All "As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année"🇫🇷 2007 winners & nominees compared. 2026

Ribbit (formerly known as Schildkrötenrennen or "Turtle Race" in its original version) offers a delightful, strategic race experience suited for families and players of all ages. This game is built around the concept of racing turtles—or frogs, in the reprint—across a field to reach a tasty salad.

The premise is simple: a board rests on a platform filled with wooden discs, trees, and other objects. In the center lies a ring of light covered by a cardboard disc and a flickering flame, with the cauldrons circling around it. Players aim to push their cauldron towards the ring of light by pressing pieces on the board, but the twist is that the game is played in complete darkness, making everything except the glowing elements invisible.

Through the Desert is a strategic board game where players guide caravans through the desert to claim oases and territory. Often compared to the classic game Go, it combines strategic planning with a visually appealing setup featuring colorful plastic camels.

Players must use a pebble, a toothbrush, a fork, a lighter, a toy soldier, a die, and a few other items in sequence. The goal is for one player to guess an answer from a list of five, including stories like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, The Brave Little Tailor, and Cinderella. It seems implausible, but the game works surprisingly well.

In 1999, James Ernest refined his concept of real-time card games by creating Brawl, a two-player card game without a dealer. Players quickly burn through their 35-card decks in about 35 seconds, with each deck offering a unique mix of cards that demands a different playing style to win. They start by placing a "base" card on the table and play cards like Hit, Block, and Clear as fast as possible to dominate each base, aiming to freeze all bases to end the game.

Players command a flying broomstick, mastering it with courage and skill. The goal is to win the race by being the first to cross the finish line while navigating different combinations based on colors, using special cards filled with spells and tricks. Memory, bravery, and cunning will be the key strategies to achieve victory.

A card displaying a combination of colored dots is placed on the table. Each player has four transparent plastic cards with colored dots that must be layered to match the card on the table. Players must rotate and flip the cards while trying different arrangements to achieve the right pattern, covering some dots in the process. The first to find the correct match shouts "Vitrail!" and wins the round, with a solo mode also available to challenge oneself against the clock.

Players find themselves in the realm of Siam, once a peaceful land where elephants and rhinos coexisted. After earthquakes reduced the territory to three regions surrounded by giant mountains, the struggle for dominance over two territories begins. To win, a player must be the first to push a stone off the board using their animals, with numerical superiority required when facing an opponent's animal. The 2015 version features a double-sided game board.

Caylus is a deeply strategic board game that transports players to the year 1289, where they become master builders tasked with constructing a castle for King Philip the Fair of France and developing the surrounding city.