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Top Ten

On a scale of 1 to 10: how useful would gold-plated barbecue tongs be in a shipwreck? These are the absurd scenarios players are asked to contemplate in the creative party game “Top Ten.” To help guide you, all players each receive a secret number card with a value between 1 and 10. Players then

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| Nominated for Spiel des Jahres | 2022

Harmonies

‘Harmonies’ evokes the interconnectedness of flora and fauna: the players’ main objective is to create landscapes out of round building tokens in order to attract animals. Each creature has their own specific idea of where trees, mountains and fields should be best located in relation to water and buildings. It is your number one priority

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2024

Hitster

What’s better than listening to music? Obviously listening to music and making a game out of it! In “Hitster” you are attempting to guess when songs were released. This app-based game uses the music streaming service Spotify to play a hit. The songs can come from anywhere between 1908 and 2021. There’s a bonus if

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2023

Schätz it if you can

Would you have known which boy’s name was more common in 2023? David or Noah? Or was it Andrew? Hand on heart – probably not! But with a bit of careful consideration you can make an informed guess. And that’s what makes ‘Schätz it if you can’ so incredibly entertaining, primarily thanks to its fantastic

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2024

So Kleever! (So clover)

You have eight square cards, each with four different words, arranged randomly on a plastic four-leaf clover to make four unusual word pairings. You need to come up with an umbrella term that connects these pairs, without using translations, abbreviations or parts of the words. So for the combination of “apple” and “man” you might

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2022

Sea Salt & Paper

From shark to shell, from boat to swimmer, maritime motifs abound in the small-box card collection game “Sea Salt & Paper”. The salt of the game is clear in the well-seasoned central mechanic. Players take turns drawing cards, some face-up, some face-down, trying to either collect sets of cards with the same symbol or else

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2023

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

Chakra

In traditional Indian teachings, the seven energy centres that link the physical body with the astral form are known as chakras. These chakras are depicted on players’ tableaus as coloured circles, each with three spaces. Competing against their opponents, players must fill these spaces with energy stones of the matching colour. The simple rule set

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2021

QE

Economic crisis? Help! Players take on the role of nations aiming to save companies that are supposedly “too big to fail”. One junk company after another will go under the hammer. You need to secretly write down a bid: thousands? Tens of thousands? Millions? It doesn’t matter, you’re just making up numbers. You don’t need

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2023
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