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Schweizer Spielepreis
The Schweizer Spielepreis is a Switzerland, Swiss board game award, awarded since 2002 in three categories: German-style board game, Family games, Children's games and Strategy games. The game is awarded yearly at the ''Schweizer Spielmesse'' in October. Awards 2006 ;Family games: # Fussball Ligretto (Publisher: Schmidt Spiele, Schmidt, Designer: Reiner Stockhausen) # Pirates! (Publisher: Ravensburger, Designer: Reiner Knizia) # Das grosse Dinosaurierspiel (Publisher: Kosmos (publisher), Kosmos, Designers: Inka and Markus Brand) ;Children's games: # Nacht der Magier (Publisher: Drei Magier, Designer: Kirsten Becker, Jens-Peter Schliemann) # Mäuseschlau und Bärenstark (Publisher: Ravensburger, Designers: Ingeborg Ahrenkiel, Cornelia Keller) # Looping Louie (Publisher: MB Spiele) ;Strategy games: # Just 4 Fun (Publisher: Kosmos (publisher), Kosmos, Designer: Jürgen P.K. Grunau) # Timbuktu (Publisher: Queen Games, Designer: Dirk Henn) # Mesopotamien (Publisher: Phalanx, Designer: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schweizer Spielepreis
The Schweizer Spielepreis is a Switzerland, Swiss board game award, awarded since 2002 in three categories: German-style board game, Family games, Children's games and Strategy games. The game is awarded yearly at the ''Schweizer Spielmesse'' in October. Awards 2006 ;Family games: # Fussball Ligretto (Publisher: Schmidt Spiele, Schmidt, Designer: Reiner Stockhausen) # Pirates! (Publisher: Ravensburger, Designer: Reiner Knizia) # Das grosse Dinosaurierspiel (Publisher: Kosmos (publisher), Kosmos, Designers: Inka and Markus Brand) ;Children's games: # Nacht der Magier (Publisher: Drei Magier, Designer: Kirsten Becker, Jens-Peter Schliemann) # Mäuseschlau und Bärenstark (Publisher: Ravensburger, Designers: Ingeborg Ahrenkiel, Cornelia Keller) # Looping Louie (Publisher: MB Spiele) ;Strategy games: # Just 4 Fun (Publisher: Kosmos (publisher), Kosmos, Designer: Jürgen P.K. Grunau) # Timbuktu (Publisher: Queen Games, Designer: Dirk Henn) # Mesopotamien (Publisher: Phalanx, Designer: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niagara (board Game)
''Niagara'' is a German-style board game designed by Thomas Liesching and published in 2004 by Zoch Verlag and Rio Grande Games. In ''Niagara,'' which is set in the Niagara Falls, players collect, transport, and steal gems. Upon its release, the game won several awards, including the 2005 ''Spiel des Jahres''. Gameplay The game is played on a hinged board designed to sit atop the game box and represent Niagara Falls as a flap hanging over the box edge. The river is represented using clear plastic discs in a grooved surface, allowing board spaces to move downstream toward the waterfall. Players collect gems along a river. Players move canoes to transport the gems, and can steal gems from other players' canoes. They may also influence the speed with which the board spaces move downstream. The first player to acquire four gems of one colour, or one of each of the five colours, or seven gems of any colour, is the winner. Although the game box states that gems closer to the water ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norbert Proena
Norbert is a Germanic given name, from ''north, nord'' "north" and ''berht'' "bright". Norbert is also occasionally found as a surname. People with the given name Academia * Norbert Angermann (born 1936), German historian * Norbert A’Campo (born 1941), Swiss mathematician * Norbert Berkowitz (1924–2001), Canadian scientist * Norbert Bischofberger (born 1954), Austrian scientist * Norbert Bolz (born 1953), German philosopher * Norbert Elias (1897–1990), German Jewish sociologist * Norbert Fuhr (born 1956), German computer scientist * Norbert Geng (born 1965), German legal scholar * Norbert Guterman (1900–1984), American translator * Norbert von Hellingrath (1888-1916), German literary scholar * Norbert Hirschhorn (born 1938), American physician * Norbert Hornstein, American linguist * Norbert Jokl (1877–1942?), Austrian Jewish linguist * Norbert Klatt (born 1949), German religious scholar * Norbert Leser (1933–2014), Austrian political scientist * Norbert Lynton (1927 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan R
