I went on a trip that day in search of ancient giants. A sudden outbreak of the Black Death robs 15-year-old Theo of his quiet daily life. In order to save his mother life, the boy decides to enter the forbidden "dark forest". The Giant and the Boy is his card game using 80 cards in two colors. Only players who overcome hardships by using their cards...
Objective: collect as many points as possible knowing most of the questions The game has various sets of quiz cards ranging from maths, geography, arts, music to inventions (8). Upon completing the circuit by touching the two probes to the correct question and answer a light turns on; additional sets (21) were available; there are 2 different editions:...
In Ein Loch ist im Eimer ("There is a hole in the bucket"), players are filling a bucket with marbles (representing water drops). The bucket is hanging from a water tap, and it has a hole in the bottom, which is initially blocked by a ping-pong ball. However, the marbles will displace the ball, which will make it possible for the marbles to "leak" out of...
A man must do what a man must do. That's the guiding principle of Ein Mann. Ein Spiel. ("One man. One game."), designed by Marcel-André Casasola Merkle and based on the book "Ein Mann. Ein Buch." ("One man. One book.") It's not enough for a man to know a few things about life, but he must also act well. At times he decides to make a difference, sometimes...
Party-game where players have to answer questions, mime or draw objects with a "limp" pen... In this party game, players move one of two hippo pawns over an 8-shaped track.The fields they land on determine the task they have to fulfill (for this, they also draw a card) - in most cases, the other players try to guess the word/phrase that was intended: -...
This game is mostly about knowledge about animals. There are animal cards with a photo on the front side and the answers to 6 questions ("What's the name?", "Where does it live?", "What does it eat?", ...) on the back. (The questions are the same for all cards.) Additionally, the game contains one board per continent, with 12 numbered fields. Accordingly...
This is a beautiful early 20th Century game. The 60-space track takes the player along the Rhine River from Mainz to Cologne (Koln). The track includes illustrations of the many picturesque towns and sights along the way, with art by Emil Ernst Heinsdorff. The game comes with six very cute painted metal player tokens. The game is simple: players roll a die...
Ein Schaf (also titled ひつじがいっぴき, or Hitsuji ga Ippiki in Japanese) is a simple children’s card game. The deck consists of cards with anywhere from one to seven sheep on them. Play proceeds with one player playing the “one”, the next player playing the “two”, and so on in order of rank. Players may at any time take a card from the deck and reset the count...