Amigo Line-up for Spiel 2011: Lehmann's City, Moyersoen's Shaky Bridge & Knizia's Qwirkle

Amigo Line-up for Spiel 2011: Lehmann's City, Moyersoen's Shaky Bridge & Knizia's Qwirkle
Board Game Publisher: AMIGO
German publisher AMIGO-Spiel has unveiled the titles it will feature at Spiel 2011, and while details are sketchy on most of these games, I've created listings for them all so that folks can add more details, the games can be placed on lists such as the forthcoming Spiel 2011 preview, and so on. AMIGO groups the games as follows:

Family Games

Die Brücke am Rio D'Oro – a Fréderic Moyersoen design played on a 3D game board in which players cross a creaky bridge to claim treasure or fall to their doom.

Carré – an abstract title from newcomer Günter Kralicek in which players place tiles based on die rolls to construct squares.

Card Games

Board Game: The City
The City – Tom Lehmann presents a new take on the "cards are both buildings and money" game mechanism. At least I think it's new – the game description from AMIGO was minimal.

Friesematenten: Die Schattenmänner – Part 2 of Friedemann Friese's new take on his Friesematenten, the first part of which appeared from AMIGO in 2010. This expansion adds the markers present in the original game, as well as sixty new cards.

23 – Seemingly this year's attempt at a No Thanks!, that is, an incredibly simple game that players still want to consume like potato chips.

Big Five – A Qwirkle-y card game from Reiner Knizia in which players create rows and columns of cards matching in either color or animal, with the eventual goal of running out of cards before anyone else.

Wizard JuniorWizard for the younger sect, with fewer cards, easier bidding, and a candy-flavored box to gnaw on between rounds.

Hol's der Geier – Yet another version of this Alex Randolph classic game of blind bluffing distilled to its essence.

Children's Games

Board Game: Schlängeln
Bärenland, Piraten Abenteuer and Regenbogenland – Three cooperative titles respectively from Hajo Bücken, Wolfgang Kramer and Ilse Dreher that were previously published by German publisher Herder Spiele. These titles are part of AMIGO's new "Ökologisch + Kooperativ" – Ecological & Cooperative – line of games made from sustainable, 100% biodegradable materials.

Regenbogenschlange and Kunterbunt Duo – New editions of games from Brigitte Pokornik and Reinhard Staupe, with the latter game having a new, tougher way to play thanks to duplicated images.

Schlängeln – A new game from Hajo Bücken & Dirk Hanneforth in which players need to identify colors of snakes in order to lure them out of the bushes. Not sure what life lessons are being imparted here...

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