approx. 45 minutes

Cities

Whether it’s Venice or Sydney, Barcelona or Buenos Aires – in „Cities“, we compete to develop new districts in eight iconic metropolises. In doing so, we aim to appropriately mirror each city’s unique character. Each new district is built within a fixed grid of nine building plots. On these, we construct colorful buildings that can

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2025

Sherlocks Spürnasen (The Animals of Baker Street)

The Three Investigators or the Famous Five — groups of young detectives have always been popular. „Sherlocks Spürnasen“ brings this beloved theme to life in a delightfully charming way. We play a team of animal friends assisting the master detective in Victorian London on his hunt for criminals. As a bird, frog, spider, and mouse,

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2025

Kauri

200 years of New Zealand’s settlement history packed into a board game. With the arrival of European colonial powers, with possums in tow, a dynamic interplay between humans and nature unfolds. Whether bird, Māori, rodent, or English settler — each pursue their own goals and change the conditions for the others. Each turn presents the

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| Recommendation list Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2025

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

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The kingdom’s outdated maps are a real thorn in the Queen’s side.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

Switch & Signal: Gemeinsam ans Ziel (Switch & Signal)

Urgent goods deliveries from Nuremburg, Paris, Amsterdam and Berlin need to be transported to Marseille by train. Players will need to use all of their forward thinking and planning talents to complete all the deliveries with a limited number of trains and a very tight deadline. Players play cards from their hand to place switches

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2021

Belratti

Art on the production line: in the co-operative association game Belratti, players have to send their artworks to one exhibition after another. But don’t be scared! You don’t have to paint anything yourself. Each player has a hand of completed artworks which they can donate to try and meet the sometimes absurd-sounding wishes of the

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2019

Little Town

Mountains, lakes, forests and lots of arable grassland: the perfect location! In “Little Town” players are building a settlement together and are competing for the best plots of land. On your turn you will send one worker to a free space on the map. There the worker will activate all surrounding spaces, so at the

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2020