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Tüfteln (Import)

2024-05-02T02:15:32-04:00

Vendor: KENDi
Type: Board Games
Price: 23.95

Designer	Reinhard Staupe Jannik Walter
Publisher	KENDi
Players	1-15
Playtime	15 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	412952/tufteln http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/412952/tufteln/forums/63

Note: This game includes English, French, Italian, and German.

Tüfteln is German for "tinkering", and that's what you must do in this dice game to land a top score.

The game includes a pad of double-sided player sheets, and each player has their own sheet, all showing either side A or B. The player sheet has a 3x3 grid of 2x2 squares with the numbers 1-6 being placed in six of the 36 spaces; the A side has a number of blue "bridges" that link two blue spaces in adjacent squares, while all of the other spaces are white, whereas the B side has six spaces in each of five colors, apart from the starting 1-6 digits.

On a turn, any player rolls the two six-sided dice. On the A side, you place the die results in any two empty white spaces or in the blue spaces that make up a bridge. On the B side, you place the die results in two empty spaces of the same color.

After fifteen turns, all of the spaces are filled, and you total your score, earning:

1 point for a square with four different digits
2 points for an adjacent pair of numbers
3 points for two adjacent pairs of numbers
4 points for two pairs of numbers placed diagonally in a square
5 points for four identical numbers
6 points for a straight of numbers in clockwise order

If you score all six types of formations, you receive a bonus of 7 points. Whoever has the highest score wins.

Quando (Import)

2024-05-02T02:13:33-04:00

Vendor: KENDi
Type: Board Games
Price: 23.95

Designer	Reinhard Staupe Jannik Walter
Publisher	KENDi
Players	2-6
Playtime	15 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	412927/quando http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/412927/quando/forums/63

Note: This game includes English, French, Italian, and German.

Your goal in Quando is to score the fewest points possible each round, ideally none! But when is the best time to score...?

The card deck consists of 55 double-sided cards. The digits 0-10 appear in every combination on these cards, with the digits always differing. Players start with 7-8 cards in hand depending on the player count. On a turn, you do one of two things, looking only at the side of the cards facing you:

Discard a straight of exactly three cards with consecutive numbers, or
Discard one or more cards of the same value.

End your turn by drawing one card from the deck and adding it to your hand. If you have played exactly three cards with the same number, each other player must flip a zero in their hand to the other side or draw a card from the deck.

Each time you draw a card, you can place it in your hand with the already revealed side facing you or flip it to the other side, after which you can't flip it back.

If a player has only zeroes in their hand at the end of their turn, they reveal them to end the round immediately. Otherwise, a player can choose to knock to end the round, after which each other player can take one final turn. No matter how the round ends, players then sum the value of cards in their hand. The player with the lowest sum scores 0 points, while everyone else scores their sum; if a player knocked, then didn't have the lowest sum, they score a 5-point penalty in addition to their sum.

Play multiple rounds until a player has 50+ points, at which time the player with the lowest score wins.

Sire Sire (French) (aka Ku-Ka-König)

2024-05-01T12:41:52-04:00

Vendor: Oya
Type: Board Games
Price: 22.95

Designer	Reinhard Staupe
Publisher	Oya
Players	2-4
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	402208/ku-ka-konig http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/402208/ku-ka-konig/forums/63

Choose the cards you want in Ku-Ka-König, and ideally they'll end up in your collection — and not be thrown away.

To play, shuffle the 112 cards, then lay out three cards in 6-8 numbered columns depending on whether you're playing with two, three, or four people. At the same time, everyone declares which column of cards they want to take. If no one else has claimed that column, take the cards and add them to your collection; if two or more player choose the same column, discard the final card of that column, then all tied players simultaneously declare a column number once again. Keep going until all players have taken cards from a column.

Refill the columns to three cards each, then play another round. When a player has collected at least 13 cards at the end of a round, score everyone's collection, with ties being friendly:

Kings score based on how many you have: (n-1)² points.
Knights are 1 point each, unless you have the most in which case they're 2 points each.
Churches give 10 points to whoever has collected the most.

And so on. Some cards bear an X, and these cards are discarded after the first scoring. Players then continue playing rounds until the deck runs out, then players score for their collection once again. Whoever has the highest combined score wins.

