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Photo Impression of .... Gigawatt
Designer Milo van Holsteijn, Wouter Vink
Europe, end of 20th century. Our economy runs entirely on fossil gas and coal-fired power plants. Climate change is a fact. Which region will have sustainable (non-fossil) electricity production first and wins the game?
Each game round, the electricity demand (in GigaWatt) in your region increases due to the fate of the Dice. It's up to you to build power stations to produce the required GW demand. This provides you with income, with which you can eventually close the old fossil power stations and replace them with sustainable power stations that do not emit CO2. You can trade GW surpluses and GW shortages with the other players or External Markets to balance supply and demand.
So are you going to increase sustainability quickly (with the risk of GW shortages), or are you more careful (at the risk of being late)? The region that is the first to produce more GW than the GW demand and has closed all its fossil power plants, wins. But beware, wind and solar energy sometimes only generate half of their GW power peak.
Passionated game enthusiasts - The Artist & Designers Milo, Yvonne and Wouter of Gigawatt @ Spellenspektakel 2021 Jaarbeurs in Utrecht - The Netherlands
At a trade fair in the Netherlands I
met a number of enthusiastic game enthusiasts who, from their own field of work in the energy market, have developed a board game that fits in very nicely with the current energy issue to make and use clean energy. Awareness raising and also how to convey this change process really easily with all its complexity is elegantly accomplished here in the colorful and above all energetic theme.
Our economy runs entirely on fossil gas and coal-fired power plants
Actions Cards - Conection Subsidy
Overview
A beautifully full and colorful playing field with pleasant iconography
It's up to you to build power stations to produce the required GW demand - Close Up during the game
CO2 Tax Card - Player have to make their contribution of co2 emission
A colorful competition in competition, supply and demand in the energy market
Power Plant Market
Close up during the game
The region that is the first to produce more GW than the GW demand and has closed all its fossil power plants, wins
Europe, end of 20th century the transition of Fossil engery to green engery is needed
Wind Subsidy - Action Cards - Players View
Game Overview in a 6 player game
Box & Components
The promotion energy from my daughter
North Sea Region
Energetic designers Milo & Wouter of Gigawatt
Let go green!
Energy and fun from my daughter
A contribution from my daughter Yinthe who also wants to make her contribution presentable for your future also enjoyed by her generation.
Photo Impression of ....
A small blog of photo impressions of art, composition, colors from boardgames.
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Photo Impression of .... Honey Buzz - Happy Meeple Edition
Honey Buzz is like a Maya the bee who becomes queen of the beehive and has to hold sway to start the free market economy by collecting and marketing the nector as smartly and efficiently as possible. It looks nice and family friendly and it plays! The power of simplicity but with flair! The mechanisms work intuitively and logically. Collect, store and market. Searching for the right honey in the field because it yields the most. You let your bee colony grow with it just like the size of the honeycomb. Smart, efficient, ecological and tactical construction is self-evident here. I liked the sunny and cheerful design, the pleasant parts and the accessibility. In my opinion an inviting family game with a quick challenge!
My Daughter Yinthe presents Honey Buzz
The bees have discovered economics. The queens believe that if they sell honey to the bears, badgers, and woodland creatures, they will find peace and prosperity. Spring has arrived and it's time to build the hive, find nectar, make honey, and, for the first time ever, set up shop.
Some Lovey Nector Candy in Honey Buzz
Spring has arrived and it's time to build the hive, find nectar, make honey, and, for the first time ever, set up shop
Trading the Honey
The starting player who has eaten the most honey gets to spread their wings first in the Honey business
The expansion of the Honeycomb
Sell honey to the bears, badgers, and woodland creatures
Game in Progress
Honey Buzz is a worker bee placement game where players expand a personal beehive by drafting various honeycomb tiles that grant actions that are triggered throughout the game. Each tile represents a different action. Whenever a tile is laid so that it completes a certain pattern, a ring of actions is triggered in whatever order the player chooses. A tile drafted on turn one could be triggered up to three times at any point during the game. It all depends on how the player places their beeples and builds their hive. After all, in the honey business, efficiency is queen.
The Trading Market
Buzzy in the Flower Fields
With collecting Honey
After collecting you have special deliveries
The land of milk and ....
