Bomb Busters

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. 

Dorfromantik: Das Brettspiel (Dorfromantik: The Board Game)

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

Cascadia

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

Sky Team

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

MicroMacro: Crime City

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

Pictures

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

Just One

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

Codenames

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

Azul

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

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