The voting for the 2025 Meeples Choice Awards is complete and, due to ties, there are more winning games than usual.  Instead of the usual three winning games, this time there are five.  The winners are:

LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING – TRICK-TAKING GAME
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: FATE OF THE FELLOWSHIP
GALACTIC CRUISE
HOT STREAK
TAKE TIME

Rounding out the top ten were Vantage, Sanctuary, Star Trek: Captain’s Chair, Magical Athlete, and The Druids of Edora.

Congratulations to the designers of the winning games:  Bryan Bornmueller, Matt Leacock, T.K. King/Dennis Northcott/Koltin Thompson, Jon Perry, and Alexi Piovesan/Julien Prothiere.  It’s Leacock’s second MCA award (he won back in 2008 for Pandemic) and his ninth nominated game.  For the other designers, this was their first nominated game.  Congratulations go as well to the publishers of the winning games:  Office Dog, Z-Man Games, Kinson Key Games, CMYK, and Libellud.