All "À la carte🇩🇪 1992" game award winners & nominees in comparison 2026

Tichu is an intriguing partnership card game that combines elements of Zheng Fen with traditional card play. It stands out as a strategic and competitive game, requiring players to be both tactically astute and keenly aware of their partner's actions. Typically played by four players in partnerships, the game is a race to get rid of all cards in hand, while aiming to score points.

The game is best played with people who know each other. It features 156 double-sided cards containing sentences that replace a part with "WALTER." One player acts as the "Sphinx," calling out three sentences and noting players' responses. Others must guess which sentences align with the "Sphinx's" personality, earning points for correct guesses and successfully imitating the "Sphinx."

Loot is a fast-paced, pirate-themed card game where players vie to accumulate the most gold by attacking and defending trading ships. The game involves strategic deployment of pirate ships, captains, and an admiral, making it a test of cunning and daring on the high seas.

There are six different game communities, each receiving bits representing money at the start of each round. Players simultaneously select a card, representing either a player or a police officer, to play. The money is allocated based on the cards played, with a negotiation mechanism coming into play if there's a clash for resources. Strong performance in simultaneous puzzles and effective negotiation can determine who finishes in first or second place.

Set in 50 B.C., the Roman occupation of Gaul faces resistance from feisty Gauls. Players have a set of cards representing characters with various magical potion combinations that act as tiebreakers. The game involves strategic card play to defeat Roman soldiers while maximizing points through rank combinations.

Schraumeln is a card game based on a nonsensical culture that creates absurd laws written on scrolls, payable with plums. Players draw scrolls that introduce rules affecting how plums are distributed, and failing to follow a rule results in the scroll being removed from the game. The game continues until all scrolls are taken or a scroll mandates the end, with the player holding the most plums declared the winner.

Players compete to assemble sets of colored cards by drawing from several communal piles. Depending on the symbol on a card, drawing it might allow you to take another card from the piles or even steal cards of the same color from your opponents. At the end of the round, the players with the majority in each color score points, with point values varying from round to round.

Engaging and challenging, this trick-taking card game features robots, plant beings, insectoids, and the Confederation battling for dominance in the galaxy. A fifth species, the Metamorphs, can adopt the traits of other races, serving as a potential game-changer. The game consists of two phases: in the first, players vie for the right to name a trump and determine the scoring method, while the second phase involves playing cards in rounds to earn power points based on the chosen scoring type.

Sixty politicians from various parties are up for election in the 15 countries of the European Union. Machiavellian lobbyists and self-proclaimed "leaders" manipulate these puppet politicians, disregarding party loyalty and conventional political rules to maintain control. They engage in shameful scandals, orchestrate media campaigns against innocent politicians, and form tactical coalitions, all in pursuit of total power over Europe.