Alan may refer to: People * Alan (surname), an English and Turkish surname * Alan (given name), an English given name **List of people with given name Alan ''Following are people commonly referred to solely by "Alan" or by a homonymous name.'' *Alan (Chinese singer) (born 1987), female Chinese singer of Tibetan ethnicity, active in both China and Japan *Alan (Mexican singer) (born 1973), Mexican singer and actor * Alan (wrestler) (born 1975), a.k.a. Gato Eveready, who wrestles in Asistencia Asesoría y Administración *Alan (footballer, born 1979) (Alan Osório da Costa Silva), Brazilian footballer *Alan (footballer, born 1998) (Alan Cardoso de Andrade), Brazilian footballer *Alan I, King of Brittany (died 907), "the Great" *Alan II, Duke of Brittany (c. 900–952) * Alan III, Duke of Brittany(997–1040) *Alan IV, Duke of Brittany (c. 1063–1119), a.k.a. Alan Fergant ("the Younger" in Breton language) *Alan of Tewkesbury, 12th century abbott *Alan of Lynn (c. 1348–1423), 15th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ticket To Ride (board Game)
''Ticket to Ride'' is a railway-themed German-style board game designed by Alan R. Moon. It was illustrated by Julien Delval and Cyrille Daujean and published in 2004 by Days of Wonder. The game is also known as ''Zug um Zug'' (German), ''Les Aventuriers du Rail'' ( French), ''Aventureros al Tren'' (Spanish), ''Wsiąść do pociągu'' (Polish), and ''Menolippu'' (Finnish). The game's original version is played on a board depicting a railway map of the United States and southern Canada. Localized editions have subsequently been published depicting maps of other countries, cities and regions. Players collect and play train car cards to claim train routes across the map. Points are earned based on the length of the claimed routes, whoever completes the longest continuous railway, and whether the player can connect distant cities that are determined by drawing ticket cards. The game won the 2004 Spiel des Jahres, the Origins Award for ''Best Board Game of 2004'', the 2005 Diana Jon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rüdiger Dorn
Rüdiger Dorn (born 1969) is a German-style board game designer. Career Fantasy Flight Games published Rüdiger Dorn's fantasy-themed ''Dragonheart'' (2010). He was nominated for the 2005 Spiel des Jahres award for his game ''Jambo'', which also placed 8th for the Deutscher Spiele Preis award. He was also nominated for the 2007 Spiel des Jahres award for his game '' Die Baumeister von Arkadia'' (released in English as simply ''Arkadia'') and in 2012 for Las Vegas. He also won the 2014 Kennerspiel des Jahres award for his game ''Istanbul''. In 2016, he was once again nominated for the Spiel des Jahres with his game '' Karuba''. In 2018 ''Luxor'' was also nominated for Spiel des Jahres. Games * ''Luxor'' (2018) * '' Karuba'' (2015) * ''Steam Time'' (2015) * ''Istanbul'' (2014) * ''Las Vegas'' (2012) * '' Waka Waka'' (2012) * '' Il Vecchio'' (2012) * ''Dragonheart'' (2010) * '' Diamonds Club'' (2008) * '' Journey to the Centre of the Earth'' (2008) * '' Die Baumeister von Arkadia'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jambo (card Game)
Jambo is a card game designed by Rüdiger Dorn and published in 2004 by Kosmos in German and by Rio Grande Games in English. In the game, players are African traders before colonisation buying and selling market wares. The game was nominated for the 2005 Spiel des Jahres award and also placed 8th for the Deutscher Spiele Preis award. The title comes from "Jambo!" a greeting in the Swahili language Swahili, also known by its local name , is the native language of the Swahili people, who are found primarily in Tanzania, Kenya and Mozambique (along the East African coast and adjacent litoral islands). It is a Bantu language, though Swahili .... External links * Rio Grande Games' officiaJambo homepage* {{card-game-stub Card games introduced in 2004 Kosmos (publisher) games Rio Grande Games games Dedicated deck card games ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaus Teuber
Klaus Teuber (born June 25, 1952) is a German former dental technician and designer of board games. He is best known for designing the strategy board game Catan. Career Teuber won the Spiel des Jahres ("Game of the Year") award four times: for ''The Settlers of Catan'', ''Barbarossa'', '' Drunter und Drüber'' and '' Adel Verpflichtet''. '' By Hook or Crook'' by Teuber was published in the American market by Avalon Hill in 1991, making it an early German style board game import. Personal life Teuber retired from his profession as a dental technician to become a full-time game designer in 1999. , he lives in Roßdorf with his wife Claudia. They have two sons, Guido and Benny. Games * ''The Settlers of Catan'' (and its many expansions, as well as the video game version, ''Catan'') ** ''The Settlers of Canaan'', a legally licensed and biblically-oriented version of Catan. It is not clear whether Teuber or someone else developed this edition. * ''Löwenherz'' or ''Domaine'' * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candamir
