The best games from Doris Matthäus 🇩🇪👩 2025

Frank's Zoo is a lively card game that challenges players to strategically rid themselves of all their cards across multiple hands, with scoring based on how quickly players can empty their hand each round. The game can be enjoyed in two modes: with consistent solo play or with alternating partners, adding a layer of strategy in team play.

This new box combines the classic game with a long-sold-out edition. Players use wooden hedgehogs, moving them in rows while avoiding traps, and the first to get three hedgehogs to the end wins. The second game features Aunt Tarantel, who moves in a spiral net, capturing escaping insects. Players take turns rolling dice and moving their bugs toward the exit while navigating the chaos created by Aunt Tarantel's increasing speed and mischievous bugs.

Players have several wooden discs representing hedgehogs, which they can place in one of six rows. On their turn, they roll a die, move one hedgehog left or right, and then advance any hedgehog in the row forward by one space. The aim is to be the first to get three out of four hedgehogs to the end of the board, while avoiding the black spaces where hedgehogs become trapped.

Aunt Tarantel moves her web around and devours insects trying to escape. Players throw the dice to move her and then alternate moving their insects toward the exit. Initially, Aunt Tarantel is in a good mood, but once an insect escapes, she goes wild and catches everything in sight. The game includes a score tracker, and as insects are caught or escape, it increases the speed at which Aunt Tarantel moves. Though it may seem confusing at first, the game is straightforward and comparable to many other similar games in style.

While players will recognize much of the card art from Mü & More, this edition of "Die besten Trickspiele" features a different selection of games, some of which have been revised. It also includes more components and cards.

The card game features several games, with Mü as the main attraction. Players engage in complex trick-taking gameplay to win points. It includes variations like The Last Panther, Wimmüln, and Rummü, catering to different age groups and player counts. The game consists of 60 cards in five colors, each with a numerical value and point indicators.

The second edition, released in 1996 for 2-6 players, features a double-sided game board with either 3 or 4 colored donkeys. Players receive secret cards indicating the order in which the donkeys will finish, while they navigate a patchwork path to the finish line. The game involves moving donkeys according to colored arrows, and the player with the best card outcome wins, despite the occasional frustration of donkeys tipping over.

Primordial Soup is a unique strategy game where each player guides a species of amoeboid organisms in an evolving ecosystem. Players must navigate a world where species depend on each other’s excreta for survival. The goal is to evolve your species to enhance its population and genetic sophistication. The game involves moving organisms, feeding, adapting to environmental changes, acquiring new genes, reproducing, and ultimately scoring points. The game ends when a species reaches 42 points or the environment cards run out. The available genes offer various abilities like improved movement control, efficient metabolism, and enhanced reproductive or defensive capabilities.

A highly tactical bluffing game that requires a good memory and features a dramatic showdown at the end of each session. Players use money to bribe voters and can employ killers, bodyguards, and journalists to influence the outcome. Actions are carried out through the secret laying of cards, forcing players to work with incomplete information until the end.

Noah is struggling to finish loading his ark as the storm clouds gather. Players help load animals and supplies onto the ark while adhering to specific placement rules to avoid conflicts among different species. The game features cards, animal tiles, and action discs, with players strategically placing their animal tiles for victory points based on various characteristics.

Players compete to bring their creatures to land in Urland. One player selects which land area will be scored in a round, while others use a series of actions to move their creatures. At certain intervals, genetic modifications are auctioned off on the scoring track, providing players with extra actions.

Players own a farm with five fields and face challenges over several years, including crop rotation, market observation, over-fertilization, insects, weather, and more. The player with the healthiest fields and the highest profits at the end of the game wins.