All "Spiel des Jahres🇩🇪 2010" game award winners & nominees in comparison 2026

In the bustling city of Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan, you find yourself in a fierce competition as one of the two most powerful traders. However, being a prominent trader isn't enough; the ultimate goal is to earn two coveted "seals of excellence" to secure an invitation to the Maharaja's prestigious court. To outshine your direct competitor, you'll need to demonstrate superior trading skills by buying, exchanging, and selling goods at advantageous prices, all while carefully managing your valuable camel herds.

Dixit is a beautifully imaginative and simple card game that emphasizes creativity and interpretation. Each turn, a player becomes the storyteller, selecting a card from their hand and giving a sentence or phrase inspired by the card’s image. The other players then choose cards from their hands that they feel best match the storyteller's sentence.

Identik (Meisterwerke) is a fun and fast-paced family and party game that tests players' abilities to describe, draw, and evaluate bizarre images. In each round, one player describes a unique and strange picture while others attempt to draw it based solely on that description. After time is up, the drawings are revealed alongside ten hidden criteria, and each artist decides if their drawing meets the criteria for scoring.

Mountain Goats is a dynamic and competitive board game where players strive to maneuver their goats to the summits of various mountains to score points. The game combines elements of timing and strategic positioning with direct player interaction, as players can knock each other's goats off the peaks, requiring them to restart their ascent.

Roll Through the Ages: The Bronze Age is a captivating dice game that immerses players in the task of building and advancing their civilizations. This game combines elements of luck, strategy, and resource management, making it an engaging experience for players who enjoy civilization-building themes.

In A la carte, players don the hats of eccentric chefs embroiled in the culinary showdown of a lifetime. This lighthearted and quirky game, conceived by Karl-Heinz Schmiel, is as much about managing the chaos of a kitchen as it is about the precise art of cooking itself. Each chef is armed with a mini pan and a hotplate, competing not just against time but against each other's culinary shenanigans.

Tobago is an intriguing adventure board game where players embark on a treasure hunt, using clues to narrow down the locations of hidden treasures on a mysterious island. The game stands out with its modular board and strategic gameplay, appealing to players who enjoy deduction and exploration themes.

Each player has an excavation site that resembles an Egyptian archaeological site. Stacks of treasure tiles are set up between players, sorted by size and shape, with each tile containing different amounts of treasures. Players roll five treasure dice covered in various types of Egyptian artifacts, aiming to collect tiles that match their rolls. They can re-roll their dice up to three times to achieve a specific configuration. The first player to completely cover their excavation site with treasure tiles wins the game. A simpler version allows players to move their tiles after placement, making it easier for children.

The night vampires are in trouble. They need help against a sinister vampire hunter who has emptied a sack of garlic in an old, abandoned castle. With the assistance of a little bat, players can magically move the vampires and get rid of the stinky garlic, but caution is required, as garlic falling into the dungeon can spread its unpleasant smell to the remaining vampires. Bright figures make this exciting game perfect for play all day or from dusk until dawn.

Players roll four symbol dice, each showing a circle, triangle, or cross. They then arrange these dice in a specific order on their personal 7x7 grid and aim to create the largest contiguous areas of matching symbols. The goal is to maximize their final score.

Hansa Teutonica is a strategic board game that transports players back to the time of the Hanseatic League, a medieval commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds in Northwestern and Central Europe. In this game, players take on the roles of traders competing to expand their trading network, improve their skills, and gain the most victory points.

Growl! Dragon Diego Dart has missed his target again and has even set Uncle Drooge's hut on fire! Players choose a target lane to hit and roll three balls into the correct slot while others try to guess the target. Points are awarded for correct guesses and for hitting the target, with the player scoring the most points winning the game.

Players must place wooden blocks to create towers on a board with nine colors. Each turn, a player lays blocks vertically according to the instructions on an action card. If any towers fall as a result of their action, the player receives a negative point and is out of the game after accumulating three negative points.

Fresco is a thematic board game that immerses players in the world of Renaissance artistry, specifically in the restoration of a fresco in a church. This game combines resource management, strategy, and a unique wake-up mechanic to create an engaging experience.

A reaction game similar to Halli Galli or Jungle Speed. Each round, a mouse card is flipped face up, and players race to play cards that match the clothing on the mouse. The first player to successfully flip a matching card scores a point.

