The Hawke’s Bay Today have today featured Five Men Standing on page 5 of their newspaper. A fabulous story with some insights into the development of the game and a great photo of a game in action.
The full article can also be found here.
Dec 152010
Dec 122010
The Wairarapa Midweek had a fabulous article on Five Men Standing, succinctly written by Kerri Bowling. We’ve been politely hassled by our friends for being featured on the front page- the joys of being world famous in Carterton!
Here’s the article, with text below:
As the world counts down to the 2011 Rugby World Cup, a Carterton couple is hoping to bring some of the action into homes. Kerri Bowling reports.
Minty Hunter and Bek Farr have teamed up with Andrew Baker, from Hawke’s Bay company IQ Ideas, to co-produce and co-invent a board game called Five Men Standing – the official game of the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
Dec 062010
If you love rugby, there’s a good chance you also love winning. And we’ve got $250 and 5 games up for grabs; all you need to do to win is upload the most creative or interesting photo of the Five Men Standing game. Head over to our forum to find out more!
Dec 062010
Mainly Toys in Mount Eden are a speciality toy and game store that’s been voted Metro’s Best Game Store for 4 years running, so they obviously know good games.
You can imagine how delighted we were that they sold out of Five Men Standing in less than a week, and have zipped in another order to get stock back into store.
It’s good to see our master plan on track. It starts in Mount Eden, spreads out to sold-out stores around the country, before moving to the big western isle of Oz, and thence onto total world domination. And I for one welcome our plastic rugby-figure overlords:
Samoa Country Team Pack - just part of the planned world domination!
Join us by securing your copy of the Five Men Standing game or any of the 20 country team packs!