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CONTENTS: WIN 527/528 March/April 2019
Review:
Blackout Hong Kong – Complex development game for 1-4 players, ages 14+, by Alexander Pfister at Plan B Games /eggertspiele / Pegasus Spiele 2018, ca. 150 min
Forum Trajanum – Development game for 2-4 players, ages 12+, by Stefan Feld at Huch! 2018, ca. 120 min
Ground Floor – Economics game for 1-5 players, ages 12+, by David Short at Spielworxx 2018, ca. 120 min
Presentation:
8Bit Box – Collection of games for 2-6 players, ages 6+, by Frank Crittin and Grégoire Largey at Iello / Hutter Trade 2018, ca. 40 min
20 Questions – Guessing game for 2-6 players, ages 8+ by Robert A. Moog and Scott Medrick at Piatnik 2018, ca. 45 min
Activity Solo & Team – Creative communications game for 3-10 players, ages 12+, by Paul Catty and Ernst Führer at Piatnik 2019, variable playing game
Alone – Space adventure for 2-4 players, ages 14+, by Andrea Crespi and Lorenzo Silva at Horrible Games 2018, ca. 120 min
Animale Tattica – Card game for 2-4 players, ages 14+, by Susumu Kawasaki at Kawasaki Factory / Japon Brand 2018, ca. 30 min
Coinx logicus – Placement puzzles for 1 player, ages 5+, by Guy Jeandel at Huch! 2019, variable playing time
Counterfeiters – Worker placement game for 2-4 players, ages 13+, by Olivier Bourgeois at Quined Games 2018, ca. 35 min
Deadline – Deduction game for 2-4 players, ages 12+, by Adam B. West and Dan Schnake at Pegasus Spiele 2018, ca. 90 min
Der Vetternkrieg – Conflict simulation for 2 players, ages 12+, by David A. Mortimer at Frosted Games 2018, ca. 30 min
Dice Settlers – Dice driven 4X game for 2-4 players, ages 14+, by Dávid Turczi bei NSKN Games 2018, ca. 60 min
Dizzle – Dice game for 1-4 players, ages 8+, by Ralf zur Linde at Schmidt Spiele 2019, ca, 20 min
Don’t Mess with Cthulhu – Deduction game plus two expansions for 4-8 players, ages 14+, by Yusuke Sato, Travis Worthington and Pete Vasiliauskas at Indie Boards & Cards 2018, ca. 20 min
Drachenschreck – Dice game for 2-4 players, ages 4+, by Benjamin Schwer at Haba 2018, ca. 15 min
Fast Forward: Fatal – Fast Forward Fable game for 3-5 players, ages 10+, by Friedemann Friese at 2F-Spiele 2018, ca. 15 min
Great Western Trail Rails to the North – Expansion for Great Western Trail for 2-4 players, ages 12+, by Alexander Pfister at Plan B Games / eggertspiele / Pegasus Spiele 2018, ca. 150 min
Hakenschlagen – Race and positioning game for 2-5 players, ages 2-5, by Dieter Stein at Gerhards Spiel und Design 2018, ca. 30-40 min
Helltoken: Remote Control Robot – Deduction game for 2-3 players, ages 12+, by Kyo Tumuki and Melon Uminekozawa at Ram Clear / Japon Brand 2018, ca. 30 min
Hempels Sofa – Memo game for 2-4 players, ages 5+, by Marco Teubner at Haba 2019, ca. 20 min
Hochspannung – Calculation game with cards for 2-6 players, ages 10+, by Maureen Hiron at Amigo Spiele 2019, ca. 20 min
Honeycombs – Tile placement game for 1-8 players, ages 6+, by Dave Clarke at Piatnik 2018, ca. 30 min
Isle of Skye Druiden – Expansion for Isle of Skye for 2-5 players, ages 10+, by Alexander Pfister and Andreas Pelikan at Lookout Spiele 2018, ca. 75 min
Just One – Word guessing game for 3-7 players, ages 8+, by Ludovic Roudy and Bruno Sautter at Repos Production 2018, ca. 20 min
Kingdom Run – Race game for 2-4 players, ages 7+, by Eric Claverie at Ankama 2018, ca. 15 min
Knapp Daneben – Dice game for 1-5 players, ages 8+, by Andreas Kuhnekath-Häbler at Schmidt Spiele 2018, ca. 20 min
Knaster – Dice gme for 1-12 players, ages 8+, by Markus Schleininger, Reinhard Staupe and Heinz Wüppen at nsv 2019, ca. 15 min
Krasse Kacke – Reaction game for 3-6 players, ages 6+, by Jonathan Favre-Godal at Pegasus Spiele 2018, ca. 15 min
Kross the Wordz – Wort finding game for 2-5 players, ages 10+, by Michael Feldkötter at moses. Verlag 2019, ca. 25 min
Li-La-Laut – Listening and guessing game for 2-6 players, ages 5+, by Reinhard Staupe at nsv Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag 2018, ca. 10 min
Lifestyle – Dice game for cards, for 2-5 players, ages 10+, at Amigo Spiele 2018, ca. 45 min
Magnificent Flying Machines – Flying-race game for 2-6 players, ages 12+, by Richard Denning at Medusa Games 2018, ca. 150 min
Monopoly Gamer Mario Kart – Monopoly variant for 2-4 players, ages 8+, at Hasbro 2018, ca. 90 min
Monster Meister – Memo game for 2-4 players, ages 7+, by Maja and Amelie Dorn at Zoch Verlag 2018, ca. 15 min
