Upcoming Kickstarter project: Hibachi!

Grail Games is thrilled to present Hibachi, a dexterity game inspired by the classic Safranito. Hibachi is a dexterity game, but tactics, timing, and money management all play a part. Get into the shoes of a chef of a hibachi grill, where you have to cook food in front of guests – and as quick as you can.

We’ve booked you a table on Tuesday, November 17th to find out who will be the most successful Hibachi chef!

Learn more about the game and subscribe to the newsletter to unlock new recipes before the launch!

-> https://bit.ly/Hibachi-prelaunch-KS

Share the link above, encourage your friends to sign in and unlock amazing content and expand your gaming experience before the project is live!

-> A unique theme and colorful artwork

Hibachi is the classic Safranito, but rethemed. The new theme brings the gameplay alive as players literally throw things onto the grill to cook their dishes. Hibachi benefits from a funny theme mixed with funtastic gameplay. Chefs are cute animals, the board is full of colorful ingredients, recipes are trendy… all thanks to amazing artwork by Kerri Aitken, who already worked with Grail Games on the draft & write travelling game Boomerang: Australia.

-> A unique mix of a dexterity and a euro game

Players must throw chips on the board, knocking other chips around with unexpected results, but they must also plan ahead, striving to build a strategy that will allow them to collect the ingredients they need. Hibachi’s mixed mechanisms keep the game feeling fresh. With a dash of interaction, stirred in with the meaningful decisions that are made every turn, Hibachi is a fun dexterity game for 2 to 4 players. Inspired by the long out of print and much sought after Safranito(released in 2010), now – with Hibachiit’s time to rediscover this unique game!

-> Ideal for both family and expert gamers

Hibachi is an energetic and tactile game, with a fast pace. Rules are explained easily, making it simple to learn and play. Its unique mix of dexterity and strategy-building makes Hibachi the perfect game for almost everyone!

Families will appreciate the colorful artwork and the fun gaming experience Hibachi provides. Social gamers will also dive into the game, trash-talking and interacting as chips are thrown, hoping to influence what will happen, while planning what they themselves will do next. Even hardcore gamers will strive to beat their opponents and be the best chef in town, enjoying building a strategy to collect the precious cooking ingredients.

The upcoming Hibachi Kickstarter campaign will allow you to discover some unique components and additions from the original game. Join us on November 17th and subscribe now to our newsletter!

– The Grail Games Team

Two new Grail Games announced!

In his latest video news segment, David mentioned that Grail has plans for at least two more Kickstarter campaigns this year…

For more info on the newly announced games, click here for Hibachi and here for Whale Riders.

Images, videos and downloadable rule books are coming soon!

Stay tuned and thanks for your support… 🙂

Grail Games announces a new “Medici” game coming soon!

Grail Games is pleased to announce that…

Medici: The Dice Game is coming soon! It is a new design by Reiner Knizia that shares the setting and feel of his classic Medici board game, but using dice!

Fast to learn and simple to play, Medici: The Dice Game is a dice-drafting, roll-and-write game. Over the course of three rounds, 2-4 players will fill their ships with the goods presented at the wharf. They will earn money for having the most valued loads, as well as for collecting majorities of the different goods.

Grail Games is pleased to release their third title in the family of Medici games (following Mediciand Medici: The Card Game), with simple, yet highly interactive game play by Reiner Knizia, and stunning artwork by Vincent Dutrait.

COMING TO KICKSTARTER IN NOVEMBER 2019!!!

Stay tuned for more info, images and full rules in the coming weeks 🙂

Boomerang is now on Kickstarter!

Boomerang is the come-back-again card game! Designed by the Tiny Epic Series’ Scott Almes, Boomerang mixes card drafting with a roll-and-write game!

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Fast and fun and simple to learn, Boomerang is a game you will come back to again and again! We hope you will consider supporting is on Kickstarter – worldwide shipping is included in every pledge!

You can also pledge for the game and receive copies of our brand new roll-and-write game Criss Cross, or last year’s awesome King’s Road!

CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE CAMPAIGN!

 

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Grail Games to publish Reiner Knizia’s Yellow & Yangtze!

We are excited to announce that Grail Games will be releasing the sequel to the modern classic Tigris & Euphrates in 2018!

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The period of the Warring States (475-221 BC) describes a time of endless wars between seven rival states Qin, Chu, Qi, Yan, Han, Wei, and Zhao. These states were finally unified in 221 BC under the Qin dynasty to lay the origin of today’s China, with its two main rivers: the Yellow and the Yangtze.

