Funkelschatz

Lena and Günter Burkhardt | Kinderspiel des Jahres | 2018

The dragon children have stumbled across a hoard of brightly-coloured sparkling jewels. But these are frozen solid in a thick column of ice. Luckily, Dragon Dad has come along and can use his fiery breath to melt the ice so that the children can collect the sparkling jewels. Players stack the nine plastic rings into

Emojito!

Urtis Šulinskas | Nominated for Kinderspiel des Jahres | 2018

The boxing kangaroo is on the ropes, exhausted. The scarecrow is annoyed by the twittering around him. The iron really has to let off steam. And the polar bear is merrily trying on his new ice stakes. So many emotions, so many moods and even more can be found in this party game. There are

Underwater Cities

Vladimír Suchý | Recommendation list Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2020

There is no more room on the Earth’s surface so mankind has decided to escape to the bottom of the sea. In “Underwater Cities” players build a network of tunnels and settlements on the ocean floor. They can find the resources they need in desalination plants and algae farms, while using laboratories to make advances

Panic Mansion

Asger Harding Granerud, Daniel Skjold Pedersen | Nominated for Kinderspiel des Jahres | 2018

Our adventurers find valuable treasure chests in an old mansion. Suddenly the house begins to shake and spooky ghosts, snakes and spiders begin to appear. If the explorers manage to get to one of the many rooms with the chests, then the haunting will stop. Players receive an open box, divided into different rooms but

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

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