Award Winning Games 2015

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1 Award Winning Games 2015

2 2 Table of Contents Preface by Tom Felber 3 Preface 3 Spiel des Jahres 4-5 Colt Express Nominated Machi Koro 6 The Game 7 Recommended 8-13 Kennerspiel des Jahres Broom Service Nominated Elysium 16 Orléans 17 Recommended Spiel des Jahres 21 incentive program 2015 Kinderspiel des Jahres Spinderella Nominated Push a Monster 24 Schatz-Rabatz 25 Recommended The 2015 Juries 33 Previous award winners Find a game Games Designer Grant 38 Index/Impressum 39 About Spiel des Jahres 40 Dear games fans, in their search for exceptional gaming experiences, the Spiel des Jahres jury has once again played hundreds of new games. Since the perfect game for all tastes and situations doesn t exist, we have compiled a new recommendation list with a number of different titles, so that all players can find a game on the list that is the perfect fit for them. 25 games, all of which have something special about them, have made it onto the list. We have separated them into three categories: Red indicates games suitable for the casual player. Charcoal-grey refers to games for players who have a little more experience in learning rules. And blue is for children s games. We have tried to make the list as diverse as possible, so that there really is something for everyone. The list is a perfect example of what a broad spectrum of experiences games as a cultural asset and home entertainment medium make possible. All the games introduced here have two things in common: They are still interesting even after countless plays and they have the potential to bring completely different types of people together around one table, creating experiences which will stay in their memories. In this spirit we wish you lots of fun! Tom Felber, Chair of the Spiel des Jahres committee

3 4 Spiel des Jahres: Winner Colt Express players * age 10+ about 40 minutes about 30 Euros We are bandits in the Wild West, robbing a three-dimensional train on a daring journey over switching points, bridges and through tunnels. Revolvers smoke and fists fly as we race from carriage to carriage, robbing the passengers and beating our rivals. Watch out, the marshal s coming! The outlaws quickly flee onto the roof, where the action continues as before. We take turns to play action cards onto a communal stack sometimes face-up, sometimes face-down, sometimes two at a time, depending on where we are on the track. But it s only at the end of the round that we see the results of what we ve programmed in: fistfights, trigger fingers and the dreaded marshal ensure surprises and laughter. With its simple rules, Colt Express scripts a fast and furious adventure, the envy of any film director. * Our recommendation: 3-6 players The jury s explanation: This plays like a Western parody! It s almost slapstick, the way the outlaws get into fistfights and lose the stolen money purses they thought were safe, or else just end up shooting into the air. Even as you start to smile because you ve managed to thwart the plans of the other bandits, you know you ll soon fall into a trap yourself. This mixture of planning and chaos has charm and a lot of humour. The locomotive and carriages form a threedimensional game board, making Colt Express particularly eye-catching. Christophe Raimbault Ludonaute Distributor: Asmodee Jordi Valbuena

4 Spiel des Jahres: Nominated Spiel des Jahres: Nominated 6 Machi Koro The Game * players age 8+ about 30 minutes about 13 Euros 1-5 players age 8+ about 20 minutes about 8 Euros Our little town is ready to grow. Where at first only wheat fields and the village bakery slept the day away, soon the urban sprawl will give rise to shops, factories and cafés. Each player is the new mayor of one such mini-metropolis and wants to construct the four landmarks: train station, radio tower, amusement park and shopping mall. Players take turns to roll (at first) one die, then all players check whether their buildings produce any income. Some buildings only bring in money on the active player s turn, others when it s someone else s go too. This money is in turn invested in new enterprises or in one of the important landmarks. Machi Koro is a quick and light strategic building game for little and large town planners, who live in little and large towns. The objective of The Game soon becomes clear: players co-operate to correctly discard all the cards which have values of between 2 and 99. On two of the piles the cards have to be played in ascending order, on the other two in descending order. On your turn you must play at least two cards and then refill your hand. The game is over if anyone ever has to pass. The gap between two cards can be of any size but any giant leaps in number reduce the possibilities of winning. If only you knew what cards were in everyone else s hand! You re all allowed to communicate but it s forbidden to name actual numbers. Despite this, there are often lively discussions punctuated with emotional outbursts. This is sometimes caused when you experience setbacks but mostly when you manage to work out this simple but engaging form of patience. * In Switzerland The Game was published with a different box cover. The publisher is Game Factory. Masao Suganuma Kosmos Noboru Hotta Steffen Benndorf Nürnberger-Spielkarten- Verlag Oliver & Sandra Freudenreich

