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New in this update: -Tabula Rasa -Sticheln -Stephensons Rocket I am sitting in Aachen, that's the westmost town in Germany, where the borders of Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands meet. Because I am from Germany most of the games I have for auction are German too. Here are the ones that are in this auction: (description of the games see below and the auction-rules are at the end) -Jump -High Bohn (Lookout version) -Koalition -Tadsch Mahal -Torres -Odysseus -Buntherum -Capone -Die Seidenstrasse -Way Out West -Krone & Schwert -Forum Romanum -Fabrik der Träume -Giganten -Hexentanz -Lucky Five -Nibelungen -Die Maulwurf Company -Au Backe -Canyon + Grand Canyon expansion -Villa Paletti -Zoff in Buffalo -Muscat -Um Reifenbreite -Dimenticato -Waterloo -Nur Peanuts -Dow Jones -Totem -Die Siedler von Nürnberg -Drachenlachen -Jockey -Anno 1452 -Last Chance -Morgenland -Canaletto -Der Rattenfänger von Hameln -Alcatraz -Tschau Knacki -Marra Cash -Downtown -San Francisco -Auf Achse - Kartenspiel -Krieg und Frieden -Playboss -Goldener Drache -Kartenschach -Carat -Time Pirates -Venezia -La-Trel -Gold am Yukon -Cairo -Pirateninsel -Die Magier von Pangea -Delfino -Spiel der Türme -Die Kette von Saba -Aura Poku -Nur Peanuts -Murphy -Scotland Yard -Scotland Yard Ravensburger One of the working "one against the pack" games. One player assumes the role of Mr.X and the other are detectives trying to catch him. All players move through London by Bus, the Underground or by Taxi and the detectives try to land on the same place as Mr. X before their limited number of tickets is used up. Their only information to guess the current position Mr. X is what transport he used this round. Two times during the game Mr. X is spotted in London and must show his position. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. min bid $15 -Murphy Flying Turtle Rik van Even A deductive game in which each player is a detective who tries to identify the heirs of the McCoin fortune. Out of print. The box has wear, components very good. Comes with English rules. min bid $15 -Aura Poku Blatz Reinhold Wittig Family dice game. Try to save Aura Poku from her evil brother and flee to a new village. You can try to win on your own and run the long way (with the benefit of collecting gold), or you can negotiate with other players and cross the rivers with their help. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. Out of print. English rules can be found at Boardgamegeek. min bid $12 -Die Kette von Saba Queen Games Martin Ebel In this game, you try reassemble the Sabine necklace, which was broken apart by graverobbers. First try to get the most valuable pieces in an auction. Then you lay the stones in turn on the board until the Sabine necklace is restored. Whoever places his pieces best will receive the highest price. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. English rules can be found on the Game Cabinet min bid $15 -Spiel der Türme Schmidt Spiele Rudi Hoffmann A game of moving and stacking tiles on the board in order to score the highest towers. Very tactical game for up to 4 players. Was nominee for "Spiel des Jahres 1993" The game is new and shrinkwrapped, but there was a small hole about 3x3mm punched into the cover by accident. Out of print. min bid $20 -Delfino Franckh Hajo Bücken This is one of the "small" Spiele Galerie games from Franckh in a square box. On a 5x5 grid of dolphin tiles players move their playing piece. Movement points may be spent to move the playing piece and for turning the dolphin tile under it. Object is to form squares of 4 dolphins tiles in which all 4 dolphins must point with the same body part to the middle of the square. Box has little wear and the original rules are missing, but I will provide a copy. Components are very good. min bid $10 -Die Magier von Pangea Queen Games Ralf Burkert A modular board with five different types of tiles with tribes on it. Tribes produce goods. Player try to acquire amulets from opposing tribes to increase their magical powers. Powers are used to create more tribes and to move around land tiles. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. English rules at Boardgamegeek. min bid $15 -Pirateninsel Schmidt Spiele David Watts Pirate crews are in search for the lost treasure on a tropical island. Out of print. Box shows some wear, the game material is in excellent condition. English rules can be found at Boardgamegeek. min bid $12 -Cairo Schmidt Spiele Günter Burkhardt Players move their boats up and down the Nile and unload wooden cubes at building sites in order to build pyramids. Problem is that the stones are flicked onto the building site, eventually destroying a pyramid already build there. Object is to have the majority of stones at a building site and stones at higher levels in a pyramid score more points. Although a flicking game, a lot of decisions have to be made, like where to unload and when to build a pyramid, as stones that are flicked or pushed into the Nile or off the board are lost. And a pyramid is easy to hit by your opponents. