All "À la carte🇩🇪 2010" game award winners & nominees in comparison 2025

In the bustling city of Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan, you find yourself in a fierce competition as one of the two most powerful traders. However, being a prominent trader isn't enough; the ultimate goal is to earn two coveted "seals of excellence" to secure an invitation to the Maharaja's prestigious court. To outshine your direct competitor, you'll need to demonstrate superior trading skills by buying, exchanging, and selling goods at advantageous prices, all while carefully managing your valuable camel herds.

Dragonheart is a captivating card game set in a vibrant fantasy world filled with dragons, knights, and other mythical beings. In this duel of wits and strategy, players embody the roles of dragons seeking treasures and dragon hunters aiming to thwart them. The game's mechanics are straightforward yet engaging, requiring players to play cards with matching motifs onto corresponding areas of the board.

A small town faces the problem of improperly sorted trash left by its citizens. Players represent companies responsible for waste separation and recycling, earning points by transporting trash to the correct storage locations. However, carrying too much trash leads to illegal dumping, complicating the goal of making money.

Players take on the role of competitors in a game where cards are numbered from 1 to 100, each featuring a certain number of bullheads. Starting with ten cards, players aim to play their cards to win rounds; the player who discards all cards scores zero points, while others lose points based on the bullheads on their remaining cards. Instead of multiple rows, cards are played onto a single stack, needing to be within ten points of the top card; failing to do so means picking up the stack, thereby increasing the number of stacks as the game progresses.

A party game where players associate a word with "Per," "Peer," or "Bär." The word is replaced by a bear, and players describe it using only six words, starting with "Dieser Bär..." or "Mein Bär...," leaving just four unique words to use. Players cannot use words that are part of the original word they need to guess.

The second Mystery Rummy game involves players investigating a murder from an Edgar Allan Poe story. It features a similar mechanic of merging evidence cards and hammer cards, but introduces a hidden "kitten" element where players secretly place cards in their hands. The first player to achieve this win, in addition to their regular mergers, can also win the kitten. It can also be played as a partnership game with four players.

Players take turns playing cards that must be higher than the one in play but lower than the target card. The available range for playable cards quickly narrows. If a player cannot fill the gap, they must take the cards and add negative points to their score.

Cardcassonne offers a unique twist on the beloved Carcassonne tile-laying game, translating its core mechanics into a card-based format. Players strategically place cards in various rows, representing different elements such as fields, cities, roads, and abbeys, to maximize their points while competing against opponents. The essence of Carcassonne's strategic planning is preserved, with players faced with the dilemma of whether to claim a series of cards for points now or risk waiting for the row to grow at the potential cost of another player seizing the opportunity.

A futuristic robot auction game features unusual, strange, and crazy robots designed in a mad factory by the Master Central Processing Unit Version D (McPUD). Players take on the role of mechanics competing to purchase robots as they become available on the assembly line, with auctions occurring in five rounds. Mechanics pay for robot cards using power allocations from robots they have previously acquired, aiming to earn bonus points by assigning certain cards to production units. The winner is the mechanic with the most points.

Players are traders in colonial America, engaging in commerce with Native American villages by exchanging goods like corn, tobacco, furs, weapons, and alcohol. In certain villages, players trade their goods for other items, while in others, they receive Wampum, shells and beads used as currency. Successful trading in the right village at the right time is essential for accumulating the most Wampum and winning the game.