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‘Game of Oreos’

‘Thrones’ tie-in with cookie to hit shelves

- BY GINA SALAMONE

More coveted than the Iron Throne, “Game of Thrones” Oreos are nearly here.

The themed sandwich cookies arrive Monday and will be available wherever Oreos are normally sold for a limited time until they sell out.

From a distance, the treats look like ordinary Oreos with their circular chocolate wafer outsides and white cream filling. But take a closer look and you’ll see that they’re embossed with four different images. Three represent some of the Great Houses fighting for the Iron Throne, House Lannister, House Targaryen and House Stark, while a fourth one features the face of the Night King, who’s the leader of the enemy White Walkers.

The cookies honoring houses are each stamped with sigils, a lion for the Lannisters, a direwolf for the Starks, and three dragons for the Targaryens.

If you can’t wait to indulge, whet your appetite for the Oreos — and the hit HBO show’s final season that premieres April 14 — by watching the “Game of Thrones” opening credits sequence recreated from the cookies and posted on YouTube. It features 2,750 Oreos crafted into rising castles on a snowy landscape of Oreo cream.

The nearly all-black packaging for the limited time sweets boasts a standard Oreo seated on the Iron Throne. As fans of the show know, whoever sits on the Iron Throne rules over the fictional continent of Westeros.

HBO also dropped three new trailers for the final season of the blockbuste­r series Monday and Tuesday. The most ominous one, titled “Aftermath,” is an imagined look at what happens at Winterfell castle after the living battle the dead. And by the looks of it, things don’t go well for the good guys.

The camera sweeps through the snow-covered castle and slowly reveals prized pieces of our favorite characters strewn about and partially buried. We see Tyrion Lannister’s (Peter Dinklage) Hand of the Queen pin, Arya Stark’s (Maisie Williams) sword Needle, Brandon Stark’s (Isaac Hempstead Wright) broken wheelchair, Jaime Lannister’s (Nikolaj CosterWald­au) gold hand and Jon Snow’s (Kit Harington) sword — but no trace of the characters themselves.

Fear not, though. HBO tells the Daily News this particular trailer “contains no show footage.”

 ?? MACALL B. POLAY/COURTESY OF HBO/ ?? Emilia Clarke stars as Daenerys Targaryen in “Game of Thrones,” which has partnered with Oreos to bring images from the show (above) to the sandwich cookies.
MACALL B. POLAY/COURTESY OF HBO/ Emilia Clarke stars as Daenerys Targaryen in “Game of Thrones,” which has partnered with Oreos to bring images from the show (above) to the sandwich cookies.

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