The queens believe that if they sell honey to the bears, badgers, and woodland creatures, they will find peace and prosperity
New Born Help in coming
Valuable raw materials for exchange of better stuff
A Honey Trade Center
As you continually expand your hive, you'll forage for nectar and pollen, make honey, sell different varieties at the bear market, host honey tastings, and attend to the queen and her court. There's only so much nectar to go around, and finding it won't be easy. Players will have to scout out the nectar field and pay attention to other players searches to try to deduce the location of the nectar they need for themselves.
A four player game in full swing as with Maja the bee.
Tue Apr 12, 2022 11:09 am
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A brief look back at the past Spellenspektakel in the Netherlands in the Jaarbeurshallen in Utrecht. An event from a few months ago that I still enjoy looking back on visually. This is the largest Dutch board game event where all leading publishers are present.
All routes lead to Utrecht
Next train to the fair
Tell me where to go with the Spelletjesvrienden
Finding digital routes
My 14 year old Jairo son is demonstrating for the first time on the fair for 999 Games
Juicy Fruits at the fair - Each player has their own small island paradise where they grow delicious fruit
Dutch investors creating the Northern polders of Holland
Box & Components - In Polders: Flip & Write you will be a 17th century Dutch investor that invested in the creation of the Dutch polders
Preparing you Hit list for the fair
Many People on the fair
The players are disease-fighting specialists whose mission is to treat disease hotpots while researching cures for each of four plagues before they get out of hand
Railroad Ink Challenge: Shining Yellow Edition - Get ready to reach networking nirvana
Escape the Room ....
A Wish of my daughter to play ... Menhirs dans le Brouillard
In the misty Breton landscape, the wild boars quickly disappear into the mist
Niels Ramon Pieterse with his Menhirs Dans Le Brouillard
Zombie Kidz Evolution - Surviving at school when zombies start to attack, infiltrating the entryways, then barring the way to classrooms
The Quest for El Dorado
Enjoing the Game
Llamaland - The plateaus are wild, stunningly beautiful, and...full of llamas
Game Overview
Point Salad - Fast & Fun
Code Name Pictures
Mandala Stones
Qwixx Longo - Enjoying the Game
Cubitos - Help them find their way back to their nest
Game Overview
MicroMacro: A full house by solving the crimes
Father and Son .... Solving the Crimes all over the city
Ship fleets allow for lively trade and the development of new islands in the Old and New World
Anno 1800
Qwixx with Goby @ Spellenspektakel
Some Dutch Raiders of the Northsea
Playing Meadow
Get rid of your dice. The trap, though, is that the fewer dice you have, the more difficult the game becomes
Dwarf Kingdom, is threatened by the dragon Fafnir
Marvel Champions: The Card Game - A cooperative Living Card Game
Enjoying the Champions
New York Zoo - Constructing an animal park in New York
Jamaica Family fun
Playing the 15th year edition with my daughter
Ticket to ride Europe - I played with my daughter Yinthe Turning Tides
Turning Tides is a naval battle between two
Designer Rick Brune with Turning Tides
Khôra: Rise of an Empire - You are the rulers of a resplendent city in Ancient Greece
Architects of the West Kingdom - As royal architects, players compete to impress their King and maintain their noble status by constructing various landmarks throughout his newly appointed domain
Wonderbook - Ken - Tales describe the land as an idyllic paradise filled with marvelous dragon-made wonders and surrounded by a flourishing wilderness
Wonderbook - Lara - Tales describe the land as an idyllic paradise filled with marvelous dragon-made wonders and surrounded by a flourishing wilderness
Kingdomino Origins - Let's start the fire
If it Fits - Enjoying the game at the Jolly Dutch boot
Game Overview
My Daughter find the Everdell Woods Animals
In to the Everdell Woods
Yinthe - Everdell Forest by White Goblin Games
The Artist & Designers Milo, Yvonne and Wouter of Gigawatt
Game Overview
Hit List let's party on
Big Selling points
Always fun with the Dutch influences
The Peaky Blinders at the Geronomo Booth
After a long day with my to youngest kids
But not with an empty stomach
See you next year
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Sock Monsters a lovely family game
Designers: Liesbeth Bos, Anja Dreier-Brückner
Artist: Irina Pechenkina
..... While the house is empty, brave and industrious elves set out to tidy up. But the sock monsters are always lurking in the dark! Search chests and lockers, find socks and be the first to collect three pairs. Monsters are eager to steal lone socks. Watch out or, better yet, unleash them on your opponents. Explore new rooms, find useful items in the hidden compartments of the game box and watch the game evolve as you play.
