Newsletter 25-08:
MONTHLY NEWSLETTER AUGUST 2025
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MONTHLY NEWSLETTER AUGUST 2025

MONTHLY NEWSLETTER AUGUST 2025

Dear Customers,

here comes the monthly newsletter for August 2025.

New and available for pre-order:

  • Papyria from Irongames
  • Mine 77 and Mine 77: Ready to Rock from Dragon Dawn Productions

Available again:
  • Vienna - Classic from Queen-Games
  • Come Together, Gemüsewürfel and Septima - Verwandlungen und Omen from Skellig Games
  • Coloro, Colomo and Mabula from Steffen-Spiele

New and now available:
  • Disney/Pixar - Epic Animationsgalerie, Disney - The Greatest Disney Collection, Star Wars - Epic Collection, Schnurrbart Wunder Katzen - Lisa Parker, Marvel Avangers - Across the Comic Universe and Harry Potter - Die Häuser von Hogwarts from Queen-Games
  • Der Tod des Schiffbrüchigen from Morty's Mysteries

Price changes:
  • the prices Justice (german and english version), Meashowe, Tolerance, White Hat and Grey Eminence: Year of Chaos from Dragon Dawn Productions have been reduced permanently on August 1st 2025

You can place a pre-order here.

PAPYRIA
PAPYRIA

Mesopotamia, around 1500 BC: Mesopotamia on the Euphrates and Tigris rivers is home to a melting pot of different cultures and is developing magnificently. Fertile soils and modern irrigation systems allow agriculture to flourish. Religion and scholars are held in high esteem, and important achievements such as writing and the wheel lead to the construction of the first major cities and lively trade. A coveted commodity can be found in the mountains: the precious “blue stone” Lapis lazuli (Lapis).
In Papyria, you control the destiny of your people. Explore the region with wanderers and ships and create an extensive network of canals. Build temples, sanctuaries and cities, create inventions and build mines for Lapis. This precious stone and the valuable writing medium, Papyrus, will lead your emerging civilization to glory and victory.
During your turn, you move your wanderer or your ship. On the target space, you choose two of the three possible actions. This can be a new tile for the display or a multiplier for a later scoring; the construction of a city, a temple, or a mine; or the production of Lapis or papyrus, which you need for buildings, special actions, or additional scorings.
The game ends as soon as the last good has been taken from several spaces and a certain number of end-of-game tiles have been revealed and fulfilled.
As you win the game with the most points after the scorings during the game and some final scorings, timing is very important.

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JUSTICE
JUSTICE


Justice is an engaging tabletop game for 3 to 5 players, with a strong fantasy theme centered around a Socialist Dwarven society. The players take on the roles of Council members responsible for judging accused criminals. The game's core mechanic is trick-taking, but players must then skillfully employ the cards they've won to influence the fate of the suspects. Adding to the intrigue, Justice incorporates hidden scoring objectives to create a mix of collaboration and competition among the players. A typical session of Justice offers an engaging experience lasting around 45 to 60 minutes. Dive into this captivating fantasy world and navigate the delicate balance between trick-taking strategies and critical decision-making.

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MAESHOWE
JUSTICE


According to the Orkneyinga Saga, Earl Rognvald Kali Kolsson broke into the chambered tomb of Maeshowe, on Orkney, in AD 1150. In AD 1153, Earl Harald Maddadson and a group of his men sheltered there during a snowstorm. The sagas tell us that Rognvald found treasure there and that two of Harald’s men went mad. Alone or with a friend, players will on their turn need to play one card to the row and discard one. Managing their hand of five cards players need to make tough calls on what to play while carefully managing their resources of health, food and cards left in their draw deck.

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TOLERANCE (ENGLISH)
TOLERANCE (ENGLISH)


Tolerance is an asymmetric set collection game with variable player goals for 3 to 5 players representing the conflict between Protestants and Catholics in 16th and early 17th Century England. This game uses a trick-taking mechanic, where the winner of each trick gets to perform the played cards' actions, whether beneficial or not. The game is played over three rounds, spanning the reigns of Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth I, and King James, with each round covering the reign of one monarch. Tolerance aims to convey to the players how much suffering mankind brings upon itself due to an allegedly - "wrong" belief - a topic that is just as topical today as it was almost 500 years ago. With art inspired by classical artists such as Albrecht Durer, Hans Holbein, and Hieronymus Bosch, Tolerance presents players with amazing images and art that sparks everybody's imagination.

