Spiel des Jahres

The German award for the best board game.

Spiel des Jahres.

Spiel des Jahres.

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So, um, but I'm thinking maybe the original Trouble instead of those pegs in the slots had marbles.

It's like they know what they should be doing.

My number three, the only reason I still own it is because it's a Spiel des Jahres winner.

That is the only reason that I still own it.

This is Qwirkle.

Fantastic game.

Scoville, Second Edition.

My number two best is the third and last Spiel des Jahres winner that I wanted to talk about, and a game bec- uh, again, one of the reasons why I think these are...

I picked Spiel, Spiel winners, as the example is because since they were so focused on making it accessible for colorblind people, I think that got it into more families' homes and got it more love.

But it's pictures.

It was the Spiel des Jahres winner.

It's another one where more stuff's been released in Europe than is released here.

Each set you get comes with two new things to do and some more cards to shuffle in.

So other games I've played, a new one was, I think I had not played it at the time, Moon Colony Bloodbath, a game that was quite famous, popular, lighter game.

I think it went really close to winning the Spiel des Jahres this year.

and um yeah i really enjoyed it i think the game is really good and to to kind of you know tell what say what the game is about it's an engine builder but it's a really light and quick engine builder it kind of reminds me of the solo mode for terraforming mars maybe even simpler but the twist with this game is that you are playing rounds and at a certain every round there's going to be bad things happening you're building a colony on the moon and at certain point the robots that everybody uses are going to start killing everybody so it's a game about seeing if you can hold up 13 rounds in solo or in multiplayer if you can hold out until be the last person holding out But you're always going to die.

And I think it's really cool because you're just building an engine and a bomb is going to explode.

not my thing, but yeah.

Yeah, it's probably...

I understand why it was recommended by the Spiel des Jahres or there was some kind of prize like that.

Oh, yeah.

Which board games won Deutsche Spielpreis or German Game Prizes? What's actually the difference between that and Spiel des Jahres? What are the top board games that will destroy your friendship? And what good Euro games have in common? Yeah, what do they have in common? No theme? Well, we'll figure all of those things out in this podcast.

In the board game happy hour.

Welcome, Mr. Janus.

haven't played it we'll fake it

i always have an opinion

yeah uh no no we'll let you know if we haven't played it uh but also we'll give our two cents about any of those games so yes approve them or not uh before we jump into those games just quickly do you know the difference between spiel des jahres and deutscher spielpreis

Yes.

They're different awards.

And it was one of those designs you think about from Kinesi.

He's done lots of brilliant designs, but when he finally wins the Spiel des Jahres and takes... effectively that and makes keltis and it's four player lost cities i'm going like this is crazy because people should know and have already liked played lost cities totally but because it's older it's been gone for a while it's not there so you know when keltis comes out it's like I don't know.

I guess I'm old enough now that I can remember the game that it was before.

We're in that era now where people are...