Golden Geek Awards 2006: winners

Game of the Year - Caylus

Best Gamer's Game - Caylus
Best Wargame - Twilight Struggle
Best Kids Game - Nacht der Magier
Best 2 Player - Twilight Struggle
Best Family Game - Ingenious
Best Light/Party Game - Diamant

Toy of the Year: The Netherlands

The Dutch Toy of the Year Award winners include 2 boardgames this year: Wildlife DVD bordspel in the 12 years and up category and Koetje Boe for 0-4 years.

Other nominees this year included Shear Panic, Rocket Race, Loopin' Louie, Castello del Drago, ¡New Amigos!, Manila and Da Vinci Code Board Game

Schweizer Spielepreis - Family

Schweizer Spielepreis - Switzerland - 2002








Awarded at the Schweizer Spielmesse in October. The Swiss Ludotheques' customers vote on a list of games provided by the Ludotheques. Awards are given in 3 categories:

- Strategy Game
- Family Game
- Children's Game

Family Game

2007 Einfach Genial Knobelspass
2006 Fußball Ligretto
2005 That's Life!
2004 Make 'n' Break
2003 Alhambra
2002 Heimlich & Co.

Thanks to Dan Rosewater!

Schweizer Spielepreis - Children

Schweizer Spielepreis - Switzerland - 2002

Awarded at the Schweizer Spielmesse in October. The Swiss Ludotheques' customers vote on a list of games provided by the Ludotheques. Awards are given in 3 categories:

- Strategy Game
- Family Game
- Children's Game

Children's Game

2007 Jungle Treasure
2006 Nacht der Magier
2005 Charlie Quak auf Fliegenjagd
2004 Geistertreppe
2003 The kids Of Catan
2002 Maskenball der Käfer

Thanks to Dan Rosewater!

Schweizer Spiele Preis winners

The winners for the 2006 Schweizer Spiele Preis (Switzerland) are announced. In the category Strategy Games the price goes to Mach 4. Family game of the year is Fußball Ligretto and Nacht der Magier takes another award in the Kids Games category.

More info can be found on Dan Rosewater's GeekList and here and here.

à la carte 2006

The 2006 à la carte winner is announced. Fairplay's prize for best cardgame goes to Ausgerechnet Buxtehude. The Top 10 of 2006:

1. Ausgerechnet Buxtehude
2. Marquis
3. Nottingham
4. Pecunia non olet
5. Euphrat & Tigris Cardgame
6. Arche Optimix
7. Wir sind schwanger
8. Fettnapf
9. Havoc
10.Jericho

Juego del Año: 2006 Winner: Lost Cities

The winner of the 2006 Juego del Año (Spanish Game of the Year) is Reiner Knizia's Lost Cities. Only games that are published in Spanish are eligible.

Games Magazine Game of the Year

Games Magazine announced their Game of the Year: Vegas Showdown.

In other categories:

Abstract Strategy: Pünct
Advanced Strategy: Reef Encounter
Family: Tricky Town
Family Card Games: Trump, Tricks, Game!
Family Strategy: Hacienda
Historical Simulation: Silent War
Party Games: Wits and Wagers
Word Games: Parlay

Juego del Año: 2006 Finalists

The finalists for the Spanish game of the year award (Juego del Año) are announced:

Bucaneer
Ca$h’n Gun$
Hey! That’s my Fish!
Lost Cities
Railroad Tycoon
Timbuktu

The winner will be announced on October 15 at iI Encuentro Nacional de Juegos de Mesa (Spanish convention).

Also two special awards were announced for Eiertanz and Ágora Barcelona.

Smart Toy Awards

Smart Toy Awards - United Kingdom - since 2006








The Smart Toy Awards are presented by the London Science Museum in 3 categories and 1 overall winner. On this site only the SMart Play Category is listed - the category which can also have games in it.