A Monster game in process
Your game character is a brave and industrious elf trying to rescue socks from sock monsters. You start at the center of the game board, while monsters move from the corners in. Players make moves as monsters first. The monsters lurk around the house, always eager to steal a lone sock from a careless elf and carry it into a dark corner.
The next player to make a move takes a color die and puts it underneath his or her monster figure. When making a move, the players lift the figures slightly above the board, so the die underneath moves with the figure but is not visible from the outside. After making the move, the monster figure can be lifted to see the die. If the top face is showing a closed eye picture, this means the monster has fallen asleep and the player’s turn is over. If the die is showing an open eye picture, the player can perform an action.
Monsters are eager to steal lone socks. Watch out or, better yet, unleash them on your opponents.
The Elf ready to rescue her socks
After finishing the monster turn, the players then take a turn as elves, trying to find colored socks in chests and cabinets on the game board.
Watch out or, better yet, unleash them on your opponents
Your game character is a brave and industrious elf trying to rescue socks from sock monsters
If a matching pair of socks is collected, elves put them on their hands, feet and ears – and that’s really hard work!
The game ends when any one player has collected three pairs of socks.
Game Overview
This beautifully executed family game came to my table, a wonderful adventure for the hero on socks. The sock monsters are on a roll and are trying to sneak your socks off during the night. Only whole pairs are safe and letting them swing is not done!
During the game you move your elf and the sock monsters where you look for your desired socks where your memory must be sharp. The monsters will leave you without socks with a bit of dice luck. The dice easily rotate among the sock monsters looking for open eyes to strike. The game is a nice mix of memory, push your luck and collect love for colorful socks. Highly recommended for families with younger players!
The quality of the game is simply fantastic!
Tue Jan 18, 2022 6:00 am
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In Anno 1800 you develop your home island's productive capacity and use ships for lively trade and the development of
new islands in the Old and New World. You must fulfill the wishes of your own population. While the inhabitants are
initially satisfied with bread and clothing, they soon demand valuable luxury goods. You must plan production chains
sensibly and keep an eye on the specialization of your population. The goal: A wise distribution of farmers, workers,
craftsmen, engineers, and investors — but the competition never sleeps and can snatch the new achievements from
under your nose at any time!
Ship fleets allow for lively trade and the development of new islands in the Old and New World
Players View
While the inhabitants are initially satisfied with bread and clothing, they soon demand valuable luxury goods
Anno 1800 came to my table and the first visual impression the box radiated the adventure of entrepreneurship and the discoveries of the new world in the middle of the industrial revolution. The game was set up on the table and all tiles appeared artificial due to the large amount, but luckily this fell away quickly during play. While playing, all the mechanisms come together nicely. It plays smoothly and lots of indirect interaction.
Which raw materials do you want to produce yourself and which do you trade with your competitors?
Hand card management is the engine of the game and I really liked it. Sail out to new worlds and discover and trade exotic products. The pleasant chain reaction in different raw materials and goods that are linked or necessary to produce more luxurious goods. When someone's hand is empty, the game can end quickly and be aware of this. Although clearing your hand quickly doesn't have to mean you're going to win. Most victory points are still in the points total of especially the more expensive cards.
Different tactics are possible during the game so that not everyone preys on the same goods and resources.
I had a great time with this accessible and elegant development game from the 19th century.
Open Box & Components
New Worlds to discover - Close Up during the Game
Players View - You own Industry is growing
A hand full of options
Special orders from Isabel
A Four player overview of new world
A wise distribution of farmers, workers, craftsmen, engineers, and investors — but the competition never sleeps and can snatch the new achievements from under your nose at any time
Mon Jan 17, 2022 11:55 am
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Winners Dutch Games Prize 2021
The jury of the Dutch Games Prize, the quality prize for board games published in Dutch, announced the winners of the Dutch Games Prize 2021 on Friday evening 5 November. Prizes are awarded every year in the categories 'best family game', 'best advanced game' and 'best expert game'.
The winners of 2021
CuBirds from the publisher Gam'inBIZ is the best family game, It's a Wonderful World from Geronimo Games the best advanced game and Everdell from White Goblin Games the best expert game.
