Flügelschlag

Elizabeth Hargrave | Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2019

Over 900 species of birds are native to North America and just under a fifth of these take flight in designer Elizabeth Hargrave’s optimisation game Wingspan; from the red-bellied woodpecker to the purple gallinule. Attracting a bird to your aviary means you can play the corresponding card to the correct habitat area for that bird.

Gold am Orinoko

Bernhard Weber | Nominated for Kinderspiel des Jahres | 2013

On the banks of the South American Orinoco River, precious treasures are hidden in ancient ruins. Already, prospector teams are making their way there. Unfortunately however, the gold lies on the other side of the raging torrent. To reach the other shore and collect the most valuable coins in the dense jungle, one must bravely

Imhotep – Das Duell

Phil Walker-Harding | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2019

In ancient Egypt Queen Nefertiti and King Akhenaten are competing for building resources to build their monuments. They place workers in the nine spaces of the harbour grid in order to get new wares. As soon as at least two figures are present in a row or column, the corresponding ship may be unloaded. The

Carpe Diem

Stefan Feld | Nominated for Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2019

We are developing city districts in ancient Rome, creating farmed landscapes and buildings which produce wares or enable other advancements. How you organise your own buildings on your own district map is determined by your own individual requirements. The availability of building tiles, however, is limited by a rondel, where each player moves with their

Detective

Ignacy Trzewiczek, Przemysław Rymer, Jakub Łapot | Nominated for Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2019

A golden watch, looted in Poland during the Second World War, appears over 70 years later in an American auction house. The players, as detectives from the newly-founded Antares Investigation Agency, have to work together to find out how this has happened. But that’s just the start of a multi-faceted and intricate crime case, stretching

The Game

Steffen Benndorf | Nominated for Spiel des Jahres | 2015

The objective of “The Game” soon becomes clear: players co-operate to correctly discard all the cards which have values of between 2 and 99. On two of the piles the cards have to be played in ascending order, on the other two in descending order. On your turn you must play at least two cards

Architekten des Westfrankenreichs

Shem Phillips and Sam Macdonald | Recommendation list Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2019

Who would have thought it? Teamwork really does make the dream work. In this case the dream of constructing landmarks and impressing the king. In the worker placement game Architects of the West Kingdom, players’ actions are stronger the more workers they have on that particular space. One figure produces one unit of wood, a

Simsala… Bumm?

Gary Kim | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2015

It’s the final wizard studies exam: you’ll need to summon a dragon, conjure up spirits or impress the competition with storms and fireballs – the necessary repertory in “Abraca…what?” is made up of eight magic spells. But which one is next? Each player has five personal spellstones showing this but you can only see the

Das tiefe Land

Claudia and Ralf Partenheimer | Recommendation list Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2019

The farmlands on the North Sea coast are supposed to be protected by a dike. But will it be tall enough? It all depends on the unpredictability of nature and on the team spirit of the farmers there. In the strategy game Lowlands, players have to decide how to successfully split their efforts between dike-building

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