A shame, really.įortunately that fate was not suffered by Wolfgang Kramer’s entertaining 6 nimmt! (Take 6 in English). Even games that are successful often go out of print in just a few years. If a game doesn’t make a splash immediately, it is usually given little marketing effort and is sent packing to the island of forgotten games.

Often a game is in print for a year or less, quickly vanishing from a company’s catalog before it has a chance to even be noticed.

There is a seeming insatiable urge to publish new games, with hundreds, if not thousands released each year. In the board gaming world, a game that has been in continuous print since 1994 is a rarity.