Less is more – and who knows that better than the fairytale character Lucky Hans? He starts out with gold and after merrily making a number of trades he ends up happy with nothing. This game is a playful monument to this master of minimalism. Each …
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What a day! It’s time for the entrance exam for wizard school and the little wizards are performing warm up exercises for their hands and necks. But most importantly: their heads. Because this is no normal magic test, where you have to transform your unpleasant classmate …
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Here comes the rolling knight rushing into battle. His journey continues through jungles and ice worlds, dark arches and bright forests for 20 levels. “Slide Quest” converts worlds you might recognise from computer games with lots of retro charm, knowing winks and loving illustrations into a …
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Out of the zoo and onto the racetrack. Thanks to its variable game board, “Zoo Run” is two races in one. In the co-operative variant, up to four older children work together to help the animals escape before the keeper notices anything. Then in the competition …
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“Box”, “dice”, “play”, “fun”. What could these words possibly be describing? Easy: a board game! In the co-operative game Just One, one player has to guess a word. The clues aren’t provided by the game but by the rest of the players. Without discussing it with …
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Everyone likes llamas! In the speedy card game Lama, the llama isn’t just the mascot for the game but also provides the German acronym “Lege alle Minuspunkte ab” (something like “Leave All your Minus points Aside”). Behind this slogan lies a simple principle for how to …
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The name of this game (“Who did it”?) and the cute animal illustrations are definitely aimed at children. But Who Did It? can be fun for grown-ups too, especially grown-ups who are still children at heart. Which means us. We have to free our own pets …
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It’s anarchy on animal farm – Farmer Fridolin and guard dog Lilli are having difficulties keeping the cheeky piglet and the rest of its animal friends under control. With a little bit of luck from cards and dice, children can work together to help the farmer …
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Moo – Meow – Baa! Cow – Cat – Sheep! It’s easy to recognise animals from the kind of noise they make. But what if you had to guess an animal just from its different characteristics – whether it’s big or small, where it lives and …
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