''Candamir: The First Settlers'' is a German board game. It is the first game of the ''Catan Adventure'' series of games, which share a common theme (but not mechanics) with the '' Settlers of Catan'' games. As such, it was created by Klaus Teuber, and distributed by Kosmos in German and Mayfair Games Mayfair Games was an American publisher of board, card, and roleplaying games that also licensed Euro-style board games to publish them in English. The company licensed worldwide English-language publishing rights to ''The Settlers of Catan'' ser ... in English. The name "Candamir" comes from the ''Settlers of Catan'' novel by Rebecca Gablé, where Candamir is the name of the main character. The same character is prominently featured in this game. In this game, each of the players takes the role of a settler on the newly settled island of Catan, having lost most of their belongings in a shipwreck. The game details the adventures of these players as they settle in a nearby ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kosmos (game Publisher)
Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co. is a media publishing house based in Stuttgart, Germany, founded in 1822 by Johann Friedrich Franckh. In the nineteenth century the company published the fairy tales of Wilhelm Hauff as well as works by Wilhelm Waiblinger and Eduard Mörike. The "Friends of Nature Club" () was set up in 1903 in response to booming public interest in science and technology, and by 1912 100,000 members were receiving its monthly magazine "Cosmos" (''Kosmos''). The company moved into publishing books on popular science topics under the brands ''Franckh’sche Verlagshandlung'' and ''KOSMOS'', including successful non-fiction guidebooks by Hanns Günther and Heinz Richter. Children's fiction and Kosmos-branded science experimentation kits were introduced in the 1920s. Kosmos's current output includes non-fiction, children's books, science kits and German-style board games. Many of their games are translated into English and published by Thames & Kosmos. Their l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tower Of Babel (board Game)
The Tower of Babel ; grc, Πύργος της Βαβέλ; la, Turris Babel is an origin myth and parable in the Book of Genesis meant to explain why the world's peoples speak different languages. According to the story, a united human race speaking a single language and migrating eastward, comes to the land of Shinar (; ). There they agree to build a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Yahweh, observing their city and tower, confounds their speech so that they can no longer understand each other, and scatters them around the world. Some modern scholars have associated the Tower of Babel with known structures, notably Etemenanki, a ziggurat dedicated to the Mesopotamian god Marduk in Babylon. A Sumerian story with some similar elements is told in '' Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta''. Etymology The phrase "Tower of Babel" does not appear in the Bible; it is always "the city and the tower" () or just "the city" (). The original derivation of the name Babel (also t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinz Meister
Heinz Meister is a prolific board game designer from Germany. He is credited as the designer of over 150 board games or game items. Only a few game designers from Germany such as Reiner Knizia, Wolfgang Kramer, and Michael Schacht Michael Schacht (born 1964 in Wiesbaden) is a German game designer, graphician and owner of the small publishing company ''Spiele aus Timbuktu''. Life and work Schacht studied graphic design at the FH Darmstadt. About 15 years he worked as Art Di ... are known to have more tabletop game design credits. Meister won the Kinderspiel des Jahres award for best children's game in 1995 with Karambolage and in 1992 for Galloping Pigs. References External links Heinz Meister: boardgamegeek.com designer entryHeinz Meister game database luding.org (German) Living people Board game designers German designers Year of birth missing (living people) {{board-game-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
