Hey PI-Fans,

Another pile of boxes means another stack of board games!

First up, is Gamewright’s Forbidden Jungle, a cooperative board game taking players into the jungles of an alien world on a bug hunt. Reconfigure the planet beneath you to escape the world before being overrun by the local fauna in the latest entry to the ‘Forbidden’ board game series.

Our kids games range continues to grow with the addition of Little Alchemists, CGE’s deduction game where players mix batches of potions with the goal of discovering new formulas with the assistance of a unique support app. Also popping up is You Little Stinker, Exploding Kittens new dice rolling picture matching game for young audiences. If you’re after a family game night with young audiences, this is a perfect addition on top of the always popular Dobbles and Catan Juniors!

The freight keeps flowing and the games keep arriving, so keep your eyes peeled folks. Our shippers inform us there’s Fishy business at your favorite store on the Citadel and it will be here soon.

  • Kenneth, PI Manager

 

In Forbidden Jungle, your team has crash-landed on a mysterious jungle planet, and you need to work together to survive. Search the ruins of an abandoned outpost for an elusive escape portal, all while fending off an ever-growing horde of venomous creatures and an escalating chain of collapsing locations. 

Forbidden Jungle is a cooperative board game played on a planetary tile grid. At the start of the game, only the start tile is revealed and players will work together to explore the rest of the map while facing down a growing swarm of arachnid like creatures. The player goal is to find 4 illuminated crystal tiles and rearrange the board to ensure they surround a portal tile allowing them to escape the planetary collapse.

Will player successfully overcome the horde of hostile critters and escape the world before it’s inevitable destruction? 

Forbidden Jungle
2-5 Players, 45 mins, Ages 10+

 

Little Alchemists is a family-friendly deduction game that’s designed to grow with the curious minds of young players. The game starts with simple concepts and mechanisms; you’ll start by gathering and combining ingredients for brewing potions to sell. However, as you collect keys by achieving your potion-making goals, you’ll unlock new chapters that gradually add more components, mechanisms, and complexity to the experience.

Not sure how to make potions? No sweat! Potion craft takes mere seconds with the free Little Alchemists companion app. To make a potion, players select two ingredient tiles, then scan them using the companion app loaded onto a tablet or smartphone. This reveals the combined result and lets players acquire and mark the corresponding potion knowledge on their secret player board.

Little Alchemists
2-4 Players, 20 mins, Ages 7+

 

You Little Stinker is a simple picture-matching game designed specifically for young children. It features a dog-shaped dice shaker that makes it easy for little hands to shake and roll.

Put the dice in the Doggy Shaker –he spits it out when you’re ready! Match the dice with the corresponding picture cards. Bones are super lucky, but watch out for those stinky mud puddles! The first player to get rid of all their dice wins. With a few lucky rolls and a few smart choices, you could be the Stinker that ends up on top!

This is a great way to introduce kids to critical thinking and decision-making with a little side of math. 

You Little Stinker
2-5 Players, 5-10 mins, Ages 4+