Sanssouci

Michael Kiesling | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2014

As landscape gardeners, players are designing the gardens of Sanssouci Palace – and each in their own way. Order is all-important in this tile-laying game. Regardless whether pavilions, statues or fountains – for each of the nine different types of attraction there is a space on each player’s game board. But that’s not all: Players

Potato Man

Günter Burkhardt, Wolfgang Lehmann | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2014

The hunt for big potato sacks is a little out of the ordinary because in this trick-taking card game, players don’t follow suit as usual. No, you have to play a suit that’s not already in the trick! This can get a bit chaotic, as the values of the cards in each suit are also

Love Letter

Seiji Kanai | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2014

You’ve fallen for the princess! Players try to get close to members of the royal court who will deliver love letters to their beloved. On your turn, you’ll choose one of two hand cards and use the action of the character played. So the priest allows you look at another player’s card. The baron challenges

Rokoko

Matthias Cramer, Louis Malz, Stefan Malz | Nominated for Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2014

As master tailors in France under Louis XV we’ve got our hands full. Our clients want us to have their clothes ready for the grand ball. So we don’t just need cloth in the latest colours but also thread, needles – and a lot of organisation. Soon we’ll be employing assistants and apprentices to get

Concordia

Walther Mac Gerdts | Nominated for Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2014

Harmony rules throughout the Roman empire and the economy is flourishing: Merchant families use road and waterways to expand around the Mediterranean. In this strategy game, they establish settlements for cloth, wine, grain and more. Characters such as prefects or winegro wers help them with this.These cards can only be re-used when the tribune allows

Concept

Gaëtan Beaujannot, Alain Rivollet | Nominated for Spiel des Jahres | 2014

“Concept” combines a party game with app icons: When it’s your turn to define people, objects or even quotes you don’t need to draw or find the right words. Players take it in turns as two-player teams to place small pieces onto the appropriate pictograms on the game board, in order to accurately describe the

Istanbul

Rüdiger Dorn | Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2014

The traders of Istanbul have their sights set on rubies.They can collect the jewels by trading goods and earning money with the help of their four assistants. Haggling at the tea house or at the black market is of course a part of it as well. If you’ve got enough material on your wheelbarrow you

Geister, Geister, Schatzsuchmeister!

Brian Yu | Kinderspiel des Jahres | 2014

This old house is haunted by ghosts. Nevertheless, four courageous treasure hunters dare to enter. After all, eight precious jewels are hidden there. Only those blessed with skill, luck and team spirit will get them. In this exciting co-ope rative game, players have to work together. Almost every move on the game board summons new

Deus

Sébastien Dujardin | Recommendation list Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2015

Ancient Rome is the backdrop for the civilisation game “Deus,” which crowns players as leaders of an emerging empire. Cities grow with various buildings, resources are mined and legions march through the land to surround barbarian villages. Players play building cards from their hand onto their tableau and can in this way improve their empires

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