5 f f Spiel des Jahres: Recommended Spiel des Jahres: Recommended 8 Cacao Loony Quest players age 8+ about 45 minutes about 25 Euros 2-5 players age 8+ about 20 minutes about 25 Euros Cacao is called the fruit of the gods because it was considered by the Aztecs to be so valuable they were even paid in cocoa beans. In Cacao, players settle an unexplored jungle with their tribe. They create plantations, sell their harvests, dig for gold and carry water for their village. Powerful temples and sun-worshipping sites bring the favour of the gods as well as points at the end of the game. Players take turns to play one worker tile in the jungle and then make use of the neighbouring spaces, creating a chessboard pattern with everchanging possibilities. Quick turns, bittersweet decisions and long-lasting planning delight hold the balance in this tactical game made from at least 70% cocoa. With its bright colours, crazy landscapes and cartoony characters, Loony Quest resembles a video game just without the electronics. Players can now follow in the footsteps of Mario and Sonic! Armed with a pen and clear plastic, players have to find the ideal path to the goal through each level. Hitting walls, bombs or the crazy Loonies is bad but coins and bonus tiles are good. In order to gain valuable experience points, you ll need to have a steady hand to draw a precise path on the plastic, while staring at the level in the middle of the table, all against the clock. Caution is advised, especially on the final level of each world, where the end of level boss is waiting and your opponents will choose to play their dirtiest tricks... Phil Walker-Harding Abacusspiele Claus Stephan Laurent Escoffier und David Franck Libellud Distributor: Asmodee Paul Mafayon

6 f f Spiel des Jahres: Recommended Spiel des Jahres: Recommended 10 Patchwork Simsala Bumm? 11 2 players age 8+ about 30 minutes about 20 Euros 2-5 players age 8+ about 30 minutes about 25 Euros It s all coming together: In Patchwork, two players create a quilt out of fabric off-cuts, patches and buttons all through the technique suggested by the title. Is it art? Of course. But the main task of these tailors is to fill the play area with fabric tiles in many different shapes and sizes. This jigsaw puzzle requires a keen sense of tactics, as the choice of a patch influences the rest of your turn and also the choice of patches your opponent will have on their next turn. Everything has to be paid for and buttons are the currency in this game. The more buttons there are on the tiles already sewn in, the more income is paid out. Whoever has gained the most buttons at the end of the game wins this smart sewing competition. It s the final wizard studies exam: you ll need to summon a dragon, conjure up spirits or impress the competition with storms and fireballs the necessary repertory in Simsala... Bumm? is made up of eight magic spells. But which one is next? Each player has five personal spellstones showing this but you can only see the back of your own stones. The apprentices can receive hints by drawing conclusions from their opponents visible stones, spells that have already been cast and the behaviour of their fellow players. If you cast a wrong spell you lose life points. If you re right, you heal yourself or make other players lose life. True masters clear up all their own stones, in order to get to the magic number of eight in the final round of scoring. Uwe Rosenberg Lookout Spiele Distributor: ASS Altenburger Klemens Franz Gary Kim Pegasus Spiele Marie Cardouat

