The Best Games from Noris Spiele 🇩🇪🏢 2025
In this 2025 top list we have selected for you the best dice, card & board games from the game publisher "Noris Spiele" 🇩🇪🏢.
History of Noris Spiele
The board game company "Noris Spiele" was founded by Georg Reulein in Nuremberg in 1907. The current company headquarters is in Fürth, Bavaria, Germany🇩🇪. The games publisher is also known as "Georg Reulein GmbH & Co. KG."
Famous Noris Spiele games are for example many releases of royalty-free classic games (Chess, Yahtzee, Backgammon, ...) but also own games like Escape Room: The Game, Der Schwarze Prinz & Streetcar.
Noris Spiele shaped by World War II
Originally founded in 1907 in Nuremberg as a game publisher, Noris Spiele has gone through several corporate moves due to World War II. In the meantime, the headquarters is in Fürth.
In the 60s and 70s, many games were produced for TV series such as Bonanza, Lassie or Fury.
Since the mid-90s, the games of Noris Spiele were focused more on younger players and families - and the other brand "Goldsieber" from the same house of the Simba Dickie Group more on an older audience.
Noris Spiele now only a brand
In 2001, Noris Spiele was acquired by Simba Toys GmbH & Co. KG; since then, the publisher appears more as a brand. Zoch Verlag, bought by Noris Spiele in 2010, met the same fate in 2015.
How good are games from "Noris Spiele" game publisher?
There are 1 games from Noris Spiele included in our Top1000-Games-List, making Noris Spiele the #141 best games publisher out of a total of 285 games publishers in our database.
Further Information about the Game Publisher Noris Spiele
You can find more info about Noris Spiele under following links:
- official Website of Noris Spiele
- Noris Spiele's Facebook Page
- german Wikipedia-Entry for Noris Spiele
List with the best Games by Noris Spiele 2025 🇩🇪🏢
Below is the always up-to-date list of the best board games from Noris Spiele that you can buy 2025:
Crokinole
More details for CrokinoleCrokinole is a traditional action and dexterity game that has been enjoyed for generations. Played on a circular wooden board, it combines skill, strategy, and a touch of luck.
- 2 - 4 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Video reviews for Crokinole
Bring Your Own Book
Your favorite old book is now your new favorite game! Players take turns drawing prompts from a deck and then race to find the best phrase in their own book that fits the prompt. Each player searches for matching text, and when one finds it, they announce it and the round continues until a winner is chosen based on the submissions. The game continues until a player collects the required number of cards to win.
Nominated for 1 award and won 1.
More details for Bring Your Own Book- 3 - 8 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Immediately playable
Toddles-Bobbles
More details for Toddles-BobblesA fun and dynamic game develops imagination and attention. It's suitable for young children and those young at heart, providing fun for all ages.
- 2 - 6 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 4+ years old
- Immediately playable
Escape Room: The Game – Puzzle Adventures: Secret of The Scientist
More details for Escape Room: The Game – Puzzle Adventures: Secret of The ScientistA security alarm goes off in a villa on the outskirts of town, leading to a shocking discovery: a murdered woman and locked doors that cannot be opened from the inside. Trapped with a body, players must solve puzzles to earn pieces and unlock new rooms to escape. The game's unique design resembles an advent calendar, where players tackle five separate puzzles to unravel the mystery of the mansion, either under time pressure or at their own pace.
- 1 - 2 Players
- 150 Minutes
- 16+ years old
- Easy to learn
Nightmare Horror Adventures: Welcome to Crafton Mansion
More details for Nightmare Horror Adventures: Welcome to Crafton MansionThe spookiest board game out there is based on the trend of horror, storytelling, and experience. As a child, you grew up carefree in Crafton Mansion, but everything changed on a fateful night when your parents were burnt alive. Now, fifteen years later, you and your cousins reunite in the mansion only to find a chilling message on the wall written in blood: Welcome back...
- 4 - 5 Players
- 120 Minutes
- 16+ years old
- Easy to learn
Imago
More details for ImagoWithin a minute, players must draw an image representing one of 2,640 terms or phrases for their team to guess correctly. Teams alternate drawing, guessing, and supervising until one team's marker crosses the finish line. Categories are determined by rolling a die, and the active player selects a side of the drawn card and a column, while a 30-second timer counts down.
- 4 - 12 Players
- 12+ years old
- Immediately playable
Bloxx!
More details for Bloxx!Bloxx! is a role-playing and writing game inspired by Tetris. Players aim to fill out their score sheets as much as possible without covering the numbers that yield points.
