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Village

New villagers are born, work hard and then die. The game holds a mirror up to life. Up to four generations of a family ply their trade in the village: players harvest crops, raise animals, produce wagons or ploughs. They sell goods, go into politics, find religion or travel across the land. Through all these

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| Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2012

Heaven & Ale

The peaceful idyll of a monastery garden? No way! “Heaven & Ale” is hard work. Players are trying to brew beer – preferably as much as possible and as high quality as possible. To get the necessary resources, players have to place resource and monk tiles in their cloister garden – the shady side is

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| Nominated for Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2018

Klong!

We all know the type: the one clumsy oaf in the action movie who just at the wrong moment runs into something with a huge noise and attracts the monster’s attention. In Clank!, the players are all such clumsy oafs. They venture down into the maze-like dungeon, where legendary treasure is waiting, guarded by a

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| Recommendation list Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2018

Word Slam

In this communication game, two teams compete simultaneously to guess the same concept. The quickest team scores the points. Each group can only see the word cards chosen by the storyteller on their team. Verbal clues are taboo. And the cards contain a limited vocabulary of 105 words: nouns, verbs, adjectives and other types. For

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2017

EXIT – Das Spiel

The “Exit – The Game” series picks up the premise of the Escape Room, where a group of people try to escape a locked room. Players are working together to solve one puzzle after another, until eventually it’s time to try and overcome the final brain-teaser. The quicker your team is, the more points you’ll

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| Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2017

Terraforming Mars

Corporations want to transform Mars into a planet resembling Earth. To do that, they’ll need to raise the temperature, increase oxygen levels in the atmosphere and create oceans. Increasing one of these parameters will also increase not only your Terraform Rating and therefore your victory points but also your income. You’ll need this money to

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| Nominated for Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2017

Great Western Trail

As ranchers in the Wild West, players are continuously herding their cattle from Texas to Kansas City. The forks in the path of the “Great Western Trail” open up a great number of strategic options, options which increase with every new cattle drive. Workers help by building buildings, giving you the choice of even more

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| Recommendation list Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2017

Das Grimoire des Wahnsinns

You are magic students at the Elementary College. Your professor has told you about the “Grimoire des Wahnsinns”, a powerful tome of mystical sorcery. He also warned you against ever opening this book. But – magic students being magic students – this is exactly what you did at the first opportunity. Now there are terrible

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| Recommendation list Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2017

Agent Undercover

A spy has infiltrated a new operation site but there’s a problem: he doesn’t know where he is. In a supermarket? On a film set? On a military base? What he needs to do now is keep his head down and his ears open. Through clever questions and innocuous answers he might be able to

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2016