7 f f Spiel des Jahres: Recommended Spiel des Jahres: Recommended 12 Ugo! Vollmondnacht players age 10+ about 40 minutes about 13 Euros 3-10 players age 8+ about 10 minutes about 13 Euros The King wants revenue. In order to provide it, the players in the card game Ugo! have to take the right tricks in the right order. There are five suits, each with the numbers zero to eight. Each player begins the round with ten cards in hand. If you can, you must follow suit. The trick is won by the player who contributes the highest number, regardless of suit. This player sorts the cards by suit and places them onto their estates, covering up cards from previous tricks. There s a mischievous sense of joy when someone has to place a zero on an eight, since at the end of the game every farming estate is worth the points shown by the top card. Whoever hires too few farmers on each trick gains minus points in this refined trick-taking game. There are werewolves in the village. But whose face are they hiding behind? The objective of the communication-based bluffing and party game One Night Ultimate Werewolf is to find out. At the beginning of the game each player is secretly assigned a character. Then night draws in and all players close their eyes. A games master or the companion app wakes up some of the villagers. Characters such as the robber, troublemaker or seer create chaos or receive information. Once dawn breaks, not every character knows who they are anymore. Now it s time for discussion, bluffing, lying and speculation. The werewolves want to divert suspicion away from themselves, the villagers want to uncover the werewolves. In the final vote one character dies. If it s a werewolf, the village wins. Otherwise the werewolves will howl with victory. Ronald Hoekstra, Thomas Jansen und Patrick Zuidhof Kosmos Franz Vohwinkel Ted Alspach und Akihisa Okui Bézier Games Distributor: Spiel direkt Gus Batts

8 14 Kennerspiel des Jahres: Winner Broom Service players age 10+ about 75 minutes about 40 Euros Ding dong, your elixir is here! Anyone who s anyone in the world of wizardry lets speedy witches or bearded druids deliver freshly-brewed potions straight to their door. The players assume the role of one of these flying delivery services on the hunt for points and magic wands. Every round they choose four out of ten different roles, in order to produce potions and deliver them to castles. Each card shows an action which has two types: brave or cowardly. The brave action is more rewarding but also riskier: a later player may steal it away from you. Is it better to play it safe, choose the cowardly option and be satisfied with less? Broom Service is a trick-taking game which rewards planning, intuition and brave (and sometimes cowardly) play. The jury s explanation: To be brave or cowardly? This question runs through a game of Broom Service like a red thread. You constantly have to decide whether you want to take a risky but much more profitable action or whether you prefer to be cautious and take the safe option, creating a real sense of tension and excitement. Breaking an opponent s spell and removing their tactical advantage can lead to truly magical moments. Especially nice: additional advanced variants add even more variety. Andreas Pelikan und Alexander Pfister alea/ravensburger Distributor: Heidelberger Spieleverlag Vincent Dutrait

9 Kennerspiel des Jahres: Nominated Kennerspiel des Jahres: Nominated 16 Elysium Orléans players age 14+ about 60 minutes about 50 Euros 2-4 players age 12+ about 90 minutes about 50 Euros Welcome to mythic Greece. As demigods, the players try to collect allies of different families of gods over five epochs and transfer them to their Elysium. To gain a card from the centre of the board and then use its power, players must have an equal number of columns in the depicted colour. Since after every action, players have to remove one of these columns, the possibilities gradually become more limited. If players fail to complete a quest at the temple they may only transfer the minimum number of family cards to their Elysium. They lose their effects but this is the only way combinations of cards can earn points at the end of the game. So when should players dismiss which cards? Different strategies lead to Olympus. Orléans in the middle ages. Merchants strive for fame and fortune in the Loire Valley. At their side are an illustrious carousel of a wide range of professions. Knights, craftsmen, sailors, monks, farmers and scholars are hired over the course of the game. What makes this different is that they firstly go into a bag from which the players draw new character tiles each round, in order to combine them with actions on their tableau. In this way, players travel through the region, collect goods, open new offices, expand their following, erect buildings in and around Orléans or use their works to serve the common good. There are numerous strategies and paths to victory: whoever has the most points at the end of the game will go down in history as the most influential merchant of Orléans. Brett J. Gilbert und Matthew Dunstan Space Cowboys Distributor: Asmodee various Reiner Stockhausen dlp games Distributor: Heidelberger Spieleverlag Klemens Franz

