Vendor: Z-Man Games
Type: Board Games
Price:
36.95
Designer |
Doris Matthäus Frank Nestel |
Publisher | Z-Man Games |
Players | 3-6 |
Playtime | 90 mins |
Suggested Age | 12 and up |
Expansion For | Primordial Soup |
Note: This game in in German.
The 5-6 player expansion. The new gene cards also may be used to "spice up" the 3 and 4-player game.
Expands:
Primordial Soup
Vendor: Doris & Frank
Type: Board Games
Price:
15.95
Designers |
Doris Matthäus Frank Nestel |
Publisher | Doris & Frank |
Players | 3-7 |
Playtime | 60 mins |
Suggested Age | 10 and up |
Honors |
This game is played in several hands. In each hand the players try to be the first to get rid of all of their cards. Their scores are based on how early in the hand they get rid of all their cards. There are two ways to play: you can play where all hands are played the same, or you can play the game with changing partners.
This is a climbing game, similar to The Great Dalmuti, Tichu, and others. The difference here is that the ranks are different kinds of colorfully illustrated animals. Each is scared away only by certain other animals. Players set out one to whatever cards of a particular variety, and someone can play onto that pile only if they have more of that animal or an equal number of some animal that can scare it away. Players get points by playing all their cards, collecting lions, and collecting a hedgehog.
Vendor: Doris & Frank
Type: Board Games
Price:
54.95
Designer | |
Publisher | Doris & Frank |
Players | 2-6 |
Playtime | 45 mins |
Suggested Age | 8 and up |
Note: This game is in German. English rules for both games included can be found here and here.
This new box combines the long lasting classics Igel Ärgern with the long sold out Tante Tarantel
It also contains a new map for Igel Ärgern.
Loosely translated as "Hedgehogs in a Hurry," Igel Ärgern gives players several wooden disks (the hedgehogs) to place in one of six rows. During a turn, you roll a die, optionally move any of your hedgehogs one row left or right, then move any hedgehog (not necessarily yours!) in the row your rolled forward one space. But watch out for black spaces; hedgehogs caught there can't continue moving until they're in last place. The first player to get three of their four hedgehogs to the end of the board wins. Some later versions of this game come with dozens of different variants to keep the game interesting.
Tante Tarantel (Aunt Tarantula) scoots round her web, gobbling up your insects as they try to escape. The web is a spiral, you roll the die and move Auntie, then take turns to move one of your bugs towards the exit space. Initially, Auntie is in a good mood, if she runs into a bug or bugs, they go back to her larder. But as soon as someone escapes, she loses her temper and kills anything she catches! The game has a scoring track, and each time a bug is caught or escapes, a marker moves up, also adding a number to the die roll. So Auntie runs around the web faster and faster. Players can share some spaces, but most of the time, bump each other back and forth. Naturally, nasty bugs push others into Aunty's path to certain death!
Slightly confusing when you start, this is actually a really simple game, easily as good as any D&F game. The original set had wooden pawns for the bugs, but D&F issued a series of neat rubber bugs, which do add to the games' style.
Vendor: Doris & Frank
Type: Board Games
Price:
39.95
Designer | |
Publisher | Doris & Frank |
Players | 3-5 |
Playtime | 90 mins |
Suggested Age | 12 and up |
In Urland, players compete to get their creatures on land. One player selects which land area is scored in a turn while other players use a number of actions to move their creatures around. At certain intervals on the scoring track, gene modifications are auctioned which offer additional actions to the players.
Vendor: Doris & Frank
Type: Board Games
Price:
29.95
Designer |
Doris Matthäus Frank Nestel |
Publisher | Doris & Frank |
Players | 3-5 |
Playtime | 45 mins |
Suggested Age | 8 and up |
Honors | 2006 Fairplay À la carte Winner |
Vendor: Doris & Frank
Type: Board Games
Price:
14.95
Designer |
Doris Matthäus Frank Nestel |
Publisher | Doris & Frank |
Players | 3-7 |
Playtime | 60 mins |
Suggested Age | 10 and up |
Honors |
Note: This game is in German, English rules can be found here.
This game is played in several hands. In each hand the players try to be the first to get rid of all of their cards. Their scores are based on how early in the hand they get rid of all their cards. There are two ways to play: you can play where all hands are played the same, or you can play the game with changing partners.
This is a climbing game, similar to The Great Dalmuti, Tichu, and others. The difference here is that the ranks are different kinds of colorfully illustrated animals. Each is scared away only by certain other animals. Players set out one to whatever cards of a particular variety, and someone can play onto that pile only if they have more of that animal or an equal number of some animal that can scare it away. Players get points by playing all their cards, collecting lions, and collecting a hedgehog.
Vendor: Z-Man Games
Type: Board Games
Price:
87.95
Designer | |
Publisher | Z-Man Games |
Players | 3-4 |
Playtime | 90 mins |
Suggested Age | 12 and up |
Honors | |
Expansion | Primordial Soup: Freshly Spiced |
Note: This game is in German, and does not come in shrink wrap
The Primordial Soup is supposedly where all life came from. Players take charge of a tribe of amoeba as they struggle to survive. In order to help their quest, tribes will take various genetic advantages, which allow them to 'break' the rules of life. For instance, instead of going hungry, your amoeba could learn to attack foreign amoeba for food. Or perhaps your amoeba could be taught to need less food to survive. Either way, this is a very interesting take on the game of life.
Vendor: Z-Man Games
Type: Board Games
Price:
34.95
Designer | |
Publisher | Z-Man Games |
Players | 3-4 |
Playtime | 90 mins |
Suggested Age | 12 and up |
Honors | |
Expansion | Primordial Soup: Freshly Spiced |
The Primordial Soup is supposedly where all life came from. Players take charge of a tribe of amoeba as they struggle to survive. In order to help their quest, tribes will take various genetic advantages, which allow them to 'break' the rules of life. For instance, instead of going hungry, your amoeba could learn to attack foreign amoeba for food. Or perhaps your amoeba could be taught to need less food to survive. Either way, this is a very interesting take on the game of life.
Vendor: Rio Grande Games
Type: Board Games
Price:
27.95
Designer |
Günter Burkhardt Stefan Dorra Doris Matthäus Frank Nestel Karl-Heinz Schmiel |
Publisher | Rio Grande Games |
Players | 2-6 |
Playtime | 30 mins |
Suggested Age | 10 and up |
Honors | 2008 Golden Geek Best Card Game Nominee |
While the game Mü and much of the card art will be familiar to players of Mü & More, this release of "the best trick-taking games" has a different lineup of games (some revised) and their components, plus more cards.
This edition includes these previously-released games:
Vendor: Doris & Frank
Type: Board Games
Price:
15.95
Designer |
Doris Matthäus Frank Nestel |
Publisher | Doris & Frank |
Players | 2-8 |
Playtime | 60 mins |
Suggested Age | 12 and up |
Honors |
Mü is regarded by many as one of the best offerings in the trick-taking genre. Players reveal cards to declare their bids: the highest bidder becomes the Chief and the second highest bidder is the Vice. Both the Vice and Chief choose a trump (either number or suit), and then players try to capture tricks to score the most points. The Chief chooses a partner and tries to cover the bid to score bonus points, while the Vice and remaining players seek to stop the Chief from reaching his goal.
The deck consists of 60 cards in 5 different colored suits. Each suit contains cards numbered from 0 to 9, with two of each the 1 and 7 cards. Cards also have 0, 1, or 2 triangles printed on them to show the point value of that card.
Mü & Lots More includes a a tweaked version of Mü and a different set of games.