Froggy

1. Novelties 2009 (Tactic) Launch Season: Spring In the following countries: Norway, Denmark, England, Finland, Sweden Froggy 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 (Tactic) Launch Season: Spring In the following countries: Norway, Denmark, England, Finland, Sweden 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. Novelties 2009 Ice Age Game (Licensor TF1 Games) Launch Season: Spring In the following countries: Norway, Denmark, Finland Ice Age 3 “Dawn of the Dinosaurs” in theaters worldwide July 2009! Description: Hilarious action game for 5 years an up. Scrat is holding his nut but he's too cold and he's shaking! He's ejecting ice cubes out of the ice floe! Catch cubes of your color and put them in front of you. But be careful, other players can get them before you and put them back on the ice floe. Be the quickest! First player to have gathered the 6 ice cubes of their color wins! Includes 1 electronic Scrat, 1 board game unit, 24 plastic ice cubes, rules.

4. Animals of the world cardgame Novelties 2009 (Tactic) Launch Season: Spring In the following countries: Denmark, England, France, Holland, Finland, Sweden 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.

5. Novelties 2009 Krokofant (Maicaela Favilla) Launch Season: Spring In the following countries: France, Holland, England Description: A high-quality children’s game from 4 years and up with colourful animal-themed wooden cubes. The aim is to mix the cubes and to form haphazard animals of cubes of the same colour. The outcome is all kinds of different animals: croco-frogs, sharkphants, polarcows and tigeroos! The cards determine which animals are put together. Once you have formed an animal that you have on your card, turn that card face down. The one who has turned down all cards first wins the game! Includes 20 blocks, dice, animal cards and rules.

6. Novelties 2009 Jr. Travel Games Launch Season: Spring In the following countries: Denmark, England, Sweden, Finland 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.

7. Novelties 2009 Raccoon Wash Rush (Tactic) Launch Season: Spring In the following countries: England, Holland 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).

8. Novelties 2009 Country Trivia Junior (Tactic) Launch Season: Spring In the following countries: Holland, Denmark, France, Norway 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.

9. Novelties 2009 I am, I do ( Tactic product ) Launch Season: Spring In the following countries: England, Denmark 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.

10. Novelties 2009 He & She Extreme (Tactic) Launch Season: Spring In the following countries: Holland, Denmark, France, England 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

11. Novelties 2009 Play in the Car (Tactic) Launch Season: Spring In the following countries: Norway, Denmark, France, Holland, Finland, Sweden 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

12. Novelties 2009 Moomin Alias Jr. (Moomin Characters) Launch Season: Spring In the following countries: Finland Description: A great combination of the successful Junior Alias game and the beloved Moomin characters of the Finnish illustrator and storyteller Tove Jansson. In this game the children explain words and images based in the Moomin world. The timer limits the explanations as the players race to be the first one in the goal on the game board. A great classic as never seen before! Includes game board, 6 playing pieces, 200 cards and rules.

13. Novelties 2009 Formula Neppis Car Racing (Tactic product and Hot Toys Neppis cars) Launch Season: Spring In the following countries: Holland, Finland 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.

14. Novelties 2009 Honey Pot Chase Game (Tactic) Launch Season: Spring In the following countries: Norway, Denmark, England, France, Holland, Finland, Sweden 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.

15. Novelties 2009 Dotto (Lawson) Launch Season: Summer In the following countries: Norway, Denmark, England, France, Holland, Finland, Sweden Description: A fast-paced family game where you dash against the clock in making different formations of coloured dice. First the random timer is set, then the player in turn plays a card from his/her hand and tries to place the dice in the exact same order as on the card. When completed, the turn goes to the next player. The turn goes on until the random timer goes off. The one left with an unfinished formation loses one marker. Are you the master of the coloured dice or will the clock get to you first? A great and addictive game that becomes even more fun each time you play! Includes game board with grid for dice, 10 bulky dice with colours, 55 cards, 18 game markers, rules and electronic random time.

16. Novelties 2009 Pirates & Parrots (Ariel Laden) Launch Season: Summer In the following countries: Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland Description: An intriguing family game with a new mechanism: all the players are parrots fighting over the pirates treasure which consists of 10 gold coins. Everyone has a pair of dice. The game is played by scoring with the dice and rolling the action dice for different actions. The game lasts for 10 rounds after which the parrots have taken over the treasure. The one with the most gold in the end of the game is the winner. Gambling in a friendly way makes this game a sure hit with families! Includes game board, 6 plastic bowls, 12 coloured dice (2 of each colour), pop-o-matic, 60 parrot coins, 10 pirate coins and rules.

17. Novelties 2009 Tuk-Tuk Taxi (Finnish inventor) Launch Season: Summer In the following countries: Norway, France, Holland, Finland Description: A fun tactical board game for the whole family, based on the theme of hectic traffic. The players are tuk tuk drivers in a chaotic city environment where the rules change by the minute. The aim is to pick up customers and to drive them back. At the same time the other players are trying to block the way by placing all kinds of traffic signs. Will they outsmart you or will you play the signs right to drive the customers to their destination first? Includes a two sided game board (city & holiday environment), dice, 4 playing pieces, 82 traffic sign markers, sheet with explanations for the signs and rules.

18. Novelties 2009 ChessXpress (Green Dream) Launch Season: Summer In the following countries: Norway, England, Holland, Finland 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.