The Choice (Import)

2023-06-20T21:53:23-04:00

Vendor: KENDi
Type: Board Games
Price: 20.95

Designer	Reinhard Staupe
Publisher	KENDi
Players	2-4
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	388394/choice http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/388394/choice/forums/63

In The Choice, each player receives a pen and a sheet of paper from the game pad. Each side of the paper shows an area with 13 hexagons, each filled with a number, surrounded by a ring of 16 hexagons, each filled with a color. Start on whichever side you want; you use both during play.

On a turn, the active player rolls three dice, then can re-roll any number of dice once. Each die has the numbers 1-6 with a different color on each side. After the roll, all players use these dice to mark off hexes on their sheet. For each die, you can use either the number or the color; additionally, you can sum numbers on the dice, which will be required since the numbers in the hexes go up to 12.

However, once you mark a colored hexagon, you can mark only the adjacent colored hexagons from that point on. Similarly, when you first mark a number, circle that number. The next number you mark must be in an adjacent hex; draw a line that connects this number to the circle. With each subsequent number marked, you must extend the line, never crossing it or revisiting a marked space.

If the active player can't use all three dice, they mark a misthrow box on their sheet; the same is true for non-active players who don't use at least two dice. When you mark all three misthrow boxes, flip your sheet, then start marking the other side on the next turn; you can also choose to flip your sheet before you get three misthrows.

When any player has three misthrows on their second side, the game ends, and players tally their points for each side, summing those values. The more hexes you mark off, the better your score!

Qwixx On Board (Import)

2022-04-27T23:31:56-04:00

Vendor: Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag
Type: Board Games
Price: 22.95

Designer	Steffen Benndorf Reinhard Staupe
Publisher	Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag
Players	2-4
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	287691/qwixx-board http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/287691/qwixx-board/forums/63

Note: This game is in English, Spanish, French, Italian, and German language.

Qwixx On Board features rules identical to Qwixx, with the addition of a game board in which players want to move their pawn forward, occupy spaces, tactically cross out numbers, avoid misrolls, and bring about the end of the game, point by point.

—description from the publisher

Qwixx Longo (Import)

2022-04-27T23:30:31-04:00

Vendor: Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag
Type: Board Games
Price: 24.95

Designer	Steffen Benndorf Reinhard Staupe
Publisher	Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag
Players	2-5
Playtime	20-20 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	345036/qwixx-longo http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/345036/qwixx-longo/forums/63

Qwixx Longo is a quick-playing dice game in which everyone participates, no matter whose turn it is. Gameplay is nearly identical to 2012's Qwixx, but with eight-sided dice allowing for higher numbers to be rolled and lucky numbers that give additional chances to mark off spaces.

Each player has a scoresheet with the numbers 2-16 in rows of red and yellow and the numbers 16-2 in rows of green and blue. To score points you want to mark off as many numbers as possible, but you can mark off a number only if it's to the right of all marked-off numbers in the same row.

On a turn, the active player rolls six eight-sided dice: two white and one of each of the four colors listed above. Each player can choose to mark off the sum of the two white dice on one of their four rows; additionally, if the sum of the white dice matches one of the two lucky numbers printed on your scoresheet, you immediately mark off the next number in the row in which you have the fewest marks.

Then the active player can choose to mark off the sum of one colored die and one white die in the row that's the same color as the die. The more marks you can make in a row, the higher your score for that row. Fail to cross off a number when you're the active player, however, and you must mark one of four penalty boxes on your scoresheet. If you have at least six numbers marked in a row, then you can mark off either of the final two spaces in a colored row (15/16 in red/yellow and 3/2 in green/blue) — assuming the dice allow you to do so, of course. If you do this, you also mark off the padlock symbol in that row, locking everyone else out of this color.

When either a player has four penalty boxes marked or a second color is locked, the game ends immediately. Players then tally their points for each color, sum these values, then subtract five points for each marked penalty box. Whoever has the highest score wins.

Twenty One - Score Pad (German Import)

2021-10-15T19:50:23-04:00

	Vendor: Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag Type: Board Games Price: 4.95

The Game: Face to Face (English Edition)

2021-02-26T15:37:05-05:00

Vendor: Pandasaurus Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 13.95

Designers	Steffen Benndorf Reinhard Staupe
Publisher	Pandasaurus Games
Players	2
Playing Time	20 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	236461/game-face-face http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/236461/game-face-face/forums/63

The Game: Face to Face features gameplay similar to The Game with players laying down cards from their hand in ascending and descending piles, but now the game is limited to two players who are competing to get rid of their cards first. You want to win on your own, but to advance, you must inevitably help your opponent...

