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The Premier Guide to Casual Board and Card Games Issue #2 - Winter 2013

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Funding

ProjectsCard Games

Role-playing Games

33% / 34%

23% / 11%

17% / 13%

Other13% / 4%

Miniatures5% / 27%

Playing Cards

5% / 3%

Wargames

3% / 7%

Dice Games1% / 1%

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67%Dice Games33%

85%Miniatures15%

53%Playing Cards47%

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Expansion 86%14%

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Expansion40%

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23% / 30%

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Stronghold Games has released many successful games, including the best-selling casual game Survive: Escape From Atlantis!, the award-winning Confusion: Espionage and Deception in the Cold War, and the thematic deck-building game, Core Worlds with its expansion, Galactic Orders. With the release of both Eurogames and light cas-ual card games, Stronghold Games is now in all segments of the market for all gamers.

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Q ueen Games didn’t star t out as a board game

publisher. In 1989, they imported Carrom tables.

When the qual i ty of those imported boards went

down, they dec ided to open a shop and manufacture

the boards themse lves . And when the popu la r i t y o f

Carrom waned a few years later, Queen thought : wel l ,

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