NORTH STAR GAMES North Star Games adds Dirty Pig to its Happy Planet line of games. The object of the card game is to be the first player to dirty all your pigs, and while getting them dirty might be easy, keeing them dirty is a bigger challenge. Rain showers and pesky farmers can clean your pig, but seeking shelter in a barn may protect them. This game of strategy and luck is designed for two to six players ages 6 and up, and takes about 10 minutes to play.
YULU YULU launches King of the Ring this fall, made for kids ages 6 and up. The game features four sumo wrestler-themed rolling figures, and challenges players to launch figures into the ring and get it to land in the middle, which activates a countdown timer. Once a figure is resting in the middle of the ring, the other players rush to knock it out with their figures before time runs out. The middle of the ring pops open, raising up the last figure and declaring it the King of the Ring. Oops Scoops is a stacking game that challenges players ages 4 and up to take turns stacking the ice cream scoops on Oops the ice cream cone. Players compete to build the tallest ice cream tower. Oops will shake and shiver to make the stacking even more challenging and to cause the tower of scoops to topple. Players must spin the scoop spinner to see how many scoops to add. If the scoops fall on a player’s turn, he or she loses, and the last player left is the winner. Each Oops Scoops game comes with a vibrating ice cream cone, 12 colored ice cream scoops, two difficulty level base scoops, a cone stand, and a scooper with spinner.
