History of the World (board game) the number of armies it gets, its capital or starting location in parentheses, and the seas it can navigate in parentheses. Each epoch there is a minor empire and a kingdom that can be played as event cards, and these are listed at the bottom of the epoch. History of the World (board game) History of the World (often abbreviated HotW) is a board game designed by Ragnar Brothers and originally published in 1991. It is played by up to six different players in seven different epochs; each player playing a different empire in each epoch. The first edition of
Ingenious (board game) the coloured symbols. "Einfach Genial Junior" is a simpler version of the game. It uses similar techniques of matching coloured symbols but utilises a square board instead of hexagons. "Einfach Genial: Das Kartenspiel" is a card game based on the original Einfach Genial. "Einfach Genial: Wer zu viel riskiert, verliert!" ("Simply ingenious - who risks too much, loses!") uses the same coloured symbols, but each hexagonal playing tile only has one symbol. Ingenious (board game) Ingenious is the English name for Einfach Genial (Simply Ingenious), a German abstract strategy board game designed by Reiner Knizia under commission from Sophisticated Games