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“Spiel des Jahres” Game of the Year 2017 winners

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Re: “Spiel des Jahres” Game of the Year 2017 winners

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Post by XaspR8d »

Kingdomino is perfectly fine, but I felt the SdJ nominees this year were all pretty safe choices. If anything, I would've preferred Magic Maze, which seems to be the most unique of the SdJ nominees. Plus, Honshu, which also came out this year, is a much better bid-and-build-domino-cities game than Kingdomino, but I understand it's a little more complex than the average SdJ winner.

Meanwhile, Exit winning the Kennerspiel frustrates me. It's a solid design, and the escape-room-in-a-box can be quite fun, but it's hardly a gamer's game and the other nominees were incredible.

I guess my takeaway is that the SdJ is built up too much and doesn't reflect my segment of the hobby very well.

Re: “Spiel des Jahres” Game of the Year 2017 winners

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Post by cableshaft »

pfooti wrote: post #9

Ah, kingdomino got an award. I got a copy last year from a friend who picked it up at Essen. It is excellent. Pretty easy to learn, plays in 15 minutes, hidden depths to strategy. Great gateway game, and not too expensive either. My only house rules are to remove the bonus points for a full board and centered castle, and to allow someone to declare a broken board and discard a tile at any time (instead of discarding…

Yeah, I don't like playing with the full board and centered castle for bonus points variants either. It seems unnecessary in most games, and just punishes someone who has a slightly less optimal board even further (they're probably not going to win it anyway).

Re: “Spiel des Jahres” Game of the Year 2017 winners

#13

Post by Ashleyleo »

cableshaft wrote: post #12
pfooti wrote: post #9

Ah, kingdomino got an award. I got a copy last year from a friend who picked it up at Essen. It is excellent. Pretty easy to learn, plays in 15 minutes, hidden depths to strategy. Great gateway game, and not too expensive either. My only house rules are to remove the bonus points for a full board and centered castle, and to allow someone to declare a broken board and discard a tile at any time (instead of discarding…

Yeah, I don't like playing with the full board and centered castle for bonus points variants either. It seems unnecessary in most games, and just punishes someone who has a slightly less optimal board even further (they're probably not going to win it anyway).

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Re: “Spiel des Jahres” Game of the Year 2017 winners

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Post by cableshaft »

XaspR8d wrote: post #11

Kingdomino is perfectly fine, but I felt the SdJ nominees this year were all pretty safe choices. If anything, I would've preferred Magic Maze, which seems to be the most unique of the SdJ nominees. Plus, Honshu, which also came out this year, is a much better bid-and-build-domino-cities game than Kingdomino, but I understand it's a little more complex than the average SdJ winner. Meanwhile, Exit winning the Kennersp…

Honshu is good, but I actually prefer Kingdomino myself. The bidding for turn order with the cards that form the pool of cards you get to choose from is a little hard for people to wrap their heads around, and seems a bit arbitrary, although it does work.

Magic Maze has the whole no-communicating bit going against it, although it does look interesting and I would like to play it. I'm surprised it got the nomination, and the nomination alone will bring a lot more attention to that game, so that's cool.

Re: “Spiel des Jahres” Game of the Year 2017 winners

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Post by TeMPOraL »

wolfgke wrote: post #6
awjr wrote: post #3

One of the more interesting games that, in the UK, had pretty much gone no where, was "Settlers of Catan". Then, around 1998 IIRC, it got a 10/10 in a gaming magazine and I think this, very much, spawned the revival of German board games on the UK games scene. Before then it really was mainly war games (warhammer et al), RPGs, and card games (Magic TG from about 1993 onwards). There are some absolutely fantastic game…

> Board games are so so so good these days, just avoid Monopoly. ;) According to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Monopoly_(game)&o... Monopoly was intended as a way to demonstrate that an economy which rewards wealth creation is better than one in which monopolists work under few constraints. In other words and put much more harshly: Monopoly is played the right way if after a short time one player is happ…

This really should have been written on the box explicitly.

I didn't see the connection until someone pointed it out to me when I was already an adult. All I have from this game is memories of boredom playing it with family as a kid.

Re: “Spiel des Jahres” Game of the Year 2017 winners

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Post by skciva »

awjr wrote: post #3

One of the more interesting games that, in the UK, had pretty much gone no where, was "Settlers of Catan". Then, around 1998 IIRC, it got a 10/10 in a gaming magazine and I think this, very much, spawned the revival of German board games on the UK games scene. Before then it really was mainly war games (warhammer et al), RPGs, and card games (Magic TG from about 1993 onwards). There are some absolutely fantastic game…

Agreed on Sheriff! Such a fun game.

I think whats important is having one or two people "hosting" the events to realize what you've said above and plan accordingly.

Having a plethora of games to choose from and selecting the right one for certain people and group sizes has made a lot of my friends realize just how much fun they can be.

Re: “Spiel des Jahres” Game of the Year 2017 winners

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Post by jjnoakes »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #15
wolfgke wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Board games are so so so good these days, just avoid Monopoly. ;) According to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Monopoly_(game)&o... Monopoly was intended as a way to demonstrate that an economy which rewards wealth creation is better than one in which monopolists work under few constraints. In other words and put much more harshly: Monopoly is played the right way if after a short time one player is happ…

This really should have been written on the box explicitly. I didn't see the connection until someone pointed it out to me when I was already an adult. All I have from this game is memories of boredom playing it with family as a kid.

If you were bored playing Monopoly, you were probably not playing with the real rules (i.e. you had no auctions, you used free parking, etc).

Played correctly, Monopoly isn't a terribly long game, and (usually) once someone gets ahead, it is a fairly quick steamroll.

Re: “Spiel des Jahres” Game of the Year 2017 winners

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Post by peteretep »

I'm a digital nomad. I'd like something a bit more exciting than simple card or dice games, but space is at a bit of a premium. Any recommendations for games that have a lot of depth (and thus can be played over and over), are very quick to pick up the basics (so we can teach others), and are physically tiny (or can be)?

Re: “Spiel des Jahres” Game of the Year 2017 winners

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Post by Camille34 »

jjnoakes wrote: post #18
TeMPOraL wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This really should have been written on the box explicitly. I didn't see the connection until someone pointed it out to me when I was already an adult. All I have from this game is memories of boredom playing it with family as a kid.

If you were bored playing Monopoly, you were probably not playing with the real rules (i.e. you had no auctions, you used free parking, etc). Played correctly, Monopoly isn't a terribly long game, and (usually) once someone gets ahead, it is a fairly quick steamroll.

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