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An Inside Look at the 2018 Toy of the Year Awards

Game of the Year

Beasts of Balance
Beasts of Balance is an award-winning augmented reality stacking game of dexterity, strategy and creation. Players take on the role of Divine Creators, tasked to play solo or with friends to build worlds and reach high scores by stacking magical Artefacts into incredible towers. But this is no standard dexterity game – everything added to the tower interacts with a world that evolves on a wirelessly connected digital device. To succeed, players have to keep their tower and the ecosystem of their world in balance, stacking all 24 pieces and caring for the virtual beasts they create.

 

Boom Blast Stix

Boom Blast Stix from Moose Games is the only explosive high stakes stacking game featuring sensitive, interlocking springs that when stacked together can go-off at any time, testing players’ mental and physical skills and ultimately, their nerves.

 

Happy Salmon
Happy Salmon is the fast-paced card game that gets everyone moving and laughing in under two minutes. Players simultaneously call out the actions “High-5”, “Pound It”, “Switcheroo”, and “Happy Salmon.” When two players match, they celebrate by performing the action and discarding their card. The first player to discard of all their cards wins!

 

HEARING THINGS
Inspired by the online viral whisper challenge sensation, the HEARING THINGS game is all about the challenge of reading lips while laughing hysterically! Players wear speech-canceling headphones and do their best to guess the phrase on the cards by reading their teammate’s lips! The team with the most cards at the end of the game wins!

 

Roller Coaster Challenge
Roller Coaster Challenge is a single player ‘thrill ride building game.’ You’re given 40 challenges, and the solution to each requires that you build a roller coaster. These engineering challenges help players understand physics and logic concepts, all while watching a coaster glide down the track, complete with dips, curves, and loops!

 

WINNER: Soggy Doggy
It’s the showering, shaking doggy bathing game! Players race around the board washing Soggy Doggy, but watch out – if he shakes, a player gets a little wet then they go back to the start. Be the first to make it around the board to the doggy basket to win!

 

Ultra Dash
In response to the active game trend, Ultra Dash is an exciting game that gets kids up and moving! Set out the targets to design your course, press the button on the electronic tagger to choose game mode, and then race to match the color of the light flashes with the targets! The tagger scores on accuracy, and game play cues are all visuals and sounds!

 


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