Nederlandse Spellenprijs Best Family Game
Nederlandse Spellenprijs Best Advanced Game
Nederlandse Spellenprijs Best Expert Game
Nederlandse Spellenprijs Best Family Game - With artist Kristiaan der Nederlanden & Publisher Gam'inBIZ
Nederlandse Spellenprijs Best Advanced Game - With Game Publisher Geronimo Games
Nederlandse Spellenprijs Best Expert Game - Game Publisher White Goblin Games
Cubirds
During a spring walk in the fields you will see many different birds. Can you be the first to bring seven different species back to their families? Or do you focus on two?
CuBirds is a design by Stefan Alexander and is published by Gam'inBIZ. The game is suitable for 2 to 5 players from 8 years old and has a playing time of 20 minutes.
Jury verdict: The original and varied images of the birds immediately invite to play. With one kind of bird you enclose other birds that you collect. You can use these later to get even more birds, but do you dare to save further or do you play it safe? For when the round ends, your birds may have flown.
Cubirds
Box & Components
Players View
Game Overview
Making a action to get the birds
Players Hand
It's a Wonderful World
You build your empire and have only a short time to show that you are the most powerful. You mustn't miss a beat. Choose the right developments, take advantage of your production and leave your competition stunned.
It's a Wonderful World is a design by Frédéric Guérard and published by Geronimo Games. The game is suitable for 1 to 5 players from 14 years old and has a playing time of 45 minutes.
Jury Verdict: You are really building a production chain in this game. Which buildings do you choose, which do you need and which do you not wish for your competitors? What else can you build? The tight deadline of four rounds keeps you on your toes. Watching your empire grow in the meantime is a lot of fun.
Interview with the publisher Geronimo
It’s a Wonderful World - Components Overview
Ancient artifacts
Close Up During the Game
Financiers of the World
Developing the future with new Technology
Developing Underwater Cities
Box & Components
Close Up During the Game
Five Player Sessions
Everdell
In the valley of Everdell, the forest animals set up a beautiful civilization. As one of their mayors, you try to make the year the most successful for your city. For this you build houses with gathered materials and you prefer to let the right residents move in there.
Everdell is designed by James A. Wilson and published by White Goblin Games. The game is suitable for 1-4 players from the age of 12 and has a playing time of 90 minutes.
Jury verdict: The enchanting fairy tale with colorful animals and fabulous prints immediately invites you to play. You try to cleverly combine your cards with the possibilities on the board, so that you can do more and more. Because you decide when your next season starts, it really feels like your own game. The eye-catching game material makes this perhaps the most beautiful game of 2021!
Interview with the publisher White Goblin Games
Everdell - From Everfrost to Bellsong, many a year have come and gone, but the time has come for new territories to be settled and new cities established - Game Overview
Evertree - Seasons
Close Up - 4 Player Game
Gathering resources
Critters View
- Everdell
- CuBirds
- It's a Wonderful World
- Dann May
- Andrew Bosley
- Anthony Wolff
- Frédéric Guérard
- Stefan Alexander
- James A. Wilson
- Kristiaan der Nederlanden
- Pegasus Spiele
- Lautapelit.fi
- Arclight
- White Goblin Games
- Matagot
- Blackrock Games
- Rebel Sp. z o.o.
- MINDOK
- YOKA Games
- Happy Baobab
- Gém Klub Kft.
- hobbity.eu
- Galápagos Jogos
- Hobby World
- REXhry
- CMON Global Limited
- Fantasmagoria
- Origames
- Ultra PRO
- FoxGames
- La Boîte de Jeu
- Catch Up Games
- Tranjis Games
- Maldito Games
- Lucky Duck Games
- Reflexshop
- Board Game Circus
- MS Edizioni
- Starling Games (II)
- MEBO Games
- Evrikus
- Engames
- Gam'inBIZ
- Kobold Spieleverlag
- Abraxas
- Studio Supernova
- MTS Games
- Geronimo Games
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I went to the Spiel 2021 international games fair from Wednesday to Friday. From the Netherlands a car ride of about 180 minutes.
After a trade fair break of more than a year and a half, this felt very nice again. I understood from Max Metzler that they were very excited that the event could take place.
It was wonderful to meet enthusiasts, acquaintances and friends from home and abroad again, to marvel at the halls, to discover new titles and
to photograph. In the evenings I had the pleasure of getting to know fellow enthusiasts that I personally did not know very well.
That was very pleasant to catch up after the exhibition day, to hear stories and enjoy. I did not experience wearing the mouth cap as a nuisance and while photographing I did not experience it as a nuisance
asked a number of acquaintances and game authors to temporarily take off the cap.
