2F-Spiele Friedemann Friese goes to ancient Egypt. His Essen release Faiyum will be a longer game, clocking in around the[…]
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Meople News: Glass on the Wharf
Lookout Games Lookout Games have announced their new two player game. Glasgow, by new designer Mandela Fernandez-Grandon, is an action[…]
Read moreMeople News: The Dark Bakery
Grail Games Now that I think about it, it’s been quite a while since we talked about a new Reiner[…]
Read moreSpiel des Jahres 2020
One of the big gaming events of the year has been cancelled, the Spiel 2020 is not going to happen[…]
Read moreMeople News: Dogs on the Coral Wall
Grail Games Reiner Knizia’s Medici is spawning a new offshot: Medici: The Dice Game. It’s still all about loading goods[…]
Read moreL.a.m.a.
Lama is the German word for llama. No big conceptual leap there. L.a.m.a. is, at least in Reiner Knizia’s vocabulary, an abbreviation for “lege alle Minuspunkte ab”. Discard all minus points. You could translate the title by its abbreviation, but then an eventual English edition would be called D.a.m.p., and whatever depiction you pick for that would be much less adorable than the crazy llama L.a.m.a. has. And so the international publishers have stuck with the adorable tylopod.
Linguistics lesson aside, L.a.m.a. is a small box card game that is nominated for the Spiel des Jahres this year. Not at all bad for a relatively simple shedding game and worth a look what makes it special.
Spiel des Jahres 2019 – The Nominees
Unbelievable! I get sick for a couple of days and the Spiel des Jahres jury inconsiderately publishes this year’s nomination[…]
Read moreQuest for El Dorado
Welcome to the jungle we’ve got fun and games. It’s a little known fact that Guns N’ Roses recorded this song in just one take, with no written music or lyrics, after trying an early prototype of Reiner Knizia’s The Quest for El Dorado. Yeah, those guys are gamers, too.
The Quest for El Dorado packs everything the lyrics promise. There’s quite a lot of jungle, because that’s where the fabled city of El Dorado happens to be. And there’s a lot of fun and games for the whole family, because El Dorado is a family deck building game with enough fun in the box to earn a nomination for the 2017 Spiel des Jahres.
Read moreMeople News: Fishing on Venus
Due to technical difficulties, the news post from Friday last week is only out this week. We aplogies for the[…]
Read moreSpiel des Jahres 2017
Is it really that time of the year again already? I could swear we just had an Essen fair, and suddenly the jury is announcing Spiel des Jahres nominees. Time does fly when you’re having more new boardgame releases than anyone could ever play. But here it is, and so we’re going to do what I guess most of you want: tell you about the nominees!
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