All "Deutscher Spielepreis🇩🇪 1991" game award winners & nominees in comparison 2025

Master Labyrinth is a strategic and intriguing board game that belongs to the Ravensburger Labyrinth Games series. It builds on the concept of the simpler Labyrinth game but introduces more complexity and thematic depth. Players assume the roles of wizards-in-training, navigating a randomly arranged maze of tiles to collect essential ingredients in numerical order necessary for their mystical training.

Fans of Klaus Teuber will be intrigued by this redesign of a 1991 Game of the Year winner. In a quirky town named Rossdorf, landowners compete fiercely over valuable areas after discovering a peculiar source of mind-altering "Wacky Water." Players place tiles and vote to influence the fate of buildings, aiming to protect their own while sabotaging their rivals'.

As a vampire who has given up blood for ketchup, you aim to reach the five towers to find the great tomato. The towers also hide four onions, so caution is necessary. Players use ketchup bottles to navigate the landscape, cast spells, and hinder other vampires. It's a straightforward game suitable for children aged 10 and up.

Four capitals, four bank books, a top-secret briefcase, and eight greedy spies are up for control. The goal is to bring the briefcase to your headquarters. Players can either secretly cash out or move a spy openly, with the potential for challenges that can reverse or uphold turns, making collaboration crucial to stopping the player closest to victory.

The theme revolves around building sheep farms. Players own farms made up of hexagonal fields radiating from the center of the game board, with boundaries defined by fences shared with neighboring farms. The goal is to complete your farm and score the most points from enclosed sheep before time runs out. Players can perform actions such as placing sheep, revealing hidden sheep, moving sheep with a wooden dog, or adding fence pieces. The game incorporates elements of bluffing and memory, and it ends when a player's farm is fully occupied, determining the winner based on scores after applying multipliers.

Players try to be the first to sail to America and then return to Europe. On each turn, a player places game pieces that dictate sailing conditions and then moves their ship across these pieces.

Players take turns performing stunts or exchanging secrets based on the outcome of a spinning wheel. The winner is the first to collect a fortune card from each of the four categories: career, children, marriage, and special moments, but the goal is more about sharing fun experiences with friends and acting silly.