- SMart Play
- SMart Build
- SMart Explore

SMart Play

2007 (no winning game; nominated: Khet, Winomino)
2006 Polarity

NSP winner: Caylus

Caylus keeps on winning. Today the Nederlandse Spellenprijs (Dutch Game Award) was announced. 703 Gamers gave their vote on 3 of 8 games; giving it 4-2-1 points. The results of the 2006 voting:

1. Caylus (1242 points)
2. Skyline of the World (847)
3. Hey! That's My Fish! (534)
4. Manila (469)
5. Through the Desert (450)
6. Reef Encounter (400)
7. Tichu (383)
8. Attention Pirates! (231)

Science Museum SMart Toy Award 2006

The first SMart Toy Awards are announced - yes, the capital M is on purpose (SM: Science Museum...). The London Science Museum selected games & toys in 5 categories and 1 overall winner. In the SMart Game Category and the overall SMart Toy Winner: Polarity.

Other categories were SMart Puzzle Category (The Kaleidoscope Classic), SMart Kit Category (Horrible Science - Space, Stars and Slimy Aliens), SMart Play Category (Tumba) and Our SMart Product Category (Science Museum Erupting Volcano Kit).

Thanks to Yehuda!

Charles S. Roberts Awards

Charles S. Roberts Awards - since 1974 - United States











The Charles S. Roberts awards are presented at the World Boardgaming Championships (July/August) since 2000. Before that they were presented at Origins (July) and until 1987 a part of the Origins Awards.

Categories:

- Best Professional Game (1974-1975)
- Best Amateur Game (1974-1978)
- Best Professional Wargame Magazine (1974)
- Best Amateur Wargame Magazine (1974)
- Clausewitz Hall of Fame (1974)
- Best Graphics and Physical Systems (1976-1978)
- Best Tactical Game (1976-1977)
- Best Strategic Game (1976-1977)
- Best Fantasy/Science Fiction Board Game (1977-1986)
- Best Pre-Twentieth Century Game (1978-1986)
- Best Twentieth Century Game (1978-1986)
- Best Initial Release (1979-1981)
- Gamers Choice Award (1980-1980)
- Best Computer Game (1980-1986)
- Best Graphic Presentation in an Adventure Game (1984-1986)
- Best Wargame Graphics (1987)
- Best Pre-Twentieth Century Computer Wargame (1987)
- Best Twentieth Century Computer Wargame (1987)
- Best Game Review or Analysis Article (1987)
- Best Historical / Opinion / Variant / Scenario / Interview Article (1987)
- Best Pre-World War II Boardgame (1987)
- Best World War II Boardgame (1987)
- Best Modern Era Boardgame / Best Post World War II Boardgame (1987)
- James F. Dunnigan Award (1989)
- Best DTP-Produced Boardgame (1999)
- Best Magazine-Published Boardgame (1999)

Categories in red are not mentioned in this site - you'll find them here or here.

Best Modern Era Boardgame

2008 Red Dragon Rising: The Coming War with China

2007 World at War: Eisenbach Gap
2006 Winged Horse: Campaigns in Vietnam, 1965-66
2005 Twilight Struggle
2004 Downtown: Air War Over Hanoi, 1965-1972
2003 Lock 'N Load: Forgotten Heroes Vietnam
2002 Indochina & Khe Sanh, 1968
2001 When Dragons Fight
2000 (no award)
1999 (no award)
1998 (no award)
1997 Semper Fi!
1996 (no award)
1995 Yom Kippur
1994 (no award)
1993 Crisis: Korea 1995
1992 Tet '68
1991 Inchon: MacArthur's Gambit & Hornet Leader
1990 Silver Bayonet: The First Team in Vietnam, 1965
1989 Modern Naval Battles
1988 Tac Air
1987 7th Fleet & Central America

Best World War II Boardgame

2008 Conflict of Heroes
2007 Case Blue
2006 A Victory Lost
2005 Empire of the Sun
2004 Advanced Squad Leader (ASL) Starter Kit #1
2003 Europe Engulfed
2002 World War II: Barbarossa to Berlin
2001 Barbarossa Army Group North, 1941
2000 Sicily: Triumph and Folly & Ukraine '43
1999 Burma
1998 Invasion Sicily
1997 DAK
1996 Wave Of Terror
1995 Tunisia
1994 Enemy at the Gates
1993 Afrika
1992 Stalingrad Pocket
1991 EastFront
1990 Operation Shoestring: Guadalcanal
1989 Hitler's Last Gamble: The Battle of the Bulge
1988 Tokyo Express
1987 Raid on St. Nazaire

