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 begins at this moment of escape. Everyone’s running straight
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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Carrots, tomatoes, onions, cabbages or peppers? Let’s not argue about which of these are healthy and tasty ingredients for a salad – and which don’t belong at all… Let’s instead discuss which vegetable or scoring card from the draw piles fits best with our platter of culinary delights. The key is that each of the
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This is the story of the determined captain. And of the clever girl. And of the brave knight and his fair maid. Storytailors is a game that’s also a kind of interactive book. It contains ten fairytale-type stories and manages to avoid cliché through its cast of characters. The game is therefore aimed at children
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In the fast-paced bluffing game “Spicy”, it’s easy to get your fingers burned. Players take turns to play face-down wasabi, chilli and pepper cards with increasing levels of heat. You can’t always find the right spice in your hand, so you might have to slip some unwanted ingredients into the pot. If your opponents get
Robots can do lots of things: fly, turn into cars, translate foreign languages, save damsels in distress … But in general you can separate robots into three speed categories: slow, normal and fast. This is the only information the other players have when the robot-player navigates the race track with their eyes and then indicates
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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 play your cards. You can only play a card
Scheinbar wahllos legen die Spieler reihum Ziffern auf dem Tableau ab. „Miss Lupun“, die Hohepriesterin der Logik, stellt jedem Mitspieler vier kinderleichte Legeaufgaben, aus denen sie sich jeweils drei auswählen. Mal sollen sich an zwei Stellen auf dem Spielplan die gleichen Ziffern befinden, mal soll eine ganz konkrete Zahlensumme einer Reihe erreicht oder in einer
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Eek! Ravenous monsters are invading Donut City. They are looking for sweet treats to feed their enormous appetites. Ten different creatures lie face-up on the table – one is staring at you with five eyeballs, another waving with four arms or balancing on just one leg. Two dice determine what number of which feature the
