Today I received spielbox issue 3/2009, with two small expansions for Tigris & Euphrates and Planet Steam. The contents is as follows, with games in italics receiving an average reviewer score above 7/10:
- News:
- an exhibit about baroque games in Halle, as part of Händel’s 250th death anniversary
- the games nominated for (Kinder-)Spiel des Jahres were announced
- online voting for the Deutscher Spiele Preis gives chance to win games and tickets to Essen
- Long reviews: Livingstone, Der Palast of Eschnapur, Finca, Der Hexer von Salem, Ghost Stories, Space Alert, Battlestart Galactica, The Princes of Machu Picchu, Bombay, After the Flood, Baumeister
- Short reviews: Bakong, Fiese Kühe, Circus Maximus
- Children’s games: 1,2,3… ich komme!, Schwarzer Kater, Nicht zu fassen, Die Kinder von Carcassonne
- Profiles: interview with Michael Hopf, chairman of Fachgruppe Spiel, an organisation of German game publishers for the promotion of board and card games
- Reports:
- Cultaptation, a contest of social learning strategies
- Tom Felber plays around the world: chess, mahjong, etc. on board a cargo ship from New Zealand to Philadelphia
- the state of game collections in museums
- Edition spielbox 87: Bet Royal, a bidding and betting card game by Christward Conrad for 2-6 players
- the Saboteur card for Planet Steam
- the Ziggurat extension to Tigris & Euphrates — ziggurats are Mesopotamian pyramids
- History:
- oldie: Geld & Börse, a stock market game from the 60s
- the roots of: Dog (a different perspective from the previous issue), Hab & Gut
- for collectors: question & answer games
- mechanics: price setting in financial and economic games (part 2)
- abstract games: board crossing games (Halma and its descendants)
- Variants: Livingstone
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