HOWEVER! Should you land on an opponent’s piece before they make it around the board, they get sent back to the beginning.

Similar to Aggravation or Trouble… this is a simple-ish game of rolling dice and moving your colored pieces around the board to get them safely home. You will find this in every German Game cabinet, and EVERYONE has a story about playing this game for hours with their friends, Oma, Opa, mother, father, brother, sister, or classmates. Mensch Ärgere Dich Nicht is the FINAL WORD in traditional German Board Games. ( Tip- buying the games in a “Collection” is less expensive than buying them individually!) Traditional German Games with boards Mensch Ärgere Dich Nicht I also listed just a few newer board games that are already gaining “classic” status. I thought it might be easier to break the games down into groups Traditional German games with and without boards, German card games, and games with just paper and pencil. So take your old Halma game out of the closet, dust off your old Memory set, or set up a game of Fang den Hut, and reboot the family tradition of playing German games. But still, the traditional German Games we kids played with our parents or our Omas and Opas are timeless fun… and a great way to pull kids off of the electronics. Today Board Games are undergoing a Renaissance of sorts… newer, better, more complex and more exciting games are being developed all the time, with many of the best coming from Germany, where the prestigious Spiel des Jahres prize is announced yearly. In the car we would play Stadt Land Fluß to pass the time. My Oma was part of a Doppelkopf group, and Dad loved Skat. Games like Mensch Ärgere Dich Nicht, Mühle, Schwarzer Peter and Quartet. While I was growing up, my family played a LOT of traditional German Games.

French paper pencil games