Designer Phil Walker-Harding self-published Sushi Go! in 2013 through his Adventureland Games brand, then the game was picked up by Gamewright (and other publishers) in 2014, and it's been in print ever since. Despite multiple spin-offs released in the past decade — Sushi Go Party! in 2016, Sushi Roll in 2019, and Sushi Go!: Spin Some for Dim Sum in 2023 — the sushi well hasn't run dry and a new standalone game will debut at Gen Con 2026 before hitting retail outlets in the second half of 2026.
Sushi Go Party!: Chef's Special has more than 25 new sushi that are ready to be drafted by 2-8 players, and many of the new cards score based on how your holdings compare to those of your neighbors.
Note that the printing on the cards above is not final. Many of the sushi names, such as "Pickled Radish" in the lower right, are fuzzy and hard to read; "Fugu" and other cards in that plastic pack have square corners.
Still, I thought I'd show off what's coming and let folks guess how to interpret some of these cards, such as "Lotus Chips" on the right of the third row. The cards are numbered 1-16, and the card says "Discard if not in order". Do you discard only a single out-of-order card? Or everything you have? The "Mochi" cards use the dice, and the card says "Must roll"...and then?!
The box is the large square KOSMOS size, with lots of space in the tray for other cards to be carried around inside, and cards from various sets can be used together to make the menu to your liking.
Another upcoming game being shown in the Buffalo Games booth at Toy Fair NY 2026 was Qwixx Duel, with this being an English-language version of Steffen Benndorf's Qwixx: Das Duell, which debuted in Germany in 2016.
Qwixx Duel is played similarly to Qwixx except that only one player places tokens in a turn. More specifically, you roll the six dice, then optionally place a token ona space that matches the sum of the two white dice — but only if you have no token of your color to the right of this space on the same track. Next, you can choose a colored die and a white dice, then place a token on the sum of these two numbers, with the sample placement restriction as above.
In Qwixx, each player has their own game board, but here you two share the board, and if I've already placed on, say, 2, 4, 6, and 7 yellow, then you can place only on 3, 5, and higher than 7 — except that the rightmost token in a color is treated differently than all others. If a lone token of my color is rightmost, you can replace my token with yours if you roll the right combination; however, I can can place additional tokens one by one on the rightmost token if it's my color, and once I have two tokens on a space, you can't bump me off.
Your goal: Place lots of tokens in a single row because at game's end you score each color based on the number of your tokens in it.
Qwixx Duel is due out in Q4 2026.
Let's close with a puzzle and...a non-puzzle. Noodle Maze is a classic logic puzzle design that matches many others on the market. To set up, slide a card showing pairs of colored dots into a plastic grid. Take the plastic noodles that match the colors on the card, then place each noodle so that its endpoints are on the dots, with all of the interior bits of the noodles filling in all white space in the grid.
Color Sort is more of a dexterity challenge or fidget toy than a puzzle. Place a grid inside the plastic grid to show how all of the colored spheres should be arranged in the columns. If you tilt the device vertically, you can watch the spheres fall into columns where they probably shouldn't be, but by pushing up a white disc in a column, you can eject one or more spheres into the reserve hold once again. Keep pushing the spheres and letting them fall until the pattern of the spheres matches that of the card.
Want a love seat made from dozens of Stitch-branded Squishmallows? Then you better haul butt to Toy Fair NY before it closes on Tuesday, February 17 and see whether you can convince the manufacturer to sell it to you.
Or buy said Stitches yourself and give it a go.
