Mayday Games has announced five new games it plans to release over the next several months:  Five Seals of Magic, Macroscope, Bucket King 3D, Rooster Rush, and Cha Dango.

Originally released by Hobby World in 2014, Five Seals of Magic is the first published design by Thorsten Reichwein.  Mayday will release its version of the game at Gen Con in August.

Would-be sorcerers race through the halls of the mysterious Arcana Tower hoping to collect the magical scrolls of the ancient enchanters.  The game comes with six double-sided game board pieces, 24 dice, 15 stand-up cardboard counters, 130 tiles, and 120 tokens.  Five Seals of Magic is intended for 2 to 5 players, ages 10 and up, and plays in under an hour.

Piecing together clues and guessing the identity of the hidden picture is the theme for Macroscope, by designer Martin Nedergaard Anderson (Spit It Out!, Voodoo Mania), scheduled for an Origins release in June.  Players roll dice to determine which “window” they can open on the 3-dimensional Macroscope game-board-slash-picture-box, revealing a portion of the illustration below.  Points are scored by correctly guessing the identity of the image in as few moves as possible.

Macroscope includes 64 plastic crystals, 200 picture cards, the Macroscope box, 12 window tokens, 2 dice, and markers.  This game supports 2 to 6 players, ages 6 and up, and takes half an hour to play.

Veteran designer Stefan Dorra’s (Medina) Bucket King 3D was announced late last year (see “‘Gaijin Dash!’ and ‘Bucket King 3D’”), and Mayday has revealed new artwork for this dexterity-based stacking game.  This game will come with 60 plastic buckets and 80 cards packaged in a box with a bucket-revealing window.  Bucket King 3D is designed for 2 to 6 players, ages 8 and up, and can be played in half an hour or less.

Also announced last year was a game by Antoine Bauza (7 Wonders) and Corentin Lebrat (Takenoko:  Chibis) with the title Gaijin Dash! (see link above).  This title has since been rethemed and retitled as Rooster Rush with new artwork by Sergi Marcet (The Manhattan Project, Dungeon Run).  It is intended for 3 to 6 players, ages 7 and up, and takes only 15 minutes to play.

Finally, Mayday has teased a game by Jason Lin and Frank Liu (creators of Sweet Nose) about tea called Cha Dango.  This 2 to 6 player game comes with 5 tea cup tokens and 55 cards, and is intended for ages 5 and up.