Whenever we produce a game, we have to ensure that sufficient quantities of the materials are available for each game edition.
To play it safe, we always produce slightly more than we actually need. ...
Whenever we produce a game, we have to ensure that sufficient quantities of the materials are available for each game edition.
To play it safe, we always produce slightly more than we actually need. ...
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Whenever we produce a game, we have to ensure that sufficient quantities of the materials are available for each game edition.
To play it safe, we always produce slightly more than we actually need. Once the bags have been filled, generally there are leftover game counters that get filled into the bags landing on the shelf at the back of the warehouse. The verdict: they’re unsaleable without the boxes. But why? They’re also fine without!
During one of the breaks because of coronavirus, we compiled a stock inventory and sorted the game materials; we reprinted the missing game rules and, game by game, we filled all the materials into lovely cotton bags. At a special price, you can now purchase six different games in which nothing is missing – except for a box...
Three of the games are still in our programme; two games are the early forerunners of titles that we produced a second time with an updated design, and one is a genuine collector’s item.
Game materials
one game in a cotton bag (KARO, SEDICI, YENGO) (KAITO, YALA, Schwarzer Kater - out of stock)
Game rules: German
Price per game:
12,00 €
You choose the version in the order form.
(out of stock)
The favourite game of the samurai. An elegant and unforgiving striking game in which only one can survive.
More about it here.
A collection of three different strategy games that can all be played with the same material.
More about it here.
(out of stock)
The cat has hidden everything that mice love under the little black hats. On the list of recommendations for the Game of the Year 2009.
More about it here.
(out of stock)
This is truly a rarity. The game by Jacques Zeimet was never available in the regular trade. It did appear under our label, but as a special production for a catalogue mail-order company that had exclusive marketing rights. We never had YALA on sale either. Yet it became one of the most elaborate and expensive productions for us. The tools for the pagoda-like hats alone cost a fortune in the end. However, about ninety sets came to light in a box during the warehouse action and we are now offering them to you at the same special price as the other bag games.
Only the early bird gets a YALA!
For many years I refused to dress up a game mechanism (which is usually abstract mathematics) in a theme for sales reasons. I was convinced that a great game doesn't need a theme. Beautifully designed with high-quality wooden playing material, it will find its buyers. As a publisher, I eventually made compromises and republished two beautiful old games in a different design.
SEDICI - the laying puzzle for one or two players has transformed into PALAVAN. Even if the graphic representation of the island landscape looks completely different from the large wooden game pieces at first sight, the way of playing is absolutely identical.
More about it here.
YENGO is the abstract precursor of ZWOGGEL. In this case, however, with an additional rule. The stones of the same colour come in three different values, which makes the game a little more challenging.
More about the mixture of bluff, memo and strategy here.
During the breaks due to the coronavirus lockdown, at least we had time to tidy up all corners of our warehouse. And some remainder stock came to light from the early days of our publishing house. ...
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During the breaks due to the coronavirus lockdown, at least we had time to tidy up all corners of our warehouse. And some remainder stock came to light from the early days of our publishing house. When our game editions were produced in hundreds of copies, the game boxes were hand-crafted by a manufacturer in East Germany.
The box covers were made from expensive fine-linen paper, beautiful to handle and obviously more resistant to wear and tear than the paper used to cover game boxes today.
It would be a pity to let these old treasures gather dust. Our special offer for you are four games in the ‘retro boxes’. Two of these games (LINJA and KARO) are still current. The other two are genuinely rare collector’s games. The games have no protective foil, and the game rules are only in German. That’s how it was in the beginning...
The price is certainly unbeatable – limited stock availability!
Game materials
one game in a fine-linen paper cover (KARO) (LINJA- out of stock) (BANGO- out of stock) (Fuchsen and Mausen - out of stock)
Game instructions: German
Price per game:
12,00 €
You choose the version in the order form.
(out of stock)
At the same time as SIX, the tile-laying game BANGO came out in 2003. The goal is a row of 5 pieces, a GOBANG variant, but like SIX without a board. But since the gaming community has been infatuated with hexagons since Catan, it never had the success of SIX, which is still in the programme today. Square pieces seem obviously too common, yet as a game inventor I can assure you that BANGO is in no way inferior to SIX in terms of complexity. As in Four Wins, the key is to combine horizontal, vertical and diagonal rows in such a way that the all-important quandary is created.
(out of stock)
A game of skill in which round leather discs are thrown as close as possible to or onto a previously agreed target. A kind of indoor boules, in a way. The discs have amazingly good flight characteristics and with a little practice you can place them accurately like small Frisbees. They will land softly and completely noiselessly. A great bonus at children's birthday parties & CO. The discs in six different colours were cut out of vegetable-tanned leather by a craftsman friend of mine, which was so expensive that there was never a second edition.
A collection of three different strategy games that can all be played with the same material.
More about it here.
Two players climb a "ladder" built out of bamboo sticks with their playing tiles to race against each other. Linja was my very first strategy game. The design of the slim box has remained unchanged for 18 years.
More about it here.
The small wooden skittle was still standing on its disc. After a skilful puck shot the disc slides away, while the skittle remains proudly standing on the tabletop! It’s down to the law of inertia – ...
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The small wooden skittle was still standing on its disc. After a skilful puck shot the disc slides away, while the skittle remains proudly standing on the tabletop! It’s down to the law of inertia – and, of course, the shooter’s skill.
At the start of the match, ‘all ten’ proudly stand on their round disc-plinths. Ready for the first puck-shot at the discs! The player who shoots a disc from under a skittle, yet without making it fall over, is allowed to collect the free skittle. If the skittles tumble, the shooter goes away empty-handed. The round of flick shots continues until the highest scoring red skittle is collected. SCHNIPP-TRICK is an entertaining and exciting skittles match. The smoother the table, the faster the puck glides!
Game materials
10 wooden skittles 11 wooden discs
For 2 – 5 players aged 8 years and above
Duration: approx. 20 mins.
SPECIAL OFFER: 7,50 €
Author: Torsten Marold
Das bunte Holzspiel Schnipp-Trick erfordert etwas Übung mit dem Schnippen und ist ansonsten nicht nur hübsch anzusehen. Wer generell Geschicklichkeitsspiele wie beispielsweise Subbuteo mag, findet hier kurzweilige Unterhaltung nur eben nicht aus billigem Plastik, sondern mit hochwertigen Materialien.
Carsten Pinnow
in "angespielt" - Dezember 2016
In the underworld the devils play their game of hide-and-seek with newcomers. They hide behind the flaming hell-fire or the cauldron and brandish their trident. But whenever somebody catches four of ...
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In the underworld the devils play their game of hide-and-seek with newcomers. They hide behind the flaming hell-fire or the cauldron and brandish their trident. But whenever somebody catches four of them at once, the devils must pay out a red coin. At the end of the game, the player who has won the most coins is free to leave hell. All the others are boiled in the cauldron! TEUFELSKREIS is a memo game with an unusual memory test. Ten discs with hellish images on the front and reverse sides are in a circle. Each round, the object is to find four matching images. The player who flips over the right discs collects points. Those not paying attention quickly forfeit their gains. Luckily, there is the jackpot and opponents who also lose track of things. All it takes is one stroke of inspiration and you can grab the devil by his horns!
Game materials
10 discs
16 cards
Box 14 x 14 x 6 cm
21,00 €
Author: Jacques Zeimet
Fazit: ein einfach zulernendes Merkspiel, dass schwierig zu gewinnen ist.
Münchner Merkur Nr. 265, 2019
Erst hatte ich gedacht, naja, mal wieder ein Memo-Spiel. Noch dazu ein einfaches mit nur wenigen Motiven. Stimmt ja auch. Aber wer zu zweit spielt, kann ein wenig Strategie einbringen und den Gegner zum Umdrehen der falschen Scheiben verleiten. Zu mehreren kommt der reine, schnelle Zockerspaß zum Tragen. Geht schnell, genau das Richtige, wenn man in der Familie aufs Essen wartet oder am Samstag Abend die Zeit bis zur Sportschau überbrücken will.
www.vaeter-zeit.de, 2019
Ein schön gestaltetes Merkspiel, das einfach zu erlernen, aber schwierig zu gewinnen ist.
MAIN ECHO, 2019