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OUR REPORT u FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DES JEUX CANNES 2012
nisms and are designed by Cyril Travert. Best
Family for 2-6 players, ages 8+, uses a kind of
Ludo mechanism with vocabulary cards; Rebecca
Bonbon Adventures o�ers topics for
adolescents from shopping, music and fashion,
featuring the French equivalent of Hello
Kitty, for 2-6 players, ages 8+. Perspectives
is intended for the fast teaching of vocabulary,
for 2 or more players, ages 8+, if o�ers
216 new words, if you know them you score
points. Yet another game KIT, a card game on
basic vocabulary, and one more is
Illustrated Cards for playing without rules
and learning.
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In addition to the word placement game
Octoverso, exhibited already at Cannes and
also at Nuremberg, there was Octoverso junior
on show and also two novelties:
Qamoki by Laurence Alsac for 2-8 players,
ages 8+, is again a game on words; this time
you must discard words whose syllables correlate
by sound or for which you can name an
acceptable connotation; such a connotation
correlation can be repudiated by a majority
of players indicating this by knocking on the
table. Khitan by Ludovic Chabry is intended
for 2 players, ages 8+, the hexagonal tiles
with di�erent color markers on each side are
moved by tilting them over one edge; when
after tilting identical colors face each other,
even over some distance or in more than
one direction, the tile that was tilted defeats
the other ones with the same color.
Filoso�a
The Canadian company showed a French
edition of Uluru (Kosmos), and also a new
game, Equilibrion by Shadi Torbey. Equilibrion
is the legendary city of dreams
where good and bad dreams have always
co-existed. Players are kings of this city and
their goal is to establish the balance between
those good and bad dreams and to
keep it up.
Fragames
In cooperation with Blackrock Editions Merlin
ZinZin by Annick Lobet is published,
a game based on the books of the same
name. 2-5 players, ages 6+, must reach the
village of Broceliade in the guise of Merlin
and his friends, before they are eaten by the
monstrous cat of Sorceress Morphage.
France-Educ
This is a publisher of educational games, Locutio,
a game on French phrases featuring
two ways to play, and Astucio, an educational
game on multiplication tables for 2-5
players, ages 7+, both designed by François
Marchand.
Color codes, target groups, features, icons and GABIS are
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