On your turn, you’ll play at least 2 cards from your hand of 6. The twist comes from where you can play them. Of course, your own ascending and descending piles are fair game and follow the normal rules of The Game.
But exactly once per turn, you can play a card on one of your opponent’s piles, breaking all rules. This ultimately helps them out, as it pushes whatever pile you played on away from its upper limit.

Robots

2020-08-10T12:22:22-04:00

Vendor: Pandasaurus Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 8.95

Designer	Reinhard Staupe
Publisher	Pandasaurus Games
Players	2-6
Playtime	15 mins
Suggested Age	5 and up
Honors	2020 Kinderspiel des Jahres Nominee
Additional Info	296514/robots http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/296514/robots/forums/63

How far does Robbi roll in about four seconds? Well, that depends on how quickly he moves!

As a team in Robots — first published as Wir sind die Roboter (We Are the Robots) — you try to work together to develop a sense of time and speed. If you can do this, soon you'll know exactly where Robbi will stop.

Wir sind die Roboter (German Import)

2020-03-12T23:09:41-04:00

Vendor: Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag
Type: Board Games
Price: 17.95

Designer	Reinhard Staupe
Publisher	Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag
Players	2-6
Playtime	15 mins
Suggested Age	5 and up
Additional Info	296514/wir-sind-die-roboter http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/296514/wir-sind-die-roboter/forums/63

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

How far does Robbi roll in about four seconds? Well, that depends on how quickly he moves!

As a team in Wir sind die Roboter (We Are the Robots), you try to work together to develop a sense of time and speed. If you can do this, soon you'll know exactly where Robbi will stop.

Qwantum (German Import)

2020-01-28T15:55:55-05:00

Vendor: Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag
Type: Board Games
Price: 19.95

Designer	Stefan Kloß Anna Oppolzer Reinhard Staupe
Publisher	Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag
Players	2-4
Playing Time	15 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	262388/qwantum http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/262388/qwantum/forums/63

Note: This game is in German. For a preview, English rule can be found here.

Players in Qwantum need to enter numbers in their personal grid that always go higher within a particular color — well, until those totals need to go lower once again...

3 sind eine zu viel! (German Import)

2018-09-21T01:13:30-04:00

Vendor: AMIGO
Type: Board Games
Price: 14.95

Designer	Christoph Behre Reinhard Staupe
Publisher	AMIGO Spiel + Freizeit GmbH
Players	2-4
Playtime	25 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	181867/3-sind-eine-zu-viel http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1711162/3-sind-eine-zu-viel/reviews

Note: This game is in German, the game itself is language independent. English rules can be found here.

Hold back or hurry forward? In 3 sind eine zu viel! (3's a Crowd!), no player escapes this question as they decide which cards to play when.

To set up, place the start cards in the middle of the table, then deal a deck of twenty cards to each player. Each player draws a hand of eight cards from their deck.

On your turn, play one number card from your hand into the display on the table. Each card you play has a certain place in the numerical sequence. If you add the fifth card to a row, you must take one to three cards from the display (depending on the position of the card you played), and place them in front of you, sorted by color. If you have one or two cards in a color at the end of the game, those earn you positive points; however, if you had to take a third card of that color, they earn you negative points instead. Both during and at the end of the game, you can earn bonus points for having cards in many different colors. The game ends when each player has played a total of eighteen cards. The player with the most points wins.

Dobbelland (aka Diceland) (Import)

2018-09-11T16:44:44-04:00

Vendor: White Goblin Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 29.95

Designer	Andreas Spies Reinhard Staupe
Publisher	White Goblin Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	244994/wurfelland http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/244994/wurfelland/forums/63

Note: This game is in Dutch. The game itself is language indepdnent. English rules can be found here.

Dobbelland, a.k.a. Diceland, is a racing dice game in which nothing has to be calculated. Every plays each turn based on the same roll of the dice, with all players racing to be the first to reach nine treasure fields and complete a territory of one chosen color. The game includes four double-sided wipeable playing boards for variety.

