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Asmodee is launching its own summer competition under its new #PlayItOutdoors campaign, a movement to encourage games fans to take their favourite titles outside and stand the chance to win a £2,000 every week. With the Covid-19 pandemic leaving many families stuck largely at home this summer, Asmodee is promoting …
Read More »Asmodee UK scores marketing win for Dobble on ITV”s This Morning
Asmodee UK scored quite the marketing win for a selection of its tabletop and quick play party games last week, when it secured a prime slot on ITV’s This Morning with Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield. Its best-selling title, Dobble was highlighted as ‘the best game ever,’ in an emphatic …
Read More »British tennis star Johanna Konta reveals love of the Bananagrams game as Wimbledon takes off
Bananagrams is fast adding to its list of celebrity fans, following the discovery that the British number one tennis star Johanna Konta has a newfound obsession with the word tile game. Konta is the latest among a plethora of famous fans of the game, joining the likes of Dame Judi …
Read More »Bananagrams encourages UK and US students into wordplay with new Schools Club launch
The team behind the popular word tile game, Bananagrams has launched a new schools club initiative to encourage students across the UK and US to engage with words and wordplay – fundamental elements of the game itself. Since 2015, more than 250,000 students along with their teachers throughout the UK …
Read More »UK sales surge 35 per cent for Bananagrams under Asmodee UK watch
The fast thinking word game, Bananagrams has seen an impressive year-on-year growth for Q1 in the UK of 34.8 per cent, according to the latest NPD data. This increase in sales arrives exactly one year since Asmodee became the official UK supplier for the popular tile-placing tabletop game, which according …
Read More »Dice Academy joins Asmodee UK’s Fun Fast Games portfolio
Other games in the portfolio include the likes of Dobble, Bananagrams, Cobra Paw, Rory’s Story Cubes and Who Did It?
Read More »Bananagrams Challenge engages 45,000 UK primary school teachers and pupils
To celebrate the huge reception to the initiative, Bananagrams is asking for fans to cast their votes online for the UK 2018 Top Banana, supporting the UK’s educators that aided the campaign to success.
Read More »Asmodee secures UK distribution of Bananagrams
The full Bananagrams product portfolio will now be showcased on the Asmodee stand this London Toy Fair
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