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Käpt’n Kuller

Beware loose cannons! The pirate crew has collected their booty – jewels and gold coins – and arranged it all nice and neat. Now it has to be split between the crew. Who gets the most? The crew decide in the traditional way: by bowling. At least that’s the way in Käpt’n Kuller”. The game

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| Recommendation list Kinderspiel des Jahres | 2021

Dizzle

Presumably “Dizzle” is a new portmanteau word from the words “dice” and “puzzle”. There’s no real evidence to suggest that is the case but it does a good job of describing this game in two… sorry… in one word. It’s a puzzle using dice – on score sheets which show exactly on which spaces which

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2019

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

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

Ganz schön clever

Players are on the hunt for points in the dice game Ganz schön clever. The more effectively players can use the results of three out of six dice on their score sheet, the more chain reactions they start. The colour of the dice being scored dictates on which area of the sheet you can cross

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| Nominated for Kennerspiel des Jahres | 2018

Tempel des Schreckens

A group of adventurers sets off in search of the legendary treasure of a mysterious jungle temple. But no-one banked on the guardians, who will try and prevent the gold and jewels of their ancestors being stolen – at any cost! To that end, they have hidden deadly fire-traps in the temple. Both sides are

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| Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2017

Qwirkle

The display of black varnished, brightly patterned wooden blocks on the table grows quickly. In each row you may only place blocks with the same pattern but of a different colour. Or different patterns in the same colour: for example circle, square and star in red. Each player can place more than one block. These

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| Spiel des Jahres | 2011

Eselsbrücke

“Eselsbrücke” literally means “donkey bridge” but is used to refer to a mnemonic – a way of remembering lists of things. That’s what you’ll need in this game, where you have to tell the other players a story featuring each of the items on three randomly chosen picture tiles. For example: Red Riding Hood, sunglasses,

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| Nominated for Spiel des Jahres | 2012

Die verbotene Insel

The Forbidden Island is sinking. Some of the 24 tiles are already under water at the beginning of the game and the rest of the island is slowly going under. The adventurers have to hurry to find the four artefacts before the island disappears for good. They need team work and planning to do this,

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| Nominated for Spiel des Jahres | 2011