The room size and wider aisles were pleasant and well ventilated, making for a pleasant stay.
I have grasped that there have been about 94,000 thousand visitors, quite a number despite all the restrictions.
In particular, I also saw and heard many Dutch, Spaniards and Germans and a lost American or Taiwanese.
With my report I consciously wanted to capture an atmosphere alternating with close ups of the games.
In the near future I will upload more current images. I myself look back on a successful visit to Spiel 2021 and now enjoy it.
Early in the morning in the Netherlands going to the East
Passing the border crossing with Germany
Know we are getting close ....
That is looking good
At the Center of the Boardgame World
Parking my Car with a mysterious Guest
Followed him to the Enterance
First some Coffee ... Espresso Doppio please
Of course with a cookie
Let the magic begin
At the Neuheiten Show
Inno Spiel Winner & the Winner of the Deutsche Spielepreis
Saving the Egg of the Dodo, Winner of the Deutsche Spielepreis Kids
Meeting with Geek's & Authors at the Show booth
Beth Heile & Hobbes Inc the BGG Crew
Welcome you to Essen Crime City
A lot to do in our play garden
Max Metzler the man behind Spiel and especially Spiel Digital.
Max is the Son of Dominique.
Sometime we need an excape ....
And a fast way out ....
We here some secrets of new ..... Ignacy Trzewiczek
New stories on the harsh desert planet of Arrakis
The legend of the Golem of Prague in the 16th-century and their grow these powerful creatures
In the 6th-century a legend of the Golem of Prague, an anthropomorphic creature that Rabbi Loew animated starting from a clay statue to protect his people
The Synagogue Marbles Structure
Mr. Furnace ... new capital arrived for buying games
The Rats from Messina arrived also at the fair.
Designer Raúl Fernández Aparicio with Messsina
Or we find new Adventures with new leaders - Designer Alwen on expedition as the leader of the fellowship
Others will follow ...
Even from Troyes .... with Mr and Mrs Dujardin
With a Chinchiller
Adventures on new Islands ....
Pay close attention to your purchases because there are always privateers on the coast
Designer Oleksandr Nevskiy building his Settlement right their
Traveling with the boat to ....
With my Guide Joris Maas meeting 7 Gods(Designer)
Designer Ivan Lashin with his Furnace from St Petersburg had some fine
ideas for my Russian capital
With Love from Russia
More Russian influences from the red square - Designers Isra C & Shei S with their Red Cathedral
After a visit in the Cathedral ... got a copy from Designer Kristian Karlberg - Goetia: Nine Kings of Solomon
Autumn is not the best time to climb up on a scaffold in Moscow
From the Red square took
.... Tram 28 to Lisbon
With Some muscles from Bruxelles - Etienne Espreman
And Scott send some real Geek Gold to the Winner - Golden Geek Best Solo Board Game Winner - Designer Tomáš Uhlíř
This was for one of the Best Covid survivors.
With some good advice for saving the planet!
Vlaada Chvátil also hurling new crew for defending Earth from space
The Czech solved their distribution issue with some Galaxy Truckers
Vlaada Chvátil on tour with his Galaxy Trucker
Other Space battles - The Spirit of Erune though the Maze of the Dungeon
though the Maze
Becoming the next great spirit of the forest, by helping of the yōkai, the kodamas and the different pilgrims, accompany them on their path
Bitoku spirits of the forest in their path towards transcendence
Glass manufacturers hard working at the booth
Take the role of glass manufacturers and traders who want to profit as much as they can from their role in the production of glass art
Traveling from Italy to Japan
The people came from far to the Fair with their passion and energy!
From Taiwan Eros Lin - Empire4s with an new game
Welcome back to Hanamikoji! In Hanamikoji: Geisha's Road designed by Eros Lin
Always in for an Perfect picture
Meeting the "King of the Valley"
King of the Valley
Erwin Broens is going to Spiel sinds the early 90's. Working more than 25 years as a journalist in free time for the Dutch boardgame scene.
I heared some new latin Sound at the bar in Essen for Designer Pau Carles
And some creative player with a personal message ... from Pedro Soto
Such tough days always at Spiel
The Dancer at the Showcase with some Echo's ...