Best Pre-World War II Boardgame

2008 Warriors of God

2007 1914: Twilight in the East
2006 Here I Stand
2005 Bonaparte at Marengo
2004 The Sword of Rome: Conquest of Italy, 362-272 BC
2003 Age of Napoleon
2002 The Napoleonic Wars
2001 Wilderness War
2000 Drive on Paris
1999 Paths of Glory
1998 For the People
1997 All Quiet on the Western Front
1996 Fields of Glory : Oudenarde & Malplaquet
1995 The Great War in Europe
1994 The Battles of Waterloo
1993 When Eagles Fight
1992 SPQR
1991 Alexandros
1990 Kadesh: Mobile Warfare in the Ancient Middle East
1989 The Siege of Jerusalem & A House Divided 2nd Edtion
1988 Lee vs. Grant
1987 Shot and Shell

Best DTP-Produced Boardgame*

2008 June '44

2007 Battle of the Rosebud: Prelude to Little Bighorn - June 17th, 1876
2006 Battle of the Little Bighorn
2005 Death in the Trenches: The Great War, 1914-1918
2004 Louisiana Tigers
2003 Thunder on South Mountain
2002 A Mere Matter of Marching & Togoland 1914
2001 Longbow
2000 Solomon Sea
1999 Bloody Beach: Omaha & Chantilly

* Best Desk Top Published game of the year

Best Magazine-Published Boardgame

2008 Iwo Jima: Rage Against the Marines

2007 Not War But Murder
2006 Kulikovo 1380: The Golden Horde
2005 Chennault's First Fight
2004 Fortress Berlin
2003 Ignorant Armies (Iran-Iraq War)
2002 Indochina
2001 War of 1812
2000 Xenophon: 10,000 Against Persia
1999 Clash of Eagles: Borodino & Friedland

Best Twentieth Century Game

1986 Fortress America
1985 World in Flames
1984 Vietnam 1965-1975
1983 Ambush!
1982 Storm Over Arnhem
1981 Wings
1980 Crescendo of Doom
1979 City-Fight
1978 To the Green Fields Beyond

Best Pre-Twentieth Century Game

1986 Chickamauga: The Confederacy's Last Hope
1985 Pax Britannica
1984 South Mountain
1983 The Civil War
1982 Civilization
1981 A House Divided
1980 Empires of the Middle Ages
1979 Napoleon at Leipzig
1978 Source of the Nile

Best Initial Release

1981 Ironbottom Sound
1980 Streets of Stalingrad
1979 Ironclads

Best Tactical Game

1977 Squad Leader
1976 Terrible Swift Sword

Best Strategic Game

1977 Victory in the Pacific
1976 The Russian Campaign

Best Professional Game

1975 Kingmaker
1974 Third Reich

Best Amateur Game

1978 Source of the Nile
1977 (no award)
1976 (no award)
1975 La Bataille de la Moskowa
1974 Manassas

Gamers Choice Award

1980 Ace of Aces - Handy Rotary Series

DSP 2006 winners & Essener Feder

The 2006 Deutscher Spiele Preis is awarded. Caylus took another win after the IGA and SdJ Sonderpreis. The endresults:

1. Caylus
2. Thurn & Taxis
3. Antike
4. Blue Moon City
5. Mesopotamia
6. Elasund
7. Masons
8. Hacienda
9. Augsburg 1520
10. Um Ru(h)m & Ehre

Winner in the Children's Game Category: Nacht der Magier - also winning the Essener Feder.

IGA 2006 winners

The winner in the IGA Historical Simulation category was announced earlier: Twilight Struggle. In the Two-player category Twilight Struggle also wins the award! Double succes for designers Jason Matthews and Ananda Gupta and publisher GMT.

In the general strategy Multi-player category the award goes to William Attia's Caylus, published by Ystari.

SpellenSpektakel

The SpellenSpektakel website (SpellenSpektakel is the biggest convention in The Netherlands) is trying to become the central website for Dutch & Flemish gaming. With an active forum and a small game database. As with BGG, users can rate the games in the database and all games with 10+ ratings get ranked.

