Company News

Wattsalpoag moves into new office

(Issaquah, WA -- January 2010) Wattsalpoag has opened a new office in Issaquah, Washington. Setting up the office has been going on since November 2009, keeping the staff busy buying furniture, setting up electrical lines, installing software and many other tasks. But now, in mid-January, the office is finally fully functional. Along with the new address comes a new phone number.

The new address and phone numbers are:

Wattsalpoag Games
1595 NW Gilman Blvd, suite 7
Issaquah, WA 98027

phone: (425)677-7628
fax: (425)677-7983

Jet Set Expansion cards released at Spiel '09 in Essen

(Essen, Germany -- October 22, 2009) Two sets of expansion cards for Wattsalpoag's hit game Jet Set were released to the public at Spiel '09 in Essen, Germany. The cards were a small taste of a larger expansion set planned for release in 2010. The cards - Business and Investor cards - contained English text only, and were available for 1 Euro, or free for anyone who bought Jet Set at the fair.

The Investor cards provide an infusion of money twice during the game: each time a Vacation card is turned up. The Business cards allow players a one time benefit - from extra planes to points at the end of the game. Other elements of the expansion set (not in the packet available at Spiel '09) will include Hub cities and Intercontinental flights. Any flight you claim that goes through one of your hub cities will get you extra income or victory points. Intercontinental flights are longer and more expensive, but provide you with consistently high income as well as lots of points at the end of the game.

Even though the expansion cards on offer in Essen were in English only, the show saw a new level of internationalization for Wattsalpoag. For the first time, Jet Set was available with rules and reference cards in three languages (English, French, and German) inside the box. This will be the new standard for Wattsalpoag, with all future releases being multilingual, starting with the reprint of our popular Claim It! game. Claim It! sold out the last of its initial run of 1000 games at Spiel '09, and a second edition is now in the planning stage.