Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag
Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag (NSV) is a German playing card manufacturer and board game publisher based in Nuremberg. It was founded in 1989 after outsourcing from the publishing house of F.X. Schmid and builds on the "Heinrich Schwarz Playing Card Factory, Nuremberg" ("Spielkartenfabrik Heinrich Schwarz Nürnberg") founded in 1948. The company produces playing cards and dice games s and, especially in recent years, increasingly proprietary games from various game authors. History. NSV emerged from the Heinrich Schwarz's Playing Cards Factory in Nuremberg which he founded in 1948. In the early 1960s the company traded under the name  Heinrich Schwarz & Co and was sold to Gisela Herfurth, who further developed and expanded the company as "Nürnberger Spielkarten GmbH" with the label ""Neue Nürnberger Spielkarten"" (New Nuremberg Playing Cards). It was able to expand the range of playing cards and expand it to include advertising material and other toys, as well as establishing international trade. In 1989, the company was acquired by F.X. Schmid. In 1995, NSV became independent again and in the following year F.X. Schmid was taken over by Ravensburger. The publishing house was managed by Gerhard Lang until 2005, after which his successor and current managing  director, Franz Jurthe, took over. Range. NSV produces card games, dice games, memo games, puzzles and advertising games. Its manufacturing facility is in Zirndorf near Nuremberg. According to the publisher, playing cards for popular classics such as Skat, Tarock, Schafkopf or Poker as well as large range of game are an important part of the range, as well as games and playing cards as an advertising medium for companies, and in recent years increasingly proprietary games designed by various game authors. They are the only producers of special packs for the game of Zwicker which include 6 Jokers in a  standard, 52-card, Berlin pattern pack. One of the publisher's most important German sales partners is Heidelberger Spieleverlag. Well-known author games from NSV are the dice game "Qwixx", nominated for Game of the Year in 2013, and the card game, "The Game", both by Steffen Benndorf. In 2018 the game, "The Mind", by Wolfgang Warsch was nominated for Game of the Year. Games. In addition to classic card packs for the games like Skat, Tarock, Schafkopf, Binokel or Poker NSV produces various other games including: