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Product Showcase: Board games

By Staff -- Gifts and Dec, 10/25/2006 5:30:00 AM

*Turtle*power The TMNT Movie Board Game ($15.99) features a board game designed ofNew York Citysewers and manholes and challenges for up to four players, ages 6 and up to test their ninja skills and battle the alien mob. The Briarpatch game includes 22 Turtle Power Cards, eight alien cards, 18 Daily News cards, a spinner and 4 TMNT tokens. A travel-sized, 52-count card game is also available for $5.99. www.briarpatch.comBriarpatch,Millburn,N.J.

	Perplexed London-based puzzle-based games developers Mind Candy, is bringing its card game PerplexCityto the board game aisle. The game features more than 1,200 puzzles. Players must solve these puzzles in order to collect six stones scattered acrossPerplexCity. Puzzles include optical illusions, logic, number trivia, anagrams and more. The game is recommended for two to 16 players, ages 15 and older. An expansion pack will be coming soon. The board game retails for $44.95. www.mindcandydesign.comMind Candy Design, London

Truth or Myth? Is it safe to drink cold water with a meal? Did you really believe those campfire tales? SBG/ b Equal’s Urban Myth board game faces truth against fiction.The game retails for $29.95 and is recommended for ages 12 and up. Urban Myth will test players gullibility and smarts with more than 1,000 questions. The game also includes a game board, six tokens, sic true/myth voting cards, and 700 question cards. www.playsbg.comSBG/b Equal Games, Ontario

	Wigging out! Each player can choose one of eight characters in the game of Quelf from Wiggity Bang Games. Throughout the game characters' personality shine through in cards and challenges like doing the Chicken Dance until the timer runs out or questions like 'How many fingers does a one-armed, thumbless woman have?' In addition to the eight game pieces, the game includes 550 funny Quelf cards, one game board, pencils and note pad, one die and timer and one invisible harpoon. The game is recommended for three to eight players ages 12 and up and retails for $29.95. www.wiggitybanggames.com Wiggity Bang Games, San Diego , Calif

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