Blink

2018-09-05T12:25:21-04:00

Vendor: Mattel
Type: Board Games
Price: 7.95

Designer	Reinhard Staupe
Publisher	Mattel
Players	2-3
Playtime	10 mins
Suggested Age	7 and up
Additional Info	1197/blink http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1197/blink/forums/63

The two-minute-long, two-player card game Blink bills itself as the fastest game in the world. Without taking turns, players race to empty their hands by matching the color, shape, or number of symbols on their cards in hand to the top card of the two discard piles in the center of the table. As soon as a player lays down one card, they can draw another, up to the hand size of three cards. If a player can't play, they can discard one card, then draw another. The first player to empty their hand and draw pile wins.

The rulebook includes variants for three- and four-player games.

Blink: Bible Edition is the same game with Christian faith icons.

Blink (Bible Edition)

2018-07-11T12:43:10-04:00

Vendor: Cactus Game Design
Type: Board Games
Price: 8.95

Designer	Reinhard Staupe
Publisher	Cactus Game Design
Players	2-3
Playtime	10 mins
Suggested Age	7 and up
Additional Info	1197/blink http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1197/blink/forums/63

Sherlock Deluxe

2018-06-06T14:29:44-04:00

Vendor: Playroom Entertainment
Type: Board Games
Price: 14.95

Designer	Reinhard Staupe
Publisher	Playroom Entertainment
Players	2-5
Playtime	15 mins
Suggested Age	5 and up
Reimplements	Sherlock
Additional Info	52332/sherlock-deluxe http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/52332/sherlock-deluxe/forums/63

Sherlock Deluxe

The Card Game Where Memory and Deduction are “Elementary”!

Winner of over 6 awards, including the Parent's Choice Gold award, The National Parenting Center's Seal of Approval, Creative Child Magazine's Preferred Choice Award and more, the Sherlock card game now has a new look in the Sherlock Deluxe edition!

The new and elegant book-shaped box attractively houses the popular game, and as a special addition, includes an intricately sculpted Sherlock pawn and 11 extra clue cards!

As Sherlock goes around and searches the clues, every player tries to remember each of the eight objects hidden in a facedown circle of cards. Then, Sherlock travels from one card to another. Each time Sherlock stops at a facedown card, the player has to remember which object is on that card. Sherlock continues to move, as long as the player guesses correctly.

If Sherlock travels to a face-up card, then the player gets to keep that card. The first player to collect six cards wins!

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For 2 to 5 Players
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Ages 5 to Adult
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15 Minute Playing Time

Contents: 60 Clue Cards, 1 Sherlock Pawn and Instructions in English, Spanish & French

Re-implements:

Sherlock

The Game: Face to Face (German Import)

2018-03-10T12:50:50-05:00

Vendor: Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag
Type: Board Games
Price: 17.95

Designer	Steffen Benndorf Reinhard Staupe
Publisher	Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag
Players	2
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	236461/game-face-face http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/236461/game-face-face/forums/63

Note: This game is in German. The game itself is language independent. English rules can be found here.

The Game: Face to Face features gameplay similar to The Game with players laying down cards from their hand in ascending and descending piles, but now the game is limited to two players who are competing to get rid of their cards first. You want to win on your own, but to advance, you must inevitably help your opponent...

Qwixx Characters (German Import)

2018-02-07T22:53:05-05:00

Vendor: Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag
Type: Board Games
Price: 12.95

Designer	Steffen Benndorf Reinhard Staupe
Publisher	Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag
Players	2-5
Players	15 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Expansion For	Qwixx
Additional Info	238002/qwixx-characters http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/238002/qwixx-characters/forums/63

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

Qwixx Characters is a mini-expansion for Qwixx that consists of five character tiles, each with a special power. Maybe you'll get to change a missed turn into a marked space, or go back and fill a missed space, or use the white die twice.

3 C'est trop! (French Edition)

2017-11-24T22:38:40-05:00

Vendor: AMIGO
Type: Board Games
Price: 13.95

Designers	Christoph Behre Reinhard Staupe
Publisher	AMIGO
Players	2-4
Playtime	25 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	181867/3-sind-eine-zu-viel http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1711162/3-sind-eine-zu-viel/reviews

Hold back or hurry forward? In 3 sind eine zu viel! (3's a Crowd!), no player escapes this question as they decide which cards to play when.

To set up, place the start cards in the middle of the table, then deal a deck of twenty cards to each player. Each player draws a hand of eight cards from their deck.

Take That

2017-06-27T21:09:28-04:00

Vendor: Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag
Type: Board Games
Price: 17.95

Designer	Andreas Spies Reinhard Staupe
Publisher	Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag
Players	2-4
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	211450/take http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/211450/take/forums/63

Take That - Who has to swallow the bitter toad?