- 2 - 4 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 6+ years old
- Immediately playable
Duck, Duck, Bruce
More details for Duck, Duck, BruceA simple "push your luck" card game with mechanics similar to "Can't Stop." Players reveal cards from the draw pile and can stop at any time to collect cards for their score. However, if two fish of the same type are revealed, the player loses those cards and their turn. Revealing an octopus card also ends the turn and causes the player to lose other cards revealed during that turn, but allows an attempt to steal cards from another player's score pile. Only the largest fish of each type counts for scoring, and the game continues until a player reaches 77 points.
- 2 - 5 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 6+ years old
- Immediately playable
Bonanza
More details for BonanzaBonanza is a classic German board game based on a famous TV show. Players roll dice and move their cowboys in an attempt to reach the Ponderosa as quickly as possible.
- 2 - 4 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Immediately playable
Good & Bad Ghosts
Players each have four good and four evil spirits, but only the player who owns a spirit can see whether it is good or evil. The spirits start in the back rows of a 6x6 board with the corners removed. On their turn, players move one of their spirits one space orthogonally and can eliminate an opponent's spirit by landing on it. To win, a player must either get rid of their own evil spirits, eliminate the good spirits of their opponent, or move one of their good spirits off an opponent's corner space.
Nominated for 1 award and won 1.
More details for Good & Bad Ghosts- 2 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Cucina Curiosa
More details for Cucina CuriosaThe world-famous cruise ship Costa Curiosa sails the seas, and as the head chef of Cucina Curiosa, your honorable task is to serve guests the most delicious meals. On the final day of the journey, the award-winning lobsters await their turn in the aquarium, but chaos erupts when a sudden alarm signals trouble as the ship is tossed by heavy seas, allowing the lobsters to escape.
- 1 - 4 Players
- 20 - 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Rummikub
Rummikub is a classic tile-based game that shares similarities with several European card games, including Machiavelli and Vatikan. It's a game that combines elements of strategy and luck, appealing to both casual and strategic players.
Nominated for 2 awards and won 2.
⭐️ Spiel des Jahres 1980
More details for Rummikub- 2 - 4 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
Mops Royal
More details for Mops RoyalPlayers build a 5x5 grid using their game pieces. They aim to place their pieces next to others that share the same color or symbol to score points. Each time a player scores, they turn over one of their pieces, making it unavailable for further use.
- 2 - 4 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Yay!
Players roll three dice on an 8x8 grid. They can write the sum of the dice in either of the two touching fields, as long as their opponent hasn't placed a higher number in an adjacent field. The game ends when one player fills a horizontal and a vertical row, with the winner being the one who occupies the most fields.
Nominated for 1 award.
⭐️ Nominated for Kinderspiel des Jahres 2013
More details for Yay!- 2 - 4 Players
- 15 - 45 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Link It 4
One player rolls five dice to create a set from one of six categories: a pair, three of a kind, four of a kind, full house, straight, or poker. They may re-roll all or some of the dice up to five times. The dice results determine where a player's pagoda can be placed on the board, and the first player to align four pagodas in a row wins the game. Players can also place their pagodas on already occupied spaces by other players, provided they achieve the necessary dice result with a limited number of rolls.
Nominated for 1 award.
⭐️ Nominated for Kinderspiel des Jahres 2014
More details for Link It 4- 2 - 4 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Escape Room: The Game
Escape Room: The Game brings the thrill of escape room challenges right into your living room. It includes four unique 60-minute puzzles that test various problem-solving skills. Players work together to decipher clues ranging from images to maps, under the pressure of a ticking timer. The game's centerpiece, the Chrono Decoder, adds a real sense of urgency with its countdown and sound effects. Whether you're defusing a bomb or escaping prison, the game provides a mix of tension and teamwork.
Nominated for 3 awards and won 2.
More details for Escape Room: The Game- 3 - 5 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 16+ years old
- Easy to learn
Blocky Mountains
Blocky Mountains is a dexterity game for 2-7 players, featuring cooperative and competitive modes, as well as solo play. Players construct 3D landscapes using large wooden blocks and then navigate a wooden character known as "the Trapper" through various obstacle courses based on randomly drawn challenge cards. Challenges range in difficulty, and players must complete them to advance toward the mountain summit while managing different tasks, including moving supplies and responding to setbacks.
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Blocky Mountains- 1 - 7 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
Geisteruhr
More details for GeisteruhrWelcome to the ghost competition at the old clock tower! Each night, ghosts gather to play their fun game. Players must place their ghosts on the cursed clock while the clock's arm swings back and forth, trying to sweep them away. When the arm stops, players count how many ghosts remain, and the one with the most wins the round. The first player to win three rounds becomes the champion, but the challenge resets the next day!
