Dino World

Marco Pranzo, Virginio Gigli, Flaminia Brasini | Recommendation list Kinderspiel des Jahres | 2018

Eat or be eaten? That’s the big question in this small but perfectly-formed prehistoric adventure. The plump velociraptor has only just pounced hungrily on the delicate archaeopteryx, when he in turn is caught by the voluminous dilophosaurus. But it’s the gigantic T-rex that has the biggest appetite of them all. Each round players choose one

Speed Colors

Erwan Morin | Recommendation list Kinderspiel des Jahres | 2018

Remember, paint, score. Game components: six coloured felt-tip pens with cleaning sponge and 55 picture cards. Players must colour in black-and-white images on wipe-clean cards. These should be in the exact colours of the picture on the reverse of the card. All images consist of precisely six different colours. You’ll need to remember the exact

Werwörter

Ted Alspach | Nominated for Spiel des Jahres | 2019

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

DEJA-VU

Heinz Meister | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2017

This is a real test of memory! 36 playing cards depict the same number of objects exactly twice. As each new card is revealed players must decide lightning-quick whether they have already seen the objects shown. If so: grab that object as quick as you can! If not: hands off! If an object is revealed

Dizzle

Ralf zur Linde | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2019

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

Dodelido

Jacques Zeimet | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2017

Each player starts with the same number of cards in a face-down deck in front of them, depicting differently-coloured animals. On your turn, you play the top card of your deck face-up onto one of three discard piles. Then you need to call out the characteristic which is seen most frequently: either the type of

Klask

Mikkel Bertelsen | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2017

“Goal!” You’ll be able to hear this cry regularly during this wooden table football game. But this particular goal has no posts or crossbar; it’s simply a hole into which the ball needs to roll. And that’s why instead of “goal!” you might instead hear “klack”. This is the sound you’ll hear when someone uses

Shiftago

Frank Warneke, Robert Witter | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2017

Games that look attractive are always more attractive to play. This is certainly true of the abstract tactical game “Shiftago” with its large marbles in four different colours. The aim of the game is to arrange the marbles of your own colour into a row. In the basic game, you just need five in a

Reef

Emerson Matsuuchi | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2019

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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