All "Spiel des Jahres🇩🇪 1994" game award winners & nominees in comparison 2026

6 nimmt!, also known as Take 5, Category 5 and other names, is a card game focused on scoring as few points as possible. It combines elements of strategy, prediction, and a bit of luck.

Loopin' Louie is a light-hearted, action-packed board game that is as silly as it is addictive. Designed for players of all ages, this game centers around protecting your chickens from a looping airplane piloted by Louie.

Take It Easy! is an engaging and strategic game that combines elements of puzzle-solving and planning with a touch of luck, offering a unique gaming experience often likened to a multi-player solitaire with a twist. The game's core lies in each player's ability to efficiently complete a hexagon-shaped board using 19 hexagonal tiles, each featuring colored lines and numbers that cross in three directions.

Manhattan is a strategic board game where players engage in the construction of a skyline of skyscrapers on Manhattan Island. The game blends area control mechanics with spatial strategy, as players aim to dominate the skyline by building the tallest structures in various districts of Manhattan.

I'm the Boss! is a dynamic negotiation board game where players embody investors wheeling and dealing to close lucrative deals. With its blend of strategy, negotiation, and chance, the game captures the cutthroat world of business in a fun and engaging way.

In the geometric racing game, players maneuver teams of kangaroos that jump around a billabong. The board consists of a checkerboard pattern surrounding a central waterhole. On their turn, players move one of their five kangaroos, typically jumping over others; the first player to get all five kangaroos around the billabong and across the finish line wins.

Players engage in a card game featuring two trump cards and various twists. They design tasks to accomplish in order to win, such as "take no tricks" or "take one trick." Throughout the game, players draw cards, with the dealer revealing who would have won certain tricks based on the draws, leading to strategic decisions on how to fulfill their selected tasks. The first player to complete five tasks wins the game.

A simple game involves racing to the end of a path. On your turn, you move a figure and place stones in the heads of other figures based on how many spaces you moved. The winner among the first two finishers is the one with the most stones in their head.

Players take on the role of devils fighting for the soul of Dr. Faust in this beautifully produced and abstract game. It has received the SdJ special award for its appealing design.