The best "As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année Expert"🇫🇷 winners & nominees (Expert Game) 2026

Zombie Kidz Evolution is a legacy-style board game made for children: players team up to defend a school against zombies and lock its four entryways, while sealed envelopes, trophies and stickers steadily evolve the game.

Outfoxed! invites you into a whimsical detective chase after Mrs. Plumpert's missing prized pot pie. It's a cooperative game where players work together to gather clues, eliminate suspects, and catch the cunning fox before it escapes. The game introduces a unique evidence scanner mechanism that adds a fun twist to deducing the thief among a lineup of potential foxes.

The big moment has arrived. You have been appointed as a "Dragon Trainer" with the chance to encounter dragons on a mysterious island. Compete with other trainers to discover the most baby dragons while searching for dragon eggs.

Players solve puzzles that tell stories and immerse themselves in different universes. After assembling the puzzle, they flip the pieces to uncover a narrative, with each piece presenting a small riddle. Help Lina, Sacha, or Timon follow the trail of a missing dragon and rely on sharp observation skills to succeed.

Attention! The siren at the fire station has just sounded an alarm because a fire has broken out! Players must work together in Pin Pon! to arrive on time, assist the firefighters, and extinguish the flames to save the burning house.

Players take on the role of mischievous young pirates. They aim to steal treasures from Captain Giraffe's chest while blaming their fellow pirates. Caution is needed; if caught, they'll walk the plank! The first player to fall off loses the game.

Players engage in a dexterity game where they load wooden "cargo" onto a swaying wooden ship. Items like bottles, sailors, and rats are placed on the ship's body and on three throwing arms extending from the mast.

Players aim to pull the apprentices down the mountain before the witches reach the bottom. They place supports on the board to raise the starting area and set up their pieces. By drawing colored will-o'-the-wisps and moving figures along the path, strategic decisions come into play to either advance their apprentices or delay the witches. Winning requires getting four apprentices down the mountain before three witches do, with options to adjust the game's difficulty for more variation.

Spotlight (German edition: Team Adlerauge) is a cooperative hidden-object game in which players use a “magic” flashlight to spot wacky characters and items in darkened scenes. Find as many hidden pictures as possible to move your pawns to the finish line before the chasing Moon pawn catches up.

Players take a standing stick and place it on the nest. If both ends of the stick are the same color, they can choose to place an egg on it. If not, they continue picking sticks whose top color matches the lid color of the previous stick, up to three sticks. There are penalties for sticks touching the ground or eggs falling from the nest. The first player to place all their eggs can place the cuckoo on the nest and win the game.

Join Jonon and Jada, two children from the Stone Age, on a journey to rediscover how the first humans settled the world around them. In this children's version of the classic family game, players collect resources and build their own settlement.

Strange events occur on Mysterville Island, and Charlie Holmes needs your help to solve the case! Interrogate witnesses, analyze evidence, and return to the train station in time for tea.

Players compete to get rid of their cards in the game Who Did It? The goal is to avoid taking responsibility for the animal that made a mess. Each round is quick and fun; find your card, play it first, and blame someone else!

Investigate in the world of Zombie Kidz. Your mission is to thwart the nefarious plans of the zombies! This picture-based game features investigative tasks and invites players to embark on a cooperative adventure with friends or family. Discover the story piece by piece through the characters’ experiences, solving puzzles and uncovering clues to change the future and save the world from horrific monsters.

The premise is simple: a board rests on a platform filled with wooden discs, trees, and other objects. In the center lies a ring of light covered by a cardboard disc and a flickering flame, with the cauldrons circling around it. Players aim to push their cauldron towards the ring of light by pressing pieces on the board, but the twist is that the game is played in complete darkness, making everything except the glowing elements invisible.

Enter the world of Bubble Stories through two adventures where players are the heroes. Explore new locations by flipping cards to discover what lies ahead and uncover hidden treasures at the end of each journey. In the first scenario, search for friends in school, visiting places like the classroom, playground, or gym to complete your quest.

A hide-and-seek game for 2 to 6 players. One player acts as the wolf and gives the other players 5 seconds to hide their goats in one of seven pieces of furniture. The wolf can then look at 2 pieces of furniture and collect any goats found there, while the undiscovered goats earn points.