Bag of Butts form Miss Preiss with the new game of Andreas Preiss
Designer Robert Brouwer knows all about creating rainbows to win the pots of gold at the end of the rainbow
Took some Japanese lessons from Kondou Koushi, 近藤功司
The Knight preparing for the Tournament
Pre Battle Knights Dominik Mucha & Marcin Wisthal .... A Duel for the hand of the Prinsess in Glory a game of Knights
Set in for my bet ...
Challenge other Knights and the most famous nobles across the Europe of 15th century
Paradise where everything is calm and peaceful .. For pond’s people, this poetic backdrop represents a daily struggle for survival, where it’s “eat or be eaten”! - Baptiste Le Corre
Countryside ponds are little slices of paradise where everything is calm and peaceful .... not!
Thomas Spitzer with Schichtwechsel about the mining in the Ruhr area
Mining in the Ruhr area
Du Meeple & Boardgame Heaven
Editor-in-chief of Spel magazine together with his wife
Giant Galaxy Trucker played at the Gallaria
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I left my kids at the booth of .... Baby blues
Funefore Booth - Player will control a civilization that will evolve through his city in Monumental
The men fought away some frustration
One battle wasn't enough
Sabotage, a game of team stealth tactics
Sabotage
Gather around an ancient sacred stone
witchstone - Game Overview at the Huch
Barrage - power of the massive machines and of the unstoppable engineering progress is the unlimited hydroelectric energy provided by the rivers
In Glow You are an adventurer who builds their company by recruiting a new traveling companion each turn, trying to combine their powers as best as possible
Gather many slivers of light to dispel the darkness, restore the colors, travel the land to reach landmarks
Dutch Coffee Traders at the booth of Capstone Games - Designers Rolf Sagel & André Spil
In 1970s Central and South America
Players View - Lumipli
Black box adventures
Seize the Bean
A classic back in 3D
New Adventures told at the booth of Kosmos from Robin Hood
A lonely fellow of the Hood finding his path through the wood to the Castle while time is passing by
Another Book - Ken - Tales describe the land as an idyllic paradise filled with marvelous dragon-made wonders and surrounded by a flourishing wilderness
Wonder Book - Lara - Tales describe the land as an idyllic paradise filled with marvelous dragon-made wonders and surrounded by a flourishing wilderness
It was far too easy to progress into this dark dungeon - Rush Out!
Melodies whisper in slow rhythms as children wake from their slumber - Dreadful Circus
They uplifted your people and promised great prosperity - Origins First Builders
With a group of pioneers, you have left civilization behind to settle along the shores of Boonlake, a long-forgotten region inhabited by humans long ago
In Boonlake explore the landscapes, build houses and settlements, raise cattle, produce raw materials, and develop an infrastructure
Gigamic Booth
The Rise and Fall of the Greatest City in the World at the Silk Road
Merv The Heart of the Silk Road
Playing Lost Ruins of Arnak at the booth
Hall 3
- Kingdomino OriginsLet's start the fire
A team of two against the tricky opponent in Concordia
In Solitaria ou compete alone or in a team of two against the tricky opponent Contrarius
Playing Kobito at the Jolly Dutch Booth
De Messe in the evening
Taking to subway for Dinner
Someone doesn't want to leave ...
Set my route ....
Music on ....
Driving home....
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Presentations of the nominations of the "Nederlandse Spellenprijs 2021"
The Dutch Games Prize is divided into three categories: Family, Connoisseurs and Experts. A family game is suitable for a large audience, including children from 8 years old. A connoisseur game requires a little more playing experience and for those who like a healthy challenge, the expert games are.
Bord voor je Kop
The three nominated games for the Dutch Games Prize 2021 – Family:
Cubirds
During a spring walk in the fields you will see many different birds. Can you be the first to bring seven different species back to their families? Or do you focus on two?
CuBirds is a design by Stefan Alexander and is published by Gam'inBIZ. The game is suitable for 2 to 5 players from 8 years old and has a playing time of 20 minutes.
Jury verdict: The original and varied images of the birds immediately invite to play. With one kind of bird you enclose other birds that you collect. You can use these later to get even more birds, but do you dare to save further or do you play it safe? For when the round ends, your birds may have flown.
Family Category
Cubirds
Box & Components
Players View
Game Overview
Making a action to get the birds
Players Hand
Cartographers
The queen wants to claim the best territories for her kingdom. As a cartographer, your job is to find and map these areas, even if your competitors try to lead you astray.
