Karuba

Rüdiger Dorn | Nominated for Spiel des Jahres | 2016

Adventurers come to Karuba in search of jewels, gold and ancient temples. To get to these treasures, players must move each of their four explorers from the beach through the jungle via their own pathways. To do this, players lay path tiles on free spaces on their own island cards – everyone uses identical tiles

Imhotep

Phil Walker-Harding | Nominated for Spiel des Jahres | 2016

Four monuments for the ages must be built. Pyramids, a temple, a series of obelisks and a burial chamber. Because the master builder Imhotep isn’t here at the moment, the players need to look after his projects. First of all, the stones need to be shipped in and then arranged to score the most points.

Ugo!

Ronald Hoekstra, Thomas Jansen, Patrick Zuidhof | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2015

The King wants revenue. In order to provide it, the players in the card game “Ugo!” have to take the right tricks in the right order. There are five suits, each with the numbers zero to eight. Each player begins the round with ten cards in hand. If you can, you must follow suit. The

Patchwork

Uwe Rosenberg | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2015

It’s all coming together: In “Patchwork,” two players create a quilt out of fabric off-cuts, patches and buttons – all through the technique suggested by the title. Is it art? Of course. But the main task of these tailors is to fill the play area with fabric tiles in many different shapes and sizes. This

Loony Quest

Laurent Escoffier, David Franck | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2015

With its bright colours, crazy landscapes and cartoony characters, “Loony Quest” resembles a video game – just without the electronics. Players can now follow in the footsteps of Mario and Sonic! Armed with a pen and clear plastic, players have to find the ideal path to the goal through each level. Hitting walls, bombs or

Cacao

Phil Walker-Harding | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2015

Cacao is called the “fruit of the gods” because it was considered by the Aztecs to be so valuable they were even paid in cocoa beans. In “Cacao,” players settle an unexplored jungle with their tribe. They create plantations, sell their harvests, dig for gold and carry water for their village. Powerful temples and sun-worshipping

Orléans

Reiner Stockhausen | Nominated for Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2015

Orléans in the middle ages. Merchants strive for fame and fortune in the Loire Valley. At their side are an illustrious carousel of a wide range of professions. Knights, craftsmen, sailors, monks, farmers and scholars are hired over the course of the game. What’s makes this different is that they firstly go into a bag

Elysium

Brett J. Gilbert, Matthew Dunstan | Nominated for Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2015

Welcome to mythic Greece. As demigods, the players try to collect allies of different families of gods over five epochs and transfer them to their Elysium. To gain a card from the centre of the board and then use its power, players must have an equal number of columns in the depicted colour. Since after

Vollmondnacht

Ted Alspach, Akihisa Okui | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2015

There are werewolves in the village. But whose face are they hiding behind? The objective of the communication-based bluffing and party game “One Night Ultimate Werewolf” is to find out. At the beginning of the game each player is secretly assigned a character. Then night draws in and all players close their eyes. A games

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