The Spiel des Jahres jury just announced their winners, and it was Pictures for SdJ and The Crew for KedJ. Congratulations to the winners!

We’ve listed them below. Links are to our past reviews or other writings about each game.

Spiel des Jahres: PICTURES, Designed by Christian Stöhr and Daniela Stöhr, Published by PD Verlag

The other nominees were:

MY CITY, Designed by Reiner Knizia, Published by Kosmos

NOVA LUNA, Designed by Uwe Rosenberg and Corné van Moorsel, Published by Edition Spielwiese and Pegasus Spiele

Kennerspiel des Jahres: THE CREW: THE QUEST FOR PLANET NINE, Designed by Thomas Sing, Published by Kosmos

The other nominees were:

CARTOGRAPHERS, Designed by Jordy Adan, Published by Pegasus

THE KING’S DILEMMA, Designed by Hjalmar Hach and Lorenzo Silva, Published by Horrible Guild and HeidelBÄR Games

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On our predictions this year, we correctly called the KedJ, but this was the first time in five years we had missed the SdJ.

I’m going to try to get an OG reactions post up later today.