GenCan't 2020: The Dice Puzzle Answers

This was pretty simple... identify the games that use the custom dice above. 

One participant got all nine correct - congratulations to Chris S.!

Upper left corner: Dice Settlers

• Which, by the way, is an excellent solo game... especially when you add in the Western Sea expansion modules.
• 29% got this one right.

Upper middle: Impact: Battle of Elements

• This is the U.S. reprint of Strike, which is being reprinted yet again with a Harry Potter theme. It’s a fantastic dice-chucking game that has been a hit with pretty much everyone who has played it.
• 12% got this one right... one of the toughest dice to identify.

Upper right corner: Animal Upon Animal

• Best. Family. Stacking. Game. Ever. 
• In a dead heat with Rhino Hero Super Battle (also a HABA game) for best family dexterity game.
• 41% got this one right... even with the gator "smudged" by the camera.

Middle row left: Ghost Fightin’ Treasure Hunters

• Great components and easy-to-learn rules make this an excellent family cooperative game… and it’s pretty brutal. We don’t win very often, so when we do it’s time to celebrate!
• 53% got this one right.

Middle row center: Duelosaur Island

• The two-player version of Dinosaur Island…
• I did accept Dinosaur Island as a correct answer as well. I’m not a monster.
• 76% got this one right... but only 12% had Duelosaur Island.

Middle row right: Sushizock im Gockelwock

• I thought that this would probably be the toughest die to figure out, as the game did not get a big U.S. release.
• This is a cousin to Knizia’s Pickomino (I still like Heckmeck im Brautweck better as a name)… in this one, you are trying to eat sushi while only just enough fish bones.
• 24% got this one right... I was wrong.

Bottom row left: Hit Z Road

• Criminally underappreciated zombie auction game, with some of the most incredible production/graphic design – it’s a game “designed” by a kid who has to take a cross-country trip to dodge the zombie apocalypse and makes a game out of whatever pieces are lying around. The Easter eggs in the design are a lot of fun…
• …but the game underneath all that coolness is really good as well.
• 12% got this one right... and it had the best made-up answer: "Shooty lightning ghosts".

Bottom row center: Powerships

• Again, due to my non-monster status, I accepted Powerboats as a correct answer, since they both use the same die.
• I like Powerships better… a great push-your-luck racing game with nifty twists and actual strategy.
• 35% got this one right... but no one guessed Powerships.

Bottom row right: Roll Player (Fiends & Familiars)

• The most recent custom die in my collection… 
• I think you need one or both expansions to take Roll Player from good to great.
• 18% got this one right.