Apr
11
At first glance, Qwirkle seems like the easiest game in the world to have designed. The rules are so simple and intuitive that you feel this game must have existed for eons as a kind of urgame in the collective unconscious. You’re matching colors, matching shapes—using skills learned in preschool, …
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Oct
19
Theme Week: Ubergames—Germany’s Award-Winners
The German game industry hands out the Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) each June to the best family game published in the previous twelve months. If you’re looking for games that are easy to learn and fun to play, pick up one of these winners.
Every American gamer knows Jenga. You remove a block from one level of an organized stack, place the block on the top of the stack—adding to or starting a new level—and hope the stack doesn’t topple. Block, block, block.
Villa Paletti plays like Jenga, but it has a …
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