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WHITE HAT
WHITE HAT


Winter is fast approaching and so is the time for wearing hats… but no hats are like the ones worn by those who morally pit their wits against the Cyber security of digital systems and their sensitive data. White Hat is a challenging hacker-based board game, drawing upon an interesting adaptation of the trick-taking mechanic for the right to progress through cyberspace. As they attempt to prove their worth as a hacker, players compete against each other as they negotiate their personal “hat” through the cyber world of FBI servers, internet cafes, and digital tracers on their way to the game objective, the Critical Asset. White hat is a competitive hacker-themed trick-taking card game where players must hack into ‘the system’ to steal valuable data before anyone knows they have even been there.

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GRAY EMINENCE: YEAR OF CHAOS
GRAY EMINENCE: YEAR OF CHAOS


The good, the bad, and the ugly of 2020 – the year the hits just kept on coming. Not since the war years has the world had to work so hard to find succour. As science worked to save us, creativity and ingenuity became our tools of survival during the stresses of lockdown. But for some dark masters, our Annus Horribilis brought new opportunities… Reenter the secret world of the Gray Eminences, in this expansion to the innovative base game of manipulations and administrations. Become the power behind the thrones that suddenly no-one wished to sit on. Forge deals with your competitors; make – and break – the headlines; advance your own agendas to win.

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COME TOGETHER
COME TOGETHER

Spiel-direkt-eG only distributes the german language version of this game. Therefore the following text is in german.
Es sind die späten 1960er Jahre, und eine neue Generation junger Menschen strebt nach Freiheit, Freundschaft und Liebe. Um diesen Traum zu leben, schaffen sie Events, bei denen alle in Frieden zusammenkommen und die ultimative Lebenserfahrung genießen können - Musikfestivals! Alle wollen diesen Sommer The Cascadians, Tikki Tooraid und Great Western Cowboys sehen, aber auf welchem Festival werden sie spielen? In Come Together organisierst du dein eigenes Festival und setzt deine Freiwilligen ein, um dein Publikum und die angesagtesten Künstler anzuziehen, um Bühnen und Camps zu bauen und Werbung zu machen, damit dein Festival das beste aller Zeiten wird!

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GEMÜSEWÜRFEL
GEMÜSEWÜRFEL

Spiel-direkt-eG only distributes the german language version of this game. Therefore the following text is in german.
Wie wirst du abschneiden? Mit dem Hackmesser schneidest du dir Zutatenwürfel aus der Auslage, kochst daraus Rezepte aus aller Welt und verfeinerst sie mit geheimen Zusätzen, um mit deinen Kreationen die meisten Sterne zu erlangen. Dein Sieg steht auf Messers Schneide!

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SEPTIMA - VERWANDLUNGEN UND OMEN
SEPTIMA - VERWANDLUNGEN UND OMEN

Spiel-direkt-eG only distributes the german language version of this game. Therefore the following text is in german.
Es brodelt in der Gerüchteküche von Noctenburg. Man erzählt sich hinter vorgehaltener Hand von Tieren in den Häusern, im Krankenhaus und sogar im Gericht, die merkwürdig menschliches Verhalten an den Tag legen. Wahrhaftig unheilvolle Omen… In dieser modularen Erweiterung zu Septima erhaltet ihr neue Fähigkeiten, indem ihr Tiergestalt annehmt, und müsst auf die sich abzeichnenden Omen achten.

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DER TOD DES SCHIFFBRÜCHIGEN
DER TOD DES SCHIFFBRÜCHIGEN

Spiel-direkt-eG only distributes the german language version of this game. Therefore the following text is in german.
Wir befinden uns im Jahre 1857. Im Indischen Ozean ist die „Arctica“, ein kleines Passagierschiff, das jedoch auch Fracht geladen hatte, gesunken. Die Überlebenden haben sich auf eine kleine Insel gerettet, über die sie einige Stunden streifen. Schließlich sammeln sie sich an einem Feuer, das von einigen Ankömmlingen am Strand entfacht wurde. Doch nicht alle Überlebenden sind auffindbar – ist hier ein Verbrechen geschehen? Die Spielendenzahl ist flexibel für 4 – 7 Personen. Solltet ihr keine Gruppe von sieben Leuten sein, bleiben die Charaktere trotzdem genauso verdächtig, als würdet ihr mit der vollen Besetzung spielen. Die Verdächtigen werden dann vom Spiel übernommen und senden euch Hinweise und Zeugenaussagen, damit ihr herausfinden könnt, wer was getan hat!

