Kennerspiel des Jahres

Challengers!

“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

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| Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2023

e-Mission (Daybreak)

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

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| Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2024

Living Forest

The forest is on fire. In the game “Living Forest”, as in reality, this is a threat to us all. That’s why players are all working together, to a certain extent, to try and contain the rising danger. Players work to douse the flames, plant new trees in the forest and collect magical lotus flowers

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| Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2022

Paleo

Life in the stone age must have been tough. Behind every bush with delicious berries there might be a wild animal waiting to attack. And even without the boar, we need to find out for ourselves whether the fruit is edible or poisonous. Each round we work together as a tribe to overcome dangers like

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| Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2021

Die Crew (The Crew)

As part of a spaceship crew the players are travelling to the ninth planet at the edge of the solar system. On the way they will encounter all sorts of problems typical for a long journey in space: malfunctioning engines and lack of oxygen serve as thematic hooks for a co-operative trick-taking game, which challenges

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| Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2020

Flügelschlag

Over 900 species of birds are native to North America and just under a fifth of these take flight in designer Elizabeth Hargrave’s optimisation game Wingspan; from the red-bellied woodpecker to the purple gallinule. Attracting a bird to your aviary means you can play the corresponding card to the correct habitat area for that bird.

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| Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2019

Village

New villagers are born, work hard and then die. The game holds a mirror up to life. Up to four generations of a family ply their trade in the village: players harvest crops, raise animals, produce wagons or ploughs. They sell goods, go into politics, find religion or travel across the land. Through all these

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| Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2012

Die Quacksalber von Quedlinburg

Mandrake root, ghost breath and toadstool. As quack doctors, players brew up new potions out of all sorts of unusual ingredients. These potions aren’t prepared according to some strict recipe but rather through pure chance: each player gradually draws ingredients out of their own mixed up bag of supplies. Most of the ingredients have positive

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| Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2018

Isle of Skye

Who will be king of the Isle of Skye? Chieftains fight for this title by expanding their clan’s territory. Starting from their own castle, players lay landscape tiles in order to claim fields, waters and mountains, breed animals, construct new buildings and increase their income. Only those who are cautious with their money and clever

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| Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2016