ABACUSSPIELE
Translated from website (German):
ABACUSSPIELE Verlag was founded in 1989 and is based in Dreieich near Frankfurt. In this family-run company, a committed team of employees has been working with great passion ever since. The main focus is on easily accessible, clever family and card games.
"We want to bring the whole family to the game table. Playing is not only something for children, it is a shared experience, in which everyone should participate, "says Managing Director Joe Nikisch, his greatest concern.
ABACUSSPIELE sets the highest quality standards in production. That's why the games are produced almost exclusively in Germany. Plastic parts are rarely used as playing materials. Instead, high-quality wooden parts and cardboard boxes from sustainable production are used.
In addition to numerous awards, the title "Game of the Year 2007" stands out for the game Zooloretto as the greatest success of the publishing history. Internationally, the publisher's products are also gaining more and more attention, and individual games have now been launched in over ten different language versions. In 2013 the publishing house continued its success story with the extraordinary game Hanabi. ABACUSSPIELE celebrated the first award of a card game as "game of the year" true to the motto: "small games quite LARGE!"
Based in Dreieich, Germany.
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