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
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
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
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
Jens-Peter Schliemann, Bernhard Weber |
Recommendation list Kinderspiel des Jahres |
2017
Great big round eyes, pale green skin, difficult to tell them apart – it’s obvious: these are Lagoonies. And they’re all milling about at the bottom of the ocean, only visible through frosted windows, distorting their appearance. The spinning octopus means that each round in this clever three-dimensional game has a different aim. A new
Josep Izquierdo and Marti Lucas |
Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres |
2019
Letzter Aufruf · Der Fluch des Qhaqya · Tod am 4. Juli Who will join with the English master detective Sherlock Holmes? In the first three cases of the card game series Sherlock, players have to solve a murder together. After a brief introduction, the detectives receive only partial backgrounds and clues. Each individual card
Marco Teubner |
Recommendation list Kinderspiel des Jahres |
2017
Broomstick, magic wand and shining amulet – the scatterbrained witch has lost all of her things in the magical forest. As speedy forest sprites, the players help her in her search. To do this, ever-changing teams of two children sit opposite each other, reveal an objective card and push down on the edges of the
Tim Rogasch |
Recommendation list Kinderspiel des Jahres |
2017
Newly hatched and hungry, these chicks stumble out into the big, wide world. To find their food, the chicks need help from children aged three and up. Rolling a die will provide tasty worms, flies, berries and seeds for their hatchlings; players take a corresponding feed dish, no matter who rolled the die. Provided, of
Thierry Denoual |
Recommendation list Kinderspiel des Jahres |
2017
The chickens are hanging out on their perch. Some are just sitting there, others are on hay bales or wagon wheels. All in all it’s a pretty precarious situation and your job is to clear the perch, piece by piece. “Chickyboom” is one of these rare games that is almost self-explanatory and invites you to