10 f f Kennerspiel des Jahres: Recommended Kennerspiel des Jahres: Recommended 18 Auf den Spuren von Marco Polo Arler Erde players age 12+ about 100 minutes about 39 Euros 1-2 players age 14+ about 90 minutes about 50 Euros Starting in Venice, players retrace The Voyages of Marco Polo. The shrewd navigators travel towards the east by camel, establish trading posts, gain goods and privileges, fulfil assignments and pursue their own personal goals. To control the action, every player rolls their own set of dice at the beginning of a round. The number of dice rolled in each round and their results show how often an action can be taken or how much income is earned. Money must be paid to use an action space that is already occupied. So they don t have to rely exclusively on the luck of the dice, each player takes on the role of a unique character with individual abilities. Whoever uses this to the best effect proves themselves to be Marco Polo s best travelling companion. Did you know, Arle is a village in East Friesland, north-west Germany. It is here that both players attempt to run their own farm over nine halfyears, between summer and winter. Players cut peat, rear cows and sheep, build dykes, harvest crops but also sew clothes, build carts and travel through the region between Dollart and Jadebusen. And these are just a few examples of all the outstanding tasks to do. Players take turns to place their four family members on spaces which change according to the season and carry out the related action. The strategy game Arler Erde recreates the life of hard-working farmers in this area of the country and every game recounts the history of this unique coastal region in the 18th century. Daniele Tascini und Simone Luciani Hans im Glück Distributor: Schmidt Dennis Lohausen Uwe Rosenberg Feuerland Dennis Lohausen

11 f Kennerspiel des Jahres: Recommended 20 Deus 2-4 players age 14+ about 90 minutes about 50 Euros The Spiel des Jahres incentive programme The Spiel des Jahres committee supports projects related to gaming, such as events, games promotions, exhibitions, book publications and media projects. Anyone interested can make an application with a project and request an incentive grant. Since the start of the incentive programme in 2012, 105 projects in Germany, Austria and Switzerland have been given over 180,000 Euros in financial support, for example the following projects in 2014: 21 Ancient Rome is the backdrop for the civilisation game Deus, which crowns players as leaders of an emerging empire. Cities grow with various buildings, resources are mined and legions march through the land to surround barbarian villages. Players play building cards from their hand onto their tableau and can in this way improve their empires in terms of their economic, technological or military reputation. If a new card expands a set of the same suit, the effects of all the other cards happens too which can be used very cleverly. You mustn t forget the gods, however. Sacrificing cards to Jupiter, Minerva and co. can bring players great rewards that are indispensable for eventual victory. The event Römerberger Spieletage Spiele-Café, Alte Feuerwache Köln Sébastien Dujardin Pearl Games Distributor: Heidelberger Spieleverlag Ian Parovel Bad Nauheim plays The incentive programme will be continued in Funding priority will be given to gaming projects at day schools. Details and an application form can be found on our homepage under the menu tab Wir fördern. The deadline for applications is

12 Kinderspiel des Jahres: Winner 22 Spinderella players age 6+ about 20 minutes about 30 Euros Speedy ants flit over the forest floor. But above them lurk three fat spiders in their web. This is shown on a second game map, hovering over the forest floor. Magnets mean that when two spiders move, the third can abseil down to the forest floor on a long thread to catch one of the ants. Lucky dice rolls and smart thinking decide whether players move one of their ants or move both the spiders in the web or even whether an ant should be protected by placing a hollow tree stump over them, preventing the spider from catching them but also stopping the ant from moving forward. An extraordinary three-dimensional game that uses a mixture of luck and tactics to create real tension, for older players too. The jury s explanation: There s a lot of activity on the forest floor and above it too. The multi-layered magnetic mechanism exerts a magical attraction over the players. The designer Roberto Fraga adds a new level to the classic race game. The spider lurking directly above the ants path creates a creeping sense of peril. Do I attack my opponents? Or do I try to get my own ants safely home? This exciting game concept overshadows the quality components every time: it s no gimmick. Roberto Fraga Zoch Doris Matthäus

