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Ghost Writer (Phantom Ink)

Mary Flanagan, Max Seidmann | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2024

It’s not easy to communicate with the living when you’re dead. This psychic medium only understands what you’re saying letter by letter and a curse means that you’re not able to name any object directly. Instead, people keep asking ridiculous questions like “If the object was …

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7 Wonders: Architects

Antoine Bauza | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2022

The seven wonders of the ancient world stand at the heart of “7 Wonders: Architects”. Up to seven players will each manage the construction of one of these projects. Although it’s not strictly historically accurate, they all do so at the same time. There’s stiff competition …

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Harmonies

Johan Benvenuto | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2024

‘Harmonies’ evokes the interconnectedness of flora and fauna: the players’ main objective is to create landscapes out of round building tokens in order to attract animals. Each creature has their own specific idea of where trees, mountains and fields should be best located in relation to …

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Hitster

Marcus Carleson | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2023

What’s better than listening to music? Obviously listening to music and making a game out of it! In “Hitster” you are attempting to guess when songs were released. This app-based game uses the music streaming service Spotify to play a hit. The songs can come from …

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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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Passt nicht!

Thomas Weber | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2024

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 …

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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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Schätz it if you can

Ralf zur Linde | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2024

Would you have known which boy’s name was more common in 2023? David or Noah? Or was it Andrew? Hand on heart – probably not! But with a bit of careful consideration you can make an informed guess. And that’s what makes ‘Schätz it if you …

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