Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres

Simsala… Bumm?

It’s the final wizard studies exam: you’ll need to summon a dragon, conjure up spirits or impress the competition with storms and fireballs – the necessary repertory in “Abraca…what?” is made up of eight magic spells. But which one is next? Each player has five personal spellstones showing this but you can only see the

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2015

Voll Schaf

Today’s modern flocks of sheep are taking their fate into their own hooves. If the pasture beco mes too small, they arrange their own borders for themselves. In this fast and entertaining tactical game, players split their towers of sheep however they wish and move the newly created troop in a straight line across the

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2014

Woodlands

Little Red Riding Hood is on her way to visit Grandmother and must avoid the wolf. Robin Hood wants to get one over on the Sheriff of Nottingham, King Arthur wants to reach the round table and Dracula is wreaking havoc in Transylvania. In the tile-laying game Woodlands, players will meet characters from four different

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2018

Hand aufs Herz

In this party game questions are answered without speaking. The left hand means “no” and the right hand “yes”. Which hand belongs on the bright red heart in the middle of the table? One of the players reads out a question. All the others must guess the answer. The faster a player’s hand reaches the

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2013

La Boca

Welcome to La Boca, a quarter of Buenos Aires characterised by brightly painted houses. The aim of this communicative construction game is to recreate such colourful facades using ten to eleven wooden blocks. Two facing players team up to quickly solve this challenge. The special clou of the game: the task card inserted into the

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2013

Mixtour

Deploying game pieces, building towers, moving towers around: this abstract, strategic game for two players follows known patterns but breaks with the typical rules for such moves. Paramount for the range of a move is not the number of pieces with which the moving tower is built, but rather the height of the tower on

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2013

Rondo

Players take ornately carved stone discs from the bag and initially place them on their own racks. In later moves the stones will be placed onto the double-sided game board – on number fields of matching colour and always in a contiguous fashion. How is it possible to collect many points? Several identically coloured stones

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2013

Riff Raff

This game of skill is a genuine eye catcher: a big wooden galleon rolls around on a mountainous wave in the game box. Due to its gimbal mounting, it easily gets out of balance and begins to swing to and fro. The higher the cargo is stowed in the yardarms, the sooner it will slide

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2013

Yay!

In this dice game the players need not just luck, but also deftness in throwing the dice. Not just the number of pips, but also the position of the three dice in the wooden arena is important. The sum of the pips may only be entered into those of the 64 squares on the board

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2013
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