Ralph Querfurth (born 1979 in Erlangen, Bavaria) is a German board game editor and board game designer. 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. 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 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 2008.
Board Game Awards
German Connoisseur-gamer Game of the Year 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, Schmidt Spiele, 2021 Echt Spitze, together with Klaus-Jürgen Wrede, Schmidt Spiele, 2022
References
External links Ralph Querfurth designer profile at BoardGameGeek Ralph Querfurth talks about his experiences at Carcassonne tournaments at the YouTube channel "Jogos do Mundo".