The nominees for the 2012 Spiel des Jahres award have been announced:
- Eselsbrücke (designed by Stefan Dorra and Ralf zur Linde, published by Schmidt Spiele)
- Kingdom Builder (designed by Donald X. Vaccarino, published by Queen Games)
- Vegas (designed by Rüdiger Dorn, published by Alea)
The nominees for the 2012 Kennerspiel des Jahres, an award designed to recognize more complex games, were also announced this morning:
- K2 (designed by Adam Kaluza, published by Heidelberger Spieleverlag)
- Targi (designed by Andreas Steiger, published by Kosmos)
- Village (designed by Inka and Markus Brand, published by Eggertspiele)
On Friday, the Opinionated Gamers predicted which games would be nominated. As a group, we were right about Kingdom Builder and Vegas being nominated for the SdJ, and Village being nominated for the KdJ. Individually, my picks... were not really worth mentioning. (I did predict Village's nomination.)
The winners of this year's SdJ and KdJ will be announced on July 9.
If you're ever in the mood to play the trick-taking card game Euchre but you only have two players, here's the solution: Two-Handed Euchre. This version of the game is specifically designed for just two players.
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Game publisher Fantasy Flight Games has announced that a new edition of the brilliant dungeon crawl board game Descent: Journeys in the Dark will be available this summer. Descent: Journeys in the Dark Second Edition will feature new heroes and monsters, streamlined rules, a class-based hero system, campaign play, and more, according to FFG.
I ranked the original Descent as the #12 board game published in the decade of the 2000s and had a lot of fun playing it, so I'm looking forward to the second edition. Hopefully sooner rather than later.
Rummy is one of the most popular card games in the world, and many games exist in the Rummy family. One of those is Three Thirteen, a version of Rummy that's played over 11 rounds. Here are the complete rules for the card game Three Thirteen.