13 Kinderspiel des Jahres: Nominated Kinderspiel des Jahres: Nominated 24 Push a Monster Schatz-Rabatz players ag 5+ * about 15 minutes about 35 Euros 2-4 players age 5+ about 20 minutes about 20 Euros All sorts of monsters have come together in an arena. Space is quickly running out for the creatures and so each one has to work hard to defend their own rightful place. Players roll monster symbols and try as accurately as possible to push the corresponding wooden figure onto the platform in the middle of the table. The more figures gradually crowd in, the trickier it is to place monsters without others tumbling to the ground. When this happens, each other player gets a tile showing the unlucky monster. Whoever has the longest row of tiles at the end of the game is the winner. You ll need luck, skill as well as a good head for tactics in order to be the last monster standing. Stealing and stacking treasure that s what Schatz-Rabatz is all about. When the timer starts, players have to snatch precious items from the middle of the table and stack them in their treasure chests until they re full to the brim. If the lid doesn t close then you ll have to make some more room. Once the sand timer runs out, players count up their spoils. And that s where Jewels Jack comes in: every round a card shows which type of treasure in which colour this sneaky buccaneer demands as tribute. These treasures are then taken away. The best strategy is not to blindly grab for treasure but to try and collect as many different types as possible. Each round the most successful player receives a piece of their own pirate ship. Once this is completed, they have won and can set sail for new adventures with the game s more tactical variant. * our recommendation: age 6+ Wolfgang Dirscherl and Manfred Reindl Queen Games Claus Stephan, Michael Hüter Karin Hetling Noris Johann Rüttinger

14 f f Kinderspiel des Jahres: Recommended Kinderspiel des Jahres: Recommended 26 Chef Alfredo Der verdrehte Sprachzoo players age 5+ * about 15 minutes * about 35 Euros 2-4 players age 4+ about 20 minutes about 14 Euros Chef Alfredo is a talented chef but unfortunately he s also very messy. He s always mixing up the pots on his stove which contain carrot, tomato, bean or garlic soup. Players have to remember where each ingredient belongs. A die shows whether players have to swap the pots around or whether a certain pot requires more adding to it. And if you can t remember? Then just act as if you do and hope that your opponents fall for it, since you get points every time you correctly get rid of an ingredient or if you can prove that an opponent has made a mistake. If you re wrong, you ll come away empty-handed. This is a tasty treat: a smart dice game seasoned with bluffing and memory. Here s a wild tale! A crafty monkey has escaped from the zoo. Before it can re-open, players have to work together to get the monkey back into its tree. To do this, players reveal two chips and then have to make up a story based on the pictures shown. Gradually, the cogs move to hide the 22 pictures under the game board. Now the task is to remember the tales until the spun pictures appear again. The crazier the stories, the easier it is to remember them. A versatile storytelling game for the whole family, where children learn to express themselves, pay attention and remember details, with an unusual game board and variants for experts. * our recommendation: age 6+, about 20 minutes Michael Schacht Queen Games Oliver Schlemmer Klaus Kreowski Ravensburger Gabriela Silveira

15 f f Kinderspiel des Jahres: Recommended Kinderspiel des Jahres: Recommended 28 Fliegenschmaus Fröschlein aufgepasst! players age 6+ about 20 minutes about 13 Euros 2-4 players age 4+ about 15 minutes about 25 Euros Hot dogs and ice cream, toilets and rubbish bins. That all smells delicious if you re a fly. In this humorous race game, the track is studded with all sorts of tasty treats and at the very end is a nice brown pile of, erm mouse droppings. It s a dream feast for the four flies that each player has to get to the end of the race. To do this, players have to play cards onto different areas of the track. Sometimes they help flies of the same colour get a bit further ahead, allowing them to zoom around the track, but sometimes they represent danger, like the fly-swatter which can bring players back to the start, or the sweeping card which lets players swap places. The most important thing is: don t kick up a stink. You have to learn how to annoy players and leave them behind. Don t be a frog! It s a dangerous life. There s always one hopping around the swamp. That s where two to four hungry storks are waiting, on the lookout for a slippery meal. The die shows players whether they can rush towards their prey, whether the frog hops away onto a lily pad or whether they can take a risk and take an action card. These can bring you up to four spaces closer to your prey or send you back to the start. Alternatively you can just move one space ahead. This is how you reach your goal: the flower on which the frog is hiding. The most successful but not necessarily the quickest stork will win this sophisticated racing game. Dietmar Keusch Haba Kai Pannen Manfred Ludwig Noris Johann Rüttinger

