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Trekking (Trekking Through History)

Island-hopping is a thing of the past. The future of tourism lies in visiting historically important events in time. Discuss the art of war over breakfast in 506 BCE with the Chinese general Sun Tzu, then take afternoon tea with Marie Curie in 1911, before enjoying an evening at the legendary Live Aid concert with

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2024

Trek 12: Himalaja

The Himalaya mountain range forms the unusual backdrop to this clever and tactical dice game, with famous locations such as Sarangkot serving as score sheets with various degrees of difficulty. Each round, players must roll two dice showing results between 0 and 6 and make a result from these. The unique part is that players

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2022

Challengers!

“Challengers” creates a real tournament atmosphere: up to eight coaches use decks of cards to build teams and set them against each other in a duel. For each fight, players will switch places around the table to face a new opponent. Defeated cards are sent to the substitutes’ bench but space there is limited. If

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| Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2023

Die Gilde der fahrenden Händler (The Guild of Merchant Explorers)

The kingdom’s outdated maps are a real thorn in the Queen’s side. Your job is to travel around the country to find new villages and to connect existing cities with lucrative trade routes (pocketing any profit to be made, of course). As a guild member, however, you are not allowed to move freely but get

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| Nominated for Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2024

Zug um Zug Legacy – Legenden des Westens (Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West)

20 years after the original ‘Ticket to Ride’ won the Spiel des Jahres award, its successor ‘Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West’ continues this journey in innovative game design. ‘Legacy’ means that the decisions players make have a lasting impact on future games. That might involve adding stickers onto the game board, discovering

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| Nominated for Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2024

Living Forest

The forest is on fire. In the game “Living Forest”, as in reality, this is a threat to us all. That’s why players are all working together, to a certain extent, to try and contain the rising danger. Players work to douse the flames, plant new trees in the forest and collect magical lotus flowers

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| Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2022

Botanicus

Spring is coming. In ‘Botanicus’ players are creating their own botanical garden and want to meet their visitors’ very specific demands regarding the plants they want to see there. That’s why they pay for their gardener to travel all around the garden, planting and watering plants in adjacent spaces. The choice of actions is a

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| Recommendation list Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2024

Mischwald (Forest Shuffle)

The centre of the table becomes a forest clearing and players all build their own unique forest around it. Eight species of tree can grow here: from maple to birch, pine to chestnut. Players can place animal cards on each of these trees, as long as they can pay the cost. The interesting part is

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| Recommendation list Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2024

Ritual

Humans need rituals. They give us support, remind us that we’re not alone and create a feeling of solidarity, especially in times of difficulty. ‘Ritual’ transforms this experience into a game. Players swap coloured runes with each other to try and fulfil their own personal collection goal. This doesn’t sound too difficult at first, if

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| Recommendation list Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2024
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