Ralph Querfurth (born 1979 in
Erlangen
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,
Bavaria
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) is a German board
game editor and board
game design
Game design is the process of creating and shaping the mechanics, systems, rules, and gameplay of a game. Game design processes apply to board games, card games, dice games, casino games, role-playing games, sports, Wargame (video games), war ga ...
er. He is one of the creators of the board game series Exit - The Game. This series of Escape Room style board games has been sold over 18 million times worldwide since 2016.
Life
Querfurth studied
IT in
Coburg
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. After his studies he began to work as a board game editor at the publisher
Kosmos.
After learning about one of the first Escape Rooms in the city he lives in (Stuttgart, Germany) he had the initial idea to transfer the Escape Game idea to board games. He developed the concept for the board game series Exit - The Games, supported by Sandra Dochtermann (board game editor at Kosmos). Kosmos hired the couple Inka and Markus Brand as designers for Exit - The Game, who developed the games together with Querfurth (Querfurth as editor, Inka and Markus Brand as designers). Later Querfurth also became co-designer for several Exit games.
Achievements
; Board Game Tournaments
* 2x German Champion in the board game
Carcassonne
Carcassonne is a French defensive wall, fortified city in the Departments of France, department of Aude, Regions of France, region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania. It is the prefectures in France, prefecture of the department.
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2006& 2023.
* 1x Online Team European Champion in the board game Carcassonne 2020.
* 4x World Champion in the board game Carcassonne 2006, 2008, 2009& 2010.
* 1x German Champion in the card game
Tichu
Tichu is a proprietary card game primarily classified as a shedding game that includes elements of Bridge, Daihinmin, and Poker played between two teams of two players each. Teams work to accumulate points, and the first team to reach a predete ...
2008.
;
; Board Game Awards
* German Connoisseur-gamer
Game of the Year
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Events and ceremonies
British Academy Games Awards (BAFTA Games Awards)
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for Exit – The Game: The Abandoned Cabin, The Secret Lab, The Pharao's Tomb 2017
Games
* ''Star Wars - Attack of the Rebels'', gemeinsam mit Sandra Dochtermann, Kosmos, 2011
* ''Star Wars - Anakin's Podrace'', gemeinsam mit Sandra Dochtermann, Kosmos, 2012
* ''Star Wars - Combat against Darth Maul'', gemeinsam mit Sandra Dochtermann, Kosmos, 2012
* ''Exit - The Game: The Sinister Mansion'', together with Inka und Markus Brand, Kosmos, 2018
* ''Exit - The Game: The Mysterious Museum'', together with Inka und Markus Brand, Kosmos, 2018
* ''Exit - The Game: The Catacombs of Horror'', together with Inka und Markus Brand, Kosmos, 2018
* ''Exit - The Game: Theft on the Mississippi'', together with Inka und Markus Brand, Kosmos, 2019
* ''Exit - The Game: The Gate Between Worlds'', together with Inka und Markus Brand, Kosmos, 2020
* ''Roll'em Fold'em'', together with
Klaus-Jürgen Wrede
Klaus-Jürgen Wrede (born 1963 in Meschede, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German board game creator, the creator of the best-selling ''Carcassonne (board game), Carcassonne'' and ''Downfall of Pompeii''.
Early life
Born to music-teacher parents in ...
, Schmidt Spiele, 2021
* ''Echt Spitze'', together with Klaus-Jürgen Wrede, Schmidt Spiele, 2022
References
External links
Ralph Querfurthdesigner profile at
BoardGameGeek
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Ralph Querfurthtalks about his experiences at Carcassonne tournaments at the YouTube channel "Jogos do Mundo".
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1979 births
Board game designers
Living people