June, 1996

The Living Room Floor

Gaming News

• Letter from the Editor - notes and introduction to this month's issue (June)
• The Nominees for the Spiel des Jahres '96 - eleven games get the nod
• Winner of the 1996 Spiel des Jahres Leaked! - official announcement to come next week

Letter Box

• Begging for Links - the editor reiterates our policy on links to commercial sites
• Entdecker Variant - Emanuel Soeding writes with some suggested fixes

Game Reviews

• Ab Die Post! - stormy flights of fancy in rickety US Mail planes
• Campanile - not just a house of cards - a tower of cards!
• Insider Dealing - a must for Ivan Boesky fans everywhere!
• Klondike - panning for gold in the frozen North
• Ostindien Company - yet another crack at the East India Company
• Take It Easy - a laid back race game
• Yucata - Mayan priests replace trundling elephants but we gain neither speed nor color

Original Game Rules

Note that the PostScript files in the rules below should be downloaded to your hard disk and then printed using the appropriate application (lpr on Unix, BBedit or others on Mac, ?? on Windows, etc.).

• Caravansérail - a previously unpublished trading game by Bruno Faidutti
  The PostScript file for the cards was updated on 7/5/96
• Flower of the Lotus - a previously unpublished strategy game by Bruno Faidutti

English Game Translations

• The Most Wanted List - rule sets at large and unaccounted for

• Ab Die Post! - a silly, stormy mail delivery game
• Auf Achse Das Kartenspiel - watch out for Smokies in this trucking card game
• Axxa - a positional strategy game from outer space
• Camp - cliquish camping with Sid Sackson
• Carabande - that wacky Carrom racing game
• Der Flaschenteufel - an unusual card game about a devil in a bottle
• Gold am Yukon - there's gold in them thar glaciers
• Goldener Drache - a race between golden dragons with wizard jockeys
• Grand National Derby - card based horse racing from Knizia
• Münchhausen - the famous Baron's favorite card game (wink)
• Olé! - throw your hat, or card, into the ring
• Die Siedler von Cattan Expansion - add two more players to this popular game
• Tahiti - a handsome boat racing game set "where the women don't wear no tops"
• Takt Voll - fiercly competitive musical composition
• Tor - Knizia tackles soccer
• Traumland - take a trick in Dreamland

French Game Translations

• Freight Train - Train de marchandises

Traditional Games

• Ancient Games: Dogs and Jackals - the ancient Egyptian precursor to Snakes and Ladders

The Front Door

• Bailiwick ^TM - The Game of Counter Points
• McGartlin Motorsport Design - purveyors of fine auto racing games
• Mendocino Game Company, Inc. - makers of Pirateer

Other Places

• Collectible Games - Bob Finn's guide to collecting
• ToyNet - an interesting site describing the offerings of various companies

The Game Cabinet - editor@gamecabinet.com - Ken Tidwell