Froggy

1. Novelties 2009 Froggy Launch Season: Spring Description: Froggy has many friends. During the game he jumps from one player to another to see his animal friends. The players take turns trying to find two matching parts (front and bottom part) to get a complete animal. Put the animals you find next to each other in front of you forming a row. When you find the matching parts of a frog, you add him/her to your animal row, and in addition take Froggy and put him in the lead of your row. If another player finds a frog, he may take Froggy and put him in the lead of his own row. This way Froggy jumps between the players until the last frog is found. The game ends when all animals have been found. The winner is the player who has the longest row. If there is a tie, the player who has Froggy is the winner. Includes 36 card board puzzle pieces (18 animals), 1 Froggy (soft plastic frog), rules. Size of the animal cards is 70 x 105 mm.

2. Novelties 2009 Ducky´s Launch Season: Spring Description: Two cute ducklings are swimming in the pond, both trying to reach the big stone as quickly as possible to get some rest and enjoy the sun. On your turn throw the colour die and try to get the colour of the next water lily ahead of you (red or yellow) to move forward. If the die shows a duckling, you are lucky and may move forward, regardless of the colour of the next field. But watch out for the crossings! If the ducklings meet, the duckling already standing on the crossing is pushed one step back. The player who first reaches the stone is the winner. Includes 15 card board pcs forming two race tracks, 2 ducklings (soft plastic), 1 big wooden die, rules.

3. Animals of the world cardgame Novelties 2009 Launch Season: Spring Description: Animals of the world Card Game is a fun and educative card game that includes images and exciting trivia questions about all kinds of animals around the world. The game helps you to learn different facts about the animals, where on the planet they live, about endangered animals and lots of other interesting information. Includes 200 cards, world map sheet and rules.

4. Novelties 2009 Jr. Travel Games Launch Season: Spring Description: - Country Trivia Jr. Travel - Draw Out Jr. Travel - Junior Alias Travel - Charades Travel These are travel versions of Tactic's most popular games in handy format. Perfect all-around-the-year-sellers.

5. Novelties 2009 Raccoon Wash Rush Launch Season: Spring Nominated Game of the Year 2008 in Norway! Description: Come and join the fun and exciting Wash Rush! The Raccoons are trying to find the right t-shirt for their kits from the washing machines – the players who is the first to find the t-shirts pictured on his three secret tiles wins the game. But…on his way to the washing machines your raccoon needs to find the markers with which he can open the right machines. He might also find a lucky Joker marker or get a change to peek inside one of the washing machines. Who will be the first to find the right t-shirts for their raccoon kits and win the game? Raccoons and washing machines are also perfect as toys. Includes Game board, 4 washing machines, 4 raccoon playing pieces, 4 laundry baskets, 12 raccoon kits, 32 markers, 12 t-shirt tiles and 12 t-shirts (4 x blue, pink and green).

6. Novelties 2009 Play in the Car Launch Season: Spring Description: The nice price game that will keep the back seat occupied for hours! The CD reads out random letters and the first player to see anything in the environment starting with that letter scores a point. The rules also suggest many other uses for the random letters. The game also includes 55 cards containing trivia questions, picture cards for playing traffic bingo, number cards to be used together with the letters and much more.Includes an audio CD, 55 cards and rules

7. Novelties 2009 Formula Neppis Car Racing Launch Season: Spring Description: Car racing with real toy cars! Build a track on your living room floor, using dozens of different elements to create a unique racing experience each time. The cars are moved forward by flicking them with your index finger. If a car rolls over, you have to take it back to its last position. Go through the gates from the right direction, avoid the obstacles, be careful on the big jump! If you´re skilful enough you may become Grand Champion of the Neppis Circuit! Includes two real Neppis Cars, Start and goal arches, jumps and obstacles, result pads, 33 cards and rules.

8. Novelties 2009 He & She Extreme (Tactic) Launch Season: Spring In the ”Answer Honestly” category you try to guess how your partner would react in different tricky situations. Description: A hotter and more challenging version of the popular He & She game! As in the basic version, you play in pairs and answer questions dealing with your partner and relationship. But now there are also more difficult challenges - for example, you have to know what kind of things irritate your partner the most, and what kind of things he/she is really fond of. If you are able to put three answer alternatives in the same order, you get to move forward on the game board. Includes game board, 300 cards, 120 “What annoys you most” cards, including 40 “Adrenaline” cards, 120 “Brownie points” cards, 40 “Answer honestly” cards, 20 Bonus cards, 4 pawns, Notepad

9. Novelties 2009 Country Trivia Junior (Tactic) Launch Season: Spring Description: This popular trivia game now has a junior version. Packed with fun questions that every child should know about their country – films, books, sport, fun places to visit and much more. Answer a question correctly from each category as you move around the board and try to collect tokens. The first player to collect 6 tokens wins. includes 250 cards including 80 picture cards, game board, 6 playing pieces, 6 collecting frames with 6 category counters in each and 1 die.

10. Novelties 2009 I am, I do Launch Season: Spring Nominated Game of the Year 2008 in Holland and Finland! Description: The hilarious charades game for the whole family! Can you imagine a giraffe dancing or a turtle playing the trumpet? In this charades game you get to act many crazy and funny things. Roll the colour die to decide who you are and what you do. Then you act and the other players try to guess from your gestures, moves and facial expressions what´s on your card. If someone guesses correctly, both you and the guesser move forward on the game board. If you are lucky, the spinner may allow you to move even faster. Beware of laugh attacks, since a player who laughs at the actor has to move backwards! The first player to reach the finish wins the game. Great game for the whole family to play together. Includes game board, spinner, 100 cards (50 “I am”, 50 “I do”), 2 dice (1 black and 1 white), sticker sheet, 6 pawns and sand timer.

