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:

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

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