Sea Salt & Paper

Bruno Cathala and Théo Rivière | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2023

From shark to shell, from boat to swimmer, maritime motifs abound in the small-box card collection game “Sea Salt & Paper”. The salt of the game is clear in the well-seasoned central mechanic. Players take turns drawing cards, some face-up, some face-down, trying to either collect sets of cards with the same symbol or else

Trek 12: Himalaja

Bruno Cathala and Corentin Lebrat | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2022

The Himalaya mountain range forms the unusual backdrop to this clever and tactical dice game, with famous locations such as Sarangkot serving as score sheets with various degrees of difficulty. Each round, players must roll two dice showing results between 0 and 6 and make a result from these. The unique part is that players

Große kleine Edelsteine

Wolfgang Warsch | Nominated for Kinderspiel des Jahres | 2024

Big gems, small gems, lots of slightly differently sized gems in all shapes and colours: that’s what this game is all about. You are trying to find the gems that have fallen out of the goblin king’s crown. The tricky part is that you can’t see the colours, as the 81 different gem tiles are

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 the other direction. Whenever you receive a new gift,

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 certain order, some need more than one symbol to

Die magischen Schlüssel (Magic Keys)

Arno Steinwender, Markus Slawitscheck | Kinderspiel des Jahres | 2024

A magical treasure chest stands in the centre of the table, drawing the attention of all the children present. They want to do just one thing: open the treasure chest to get the precious gems inside. But the keys are spread over a long path and only one of them opens the chest. Even if

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 the substitutes’ bench but space there is limited. If

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 brother, the children’s version sees players drawing tokens out

Taco Katze Pizza Junior (Taco Kitten Pizza)

Dave Campbell, Thierry Denoual | Nominated for Kinderspiel des Jahres | 2024

Can you really see into the future? Can you predict which card will be next out of your own deck? You have a choice of taco, cat or pizza! If you’re right you get another turn, which is a good thing, since you need to be the first player to get rid of all your

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