Spiel des Jahres

In Agricola (Latin for "farmer"), you're a farmer in a wooden shack with your spouse and little else.

In the land where the Lemons bloom, there once lived a wise old sage, whose friends called him "Paletti" He only had one goal in life, to finish the wonderful castle in the sky that his grandfather had begun to build many years before, but which had been left unfinished when the ducats

Dixit is a visually stunning game that rewards creativity, imagination and empathy. In Dixit, each player has a hand of beautifully illustrated cards that are evocative of fairy tales, surrealistic painting and dream imagery.

ou are a monarch, like your parents before you, a ruler of a small pleasant kingdom of rivers and evergreens. Unlike your parents, however, you have hopes and dreams! You want a bigger and more pleasant kingdom, with more rivers and a wider variety of trees. You want a Dominion!

In this tile-laying game, players pull a tile and place it on the board building the area of Carcassone, France. If a player's tile starts a new city, road, farm or monastery they can place one of their "meeples" on the tile to claim control.

Each player is a zoo owner. Players score points by attracting as many visitors to their zoos as possible. To accomplish this, they must collect matching sets of animals in enclosures. If they have more types of animals than enclosures, they must keep the extra animals in their barn.

All aboard! Ticket to Ride is a cross-country train adventure. Players collect cards of various types of train cards that enable them to claim railway routes connecting cities throughout North America. The longer the routes, the more points they earn.

Niagara is set in the not particularly safe world of rushing waterfalls.

Building boom in Manhattan! But not only there! Sky-scrapers are springing up all around the world.

This game features the legendary race between the hare and the tortoise, but with a twist. Each player plays both parts at different stages of the race. Sometimes it is best to race like rabbit; others, it is best to move slowly and cautiously like the turtle.

Vie with other paddle-wheel captains and their "queens" for the title of Mississippi 
Queen, the fastest paddle-wheeler on Big Muddy. Since a significant portion of a 
paddle-wheeler’s revenue comes from passengers, the competition is more than 
just a race.

360 animals on big cards are waiting for the players of Fauna. Every round a single animal presents itself by name and picture. The 2-6 players try to guess the animal's weight, length, height, tail length and - most important - the areas in which the animal lives on the Earth.

In most games, players compete against each other to achieve victory. Shadows over Camelot proposes a journey of a very different kind, where you and your fellow players, as Knights of the Round Table, will collaborate to jointly defeat... the game!

A series of devastating tornadoes, unleashed by enemy mages in the recent war has left all the king’s castles in ruin. Only the foundations of these once magnificent monuments remain.

In Alhambra, players are acquiring buildings to be placed within their Alhambra complex.