All "As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année"🇫🇷 1997 winners & nominees compared. 2026

The two-minute card game Speed, known as "Blink" in English, is claimed to be the fastest game in the world for two players. Players compete to empty their hands by matching the color, shape, or number of symbols on their cards with the top card of the central piles, without taking turns. The first player to clear their hand and draw from a pile wins. The rules also include variants for three- and four-player games.

Designed by Kris Burm, this game blends Tetris and construction elements. Players take turns placing wooden pieces through a gap between two parallel Plexiglass sheets, losing when they can't fully place a piece. The game continues until one player runs out of pieces and loses. Batik Kid features irregularly shaped tokens representing sea creatures instead of geometric shapes.

Gang of Four is an exciting game of cunning, strategy, and power. The goal is simple: be the first to get rid of all your cards and rise to the highest authority. However, a strategic misstep can lead to dire consequences in the struggle for survival.

Players collect ingredient cards to cast spells, and the first to use all their spells wins. Spells require between 1 and 4 ingredients. While spells with 3 or 4 ingredients can help secure victory, those requiring 1 or 2 ingredients can cause another player to suffer a setback, such as by making a proposal to another player.

Players roll their dice to add to a common tower. If the tower falls, the player collects all the dice. The twist is that the dice faces must show increasingly higher values.

In the fourteenth century, the Atlantic was an endless ocean and America had yet to be discovered. The Mediterranean thrived as the sole link between East and West, with powerful trading cities like Venice, Genoa, and Istanbul establishing lucrative trade routes. Players assume the roles of these city-states, aiming to expand their influence and build a prosperous trade empire through constructing ships, hiring crews, and managing resources. Control over ports influences income and resource availability, creating a competitive balance between trading goods and maintaining naval strength throughout the game's rounds.

Players aim to form long words and collect points to win in this letter-word version of Rummikub. They can place complete words on the table or add letters to existing words. Players can also break apart words already on the table to create new ones, provided they add at least one new tile at the end of their turn and use letters to form valid, unique words, with the longest new word containing at least one letter from their rack.