11. Novelties 2009 Honey Pot Chase Game Launch Season: Spring Description: A fun and fast game of color recognition, accuracy and reflexes. All players put on their special Honey Pot Chase Game pads. The electronic randomizer chooses a colour and all players try to be the first to  make a card of that colour stick to their glove. Only the fastest player gets to keep the card, the others have to put their cards back on the table. In this game all players are active all the time, no one has to wait for his turn. Includes 55 cards with pictures on both sides, 4 pads with suction cup, 1 electronic randomizer.

12. Novelties 2009 ChessXpress Launch Season: Summer Description: High quality wooden game that teaches the moves and strategy of chess. One game only lasts a few minutes, but you will want to play again and again! This game is quick, easy and fun for chess beginners and regular chess players. From 6 years and up. Includes wooden game board, 8 wooden game pieces and rules.

13. Novelties 2009 Lexico Launch Season: Back to School Description: Lexico is a game and a dictionary combined in a unique and fun way. Beside its excellent game value, it also has a huge educational value and is of interest to anyone who wants to learn languages. Lexico features altogether 9000 commonly used words from five different categories: Human, Living environment, Nature and hobbies, Science and technology and Common words. The words are divided into 3 difficulty levels and the idea is that every player plays the difficulty level best suited for his/her language skills. You can play a quick game with only 1 word/category, or a marathon of 10 words/category. Includes 300 cards (double sided, both sides contains 30 words) and 1 die.

14. Animals of the world board game Novelties 2009 Launch Season: Fall Description: Animals of the world Board Game is a fun and educative board game that includes images and exciting trivia questions about all kinds of animals around the world. The aim of the game is to travel around the different continents, discovering different species and facts about them. The one who has first discovered an animal from each continent by answering correctly to questions on animal cards wins. The game helps you to learn different facts about the animals, where on the planet they live, about endangered animals and lots of other interesting information. Includes game board, playing pieces, 300 cards (beautiful pictures) and rules.

15. Novelties 2009 Mumbo Jumbo Launch Season: Fall Description: The hysterically funny party game in the spirit of Rappakalja! Altogether 400 double-sided cards full of pictures of the weirdest objects in the world, and you will have to make up crazy explanations of what the objects could be used for. All the axplanations are then judged by all the players – the catch is that you never know beforehand what argument the judgement will be based on – it might be, for example, the most old-maidish, the most fashionable or the saddest explanation that wins on this round. The winners on each round get to move forward on the game board. The first player to reach the finish wins the game! So pull out your best and most absurd explanations, and you might be the Master of Mumbo Jumbo. Includes game board, 8 playing pieces, spinner, 360 double-sided picture cards, 40 double-sided category cards and a paper pad.

16. Novelties 2009 Party Alias Launch Season: Fall Description: A hilarius party version of the popular word explaining game! In Party Alias you explain words to your team mates as in the normal Alias, but if your team´s piece stops in a Party space, new and fun ways of explaining are used. For example you tell a crazy story based on all the words on a card, describe different celebrities and explain while standing in a weird position or jumping. You also get to explain words in different moods, such as hysterical, angry or scared. Succeeding in the party tasks allows your team to spin the bonus spinner and move ahead faster! Party alias is a word explaining game with a twist! Includes game board with spinner, 6 playing pieces, 400 cards (300 word cards, 86 celebrity cards, 8 smiley cards, 6 position cards) and 1 sand timer.

17. When was the last time…? Novelties 2009 Launch Season: Christmas Description: An incredibly funny and interesting party game, where the players try to guess when the last time was that a person shot with a water pistol, looked up a number from the phone book, looked under their bed and a thousand other things! The guessing takes place by using a personal guessing disc with alternatives from “Half an hour ago” to “40 years ago”. If your guess matches the person’s actual answer you get to move your playing piece forward. Guaranteed to create loads of hilarious discussions! Includes game board, 6 playing pieces, 300 cards, 6 guessing discs and rules.

18. Novelties 2009 miQube Launch Season: Christmas Description: Looks like a puzzle, plays like a boardgame! MiQube contains several strategic game versions and a deceptively simple looking puzzle. It’s a game of colours, spatial reasoning and tremendous fun! The game components are made of durable wood, which means the game will last a lifetime. Dominate the game board with your own colour, block your opponent’s next move, try to reach a certain square on the board. The different game versions make it possible for children and adults to enjoy the game alike. Includes a wooden game board, 13 wooden multishaped wooden blocks wooden die and rules.

19. Novelties 2009 Maxi Yatzy Launch Season: Christmas Description: Same as the old Maxi Yatzy, but we have added 20 plastic counters which let you save re-rolls for future round.

20. Novelties 2009 Wine Game Launch Season: Christmas Description: You play in 2 teams and the goal is to fill your wine cellar with the most valuble wines and to get high ranking scores for your wine at the blind tastings. During the game the team wins bottles for their wine cellar by answering questions about wine. To improve the party feeling there are sing-a-long-cards where you sing the first part of a well-known melody to your team mates and they have to continue the song. Action cards and facts about wine bring more variation into the game. The game ends when one of the teams has filled their wine cellar with bottles. The scorings of the blind wine tastings are added to the team´s total scoring from the wine cellar. The team with the highest scoring wins the game. Includes 1 game board, 300 cards, 24 card board bottles/counters, 6 wine wrappers to cover the bottles, 1 fabric bag, 1 note pad, 2 pawns, 1 die, rules