19. Novelties 2009 Catch-a-Roo (Reiner Knizia) Launch Season: Summer In the following countries: Norway, Denmark, France, Holland, Finland, Sweden Description: A fast and fun game for ages 5 years and up. The colourful kangaroos are jumping all over the place. The aim is to get as many kangaroos as possible before the cards run out. On each turn a player plays a card from his or her hand. This describes the colour of the kangaroo the player may pick up from the table or another player. When a player plays the last card from his/her hand, the game ends immediately. The one with the most kangaroos wins! Includes 50 kangaroo cards, 11 kangaroos in different colours and rules.

20. Animals of the world board game Novelties 2009 (Tactic) Launch Season: Fall In the following countries: Norway, Denmark, England, France, Finland, Sweden 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.

21. Novelties 2009 Mumbo Jumbo (Tactic) Launch Season: Fall In the following countries: Denmark, France, England 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.

22. Novelties 2009 LATTJO PÅ TIPPEN(Fun At The Dump) (Tactic) Launch Season: Fall In the following countries: Sweden (and all who are interesting) Description: In ”Lattjo på tippen” (Fun at the dump) you try to collect 6 pieces for your puzzle. In order to buy the pieces you have to manage a lot of fun challenges from the action cards like whistle a melody without laughing, balance a card on your forehead, be the first to name an animal beginning with... etc. If you succeed you win the card. On the cards there are different number of garbage sacks and you collect them to be able to buy the puzzle pieces. On each puzzle piece it says how many garbage sacks it costs. The player who first completes his puzzle is the winner. Includes game board, 100 cards, 4 puzzle boards, 4 playing pieces, 4 stands, 1 die, 1 spinner, rules

23. Novelties 2009 Party Alias (Tactic) Launch Season: Fall In the following countries: Norway, England, Holland, Denmark, France 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.

24. Novelties 2009 Chicken or Egg (Bar David) Launch Season: Back to School In the following countries: Norway, Denmark, England, France, Holland, Finland, Sweden Description: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? A fun and different trivia game where you only have to know which came first. The players travel around the game board earning trivia question cards by answering correctly to the questions. The first to collect 1 card from each category wins. This game is simple to learn and fun to play for the whole family. Includes game board, dice, 6 playing pieces, 300 cards and rules.

25. Novelties 2009 Lexico (Tactic) Launch Season: Back to School In the following countries: France, England, Holland 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.

26. Novelties 2009 Donald Duck (Tactic/Disney + Sanoma Magazine) Launch Season: Back to School In the following countries: Norway, Denmark, Holland, Sweden Description: Donald Duck is a family game where anyone can win! The players try to move their Duck characters between different well known Duckburg addresses, while at the same time trying to seize the Number One Dime, so that they can be the one to bring it to the Money Bin. As in the Duck stories, good luck and bad luck have their fingers in the game, but a knowledge about all things “Duck” can help a player to do well. The game contains 1000 questions about the ducks’ world, 250 of which are picture questions about classical Duck pictures. Includes game board, 6 playing pieces, 300 cards (250 question cards and 50 action cards), spinner, Number One Dime tokens, character tokens, character task lists and rules.

27. Novelties 2009 T-shirt game (Bar David) Launch Season: Christmas In the following countries: Norway, Holland, Finland, Sweden Description: A hilarious party game with simple game play: the aim is to match ridiculous slogans to outrageous images and create your own crazy t-shirts. The “judge” plays a t-shirt card, while everyone else throws in the best slogan card. Whether it’s funny, to the point, irrelevant, or irreverent, if the judge likes yours, you win! Includes 50 t-shirt cards, 200 slogan cards, 50 hot or not cards and rules.

28. When was the last time…? Novelties 2009 (Finnish inventor) Launch Season: Christmas In the following countries: Norway, Denmark, England, Finland, Sweden 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.

29. Novelties 2009 Spinner Domino Game (Puremco) Launch Season: Christmas In the following countries: Norway, Denmark, England, France, Holland, Finland, Sweden Description: A dynamic double 9 domino game plus 11 Spinner pieces as wild dominoes. A great combination of other domino games, with the wild Spinner dominoes used to keep the game going. This exciting and popular game was invented by Dr. and Mrs. Edna F. Graham of Abilene, Texas in 1983. 55 standard size dominoes with colored dots and 11 extra Spinner dominoes emblazoned with the bold Spinner symbol making it “wild” and playable anywhere. 2-8 players, ages 6 and up.

30. Novelties 2009 miQube (IQIdeas) Launch Season: Christmas In the following countries: Norway, Denmark, England, France, Finland 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.

31. Novelties 2009 Maxi Yatzy (Tactic) Launch Season: Christmas In the following countries: Denmark, Sweden Description: Same as the old Maxi Yatzy, but we have added 20 plastic counters which let you save re-rolls for future round.

32. Frågespelet om Sverige Pop & Rock Novelties 2009 (Tactic) Launch Season: Christmas In the following countries: Sweden Description: The music industry is one of Sweden's largest export fields. The theme Pop & Rock based on the Tactic Hit Sweden Trivia is a winner! The game idea is the same; the categories are five decades: 60-, 70-, 80-, 90- and 2000 and a sixth category “Mixed”. The questions will be about everything that concerns pop and rock: Swedish rocklegends, music writers, music managers, lyrics, song titles, concerts, hit lists etc.

33. Novelties 2009 Wine Game (Tactic) Launch Season: Christmas In the following countries: England, Sweden, Finland 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

34. Novelties 2009 Suomi-Filmi Trivia Launch Season: Christmas In the following countries: Finland Description: Trivia about old classical Finnish movies.