Passport Game Studios has partnered with Finland’s LudiCreations to produce English versions of two of their games:  Operation:  Kindergarten and Town Center, both scheduled to release on March 11.

In Operation:  Kindergarten, the players are kindergarten teachers desperately trying to keep their children safely in their classrooms, while disrupting their fellow teachers’ efforts to do the same.  Players control the movement of their children and their teacher’s actions through a dice placement mechanic.

The game includes 5 wooden people, 24 wooden cubes, 52 wooden discs, 12 dice, 2 cloth bags, 2 game boards, and 60 tiles.  Operation:  Kindergarten is for 2 - 4 players, ages 12 and up, and plays in about an hour.  MSRP is $55.00.

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Town Center challenges players to build their own tiny town using wooden cubes on their personal board.  The cube colors represent different types of building modules:  flats, shops, offices, parking lots, and so on, which can be built or stacked on top of each other.  Larger and taller cities are worth more victory points, but only if the required city services can be delivered.  This is the fourth edition of this game.

The game includes 4 double-sided player boards, 16 player cubes, 1 double-sided central board which can also be used for solitaire play, 1 cloth bag, and 123 building cubes.  Town Center is for 1 - 4 players (but two copies can be combined to allow up to 8), for ages 12 and up, plays in about an hour.  MSRP is $55.00.

Later this month, Passport plans to release Food Chain Magnate, from Dutch publisher Splotter (see “‘Food Chain Magnate’”).