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. English rules at Boardgamegeek. min bid $15 -Gold am Yukon Amigo Reinhold Wittig Move your diggers and get the most valuable claims. Out of print. Box has little wear and a dent in the bottom inside excellent condition. English rules can be found on the Game Cabinet. min bid $10 La-Trel ASS Richard Morgan An abstract two player game, that combines moving and capturing methods from both chess and checkers Game is new and shrinkwrapped. English rules at Boardgamegeek. min bid $15 -Time Pirates Piatnik Alan R. Moon & Aaron Weissblum Players are timetravellers that try to steal artifacts from ancient civilisations. But the tie periods are carefully watched by the Time Police and when a player gets caught, his largest collection of artifacts will be confiscated. The Piatnik edition has a poor rules translation, so be sure to get the revised rules for this game. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. English rules can be found at Boardgamegeek. min bid $15 -Venezia Queen Games Ronald Hofstätter Make your clan of pigeons the leading one in Venice. Have your pigeons fight for the attention of bread tossing tourists on Piazza San Marco. Goal is to become successor of Pigeon Doge. Game is new and shrinkwrapped, but damaged at one corner. English rules at Boardgamegeek. min bid $10 -Goldener Drache FX-Schmid Wolfgang Riedesser Be the first one that reaches the vulcano with your dragon. This game uses a unique movement mechanism and each player may move each dragon. Out of print. The game is in very good condition, only the sheet with spare stickers is missing (you need these only when one of the regular stickers get lost). English rules can be found at the Game Cabinet. min bid $12 -Kartenschach Berliner Reiner Knizia A collection of games, all about playing chess with the help of a set of 32 cards, that will change the normal chess rules. Game is new and shrinkwrapped min bid $10 -Playboss Ravensburger Classic german business game, that claims to be a simulation for production management. This is from the edition with a brown box. Was formerly produced by IWA Rechenschieberfabrik in the early Seventies. Box shows shelfwear especially on the edges, the bottom of the box is indented, components are in very good condition. min bid $18 -Affen Raffen Goldsieber Michael Schacht A memory variant in which players compete simultaniously. Players look at tiles and placing them back, if they have a matching pair they put it down in front of them. Each round a goal card is revealed, which shows what cards and what features on the cards must be collected. Depending on how fast and how accurate you matched the wanted combinations on the goal card points are awarded. Game is new and shrinkwrwpped. English rules on Boardgamegeek. min bid $8 -Krieg und Frieden TM-Spiele Gerard Mulder The king orders to build a cathedral as a sign of peace. Players represent the nobles that have to fulfill that task. Unfortunately only the noble who is the king's advisor may build on the cathedral. So the players vie to be kings advisor and build on the cathedral which gives them the favour to be the successor of the king. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. English rules can be found at Boardgamegeek. min bid $18 -San Francisco Amigo A. Wetter & T. Löpmann This is basically a auction/ bidding game, which is set in San Francisco after the great earthquake and the players have the task to rebuild the city. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. English rules and reviews can be found at Boardgamegeek. min bid $18 -Downtown Abacus Bernhard Weber A real estate developing game. First players vote to make certain areas housing, industrial, or commercial zones, then they buy markers, to obtain areas. Areas are scored after 4 markers are placed and they must be "efficient" to bring money. That could mean, that a housing area is only scored if there is no industrial zone adjacent. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. English rules can be found at the Game Cabinet. min bid $20 -Marra Cash Kosmos Stefan Dorra Buy shops on the bazaar and try to bring the most tourists to it. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. English rules can be found on the Game Cabinet. min bid $18 -Alcatraz FX Schmid Bernhard Weber Tactical game in which players rush with their prisoners to the escape boat. On their way they must avoid being caught by the guards. These may be moved by other players Game is new and shrinkwrapped. Comes with English, French, Dutch and Italian rules. min bid $18 -Tschau Knacki Oxygames Thomas Sackl Try to escape from Alcatraz with your inmate, leave the guards and your opponents behind you. Out of print. