Reinhard Staupe |
Nominated for Kinderspiel des Jahres |
2020
Robots can do lots of things: fly, turn into cars, translate foreign languages, save damsels in distress … But in general you can separate robots into three speed categories: slow, normal and fast. This is the only information the other players have when the robot-player navigates the race track with their eyes and then indicates
Ludovic Roudy and Bruno Sautter |
Spiel des Jahres |
2019
“Box”, “dice”, “play”, “fun”. What could these words possibly be describing? Easy: a board game! In the co-operative game Just One, one player has to guess a word. The clues aren’t provided by the game but by the rest of the players. Without discussing it with their teammates, each player writes down a clue they
Reiner Knizia |
Nominated for Spiel des Jahres |
2019
Everyone likes llamas! In the speedy card game Lama, the llama isn’t just the mascot for the game but also provides the German acronym “Lege alle Minuspunkte ab” (something like “Leave All your Minus points Aside”). Behind this slogan lies a simple principle for how to play your cards. You can only play a card
Emanuele Ornella |
Recommendation list Kennerspiel des Jahres |
2018
Starting on the east coast, players are trying to settle North America. To do this, they will build a road network, one that other players may use too – for a small fee of course. On your turn you move the shared stagecoach to an unoccupied settlement, then drop off a matching pioneer. The pioneers
Jonathan Favre-Godal |
Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres |
2019
The name of this game (“Who did it”?) and the cute animal illustrations are definitely aimed at children. But Who Did It? can be fun for grown-ups too, especially grown-ups who are still children at heart. Which means us. We have to free our own pets from the suspicion of having left a little present
Vlaada Chvatil |
Spiel des Jahres |
2016
The heads of two rival secret agencies want to inform their respective team members which agents belong to their organisation. As their enemies are listening in, they’ll take turns to find associations to describe their spies’ code names. Only the minimum of information may be transmitted: just a single word and a corresponding number. The
Günter Burkhardt |
Recommendation list Kinderspiel des Jahres |
2020
It’s morning in the rainforest. Gradually – tile by tile – the animal kingdom is waking up to their colourful life – with help from the players’ memory and a little bit of luck. At the beginning of the game all the individual tiles are face-down on the table. On a player’s turn they reveal
Justin Lee |
Recommendation list Kinderspiel des Jahres |
2019
It’s anarchy on animal farm – Farmer Fridolin and guard dog Lilli are having difficulties keeping the cheeky piglet and the rest of its animal friends under control. With a little bit of luck from cards and dice, children can work together to help the farmer out. You can attract the mouse with a tasty
Gaëtan Beaujannot and Alain Rivollet |
Recommendation list Kinderspiel des Jahres |
2019
Moo – Meow – Baa! Cow – Cat – Sheep! It’s easy to recognise animals from the kind of noise they make. But what if you had to guess an animal just from its different characteristics – whether it’s big or small, where it lives and what it eats? In “Concept Kids Animals” the board