All "Deutscher Spielepreis🇩🇪 1990" game award winners & nominees in comparison 2025

We have clearly compared and listed all winners and nominees of the audience award "Deutscher Spielepreis🇩🇪 1990".

  • Winner Deutscher Spielepreis 1990: Hoity Toity
  • Winner Deutscher Kinderspielpreis 1990: not yet awarded

Audience Award instead of Critics Award

In contrast to the Spiel des Jahres Award, the "Deutscher Spielepreis🇩🇪" is not awarded by critics but by a professional audience (individual players, retailers, game circles, journalists). It is also called the "player" award - by players for players.

All games between "Essen" & "Nürnberg" are nominated

Anyone can participate

In addition to trade magazines and retailers, everyone (since 2001) may vote online. All participants choose what they think are the 5 best games of the vintage - first place gets 5 points, second 4, third 3, fourth 2 and fifth 1 point. Each participant is weighted exactly the same and their points are added up.

List of the 10 best games of the year

Finally, the 10 games with the highest total score are published. The game with the highest score is then the winner of the "German Game Award".

Since 1992 also "Deutscher Kinderspielpreis" (German Children's Game Award)

In addition to the 5 best games, each participant may also select a children's game. The one with the most votes then becomes the winner of the "Deutscher Kinderspielpreis" for the respective year.

All other "Deutscher Spielepreis" years

The German Game Prize is awarded since 1990, we have listed for you both across all years, all Children's Game Prize winners and separated by year you can find at the bottom of the page.

More info can be found on the official website of the "German Games Award".

List with all Deutscher Spielepreis🇩🇪 1990 winners and nominees:

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

    All details for the board game A la carte and similar games

    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.

    Nominated for 4 awards and won 1.

    ⭐️ Nominated for Spiel des Jahres 2010

    More details for A la carte
    • 2 - 4 Players
    • 30 Minutes
    • 8+ years old
    • Immediately playable
  2. Favoriten

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    Favoriten is a simple racing game that incorporates an intriguing element of pressure, allowing players to test their luck. In three races involving five horses, players do not own any horses but have three betting chips each. Players take turns rolling a die to advance the horses, placing bets on them before rolling. The payout system rewards the first player to bet on the winning horse, and players must carefully decide when to place their bets to maximize their potential winnings.

    More details for Favoriten
    • 2 - 5 Players
    • 60 Minutes
    • 9+ years old
    • Immediately playable
  3. Such a Thing?

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    Players must come up with something that fits within a series of predefined categories. The game includes 220 cards with prompts like "needs fuel," "floats," or "can be used militarily." Players take turns adding cards from their hand until someone doubts the existence of a fitting item, resulting in penalties for the player whose claim is challenged or the doubter, depending on the outcome. The first player to run out of cards wins.

    More details for Such a Thing?
    • 2 - 8 Players
    • 30 Minutes
    • 10+ years old
    • Immediately playable
  4. Hoity Toity

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    Hoity Toity, a Spiel des Jahres winner in 1990 by Klaus Teuber, is a lighthearted board game about English noblemen collecting and flaunting antiques. This game is for 3 to 6 players and revolves around acquiring cards that represent various antique items. Players aim to build the largest and most valuable collection of these quirky treasures.

    Nominated for 3 awards and won 2.

    ⭐️ Spiel des Jahres 1990

    More details for Hoity Toity
    • 2 - 5 Players
    • 45 Minutes
    • 12+ years old
    • Easy to learn
  5. Gold Digger

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    Anxious prospectors seek their fortune in gold by choosing claims that promise wealth, but they must beware of fool's gold. The player who outsmarts everyone else wins! The game was originally released as Goldrausch, later reissued as Gold Digger, and has since been revamped as Wapi, featuring a new theme and luxurious components.

    More details for Gold Digger
    • 2 - 5 Players
    • 20 Minutes
    • 7+ years old
    • Immediately playable

    Video reviews for Gold Digger

    • YouTube Review for the game "Gold Digger" by BoardGameGeek
      Video is in English
  6. Timberland

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    Timberland is a family game focused on forest management in earlier times. The game unfolds across the four seasons, with fruits falling in autumn, wild boars foraging in winter, seeds sprouting into trees in spring and summer, and lumberjacks harvesting the trees afterwards. Players select cards and maneuver the wild boar and lumberjack to amass the largest contiguous forest.

    More details for Timberland
    • 2 - 4 Players
    • 30 Minutes
    • 8+ years old
    • Easy to learn
  7. Dicke Kartoffeln

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    Players own a farm with five fields and face challenges over several years, including crop rotation, market observation, over-fertilization, insects, weather, and more. The player with the healthiest fields and the highest profits at the end of the game wins.

    More details for Dicke Kartoffeln
    • 2 - 6 Players
    • 120 Minutes
    • 12+ years old
    • Medium difficulty

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