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. English rules can be found at the Gaming Dumpster. min bid $12 -Canaletto Hans im Glück Günter Cornett An auction game in which players try to complete sets of artworks found in Venice palazzos. Only complete sets can be sold for profit, after a player achieves the last piece. This player also determines in which palace the next auction is held. Everyone has to be careful in spending his limited money resources. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. English rules can be found at Boardgamegeek. min bid $15 -Der Rattenfänger von Hameln herder Alex Randolph A cooperative games for childs 5 years and up. Object is to free 50 children captured by the Pied Piper of Hamlin. Players may move one of 4 playing pieces through the caves of the piper to rescue the captured children. Whenever a playing piece comes into a cave, one captured child is rescued. If playing pieces meet, a number of childs according to the number of playing pieces present is rescued. So by landing all playing pieces in the same cave up to 10 children can be rescued. Box has wear and a split corner, components are very good. comes with English, French and Dutch rules. min bid $8 -Last Chance Ravensburger McGuire Brothers Dice rolling game. Each round a card is revealed, with a combination of dice on it. This is the task, that must be rolled to score the card and receive the money its worth. When revealing the card the dice are rolled and then an auction of the card starts. It is possible that with the initial roll of the dice, some dice may be used for the task. Then the player can use the other dice to fulfill his task. How often he may re-roll is printed on the card. Box has light wear, components are very good. min bid $7 -Morgenland Hans im Glück Richard Breese This was also published by Rio Grande as Aladdins Dragons and is a slightly modified version of Keydom, published by Richard Beeses own company R&D games. Players try to gather the most valuable treasures. Visiting certain places is controlled by tokens. Each player has the same set, but only the player with the highest token there may visit a place. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. English rules can be found at www.riograndegames.com min bid $15 -Anno 1452 Piatnik Gerhard Kodys Players try to achieve power in the Holy Roman Empire in 1452 by getting victory points from various sources. Each player has a limited amount of actions each turn placing different kinds of resources on the map, each resource is then transformed into victory points Game is new and shrinkwrapped. An English translation can be found at Boardgamegeek. min bid $16 -Jockey Berliner Spielkarten An old classic from Ravensburger, now republished by Berliner. A horserace game in which players bet on the outcome of the race. Movement is made by cards and a player can move any of the horses if his cards allow it. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. English rules can be found at Boardgamegeek. min bid $15 -Die Siedler von Nürnberg Kosmos Klaus Teuber A standalone spin-off of Settlers of Catan, made for the 950th anniversary of Nürnberg. Adds some new mechanics to the game for developing the city of Nürnberg. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. English rules can be found at Boardgamegeek. min bid $20 -Drachenlachen Hexagames Reinhold Wittig Family game for up to 6 players with wooden components. The dragon figure later appeared in Elfenroads :-) Dwarfes try to steal rings from the dragons hoard, but when the laughing of the dragon sounds through the cave, they lose what they have stolen. Rings may be taken from the hoard, but may also be stolen from other dwarfs. Out of print. Box shows wear, components are excellent. min bid $8 -Totem Queen Games Philippe des Pallieres & Patrice Pillet Each player "owns" a tribe living in three huts. Object is to be the first to add the sixth piece to the totem pole of his tribe. By placing people on huts, births and deaths, distributing resources and casting spells players advance their cause and try to complete their totem pole. