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
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
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
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
Heinz Meister |
Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres |
2013
In this dice game the players need not just luck, but also deftness in throwing the dice. Not just the number of pips, but also the position of the three dice in the wooden arena is important. The sum of the pips may only be entered into those of the 64 squares on the board
Iris Rossbach |
Nominated for Kinderspiel des Jahres |
2013
That´s what happens when the creatures allow themselves to be teleported by the cheeky cow “Mucca Pazza” from the planet “Cowpiter” to the earth: while teleporting them, she presses the forbidden “somersault” button. Suddenly the red cat has the body of the blue pig and the legs of the yellow bird. A good thing the
Wolfgang Warsch |
Kennerspiel des Jahres |
2018
Mandrake root, ghost breath and toadstool. As quack doctors, players brew up new potions out of all sorts of unusual ingredients. These potions aren’t prepared according to some strict recipe but rather through pure chance: each player gradually draws ingredients out of their own mixed up bag of supplies. Most of the ingredients have positive
Lukas Zach, Michael Palm |
Recommendation list Kinderspiel des Jahres |
2013
Memory games for kids are not exactly seldom. “Bim Bamm!” is one of them, but it adds nifty new elements. Both sides of the cards are printed with five different creatures. Each occurs six times, and we are not looking for twins but rather for quintuplets. That would be easy if all players had the
Wolfgang Warsch |
Nominated for Kennerspiel des Jahres |
2018
Players are on the hunt for points in the dice game Ganz schön clever. The more effectively players can use the results of three out of six dice on their score sheet, the more chain reactions they start. The colour of the dice being scored dictates on which area of the sheet you can cross