Kinderspiel des Jahres 2009 - Nominees & Recommendations

Want to see the whole list? Check out my Geeklist over on Boardgamegeek.

I've played two of the games:

• Hang In There! (a mechanical dexterity game that was fun until we figured out how to knock each others' pieces off... just re-released this year in Germany)
• The Suitcase Detectives (a game of shape recognition that works really well thanks to a very nifty box design from Haba)

Here's the nominated games I really want to try:

• Curli Kuller (bowling with snails)
• Land in Sicht! (cool-looking exploration game with individually folding map pieces)
• Zoowaboo (imagine a game of Chicken meets timed dexterity - where some players are working together & others are betting they'll fail!)

And the recommended games that are on my "must try" list (both by Haba!):

• Wurfel Wolfe (literally "Dice Wolves" - a small box dice game, which Haba excels at...)
• Polizei-Alarm! (a game of dice rolling & magnetic board movement... criminals vs. cops... there isn't a BGG entry - yet - but I did find this YouTube video of a demonstration...)