Career
He has been nominated for multiple best game awards, including Spiel des Jahres and International Gamers Awards. He died of cancer on September 2, 2007. These three widows enjoyed all kinds of card and board games, and the most popular card game in Bavaria was for four players.
Although quite hard, they made sure he could play by the time he was eight.
While enjoying the success of TransAmerica, he would prefer to play other games he designed, like Dos Rios, Hellas or Big City. He considered his best work to have been Manila.
TransAmerica was the game he thought was easiest for him to design, and found that even simple rules can have unexpected consequences. Dos Rios, on the other hand, he felt was clearly the hardest game to work to completion, which took around 5 years to improve from basic design to publishable product.
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