The best "Gra Roku🇵🇱" winners and nominees 2026

Looking for a good game that won or was nominated for the "Gra Roku" award? Then we have just the thing for you: A list of the best "Gra Roku" winners and games that were on the nomination list.

What is the "Gra Roku" game award?

"Gra Roku" is an award for dice, card & board games. The award originates from 🇵🇱Poland, was created in 2004 and is voted by a jury.

The initial idea regarding the year used in the name of the award was that the year in which all nominated games were published in Poland should also be used for the award. Therefore, for example, the prize for 2005 was awarded in the spring of 2006 to a game published in Poland in 2005. In 2007, the committee decided to include the current year in the name (rather than the year the game was released). This is the reason why there is no "Game of the Year" for 2006.

Gra Roku Categories

The Gra Roku award is given each year in the following categories:

  • Game of the Year
  • Expert Game of the Year
  • Best Debut
  • Best Expansion
  • Best Original Artwork
  • Best Party Game
  • Best Polish Designer
  • Best Thematic Game
  • Best game for two players
  • Children's game of the year
  • Family Game of the Year
  • Player Award
  • War Game of the Year

More info can be found on the official homepage.

Other game awards from all over the world

There are many more game awards from around the world, you can find a list at the bottom of this page.

List of best Gra Roku winners & nominees 2026

This list was last updated on June 6, 2026. There's also a print version for this list .
  1. Codenames (Spiel des Jahres 2016 winner)

    • Game of the Year+14Game of the Year
    • Word GameWord Game
    • DeductionDeduction
    • Party GameParty Game
    • Crime & MysteryCrime & Mystery
    • MemoryMemory
    +78 more

    Codenames is a captivating and popular party game that involves clever wordplay and deduction. Two teams compete, each led by a spymaster who knows the secret identities of 25 agents, represented by cards bearing single-word codenames like "disease," "Germany," or even "carrot." The objective is for each team to be the first to correctly identify all their agents based on clues given by their spymaster, while avoiding the dangerous assassin.

    Nominated for 27 awards and won 15.

    ⭐️ Spiel des Jahres 2016

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    • 👥 2 - 8 Players
    • ⏱️ 15 Minutes
    • 🧒 10+ years old
    • 🧩 Immediately playable
  2. MicroMacro: Crime City

    MicroMacro: Crime City is a unique detective game that immerses players into a detailed and expansive cityscape to solve intriguing crimes. The game centers around a large, detailed map of a city where various crimes have occurred. Players become detectives tasked with unraveling these mysteries using the clues scattered across the city.

    Nominated for 22 awards and won 11.

    ⭐️ Spiel des Jahres 2021

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    • 👥 1 - 4 Players
    • ⏱️ 15 - 45 Minutes
    • 🧒 12+ years old
    • 🧩 Immediately playable
  3. HITSTER

    With HITSTER, the ultimate music card game, you can instantly throw a party! Listen to over 100 years of fantastic hits, arrange them chronologically on your music timeline, and relive unforgettable memories. The first player to collect 10 hits is crowned the HITSTER.

    Nominated for 6 awards and won 4.

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    • 👥 2 - 10 Players
    • ⏱️ 30 Minutes
    • 🧒 16+ years old
    • 🧩 Immediately playable
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  5. The Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-earth

    A dark rumor arises from Mordor, and the time has come for the Fellowship to unite once more. Players can choose to defend the free peoples as the Fellowship of the Ring or pursue Frodo and Sam as Sauron, deploying their hordes at enemy city gates. The fate of Middle-earth rests in your hands as you navigate the three chapters of the game, strengthening your skills and gathering resources to achieve one of the victory conditions.

    Nominated for 8 awards and won 2.

    More details for The Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-earth
    • 👥 2 Players
    • ⏱️ 30 Minutes
    • 🧒 10+ years old
    • 🧩 Easy to learn
  6. Trio

    Trio is a card game where players search for triplets. The deck consists of 36 cards, numbered from 1 to 12 three times. Players sort their hands from low to high and take turns revealing cards, aiming to collect sets of three matching cards.

    Nominated for 8 awards and won 2.

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    • 👥 3 - 6 Players
    • ⏱️ 15 Minutes
    • 🧒 6+ years old
    • 🧩 Immediately playable
  7. Sky Team - Prepare for Landing

    Players take on the roles of a pilot and a co-pilot in a cooperative game for two. The objective is to work together to land your airplane at various airports around the world. Successful landing requires silently coordinating dice placement in your cockpit to balance the aircraft, control speed, deploy flaps, and even brew coffee to enhance focus. Each airport presents unique challenges, so stay alert for turbulence—it could be a bumpy ride!

