ludossier

spielbox issue 1/2008 comes with a new building for Cuba. The contents is as follows, with games in italics receiving the best reviews:

• News:
  • third game in the Cartagena-Series
  • first impressions of the Nuremberg game fair
  • founder of Days of Wonder moves to Asmodée
  • the As d’Or award
• Long reviews: Agricola, In the Year of the Dragon, Anno 1701, Linq, Oregon, Hamburgum, Kingsburg, Gipsy King, Brass, Wabash Cannonball
• Short reviews: Kakerlaken-Salat, Uptown, Ramses, Handelsfürsten
• Children’s games: Lauras Erste Übernachtung, Pippi Langstrumpf, Capt’n Sharky
• Profiles:
  • the game authors Knut Happel and Christian Fiore
  • a sales supporter of the Zoch Verlag
• Reports:
  • workshop of the Fachgruppe Spiel: how to write rules well
  • Stonehenge: a game anthology
• Edition spielbox 83: Time-Roulette, a betting game for 2+ players by Jürgen P.K. Grunau
  • Spielbox-Café, a rum-producing building for Cuba
• History:
  • oldie: Schoko & Co
  • the roots of: Tzaar
  • evergreen: 20 years of Bausack
  • for collectors: the 19th century games publisher of the Züllchower Anstalten
• Variants: 5-player variant for Before the Wind
• Books: So spielt die Welt, a book about the games played around the world; two books about Bohnanza