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. English rules can be found at the Game Cabinet. min bid $15 -Dow Jones Blatz Reinhold Wittig Earn the most dollars in the form of blocks of stock. This a family dice game, that has nothing to do with economics. Game is new and shrinkwrapped, but there is a stain on the front cover (no mould). Out of print. English rules at Boardgamegeek min bid $12 -Waterloo Relaxx Roland Siegers 2 player game by this small company, that vanished very fast after their debut on Spiel'98. Its very abstract but tempting. Each player has 2 generals and 6 soldiers marked with numbers from 1 to 8 and 3 colored dice. Object is to remove either the enemy generals or the soldiers from the board, or reduce the power of your opponent to 0. This is done by winning a fight and to guess the number on a piece. Winning fights is done by a bidding system, which involves the dice and the value of a piece. The dice are not rolled, you choose the numbers, but you can use each number on a dice only once. The game involves mostly quiet thinking and remembering the bids of previous fights. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. min bid $15 -Nur Peanuts Goldsieber Heinz Meister Players move by the roll of the dice on a circular board. The board has 24 spaces with 3 sections each. they have a value between 100 and 2400 points. Object is to land on the highest valued space and collect money from the other players and then to buy more spaces. The first move is free, but for moving on you pay money to the owner of the space you are on. So you must always consider what the best move in a given situation is and if its worth paying for the chance to get to a better space. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. English rules at Boardgamegeek. min bid $12 -Dimenticato Dr.F.Hein Spiele Dr.F.Hein The game of hidden dice. Dimenticato has a simple rule: 4 figures leave their starting square, go around a game board, that is reconstructed each game. The board elements bear dice illustrations and players have to remember the pips under their figures in order move them. Was nominee for "Spiel des Jahres 1997" Game is in excellent condition. Comes with English and French rules. min bid $12 -Um Reifenbreite Jumbo Rob Bontenbal Bicycle racing game, with everything you need to make up your own "Tour de France". Was "Spiel des Jahres 1992". This is the older version with a longish box. Box has some wear and the bottom is slightly indented, components are very good. English rules can be found on the Game Cabinet. min bid $15 -Zoff in Buffalo FX Schmid Christward Conrad Cowboys drive their cows from everywhere to the biggest auction in the wild west, held in Buffalo. They must find a place for them on the limited pasture. Each player receives a set of cards, that determine how much cows to place. The player, that places the last cow on a specific pasture may place bonus cows on another one, which can lead to chain reactions, if he is able to complete another one. Who has placed the most cows after five rounds is the winner. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. Out of print. English rules can be found at Boardgamegeek. min bid $15 khorovitz $15 loomis $16 khorovitz $20 loomis $21 (Going x2) -Villa Paletti Zoch Bill Payce Spiel des Jahres 2002. A game of skill in which players try to build the Villa Paletti by putting pillars from the bottom level to higher levels without letting the whole thing collapse. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. English rules at Boardgamegeek. min bid $18 -Au Backe Zoch Frank Nestel An easy memory game in which players try to get rid of their cards. Players play cards on matching cards on the table. Only problem is, these cards a face down and you must pick the right one in order to get rid of your card. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. min bid $5 -Canyon + Grand Canyon expansion Abacus Frederick A. Herschler A canoe race in which movement is determined by playing cards in a trick taking card game. Players try to predict the number of tricks they will get. The canoe advances depending on the number of tricks and if the prediction was right. Wrong predictions may end in getting into the waterfall. You must re-enter upstream if this happens. Was Nominee for Spiel des Jahres 1998. Comes with the Grand Canyon expansion, which adds new cards and new rules. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. min bid $18 -Die Maulwurf Company Ravensburger Virginia Charves & Bertram Kaes aka Mole in the Hole. A game that is played in the box. Inside the box there are several boards stacked over each other. Little moles try to reach holes in the board. Once all holes are filled the board is taken away with all the moles that couldn't get hold of a hole. Then the race continues one the just revealed board. the last board has only one hole and the mole that is able to reach it is declared winner Game is in very good condition. English rules can be found at Boardgamegeek. min bid $15 -Lucky Five FX Schmid Heinz Meister A betting game in which players bet on the outcome of dice rolls. Which and how many of the three dice in the game have to be rolled is determined by drawing cards. