Eselsbrücke is one of this year’s nominees for the Spiel des Jahres award. It’s a memory game with a fun mechanic, and really quite taxing for your memory. But is that enough to win the prestigous award?
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Kennerspiel des Jahres 2012
Can you smell it? It’s that time of the year again. Smells of excitement. The nominees for the three German[…]
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The Settlers of Catan
The Settlers of Catan is the game that started the world wide eurogame craze. Sooner or later, everyone getting into boardgames will come across it, and if you haven’t yet we’ll gladly introduce you.
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Elfenland
This week we have a nostalgic look at Elfenland, a game about the invention of route planner software and a game from the US that made it to the German market before that was a common occurence.
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Kennerspiel des Jahres – what is it?
The Spiel des Jahres jury published a video on their website this week explaining the differences between the Game of[…]
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Spiel des Jahres 2011 – The Winners
The jury has chosen, the winners for this year’s Spiel des Jahres and for the first ever Kennerspiel des Jahres[…]
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Spiel des Jahres 2011 – The Jury Recommends
After we looked at the Spiel, Kennerspiel and Kinderspiel des Jahres nominees, there is one group of games we haven’t[…]
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Kinderspiel des Jahres 2011 – The Nominees
Now, I may not be the most qualified person to talk about kids games. I haven’t played any since I[…]
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Kennerspiel des Jahres 2011 – The Nominees
Happy Towel Day, everyone! After Monday’s quick look at the nominees for the good old Spiel des Jahres, today we’ll[…]
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Spiel des Jahres 2011 – The Nominees
As just about everyone with a Twitter account announced today, the nominees for Spiel des Jahres 2011 were announced. This[…]
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