Ouch!

Ouch! Ouch! & friends (until 2017)
legal form	GmbH
founding	2004
Seat	Gunzburg
management	Hermann Hutter
Branch	Game publisher
Website	http://www.hutter-trade.com/

Huch ( own spelling HUCH! ), Until May 2017 Huch & friends , is a Günzburg- based publisher for board games. The publishing program is based on the pillars of children, Wooden Line, learning & logic, family & communication, strategy and lifestyle. In addition to in-house productions, the publisher also publishes titles from abroad as German versions.

Publishing history

The publishing house Huch & friends was founded in 2004 by Hermann Hutter, Klaus Zoch and Albrecht Werstein as a publishing house for educational and innovative games. Hermann Hutter took over the Kutter bookstore in Memmingen in 2002 and has also been involved in Klaus Zoch's Zoch Verlag in Munich since 2002 . Together with the publisher, they founded the sales company Hutter Trade, which took over sales for Huch & friends, Zoch and other publishers and toy manufacturers such as Chelona wooden toy range. In 2005 the publishers Ystari Games, Tilsit, Oberschwäbische Magnetspiele and Family Games were added to the Hutter portfolio. In 2006, the game was Caylus the special prize "Complex Game" during the Game of the Year award, the same year was Ironically Buxtehude on the list of recommendations included the game of the year. In 2007 the game Beppo der Bock won the Children's Game of the Year award . In the following years several other awards were added, including the Toy Award 2008 for the game World of Good Kitchen developed by Johann Lafer .

In 2011 the shares in Zoch Verlag were sold to the Simba-Dickie-Group , at the same time all shares in Hutter Trade were acquired. In May 2017 the brand name was changed to Huch! as a slimming of the name.

Awards (selection)

• game of the year
  • 2006: Caylus special award "Complex Game"
  • 2006: Ironically, Buxtehude recommendation list
  • 2007: Yspahan nominated
  • 2009: Fauna nominated
  • 2010: Kamisado recommendation list

• Children's game of the year
  • 2005: Daddy Cool nominated
  • 2007: Beppo the Bock winner
  • 2007: The small speech badger recommendation list
  • 2008: Animalogic recommendation list
  • 2012: The little dragon knights nominated

• German Games Prize
  • 2006: Caylus 1st place
  • 2007: Yspahan 4th place
  • 2009: Fauna 10th place
  • 2012: Trajan 2nd place
  • 2018: Rajas of the Ganges 3rd place

• à la carte card game price
  • 2006: Buxtehude of all places 1st place
  • 2007: Caylus Magna Carta 1st place

• German educational game award
  • 2008: Graffiti winner in the category "from 9 years"
  • 2012: Rally Fally winner in the category "from 3 years"

• Game of games
  • 2006: Hive , a hit game for two
  • 2013: Fire & Flame , special award
  • 2014: Voll Schaf , games hit for families
  • 2015: Bermuda , hit games with friends
  • 2016: Gum Gum Machine , games hit with friends 2016
  • 2017: Lyngk , special award

• International Gamers Awards
  • 2012: Trajan winner
  • 2009: Kamisado winner

• Toy Award
  • 2008: World of good cuisine winner
  • 2012: Talat (game) winner

• Top 10 toys
  • 2012: Talat (game) winner

supporting documents

1. ↑ ^{a b} In a nutshell. Press release from HUCH! on the name change, May 29, 2017; Retrieved June 29, 2017.
2. ↑ HUCH! & friends at reich-der-spiele.de; Retrieved June 29, 2017.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Company history of the Hutter bookstore ; Retrieved June 29, 2017.

Web links

• Website of the publisher
• HUCH & friends in the Luding games database
• HUCH! & friends in the game database BoardGameGeek (English)
• Hermann Hutter about his work as managing director Interview on "Reich der Spiele"