    Nominated for 14 awards and won 9.

    ⭐️ Spiel des Jahres 2024

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    • 👥 2 Players
    • ⏱️ 20 Minutes
    • 🧒 10+ years old
    • 🧩 Easy to learn
  8. Cascadia

    Cascadia is a tile-laying and token-drafting board game that features the rich habitats and diverse wildlife of the Pacific Northwest. It combines strategic tile placement with wildlife conservation themes.

    Nominated for 26 awards and won 15.

    ⭐️ Spiel des Jahres 2022

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    • 👥 1 - 4 Players
    • ⏱️ 30 - 45 Minutes
    • 🧒 10+ years old
    • 🧩 Easy to learn
  9. Kingdomino (Spiel des Jahres 2017 winner)

    Embark on a noble quest to expand your kingdom in Kingdomino. As a lord, your mission is to explore vast lands filled with wheat fields, serene lakes, and towering mountains. Competing with fellow lords, you must identify the choicest plots to claim as your own.

    Nominated for 17 awards and won 7.

    ⭐️ Spiel des Jahres 2017

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    • 👥 2 - 4 Players
    • ⏱️ 15 - 25 Minutes
    • 🧒 8+ years old
    • 🧩 Immediately playable

    Video reviews for Kingdomino (Spiel des Jahres 2017 winner)

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  10. Top Ten

    Top Ten is a lively party game that challenges players to creatively rank responses based on humorous or bizarre scenarios. Each player’s task is to align their answer with a secret number they are assigned, ranging from worst (1) to best (10), according to the theme provided by the round's chief. The game combines elements of comedy, strategy, and social deduction as players try to guess and assign the correct rankings to each other's answers.

    Nominated for 5 awards and won 1.

    ⭐️ Nominated for Spiel des Jahres 2022

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    • 👥 4 - 9 Players
    • ⏱️ 30 Minutes
    • 🧒 14+ years old
    • 🧩 Immediately playable
  11. Love Letter

    In Love Letter, you must compete with other suitors to deliver a romantic letter to Princess Annette, who has secluded herself in the palace.

    Nominated for 15 awards and won 7.

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    • 👥 2 - 4 Players
    • ⏱️ 20 Minutes
    • 🧒 10+ years old
    • 🧩 Immediately playable
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  13. Sushi Go Party!

    Sushi Go Party! is an expanded version of the popular card game Sushi Go!, offering more variety and accommodating more players for a larger, more dynamic game experience.

    Nominated for 7 awards and won 2.

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    • 👥 2 - 8 Players
    • ⏱️ 20 Minutes
    • 🧒 8+ years old
    • 🧩 Immediately playable
  14. Patchwork

    Patchwork is a two-player game where you compete to create the most beautiful and high-scoring patchwork quilt on your personal 9x9 game board.

    Nominated for 11 awards and won 3.

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    • 👥 2 Players
    • ⏱️ 15 - 30 Minutes
    • 🧒 8+ years old
    • 🧩 Easy to learn

    Video reviews for Patchwork

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  15. Ready Set Bet

    Players and their friends head to the races to cheer and bet on their favorite horses, with outcomes determined by dice rolls. The game is played over four rounds, each consisting of a race followed by a betting resolution. Players can place their betting tokens freely on the board during the race and earn money based on their bets, with a chance to gain a VIP club card for greater winnings in subsequent races. The player with the most money after four rounds wins.

    Nominated for 5 awards and won 1.

    More details for Ready Set Bet
    • 👥 2 - 9 Players
    • ⏱️ 45 - 60 Minutes
    • 🧒 10+ years old
    • 🧩 Immediately playable
  16. Azul (Spiel des Jahres 2018 winner)

    • Game of the Year+18Game of the Year
    • Family GameFamily Game
    • Tile-LayingTile-Laying
    • RenaissanceRenaissance
    • DraftingDrafting
    • Set CollectionSet Collection
    +84 more

    Azul invites you to step into the captivating world of Portuguese artistry and craftsmanship. This board game draws inspiration from the introduction of azulejos, originally white and blue ceramic tiles, by the Moors. The tiles found a new home in Portugal when King Manuel I, during a visit to the Alhambra palace in Southern Spain, was enchanted by the exquisite Moorish decorative tiles adorning its interior. Filled with awe and inspiration, the king promptly ordered the embellishment of his own palace in Portugal with similar decorative tiles. As a skilled tile-laying artist, you are tasked with the prestigious mission of adorning the walls of the Royal Palace of Evora.

