{"id":31655,"date":"2025-11-03T19:12:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/31655\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T19:12:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:12:17","slug":"its-a-board-game-about-sanibel-beach-talk-radio-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/31655\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a Board Game About Sanibel &#8211; Beach Talk Radio News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Board-Game-e1762177052755.jpg\" data-caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Board-Game-e1762177052755.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Board Game\"\/><\/a>            <\/p>\n<p>Inspired by family trips to Sanibel Island and collecting seashells there, board game designer Elizabeth Hargrave has teamed up with Avalon Hill to create SANIBEL, a tile placement game. At the Dec. 10 SanCap Camber\u2019s monthly business meeting, the chamber will give attendees an early look at the game before it hits shelves in January.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBesides being the renowned creator of nature-based games such as Wingspan and Undergrove, Elizabeth grew up in Florida and has a special place in her heart for Sanibel,\u201d said John Lai, SanCap Chamber president and chief executive officer. \u201cWe\u2019re not the only ones excited by a game that takes players on a shelling walk along Sanibel beaches. It seems the gaming community, too, anxiously awaits this exciting launch. Sanibel\u2019s world-renowned shelling just got more famous!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hargrave plans on attending the local pre-launch party, which will run from 11:30 to 1:30 p.m. on Dec. 10 at Sundial Beach Resort on Sanibel, featuring a special guest panel from Avalon Hill, a division of Hasbro. Bank of the Islands is sponsoring the event.<\/p>\n<p>The game has players moving along the seashore, collecting shell tiles, and strategically placing them in their bags \u2014 earning points based on how they arrange them on the bag\u2019s grid. Watch the ocean waves wash more shells on the shore for you to discover, take a break at the lighthouse where you\u2019ll place special lighthouse tiles, and end your journey with a collage of watercolor shells.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis surge of publicity for Sanibel couldn\u2019t come at a better time as we continue to make headway with restoration and celebrate our 50th anniversary as a city,\u201d said Lai. \u201cI can see it becoming an important piece of island history as it goes into the new Time Capsule to be installed Jan. 10, 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe couldn\u2019t be more excited to launch SANIBEL the board game,\u201d said Brian Baker, senior vice president of board games at Hasbro. \u201cThis game captures the heart and natural beauty of the island that inspired it, and we can\u2019t wait for the people of Sanibel to experience it for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inspired by family trips to Sanibel Island and collecting seashells there, board game designer Elizabeth Hargrave has teamed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-31655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}