![]() Most designers are lucky/fortunate enough to have won one Spiel Des Jahres award. Winning a Spiel Des Jahres award is quite difficult though. Winning the Spiel Des Jahres usually means that a game will stay in print years after it was released. According to Wikipedia getting a nomination can lead to tens of thousands of additional sales while winning the award can lead to hundreds of thousands of additional sales. The Spiel Des Jahres award is a sign of a high quality game and usually leads to increased popularity and additional sales. ![]() It is essentially the Oscars, Emmys, or Grammys of the board game industry. In 2011 the Spiel Des Jahres added the Kennerspiel Des Jahres which recognizes more complex games gauged more towards adults than families.Īlthough the Spiel Des Jahres is a German award, it is generally the highest regarded award in the board game industry. The Spiel Des Jahres mostly remained the same for the next 20+ years with the occasional special award given to games that truly deserved an award and didn’t win the Spiel Des Jahres or Kinderspiel Des Jahres. The Kinderspiel Des Jahres was created to recognize the best children’s games of the year. ![]() The Spiel Des Jahres remained and was used to recognize family and adult board games. In 1990 the Spiel Des Jahres decided to split the nomination process into two different categories. Occasionally a special award would be given out such as the “Beautiful Game” award which was given to games with particularly nice components. Until 1990 the Spiel Des Jahres only had one category and all board games had to compete against one another for the award. There really weren’t any nomination rules either since games won awards years after they were made and games could be nominated in several different years. In the early years the award wasn’t really formalized as there were different awards given out each year with the number and types of awards given out each year changing. The first Spiel Des Jahres was given out in 1979 to Hare and Tortoise (a great game if you don’t mind some math). The panel of judges usually judge board games based on their concept, how simple and fun the game is to play, and the quality of the components. Although the process of how awards are given out has changed over the years, the award is usually given to more family friendly board games. Being a German award it is only awarded to German board games or board games with a German translation. The Spiel Des Jahres (Game of the Year) is a German award that is overseen by board game reviewers from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. For those not familiar with the Spiel Des Jahres, it is an annual set of awards for the board game industry which recognizes the best board games from the previous year. ![]()
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