Super Miaou is a deck-building game featuring a static market. Players start with a stack of four money cards and draw two each round to play. Using the money, they can acquire more cards, obtain a rat to steal from others, purchase cat food to later get the cat (Miau), or buy a cloak for the cat’s superhero costume. The game ends when a player draws both the cat and the cloak in the same round.

Players take on the role of knights working together to build three towers before King Duncan returns to his castle. Their only tool is a bizarre device made of satin cord, wooden balls, and something resembling an elastic ponytail holder. The towers to be built are dictated by goal cards, and players must complete the structures before time runs out to collect these cards and win.

Beware! The tentacles of a terrible octopus break through the waves. All hands on deck—grab your swords, cannons, and artillery!

Under the dense canopy of trees, a hedgehog rushes back to its cozy home, but a fox is on the prowl for its next meal. Players roll the cuddly hedgehog across the forest floor to collect apples, leaves, and mushrooms to help advance on the path. The game offers both a competitive mode for head-to-head play and a cooperative mode to team up against the clever fox, with advanced rules for adult players seeking a challenge.

The final event to join the Guild of Mages is here, focusing on mastering the summoning of Gigamons. Players must find pairs of Elemons to exchange for Gigamons. The one who captures the most Gigamons will be promoted to Elemage after this challenge.

Players cooperate to defend their castle against monsters in a simplified version that promotes educational skills like recognizing colors and shapes and solving problems. Monsters follow a designated path toward the colorful castle, marked by specific colors and shapes. Players use cards featuring cute defenders that match these attributes to capture monsters and prevent the castle's destruction.

Players work together to help a monster understand its emotions. They take turns rolling a die to move the monster on the board. When the monster lands on a space with an emotion token, the player picks it up and tries to find the corresponding glass from the hidden options. To keep a token, players must share a memory related to that emotion. The game can end in defeat if the monster gets too confused, but they win by successfully sorting all the emotions into the correct glasses.

Every year, the keg bowling competition takes place. Players must show courage, skill, and a willingness to take risks as they use a ball to knock over the right kegs and position their Vikings on the dock. The player who wins the most gold coins emerges victorious, but those who venture too far may fall into the water and leave empty-handed.

Yum Yum Island is inhabited by hungry animals that players need to feed before a giant takes the food and fills his own belly first. Players assume the role of pelicans trying to satisfy the animals’ dietary needs by delivering the correct types of food, represented by colored tokens. During each turn, a player rolls a die to set the difficulty, puts on a blindfold, and attempts to feed the animals without being able to see the board.

The famous Master Fox is getting old and is searching for a successor among the brave forest bandits. This is your chance to prove your skills as a thief and take his place! To impress the old fox, you must complete missions and bring him the greatest loot from the nearby cabin.

Nothing is worse than a nightmare ruining your night's sleep! Use your observation skills to choose the best stuffed animal to completely cover the disruptive nightmare.

Players arrange vegetables and mice under a board that only shows leaves on top. A color die determines which plant players can check, allowing them to remove it if it matches the color. The mouse player wins by removing all the vegetables before all three mice are taken away; otherwise, all other players win.

Animouv is a children's game that combines movement and strategy. Players aim to collect animal cards by arranging animal tiles on the board. However, it's challenging to line up the animals without interference from other players.

The confused witch rushes through the enchanted forest searching for her belongings. With items like a spellbook, cauldron, and broom getting lost, lucky little forest witches are nearby to help her in the search. Try to collect as many things as you can while keeping them away from your opponents!

Work together to help the farm animals return to their barns before Mr. Wolf arrives. Flip the animal tiles while keeping an eye out for him. Each time you find Mr. Wolf, he moves closer, but finding an animal helps you remember which barn it belongs to. Fill the barns before Mr. Wolf shows up to win together!

Booooooom! Since gold was discovered in the once-sleepy town of Old Town, chaos has ensued. Everyone, from seasoned prospectors to hotel owners, grabs dynamite and rushes to the ghost mine to blast gold from the mountain.

Dwarfs want gold, but their short legs make it hard to collect it quickly. They share a giant for transport, which complicates reaching their desired destinations. Players must manage landscape cards to move the giant and claim gold in various cities while competing with other dwarfs. An advanced variant introduces a storm cloud mechanic for seasoned players.

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.