A new look: exercise books, chalkboards, a jungle and a school desk

Six games on ComCom Games have a new look today. Nothing about how they play has changed, and every rule is the same as before. They just look more like the games you know from school and home.

What changed?

• Dots and Boxes is drawn on a page of an exercise book, with blue lines and a red margin. Your lines are ink, and every box you close gets your initial, written in by hand.
• Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe is chalk on a classroom blackboard. The boards you can play in are ringed in yellow chalk, and a board you win gets a big chalk X or O.
• Sudoku is on puzzle paper: printed numbers to start, your numbers pencilled in orange, hearts for the mistakes you have left, and every number key shows how many of that number are still to place.
• Tigers and Goats is played in a jungle clearing, with cartoon tigers and goats on dirt paths.
• 16 Beads now has a tray beside the board for each player, holding the marbles they have taken, on a woven mat like the ones the game is played on at home.
• Pen Fight is on a real school desk, with initials carved in a heart and a pencil smiley, and you pick your pen in a pop-up before the match, where each card shows its Speed, Weight, Slide and Reach. There are four new pens too: see Pen Fight now has eight pens.

Does it change tournaments?

Only the look. 16 Beads and Pen Fight tournament matches get the new look as well, and every game works the same way it did. Try them in Friendlies, or read the rules in the Rule Book.