Around the border between Canada and the Northwest USA you can find the region of ‘Cascadia’, famous for the extraordinary diversity of its plant and animal life. In the tile-laying game of the same name, up to four nature-lovers compete to create a habitat rich in victory points, connecting matching landscape tiles to form as
You can well imagine that even in the colourful world of the circus there’s fierce competition for the best talent. That’s certainly the case in this card game, where we take on the role of talent scouts, looking to pinch the best performers from our opponents to add them to our own circus. Although this
On a scale of 1 to 10: how useful would gold-plated barbecue tongs be in a shipwreck? These are the absurd scenarios players are asked to contemplate in the creative party game “Top Ten.” To help guide you, all players each receive a secret number card with a value between 1 and 10. Players then
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 for the necessary resources, represented by two face-up decks
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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
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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
Apples, corn and berries will get Quacks the donkey and his friends’ motors running. These are the stars of the wild race game “Quacks & Co.”, the child-friendly reimplementation of “The Quacks of Quedlinburg”, which won the Kennerspiel des Jahres award in 2018. Like its big brother, the children’s version sees players drawing tokens out
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It’s time for the vampire party. But what’s that? The vampires are still asleep! Only one thing can help – a bit of garlic in their graves to wake them up. Players can use vampire bats like hockey sticks, to try and get the cloves of garlic into the vampires’ graves. And if that wasn’t
In “The Adventures of Robin Hood” we get to experience the well-known stories from the other side, literally. A companion book leads us through a total of seven chapters of co-operative adventures in Sherwood Forest. The game board looks like an advent calendar, with numbered tiles you can pop out to reveal guards, castle gates
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