Asmodee: Palm Court

Every year, the day before the festival made famous in the Quacks of Quedlinburg, all the town’s kids compete in a dramatic race. This year, you’ll be joining in, along with Quacks the Donkey and Co. Your job is to help your animal friends win the race by feeding them the best food along the way. Race your way to the finish line and win the town’s coveted Golden Cauldron!

Fuzzies is a game about creating impossible, gravity-defying towers out of fuzzy little balls…then knocking them over like a big clumsy oaf. It’s a twist on the classic genre of “Don’t knock over the thing! OH NOOOOOO I knocked over the thing!”

In The Quacks of Quedlinburg, players are charlatans —or quack doctors —each making their own secret brew by adding ingredients one at a time. Take care with what you add, though, for a pinch too much of this or that will spoil the whole mixture! Each player has their own bag of ingredient chips. During each round, they simultaneously draw chips from their bags and add them to their pots. The higher the face value of the drawn chip, the further it is placed in the pot's swirling pattern, increasing how much the potion will be worth. Push your luck as far as you can, but if you add too many cherry bombs, your pot will explode! At the end of each round, players gain victory points and coins to spend on new ingredients, depending on how well they managed to fill up their pots. But players whose pots have exploded must choose points or coins —not both! The player with the most victory points at the end of nine rounds wins the game. The Quacks of Quedlinburg: Mega Box contains the base game and both the Alchemists Expansion and Herb Witches Expansion.

Wavelength is a social guessing game where two teams compete to read each other's minds. It’s a thrilling experience of TALKING and THINKING and HIGH FIVING that anyone can play—but it also has some of that deep word game sorcery, like Codenames, where your decisions feel tense, strategic, meaningful. Wavelength is designed by Wolfgang Warsch, Alex Hague, and Justin Vickers. Wolfgang is the creator behind The Mind and won the Kennerspiel des Jahres award in 2018—basically the most prestigious award in tabletop games. Alex and Justin make Monikers, which the New York Times called “the perfect party game.”