Hisashi Hayashi |
Spiel des Jahres |
2025
A bomb is ticking! The surrounding area is cordoned off, the residents leave their homes and our team is called to defuse the bomb. At the site of the threat, we find the bomb with lots of cables, which we now have to cut one by one – but we musn’t cut a red cable.
Michael Palm und Lukas Zach |
Spiel des Jahres |
2023
When one game ends, the next one begins. “Dorfromantik” always starts from square one but grows every time you play. Using tiles showing forests, fields and villages, players work together to build a landscape. Why? Well, because it looks nice. But more importantly because it will help you score points. To do that, you will
Randy Flynn |
Spiel des Jahres |
2022
Around the border between Canada and the Northwest USA you can find the region of ‘Cascadia’, famous for the extraordinary diversity of its plant and animal life. In the tile-laying game of the same name, up to four nature-lovers compete to create a habitat rich in victory points, connecting matching landscape tiles to form as
Luc Rémond |
Spiel des Jahres |
2024
“Ladies and gentlemen, we are starting our descent into Keflavik. Please ensure your seat backs and gaming tables are in the upright position, you have gathered up all your dice and your mouth is in silent mode.” In ‘Sky Team’ players take control of a passenger plane preparing to land at one of over 20
Johannes Sich |
Spiel des Jahres |
2021
Happy people sitting in cafés. Children wanting an ice cream from the market stall. Art lovers at a gallery opening. But with our trained detective’s eye we can see through the supposed harmony of Crime City’s inhabitants. There are over a dozen murder and crime cases to solve in this enormous bustling city map, drawn
Daniela and Christian Stöhr |
Spiel des Jahres |
2020
Building blocks, shoe laces, symbol cards and more. At first glance, the five sets of materials included in “Pictures” couldn’t be more different. Nevertheless they will all be used for the same purpose: players must recreate a photograph so that their opponents are able to identify it amongst all the other photos displayed. This might
Ludovic Roudy and Bruno Sautter |
Spiel des Jahres |
2019
“Box”, “dice”, “play”, “fun”. What could these words possibly be describing? Easy: a board game! In the co-operative game Just One, one player has to guess a word. The clues aren’t provided by the game but by the rest of the players. Without discussing it with their teammates, each player writes down a clue they
Vlaada Chvatil |
Spiel des Jahres |
2016
The heads of two rival secret agencies want to inform their respective team members which agents belong to their organisation. As their enemies are listening in, they’ll take turns to find associations to describe their spies’ code names. Only the minimum of information may be transmitted: just a single word and a corresponding number. The
Michael Kiesling |
Spiel des Jahres |
2018
In the tactical tile-laying game Azul, the Portuguese King Manuel I commissions craftsmen to decorate the walls of his palace with beautiful mosaics. They can’t just use any old tiles: they need the so-called ‘Azulejos’. Beneath the simple action of laying tiles burns a fierce competition to pick the best tiles from the factories at