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German-style board games are notable for often having rather less of a luck factor than many North American board games.
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* c. 1980: German-style board games begin to develop as a genre.
* German-style board games, or Eurogames, like The Settlers of Catan, Carson City or Puerto Rico
Elfenland is a German-style board game designed by Alan R. Moon and published by Amigo Spiele in German and Rio Grande Games in English in 1998.
A German-style board game, also referred to as a Euro game or Euro-style game, is a class of tabletop games that generally have simple rules, short to medium playing times, indirect player interaction, and abstract physical components.
Not all German-style board games are German, and not all German-style games are board games.
Contemporary examples of modern German-style board games referred to as German-style, such as Acquire, appeared in the 1960s.
Some of the most notable designers of German-style board games include:
* Going Cardboard ( Documentary about German-style board games and their community )
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Java is a German-style board game designed by Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling and published in 2000 by Ravensburger in German and by Rio Grande Games in English.
* Medina ( board game ), a German-style board game
Tigris and Euphrates () is a German-style strategy board game designed by Reiner Knizia and first published in 1997 by Hans im Glück.
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* Imperial ( board game ), German-style board game by Mac Gerdts
Carcassonne is a tile-based German-style board game for two to five players, designed by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede and published in 2000 by Hans im Glück in German and Rio Grande Games in English.
The company primarily imports and localizes foreign language German-style board games.
At that time, Mayfair had begun to import German-style board games for sale, without doing any localization.
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German-style games are sometimes contrasted with American-style games, which generally involve more luck, conflict, and drama.
German-style games are usually less abstract than chess, but more abstract than wargames and train games.
German-style games are usually multiplayer and can be learned easily and played in a relatively short time, perhaps multiple times in a single session.
German-style games are generally simpler than the wargames that flourished in the 1970s and 1980s from publishers such as SPI and Avalon Hill, but nonetheless often have a considerable depth of play, especially in some " gamers ' games " such as Tigris and Euphrates and Caylus.
German-style games tend to have a theme ( role-play element or a background story )— more like Monopoly or Clue, rather than poker or Tic Tac Toe.
While many titles ( especially the strategically heavier ones ) are enthusiastically played by gamers as a hobby, German-style games are, for the most part, well suited to social play.
For example, generally German-style games do not have a fixed number of players like chess or bridge ; though there is a sizable body of German-style games that are designed for exactly two players, most games can accommodate anywhere from two to six players ( with varying degrees of suitability ).
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Eurogames, or German-style boardgames, are a relatively new genre that sit between abstract strategy games and simulation games.
It was a communal society, with many German-style structures that have been restored and are part of the Zoar Village State Memorial.
Michelle, are adapting German-style Riesling production methods, and even partnering with well-known German vintners like Dr. Ernest Loosen to create specialty wines such as the Eroica Riesling.
For instance, German-style board games, board wargames, and Roll-and-move games are all types of board games that differ markedly in style and general interest.
This type of mechanism is common in many of what are called " German-style board games ".
This mechanism is often used explicitly in German-style board games, but many other games are played for points that form a winning condition.
Designers of German-style board games are often credited on the box.
Unlike most German-style board games, it is possible for a player to be eliminated if all his dino tokens are removed from the board.
German-style knives are more deeply and continuously curved along the whole cutting edge ; the French style has an edge that is straighter until the end and then curves up to the tip.
A common feature of German-style board games, where players ' scores are recorded on a track around the edge of the board, is known in Germany as the Kramerleiste in honour of Wolfgang Kramer.
The largest is Der Rathskeller, a German-style beerhall with elaborate murals that directly connects the ground floor to the Terrace outside, where political debates and card or board games are common among students over a beer.
The meal usually comes with tartar sauce, french fries or German-style potato pancakes, coleslaw, and rye bread, though baked beans are not uncommon.
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Kohl is known for her collection of German-style cooking recipes published as Kulinarische Reise durch Deutsche Länder ( Culinary Journey through German Regions ) which was published in 1996.
The town is also famous for its Pennsylvania German-style pottery, also sometimes called redware.
In 1856, Charles III of Monaco granted a concession to Napoleon Langlois and Albert Aubert to establish a sea-bathing facility for the treatment of various diseases, and to build a German-style casino in Monaco.
Throughout the history of the region, there were no inter-ethnic clashes, while the city of Chernivtsi was known for its German-style architecture, for a highly cultivated society, and for ethnic tolerance.
The German-style sallet was the model for the World War I German Stahlhelm, wheras the kettle hat inspired the contemporary British and French helmets.
El Grande is a German-style board game for 2-5 players, designed by Wolfgang Kramer and Richard Ulrich, and published in 1995 by Hans im Glück in German, by Rio Grande Games in English, and by 999 Games in Dutch.
Evo: The Last Gasp of the Dinosaurs is a German-style board game for three to five players, designed by Philippe Keyaerts and published by Eurogames.
Kingdoms is a German-style board game for 2-4 players designed by Reiner Knizia and released in 2002 by Fantasy Flight.
Barbarossa is a plasticine-shaping German-style board game for 3 to 6 players, designed by Klaus Teuber in and published in 1988 by Kosmos in German and by Rio Grande Games in English.
The Essen Feather ( German: Essener Feder ) is an award for German-style board games, given at the Deutscher Spiele Preis ceremony at the Spiel game fair in Essen, Germany.
A guarantee for the good quality of German-style beer and the successful start of the new company on the market was the company's first diploma-holding brewmaster Rainer Kallähne.
Andreas Seyfarth ( born November 6, 1962 ) is a German-style board game designer, who is most famous for creating Puerto Rico, which is rated # 3 on BoardGameGeek.
German-style pumpernickel, a dark, dense, and close-textured loaf, is made from crushed or ground whole rye grains, usually without wheat flour, baked for long periods at low temperature in a covered tin.
This classic German-style lager is brewed once annually for service in mid-September.
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