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. English rules at Boardgamegeek. min bid $7 -Nibelungen Amigo Wolfgang Kramer Uses the movement mechanics from "Corsaro". You must always move your piece and one of the giants hunting the players. Move around the board and collect the most valuable gems, but avoid being caught by one of the giants. The box has wear and some scratches, components are good. Out of print min bid $12 -Giganten Kosmos Wilko Manz Great game about finding and drilling for oil, transporting and selling it. Was nominee and one of the two runner up for "Spiel des Jahres" award. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. English rules can be found at Boardgamegeek. min bid $18 dchorey $18 (Going x1) -Hexentanz FX-Schmid Björn Hölle Dance of the Witches. Each player has the goal to have his witches dance once around the mountain into their home. Witches move forward and are moved backwards, when another witch lands on the same space. The problem is that all witches look the same and can only be identified, when looking under it, which is only allowed, when a player lands on a occupied field. So everyone tries to remember which witches are his witches. Game is in excellent condition. min bid $12 -Fabrik der Träume Hasbro Reiner Knizia An auction game about film making in the fourties. Players are producers and try to gather the best staff for a film project. Each of their scripts requires a certain amount of people which must be recruited, either by being the highest bidder in an auction, or from parties. Points are awarded for finished films and the producer with the most points in the end wins. Was also released as Traumfabrik. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. English rules can be found at Boardgamegeek min bid $28 mongoose $28 (Going x1) -Forum Romanum Franckh Wolfgang Kramer Try to become Consul in ancient Rome by getting the most popularity. This is done by having the majority of pawns in a row, column or room on the board, when it is scored. This is the second edition of this game (and the only one that got a second edition in the Franckh series of games) with a regular board instead of a cloth plan and a grey box instead of a red/brown one. Doesn't come with english rules by itself, but I will include copied english rules from the first edition. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. Out of print min bid $25 -Krone & Schwert Queen Games Klaus-Jürgen Wrede In Krone & Schwert players build castles, cities and cathedrals and try to wait for the right moment to start a revolution in order to become king. A player attempting to become king needs other players as supporters. If a revolution is successful victory points are shared among the new king and his followers, if unsuccessful they are awarded to the old king and the players that followed him. The game is new and unplayed, only the shrink was removed. English rules at Boardgamegeek. min bid $15 -Way Out West Warfrog Martin Wallace Players drive cattle through the west, building up towns. They also hire Cowboys to put up a fights with other players. Its possible to rob the bank and to shoot farmers. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. min bid $18 -Buntherum Amigo Reinhard Staupe Object of this fast-paced game is to get rid of your stack of cards. Each player has a stack of face down cards and there is a neutral stack. In the middle is a hexagon and cards played are added in rows to the side of the hexagon. Cards show objects and colors and in no row may be duplicates. Whenever a card is turned over players try to find simultaniously to find a row in which the card may be legally placed. Who does this first may turn over the next card from his stack. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. English rules at Boardgamegeek min bid $6 -Capone Amigo Mark Caines America in the 1930's. Don Marco has passed away and the players are heads of a respectable family that tries to be the successor to Don Marco. Money is made with several illegal activities, but in the end, only laundered money counts. The winner is the first family clan, that can invest 1 million dollars into legal businesses. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. English rules can be found at the Game Cabinet. min bid $18 -Die Seidenstrasse Schmidt Spiele Hartmut Kommerell Players travel as merchants the Silk Road from China back to Venezia. Cards are played for the own movement, but each card will also affect opponents. At Trading Posts and Bazaars businesses can be made. The winner is the player with the most money and not neccessarily the first player reaching Venezia. Out of print. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. English rules can be found at Boardgamegeek. min bid $12 -Odysseus Jumbo Dominique Erhard Players assume the roles of greek gods. Their task is to move Odysseus ship around to adventures marked on their secret task cards. Whoever gets 10 points out of these adventures wins the game. