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Topp die Torte

Layer by layer, the young bakers stack their cake. But do the layers actually match? Using only their sense of proportion, children try to choose a new cake layer so that as many fillings as possible align with the previous one — and ideally, with the ones before that as well. Each match earns them

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| Nominated for Kinderspiel des Jahres | 2025

HiLo: Dein Königreich

Once upon a time, there was a classic game: „HiLo: Dein Königreich“ draws on one of the most beloved gameplay ideas and transports it to a magical realm. In the beginning of the game, each player has twelve cards laid out in two rows. By the end, everyone has built their own kingdom — populated

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| Recommendation list Kinderspiel des Jahres | 2025

Passt nicht!

Many card games want you to play cards from your hand onto a communal discard pile with the winner being the first player to get rid of all their cards. ‘Passt nicht!’ turns this well-known concept on its head. In order to score points at the end of a round, you’ll need to not be

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2024

Große kleine Edelsteine

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

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| Nominated for Kinderspiel des Jahres | 2024

Mit Quacks & Co. nach Quedlinburg (Quacks & Co. Quedlinburg Dash)

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

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| Nominated for Kinderspiel des Jahres | 2022

Die Nadel im Heuhaufen

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

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| Recommendation list Kinderspiel des Jahres | 2024

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

Hipp Hopp Hippo

Across the river and over to the bananas on the other bank – the monkeys know that the quickest route is to take the Hippo-Express. In “Hipp Hopp Hippo”, the monkeys jump straight in but sometimes a hippo will disappear under the water, then the monkeys have to return to the riverside empty-handed. A pushing

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| Recommendation list Kinderspiel des Jahres | 2021