter, a web programmer in Sunnyvale.

More information can be found here.

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