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Mmm!

When the cat’s away the mice will play! The hungry rodents want to raid the larder and smuggle out cheese, carrots and more from under the watchful eye of the house cat. Players work together to collect tasty treats and gradually reserve parts of the feast with the help of three dice, which they’ll need

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| Nominated for Kinderspiel des Jahres | 2016

Die Crew (The Crew)

As part of a spaceship crew the players are travelling to the ninth planet at the edge of the solar system. On the way they will encounter all sorts of problems typical for a long journey in space: malfunctioning engines and lack of oxygen serve as thematic hooks for a co-operative trick-taking game, which challenges

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| Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2020

Der Kartograph (Cartographers)

The royal cartographers have a year to reclaim the unexplored northern lands. The queen has given clear objectives for this task. She gives the players a total of four edicts per game, demanding for instance that they are on the lookout for forest paths between mountain ranges or well-irrigated farmlands. Easier said than done, as

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| Nominated for Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2020

Majesty

It’s nice when you can get others to do the work for you. Just like the regents in the tactical card game Majesty, who recruit people from a quickly changing display to earn money for them. If your opponents are hiring soldiers then it’s a good idea to increase the number of guards. Or perhaps

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2018

Werwörter

What’s the secret word that will allow the villagers to chase away the werewolves from their village? The mayor knows it. Everyone else has to ask him yes or no questions: “Can you eat it?” or “Can you buy it?” Players only have a few minutes to find the solution. This is actually a well-known

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| Nominated for Spiel des Jahres | 2019

Dizzle

Presumably “Dizzle” is a new portmanteau word from the words “dice” and “puzzle”. There’s no real evidence to suggest that is the case but it does a good job of describing this game in two… sorry… in one word. It’s a puzzle using dice – on score sheets which show exactly on which spaces which

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2019

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

Sherlock

Letzter Aufruf · Der Fluch des Qhaqya · Tod am 4. Juli Who will join with the English master detective Sherlock Holmes? In the first three cases of the card game series Sherlock, players have to solve a murder together. After a brief introduction, the detectives receive only partial backgrounds and clues. Each individual card

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2019

Tal der Wikinger

When the barrels start rolling in the village of the Norsemen, all the Vikings want to be involved, big and small. Outside the village the longboats are ready for the booty to be loaded on board. In the middle of the village the barrels are waiting. The object is to knock down the barrels with

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| Kinderspiel des Jahres | 2019