Andrew went to NY Toy Fair last week. He saw more than we could possibly talk about! We try to give you the highlights in this extended edition of The Family Gamers Podcast.

What we played this week:

Ark & Noah (review coming soon)

Duple and Anomia

some games Andrew brought home from NY – more on that later.

Our friends and contributing writers, Ray & Liz, were at TotalCon this past weekend!

Notes from NY Toy Fair:

Andrew ran into an old college roommate: Brandt Sanderson, host of the Portal Gaming Podcast, which is also part of the Dice Tower Network! Small world.

So many games!

Playroom Entertainment – publisher of Unspeakable Words, Killer Bunnies games, and Geek Out! trivia games

Mayfair Games – well known publisher of European games for the US market (they are the publisher that brought Catan to the USA). Mayfair publishes Agricola and Patchwork. New games: Fight for Olympus, and a 2-player version of Caverna. Also, good news, the 2-player version of Agricola (All Creatures Big & Small) will be reprinted!

Mayday Games – one of our favorite Kickstarter-heavy publishers. Walk the Plank!, Get Bit!, and Dead Man’s Draw.

Goliath Games – this publisher owns the Pressman toy brand (Mastermind). We saw Smath (Scrabble with equations) and Ultimate Mastermind (4 players)

Blue Orange – publisher of New York 1901, Brave Rats, Battle Sheep; they introduced Dr. Eureka last year and spin-offs this year: Dr. Microbe and Dr. Beaker. Also a new game called Clear for Takeoff.

UnitedHealthcare Children’s Foundation – doing great work to raise money to help sick children and their families, in part through selling sponsored games/toys. Our personal favorite? Digit’y Do

IELLO – publisher of King of Tokyo, were showing their new game The Mysterious Forest.

Winning Moves Games – publisher of an adorable kids game called Nibbled

HABA – A lot of the new HABA games don’t look like the old ones! Lots of rich art – Before their art was always functional and perfectly fine, but not standout. Andrew saw a game called Heroes of Kaskaria where you have gryphons and cliff cats and you’re racing them to try to get a treasure chest – The mechanics felt balanced, as I expect, but the experience was very different than other HABA games we’ve tried.

Dude Games – bringing Canadian and European games to the US. We have Sushi Dice which we will be reviewing.