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 and capturing a species from another player’s tank means
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 related to the story we get to hear snippets
Charlie Bink | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2024
Island-hopping is a thing of the past. The future of tourism lies in visiting historically important events in time. Discuss the art of war over breakfast in 506 BCE with the Chinese general Sun Tzu, then take afternoon tea with Marie Curie in 1911, before enjoying an evening at the legendary Live Aid concert with
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 for the combination of “apple” and “man” you might
Kaya Miyano | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2024
Three times three – that’s how you win the game of ‘Trio’. The game is made up of three sets of cards numbered one to twelve – some will be in players’ hands, others face-down in the middle of the table. The aim is to carefully interrogate your opponents to find three sets of three:
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 sets of cards with the same symbol or else
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 result from these. The unique part is that players
Wolfgang Warsch | Nominated for Kinderspiel des Jahres | 2024
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
Kasper Lapp | Recommendation list Spiel des Jahres | 2023
Newspaper, magnifying glass, roller skate, fried egg, computer. Surely it’s possible to remember this small number of objects… or so you would think. But while the fried egg card is always passed clockwise around the table – face-down of course – the roller skate goes in the other direction. Whenever you receive a new gift,