Monstrite – Auction and placement game for 2-5 players, ages 10+, by Riccardo Remo Appino and Pierluca Zizzi at Stratelibri / Giochi Uniti 2018, ca. 90 min
Mopsen – Trick-taking game for 3-5 players, ages 8+, by Andreas Pelikan at HUCH! 2019, ca. 20 min
Mosquitozzz – Card game for 2-4 players, ages 10+, by Stefan Bürger and Christopher Mann at Sphinx Spieleverlag 2018, ca. 20-40 min
Natives – Collecting game with cards for 2-4 players, ages 10+, by Trehgrannik = Anatoly Shklyarov, Alexey Paltsev and Alexey Konnov at Kosmos Verlag 2019, ca. 30 min
Outback – Dice and placement game for 2-4 players, ages 8+, by Michael Kiesling at Huch! 2018, ca. 30 min
Pearls – Set collecting game for 2-6 players, ages 6+, by Christian Fiore and Knut Happel at Abacusspiele 2019, ca. 15 min
Petzi Pfannkuchenparty – Race and dexterity game for 2-4 players, ages 5+, by Wolfgang Dirscherl at Schmidt Spiele 2018, ca. 20 min
Roll Player – Dice game for 1-4 players, ages 10+, by Keith Matejka at Pegasus Spiele 2018, ca. 90 min
Schicht im Schacht – Card placement game for 2-6 players, ages 8+, by Anna Oppolzer and Stefan Kloß at moses. Verlag 2018, ca. 15 min
Schneck di-wupp – Race game for 2-4 players, ages 5+, by Wilfried and Marie Fort at Haba 2018, ca. 15 min
Schwarzwald – 50 Rätsel mit Ausflugstipps – Questions/answers puzzle game for 2 or more players, ages 12+, by Sonja Klein at Gmeiner Verlag 2019, variable playing time
Second Chance – Area filling game for 1-6 players, ages 8+, by Uwe Rosenberg at Edition Spielwiese / Pegasus Spiele 2019, ca. 15 min
Skylands – Tile placement game for 2-4 players, ages 8+, by Shun and Aya Taguchi at Queen Games 2018, ca. 30 min
Space Escape – Cooperative moving game for 2-4 players, ages 7+, by Matt Leacock at Game Factory 2018, ca. 20 min
Terraforming Mars: Prelude – Erxpansion for Terraforming Mars for 1-5 players, ages 12+, by Jacob Fryxelius at Fryxgames / Stronghold Games 2018, ca. 90-120 min
The Wall – Quiz game based on the TV show, for 3-6 players, ages 8/10+, at Ravensburger 2018, ca. 30 min
Valparaiso – Resources management for 2-5 players, ages 12+, by Stefan & Louis Malz at dlp Games 2018, ca. 90 min
Wangdo – Placement and collecting game for 2-4 players, ages 8+, by Frank Crittin, Grégoire Largey and Sébastien Pauchon bei Mandoo Games 2018, ca. 30 min
Wendake New Allies – Expansion for Wendake for 2-4 players, ages 14+, by Danilo Sabia and P.S. Martensen at Placentia Games 2018, ca. 150 min
Wettlauf nach El Dorado Helden & Dämonen – Die 1. Erweiterung zu Wettlauf nach Eldorado für 2-4 Spieler ab 10 Jahren von Reiner Knizia bei Ravensburger 2018, ca. 60 min
Wildlands – Fantasy confrontation for 2-4 players, ages 14, by Martin Wallace at Osprey Games 2018, ca. 30-60 min
Wühlmäuse – Search and memo game for 2-5 players, ages 5+, by Jens-Peter Schliemann and Guido Hoffmann at Drei Hasen in der Abendsonne 2019, ca. 20 min
Yu-Ca-Tan – Dice game for 2-5 players, ages 8+, by Carlo Emanuele Lanzavecchia at moses. Verlag 2018, ca. 15 min
Zwischen zwei Schlössern – Cooperative placement game for 3-7 players, ages 10+, by Ben Rosset and Matthew O’Malley at Feuerland Spiele 2018, ca. 60 min
Gallery:
Black Stories Dark Night Edition – Communicative deduction for 2-4 players, ages 12+, by Maximilian Schulz and Simon Meßmer at moses. Verlag 2019, variable playing time
Das große Polizeispiel – Roll & move game for 2-4 players, aes 5+, at Noris Spiele 2018, ca. 20-30 min
Deckscape Hinter dem Vorhang – Escape Room game with cards, for 1-6 players, ages 12+, by Martino Chiacchiera and Silvano Sorrentino at Abacusspiele 2019, ca. 60 min
Kinderspiele Sammlung – Games compendium for 2-6 players, ages 4+, at Piatnik 2019, ca. 15 min per game
Mr. Cabbagehead’s Garden Maisy Ballentyne – Expansion for the card placement game for 1-2 players, ages 14+, by Todd Sanders at LudiCreations 2018, ca. 20 min
Popeye The Sailorman Torschuss Panik – Dice game with soccer topic for 1-5 players, ages 8+, by Andreas Schmidt at cartingo 2018, ca. 15 min
Railroad Ink Deep Blue Edition – Track construction game for 1-6 players, ages 8+, by Hjalmar Hach and Lorenzo Silva at CMON / Horrible Games 2018, ca. 30 min
Tabu Familien-Edition – Vocabulary game for 4 or more players, ages 8+, at Hasbro 2018, ca. 45 min
Tramways The Residences of Small City The Green Expansion for Tramways for 1-5 players, ages 14+, by Alban Viard at AV Studio Games 2018, ca. 120 min
Feature:
As d’Or 2019