Speed Cups

Haim Shafir | Recommendation list Kinderspiel des Jahres | 2014

When the bell tolls, speedy fun is guaranteed. In “Speed Cups” children have to put five plastic cups in the correct order. Amusingly illustrated cards show whether they need to be next to one another or stacked together. They show birds, ice creams or even pencils. But no-one has time to look carefully at them.

Welches Tier bin ich?

Laima Zuloné | Recommendation list Kinderspiel des Jahres | 2014

Am I dressed up as a wolf or a fox? As a stork or a crane? 16 cards lie face-up, showing children in animal costumes. Another 16 cards, showing the same animals as the children’s costumes, are shuffled and placed face-down in a pile. In the variant for the youngest children, each child draws an

Zieh Leine, Flynn!

Stefan Dorra, Manfred Reindl | Recommendation list Kinderspiel des Jahres | 2014

The cheeky owl Flynn triumphantly sits enthroned in the crow’s nest of the pirate ship and looks over the treasure he’s pinched from the deck. In an adventurous manoeuvre, the furious pirates are attempting to win back their chests of gold, sparkling pieces of jewellery and valuable sabres. To do this, players make piles of

Die Legende des Wendigo

Christian Lemay | Recommendation list Kinderspiel des Jahres | 2018

It can be terrifying sitting around the campfire late at night telling scary stories. 32 scouts have come together, fat and thin, boys and girls, with a hat or a cap. They all look very different and somehow very similar. What they don’t know: the evil Wendigo is already among them, looks like them and

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

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