All "À la carte🇩🇪 1994" game award winners & nominees in comparison 2025

Looking for a good card game of 1994? We have clearly listed the winner and all nominees of the german "À la carte🇩🇪" card game award. But which are really the best card games from 1994? We have compared all the winners and nominees and sorted them by quality.

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Winners of the "À la Carte" Game Prize 1994

In 1994, the card game "Take 5" won the prestigious card game award. The first 3 places were won by:

  1. Take 5
  2. Was sticht?
  3. Sherlock Holmes: The Card Game

All vintages of the À la carte award

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List with all À la carte 1994 games

Attached are all the À la carte 1994 winners and nominees that you can buy 2025:

This list was last updated on March 19, 2025. There's also a print version for this list.
  1. Take 5

    All details for the board game Take 5 and similar games

    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.

    Nominated for 5 awards and won 3.

    More details for Take 5
    • 2 - 10 Players
    • 45 Minutes
    • 8+ years old
    • Immediately playable
  2. Wildlife Safari

    All details for the board game Wildlife Safari and similar games

    Wildlife Safari, originally introduced as Flinke Pinke and later reissued under various names such as Quandary, Loco!, and Botswana, is a deceptively simple yet strategically rich card game designed by the renowned Reiner Knizia. This game, through its various iterations, has maintained its core gameplay while adopting different themes and presentation styles to appeal to a wide audience.

    Nominated for 2 awards.

    More details for Wildlife Safari
    • 2 - 5 Players
    • 20 - 30 Minutes
    • 7+ years old
    • Immediately playable
  3. Sherlock Holmes: The Card Game

    All details for the board game Sherlock Holmes: The Card Game and similar games

    With illustrations from the original novels, this card game evokes the feeling of a hunt through Victorian London, where players aim to unmask Moriarty and other villains. Players draw and play cards in a specific sequence, utilizing actions like movement and gaining clues. The game ends when a villain is successfully apprehended or when a player plays their last card, leading to a score based on the remaining cards in hand.

    More details for Sherlock Holmes: The Card Game
    • 3 - 8 Players
    • 60 Minutes
    • 10+ years old
    • Immediately playable

    Video reviews for Sherlock Holmes: The Card Game

    • YouTube Review for the game "Sherlock Holmes: The Card Game" by BoardGameGeek
      Video is in English
    • YouTube Review for the game "Sherlock Holmes: The Card Game" by BoardGameGeek
      Video is in English
  4. Was sticht?

    All details for the board game Was sticht? and similar games

    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.

    Nominated for 1 award.

    More details for Was sticht?
    • 3 - 4 Players
    • 60 Minutes
    • 12+ years old
    • Easy to learn
  5. Freight Train

    All details for the board game Freight Train and similar games

    Players manage and organize a freight station, competing over three rounds. Points are awarded for the longest or second-longest train of each type, as well as for unique mixed trains. Players can choose to add freight cars from a communal pool, draw from their own station, or rearrange their private yard for a cost in victory points. The player with the most points at the end wins.

    Nominated for 1 award.

    More details for Freight Train
    • 2 - 5 Players
    • 90 Minutes
    • 10+ years old
    • Easy to learn
  6. Oskar

    All details for the board game Oskar and similar games

    Players compete in a trick-taking card game where the main objective is to earn chips. Chips are awarded based on trendy films, which score the most points from tricks. The points earned from cards depend on the film genre indicated by the dice, and players gain points from their own tricks as well as from others who match the genre.

    More details for Oskar
    • 3 - 6 Players
    • 30 Minutes
    • Immediately playable
  7. Zwickern

    All details for the board game Zwickern and similar games

    Zwickern is a public card game where players start with a pool of cards on the table and aim to claim points using their hand cards. Players can either buy cards from the display, form a card stack, or play a card to the table during their turn. At the end of the game, players tally their points from collected cards, with bonus points for the most cards and for buying all displayed cards during a round. The player with the highest score wins.

    More details for Zwickern
    • 3 - 4 Players
    • 30 - 45 Minutes
    • 10+ years old
    • Easy to learn
  8. Hexenstich

    All details for the board game Hexenstich and similar games

    Players engage in a clever trick-taking game featuring fairies, witches, and dwarfs. Fairies score positive points, witches score negative points, while dwarf cards are neutral. The highest numbered card of the most frequently played type wins the trick. In case of a tie, the last formed group determines the type of the winning card.

    More details for Hexenstich
    • 2 - 6 Players
    • 10 Minutes
    • 10+ years old
    • Immediately playable
  9. Das Hornberger Schiessen

    All details for the board game Das Hornberger Schiessen and similar games

    Two card games are based on a story of drunken townspeople firing their cannons to celebrate the arrival of the Duke. In their intoxication, they shoot at anyone approaching, leading to chaotic situations when the Duke finally arrives. Players use cannon cards, beer cards, and Duke cards to create rows; scoring occurs when two rows are completed. The second game allows for a larger table of rows.

    More details for Das Hornberger Schiessen
    • 2 - 5 Players
    • 45 Minutes
    • 10+ years old
    • Easy to learn

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