February 21, 2012
Issue #5

Eagle and Gryphon Games Newsletter

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Fleet
Pre-Order Zong Shi, Caveman Curling, and Pizza Theory
Solitaire for Two
Sid Sackson Card Games
Pastiche and Reverse Charades on The Dice Tower
Fantastiqa

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New Kickstarter Project Launching in March!
In the northwest corner of Nunavut, Canada, a formerly inaccessible bay off of the Arctic Ocean has become reachable through a secret inlet. Untouched by the hands of time and fed by both the ocean and warm fresh water springs, Ridback Bay is teeming with sea life. A remote, timeless bayside village is now being inundated by entrepreneurs awaiting the influx of the world's greatest fisherman to harvest this plentiful bounty. The docks and warehouses are being revitalized and now it is time to begin the real adventure. Go build your fleet and become the master of the seas!  

 

In Fleet players acquire licenses, launch boats, and fish the great briny blue. The player who best manages his resources and acquires the most Victory Points via fish, licenses, and boats, will build the strongest Fleet and lead his crew to victory!

 

Coming to Kickstarter March 1st!
Zong Shi, Pizza Theory, and Caveman Curling Arriving March 10th

The Kickstarter projects for Zong Shi, Caveman Curling, and Pizza Theory have ended, and all three games were successfully funded!  If you missed your chance to back these games you can still pre-order the games on Eaglegames.net.


Check out www.thedicetower.com's Tom Vasel's review of Caveman Curling below! 

Caveman Curling - with Tom and Melody Vasel
Caveman Curling - with Tom and Melody Vasel
Solitaire for Two Coming Soon!
If you know how to play "Solitaire" with a deck of cards, then you already know how to play Solitaire for Two!  We've taken the game you know and added 2 new Suits, 3 Jokers, a Scoring System, and made it possible to play with 2, 3, and 4 players. As a result, a great game got even better!

In addition to Six-Suit Solitaire and Solitaire for Two the 81 high-quality tiles contained in the game can be used in place of a "normal" deck of 52 cards. This allows you to play many of your favorite card games with tiles rather than those 52 "protean pieces of pasteboard" (Sid Sackson, game designer, A Gamut of Games).

Look for Solitaire for Two on Kickstarter next month!

 

The Return of Sid Sackson
Three Sid Sackson Card Games Planned for 2012

Gryphon Games is re-releasing three classic Sid Sackson card games in 2012: Sleuth, Venture, and Monad.

Keep an eye out for these great titles to launch throughout the year.  In the meantime check out their BoardGameGeek.com pages to learn more (Sleuth, Venture, & Monad)
Pastiche and Reverse Charades Get Multiple Nods on The Dice Tower's  Top Ten games of 2011 Lists!

 

Pastiche and Reverse Charades made numerous appearances on the newest list posted by The Dice Tower. 

 

If you spend any time reading game reviews then you know who Tom Vasel is.  His website, www.thedicetower.com, is one of the most influential board game review sites on the web.  The site recently released a number of lists of the best games of 2011 in numerous categories.  Most notable is Tom Vasel's pick of Pastiche as Best Family Game of 2011.

 

Also, Meng from fathergeek.com and   www.thedicetower.com has picked Pastiche as having the best art of any game released in 2011!

 

In the "Best Party Game" list Reverse Charades and Reverse Charades Junior took four out of the seven spots, as well as getting Cyrus from FatherGeek.com's pick as best family game!

 

 Click here to see the lists. 

 

Alf Seegert's Fantastiqa


Although we don't have any art ready to show just yet, we wanted to tell you how excited we are about Alf Seegert's new game Fantastiqa.  It's a perfect combination of board game and deck builder set in a  fantastic fantasy world!  Look for more on Fantastiqa soon!