February 2020: the Benetton Foundation announces the Gaetano Cozzi 2020 Prize for unpublished essays on the history of game. The competition is dedicated to young scholars born after 1984. All the essays have to be submitted to the Foundation within March 15, 2020, and the winning works will be published in the specialized magazine Ludica. Annali di storia e civiltà del gioco.
February 2020: previewed in Nuremberg also the new game by Gabriele Bubola, coming from the last edition of Premio Archimede and published by Mandoo Games. Expected release in April.
February 2020: Haba released the new game of Cielo d'Oro, based on the ingenious internal design of the board. Players must help animals to recover their treasures, hidden on the treetops, developing eye memory and strategic movement.
February 2020: moses. Verlag released Die Verlassene Bibliothek, a new game by Leo Colovini. A pocket escape room, where players must solve many puzzles while into an abandoned library to unlock the exit door.
Nuremberg, January 2020: 6 games by studiogiochi have been presented at Spielwarenmesse 2020... and of course the usual exaggeration of meetings, presentations and, of course, celebrations.
28 January 2020: Kangourou Italia, together with studiogiochi, the City of Venice and local Hard Rock Cafe,
took mathematical games to Venice. Kangourou mathematic contest involved 12 teams of students from high schools of the Veneto Region.
25 January 2020: De Toffoli's column on Enigmistica24 (Sole24Ore's bi-weekly supplement) deals today
with the problems of our lagoon, which can be seen as an example of the reckless way the entire world is ruled. Click on title to see all the issues.
Udine, 16 January 2020: registration is now open for the next Mental Calculation Italian Championship, that will be held in Udine at high school A. Malignani Saturday 5th September 2020 at 1:30 p.m.