Asmodee Nordics

The games listed below are a series of popular titles released in Danish by Asmodee Nordics. These games are all considered modern classics, meaning they have helped set the standard for gameplay and board game design. The titles are perfect for new players and are an essential element in any board game collection.

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Ticket to Ride Europe

In Ticket to Ride Europe, you must build railway routes from city to city across Europe around the early 20th century. The longer routes you can form, the more points you get. If you can also connect the cities on your route cards, you can earn extra bonus points. If your opponents get in the way by establishing railways on "your" routes, you can use your stations to still complete the route. However, you only have three of these available throughout the game.

Pandemic

Pandemic won the Golden Brick Special Prize in 2015 for its timelessness within the genre.

Carcassonne

Carcassonne is a tile placement game where players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape on it. The tile may have a city, a road, a monastery, grasslands, or a combination thereof, and it must be placed next to tiles that have already been played, in such a way that cities are connected to cities, roads to roads, etc. Carcassonne has a plethora of expansions that add everything from princesses, dragons, mayors, to pigs and bridges.

Splendor

In Splendor, you play as jewel traders and draw various raw materials, which you use to purchase mines, jewels, and gems from the center of the table. The cards give points and permanent resources, which are used in the purchase of new cards going forward. This means that the more cards you buy, the easier it is to get the expensive cards.

Dixit

Dixit is an enchanting game that really brings your imagination to life. The game consists of 84 large cards, with beautiful dreamlike illustrations. Dixit has many expansions that add even more beautiful cards.

Azul

Azul is an elegant game, filled with beautiful components, where you win by placing your colorful tiles in such a way that you score the most points. It is easy to play, but hard to master, therefore it is fun for beginners, but can also provide a challenge for more seasoned board game enthusiasts.

7 Wonders

7 Wonders is a strategic card game that spans three ages. In each age, players receive a booster of cards, from which they choose one and pass it on to the person next to them. Afterwards, the chosen cards are revealed and any necessary resources are paid.

Throughout the three ages, the goal is to gather resources, wage war against each other, and accumulate enough points to ultimately win.

Unlock

Unlock! is an 'Escape Room' or 'Mystery Room' in a box. On time, you must together solve the puzzles to escape the place where you are trapped or stranded. Unlock! contains three different scenarios, each offering a good selection of puzzles and challenges.

An app helps you start the game, it also functions as a timer, and it gives you hints if you are stuck in the game.

Wingspan

In Wingspan, you are bird enthusiasts: researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, and collectors! You aim to find, attract, and acquire the best birds for your wildlife reserves, and each bird brings a range of beneficial and powerful combinations and abilities to your habitats. The focus in the habitats is on growth.

Mysterium

In the 1920s, Mr. MacDowell immediately discovered a supernatural presence when he arrived at his new house in Scotland. However, the ghost cannot talk, so it communicates with the mediums through visions, which in the game are represented with picture cards. It is now up to the mediums to make sense of the images to help the ghost remember 3 things about its own death: who killed them, where it happened, and with what weapon? The better the mediums work together and guess correctly, the easier it is to catch the criminal.

King of Tokyo

In King of Tokyo, each player takes on the role of a monster that has gone berserk in the streets of Tokyo and tries to eliminate the other monsters present, while doing as much damage to the many high-rises as possible.

Small World

Small World is a fantasy war game with great variation, whimsical illustrations, and delicious gameplay. In Small World, an overly small world must be conquered, and this can only be done by kicking the others off the board.

Chronicles of Crime

Chronicles of Crime is a game that combines investigation, an app, a board game, and VR technology.

In Chronicles of Crime, you must solve various cases, and with a smartphone, players take turns investigating the crime scene and looking for clues. The clues match different cards in the game, which represent suspects, potential murder weapons, clues - and via QR codes, the cards (people, places, items, etc.) reveal different information depending on which case you have chosen to play.