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DISNEY/PIXAR - EPIC ANIMATION GALLERY
DISNEY/PIXAR - EPIC ANIMATION GALLERY

Discover the Trefl Prime UFT - Epic Animation Gallery puzzle with an impressive 6000 pieces! Put together a collage featuring characters from famous Pixar animations!
The total size of the puzzle is 1,333 x 928 mm.

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DISNEY - THE GREATEST DISNEY COLLECTION
DISNEY - THE GREATEST DISNEY COLLECTION

The total size of the puzzle is 1.985,6 x 928 mm.

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STAR WARS - EPIC COLLECTION
STAR WARS - EPIC COLLECTION

The total size of the puzzle is 1.985,6 x 1.376 mm.

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SCHNURRBART WUNDER KATZEN - LISA PARKER
SCHNURRBART WUNDER KATZEN - LISA PARKER

The total size of the puzzle is 1.985,6 x 928 mm.

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MARVEL AVENGERS - ACROSS THE COMIC UNIVERSE
MARVEL AVENGERS - ACROSS THE COMIC UNIVERSE

The total size of the puzzle is 1.985,6 x 928 mm.

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HARRY POTTER - THE HOUSES OF HOGWARTS
HARRY POTTER - THE HOUSES OF HOGWARTS

The total size of the puzzle is 1.985,6 x 928 mm.

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VIENNA - CLASSIC
VIENNA - CLASSIC

You are the head of a secret organization and direct the fate of your agents in the streets of Vienna, always on the lookout for high-ranking informants and their secret information from the worlds of art, politics, religion, the military and science. Round after round, you play cards that support you in different ways in your hunt for secret information. You can improve your own actions, obtain new bribes to infiltrate the buildings controlled by various nations with your agents, or gather more knowledge about the secrets. Whoever has the most points at the end of the game wins!

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MINE 77
MINE 77

Mine 77 is a stand-alone prequel to Factory 42, where you take on the challenging role of an overseer in Odrixia's largest mine. Navigate government mandates and negotiate with fellow overseers while filling your own pockets.
Mine 77 gameplay revolves around two connected rondels - an underground production rondel and an above-ground ‘town’ rondel. The game utilizes a simultaneous action selection process using work-order cards. There is an incentive to cooperate and interact with your fellow Overseers, as every second round, the Government will check that Overseers collectively have completed the set goal - and, if need be, collectively punish slackers. A sneaky Overseer may opt to evade the collective punishment by gathering rosettes (tokens of communal esteem).
Mine 77 seamlessly weaves the theme into each game mechanic, requiring players to select their path to victory. Since there are a limited number of actions available, you can't pursue every option. The path you choose may differ significantly from the paths chosen by your opponents. Every game will offer a fresh new challenge for the players.

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MINE 77: READY TO ROCK
MINE 77: READY TO ROCK

Ready to Rock: These Starting cards create an asymmetrical start and speed up the early game by granting starting resources and/or a unique start position.
Ready to Rock expansion brings a deck of additional cards for Mine 77

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COLORO
COLORO


Coloro – A captivating collecting game full of strategic decisions. Collect the most origami of any color. The arrow shows you which row or column you can choose an origami from. But be careful – every decision influences the other person's next move. Will you manage to gain an advantage, or will you let the best origami be snatched away right under your nose? Only those who look ahead skillfully will win in the end.

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COLOMO
COLOMO


The colors of the rainbow Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo … everyone knows the colours of the rainbow! These colours are the ‘stars’ of COLOMO. The basic multi-purpose materials for a whole raft of games are sixty decorative, large playing discs, ten in every colour. Whether you like games that are simple or tricky, short and long, amusing or exciting, COLOMO has observation and mind games or a test of dexterity with games for two or more players. The accompanying rule book contains seven different game rules. On this page you can find another seven game ideas under "Additional Rules". In the colourful world of COLOMO, there is an ideal game for all age groups and constellations.

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MABULA
MABULA


Spiel direkt eG only distributes a German edition of this game. For that reason, all following texts are only in German.

Auf einem schönen Holzspielbrett wird ein Murmelwettkampf ausgetragen. Das Ziel: Möglichst viele eigene Murmeln miteinander zu verbinden. Von den Startplätzen am Rand schieben die Spielenden ihre Glasmurmeln Zug um Zug ins Feld.

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the team of the Spiel direkt eG
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