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That’s Not a Hat

Kasper Lapp | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2023

Newspaper, magnifying glass, roller skate, fried egg, computer. Surely it’s possible to remember this small number of objects… or so you would think. But while the fried egg card is always passed clockwise around the table – face-down of course – the roller skate goes in …

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Auch schon clever (Ganz schön clever Kids)

Wolfgang Warsch | Nominated for Kinderspiel des Jahres | 2022

A children’s birthday party needs balloons, a wooden train with candles on top, presents and cakes. Players will need to roll these up on the dice and mark off each of them on their own score sheets. Some things need to be crossed off in a …

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Challengers!

Johannes Krenner and Markus Slawitscheck | Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2023

“Challengers” creates a real tournament atmosphere: up to eight coaches use decks of cards to build teams and set them against each other in a duel. For each fight, players will switch places around the table to face a new opponent. Defeated cards are sent to …

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Mit Quacks & Co. nach Quedlinburg (Quacks & Co. Quedlinburg Dash)

Wolfgang Warsch | Nominated for Kinderspiel des Jahres | 2022

Apples, corn and berries will get Quacks the donkey and his friends’ motors running. These are the stars of the wild race game “Quacks & Co.”, the child-friendly reimplementation of “The Quacks of Quedlinburg”, which won the Kennerspiel des Jahres award in 2018. Like its big …

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Iki

Koota Yamada | Nominated for Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2023

In the historic city of Edo – present-day Tokyo – you will weave your way through the market, activating the stalls you stop by to collect resources. If you purchase from your opponents’ businesses, however, you will increase their employees’ experience who will then make more …

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Zauberberg (Magic Mountain)

Jens-Peter Schliemann and Bernhard Weber | Kinderspiel des Jahres | 2022

When the wizard Balduin calls, the sorcerers apprentices rush to him. But it’s a long way down the mountain. Luckily, players can use the will-o’-the-wisp marbles to help the apprentices down the marble-run course, as long as the marbles actually hit them. Because once it has …

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Planet Unknown

Ryan Lambert and Adam Rehberg | Nominated for Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2023

We only have one planet. That is to say: one per player. You are trying to develop the planet by placing Tetris-like segments onto its surface. These pieces are selected each round from a rotating supply – the player whose turn it is picks a sector …

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Fröschis (Froggies)

Haim Shafir | Recommendation list Kinderspiel des Jahres | 2022

Who would have thought that frogs (or Fröschis) were so neat and tidy? The numbers in their pond (yes, really) have to be put into order and players need to help the frogs do so. At the beginning of the game there are eight face-down cards …

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Council of Shadows

Martin Kallenborn and Jochen Scherer | Recommendation list Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2023

Which one of us will be admitted to the mysterious galactic Council of Shadows? Players secretly plan their actions by playing cards onto their personal tableaus. More powerful actions cost significantly more energy – the game’s most important resource. Your energy marker needs to catch up …

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