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Carnegie Wins 2023 Jogo do Ano Award

Spiel Portugal recently announced the winner of its Jogo do Ano award for 2023.  The prize goes to Carnegie, designed by Xavier Georges and published by Quined Games.  This is the fourth significant Game of the Year award for Carnegie.  Earlier, … Continue reading

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Catching Up: Results for the Dice Tower and Spiel der Spiele Awards

Even though we love tracking all the annual board game awards, the results aren’t always that well publicized and we sometimes miss the announcements.  But in the interest of “better late than never”, here are how two of these awards … Continue reading

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Sea Salt & Paper Wins a la carte Award

The a la carte award is presented each year by Fairplay Magazine to the game that wins their voting as the best card game of the year. The winner for 2023 is Sea Salt & Paper, designed by Bruno Cathala … Continue reading

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Planet Unknown Wins 2023 DSP Award

The Deutsche Spielepreis (DSP) award is one of the most important annual game awards in the hobby, probably only second in significance to the SdJ.  The results were just announced at the Spiel in Essen and the winner is Planet … Continue reading

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Revive, Oranienburger Kanal, and Earth Win 2023 IGA Awards

The results of the 2023 International Gamers Awards (IGAs) have just been announced and the winners, together with their designers and publishers, are: Revive had a fairly comfortable victory in the Multiplayer category.  Finishing second and third in that field … Continue reading

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Scout Wins 2022 a la carte Award

Every year, Fairplay magazine conducts the a la carte award, in which their readers choose their favorite card game of the year.  It’s one of my favorite of the gaming awards, as they’ve consistently rewarded excellent designs over the last … Continue reading

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