Vendor: Game Factory
Type: Board Games
Price: 14.95

Note: This game is in German. English rules can be found here.

What's going on in the forest? The squirrels' nut storehouse is empty and must be refilled quickly – and before the thieving raccoon David comes along and steals it.

In the family game Auf die Nüsse!, players slip into the role of small squirrels, who roll the dice and skillfully place their characters on the board to collect as many nuts as they can and sort them in their storehouse by variety. Each player has a set of cards with differently-sized nut storehouses and 15 squirrels of one color. On a player's turn he rolls the dice and must combine a white with a green die and place a squirrel on the appropiate field. You can repeat this several times, but if you roll a field with a squirrel, your turn ends.

If you think you have placed enough squirrels, you send them into the forest; if you have two or more squirrels in one of the lower forest areas you may take the nut card from the display and put it into your storehouse. Other player's squirrels move up in the forest. In the upper fields you need three or four squirrels, but there's also a wider range of nuts. On a special field the thieving raccoon David awaits; he helps steal nuts from other players' storehouses.

The game ends when the deck of nuts is exhausted. The player who has collected most victory points in his storehouse wins.

Vendor: HUCH!
Type: Board Games
Price: 29.95

Vendor: HABA
Type: Board Games
Price: 41.99

Vendor: AMIGO
Type: Board Games
Price: 19.95

Vendor: AMIGO
Type: Board Games
Price: 15.95

Note: This game is in German.  English rules be be found here.

Reckless researchers have opened one ancient sarcophagus after another, and in so doing have rudely disturbed the peace of the resting mummies. Now the addlebrained, musty fellows are roaming throughout the catacombs, and they turn out to be surprisingly affectionate. With a little skill and a fragrant whiff of tactics in this trick-taking game, you can completely avoid taking too many of these scatterbrained guys home in your luggage.

In Sarkophag, each player has ten cards in hand. Each round, each player plays exactly one card. The second card played determines whether subsequent cards in the round must be higher or lower than what was led. Whoever plays the highest/lowest card (depending on what that second card determined) takes the "trick", collecting all the cards played. If, however, a player cannot follow the rule — for example, having only higher cards in hand when supposed to play a lower card — they take the trick.

Whoever takes the trick is cursed with a few mummy heads; however, they also start the next round. The game ends as soon as all ten tricks have been played. Now each player counts the little mummy heads on their cards, and the player with the fewest mummy heads wins.

Vendor: AMIGO
Type: Board Games
Price: 18.95

Note: This game is in German.

The player mice in Käse Würfeln want to stack cheese as high as they can. Why? Why don't they just eat the cheese? That's not the issue here – let the mice do what they want!

On a turn, a player rolls eight six-sided dice up to four times, keeping dice between rolls if desired. After finishing, she claims a number card if she's rolled that number on that many dice; e.g., if she's rolled a 4 on four dice, she claims the 4 card. After claiming a card, she either starts a new stack with that card as its base or places that card on top of another card she already has – but only if that card is lower than the top card of the stack.

If a player takes a 1 card, she can place it either glass case side up on top of a stack – closing that stack (since nothing can be placed on a 1) and protecting it from being stolen – or mouse side up; a mouse side-up 1 can later be placed on a stack, and a player can have only two of these cards. When a player closes a stack with four, five or six cards, she takes a bonus card from the table, with earlier claimed bonus cards being worth more points.

If a player can't take any cards, she takes a gift card, which she can spend on a later turn to rotate a die to show a particular face. A player can hold only one gift card.

When three of the number stacks are empty, the game ends immediately. The player with the most stacks claims a 12-point bonus card, then players tally their points. Each closed stack is worth the product of the largest number in the stack and the number of cards in the stack; each open stack is worth the sum of the cards in the stack. The player with the most points wins!

Vendor: 2F-Spiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 34.95

Note: This game is in German. English rules can be found here.

What's going on in the forest? The squirrels' nut storehouse is empty and must be refilled quickly – and before the thieving raccoon David comes along and steals it.

In the family game Auf die Nüsse!, players slip into the role of small squirrels, who roll the dice and skillfully place their characters on the board to collect as many nuts as they can and sort them in their storehouse by variety. Each player has a set of cards with differently-sized nut storehouses and 15 squirrels of one color. On a player's turn he rolls the dice and must combine a white with a green die and place a squirrel on the appropiate field. You can repeat this several times, but if you roll a field with a squirrel, your turn ends.

If you think you have placed enough squirrels, you send them into the forest; if you have two or more squirrels in one of the lower forest areas you may take the nut card from the display and put it into your storehouse. Other player's squirrels move up in the forest. In the upper fields you need three or four squirrels, but there's also a wider range of nuts. On a special field the thieving raccoon David awaits; he helps steal nuts from other players' storehouses.

The game ends when the deck of nuts is exhausted. The player who has collected most victory points in his storehouse wins.

Vendor: Stronghold Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 11.95

Everybody is fond of teasing and challenging each other from time to time. In this game you try to saddle opposing players with negative cards, and every little devil scores a penalty point. But take care: You will not escape the "diabolical" plans of your opponents either. Little Devils is a devilishly fun trick-taking game you keep on playing...

Little Devils is a fluent trick-taking game with simple rules:

• Players don't need to follow trump or suit and can play higher or lower than previously played cards.
• The second card played – and not the first – determines the goal for that round.