Crossroads is a new series from Plaid Hat Games that tests a group of survivors' ability to work together and stay alive while facing crises and challenges from both outside and inside.

Dead of Winter is the first game in this series, designed by Isaac Vega and Jon Gilmour. It puts 2-5 players together in a small, weakened colony of survivors in a world where most of humanity are either dead or diseased, flesh-craving monsters. Each player leads a faction of survivors with dozens of different characters in the game.

Dead of Winter is a meta-cooperative psychological survival game. This means players are working together toward one common victory condition—but for each individual player to achieve victory, they must also complete their personal secret objective. This secret objective could relate to a psychological tick that’s fairly harmless to most others in the colony, a dangerous obsession that could put the main objective at risk, a desire for sabotage of the main mission, or worst of all: vengeance against the colony! Certain games could end with all players winning, some winning and some losing, or all players losing. Work toward the group’s goal but don’t get walked all over by a loudmouth who’s only looking out for their own interests! Dead of Winter is an experience that can only be accomplished through the medium of tabletop games. It is a story-centric game about surviving through a harsh winter in an apocalyptic world. The survivors are all dealing with their own psychological imperatives but must still find a way to work together to fight off outside threats, resolve crises, find food and supplies, and keep the colony’s morale up.

Dead of Winter has players making frequent, difficult, heavily- thematic, wildly-varying decisions, that often have them deciding between what is best for the colony and what is best for themselves.

Hier dreht sich alles darum, sich Wörter auszudenken, die schwer zu knacken sind, sowie um das schlaue Kombinieren von Hinweisen, um das geheime Wort der anderen zu finden.

Decipher ist ein ganz besonderes Wörter-Deduktionsspiel für 2 - 4 Spieler. Ihr benutzt Buchstabenteile in vier verschiedenen Formen, um Wörter zu bauen und zu erraten.
In jeder Runde baut ein anderer Spieler ein geheimes Wort. Die anderen kennen lediglich die Teile, aus denen es besteht, und sammeln durch Fragen nach und nach Informationen über deren Position im Wort. Wer findet das geheime Wort zuerst?

Das Letter Piece Game-System ist eine besondere Art, Buchstaben aus Teilen in vier Grundformen zu bauen. Die Idee zu diesem Letter Piece Game stammt von den Wordsmith-Autoren Bill Eberle, Greg Olotka, Peter Olotka und Jack Kittredge, die für Spiele wie Cosmic Encounter, Dune, Hoax und mehr bekannt sind.

Wie schon bei Wordsmith spielt man Decipher mit halbtransparenten Kunststoffteilen, die besonders gut in der Hand liegen und zum Spielen im besten Sinne animieren. Durch einen besonderen Kunststoffeinsatz wird auch hier die Spielschachtel Teil des Spiels.