The legendary stories of the One Thousand and One Nights are the inspiration for the new tile game Shahrazad, which Osprey Games will release on May 23.

In Shahrazad, one or two players working together trying to help Shahrazad pass another night with the sultan by combining elements of classic fairy tales, represented in the game by tiles.  By adding related tiles together on the growing tableau, the players earn more points, but care must be taken that the stories are told in the right order, or their playing options will be limited very quickly.

Shahrazad was created by Japanese game designer You Ogasawara and features artwork by Kotori Neiko.  It comes with 22 large story tiles and two scoring tiles.  The game is designed for 1 or 2 players, ages 8 and up, and plays in under 20 minutes.  MSRP is $20.00.

Osprey recently announced plans for a print collection of materials for its fantasy miniatures game, Frostgrave (see “Osprey Collects ‘Frostgrave’ PDFs in Print”).