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. English rules at Boardgamegeek. min bid $15 -Torres Ravensburger Kramer / Kiesling Spiel des Jahres 2000. Players build up castles on the board and try to place their knights upon them to score points. Each player has also action cards that can influence the game. Since the number of knights and cards is limited, the efficient management of the resources is crucial. Game is new and shrinkwrapped, but the box has a few marks. English rules at Boardgamegeek. min bid $15 -Tadsch Mahal Alea Reiner Knizia Players try to gain control over India in the 18th century. Players visit each of the 12 provinces once in the game and compete for control by playing cards. Points are scored for getting control over the province as a ruler, but also for getting influence over the prominent forces like priests or viziers. Winner of "Deutscher Spielepreis2000" Game is in very good condition. English rules at Baordgamegeek. min bid $18 -Jump eg Kramer / Kiesling Each player has a team of parachutists and must try to land near to the coast without landing in the water. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. Comes with rules in 5 languages including English. min bid $12 mregamr $12 -High Bohn Lookout Games Hanno Girke & Uwe Rosenberg An expansion to Bohnanza, that was publishes in a limited print run from the company of Uwe Rosenberg. Bohnanza goes Wild West in this expansion, players can buy buildings, which give them special abilities. This is #1473/2500 of the limited print run. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. English rules can be found at Boardgamegeek. min bid $8 mregamr $8 benm $8 heddib $8 julianc $9 Koalition Salagames Hartmut Witt Players take the role of political strategists in this cardgame, that try to get their candidates (or call them marionettes) elected. Game is in good condition. English rules can be found at the Game Cabinet. min bid $8 --- new in this update --- -Tabula Rasa Spiel&Spass Reiner Knizia Players play cards in order to get tiles. After all cards have been placed, players determine which player has won which tile. Points and bonuses are awarded for the tiles and the player with the highest total wins. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. min bid $12 -Sticheln Amigo Klaus Palesch >From a hand of 15 cards, each player puts one down as a misery card. The other 14 cards are played in 14 tricks. Players try to make as many cards as possible, while avoiding all cards in their misery color. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. English rules can be found at the Game Cabinet. min bid $5 -Stephensons Rocket Pegasus Reiner Knizia Players are railway barons in the early stages of industrialization in England. Plan your routes, build stations and invest in the most prospective industries. Game is new and shrinkwrapped. English rules at Boardgamegeek. min bid $18 ----------------------------------------- my auction rules ----------------------------------------- 1) Bidding and prices are in US dollars (increments in full dollars, no fractions please). 2) Payment may be made over PayPal, or otherwise with a cheque in German currency and drawable on a german bank. Cash at buyers risk (As cash, I will accept US$ too). After I have received the payment, I will ship the parcel. 3) Buyer pays postage by a shipping method of his choice. Shipping costs overseas (my overseas) start at about $13 for a small packet, that allows a max. weight of 2kg and offers no insurance, therefore buyer takes risk of loss or damage. Takes 4 to 8 weeks to deliver. Economy parcels are faster, offer insurance and more weight. They are starting at about $31 for up to 5kg, with the final price depending on weight (5, 10, or 20kg possible). Parcels within Germany or Europe are much cheaper. 4) I reserve the right to add games and remove ones without a bid. 5) I use the GOING, GOINGx2, GONE method which advances each update without a new bid. Updates will be posted 2 or 3 times a week. 6) The bidders will be published (no complete email-addresses/ I accept nicknames) When similar bids occur the first bidder will hold the highest bid. 7) I have a digital camera and can provide pictures of the games, which I will upload to http://www.tobihh.de/Bilder/index.html on demand Otherwise I will answer all questions you may have about the games and/or their condition. Just ask. 8) Send all bids, comments and questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9) Don't blame me for my english :-) There are two major sources if you are looking for english reviews and rules for german games and I will refer to them in the descriptions of the games: The Game Cabinet at http://www.gamecabinet.com and Boardgamegeek at http://www.boardgamegeek.com happy bidding, Torsten Hintz
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