Yellow & Yangtze, the sister game to the highly acclaimed board game Tigris & Euphrates, invites you to replay this eventful period and to lead your dynasty to victory.

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In Yellow & Yangtze, players build civilizations through tile placement. Players are given five different leaders: a Governor, Soldier, Farmer, Trader, and Artisan. The leaders are used to collect victory points in these same categories. However, your score at the end of the game is the number of points in your weakest category. Conflicts arise when civilizations connect on the board. To succeed, players’ civilizations must survive these conflicts, calm peasant revolts, and grow secure enough to build prestigious pagodas.

Twenty years after the release of his modern classic, Tigris & Euphrates, Reiner Knizia has improved and tweaked the game play, creating this new take on the system which will feel familiar to T&E players, but is certainly its own “beast.” With stunning artwork by Vincent Dutrait, we hope you will enjoy playing the game from Q3, 2018!

Visit Yellow & Yangtze on our website and stay tuned for more info on the game! Y&Y is due to be released at Gen Con in August 2018.

– David Harding
Publisher

Reiner Knizia’s Stephenson’s Rocket is now on Kickstarter!

We are flattered and excited to announce the commencement of our Kickstarter campaign to fund an all-new edition of the classic board game Stephenson’s Rocket!

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CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE CAMPAIGN!

Stephenson’s Rocket is considered by many board gamers as one of Dr Reiner Knizia’s great games. However, unlike his other greatest hits (Tigris & Euphrates, Ra, Medici, Lost Cities, and Samurai, for example,) Rocket has never been reprinted since its original release in 1999.

The fact that it remains in the top 950 board games as ranked on BGG, despite it not being available in stores for 18 years, can be seen as a testament to its high regard and fantastic game play.

But tastes have changed in 18 years, and that’s where we and artist Ian O’Toole come in. Grail Games is flattered and excited to present an all-new edition of this classic game. Please help us make it a reality!

Visit Stephenson’s Rocket on BGG!

Visit Stephenson’s Rocket on our website!

– David
Publisher

Kashgar and Criss Cross are now available for pre-order!

I am very pleased to announce that our first two releases for 2018: Kashgar and Criss Cross, are now available for pre-order at the Grail Games store!

If you jump on board now, we are offering the games at a discounted price with worldwide shipping included!

Please click here to check out the pre-orders.

And to keep in touch with all the news and updates in regards to both games’ production and release, please follow our Kashgar Blog!

Kashgar: Merchants of the Silk Road and Criss Cross can also be bundled together for an extra saving. For more info on both games, please click the links above, or visit http://www.boardgamegeek.com

– David
Publisher

Kashgar is coming!

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We are pleased to announce that Kashgar: Merchants of the Silk Road will soon be coming from Grail Games!

Licensed from Kosmos, we will be releasing the first English-language edition of Gerhard Hecht’s Kashgar, in early 2018!

For more information, you can read our latest e-newsletter here!

Stay tuned for news on how to reserve your copy of Kashgar!

>> Visit Kashgar on BGG! >> << Visit Kashgar on our website! <<

Reiner Knizia’s “Circus Flohcati” now on Kickstarter!

Grail Games is pleased to announce that nine years after its last English edition, Circus Flohcati is back!

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Reiner Knizia’s classic push-your-luck card game has been updated with splendiforous art by Heiko Gunther of Glory to Rome: Black Box fame!

You can pledge for the game (shipping included) for just $21AUD. Please note that we only have sale and distribution rights for certain countries (USA, UK, AUS, CAN, NZ). Unfortunately this is not a worldwide edition.

We thank you for your support!

Grail Games to publish Reiner Knizia’s “Circus Flohcati”

Only weeks after announcing our plans to publish Reiner Knizia’s classic board game Medici, we are proud to inform everyone that Circus Flohcati, a Knizia-designed card game, originally published in 1998, is about to receive the Grail Games treatment as well!

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Circus Flohcati has been out of print since 2006. Grail Games is working hard to create a new version of this fun, fast Reiner Knizia (designer of Samurai, Medici, Ra, etc.) game for today’s audience, with artwork by Heiko Gunther (Glory to Rome, Tesla vs Edison, The Dice Will Flow).

For more information on the game and images as they are released, please check out: http://www.grail-games.com/circus-flohcati

Circus Flohcati will be no.5 in our Mike Line of card games, and funded via a Kickstarter campaign to be launched late October, 2015.