Hey PI-Fans,

While we’ve spent the last week panicking over allocations of MtG: Avater, but we’re also a board game store and we haven’t forgotten that side of things either.

This week sees a stack of wacky party games roll off the truck, with Exploding Kittens games pushing out the team-cooperative Giants Moving Tiny Furniture, a brand new Lego board game with Brick Like This! and an all new edition of the classic tableau building card game Innovation (4th Edition).

First up on the shelves is Giants Moving Tiny Furniture, an amusing physical challenge themed party game where teams of two players collaborate to move stacks of teeny tiny furniture using only their pinky fingers while bidding to perform the requisite tasks faster and more efficiently than other teams. Eventually though things will reach put-up-or-shut-up point and the lowest bidder will have to physically perform their challenge inside their time limits to score.

Brick Like This! is another party game dropping in this week with real Lego components. Each round is a race against all the other player teams, with a player attempting to describe the build instructions to a teammate and teams racing to complete their construction faster than the rest.

Innovation on the other hand sees a return of a classic engine builder Civilisation-style card game which sees players grabbing new and increasingly powerful innovations cards from the stone-age to the information age that sees players unlock ever more powerful and oppressive abilities to benefit themselves or grind down rival powers.

You can pop on down to grab any of these titles right now. Alternatively, you can grab these and more, including last week’s releases (Catan 6th Edition, Bomb Busters, Unlock! – Schrodinger’s Cat, Unlock! – The Birmingham Murder, Unlock! – Inside the Mind of Sherlock Holmes and Unlock! – Song of the Sea Spray) from the PI Games webstore and have it delivered right to you.

 

Innovation (4th Edition) takes you on a journey from pre-history all the way to the present…and the near future!

In this game, you build a civilization using only cards; there’s no map, no tokens, no dice, no pieces. The game’s 115 innovations are each represented by a card with a unique effect, organized into ten (or eleven) ages. Each innovation’s effect is tied thematically to its identity, allowing you to either elevate your society or attack your opponents.

In addition to directly affecting your opponents, you can share in the effects of their technologies if you amass enough visible icons on your board. Strategically building your tableau of cards to share often and defend against demands is crucial to success.

To win, you must claim achievements, which you can attain by amassing points or by meeting certain criteria with the innovations you have built. No two games of Innovation play the same way.

Innovation (4th Edition): 2-5 Players, 60 mins, Ages 12+

 

Meet Giants Moving Tiny Furniture, the highly competitive, highly clumsy party game.

Your team’s goal is to move miniature furniture to its new home in as few trips as you can, as quickly as possible. The catch is, you can only use your pinkies! You gotta stack the goods, plan your trip, and work together to make sure you don’t drop anything. The team that completes the most successful moving jobs wins.

It’s a family game about teamwork, nail-biting moments, hilarity, dexterity, and really cute miniature toy furniture.

Giants Moving Tiny Furniture: 3-8 Players, 10 mins, Ages 7+

 

Brick Like This! is a fast talking, fun building LEGO party game, turning LEGO building into a fun and hilarious team effort!

In Brick Like This! teams of 2 players race to complete a mini LEGO model before the other teams. Each team is comprised of two roles; an ’instructor’ that sees the shape that needs to be built and a ’builder’ who assembles the bricks into shape but cannot see the actual shape or instructions. Each round teams compete against each other to complete their figure faster that the other teams

The winning team is the duo with the most points after 6 rounds. A great gift idea for any LEGO fan, the set includes 48 LEGO bricks, 92 shape cards, 20 challenge cards, an hourglass and a rulebook.

Brick Like This!: 2-8 Players, 15 mins, Ages 7+