Jens-Peter Schliemann and Bernhard Weber |
Kinderspiel des Jahres |
2022
When the wizard Balduin calls, the sorcerers apprentices rush to him. But it’s a long way down the mountain. Luckily, players can use the will-o’-the-wisp marbles to help the apprentices down the marble-run course, as long as the marbles actually hit them. Because once it has left the top of the mountain, the will-o’-the-wisp can
Maxime Rambourg, Théo Rivière |
Recommendation list Kinderspiel des Jahres |
2024
There’s a lot to do when winter approaches and the prairie dogs need to collect supplies. Grain, berries and honey need to be stored in the burrow’s pantry. To achieve this, the prairie dogs are placed in different spaces each round. That’s where these fluffy fellows can collect food and also call on other forest-dwellers
Haim Shafir |
Recommendation list Kinderspiel des Jahres |
2022
Who would have thought that frogs (or Fröschis) were so neat and tidy? The numbers in their pond (yes, really) have to be put into order and players need to help the frogs do so. At the beginning of the game there are eight face-down cards in front of each player (with one fewer in
Sophia Wagner |
Recommendation list Kinderspiel des Jahres |
2024
Bon appetit! On the menu tonight is the speciality of the house and the little dragons’ favourite dish: tasty lava direct from the source, a freshly erupting volcano. The game box cleverly conceals this volcano: there is a crater at the top where players can roll dice and then hidden underneath there is the lava,
Oliver Igelhaut |
Recommendation list Kinderspiel des Jahres |
2022
The Golden Ei has nothing to do with James Bond! It’s the name of the inn (the Golden Egg), the little band of bunnies are trying to reach to raise the alarm. A fox is on the bunnies’ trail in this co-operative race game. A series of cards forms the path to the inn and
Thomas Sellner |
Recommendation list Kinderspiel des Jahres |
2024
Children are literally searching for a needle in a haystack. There’s no real straw on the table of course, but stacks of hay cards in which lots of different things are hidden. Not just a needle but animals are waiting to be discovered too. By offering a piece of their favourite food you can entice
Christian Kudahl, Marvin Hegen, Richard Garfield and Skaff Elias |
Recommendation list Kennerspiel des Jahres |
2023
Ten cards per player. That’s all it takes to fight epic battles with gigantic creatures in this head-to-head card game. As a magical monster summoner you will decide each round to either send a creature onto the battlefield or use a creature already there to attack your opponent. Thanks to special abilities like poison, even
Anna Oppolzer and Stefan Kloß |
Recommendation list Kinderspiel des Jahres |
2022
As a bee, do you head for a flower with no pollen? Of course you don’t. You want to get as much as possible out of the colourful plant, to fill up the jar of honey with pollen chips as quickly as possible and win the game. But which flowers have how many chips? You’ll
Matt Leacock, Matteo Menapace |
Kennerspiel des Jahres |
2024
Just saving the world – that’s all that’s being asked of you in this co-operative, card-based game. Players take on the role of world powers, each responsible for five important projects aiming to solve climate change as well as the world’s social problems. For example, Europe is working to phase out fossil fuels and the