Hi! These are the English pages
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 | Most of the Sphinx games come with English rules (Vampirconnection, The Monster Maker, Rest in Peace, Egg on, Null Bock, Nose Picking, Intergralis) translated by Pitt Crandlemire (photo). Spidertwist is translated by Helene Barthen. "Dance of death" and "Hammer of the witches" are translated by Bernd Wechner. "Sport ist murder" is translated by my wife Antonia Rudolph. 
Informations about our new game "Sport is murder". Englisch rules for the game are available.
The translation for the "Dance of death" are finished.
The translation for the game "Hammer of the witches" are finished.
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Vampire Connection (printed english rules available)
A game by Henning PoehlA game for 3-6 players from 16 years.
Playing time: approximately 60 minutes
What's it all about?
In this game, you take on the role of a vampire and must provide yourself with blood.
To do this, you visit a nearby village and carry its inhabitants off to your castle, in order to more easily get their blood. But you are not alone, other vampires are also keen on the inhabitants of the village and they won't hesitate to steal them from your castle. The competition among the vampires is rough and the life of an immortal, which depends on that red elixir of life, is not that easy.
It is apparent that there are vampire hunters in abundance throughout the area and they consider it their sacred task to drive stakes into the hearts of peaceful vampires. But, fortunately, you have a hunchback assistant, that can revive you.
What's that?
You just sent him away?
Well, that wasn't too bright of you...
How will you do as an immortal?
The winner is the one among you who sucks the most blood from the village that you afflict.
Some pictures of the game
variants/faq's
The game by bouldergames.com
The game by funagain.com
The German description of the game.
Monster Maker (The english rules as pdf-file)
A game by Henning PoehlA morbid dice and card game for 3 to 5 players.
Playing time: approximately 75 minutes
What's it all about?
Slip into the labcoat of Dr. Frankenstein.
Loot graves in search of fresh body parts.
Dedicate yourself to the study of anatomy, so that you may may successfully sew up your own monster.
But eight other would-be doctors envy your successes and would be happy to steal your laboriously acquired body parts.
The best monster maker will be the one that collects the "creme de la creme" of body parts and then successfully stitches them together.
Some pictures of the game
Errata
The game by bouldergames.com
The game by funagain.com
The German description of the game.
Rest in Peace (The english rules as pdf-file)
A game by Henning PoehlAbother morbid card game for 3 to 5 players.
Playing time: approximately 60 minutes
What's it all about?
Things have become tight in the Plüngarden cemetery. Only 5 gravesites are left.
Unfortunately, it is the dearest wish of your relatives to be buried in those graves. You can tell which grave each particular relative would like by looking at their cards.
However, your relatives are not the only elderly persons in the village. There are many other old people still among the living who also yearn to be buried in those last remaining graves in the cemetery. Thus, your task is to ensure that death catches up with your relatives as quickly as possible in order to prevent one of the other old folks from snatching a grave away from your family. As an aid to that process, you should also be concerned about the health of the other elders and struggle to make sure that they stay as healthy as possible. The player whose relatives are most satisfactorily accommodated in their choice of graves at the end of the game wins.
The game by bouldergames.com
The game by funagain.com
The German description of the game.
Hammer of the witches (The english rules as pdf-file)
A game by Tyler Sigman and Henning PoehlPlayers: 3-5, Ages: 16 and up
Playing time: approximately 60 minutes
This game based on the game Witchhunt that was originally published in 2000 by Mythrole Games and then republished in 2003 by Alien Menace Games.
Witch's Hammer comes with some rule changes made by Henning Poehl.
What's it all about?
This is a disturbing game about the methods used to sniff out and punish witches by the power of the Court of Inquisitors. In the game, you become one of these honourable inquisitors and learn the following: how to recognize the acts of witches, when to throw the accused in jail, how to conduct a tribunal and how to decide on the final verdict. In the process, you help with the driving out of Devilry and Witchcraft. But watch out, or an informant of yours will end up accused as well. You must protect the lives of your helpers - only the witches should be consigned to the fire.
The game consists of 110 'frightening' cards: Witchcraft, Accusations, Tortures, Pyres.
Some pictures of the game
The German description of the game.
Dance of death (The english rules as pdf-file)
A game by Henning PoehlA morbid dice and card game for 2 players.
Playing time: approximately 45 minutes
What's it all about?
Dance of death (Totentanz) is a card game with a real board game flavour. The almighty power of the dead was established in the 14th century via a dance. A dance that called the living to the dead, a dance that forced the unwilling. A dance that nobody could resists, be they young or old, rich or poor, everyone’s the same to this dance. In this game featuring intricately-rendered artwork on the cards, this concept is used and updated to modern characters. Two players let Death dance in a circle around a group of different people and show the power of death over life.
Picture of the game
The German description of the game.
Sport is murder (The english rules as pdf-file)
A game by Henning PoehlA strategic dice and card game for 3-6 players.
Playing time: approximately 60 minutes
What's it all about?
It is the goal of the game to become as fit as possible, by exercising sport as much as possible. Since exercising sport, as the game points out here, can be extremely dangerous, this game does not require any sporty activities of the player exercising the sport in the game.
