Spiel des Jahres

Shadows Over Camelot

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In most games, players compete against each other to achieve victory. Shadows over Camelot proposes a journey of a very different kind, where you and your fellow players, as Knights of the Round Table, will collaborate to jointly defeat... the game!

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Business/Technology
Play Time: 
60 min.
Shadows Over Camelot

Torres

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A series of devastating tornadoes, unleashed by enemy mages in the recent war has left all the king’s castles in ruin. Only the foundations of these once magnificent monuments remain.

Grade Level: 
High
Play Time: 
60 min.
Torres

Villa Paletti

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In the land where the Lemons bloom, there once lived a wise old sage, whose friends called him "Paletti" He only had one goal in life, to finish the wonderful castle in the sky that his grandfather had begun to build many years before, but which had been left unfinished when the ducats

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Play Time: 
20 min.
Villa Paletti

Dixit Odyssey

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Dixit is a visually stunning game that rewards creativity, imagination and empathy. In Dixit, each player has a hand of beautifully illustrated cards that are evocative of fairy tales, surrealistic painting and dream imagery.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
ELA
Fine Arts
Special Education
Play Time: 
30 min.
Dixit Odyssey

Dominion

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ou are a monarch, like your parents before you, a ruler of a small pleasant kingdom of rivers and evergreens. Unlike your parents, however, you have hopes and dreams! You want a bigger and more pleasant kingdom, with more rivers and a wider variety of trees. You want a Dominion!

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Play Time: 
30 min.
Dominion

Carcassonne

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In this tile-laying game, players pull a tile and place it on the board building the area of Carcassone, France. If a player's tile starts a new city, road, farm or monastery they can place one of their "meeples" on the tile to claim control.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Play Time: 
45 min.
Carcassonne

Zooloretto

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Each player is a zoo owner. Players score points by attracting as many visitors to their zoos as possible. To accomplish this, they must collect matching sets of animals in enclosures. If they have more types of animals than enclosures, they must keep the extra animals in their barn.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Play Time: 
45 min.
Zooloretto

Niagara

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Niagara is set in the not particularly safe world of rushing waterfalls.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Play Time: 
45 min.
Niagara

Hare & Tortoise

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This game features the legendary race between the hare and the tortoise, but with a twist. Each player plays both parts at different stages of the race. Sometimes it is best to race like rabbit; others, it is best to move slowly and cautiously like the turtle.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Math
Play Time: 
45 min.
Hare & Tortoise

Manhattan

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Building boom in Manhattan! But not only there! Sky-scrapers are springing up all around the world.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Special Education
Business/Technology
Play Time: 
45 min.
Manhattan

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