“Newsboys” is a 1-4 player board game about paperboys in Brooklyn, New York in the 1890's. Players take on the role of boys selling newspapers. On one hand you must expand your area to each block, while at the same time fighting for wage increases & better working conditions through strikes against the newspaper company. Can you sell lots papers while standing up for your Newsboys' rights?

Newsboys

Come Sail Away! is a board game for 1 to 4 players in which you will compete to board passengers upon your luxury liner, bringing them to their favourite cabins and facilities. Players can enjoy a deliciously thoughtful and brightly illustrated game that is simple to learn yet always challenging.

Come Sail Away!

The third version of our signature Saashi & Saashi board game bag. With even more attention to detail, we’ve stuffed this design full of ideas and everything we wanted from a bag for board games, in our pursuit of the perfect way to carry them. We’ve improved the top pocket, added stitching to the side to make it much easier to use, and created a whole new piece of art for the design.

Board Game Bag（Black-Orange）

Board Game Bag（Black-Gray）

Build the best bus lines in London and New York! Meet the demands of your important passengers, deftly avoid making traffic jams, and grow your bus route to make the finest bus line in town. To get the most points you’ll need to plan the ideal route through every destination point as you turn over cards, board passengers, and complete your objectives. It’s the perfect game to pick up and play with your friends and family. With a new, double-sided map, you can play in both London and New York!

GET ON BOARD：NEW YORK&LONDON Japanese ver.

The Original Saashi & Saashi Bookmark Collection. Includes 4 bookmarks, each featuring different box art. Made from thin yet flexible plastic, they won’t bulk out your books and are sturdy enough to use over and over again. Add some Saashi & Saashi to your reading!

Original Bookmark Collection

In "Before the Guests Arrive" you do your best to tidy up a messy house for a party. Whoever cleans up the best wins! It's built around 2 simple rules: Collect Cards & Tidy Up. Easy rules and a short play time make it so you can jump right into the fun. Try to help Tidy Up before the party as best as you can, all the while knowing that the Guests could be here at any minute. 

Before the Guests Arrive

COFFEE ROASTER is a solo board game. Get your coffee beans to the perfect roast level by resourcefully using effects on the Roast board and three kinds of Flavor tokens: Body, Acidity, and Aroma. But be careful, the process is more complex than it sounds... Roast the beans for too long and you’ll burn them—the batch will be ruined! You have to use your best judgment to finish each roast at just the right time.

COFFEE ROASTER  dlp games edition Japanese ver.

“Let’s Make a Bus Route: The Dice Game” is a board game for 1-2 players. By drawing on the map board with an erasable pen, each player extends their own bus route. It ontains 2 maps, each with their own characteristics.  Who can roll out the best bus route?

Let’s Make a Bus Route: The Dice Game

Each player is a jazz musician in a fierce competition of musical prowess taking place on the stage. The most important part of music is the harmony. More than have good cards or bad cards, you'll need to tune in to the surrounding harmonies, keep your eye on victory, and play it by ear.

‘Take the A Chord’ New Edition

“Wind the Film!” is a half-frame-camera-photography themed card game. You grab your half-size camera and head for the street! While some daylight still remains, try to capture on film some images in your own style. Choose your shot’s subject. Wind your film, and snap the shutter at the perfect moment. These details develop into your original composition. Make just the right choices, and avoid costly photographic blunders.

Wind the Film!

“Remember Our Trip” is a board game in which players will recreate a map of a city they visited together. After returning to your own country, you the players have gotten together and are trying to recall the map of either Kyoto or Singapore.

Remember Our Trip

"In Front of the Elevators" is a card game where you compete to get more of your family members in the front of the elevator line at the department store. With just a few rules and a hand of only 2 cards a light-playing and enjoyable experience is created. Despite its light mood there are interesting developments in store as the game unfolds.

In Front of the Elevators

“Let’s Make a Bus Route” is a 2-5 player board game where players draw bus routes on a map of Kyoto. You play the role of a bus company employee tasked with making a new bus route.

Let’s make a Bus Route

The Kyoto City Bus Service, which started operation in 1928, will celebrate its 90th anniversary in 2018. "Let's make a Bus Route Kyoto Municipal Transportation Bureau 90th Anniversary Edition" is a limited edition version of "Let's make a Bus Route", a board game in which players draw bus routes on a map of Kyoto.

Let’s make a Bus Route Kyoto Municipal Transportation Bureau 90th Anniversary Edition

“BLEND COFFEE Lab.” is a trick-taking card game about pairing roasted coffee beans to make delicious coffee blends. Each player is a worker in the coffee lab, tirelessly working day and night researching coffee blending. Pursue a unique, harmonious flavor, keeping current trends in mind.

BLEND COFFEE Lab.

Coffee Roaster is a 1-player board game with a coffee roasting theme. The player works a coffee roaster to make flavorful coffee. Tokens are placed in a cloth bag and each turn tokens are pulled out to represent continued roasting. As a coffee roaster you must determine the best time to stop the roast to hit the target roast level and produce the most flavorful coffee. 

COFFEE ROASTER

Take The “A” Chord is a jazz-themed trick-taking game. Players, as jazz musicians, demonstrate their musical skills on stage.  In this competition through jazz music performance with feelings, such as Bluesy, Lyrical, Soulful, Earthy, and Swingy, you need to do more than to simply pursue victory.  If your performance deviates from the harmony with your band, you will fail to entertain the audience.

Take the A Chord

Our signature Saashi & Saashi Small Board Games Pouch. It’s the perfect size to fit four small Saashi & Saashi games and is designed with cushioning in mind so you can use it as a bag within your bag! Soft to the touch, this pouch feels great to hold.

Small Board Games Pouch（Navy Blue）

Small Board Games Pouch（Black）

Small Board Games Pouch（Red）

The third installment features Seiji Kanai of Kanai-Factory and Kawasaki Factory‘s Susumu Kawasaki. These extended interviews with two incredibly experienced, well-seasoned designers focus on the creative habits we can glimpse through their characteristic differences. These interviews took the longest of the series. The printed edition contains 80% of the whole manuscript, while the note edition contains the full script.

Creative Habits Vol. 3（Seiji Kanai・Susumu Kawasaki）

The second installment features I was game‘s Masato Uesugi and Takashi Sakaue of Product Arts. Both designers are the creators of their own unique games, but they also both live in Nagoya and have released works in collaboration. These extended interviews focus on the creative habits we can glimpse through the two designers’ characteristic differences.

Creative Habits Vol. 2（Masato Uesugi・Takashi Sakaue）

The first installment features OKAZU brand‘s Hisashi Hayashi, and Koota Yamada of imagine GAMES. Read about the mindset and routines for game creation in these extended interviews with each designer. The setup is similar to a standardized questionnaire, and the focus is on the creative habits that we can glimpse in their individual characteristics.

Creative Habits Vol. 1（Hisashi Hayashi ・Koota Yamada）

The second version of our signature Saashi & Saashi Board Game Bag. With even more attention to detail, we’ve stuffed this design full of every idea and everything we wanted from a bag for board games, in our pursuit of the perfect way to carry them.

Board Game Bag（Navy Blue-Red）

Board Game Bag（Yellow-Gray）

Our signature Saashi & Saashi Board Game Bag. In our pursuit of the perfect way to carry games, we’ve stuffed this design full of every idea and everything we wanted from a bag for board games.

Players	Playtime	Ages	Languages
1-4	20min	10+

Newsboys

Newsboys

Newsboys

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