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Spiel 2015 X: Pegasus Spiele — Mega Civilization, Pi mal Pflaumen, OctoDice, Mondo: Der rasante Legespaß, Mmm! & Expansions for Istanbul, Camel Up and Port Royal

Spiel 2015 X: Pegasus Spiele — Mega Civilization, Pi mal Pflaumen, OctoDice, Mondo: Der rasante Legespaß, Mmm! & Expansions for Istanbul, Camel Up and Port Royal
Board Game: Mega Civilization
• The biggest game at Spiel 2015 by almost any measure that you can imagine was Mega Civilization from designers Flo de Haan and John Rodriguez and publisher 999 Games, with Pegasus Spiele providing distribution for the game in Essen and elsewhere. Here, de Haan talks a tiny bit about the game, which couldn't possibly all fit on camera...





Board Game: Plums
• Pi mal Pflaumen is the first pure card game from designer Matthias Cramer, and while the initial description of it from Pegasus Spiele references tricks, it isn't a trick-taking game as much as a bidding game in which each player lays out a single card, then they take turns claiming one of the cards based on the strength of what they played. All cards depict fruits; some cards have scoring contracts that you can fulfill by discarding sets of fruit, while other cards have special actions.

I played Pi mal Pflaumen once at a dinner event during Spiel 2015 and bought a copy immediately the next day. It has the feel of a trick-taking game in that you want to position yourself well in order to take what you need, while being a set-collection game at heart with the contracts driving your actions in later turns as those determine what you actually need!





Board Game: OctoDice
• Christoph Toussaint's OctoDice from Pegasus uses the setting of Stefan Feld's AquaSphere in a dice game, challenging players to keep the octopods at bay while also expanding their lab to take special actions.





Board Game: Mondo: Der rasante Legespaß
• Mondo: Der rasante Legespaß is a small version of Michael Schacht's real-time tile-laying game Mondo that can be played on its own or combined with the original game.





Board Game: Istanbul: Mocha & Baksheesh
• Rüdiger Dorn's Istanbul: Mocha & Baksheesh adds four new tiles to his 2014 Kenerspiel des Jahres-winning Istanbul, which greatly increases the variety allowed during set-up and play.





Board Game: Camel Up: Supercup
• The 2014 Spiel des Jahres winner, Steffen Bogen's Camel Up, also had an expansion available at Spiel 2015, with Camel Up: Supercup consisting of four modules that can be used individually or in combination, with up to ten players now being allowed to play at the same time.





Board Game: Port Royal: Just One More Contract...
• As with the previous expansion, Port Royal: Ein Auftrag geht noch... adds four new modules to the base game — Alexander Pfister's Port Royal — while also including rules for solitaire and co-operative play.





Board Game: Mmm!
• Mmm! from Reiner Knizia and Pegasus is a quick-playing press-your-luck dice game for children and their parents. I've played this ten times, mostly with just my 6yo son, but also with his friends, and I need to record an overview video of my own to do this game justice — not that it needs my help necessarily seeing as it won Austria's Spiel der Spiele award in 2015.





Board Game Publisher: Selecta Spielzeug
• Pegasus Spiele purchased children's game publisher Selecta Spielzeug in January 2015, and it's now published new versions of four games, including two Kinderspiel des Jahres winners — Maskenball der Käfer and Viva Topo! — and two other titles — Hopp hopp Häschen and KidJ nominee Zoowaboo.

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