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SPIEL 2016 V: Escape from Colditz, Expedition, X nimmt!, Mino & Tauri, and Bohnanza, Bohnedikt & Bohnanza: Das Duell

SPIEL 2016 V: Escape from Colditz, Expedition, X nimmt!, Mino & Tauri, and Bohnanza, Bohnedikt & Bohnanza: Das Duell
Board Game: Escape from Colditz
• Now continuing with the SPIEL 2016 demonstration videos, we have Osprey Games with an updated version of the 1973 title Escape from Colditz, co-designed by someone who actually escaped from Colditz Castle during World War II. For background on Colditz Castle and a history of escape attempts, check out this summary of a NOVA Online program on the PBS website.





Board Game: Expedition
• Another classic title that's back on the shelves — with no changes to this design as far as I can tell — is Wolfgang Kramer's Expedition from AMIGO Spiel. I've played Expedition more than thirty times and still love it, as long as you play with no more than four people. Yes, you can play with up to six players, and you can score on other player's turns, but man, the waiting time can be a killer. You want to lay down those arrows yourself! Expedition is also fantastic as a two-player design, with you needing to intuit what the other player is trying to achieve and forcing them to use more actions than you in order to waste their time.





Board Game: X nimmt!
• Yet another classic title, albeit not quite so old, is Wolfgang Kramer's 6 nimmt!, which has now received a new sister title from AMIGO Spiel in the form of X nimmt!, co-designed by Reinhard Staupe, editor at card game publisher NSV and an accomplished card game designer in his own right. In this new game, players are still trying to avoid taking bullheads, but sometimes you can take exactly the right card you need to prevent yourself from scoring even more in the long run.





Board Game: Gnomes at Night
• At first glance, Carlo A. Rossi's Mino & Tauri resembles the 2008 title Fluch der Mumie, a.k.a. Pyramid, as players sit on the opposite side of a magnetic board, but in Mino & Tauri players are working together to find all the items before time runs out, with my piece being able to travel through walls as long as you're moving your piece on the other side of the magnetic board — with me being dragged along in the process.





Board Game: Bohnanza
Board Game: Bohnedikt (2016 Edition)
Board Game: Bohnanza: The Duel
• To close out our trip through the decades, let's see the newest version of Uwe Rosenberg's Bohnanza (which AMIGO Spiel made slight changes to for this 2016 edition), along with the newest edition of Bohnedikt (previously released in 2009 from Lookout Games in a different format), and the new two-player-only Bohnanza: Das Duell.

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