- 2 - 4 Players
- 5 - 15 Minutes
- 5+ years old
- Immediately playable
Crime Story: Berlin
More details for Crime Story: BerlinA serious accident occurred during a concert of the FIVE CULTURES, resulting in the death of the band's manager from electrocution. Players must collaborate to unravel the mystery surrounding his shocking death, including identifying potential motives for murder. Within 60 minutes, they will explore clues, interpret evidence, and reveal secrets to solve the case.
- 1 - 6 Players
- 60 - 90 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Immediately playable
Carla Cat
"Spitz paß auf!" is a children's game for 2-6 players. One player rolls the dice while others place their pieces on the game board. When a 1 or 6 is rolled, the dice roller must cover the pieces with a cup, while the other players try to pull their pieces off the board quickly. If they fail to do so, they must give the roller a game piece as a penalty. The game ends when a player collects a set number of game pieces or loses them all.
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Carla Cat- 2 - 8 Players
- 15 - 20 Minutes
- 5+ years old
- Immediately playable
Chairs
Take on the challenge of stacking chairs with friends or family in this exciting stacking game. Players of all ages can enjoy the fun, requiring only a steady hand and creative thinking. The goal is to add one chair at a time to the stack while avoiding falls; if the tower collapses, you must take all fallen chairs. The first player to successfully get rid of all their chairs wins!
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Chairs- 1 - 99 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 5+ years old
- Immediately playable
Finale
Players control a dice-driven soccer game, positioning teammates to score goals. Each player takes turns rolling a die to move their pieces. Goals can be scored by getting a player into the opponent's goal or by preventing the opponent from moving. The game relies more on abstract strategy than on traditional soccer mechanics.
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More details for Finale- 2 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Heckmeck Barbecue
More details for Heckmeck Barbecue"Heckmeck BBQ" offers exciting dice rolling for roasted worms, with a game board featuring 14 different grilling spots. Players set aside matching symbols from their dice rolls and continue rolling to conquer empty grill spaces, where they can roast and enjoy worms. Opponents can also claim the same spots, introducing competition, while the most valuable locations may yield the latest BBQ trend: fried snails.
- 2 - 5 Players
- 25 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Jenga
Jenga is a classic physical skill game known for its simple yet captivating gameplay. The game challenges players to demonstrate steady hands and strategic thinking as they manipulate a tower of wooden blocks.
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Jenga- 1 - 8 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 6+ years old
- Immediately playable
Crime Story: Vienna
More details for Crime Story: ViennaPlayers take on the role of a team solving a tricky case in the suburbs of Vienna. In "Crime Story - Vienna," they investigate the robbery of a safe belonging to recently deceased millionaire Karl Valten. Within 60 minutes, the team must determine what happened and who committed the crime by choosing which clues to follow and how to interpret them.
- 1 - 6 Players
- 60 - 90 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Easy to learn
Vier zu mir!
Players must find sets of four animals that match those shown on their search cards in this award-winning memory game for children. Each player has a set of 24 unique plastic animals and search cards, and they take turns asking other players for specific animals. The game ends when all matching cards are found, and points are awarded for completed sets.
Nominated for 3 awards and won 2.
⭐️ Spiel des Jahres 1996
⭐️ Nominated for Kinderspiel des Jahres 2013
More details for Vier zu mir!- 3 - 8 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 5+ years old
- Immediately playable
Pecunia non olet (Second Edition)
More details for Pecunia non olet (Second Edition)Being a Roman latrine owner is not easy. Customers can be picky, with senators demanding more money but refusing to sit next to slaves, while women prefer to use facilities together. Those who manage their queues effectively and send unwanted customers to their opponents will win and become the richest Roman!
- 2 - 6 Players
- 20 - 40 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
Video reviews for Pecunia non olet (Second Edition)
A to Z
Each player receives a plastic board with 25 fields labeled A to Z (X and Y share a field). Players take turns moving their pieces on the board and drawing cards that prompt them to think of words within specific categories. The goal is to cover all 25 fields on their board, with a loud timer adding pressure during gameplay.
Nominated for 3 awards and won 2.
More details for A to Z- 2 - 4 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 9+ years old
- Immediately playable
Rummy
More details for RummyRummy 500 is a popular family card game played with a standard 52-card deck. Players aim to get rid of all their cards by laying down sets of three or more cards in groups of the same value or in sequences of consecutive cards. Points are scored for cards laid down on the table, while remaining cards in hand count negatively; the game ends when one player lays down their last card.
- 2 - 6 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Video reviews for Rummy
Kalah
More details for KalahKalah, commonly known as a version of Mancala, is a classic strategy board game, part of a broader family of Mancala games. Invented in 1940 by William Champion Jr., Kalah gained popularity after Champion started selling it in 1944 and later patented its rules in the 1950s.
- 2 Players
- 10 Minutes
- 5+ years old
- Easy to learn
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