Passt nicht!

Thomas Weber | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2024

Many card games want you to play cards from your hand onto a communal discard pile with the winner being the first player to get rid of all their cards. ‘Passt nicht!’ turns this well-known concept on its head. In order to score points at the end of a round, you’ll need to not be

Kuzooka

Leo Colovini | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2023

Full board and lots of visitors: as nice as the zoo may be, the animals still want to escape. This mass animal jail break requires a certain number of the same type of tool, which you receive as a hand of playing cards. You can’t show your cards to anyone else or even talk about

My Gold Mine

Michael Loth, Christof Schilling and Hans Joachim Höh | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2022

With great risk comes great reward. That’s the motto of “My Gold Mine”. Players take on the role of brave dwarves, searching for hidden hoards of gold in a dangerous dungeon. Unfortunately the expedition has awoken the resident dragon and they’ve made it mad! Each round begins at this moment of escape. Everyone’s running straight

Schätz it if you can

Ralf zur Linde | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2024

Would you have known which boy’s name was more common in 2023? David or Noah? Or was it Andrew? Hand on heart – probably not! But with a bit of careful consideration you can make an informed guess. And that’s what makes ‘Schätz it if you can’ so incredibly entertaining, primarily thanks to its fantastic

Mantis

Ken Gruhl und Jeremy Posner | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2023

To steal or not to steal? That’s the question here! The top card of the draw pile shows three colours – but only one of these is on the front of the card. Now you need to decide: steal or score? Going on a stealing spree and capturing a species from another player’s tank means

Echoes: Die Tänzerin (Echoes: The Dancer)

Matthew Dunstan und Dave Neale | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2022

It’s thrilling to be able to use objects to listen to the soundscape of days gone by. As an investigator with supernatural abilities it’s our job to do just that in “Echoes: The Dancer”. An app lets us do this: by scanning picture cards showing objects related to the story we get to hear snippets

Trekking (Trekking Through History)

Charlie Bink | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2024

Island-hopping is a thing of the past. The future of tourism lies in visiting historically important events in time. Discuss the art of war over breakfast in 506 BCE with the Chinese general Sun Tzu, then take afternoon tea with Marie Curie in 1911, before enjoying an evening at the legendary Live Aid concert with

So Kleever! (So clover)

François Romain | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2022

You have eight square cards, each with four different words, arranged randomly on a plastic four-leaf clover to make four unusual word pairings. You need to come up with an umbrella term that connects these pairs, without using translations, abbreviations or parts of the words. So for the combination of “apple” and “man” you might

Trio

Kaya Miyano | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2024

Three times three – that’s how you win the game of ‘Trio’. The game is made up of three sets of cards numbered one to twelve – some will be in players’ hands, others face-down in the middle of the table. The aim is to carefully interrogate your opponents to find three sets of three:

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