Days of Wonder is a board game publisher based in the United States and France. Founded in 2002, Days of Wonder distributes its games to 25 countries. It specialises in German-style board games and have branched out to include some online games. Days of Wonder has published games in English, French, German and Korean. Days of Wonder was co-founded by Eric Hautemont and vice president Mark Kaufman.
In 2004, Days of Wonder received the Spiel des Jahres for their board game, Ticket to Ride, by Alan R. Moon. Ticket to Rides is the company's best selling series according to Boardgamegeek.com. It was the youngest publisher ever to take that award. Shadows Over Camelot won a special Spiel des Jahres award as Best Fantasy Game in 2006. In 2009, Smallworld received three awards including "Best Game of the Year", "Best Family Game", and "Best Game Artwork" from the Dice Tower Gaming Awards.
Below are just some of the games published by Days of Wonder:
- Card games:
- Gang of Four (Lee Yih; 2002)
- Terra (Bruno Faidutti; 2003)
- Ticket to Ride: The Card Game (Alan R. Moon); 2008)
- 'Small box' games
- Fist of Dragonstones (Bruno Faidutti and Michael Schacht; 2005)
- Queen's Necklace (Bruno Faidutti and Bruno Cathala; 2003)
- 'Large box' games
- Mystery of the Abbey (Bruno Faidutti and Serge Laget; 2003)
- Pirate's Cove (Paul Randles and Daniel Stahl; 2003)
- Ticket to Ride (Alan R. Moon; 2004)
- Memoir '44 (Richard Borg; 2004) (Multiple expansions available)
- Ticket to Ride: Europe (Alan R. Moon; 2005)
- Shadows Over Camelot (Bruno Cathala and Serge Laget; 2005)
- Ticket to Ride: Märklin (Alan R. Moon; 2006)
- Cleopatra and the Society of Architects (Bruno Cathala and Ludovic Maublanc; 2006)
- BattleLore (Richard Borg; 2006) (Multiple expansions available)
- Colosseum (Markus Lübke and Wolfgang Kramer; 2007)
- Small World (Philippe Keyaerts; 2009)
- Mystery Express (Serge Laget and Antoine Bauza; 2010)
- Cargo Noir (Serge Laget; 2011)
Famous quotes containing the words days of and/or days:
“Yet they do have
don’t they like us
their days of grace, they
halt, stretch, a vision
breaks in on the cramped grimace,
inscape of transformation.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“Back in the days when men were hunters and chestbeaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid.... They wanted their women wanton. They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild—and what happened? The men wilted.”
—Erica Jong (b. 1942)