Qwixx

Steffen Benndorf | Nominated for Spiel des Jahres | 2013

Qwixx is a fast game and mixes a pinch of tactics with the luck of the dice: The players all go hunting for numbers that are listed on the score pad in four coloured rows of either two to twelve or twelve to two. A player rolls six dice and calls out the sum of

Der verzauberte Turm

Inka and Markus Brand | Kinderspiel des Jahres | 2013

The sinister sorcerer Ravenhorst has locked up the princess in the tower and hidden the key somewhere in the forest. However, Brave Robin has already begun to search for it: does the key lie under a rock or is it hidden between flowers? In this three-dimensional game, sixteen openings in the board are covered with

Hand aufs Herz

Julien Sentis | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2013

In this party game questions are answered without speaking. The left hand means “no” and the right hand “yes”. Which hand belongs on the bright red heart in the middle of the table? One of the players reads out a question. All the others must guess the answer. The faster a player’s hand reaches the

La Boca

Inka and Markus Brand | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2013

Welcome to La Boca, a quarter of Buenos Aires characterised by brightly painted houses. The aim of this communicative construction game is to recreate such colourful facades using ten to eleven wooden blocks. Two facing players team up to quickly solve this challenge. The special clou of the game: the task card inserted into the

Rhino Hero Super Battle

Scott Frisco, Steven Strumpf | Recommendation list Kinderspiel des Jahres | 2018

The heroic rhinoceros Rhino Hero is competing with his animal friends to climb a turbulent skyscraper, which is about as sturdy as a house of cards. This is built together by all the players out of various walls and floors. Each storey determines which card must be added next, and how. How many floors a

Village

Inka and Markus Brand | Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2012

New villagers are born, work hard and then die. The game holds a mirror up to life. Up to four generations of a family ply their trade in the village: players harvest crops, raise animals, produce wagons or ploughs. They sell goods, go into politics, find religion or travel across the land. Through all these

Mixtour

Dieter Stein | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2013

Deploying game pieces, building towers, moving towers around: this abstract, strategic game for two players follows known patterns but breaks with the typical rules for such moves. Paramount for the range of a move is not the number of pieces with which the moving tower is built, but rather the height of the tower on

Rondo

Reiner Knizia | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2013

Players take ornately carved stone discs from the bag and initially place them on their own racks. In later moves the stones will be placed onto the double-sided game board – on number fields of matching colour and always in a contiguous fashion. How is it possible to collect many points? Several identically coloured stones

Riff Raff

Christoph Cantzler | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2013

This game of skill is a genuine eye catcher: a big wooden galleon rolls around on a mountainous wave in the game box. Due to its gimbal mounting, it easily gets out of balance and begins to swing to and fro. The higher the cargo is stowed in the yardarms, the sooner it will slide

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