Wir sind die Roboter (Robots)

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

Just One

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

L.a.m.a.

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

Pioneers

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

Krasse Kacke

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

Codenames

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

Puzzle Memo

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

Bauernhofbande

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

Concept Kids – Tiere

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

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