Pictures of the game
Egg On (The english rules as pdf-file)
A mating game for screwy birds. A game by Henning Poehl
A game for 2-4 players from 12 years
Playing time: 30-45 minutes
What's it all about?
In this game, the players slip on the feathers of a male bird. Through the use of bridal gifts (worms) they try to convince the stunning females (in the middle of the table) that they would be the best fathers for their eggs. During the course of the game, the males try to mate with the females in order to achieve paternity over certain eggs.
However, not all the eggs are equally valuable. The first egg in a nest scores fewer points than the third. Also, there are females who are better suited for mating (they have the matching color) and their eggs thus earn a bonus.
The King of the Nest will, without a doubt, be the one who manages to mate with all the females, i.e. to collect eggs in all the colors.
Some pictures of the game
variants/faq's
Review from Steffan O'Sullivan
The game by bouldergames.com
The game by funagain.com
The German description of the game.
Null Bock (The english rules as pdf-file)
A game by Henning PoehlAn exceptional trick-taking game with 60 cards for 3 to 6 players.
Playing time: approximately 20 minutes
[Trans. note: The title of this game is a pun in German with no direct equivalent in English. In Germany, young people say "Null Bock" if they don't want do something, i.e. "I don't care about that!". Also, some older people refer to young people as the "Null Bock" generation. In the game, the "Null Bock" is the buck numbered zero, who doesn't want fight, he just goes his own way - CPC]
What's it all about? In this game, the players are part of the rut (mating season).
The Bucks fight for the Hinds, which are placed in the middle of the table.
Each player tries to place the Alpha Stag and, by doing so, to conquer a harem of Hinds.
At the end of the game, the player with the best harem (total sum of the numbers) wins.
Explanation of concept: The middle of the table represents the Arena in this game. The Hinds gather here and the Bucks fight over them. The Buck that conquers the Hinds in the Arena is the Alpha Stag. Many cards may be played into the Arena during the course of the game. The area immediately in front of a player is called the Fringe. "Hangers-on" Bucks appear here and wait at a respectful distance from the Alpha Stag for a chance to conquer a single Hind. Each player's Fringe may have a maximum of one card at the end of each turn.
Some pictures of the game
The game by bouldergames.com
The game by funagain.com
The German description of the game.
Culture War (with also english rules inside)
A game by Greg TurnerCulture War is an abstract game of germ warfare for 2 players. Each player controls the growth and expansion of a strain of bacterium within the confines of a Petri dish. Your goal is to become the dominant strain, proving your virulence to the lab tech studying your behavior and to the world at large.
Cultur War is the german edition of the game "Gro" which have been published by "interformic games".
The German description of the game.
Spidertwist (The english rules as pdf-file)
A game by Henning PoehlPlayers: 2
Playing time: 20-30 minutes
What's it all about?
Spidertwist (Spinnentwist) is a ‘love’ game. Each player tries to bring 10 male spiders to a female. The goal of the males is to mate with the female (who owns the web). The males must move very carefully, though. A single wrong move and the male ends up in the stomach of the ‘love-hungry’ female. And when a male makes such a mistake, it lets the others move about without fear for a short time while the female’s hunger is satisfied – a chance to move closer to the female without being noticed.
Spidertwist is a tactical game with simple rules that gains special attraction from the fact that the goal of the game is also the source of the danger. Two different webs (game boards) allow various starting configurations of male spiders and promise much enjoyment over many games.
Picture of the game
The German description of the game.
Nose Picking (The english rules as pdf-file)
A game by Henning PoehlPlayers: 2-5
Playing time: 30-45 minutes
What's it all about?
Finally, you can do in public what you could previously only do in private: pick your nose to your heart's content! And not only that! In this game, you can finally get together with friends for a little old-fashioned communal nose-picking. All together, you can stick your fingers into up to as many as four noses. The best picker is the one who optimally uses length, width and angle to fish out the fattest boogers. Warning: excessing picking can lead to nasal enlargement!
The game includes 2 booger-green dice, 10 noses, 40 fingers, 21 boogers in various sizes and 6 colds.
Some pictures of the game
The game by bouldergames.com
The German description of the game.
Integralis (The english rules as pdf-file)
The big free-for-all at the bookbinding shop.A game by Henning Poehl.
A game for 2 to 4 players from 16 years.
What's it all about?
Integralis is a game about the bitter fight to fulfill jobs. In this game, you are the leader of a project team in a bookbinding shop.
Together with your team (your cards) you try to handle the mountain of incoming jobs. There are small orders, which are relatively easy to fill but yield only small profit, and big orders, for which a great deal of work must be done.
Big jobs also bring big profits, however. The prize that your team receives for a successfully completed job is dependent on the number of tasks.
However, the number of machines is limited and the competition among the teams is rough. No methods are shunned in the constant effort to keep away opposing workers or hinder their performance, not even bribery or sabotage.
The only thing that matters at the end of the game is which team has the most money.
Some pictures of the game
variants/faq's
The game by bouldergames.com
The game by funagain.com
The German description of the game.