With Lots of Cool Art

Renegade Games has announced three games for spring release: Kitty Paw, Bullfrogs, and Apotheca.

Kitty Paw, by Taiwanese designer Aza Chen, is a dexterity and reaction game for 1-4 players, ages 6 and up. Played in 15-30 minutes, all players act simultaneously in this recognize-and-react game in which seven cats run into cardboard boxes, creating a crazy game of kitty hide-and-seek.

Players win by accumulating the most Victory Points, which are scored by completing the kitty combinations shown on the Kitty cards. Players get one Kitty card in each round and try to be the first to create the patterns on the cards.

Box contents include 28 Kitty tiles (four each in seven kitty types), 4 box cards, 8 cat box cards, 48 Kitty cards, and Rules. Release is planned for March at a MSRP of $20.

Renegade plans two more 2016 releases by Chen, with the details to be announced at the GAMA Trade Show.

Bullfrogs, the “strategy game of amphibian combat” designed by Keith Matejka, was funded as a Kickstarter project in April 2014 ($30,105, about double the funding level), with backers’ orders fulfilled last January.

This quick area control game of tactical combat is for 2-4 players ages 8 and up, and plays in 20-40 minutes. Players command competing clans to gain dominance over the pond by deploying sabotaging and jumping frogs on an ever-changing pond of lily pads. Play is turn-based, with players playing a card and taking amphibian action.

Bullfrogs box contents include 8 Bullfrogs Meeples (2 each in 4 different colors), 56 Frog Meeples (14 each in 4 different colors), 49 Lily Pad Cards (4 decks), and a rulebook. Release is planned for March at $30 MSRP.

Apotheca is from Knapsack Games, the publishing outlet for designer Andrew Federspiel; Renegade announced an overall deal with Knapsack last summer (see “ Renegade Adds Knapsack Games ”). The game, for 2-4 players ages 13 and up, plays in 30 minutes. It was funded at $112,651 via Kickstarter earlier this year.

Players are apprentices given a chance to enter Apotheca, the secret potion society, by competing for the Apothecaries, the cutthroat members. Apprentices win by being the first to make three potions, devising plans by hiding ingredients in the marketplace, revealing secrets to collect precious gems, and recruiting powerful apothecaries to do their bidding.

Game contents include 1 Market Board, 15 Apothecary (tarot-sized) cards, 4 Apothecary Stations, 4 Player Reference Cards, 45 Potion Tiles, 45 Unique Acrylic Gems, 1 Extra Action Token, 3 Decree Tokens, and a rulebook. Release is planned for April at $40 MSRP.

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