Easy rules. Great take that fun game.

On your turn, you have to place down a card into the row or remove one. That´s all.
But beware! If you can not do it either way, you have to swallow this bitter pill.
In this case the bitter toad and cash in minus points - but tidy many.

When the stack of cards is empty, the game ends. The player with the fewest minus points is the winner.

Exciting!
Fun!
Big Time!

The Game: Extreme (German Import)

2017-06-27T21:07:31-04:00

Vendor: Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag
Type: Board Games
Price: 17.95

Designer	Steffen Benndorf Reinhard Staupe
Publisher	Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag
Players	1-5
Playtime	20-30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Reimplements	The Game
Additional Info	209325/game-extreme http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/209325/game-extreme/forums/63

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

The Game: Extreme features cooperative gameplay similar to The Game, with all players working together to discard all of the cards in the deck onto four discard piles.

What's new in The Game: Extreme are 28 instructions on the cards themselves that affect the rules of the game while they're in play, increasing the difficulty of completing the game — or rather, The Game.

Qwixx: Das Kartenspiel (German Import)

2017-06-27T00:26:22-04:00

Vendor: Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag
Type: Board Games
Price: 15.95

Designer	Steffen Benndorf Reinhard Staupe
Publisher	Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag
Players	2-5
Playtime	15 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	151835/qwixx-das-kartenspiel http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/151835/qwixx-das-kartenspiel/forums/63

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

Qwixx: Das Kartenspiel captures the spirit of Qwixx — with players still trying to cross off numbers in four colored rows as best they can — but this game uses cards instead of dice, allowing for more tactics and planning as you draft and play a hand of cards.

As in the original game, in Qwixx: Das Kartenspiel each player has a scoresheet with the numbers 2-12 in rows of red and yellow and the numbers 12-2 in rows of green and blue. You want to mark off as many numbers as possible, but you can mark off a number only if it's to the right of all marked off numbers in the same row. The deck has 44 cards, eleven in each color numbered 2-12; the back of each card shows the number but without the color. Each player starts with a hand of four cards, and four other cards are laid out face-down — that is, with the color hidden — in a row beside the remaining deck of cards.

On a turn, a player fills her hand to five cards by drawing from the four cards on display, then refills the card display from the deck. Using the number now visible on the top card of the deck, each player can choose to cross off one instance of this number in one row on her scoresheet. The active player then plays 1-3 cards from her hand, all of which must be the same color. She can cross off the numbers on these cards — but only if at most one number is missing in the series of numbers to be crossed off. For example, if she discards 2, 3 and 5 in blue, she can cross off these three numbers (assuming that she hasn't crossed off any blue numbers previously); if she discards 2, 3, and 6 in blue, then she can cross off the 2, the 3, the 2 and 3, or the 6.

If a player has crossed off five numbers in a color, then she can cross off the rightmost number (2 or 12) should the opportunity arise; if she does, she also crosses off a lock token in this color. If the active player can't cross off a number during her turn, she must mark a penalty box.

When a player has "locked" two colors on her scoresheet or marked off four penalty boxes, the game ends. Each player tallies her score in each color — the more numbers crossed off, the more you score — then sums these totals and subtracts any penalty points. Whoever scores the most points wins!

For a variant, Qwixx: Das Kartenspiel includes eleven multicolored joker cards, also numbered 2-12, that are shuffled into the deck. A player determines the color of this card only when playing it on her turn.

Qwinto: Das Kartenspiel (German Import)

2017-06-27T00:21:21-04:00

Vendor: Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag
Type: Board Games
Price: 15.95

Designer	Bernhard Lach Uwe Rapp Reinhard Staupe
Publisher	Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag
Players	1-4
Players	20 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	217470/qwinto-das-kartenspiel http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/217470/qwinto-das-kartenspiel/forums/63

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

Qwinto: Das Kartenspiel is a card game version of the dice game Qwinto. As in the original game, players each have an individual score sheet, and they're trying to use numbers (1-18) to fill in the empty spaces in three rows, which are colored orange, yellow and purple. Within a row, lower numbers must be placed to the left of higher numbers, and no number can be repeated. In the two- and three-space columns formed by the rows, no number can be repeated, but numbers can be in any order.

