Pictures please!
Wondering a) which games in your collection you’ve sourced from foreign distribution rather than your home region, and b) why that game?
Also if there is a specific edition of a game you cherish - like the Iello Innovation or some such, let’s do that, too. I’m not talking about expensive/deluxe/special editions, leaning more into rare or personal editions, where you’ve staked your claim and said “this and no other.” But yeah, draw the line wherever you want.
I have the illegal-in-the-UK European edition of Modern Art, which fits in a small box (about two Oinks in size). All the versions one could get legally at the time were in full size game boxes. This is probably why I still have it rather than having moved it on.
I much prefer the 90s art in Lost Cities to the current version.
And prefer old Santorini to the new edition.
And old Parks to the new edition.
And old Diamant to the new edition.
And old Quacks of Q to the… hang on
(I did specifically buy Old Diamant for the art. And I’d buy Old Bottle Imp for the story art if it wasn’t totally out of print. And delighted to get original box art Inis.)
I get into these “It must be mine!” moods. When it hit for Warsaw: City of Ruins, I couldn’t find it in the U.S. anywhere. I ordered it online from Europe (either directly from the publisher or a game shop their site pointed me to) and they didn’t charge for shipping! (This was pre-2020, so it was a bit more plausible than today.) They took my order without any flags and it only later that I got an email from them acknowleging that they should have indeed charged for shipping. I ended up paying for shipping, though I don’t remember what it was.
I still haven’t played a non-solo practice game, though. 
I mostly buy whatever I can get. English editions are not uncommon here.
I once ordered the in Germany illegal edition of Ra to my sister‘s address in France. Because the new German edition is meh.
I don’t own pots and tigers because the old editions I can buy cheaply on Kleinanzeigen are super ugly.
I rebought El Dorado twice now to get a card consistent edition with the expansions and the Dutrait art.
I rebought Wonderlands War to get the edition with the tiny poker chips only to have it mot make it to the table.
I have been advised by my partner that we will be owning the announced deluxe edition of The Gang with ceramic poker chips and casino grade cards (it will include the 7 to 10 player expansion).
Also Playte The Cant Stop Edition where the box unfolds into the board.
I also have the Oink Modern Art. But I saw a very beautiful big box edition at Spiel from Korea Games(?)
edit: rebought Spirit Island in English because I wanted new expansions faster and all the other stuff from Jagged Earth Kickstarter. also a game where I read online strategies… i was sick of translating all the time.
Cascadia Kickstarter Edition ordered after the campaign to get the nicer clothbag.
Concordia Venus has an extra playmode I don’t need (teams), a bigger box but a prettier cover and it fits all the extra maps I have.
I much prefer the Wallet editions of Button Shy over the German boxed editions.
Rebought OG Sushi Go after party edition turned out too much.
Travel edition of Trailblazers ftw.
ps if only AI could improve the auto complete. sorry for all the typos from mobile
I really like the tarot cards from the older edition of Condottiere, hence why I have the larger and older 1995 edition
I have the German Oink edition of Modern Art. Still the best for me!
Japanese Trendy is so cool!
Japanese edition of Piece o Cake is just better in every way
I prefer the aesthetics of Z-Man edition of Arboretum
Chocolate > Iberian tiles for Azul: Master Chocolatier
I have sentimental value with my 1995 copy of El Grande
Kept Pax Pamir 1e for reasons I’ve already stated
I had a former au pair bring a copy of French Tichu back to our house with her. Because LOOK AT IT. I sadly have not yet played this edition because opportunities tend to come when traveling, and I take my smaller/trashier/racially insensitive copy on the road.
Why are the clovers called clubs?
So many questions coming up.
And yes, I got my Mexican Samurai.
Looking for some jugadores.
I have a few more but they are in other rooms - I’ll collect some photos.
Ass König Dame Bube
Suits are:
Kreuz 
Pik 
Herz 
Karo 
And what on earth is a Bube?
(I know I could search but conversation is so much more interesting)
It is a word denoting a younger man or boy. Ein Spitzbube ist ein Gauner oder Ganove. Nobody uses Bube in modern German.
A young boy might be called Bub in the South possibly Bavaria. Still an old word. And the pronunciation changes the u is short in Bub where Bube has it more like pool.
There is a certain association that Bube includes being a bit feisty
Wikipedia:
" A Jack, Lancer or Knave, in some games referred to as a Bower, in Tarot card games as a Valet, is a playing card which, in traditional French and English decks, pictures a man in the traditional or historic aristocratic or courtier dress."
"The earliest predecessor of the knave was the thānī nā’ib (second or under-deputy) in the Mamluk card deck. This was the lowest of the three court cards, and, like all court cards, was depicted via abstract art or calligraphy. When brought over to Italy and Spain, the thānī nā’ib was made into the fante (an infantry soldier) and the sota (a page), which ranks below the knight card. In France, where the card was called the valet, the queen was inserted between the king and the knight. The knight was subsequently dropped out of non-Tarot decks, leaving the valet directly under the queen. The king-queen-valet format then made its way into England.
As early as the mid-1500s, the card was known in England as the knave, which originally meant ‘boy or young man’, as its German equivalent, Knabe, still does. In the context of a royal household, it meant a male servant without a specific role or skill; not a cook, gardener, coachman, etc. The French word valet means the same thing.
The word ‘Jack’ was in common usage in the 16th and 17th centuries to mean any generic man or fellow, as in Jack-of-all-trades (one who is good at many things), Jack-in-the-box (a child’s toy), or Jack-in-the-Pulpit (a plant).
The term became more entrenched in card play when, in 1864, American cardmaker Samuel Hart published a deck using “J” instead of “Kn” to designate the lowest-ranking court card."
Another German word for Bube is Knabe which is definitely more associated with being a well behaved boy and less insolent. But the card is always Bube.
In Skat the 4 Buben are the highest trump cards…probably a bit insolent…
That’s fascinating since Wolverine is Canadian. 
Though, due to his mutant powers, he was born before Canada. So I think he’s technically British as he was born in a British colony?
Comics history is hard.
Calling a male child “Bubbe” or “Bubbele” is also part of the cheek-pinching Yiddish grandmother stereotype.
A: We (English/Americans) took the icon from the French and the name from the Spanish. It’s a mutt suit.
Almost my entire collection is foreign editions (i.e., English), the only exceptions are a couple of games I duplicated to play in Japanese, like Codenames and Pictomania.
Like LLV, I have the good version of Condottiere.
I forgot I have this.
It’s French so I assume:
R = Roi (roo-ah)
D = Dame
P = ??? / I always thought it was V for Valet. In this case, I have no idea. Peon?
