Syllaba (Syllabus)

Urtis Šulinskas and Harris Tsagas | Recommendation list Kinderspiel des Jahres | 2025

Tea-cup. Two steps. Por-ce-lain. Three steps. Or just “tea” for one? With their animal pawns, children go star-hunting across the night sky. But they don’t need dice to move — a look at the picture card their pawn is on is all it takes. A word, related to the picture, determines how many spaces we’re

Endeavor: Die Tiefsee (Deep Sea)

Carl de Visser and Jarratt Gray | Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2025

This underwater world unfolds further with each turn. Your options expand with every new crew member and every newly discovered zone. It goes deep — both in gameplay and strategy. Researching, diving, publishing — all require careful management of action discs. Ten interconnected scenarios increase the strategic demands and introduce new challenges. Your own skills

Faraway

Johannes Goupy and Corentin Lebrat | Nominated for Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2025

On this journey to faraway lands, the return ticket is included in the price. For eight cards, we travel from left to right through imaginative landscapes, encountering creatures who promise victory points for collecting certain symbols or regions. The twist: scoring happens in reverse — the last card of the journey is the first to

Neuland (Looot)

Charles Chevallier and Laurent Escoffier | Nominated for Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2025

News spreads among the Viking tribes: a deserted land with valuable remnants has been discovered. By skillfully placing our Viking figures, we expand our influence and secure the most precious resources for our clan’s settlement. Ships from the homeland arrive each round with new orders, increasing the pressure. Apart from the race for territory on

Kauri

Charlec Couronnaud | Recommendation list Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2025

200 years of New Zealand’s settlement history packed into a board game. With the arrival of European colonial powers, with possums in tow, a dynamic interplay between humans and nature unfolds. Whether bird, Māori, marsupial, or English settler — each pursue their own goals and change the conditions for the others. Each turn

Medical Mysteries: New York (NYC)

Nicholas Cravotta and Rebecca Bleau | Recommendation list Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2025

Crime games are popular. We love organizing facts, checking alibis, and making accusations. But why do we always have to solve crime? Can’t we use our detective skills in other ways? As members of an emergency room team, we must find out what the admitted patients are suffering from. We conduct examinations, seek advice from

The Gang

John Cooper and Kory Heath | Recommendation list Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2025

Poker without poker? Not quite — even though we don’t place bets or bluff in „The Gang“, there’s still plenty of tension, risk-taking, and hopefully cheering at the end. Together, we try to correctly assess our the cards we’ve been dealt, relative to the other players. Who has the highest combination? Does anyone have

Zenith

Grégory Grard and Mathieu Roussel | Recommendation list Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2025

Humans, robots, and animals live together in the galaxy peacefully. They have Zenithium, a clean and sustainable energy source — and everything could be perfect. If only there wasn’t this desire to be ruled by a strong leader. And before someone else fulfills that wish, we are now trying to become the head of it

Auf den Wegen von Darwin (In the Footsteps of Darwin)

Grégory Grard, Matthieu Verdier | Nominated for Spiel des Jahres | 2024

Following in the footsteps of the well-known naturalist, you are competing to be the ultimate DarWinner. Players sail around the table in Darwin’s ship the ‘Beagle’ to discover new species of animals. The little wooden ship travels around a display made up of nine tiles. They are either animals or helpful historical figures. You can

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