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Tag: Essen

Essen 2015 – Internationale Spieltage SPIEL

11 October, 2015 Kai Featured

Another Essen fair has come and gone, and as always we’ve had a blast. Loads of great new games to[…]

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Essen 2014: Day 1

Essen 2014: Day 3

19 October, 2014 Kai Featured, News

That thing that I said about Essen seeming emptier than last year? Forget about it. Day 3 was more crowded[…]

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Essen 2014: Day 1

Essen 2014: Day 2

17 October, 2014 Kai Featured, News

The second day in Essen (see here for yesterday’s post, but most information is in the Flickr album) and we[…]

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Essen 2014: Day 1

Essen 2014: Day 1

16 October, 2014 Kai Featured, News

The first day of Essen is already over, and while we did see a lot of games and met some[…]

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Essen 2012: Wrapping it up

22 October, 2012 Kai Featured, News

The last day of Essen was short for us, we arrived late and many booths left early, but we tried[…]

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Essen 2012: Day 3

20 October, 2012 Kai Featured, News

Essen is odd this year, for reasons that completely escape me, the Saturday wasn’t much fuller than the weekdays –[…]

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Essen 2012: Day 1 and 2

19 October, 2012 Kai Featured, News

Although our Essen Saga started yesterday already, we could only start writing down the Chronicles of Essen 2012 today. Yesterday[…]

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Spiel 2011: Day 3 – A Banquet in the Arctic

22 October, 2011 Kai Featured, News

Today it was our own fault the day was short – we got up late to go to the fair[…]

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Spiel 2011: Day 2 – Evolved Dungeon Fiefdom

21 October, 2011 Kai Featured, News

Our hopes for the second day of Essen didn’t quite work out the way we wanted to – first we[…]

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Spiel 2011: Day 1 – A Fistful of Souvlaki

20 October, 2011 Kai Featured, News

Time flies when you’re having fun and our first day at Essen was much too short. Aren’t they all? Despite[…]

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  • Canterbury

    Games where you build cities are not exactly new. But they rarely go into the logistics of it, things like “before you build a theater there, shouldn’t you supply food and water”? Canterbury goes into that part of building cities, but it doesn’t need complicated rules for it. Just make sure you build things in order and make sure you get the majorities in supplying city districts, because that’s how you win.

  • The Game

    This is the game you will never find on Google. Because the name of the game is The Game, and that’s just not very distinctive. The Game is a cooperative card game that was nominated for the 2015 Spiel des Jahres. It’s small and abstract, but that doesn’t say anything about how much fun it is.

  • Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia

    “Build a Better Dystopia” is not a phrase you hear every day. Better for who, you will probably ask. Better for you, that’s who! Because who else matters? When you talk about creating a better Dystopia, that means better for you, and that means that you’re in charge of the whole thing. Can you get there?

  • Papà Paolo

    Naples, the birthplace of pizza, is being invaded. Local businesses selling pizza are under attack by a foreign product: French Fries. Papà Paolo, the master pizzaiolo, is obviously offended by foreign food trying to take over his city. Up to four up-and-coming pizza bakers compete to become the great baker’s successor in Papà Paolo. They don’t actually beat back invading fried potatoes, but they will build their own, little pizza empire. And in the end, that’s what really counts, right?

  • Copycat

    What comes out when you take two popular games, add some dashes of more games, and then run that mix through a cocktail shaker? That’s what Friedemann Friese wanted to know when he created Copycat from odds and ends of the Top Ten games on BoardGameGeek. And what came out … well, read for yourself.

  • Space Alert

    Space is big. Big and empty. That’s what our science teachers told us. It’s also dead – and deadly – wrong. Wherever our exploration vessel shows up, nasty things are just waiting to blow us up. To get back in one piece, all players have to cooperate and deal with a tight time limit while the computer is yelling at them about everything going wrong.

  • Northwest Passage Adventures

    The way from Europe to the western coast of the US and Canada used to be one of the hardest. You either unloaded everything and travelled by land, or you went all the way around Cape Horn, at the tip of South America. Not a fun trip. There had long been speculation that a passage exists around the north of the continent, but many set out to find it, and for a long time they returned without success. And then, when someone finally managed to go all the way by boat, it still was hard, and dangerous, and the Panama Canal opened just a few years later. But they did find the Northwest Passage. And so can you.

  • Crows

    Crows is a game about crows. And shiny objects. It’s a game that has crow meeple, and many chances to screw your opponents out of points they thought were safe already. It’s also a game that has crow meeple, did I mention that?

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