Welcome to SMART COOKIE GAMES
The Agency for gaming licenses was founded in June 2014 by Michel Matschoss and Michael Tschiggerl.
Our goal is to revive good and timeless games from well known authors and make them accessible again to new generations - as classic board games or for the digital games market.
This means we care as an agency for the rights and licensing of games. We want to be a trustworthy and reliable partner for publishers by offering new and classic games and – where necessary – editorial support.
In addition, we offer ourselves as an author representative and develop Taylor-made games for industry and commerce.
On this page, we want to give you an idea: about us, about authors and selected games.
About us – The Smart Cookies are:
Michael Tschiggerl, managing partner. The communications consultant supervised 12 years public relations for the Winning Moves Deutschland GmbH. As part of the product development of the publishing house he developed, among others over 120 cities Monopoly and was in charge for editorial publication of the German quartet Top Trumps games. Michel Matschoss, partner and editor. Michel Matschoss wants to care as a partner primarily for editorial tasks. Matschoss was for many years Marketing Manager of 3M Bookshelf Games and managing director of Winning Moves Deutschland GmbH. He was more than 30-year friend of Alex Randolph. Together they developed the 1982 Game of the Year crowned "Enchanted Forest". Our company name Smart Cookie Games is a tribute to Alex Randolph, who called his later as "Zauberlesen" published game first „Smart Cookie“.
We present Alex Randolph games
Our first client is the Alex Randolph Games LLC. On behalf of Michael Katz, Alex Randolph's nephew and heir, Smart Cookie Games oversees the rights and licenses of Alex Randolph’s games repertoire.
We can offer over 100 games of Alex Randolph for the publication. On these pages we regularly present a small selection. For the overall portfolio or selected title you are welcome to contact us.
Rudi Hoffmann
Rudi Hoffmann was one of the most renowned game designers in Germany. He was born in Höxter in 1924 and died in July 2008 at the age of 84. Rudi Hoffmann discovered game design through his studies at the art academy. After years of working as a freelance commercial artist and illustrator, he worked in the games industry from the mid-1960s. With over 40 games published, he is one of the most prolific and creative German game designers, who also illustrated many of his works himself. 1989 his game Cafe International won Spiel des Jahres Award. His oeuvre ranges from lovingly illustrated children's games to card and family games to pen & paper.
Smart Cookie Games is representing Rudi Hoffmann's game portfolio since 2022.
We can offer some of his most famous games for re-release:
- Räuber und Gendarm (auf der Auswahlliste Spiel des Jahres 1981)
- Janus (auf der Auswahlliste Spiel des Jahres 1988)
- Maestro (auf der Auswahlliste Spiel des Jahres 1989)
- Heuchel und Meuchel (auf der Auswahlliste Spiel des Jahres 1990)
- Minister (auf der Auswahlliste Spiel des Jahres 1998)
Ulrike Schumacher
Ulrike Schumacher is a mathematician and trained graphic designer - a combination reflected in her games: logically constructed, clearly designed and focused on the essentials. She has also worked as a board game editor and gained practical experience with a particularly honest audience during a brief stint at a kindergarten.
A mother of four and grandmother of six, she has organised the 'Jena spielt' games event for 26 years. For almost 20 years, it has presented her with a special creative challenge: designing an original game whose complete rules fit on a single A5 page.
Uli Schumacher was not always a board game enthusiast. She was converted on Friday, 13 July 1990, by a game of 'Labyrinth' in Amsterdam - proof that Friday the 13th can indeed bring good luck. Her strengths are logical thinking and drawing. When it comes to singing and ball games, however, she is happy to leave the field to others.
Her game Fins. Four Legs. Full Colour is a tactical tile-laying game for 2 to 4 players. In turn, players choose a red or yellow fish or a red or yellow pig from the shared supply and place the tile on an empty space on the game board.
Each player has a different objective: depending on the number of players, they score points for the longest possible rows of the same colour or the same animals. Points are awarded for horizontal and vertical rows of at least three pieces. The longer the row, the more points it is worth.
In this way, every move can improve a player’s own score – but it can also help fellow players or thwart their plans. The player with the most points at the end wins.
Günter Burkhardt
Günter Burkhardt from the Swabian town of Bad Ditzenbach-Gosbach launched his first game on the market in 1997 with "Manitou". Since then many more have been added. He achieved his greatest success together with his daughter Lena. Their "Funkelschatz", published by Haba, was declared Kinderspiel des Jahres in 2018. Günter Burkhardt is a secondary school teacher, but turned his hobby into a profession years ago. Günter Burkhardt has entrusted Smart Cookie Games his two-player game "Castillos".
Thomas Sing
Thomas Sing is a graduate economist and master of the numbers and probabilities. Mathematics is his passion, especially the broad field of game theory, the science of strategic thinking. Wherever the creativity of everyday life touches science and where creativity becomes creactivity, he feels at home. In his school days, Thomas Sing was the world record holder in "Mensch-Ärgere-Dich-Nicht" and so found the way to the Guinness Book of Records.
In 2010, Thomas Sing and Dr. Ralph-Peter Gebhardt founded the Miss Lupun riddle at the Lupun publishing house, where they distributed their riddles "Miss Lupun". In 2011, the board game " Miss Lupun und das Geheimnis der Zahlen" is published by Winning Moves (recommendation for the SdJ-2012). 2013, the strategy game "Tackle, Duell der Strategen" appears at the Süddeutsche Zeitung. In 2014, the SZ publishes the Miss Lupun children's book " Miss Lupun - 50 Rätsel für clevere Kinder. Entdecke das Geheimnis hinter der Zahl“. In 2016 the dice game "Kribbeln" appears at Ravensburger. The international edition is called: Color'Yam. Huch & Friends publishes in 2016 the solo game "Prof. Marbles". 2015 Thomas Sing bought a big kiosk, which he runs together with friends, so he has enough time for other interests, such as inventing games.
He commissioned SMART COOKIE GAMES to license his new card game "Gandhi".
Taylor-made games
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Playing is fun. Play joins different people and is communicative. Therefore, playing games is also an important part of our communication.
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