16 f f Kinderspiel des Jahres: Recommended Kinderspiel des Jahres: Recommended 30 Honigbienchen Joe s Zoo players age 4+ about 15 minutes about 16 Euros 2-5 players age 4+ * about 15 minutes about 11 Euros Buzz, buzz, buzz bees are buzzing around! The insects work hard to gather honey then disappear into their hives. But which bees are hiding where? When will the bear appear to swipe the golden nectar? Six different coloured bees are covered with identical hives then the player draws a card from a face-down deck. If the card shows a coloured bee, the player must find the hive where that bee is hiding. If they lift the correct hive, they place it in front of them, along with the bee. But if they reveal a bear card they re in trouble! The sneaky bear steals one of their hives. You ll need to keep an eye on the constantly changing game position to win this tricky memory game. Is the tiger hiding with the anteaters? Or the zebra with the flamingos? Things have got all mixed up at Joe s zoo. Maybe the players can sort them out. There are ten animal cards on the table. Joe moves through them according to the roll of the die. Players need to know (or take a lucky guess) which animal is on the reverse of the card Joe stops at. Whoever guesses right gets a treat. Contrary to other memory games, all players play at once: they all use their hint card to bet on the correct animal, placing it facedown in front of them. Then the card is turned over and scored. It s a constantly changing situation at least a little. There s wild times to be had at Joe s zoo. * our recommendation: age 5+ Reiner Knizia Amigo Michael Menzel Wolfgang Dirscherl Piatnik unknown

17 f 32 Kinderspiel des Jahres: Recommended Schau mal! Was ist anders? * The Jury 2015 The Spiel des Jahres and Kennerspiel des Jahres Jury players age 4+ about 10 minutes about 8 Euro Was the dolphin jumping out of the water or into it? Was the traffic light red or green? Wasn t the snowman wearing sunglasses? Was it a long or short pencil? 32 playing cards show an almost identical symbol on each side. Depending on the number of players, each child receives between four and six cards, then five are dealt out in the middle of the table. While the other players close their eyes, one child turns over a card in the middle. Everyone else now has to try and work out as quickly as possible which of the five cards was turned over. This is more or less difficult depending on which card it was. Whoever is first to discover the correct picture can place their own card in the middle. An eye for detail and a good memory are needed for this quick card game. The Spiel des Jahres and Kennerspiel des Jahres jury 2015 From left to right (standing): Bernhard Löhlein, Wieland Herold, Martin Klein, Tom Felber, Udo Bartsch, Chris Mewes Seated: Karsten Grosser, Guido Heinecke Missing: Sandra Lemberger The Spiel des Jahres critics award has been awarded since Since 2011 the Kennerspiel des Jahres prize has also been given. The nine-person jury responsible for both awards consists of games journalists and is independent from the industry and trade. The Kinderspiel des Jahres Jury * In Switzerland Schau mal, was ist anders? was published under the name Vice Versa Haim Shafir Amigo Karen Craig The Kinderspiel des Jahres jury and advisory panel 2015: From left to right: Stefan Gohlisch, Tina Kraft, Stefanie Marckwardt, Cordula Dernbach, Sabine Koppelberg, Christoph Schlewinski The critic s award Kinderspiel des Jahres, which has existed since 2001, is awarded by a jury that works intensively with children s games. In 2015 the jury consisted of three members of the Spiel des Jahres committee and three advisors.

