Of all the boxes I brought back from Essen 2025, this is the one that threw me the most. Not the deepest, not the most ambitious, but by far the most unusual. Red Carpet, published by Devir, asks something of you that no other game on my shelf does: take out your phone, set it on a tripod at the edge of the board, and take a real photograph. Not a symbolic photo, not a card representing a photo. A photo, the one that will still be in your camera roll after the game. The first

It was at Essen, in the hall of the Asian publishers, that Tatiana put this little game in my hands. One round, and I was sold. The trouble is that I could not tell you about it right away: I had to wait for its French localisation, now handled by Pixie Games, and that wait was long, because this game, very quickly, I loved. Since then I have brought it out in front of very different groups, and every time it is an instant hit. The wildest part is that it works even when peop