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Shiftago

Games that look attractive are always more attractive to play. This is certainly true of the abstract tactical game “Shiftago” with its large marbles in four different colours. The aim of the game is to arrange the marbles of your own colour into a row. In the basic game, you just need five in a

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2017

Reef

In the tactical tile-laying game Reef, players are creating colourful coral reefs by stacking playing pieces onto their tableau. How the reef grows is determined by cards with a double function: playing a card means you can first place new coral stones of the displayed colour onto your reef. Directly afterwards scoring takes place, based

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2019

Die fiesen 7

Seven racketeers are sharing out their loot and counting honestly around the table: up to seven, back to one, up to seven and so on. The cards on the table show what to do: count aloud or clear your throat? Keep quiet or shout twice? The main thing is: don’t miss your cue! If you

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2016

Qwinto

Three rows with nine spaces each: players need to fill in their score sheets with numbers in ascending order. Tough? Not really, but you never know what’s going to happen with the roll of a dice. Which spaces should you keep free to add something in later? Be careful: no number can be repeated in

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2016

The Game

The objective of “The Game” soon becomes clear: players co-operate to correctly discard all the cards which have values of between 2 and 99. On two of the piles the cards have to be played in ascending order, on the other two in descending order. On your turn you must play at least two cards

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| Nominated for Spiel des Jahres | 2015

Simsala… Bumm?

It’s the final wizard studies exam: you’ll need to summon a dragon, conjure up spirits or impress the competition with storms and fireballs – the necessary repertory in “Abraca…what?” is made up of eight magic spells. But which one is next? Each player has five personal spellstones showing this but you can only see the

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2015

Azul

In the tactical tile-laying game Azul, the Portuguese King Manuel I commissions craftsmen to decorate the walls of his palace with beautiful mosaics. They can’t just use any old tiles: they need the so-called ‘Azulejos’. Beneath the simple action of laying tiles burns a fierce competition to pick the best tiles from the factories at

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| Spiel des Jahres | 2018

Luxor

In the race and collection game Luxor, players enter an ancient Egyptian temple with their team of adventurers and make their way along its corridors to the tomb of the Pharaoh. The route to the centre is already lined with valuable vases, statues, jewellery and other treasures. To be able to grab these, you’ll need

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| Nominated for Spiel des Jahres | 2018

Qwixx

Qwixx is a fast game and mixes a pinch of tactics with the luck of the dice: The players all go hunting for numbers that are listed on the score pad in four coloured rows of either two to twelve or twelve to two. A player rolls six dice and calls out the sum of

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| Nominated for Spiel des Jahres | 2013