Spiel des Jahres

Cascadia

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

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| Spiel des Jahres | 2022

Sky Team

“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

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| Spiel des Jahres | 2024

MicroMacro: Crime City

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

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| Spiel des Jahres | 2021

Pictures

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

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| Spiel des Jahres | 2020

Just One

“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

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| Spiel des Jahres | 2019

Codenames

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

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| Spiel des Jahres | 2016

Azul

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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| Spiel des Jahres | 2018

Camel Up

This camel race is completely crazy: When the hump-backed animals land on a space they have to piggyback on top of one another – and the one on the bottom brings the others along for the ride! What’s going to happen? That’s for the players to work out: They’ll be betting on the outcome of

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| Spiel des Jahres | 2014