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6 is a collaboration between three game designers to provide a collection of light dice games. The tin contains a collection of dice and rules for six games that can be played with them. The games are: Airstrike: Drop dice sequentially onto the table to obtain a combination of values positions that ensures your bombers make it home. Dicey Winks: A dexterity game about launching dice from the '6' tin to land your dice near to a target while displacing your opponent's dice. Foiled: A dueling simulation and bluffing game about selecting the right dice and maneuvers to strike your opponent to push them off the piste. Slipstream: A risk management racing game, in which turn order is determined by current score. Triangles: A bidding game in which you must spot and exploit the highest value triangle that you can land your scoring die inside. Wrestle: Establish the best hold to limit your opponents opportunities to escape it before running out of strength.

With just a stove and a pan, each player starts on the road to culinary genius. Then chefs take turns selecting dishes, adjusting the heat on their stoves, and seasoning their creations. Players can even take coffee breaks, during which they can try to sabotage the opponents’ dishes, or even save their own creations from the garbage can. This madcap game all comes down to who has the best skills in the kitchen. Each time a chef attempts to spice a dish, he must try to pour the correct amount out of a seasoning container. Adding the right amount of seasoning is a difficult task, and getting the perfect pour from the seasoning container is a rare feat. To make the process even more challenging, each container also has salt which can ruin a dish if too much ends up in the pan. However, adeptly pouring spices yields the perfect dish, and creating three perfect dishes wins the game outright.

Travel surprising worlds inhabited by Loonies - delirious and aggressive monsters -, pursue your quests and win the crown! Equipped with an erasable marker pen and a transparent sheet (called screen), draw the best line possible and gather as many Xperience Points as you can. Watch out for the Loonies, avoid the malus, and slow down your opponents with the Sneaky Tricks penalties. On your markers… 3, 2, 1… draw! Loony Quest is a family game, ideal to have fun while developing observation skills and swiftness. In this game for kids, adults will also have a great time gaining levels to reach the final big boss!

Luchador! Mexican Wrestling Dice is an award-winning fantastic fun family game. Take on the role of being a Luchador Wrestler without actually hurting anyone. Throw those dice, but be sure to keep them in the wrestling ring. In Luchador! Mexican Wrestling Dice you can play player versus player, tag-team and Cage matches. Additionally, you can play Championship rules and a ‘free for all’ variant. Tag-teams can be two v two, three v three and even four v four. During the game, you must ‘high-five’ to tag in and out of the ring, you can cheer for big hits like ‘Table’ and of course count out loud 1,2, 3 as you Pin your opponent to the floor. In addition, you can do your trademark special moves and combos and if all else fails, go for the big KO finish. During the game, you high-five to tag in and out of the ring, cheer as you Pin your opponent to the floor. In addition, you can do your trademark special moves and combos and if all else fails, go for the big KO finish.

Look out! Rhino Hero is about. This heavy hero is ready to meet his match. The wobbly skyscraper awaits and needs to be built strong enough to hold Rhino Hero. Who can build the tower and use their quick wits to help Rhino Hero scale the building?

Rhino Hero and his superhero friends have lots of adventures on the skyscraper made of cards. But be careful: this gets higher and shakier the more maps are built up as walls and floors. If you roll the dice skillfully, your own superhero will rise high and defend your place in the dice battles against other players ... if it weren't for the Spider-Monkeys that make the skyscraper sway.

The kingdom is in total chaos! Work together to guide this brave rolling knight through 20 adventures filled with twists and traps. Players each hold on to a lever and guide the moving platform in all directions, sliding the knight to follow the right paths while beating obstacles. As challenges become more difficult, hold on to your lives to make it to the highest level and win! Slide Quest turned a video game concept into a board game where dexterity and cooperation are keys to success.

A dexterity game where nine plastic tree segments are stacked up. Each tree segment has four bark sections around it. On their turn, a player gets two taps with the axe to try and knock off pieces of bark from the tree segments for one point a piece. But be careful, if a tree segment comes down it's minus 5 points! A quick unique dexterity game.

In Yogi, players are challenged to contort their bodies in unusual ways — ideally doing better than everyone else in their impersonation of a pretzel! On a turn, a player reveals the top card from the deck. If the card is red, the player must place or hold the card somewhere on their body as directed by the card; if the card is green, the card itself can stay on the table, but the player must do whatever is specified on the card, such as keeping one thumb on your chin or having your hands touch. Keep going, and stay flexible!

The expansion to the cooperative building game Menara has it all: Spectacular temple floors, golden pillars... and even the tears of the gods try to keep players from shared success. The playing crew always faces a scenario of your own choice. As in the base game Menara, the temple builders get information and advice from their fellow players before each turn. Building plank cards give v12 tear stones, or in which way temple floors have to be filled with columns. The new rituals introduce players to new challenges to encounter with wise cooperation, static sophistication and quiet hands.