Spiel des Jahres

Torres

Tabletop Tuesdays: Abstract Three Dimensional Strategy

Type:
Tabletop
Developer:
Wolfgang Kramer & Michael Kiesling

Torres, winner of the 2000 Spiel des Jahres award, is essentially a game of competitive collaboration in tower-building. Played on an eight-by-eight grid, players place plastic "tower blocks", building both outward and upward.


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Settlers of Catan

Tabletop Tuesdays

Type:
Tabletop
Developer:
Klaus Teuber

If you were in one of a handful of places in 1995 in the United States, you knew that a revolution was starting. It's been going on quietly ever since, even though most people are still blissfully ignorant of it. This game, Settlers of Catan, was the opening shot.


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Alhambra

Tabletop Tuesdays: Build the Best Pleasure Dome

Type:
Tabletop
Developer:
Dirk Henn

Alhambra combines bidding, building and planning in an unusual and engaging board game. It's the successor of Henn’s earlier stock market game, Stimmt So, but Alhambra has been reworked with a Moorish theme and a tile-layering component. The object of the game is simple: using tiles depicting different building components and with different walls, each player tries to make the best (and biggest) Alhambra possible. Gameplay is simple, rules straightforward, but execution can be very complex. Here's how it works:


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