Cartographers is a design by Jordy Adan and published by Intrafin. The game is suitable for 1 to 100 players from 10 years old and has a playing time of 40 minutes.
Jury Judgment: In this game you reveal a card, after which all players simultaneously draw an area in their own kingdom. Large groups can therefore also do well with this. Every game the queen comes up with different requirements that you want to meet as best as possible. Do you turn it into a work of art or are you just effective? The occasional mess with the neighbors creates a mean edge.
Interview with the Publisher Intrafin
Box & Components
Monster Attack
Work at the kings needs
Game Overview
The Seasons
Out in the Fields
Action Cards
Dectective Club
To join the Detective Club you must demonstrate that you have the required skills. Can you unmask the conspirator or do you know how to hold your own as a conspirator?
Detective Club is designed by Oleksandr Nevskiy and published by Jumping Turtle Games. The game is suitable for 4 to 8 players from 8 years old and has a playing time of 45 minutes.
Jury Verdict: Using the beautifully illustrated cards, it is a joy for the game master to give clues to the conspirator. As a conspirator, you must be able to improvise with a straight face when the hour of truth arrives. Will the detectives be able to unmask you or will you convincingly defend your chosen cards? Young and old can use their creativity in this.
Interview with the publisher Jumping Turtle Games
Players view
Game Overview
Details & finding clue's
Box & Components
Detective view
Game Play
The three nominated games for the Dutch Games Prize 2021 – Kenners:
The Dwarves of Nidavellir
To defend the dwarf realm, you want to recruit as strong a dwarf army as possible. For this you go from tavern to tavern to find matching soldiers. And hopefully the composition of your army will also attract special heroes.
The Dwarves of Nidavellir is a design by Serge Laget and published by White Goblin Games. The game is suitable for 2 to 5 players from 10 years old and has a playing time of 45 minutes.
Jury Verdict: This game has a special coin bidding mechanism whereby betting one worthless coin lets you improve another coin. Since you are the first to recruit a soldier with the highest bid in a tavern, this already presents a nice dilemma. In addition, you balance between attracting heroes and making divisions very powerful. Lots of choices in this fast paced bidding and collecting game.
Interview with the publisher White Goblin Games
Nidavellir - Search through every tavern in the kingdom, hire the most skillful dwarves, recruit the most prestigious heroes, and build the best battalion you can to defeat your mortal enemy!
The Close Bidding
Add the Hunter to the Army - Their Bravery Value is equal to the number of Hunters squared.
Upgrading you gold
Blind bidding during the game
Explorers Their Bravery Value is equal to the sum of their Bravery Points
Brother bands .... the mighty five
Game Overview - The armies are growing
The high bid's for a stronger Army
Expanding your army with the Hunters
Close Up
Each turn in Nidavellir bid a coin on each tavern. In descending order, choose a character and add this character to your army. Each dwarf class has its own scoring way: blacksmith, hunter, warrior, explorer, and miner. Meticulous recruitment will allow you to attract a powerful hero to your army.
You will also be able to increase the value of your gold coins thanks to the smart "coin-building" system and get the best of the other Elvalands.
It's a Wonderful World
You build your empire and have only a short time to show that you are the most powerful. You mustn't miss a beat. Choose the right developments, take advantage of your production and leave your competition stunned.
It's a Wonderful World is a design by Frédéric Guérard and published by Geronimo Games. The game is suitable for 1 to 5 players from 14 years old and has a playing time of 45 minutes.
Jury Verdict: You are really building a production chain in this game. Which buildings do you choose, which do you need and which do you not wish for your competitors? What else can you build? The tight deadline of four rounds keeps you on your toes. Watching your empire grow in the meantime is a lot of fun.
Interview with the publisher Geronimo
It’s a Wonderful World - Components Overview
Ancient artifacts
Close Up During the Game
Financiers of the World
Developing the future with new Technology
Developing Underwater Cities
Box & Components
Close Up During the Game
Five Player Sessions
Micro Macro: Crime City
What a criminal city this is. Robberies, murders, too many to list. The police have their hands in their hair. Are you able to solve the crimes?
MicroMacro: Crime City is designed by Johannes Sich and published by White Goblin Games. The game is suitable for 1 to 4 players from 12 years old and has a playing time of 30 minutes.
Jury Verdict: This is a surprising puzzle game. Armed with a magnifying glass, you and your fellow detectives try to solve increasingly difficult cases in the huge city map. Follow the trail of the victims and the perpetrators. You get to know this criminal city better and better. The game uses a well-known and beloved concept to give it a new, addictive twist. At the end, it turns out that additional crimes are hidden in it.
