German retailer Spielmaterial.de, which sells pawns, tokens, gameboards and other game-related material, has purchased a large quantity of game components from the 1999 Kosmos release Giganten and is now holding a game design competition to find new ways to use these bits. A proposed design can add other materials such as cards and gameboards, but it must use all of most of the bits from Giganten. Top rated proposals, as judged by the local gaming club in Mönchengladbach, Germany, will receive store credit, while the best submission will receive an offer to publish the game.
You can pick up a sample pack of the components at the Spielmaterial.de booth (9-33) at Spiel 08, or you can request a copy by mail for a shipping charge fee. Details of the competition, as well as a picture of the components, are available on the Spielmaterial.de website.
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I think they mean each player gets 5 oil rigs(in four colors), 4 cars in four colors, 3+ oil barrles, and 4 trains in 4 colors, not to forget 1+ black trains. This would add up to 56, so maybe there are extra black pieces.
Lucas