All "Spiel des Jahres🇩🇪 1991" game award winners & nominees in comparison 2026

Players must work together to move all their boats to safety while avoiding patrolling pirates. Each player starts with a boat on Adventure Island, and two pirate ships are placed along the route home. The game involves rolling dice to advance boats and can increase in difficulty by assigning multiple boats to each player.

In a distant Arctic region near the North Pole, players navigate the treacherous ice while avoiding the fearsome polar bear, known as "nanuq" by the Inuit. Each player controls a team of four Inuit who leap from ice floe to ice floe to catch fish and return home safely. The game concludes when a player successfully brings four Inuit back to their igloo, each carrying a fish.

The objective is to catch enemy ants to obtain parts of the queen ant depicted on the underside of the figures. All ants are magnetic, and if the figure you attempt to catch repels from yours, it captures your figure instead.

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.

20 Questions is a popular panel game where the panel asks up to 20 questions to guess a person, place, or thing. This edition features 396 cards, each with 20 answers. Players ask for a number and try to guess the answer based on that hint, with chips used for each attempt. The distribution of chips depends on how quickly the correct answer is given. There is also a point tracking system on the game board and a chance to outsmart the guesser.

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'.

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.

Invers is an abstract game for two players where they alternately slide and flip game pieces on a 6x6 grid. Each piece has a solid color side (red or yellow) and a dotted side. Players aim to flip all their pieces or have the most flipped pieces when no more moves are possible.

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.