Box & Components
MicroMacro Zoom Inn ...
What happend with Elvis? Did he just left the Building?
Finding Clue's and Details ... Traces of Crime
The Mission for Crime City - Dutch Edition - White Goblin Games
First Mission to Solve ....
The three nominated games for the Dutch Games Prize 2021 – Experts:
Lost Ruins of Arnak
You have found traces of a great civilization on a desert island. You lead your expedition to find long-lost artifacts as quickly as possible, defying danger in an attempt to uncover the island's secrets.
The Disappeared Ruins of Arnak is a design by Mín and Elwen (Michaela Štachová and Michal Štach) and published by White Goblin Games. The game is suitable for 1-4 players from 12 years old and has a playing time of 30 minutes per player.
Jury Verdict: There is a lot to discover in this game. The pressure of competitive expeditions is felt by the limited number of laps. You can't deepen and explore everything. Where will you dig, which assistants will support you, which route to victory will you choose? The adventure beckons in a nice mix of worker placement and deck building.
Game Overview
Players View
Finding the lost Temple of Arnak
Find lost artifacts & face fearsome guardians.
The Moon Staff & Items Carfds
Adventure Players hand - Close up
Will Fear stand in the way to you adventure?
The adventure track ... the search to the temple
Face fearsome guardians
Close Up
Players View - Close Up
Players View
Everdell
In the valley of Everdell, the forest animals set up a beautiful civilization. As one of their mayors, you try to make the year the most successful for your city. For this you build houses with gathered materials and you prefer to let the right residents move in there.
Everdell is designed by James A. Wilson and published by White Goblin Games. The game is suitable for 1-4 players from the age of 12 and has a playing time of 90 minutes.
Jury verdict: The enchanting fairy tale with colorful animals and fabulous prints immediately invites you to play. You try to cleverly combine your cards with the possibilities on the board, so that you can do more and more. Because you decide when your next season starts, it really feels like your own game. The eye-catching game material makes this perhaps the most beautiful game of 2021!
Interview with the publisher White Goblin Games
Everdell - From Everfrost to Bellsong, many a year have come and gone, but the time has come for new territories to be settled and new cities established - Game Overview
Evertree - Seasons
Close Up - 4 Player Game
Gathering resources
Critters View
Maracaibo
During your sea voyage through the seventeenth century Caribbean, you will establish settlements, trade and fight naval battles. In the meantime, you can still worry about certain events, which may even change the accessibility of some places. Can you gain the most influence?
Maracaibo is designed by Alexander Pfister and published by Geronimo Games. The game is suitable for 1-4 players from 12 years old and has a playing time of 120 minutes.
Jury Verdict: This huge strategic game tells a different story every time. All sorts of people emerge from the thick deck of cards that you can recruit as assistants or help you deliver goods and items. The speed at which you cruise around determines how many turns you have. So the game can ripple on or be played very hard.
Interview with the publisher Geronimo
Mon Oct 4, 2021 11:51 am
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Photo Impression of .... stepping in to the theme of the game - Arnak - Terrafroming Mars ...
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A theme can be a little inspirations to go into the woods to catch the atmosphere of gaming, creative impression and emotions.
A form of relaxation, fun, fun and everything from daily activities can slip off your back wonderfully.
A Little impression of creativity
Renature
Terraforming Mars
Paris - Scene investigations
Elves and gnomes each have their own network of hidden paths. They don't want to be disturbed and will move into their houses only once they're protected from outsiders. Will you find your way or be lost in the forest?
The lost ruins of Arnak
Snow Ruins of Arnak
Snow trails on or Adventure
Fri Sep 24, 2021 3:20 pm
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A Little impression of New York Zoo, a light weight family game. Simply game play, smooth and elegant mechanisms and really fun to play. A colorful happiness board on the table
New York Zoo - The Adventure Begins
All in the Zoo
Madagascar .... Yes we want to go Uwe!
Marty and Alex told me Madagascar is Big Adventure ..... Come on Michael just Jump .... Just do It!
Building new Attractions
Action Market
Game overview with four players.
Building new rooms for the animals
Players View
Box & Components
All together Now at the Zoo
Puzzle a new enclosure tile into your zoo area or gain new animals to populate your animal encounters
Players View
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