Tag: Board Games
Cooperative Board Games – We All Win or Lose
In 2000, Reine Knizia published Lord of the Rings, as far as I can remember the first fully cooperative board game that either everyone won or everyone lost (although individuals could die or be corrupted). There had been other cooperative board games in the past, most notably Axis and Allies, but even that one was …
Settlers of Catan – Board Game of the Year 1995
When I bought my game store in 1998 I found a game on the shelf with a layer of dust on it. It was created by someone I had never heard of, Klaus Teuber. It had also won an award, the Spiel des Jahres, which is the most prestigious award in the gaming community. On …