18 34 Previous award winners Spiel des Jahres 1979: Hase und Igel 1980: Rummikub 1981: Focus 1982: Sagaland 1983: Scotland Yard 1984: Dampfross 1985: Sherlock Holmes Criminal-Cabinet 1986: Heimlich & Co 1987: Auf Achse 1988: Barbarossa und die Rätselmeister 1989: Café International 1990: Adel verpflichtet 1991: Drunter & Drüber 1992: Um Reifenbreite 1993: Bluff 1994: Manhattan 1995: Die Siedler von Catan 1996: El Grande 1997: Mississippi Queen 1998: Elfenland 1999: Tikal 2000: Torres 2001: Carcassonne 2002: Villa Paletti 2003: Der Palast von Alhambra 2004: Zug um Zug 2005: Niagara 2006: Thurn und Taxis 2007: Zooloretto 2008: Keltis 2009: Dominion 2010: Dixit 2011: Qwirkle 2012: Kingdom Builder 2013: Hanabi 2014: Camel Up 2015: Colt Express Kinderspiel des Jahres 2001: Klondike 2002: Maskenball der Käfer 2003: Viva Topo! 2004: Geistertreppe 2005: Das kleine Gespenst 2006: Der schwarze Pirat 2007: Beppo der Bock 2008: Wer war s? 2009: Das magische Labyrinth 2010: Diego Drachenzahn 2011: Da ist der Wurm drin 2012: Schnappt Hubi! 2013: Der verzauberte Turm 2014: Geister, Geister, Schatzsuchmeister! 2015: Spinderella Kennerspiel des Jahres 2011: 7 Wonders 2012: Village 2013: Die Legenden von Andor 2014: Istanbul 2015: Broom Service 35

19 Find a game Find a game 36 Award Winners Kinderspiele 2015 Award Winners Spiele Age Title Difficulty Players 4 4 Honigbiechen Schau mal! Was ist anders? Playing time (min) Page Age Title Difficulty Players 8 Simsala Bumm? Playing time (min) Page The Game n Cacao Der verdrehte Sprachzoo Fröschlein aufgepasst! * Joe s Zoo * Schatz Rabatz n Push a Monster n * Chef Alfredo * Spinderella Loony Quest Machi Koro n Patchwork Fliegenschmaus Vollmondnacht Colt Express * Ugo! Award Winners Kennerspiele 2015 Age Title Difficulty Players Playing time (min) Page + = easy to learn ++ = normal +++ = challenging ++++ = especially challenging * = our rating varies from that of the publisher 10 Broom Service Orléans n Auf den Spuren von Marco Polo Deus highlighted in blue: n highlighted in red: n highlighted in charcoal-grey: n = Kinderspiel des Jahres = Nominated games = Spiel des Jahres = Nominated games = Kennerspiel des Jahres = Nominated games 14 Elysium n Arler Erde The tables are sorted in ascending order by age and difficulty.

20 Games Designer Grant Index / Impressum 38 Games Designer Grant Index The Games Designer Grant is intended to give up-and-coming designers an insight into the varied areas of the gaming scene. It is not just intended to enhance the focus on the unique activities of the designer but also includes insights on the consumer perspective and the field of game theory. A sum of 3,000 Euro is available to cover the grant holder s travel costs and expenses. Several work placements are envisaged, including in a games publishing house and with a specialised games merchant. The grant is awarded every year at the game designer meeting in Göttingen. Arler Erde...19 Auf den Spuren von Marco Polo...18 Broom Service...14 Cacao...8 Chef Alfredo...26 Colt Express...4 Deus...20 Der verdrehte Sprachzoo...27 Elysium...16 Fliegenschmaus...28 Fröschlein aufgepasst!...29 Honigbienchen...30 Joe s Zoo...31 Loony Quest...9 Machi Koro...6 Orléans...17 Patchwork...10 Push a Monster...24 Schatz Rabatz...25 Schau mal! Was ist anders?...32 Simsala...Bumm?...11 Spinderella...22 The Game...7 Ugo!...12 Vollmondnacht Sophia Wagner, from Potsdam in Germany, was awarded the grant for 2015/16 by the Spiel des Jahres committee. The 30 year-old geoscientist won the coveted incentive award at the game designer meeting in Göttingen on 6th-7th June For further information, go to: Impressum 1st Edition 2015 Editorial Office: Spiel des Jahres e. V. Gr. Rurstraße 30-32, Jülich Telefon: mail@spiel-des-jahres.com Design: temedes gmbh, Jülich Print: Prost Druck GmbH, Jülich Copyright Photos: Spiel des Jahres e. V. and the publishers for their cover shots Translation: Andrew Wormald Further informationen at:

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