Hello PI-Fans,
It’s good to be back. The new store is pretty much up and running, so it’s back to work for the PI-Crew to bring you an awesome spread of new games.
Dropping into the new store is a slab of titles from the ever-popular Japanese publisher Oink Games, with Insider, Rafter Five, Moving Wild and Maskmen making the leap up to the shelves. Also coming with them is the svelte little competitive push your luck game The Number and the party game Champions! from Repos Productions and the The Sun Never Sets expansion box for Splendor.
Come pop on by the new store and say “Hi”, folks.
We’d be glad to have you.
-Kenneth, PI Games Manager
maskmen is a small pocket sized hand-shedding game of masked wrestlers where players scramble to be the first player to shed all the cards in their hand first.
2-6 Players, 20 mins, Ages 9+
Build your national park and fill it with cute animals, both fierce and friendly in Moving Wild! You have spectacular savannas, lakes brimming with possibilities, and jungles full of the unknown at your disposal! So, which animals will you welcome in and where will you put them? Match just the right animals with just the right locations and create the most harmonious national park ever!
Moving Wild is a drafting card game where players pass around stacks of cards depicting animals, habitats and enhancements, aiming to fill up their tableau. Tableaus are scored at the end of each round, with penalty points for any habitats that are not fully occupied and for any animals that aren’t accommodated.
1-6 Players, 15-30 mins, Ages 8+
In Rafter Five, you and your fellow players want to build as large a raft as possible — but you want to end up being the only one who can board it.
To start, stack the box top and bottom to create a base, then place the five wooden rafter pieces on the starting card on top of the base.
On a turn, lift a rafter, place a raft card on the playing area, replace the rafter, then place one of your treasure chests somewhere on the raft…ideally in a precarious position because if someone else knocks off this chest, they must keep it in their hold. If a player collects five treasure chests owned by other players in their hold, they’re out of the game! (You can knock off your own chests without penalty, but you’re making the game easier for everyone else.)
Insider combines two fun components: finding the answer to a quiz and revealing the Insider. While communicating to others, you have to find the right answers to a quiz or find the “insider” who is manipulating the discussion. The insider will do everything to hide their identity while misleading the others.One player is the “master”, and they secretly select a word from a set given in a deck of cards. The “insider” player, whose role is not known to the other players, will then secretly view the word. The insider attempts to secretly lead the rest of the players towards the correct word. If, however, the word is correctly guessed in the allowable time, the master flips the sand timer, and the players and master have until the sand runs out to discuss the game and deduce the identity of the insider. If they guess correctly, they win the game together; if they do not, the insider wins.
Insider
4-8 Players, 15 mins, Ages 9+
The Number is a push-your-luck style game of number counting played over several rounds and involves bluffing, risk-taking, but also some amount of spite blocking in the action choice.
Each turn, everyone secretly writes a number from 000 to 999 on their boards, then reveals them at the same time. Numbers are eliminated if it shares at least one digit in common with any number smaller than it. Any player with an uneliminated number then scores points equal to the value of their number’s first digit. Over the course of the game, the pool of available digits shrinks rapidly, so players need to closely watch what options their opponents have at the time.
The Number
3-5 Players, 15 mins, Ages 8+
Embark on a Trade and Prestige Adventure to the Orient!
Build your strongholds in the Orient in Splendor: The Sun Never Sets as your guild takes on new challenges. Get ready to push back the frontiers of trade with bastions and forge lucrative trade routes to the Orient!
The Splendor: The Sun Never Sets expansion offers new strategic possibilities and will add tension to your games!
Splendor: The Sun Never Sets is an expansion that requires Splendor, the base game to be played.
Splendor: The Sun Never Sets Expansion
2-4 Players, 30 mins, Ages 10+
