Magic Rabbit
Julie Dutois, Romaric Galonnier, Ludovic Simonet and Cécile Ziégler | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2022
This classic magician’s trick never fails to delight adults as well as children. “Magic Rabbit” manages to cleverly capture this fascination with the magician’s act. As a group we have to work together to hide nine rabbits underneath nine matching hats. At the beginning of the …
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Kuzooka
Leo Colovini | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2023
Full board and lots of visitors: as nice as the zoo may be, the animals still want to escape. This mass animal jail break requires a certain number of the same type of tool, which you receive as a hand of playing cards. You can’t show …
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My Gold Mine
Michael Loth, Christof Schilling and Hans Joachim Höh | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2022
With great risk comes great reward. That’s the motto of “My Gold Mine”. Players take on the role of brave dwarves, searching for hidden hoards of gold in a dangerous dungeon. Unfortunately the expedition has awoken the resident dragon and they’ve made it mad! Each round …
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Mantis
Ken Gruhl und Jeremy Posner | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2023
To steal or not to steal? That’s the question here! The top card of the draw pile shows three colours – but only one of these is on the front of the card. Now you need to decide: steal or score? Going on a stealing spree …
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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 …
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QE
Gavin Birnbaum | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2023
Economic crisis? Help! Players take on the role of nations aiming to save companies that are supposedly “too big to fail”. One junk company after another will go under the hammer. You need to secretly write down a bid: thousands? Tens of thousands? Millions? It doesn’t …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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