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OUR REPORT u FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DES JEUX CANNES 2012
guesses your word correctly, he gets the letters
that were not revealed.
Boss Partner
In Boss Partner Immobilier 2012 by Laurent
Jeaume you embody a real estate
agent, architect and builder to construct a
house. In the �rst phase you turn Boss Partner
and need a building lot card, a card for
the plan of the house and a calculation. In
the second phase you build the house.
Cartaping
Jean-Paul Monnet and Ségolène Drouin
have named the company after their �rst
game. Cartaping is a card game on the
topic of table tennis, and Melicado is a fast
game on letters and arranging them into
words; you make u words as fast as you can,
regroup letters and take into account the
color of cards.
Celudic
Enigmagik is a game on geometrical
shapes, for 1-4 players by Jésus Lopez
Casals; the designer uses seven di�erent
shapes in analogy to Tangram, but contrary
to Tangram you can use each shape several
times in order to compose the shapes on
the task cards in three levels of di�culty.
Comité International des Jeux Mathematiques,
among several other games, showed Jex de
Hex, a game for two players, in which you must
connect opposing sides of the board, players
alternate to place one of their pieces.
A prototype game by the name of Martyrs
by Dominik Devil Pain featuring bank, prison,
airport and terror, too, so probably the
game features events in connection with
international terror. Unfortunately, I was not
able to acquire more detailed information.
At the booth of his company Matthieu
d’Epenoux presented nine new games for
2012, with publication dates ranging from January
to September: Blu� Party 2 by Christian
Lemay again uses the game mechanics of Blu�
Party, there are 150 new challenges for all occasions.
Bubble Talk is published as a co-production
together with Ystari; you combine photos
and strange quotations. Ces années-la by
Richard Borg is a co-production together with
Blackrock Edition, and a a re-edition of a game
that was published in the 1990ties by Hasbro
as Times to Remember; You chose a time span
for the event in question; if you chose correctly
you can discard a marker. Conjudingo is aimed
at players from 7-10 years of age, it is an educational
game on conjugations, French language
only. Illico by Julien Sentis is a game on correlations.
Mimtoo by Nicholas Bourgoin is intended
for 2-10 players, ages 7+, you sort yourself
into teams, draw one card each from two di�erent
decks and enact the resulting combination
in a pantomime. Mystery Party Meutre sur
le Nile is yet another murder party game, designed
by Guillaume Montiage and is the �rst
game in the new series of mystery party games.
Si j’étais président by Ludovic Maublanc is the
sequel to the game Casse-toi Pov’con, you have
now been elected and need to install the best
possible government. Tweegles by Jérémie
Caplanne and Pascal Jumel is a fast observation
game with a monster topic and Superlipopex
is game posing challenging and tasks for you
logical reasoning powers.
Color codes, target groups, features, icons and GABIS are
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