Drive a horde of dragons up a steep mountain, is difficult enough. But also to compete with other dragon riders, makes the whole thing to an exciting career. Leo Colovini gives us in his game from the publisher Mountdrago Schmidt games to prove the possibility that we can cope with the requirements.

The two to five players to drive ten dragons on the legendary dragon mountain Mountdrago. The aim is not to drive a single dragon, but is of a different kind when transhumance as possible and sent to ask at the right moment to sit on the right dragon.

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Cooperative games have a special charm. The player can win or lose together. In computer games, this is a common mechanism of board games, there are now a number of very entertaining games that can be played cooperatively. The Forbidden Island is one of them, offering in its compact form something even beginners of cooperative games a stage.

The players must work together to recover four valuable artifacts from an island that is about to sink into the sea. Each player takes on a character with specific skills. By cleverly combining the skills can we collect the artifacts before they disappear into the great flood by the sinking island parts. more »

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Qwirkle is a matching game in the tradition of Domino. However, it has nothing to do with numbers, but with colors and shapes. The players have to take turns trying to create the same color or uniform stones already on the documents supporting stones. To get the number of points in the sum of the designed range, in other words, five points five stones.

Whoever manages six shapes or colors to put in a row next to each other, has added a Qwirkle and gets 12 points. 6 for the stones and 6 bonus points. It does not matter whether the player to submit all 6 stones or a stone to the already ausliegenden 5 stones.

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G, D, A, E, "Go You Age donkey" This is one of the most famous mnemonic in the music world, because it describes the keys to the strings of a violin. Innumerable such mnemonics help students learn spelling, math and science and keep them. If we were not ever want to know the order of our planet? No problem with this sentence: "My father Mir Explains Every Sunday Our Nine Planets"

But who really thinks of such statements? Invent stories is not for everyone, on the other hand it is also not always easy to reproduce stories and facts correctly and coherently. The memory plays tricks on many here. Add to Ralf and Stefan Linde Dorras board game "mnemonic" You can practice creating mnemonics and by the need to remember the mnemonics of other players earn victory points. In seven rounds is a true story - creates confusion, but there are enough features to decipher all related stories. The imagery with the icon-like painted tiles here helps tremendously. more »

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Nowadays more and more people dream of fame and fortune. They are looking for the very big adventure. How about the investigation of graves in Egypt, or even better, of deep, dark caves? Exactly this topic is dedicated to the game "diamond".

Slip into the role of a cave explorer and travel to the world to the most remote places in search of the treasure of the earth - the diamond. Of course you're not the only one looking for this occurrence and the nature of these precious stones will not give up easily. In the depths of the cave many dangers lurking, just waiting to catch a adventurer. Now it is time to assert themselves and get off at the right moment, before a deadly trap signifies the end.

Before the adventure a little preparation is needed. The game will be eight adventurer figures, five cave entrance plates, 30 cave maps and a total of 75 diamonds. There are like red diamonds (value 1) and White (value 5). The cave maps are ever in diamond valued cards 1-17 (not represent any number), and divided into hazard maps (five dangers of 3x included). Each player chooses at the beginning of the eight different colors of his personal treasure chest, which has to be built on first of three games Pappteilen needs. Having done this and everyone gets his piece, you can start the expedition already. more »

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Portobello Market by Thomas Odenhoven is a fast, yet simple family game of Schmidt games that combines tactical elements and luck very nice.

The game plan is a section of London from the air, where houses, alleys and small squares are visible. By the star-shaped road districts are formed.

On the streets it is to build market stalls, for which there are different points. Here it is possible to place your own objects sent to sell many more products on the market and this according to collect victory points.

Each player is given in addition to the Mark stands or platelets, which allow it two, three or four things in each phase. Was a platelet claimed, it is inverted and is only available again when all other have also been used and vice versa.

Attention must be at the place of the market stalls are that they can only be placed in the district in which is located the Bobby. This can only be set free on a street away to another district, where the player has the majority of items in the respective lane. Otherwise, a penalty will be issued in the form of points.

The points for the market stalls arise ultimately from the point on the adjacent burst customers.

Portobello Market is a great game lined with high quality stalls, customers and Bobby Wood. Also, the board elements are made of sturdy cardboard and make a solid impression. The instructions are easy to understand and the moves are rapidly internalized.

The game is a perfect mix of luck and strategy. The only luck factor, the pull of the customer in a bag, is also a major. The strategy, however, still plenty of room by the number of actions a round are freely scaleable that puts Bobby tactically and market stalls can be constructed skillfully.

If you want to take out the luck factor, you can play the proposed variation, which indicates the order of the customer. So the game each player meets.

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