Civil Lore is a trivia game about American lore and landmarks. Topics include natural parks, Native American myths, presidents, roadside attractions, urban myths, techno-culture, and so on.

The game is from sggc Evolving Toys, and I think it was developed by Geoffrey Moran. I say sggc, but they don’t plan to be that way; they’ve got nine card games in development according to their site:

• Constellation Connect: Go Fish with constellations
• Dino Danger: Some kind of War card game with a die
• Ingenious Inventions: Probably something like Go Fish, but with trading and a die
• Reptile Revenge: Some kind of memory game, also with a die
• Mammal Mania: Reflex game of pattern matching
• Insect Invasion: No idea

Let me just interrupt this list to note that the cut-and-paste game mockups for the last three games are kind of amusing, as they all feature the same “Reptile Revenge” cards on their back.

• Go Bass: Go Fish, literally
• Happy Trails: I’m pretty sure this is also based on Go Fish
• Fish Tales: Read a tale and bluff that it’s true

The site then goes on to list a trivia board game called “Americana” also “coming soon”, but from the box mock-up, I’m guessing that this was the original name of Civil Lore, so it has already come.

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Rukshuk, by Malcolm Bisiker, published by the company he formed called Zabazoo, comes with rocks, cards, and a timer. And by rocks, I mean rocks. Rock rocks. Stone rocks.

Your job is to pick some rocks and a card, and then balance as many rocks as you can in the formation on the card before the timer runs out. Different colored rocks are harder or easier to place and so earn different points if used.

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CoolMiniOrNot is offering a limited run of the Anima Tacitcs model, Kain D’Lacreu.  Only 250 will initially be available through CoolMiniOrNot’s store, so grab them now while you can.

I’m guessing the model is unpainted, as the picture shows, but it’s not specified.

For those who aren’t familiar with Anima Tactics, it’s a fantasy miniature skirmish game put out by Fantasy Flight Games.

I’ve always been interested in the Anima products, mostly because of the amazing art.  Some of the Anima stuff is a little too…adult for my liking, though.  Wouldn’t fly in my household.

EDIT 10/12/2009: When first writing this, the number of minis available was 100.  When I was just about to post, the number available was 250.  Now it seems they’ve updated the number again to 300, so I’m not exactly sure how “limited” this miniature will be.

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