Endeavor is a strategic board game set during the age of exploration and expansion, where players represent growing empires vying for global dominance through various means such as exploration, colonization, and war.

Players explore the sea to discover animals with their research ship. Beware of the giant octopus, which will try to envelop your ship. The game features an innovative tilting mechanism that activates when a ship is caught by the octopus. The player who discovers the most different animals wins the game.

Kamisado is a game of pure skill and strategy, without dice, cards, or other elements of chance. Players aim to be the first to move an octagonal "dragon tower" to the opposite side of the board, following specific movement rules based on their opponent's previous turn. As the game progresses, players can promote their towers to "sumos," allowing them to push back the opponent's pieces, creating increasingly complex situations until one player becomes the "Kamisado grandmaster."

Players control a tribe of four hunters and gatherers in the Stone Age. The game has two main phases: summer and winter, where the aim is to collect as many stones as possible. Players can move twice per turn and must visit all four summer camps to store supplies for winter; failure to do so results in fewer hunters in the winter phase. Various stones have different values, including food tiles, rare artifacts, weapons for hunting mammoths, and cave tiles that offer mobility advantages.

Players take on the role of merchant families in Samarkand, marrying into wealthy trading families and expanding their trade routes. Each round, they can either marry into a trade family or expand an existing family's trade route by paying the necessary costs. The game ends when all families have established at least one trade relationship, and players tally their victory points from trade goods and relationships to determine the winner.

World Without End, inspired by Ken Follett's novel and a sequel to The Pillars of the Earth, is a standalone strategy board game set in the town of Kingsbridge, 200 years after the original story. This 2009 game is part of the Kosmos series of literature-based games.

Players create their own small principality in a fantastical world, where knights protect castles and roads connect windmills and churches. Each player uses an identical set of 24 stones to fill their starting empty principality, following the same order of locations. The player who best fills their principality with roads while safeguarding their castles and knight boundaries earns the most points and wins.

Players roll dice, cover spaces, and hide small mice in this fun and active color-learning game. Five colorful fabric mice gather on a game board featuring a picnic blanket, while a soft fabric mouse hole is included. When a child rolls the mouse symbol, a plush animal emerges, prompting them to find an object of the same color to hide the mouse before the picnic starts.

Players use their rabbit inspectors to hunt down criminals, but each criminal has a twin. A criminal can only be arrested if both members of the pair are captured. When a rabbit inspector lands in a search area, players reveal the covered tokens there. If another rabbit finds a matching criminal in a second area, both can be claimed. The first player to capture three or four pairs of criminals wins, depending on the number of players.

The game consists of tiles that depict either a docked spaceship or a flying one. The active player reveals a tile; if it's a docked ship, they place a pilot chip on it and ask another player to place a co-pilot chip. Everyone then closes their eyes while the active player hides the ship in the room, and if it's a flying ship, the player must find it within a set time to win chips.

Farm animals are going on vacation! Unfortunately, the farmer messed up all the tickets and doesn't know who is going where. Players must help by identifying animals through touch while wearing a blindfold, executing tasks like placing animals in the correct spots on the board. Sensible fingers and a good memory are key, as the animals change almost every round.

The pigs have mixed up Shaun's photo album. Players help Shaun collect his pictures as quickly as possible to prevent the farmer from finding out. Sixty cards are randomly placed face down on the table, each depicting one of four sheep against a background of one of four colors. Players quickly pick up and examine the cards, then either return them to the table or add them to their pile. The game ends when there are no more cards to pick up, and players score points for the longest sequence in their pile where no two adjacent cards share either the image or the background.

Eric Carle's "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" has a huge appetite. Children embark on an adventure, transforming into a butterfly while navigating the journey that starts on a Monday. Players must find the sun card to collect solar chips and seek out the red apple, making it a memory game easy enough for three-year-olds to enjoy.

Gackerei ums Hühnerei is a simple and fun game for children. Players have "egg" cards on their chairs and roll a die to determine which color Biddy to hatch. They reveal their eggs simultaneously to find the correct Biddy, and the fastest player earns victory points while potentially facing a fox.

A small mouse weighs the least on the seesaw, while the bear weighs the most. Players place wooden blocks on the seesaw based on dice rolls to meet victory conditions. There are three rule variations aimed at different age groups, making it suitable for younger and older children alike.

Players use colored dice and cards with images. The first to find the matching card and score points gets a chip. The first to collect six chips wins.