    Nominated for 30 awards and won 19.

    ⭐️ Spiel des Jahres 2018

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    • 👥 2 - 4 Players
    • ⏱️ 30 - 45 Minutes
    • 🧒 8+ years old
    • 🧩 Easy to learn

    Video reviews for Azul (Spiel des Jahres 2018 winner)

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  17. Dixit (Spiel des Jahres 2010 winner)

    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.

    Nominated for 20 awards and won 10.

    ⭐️ Spiel des Jahres 2010

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    • 👥 3 - 6 Players
    • ⏱️ 30 Minutes
    • 🧒 8+ years old
    • 🧩 Immediately playable
  18. 7 Wonders Duel (À la carte 2016 card game award Winner)

    • BGG Top 100+8BGG Top 100
    • 2-Player2-Player
    • CivilizationCivilization
    • Economy & TradeEconomy & Trade
    • Strategy GameStrategy Game
    • DraftingDrafting
    +80 more

    7 Wonders Duel takes the essence of the classic 7 Wonders and refines it for an intense two-player experience. It retains the thematic elements of building a civilization through acquiring various types of cards, but it introduces unique mechanics suited for a duel.

    Nominated for 16 awards and won 9.

    More details for 7 Wonders Duel (À la carte 2016 card game award Winner)
    • 👥 2 Players
    • ⏱️ 30 Minutes
    • 🧒 10+ years old
    • 🧩 Easy to learn

    Video reviews for 7 Wonders Duel (À la carte 2016 card game award Winner)

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  19. Decrypto

    Engage in the riveting team-based challenge of Decrypto, where players strive to correctly interpret coded messages from their teammates while unraveling the intercepted codes of the opposing team.

    Nominated for 15 awards and won 7.

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    • 👥 3 - 8 Players
    • ⏱️ 15 - 45 Minutes
    • 🧒 12+ years old
    • 🧩 Easy to learn

    Video reviews for Decrypto

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  20. Zombie Kidz Evolution

    Zombie Kidz Evolution is a pioneering legacy-style board game designed specifically for children. Building upon the foundation of the 2013 game Zombie Kidz, this version introduces a dynamic and evolving gameplay experience. Set in a school under siege by zombies, young players must navigate through rooms and entryways to fend off the undead and prevent them from overrunning the school. The objective is to lock all four entryways of the school, a task complicated by the absence of the custodian. As players progress and improve their skills, they can undertake missions and earn trophies and stickers, similar to achievements in video games. The game also features envelopes that, when opened, add new elements to the game, including challenges, powers, and heroes, keeping the gameplay fresh and engaging.

    Nominated for 9 awards and won 5.

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    • 👥 2 - 4 Players
    • ⏱️ 15 Minutes
    • 🧒 7+ years old
    • 🧩 Immediately playable
  21. The Quack of Quedlinburg (Kennerspiel 2018 winner)

    Become a cunning charlatan or a quack doctor in the whimsical world of The Quacks of Quedlinburg. In this quirky board game, each player concocts their own secret brew, one ingredient at a time. But beware, for a careless addition could spoil the entire mixture!

    Nominated for 17 awards and won 12.

    ⭐️ Kennerspiel des Jahres 2018

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    • 👥 2 - 4 Players
    • ⏱️ 45 Minutes
    • 🧒 10+ years old
    • 🧩 Easy to learn
  22. Pictures (Spiel des Jahres 2020 winner)

    Players simultaneously attempt to replicate an image using one of five different materials: building blocks, sticks and stones, picture cards, colored dice, or a rope. Afterward, each player guesses which of the 16 displayed images was copied. The game concludes after five rounds, with each player having used every material once. It is also language-independent.

    Nominated for 9 awards and won 3.

    ⭐️ Spiel des Jahres 2020

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    • 👥 3 - 5 Players
    • ⏱️ 20 - 30 Minutes
    • 🧒 8+ years old
    • 🧩 Immediately playable

    Video reviews for Pictures (Spiel des Jahres 2020 winner)

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  23. Times Up! The Celebrities Charades Game

    Time's Up! is a lively and entertaining charades-based party game, ideal for playing in teams of two or more. It's particularly engaging when played with teams of two. The game revolves around guessing famous historical or fictional characters, with each player contributing to a communal deck of names used across three distinct rounds.

    Nominated for 5 awards and won 2.

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    • 👥 4 - 18 Players
    • ⏱️ 90 Minutes
    • 🧒 12+ years old
    • 🧩 Immediately playable
  24. Heat: Pedal to the Metal

    Heat: Pedal to the Metal is a dynamic and strategic racing board game that simulates the thrill and intricacies of car racing. It offers players a chance to experience the excitement of racing while managing crucial elements like speed, car upgrades, and varying track conditions.