The list of games is limited to games with a Dutch edition.

Top 10, july 10, 2009

1. Puerto Rico
2. YINSH
3. Agricola
4. El Grande
5. Eufraat & Tigris
6. Settlers of Catan - Cities & Knights
7. Princes of Florence
8. Powergrid
9. Pandemic
10. Age of Empires III

Top 10, april 17, 2008

1. Eufraat & Tigris
2. El Grande
3. Settlers of Catan - Cardgame
4. Caylus
5. Settlers of Catan - Cities & Knights
6. Bohnanza
7. Amun-Re
8. Carcassonne
9. Keythedral
10. Goa

Top 10, september 10, 2006

1. El Grande
2. Caylus
3. Euphrates & Tigris
4. Settlers of Catan - Cardgame
5. Keythedral
6. Settlers of Catan - Cities & Knights
7. Carcassonne
8. Web of Power
9. 6 Nimmt!
10. Bohnanza

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SUMO / Counter Magazine Hall of Fame Nominees

The nominees for the SUMO / Counter Magazine Hall of Fame this year are:

Adel Verpflichtet
Britannia
Can't Stop
Circus Maximus
Power Grid
Web of Power
Kremlin
Lord of the Rings
Lost Cities
RoboRally
6 Nimmt
Tadsch Mahal
Take it Easy
Tikal
Traumfabrik

Two of these games will be added to the Hall of Fame. Voting can be done on BrettBoard until October 31st.

SUMO / Counter Magazine Hall of Fame

Gery McLaughlin and Stuart Dagger formed the SUMO / Counter Magazine Hall of Fame. A list of Modern Classics. Games must be published at least 5 years ago to be nominated and voting is done by readers in September and October.







SUMO / Counter Magazine Hall of Fame:

1829/30
Acquire

Age of Steam
Airlines/Union Pacific
Bluff/Liars Dice
Bohnanza
Britannia

Can't Stop
Carcassonne
Civilization
Cosmic Encounter
Crude/McMulti
Die Macher
Diplomacy
Dungeon & DragonsElfenroads

El Grande
Euphrat & Tigris

Hare and Tortoise

History of the World
Lost Cities
Magic: the Gathering
Medici
Modern Art

Power Grid

The Princes of Florence

Tichu

Puerto Rico
Ra
Railway Rivals

The Settlers of Catan

Through the Desert

Web of Power

Win, Place & Show

Thanks to BrettBoard.dk, Stephen Smith & Larry Levy

La Ludoteca Ideale

Italy's two biggest game clubs offer a list of the best games available in Italy. La Ludoteca Ideale (somewhat comparable with Faidutti's Ideal Library) is listed by La Tana dei Goblin and Club TreEmme. Publishers such as DaVinci even put the Ludoteca's logo on their boxes.

The List:

Axis & Allies
Axis & Allies: D-Day
Bang!
Bang! Dodge City
Bang! A fistful of cards
Caylus
Carcassonne
Carcassonne, Die Erweiterung
Carcassonne, Händler & Baumeister
Carcassonne, Burgfräulein und Drache
Carcassonne, Der Turm
Coloni di Catan
Coloni di Catan: Marinai
Conquest Of The Empire
Corridori in Fuga
Daymio
Dungeon Twister
Feudo
Fury of Dracula
La Guerra dell'Anello
La Guerra dell'Anello: Battaglie della Terza Era
Heroscape
Il Mistero dell' Abbazia
Il Principe
Leonardo da Vinci
Lucca Citta
Lupus in tabula
Magic The Gathering
Manila
Memoir '44
Memoir '44 - Terrain Pack
Memoir '44 - Eastern Front
Memoir '44 - Winter/Desert
Memoir '44 - Pacific Theatre
Munchkin
Super Munchkin
Niagara
Oltremare
Oriente
Power Grid
Railroad Tycoon
Raja
Reef Encounter
Shadows over Camelot
Siena
Si Oscuro
Signore
Ticket to Ride
Twilight Imperium 3ed
Warangel 10 Years Edition
Wings of War - Famous Aces
Wings of War - Watch Your Back
Wings of War - Burning Drachens
Wings of War - Recon Patrol Booster Pack
Wings of War - Top Fighters Booster Pack

Spiele Charts

In 2002 the Reich der Spiele website starts its own chart: visitors can send in their Top 10 and a list (Spiele Chart) is made. In October 2002 three other websites join Reich der Spiele: H@LL9000, Spiele-Truhe and Fairspielt.

