The always fun, always interesting Z-Man Games has a new release heading our way in June called Bridge Troll. Obviously we have an instant affinity with this game because it’s got Trolls in it.
Bidding mechanics and managing your hand of cards make up the basis for Bridge Troll. On first impression the artwork is fun and the game looks to be a lot of fun.
In Bridge Troll, you and your friends are hideous trolls who each guard a troll bridge. Each turn, you throw boulders to bid for travelers, who vary in number depending on the weather for that day. Travelers include fat merchants, pilgrims, poor monks (who make good eating), and if you are lucky, royal personages. As travelers come to your bridge, you use them to collect tolls. But watch out! Knights, bandits, dragons, and vicious Billy Goats Gruff prowl the countryside. You’ll have to use some of your boulders to chase them away (which means you’ll have fewer left to use on your bridge!).
Although you need to collect tolls from travelers so you can buy building supplies, working on your bridge makes you hungry, so you will have to eat some of your travelers instead. It is important to balance tolls with food in order to make your bridge very appealing to travelers. If you eat too many travelers or just collect money, you won’t be able to fix up your bridge. The player who uses toll-money, food, and boulders to build the most impressive troll bridge operation wins the game.
Bridge Troll was created by Alf Seegert. We hope to feature a Q&A with Alf on this game and once we get our hands on it, we’ll be publishing a complete review.
Technorati Tags: card games, zman, troll
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- Bridge Troll – the game of building bridges and eating people
- Interview with board game creator Alf Seegert and artist Ryan Laukat, the folks responsible for Bridge Troll
- We have our winners – The Bridge Troll contest
- Today is your last chance to win a copy of Bridge Troll!
- Win yourself one of two copies of Bridge Troll from Z-Man Games!
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March 26th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Looks like a cool game. When is it out?
March 28th, 2009 at 7:09 am
It is apparently coming out in June. I’ve played another of Alf’s games, and feel quite confident that this one will be great fun, an intuitive game suitable for a broad range of people to enjoy. Be sure to keep an eye out for his other games as well, especially Ziggurat. That one is a two player building game set in the Yucatan, though it’s name might be different, as I was playing a prototype.
March 28th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Excellent Jared! Bridge Troll sounds like a cool game. We’ll have more info on Bridge Troll from Alf and also from Ryan, the artist who worked on the game, in a week or two.
-Ben
April 1st, 2009 at 7:54 pm
ZMan consistently puts out good games. In fact, I’d favour them as the FFG of Euros – consistent in putting out good to great games.
May 1st, 2009 at 3:36 am
The game sounds interesting. I wish it earns got popularity in the market.
May 21st, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Thank’s For Sharing (^_^)..he.3x
May 31st, 2009 at 11:34 am
This looks like a cool game.
Hope it’ll become popular.
June 10th, 2009 at 11:15 am
your game has a great concept, as a big fan of free online games and espicially card games, liked your site and would pay it a visit.
keep on writing updating us regarding your game.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
I did not know of this game until now. Thanks for the information I will have to go check this one out. Looks like a great game.
June 12th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
thanks…it seems good :)
June 16th, 2009 at 5:53 am
This game seems rather interesting, I first thought since this was a card game and all, it hand something to do with the actual “bridge”-card game..but guess not lol..
But it does seem interesting though..Hopefully I’ll be playing it soon :)
June 17th, 2009 at 12:21 am
i am excited and waiting for this game.
June 30th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
It is apparently coming out in June. I’ve played another of Alf’s games, and feel quite confident that this one will be great fun, an intuitive game suitable for a broad range of people to enjoy. Be sure to keep an eye out for his other games as well, especially Ziggurat. That one is a two player building game set in the Yucatan, though it’s name might be different, as I was playing a prototype.
July 14th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Good blog and nice game, thanks for share.
July 15th, 2009 at 9:15 am
Thank you very good
July 15th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
Certainly looks like an interesting game. Funny I didn’t come across it earlier. but certainly worth a try it seems. Thanks a bunch for the information. Cheers
July 17th, 2009 at 11:28 am
Very nice pictures. Like from my dreams
July 20th, 2009 at 10:13 am
They are very good pictures of this game, play espeor soon and give a more concrete opinion on it. Thanks for sharing.
August 1st, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Looks very entertaining. I doubt that I would be any good at hurling rocks, and I suspect I would be devoured quickly by the passing bandits and dragons. Oh well….
August 14th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
where i can download this game? thx
August 24th, 2009 at 7:15 am
Great. I love the game. It really is awesome. Any idea where I can download them?? Thanks. Cheers
September 3rd, 2009 at 9:52 am
Thanks for the post.
Will subscribe to your blog for sure!
September 7th, 2009 at 8:40 am
Card games has always been popular. Now let’s take a look how cool those cards realy are and how good they sell…
September 13th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
Thank you man
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September 28th, 2009 at 9:38 am
great game …. can it be downloaded?
October 11th, 2009 at 10:39 am
Just wanted to point out that this game can not be downloaded because it is a card game/board game. Follow the Zman Games or Troll Bridge link in the post to find all the details about the game and how to purchase it.
It looks great BTW!
Marvin
October 27th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Will subscribe to your blog for sure!
can it be downloaded?
October 27th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
Well that looks really cool. I haven’t tied it out though. But I simply love card games. Uno is my most favorite. Thanks for the information. I’ll check it out n a local; store.
January 17th, 2010 at 8:17 am
Really cool game. Is it available for Mac or not?