Aside from the score sheet, the game includes 32 cards, with the cards numbered 0-6 and -2 in four colors (yellow, orange, purple, gray). Each player starts with a random hand of three cards, then four cards are laid in a 2x2 square. On a turn, a player lays a card from their and onto one of the cards in the square, then sums that card and the two adjacent cards, stating this number and the color of all non-grey cards out loud, e.g., "13 in purple and yellow". Each player can then write a 13 in either the purple or yellow row on their score sheet. If the number is less than 1 or all the cards are grey, then no one can write anything; if the active player can't write anything on their score sheet, then they must mark a penalty box instead.

If a player has two cards with the same number, they can lay down one of them, then the matching number in an adjacent space, thus possibly changing the sum drastically. A player refills their hand to three cards to end their turn.

When a player has completely filled two rows with numbers or all four penalty spaces on their score sheet, the game ends. Each player tallies the points for each of their rows: 1 point per number if spaces are empty, or as many points as the rightmost number if the row is full. For each three-space column, if all spaces are filled, then the player scores points equal to the number in the pentagon. For each penalty point, the player loses 5 points. Whoever has the highest sum wins!

Twenty One (German Import)

2017-03-10T02:52:17-05:00

Vendor: Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag
Type: Board Games
Price: 20.95

Designer	Steffen Benndorf Reinhard Staupe
Publisher	Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag
Players	2-6
Playtime	15 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Expansions	Twenty One - additional blocks (2 pieces) (German Import)
Additional Info	217475/twenty-one http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/217475/twenty-one/forums/63

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

Each player in Twenty One receives a different score sheet at the start of the game; each sheet has five horizontal rows with six colored dice pictured in each row, and while the numbers are identical in each of the rows on each sheet, the arrangement of colors differs.

To score points, a player needs to fill these dice with numbers, but they have to fill (or mark off) all six dice in a row before they can move to the next row on their score sheet — and to write numbers on their sheet, they'll have to depend (at least somewhat) on the luck of the dice.

On a turn, the active player rolls six colored dice that match the colors depicted on each score sheet. They must keep all 1s that they roll, but they can choose to reroll all non-1 dice twice. After the second roll, all players can use the rolled dice to fill one or more of the dice on their sheet — but only if the die of the matching color shows a value equal to or less than what's on the score sheet.

For example, if your row shows a yellow 6, blue 5, white 4, etc., and you or the active player rolls yellow 3, blue 6, white 4, etc., you can choose to write "3" in the yellow space (earning yourself 3 points at the end of the game), but you may choose not to since you could score up to 6 points for that space. You can't write anything in blue since the die is higher than the number shown. You definitely want to write 4 in the white space since 4 is the most points you can score there. What's more, since you had an exact hit, you "x" the box as well, and you score bonus points in a row for the number of "x"s that you have.

If you can't or don't want to fill in a number, you must cross out the leftmost space in your current row, earning no points for this space. As soon as all spaces in a row are filled or crossed off, you start the next row with the next roll of the dice. The game ends the turn that someone completes the fifth row, after which everyone tallies their points to see who wins.

X nimmt! (German Import)

2016-09-28T01:01:06-04:00

Vendor: AMIGO
Type: Board Games
Price: 20.95

Designer	Wolfgang Kramer Reinhard Staupe
Publisher	AMIGO Spiel + Freizeit GmbH
Players	2-4
Platyime	25 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	205885/x-nimmt http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/205885/x-nimmt/forums/63

Note: This game is in German. The game itself is language independent. English rules can be found here.

It's time to run from the bulls once again in X nimmt!

This card game starts with the same premise as the well-known 6 nimmt!: Each turn, players all simultaneously reveal one card from their hand, then these cards are placed into existing rows one at a time, starting with the lowest-valued card. If a row is full, then whoever played that final card takes all of the cards already in the row, scoring negative points for all of the bullheads on those cards.

X nimmt! changes these rules a few ways. Each player starts with eight cards in hand and a personal X row. Played cards will be placed into three rows, with those rows being able to hold three, four or five cards. Whenever someone takes cards from a row, those cards go into the player's hand, then the player must play one card into their personal X row.

All cards in this X row must also be played in ascending order! If you can't do this, then you place all of those X cards aside in order to start a new X row, with the value of those set-aside cards now being doubled.

A round ends after someone plays the final card in their hand, and whoever has the fewest negative points after two rounds wins.