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Abacusspiele is a German games publisher based in Dreieich , which was founded in 1989 by Matthias Senke and Joe Nikisch .

history

The Abacusspiele publishing house was founded on June 1, 1989 by Matthias Senke and Joe Nikisch in Dreieich near Frankfurt am Main. At that time, Joe Nikisch was also the managing director of Amigo and until 1990 product manager at Hexagames . One of the publisher's first games was the game of skill pirate billiards . As early as 1990, Abacus achieved first place in the German Games Prize with the game Big Potatoes by Doris Matthäus and Frank Nestel with 10th place .

In 1990 a graphic designer was brought to Abacus and the private company was converted into a KG. In 1994 Matthias Senke left the company and from 1996 Joe Nikisch was the sole owner of Abacusspiele. In 1994 Volle Lotte was the first of the series of cards and dice games that is still successful today. In 1998 Anno Domini was added to the program by Urs Hostettler and in 1999 Mamma Mia by Uwe Rosenberg was included on the shortlist for Game of the Year .

In 2003 Abacusspiele began working with Michael Schacht and brought his game Coloretto onto the market. The successor, Zooloretto , was presented at the Nuremberg Toy Fair in 2007 ; In the same year, the game was the winner of the game of the year and took 5th place in the German Games Prize. In 2013 the card game Hanabi by Antoine Bauza was able to assert itself as Game of the Year and in 2014 the game Leo must go to the hairdresser by Leo Colovini was nominated as Children's Game of the Year .

Games (selection)

1990: Thick Potatoes (Doris Matthäus, Frank Nestel); Pirate Billiards ( Reinhold Wittig ); Airlines ( Alan R. Moon )
1991: Pony Express (Alan R. Moon); African Queen ( Alex Randolph )
1994: On the banks of the Nile (Hanno and Wilfried Kuhn)
1995: Medici ( Reiner Knizia )
1996: Downtown (Bernhard Weber); Olé ( Wolfgang Panning )
1997: Canyon (Frederick A. Herschler); Dream Team (Hartmut Witt); Mini Incognito ( Leo Colovini , Alex Randolph); Kismet (Wolfgang Panning); Hussar Golf (Torsten Marold)
1998: Samarkand ( Sid Sackson ); Breton boule (Franz Josef Lamminger); Anno Domini ( Urs Hostettler ; until 2018> 30 issues); Such a thing (Urs Hostettler)
1999: Mamma Mia ( Uwe Rosenberg )

2000: Knatsch ( Michael Schacht ); Pig gallop ( Heinz Meister )
2002: Bang! (Emiliano Sciarra)
2003: Paris Paris (Michael Schacht); Coloretto (Michael Schacht); Maya (Bernd Eisenstein)
2004: Hansa (Michael Schacht); The game (dice game) ( Reinhold Wittig ; new edition); How I see the world (Urs Hostettler)
2005: China (Michael Schacht); Coloretto Amazonas (Michael Schacht)
2006: Nottingham (Uwe Rosenberg); Maestro Leonardo (Acchittocca); Tichu (Urs Hostettler)
2007: Zooloretto (Michael Schacht); Darjeeling (Günter Burkhardt); Race for the Galaxy (Tom Lehmann)
2008: Aquaretto (Michael Schacht); Shanghai (Michael Schacht, Roman Pelek)
2009: Bonnie and Clyde (Mike Fitzgerald); Citizens, builders & Co. (Michael Schacht); Turandot (Stefano Castelli); Valdora (Michael Schacht)

2010: Hanabi (Antoine Bauza); Jerusalem (Michele Mura)
2011: Airlines Europe (Alan R. Moon)
2012: Africana (Michael Schacht); Samurai Sword (Emiliano Sciarra); Zooloretto: The Dice Game (Michael Schacht)
2013: BANG! The Dice Game (Michael Palm, Lukas Zach); All cheese! (Meelis Looveer)

Ricochet Robots (Alex Randolph)

2014: Chimera (Ralph H. Anderson); Han (Michael Schacht); Limes (Martyn F); Oink! (Inon Kohn); Royals (Peter Hawes)
2015: Cacao (Phil Walker-Harding); Arboretum (Dan Cassar); MammuZ (Nikolay Pegasov)
2016: Leo has to go to the hairdresser (Leo Colovini); Jolly & Roger (Shaun Graham, Scott Huntington); Micro Robots (Andreas Kuhnekath); Game of Trains; Black Spy (Alan R. Moon)
2017: Century: The Spice Route (Emerson Matsuuchi); Zooloretto Duel (Michael Schacht); The Legacy of the Maharaja (Michael Schacht); NMBR 9 (Peter Wichmann); Deckscape (Martino Chiacchiera, Silvano Sorrentino); 3 Secrets (Martino Chiacchiera, Pierluca Zizzi)
2018: Party Bugs (Martino Chiacchiera); Everything on board ?! (Carlo A. Rossi); Pizza Monsters (Michael Schacht); City of Rome (Matthew Dunstan, Brett J. Gilbert)

Awards

German Games Prize

1990: 10th place for thick potatoes ; Doris Matthew
1998: 5th place for Canyon
1999: 8th place for Mamma Mia
2003: 4th place for Paris Paris; 9th place for Coloretto
2004: 9th place for Hansa
2007: 5th place for Zooloretto
2009: 6th place for Valdora
2012: 9th place for Africana
2013: 6th place for Hanabi
2015: 7th place for Cacao
2016: German children's games Prize for Leo has to go to the hairdresser

game of the year

1997: Special prize game of skill for hussar golf
2007: Award Game of the Year 2007 for Zooloretto
2013: Award Game of the Year 2013 for Hanabi
2016: Nomination children's game of the year for Leo has to go to the hairdresser

Count Ludo

2009: Family Games Award Winner for Bonnie and Clyde

MinD game price

2014: MinD game tip for Hanabi

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Abacus games ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at spielarchiv.de @1@ 2

↑ Andreas Keirat, Claudia Schlee: Abacus at spielphase.de

↑ ^a ^b About us on the Abacusspiele website; accessed on February 14, 2018.

Web links

Publisher's website

Abacusspiele in the game database BoardGameGeek (English)

Abacus games in the Luding games database

[spielarchiv-1] Abacus games ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at spielarchiv.de @1@ 2

[2] Andreas Keirat, Claudia Schlee: Abacus at spielphase.de

[Über_uns-3] About us on the Abacusspiele website; accessed on February 14, 2018.