The websites publish a Top 15 for every month and occasionaly award games to participants.

The Top 15 of All Time, june 2009

1. Dominion
2. Agricola
3. Puerto Rico
4. Stone Age
5. Pandemic
6. Carcassonne
7. Settlers of Catan
8. Caylus
9. Le Havre
10. El Grande
11. Kingsburg
12. Galaxy Trucker
13. Saint Petersburg
14. Diamonds Club
15. Powergrid

The Top 15 of All Time, november 26, 2007

1. Puerto Rico 22,7 %
2. Carcassonne 19,5 %
3. Die Siedler von Catan 14,3 %
4. (Der Palast von) Alhambra 12,9 %
5. El Grande 11,3 %
6. San Juan 9,8 %
7. Ohne Furcht und Adel 9,3 %
8. Zug um Zug 8,2 %
9. Sankt Petersburg 7,7 %
10. Einfach Genial 7,1 %
11. Caylus 6,9 %
12. Funkenschlag 6,7 %
13. Bohnanza 6,7 %
14. Wallenstein 5,4 %
15. Löwenherz 5,2 %

The Top 15 of All Time, september 9, 2006

1. Puerto Rico 24,7 %
2. Carcassonne 21,0 %
3. Die Siedler von Catan 15,6 %
4. (Der Palast von) Alhambra 15,0 %
5. El Grande 11,5 %
6. San Juan 10,5 %
7. Ohne Furcht und Adel 10,3 %
8. Sankt Petersburg 8,2 %
9. Zug um Zug 8,0 %
10. Bohnanza 7,2 %
11. Einfach Genial 6,6 %
12. Funkenschlag 6,3 %
13. Wallenstein 6,1 %
14. Blue Moon 5,6 %
15. Löwenherz 5,6 %

The Spielecharts can be found here, here and here.

Jeu de l'Année

Jeu de l'Année - France - 2003-2005

The Jeu de l'Année merged in 2004 with the As d'Or.

2005 Squad 7
2004 Wooly Bully
2003 San Marco

The Internet Top 100

The Internet Top 100 is a list of the best games as chosen by you, compiled by Aaron Fuegi. That is, everyone who sends in his/her list of 10 boardgame favourites. Aaron posts regular updates on the list on his website and on rec.games.board. Currently he's at edition nr. 340! Edition #1 was already published in November 1998.

On the website you can view all 340 lists, as well as the total list (beyond the Top 100). In total 85212 votes are used to compile the latest list.

Internet Top 100 Top 10 - October 16, 2008

1. Puerto Rico
2. Euphrat & Tigris
3. The Princes of Florence
4. The Settlers of Catan
5. Caylus
6. El Grande
7. Modern Art
8. Powergrid
9. Citadels
10. Carcassonne

See all games: Internet Top 100

Årets Brettspill - Trivia / Party Game

Årets Brettspill - Norway - since 2005

The Norwegian Game of the Year is divided in 4 categories, although the Strategy category is already lost in the 2006 nomination process.

- Family / Light Strategy Game
- Children's Game
- Trivia / Party Game
- Strategy Game

Trivia / Party Game

2008 A-å
2007 Snorta!
2006 Reiselyst
2005 wordXchange

Årets Brettspill - Children's Game

Årets Brettspill - Norway - since 2005

The Norwegian Game of the Year is divided in 4 categories, although the Strategy category is already lost in the 2006 nomination process.

- Family / Light Strategy Game
- Children's Game
- Trivia / Party Game
- Strategy Game

Children's Game

2008 Chateau Roquefort
2007 Jumbo Zoo
2006 Geistertreppe
2005 Cranium Cadoo