    Nominated for 17 awards and won 7.

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    • 👥 1 - 6 Players
    • ⏱️ 30 - 60 Minutes
    • 🧒 10+ years old
    • 🧩 Easy to learn
  25. Dorfromantik: The Board Game

    Dorfromantik: The Board Game transitions the charming and strategic essence of the beloved video game into a tactile family board game experience. Designed by Michael Palm and Lukas Zach, this game invites up to six players to collaboratively construct a picturesque landscape using hexagonal tiles. Players aim to satisfy community demands while strategically extending rivers and tracks, and optimizing points through clever area enclosure with flags.

    Nominated for 6 awards and won 2.

    ⭐️ Spiel des Jahres 2023

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    • 👥 1 - 6 Players
    • ⏱️ 30 - 60 Minutes
    • 🧒 8+ years old
    • 🧩 Easy to learn
  26. Splendor Duel

    Splendor Duel is an intriguing two-player game that builds upon the foundation of its predecessor, Splendor, enhancing it with new layers of strategy and competitiveness. Designed specifically for two players, this standalone game maintains the core elements of Splendor while introducing novel twists and mechanics, making it more dynamic and interactive.

    Nominated for 14 awards and won 3.

    More details for Splendor Duel
    • 👥 2 Players
    • ⏱️ 30 Minutes
    • 🧒 10+ years old
    • 🧩 Easy to learn
  27. Pandemic Legacy: Season 1

    • BGG Top 100+11BGG Top 100
    • CooperativeCooperative
    • Nature & FarmingNature & Farming
    • CampaignCampaign
    • LegacyLegacy
    • Strategy GameStrategy Game
    +67 more

    Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 offers an extraordinary gaming experience as a cooperative campaign game, immersing players in an overarching story-arc that unfolds over 12-24 gripping sessions. The duration depends on your group's performance and the fate of the world. Here's an overview of this thrilling journey:

    Nominated for 21 awards and won 12.

    ⭐️ Nominated for Kennerspiel des Jahres 2016

    More details for Pandemic Legacy: Season 1
    • 👥 2 - 4 Players
    • ⏱️ 60 Minutes
    • 🧒 13+ years old
    • 🧩 Medium difficulty
  28. The Quest for El Dorado

    The Quest for El Dorado is a strategic and adventurous board game that immerses players in the exciting journey of discovering the legendary city of gold, El Dorado. Set in the lush South American jungles, this game combines deck-building and racing elements, challenging players to be both cunning and quick.

    Nominated for 13 awards and won 6.

    ⭐️ Nominated for Spiel des Jahres 2017

    More details for The Quest for El Dorado
    • 👥 2 - 4 Players
    • ⏱️ 30 - 60 Minutes
    • 🧒 10+ years old
    • 🧩 Easy to learn

    Video reviews for The Quest for El Dorado

    • YouTube Review for the game "The Quest for El Dorado" by BoardGameGeek
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  29. Lost Cities

    Lost Cities is a two-player card game focused on building profitable archaeological expeditions. Part of the Kosmos two-player series, it features a deck with cards ranked 2–10 in various colors, including a new sixth color added in 2019. The game also employs "handshake" cards as multipliers for scoring.

    Nominated for 4 awards and won 3.

    More details for Lost Cities
    • 👥 2 Players
    • ⏱️ 30 Minutes
    • 🧒 10+ years old
    • 🧩 Immediately playable
  30. Outfoxed!

    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.

    Nominated for 3 awards and won 2.

    More details for Outfoxed!
    • 👥 2 - 4 Players
    • ⏱️ 20 Minutes
    • 🧒 5+ years old
    • 🧩 Immediately playable
  31. Phantom Ink

    Renowned mediums compete to decipher a secret object and prove their connection to the "spirit world." The first team to identify the secret object wins.

    Nominated for 3 awards.

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    • 👥 2 - 8 Players
    • ⏱️ 10 - 15 Minutes
    • 🧒 13+ years old
    • 🧩 Immediately playable
  32. Draftosaurus

    Draftosaurus is a charming and quick drafting game where players aim to build the most attractive dinosaur park. The game stands out for its use of dino meeples and unique placement restrictions, making it an engaging experience for all ages.

    Nominated for 9 awards and won 2.

    More details for Draftosaurus
    • 👥 2 - 5 Players
    • ⏱️ 15 Minutes
    • 🧒 8+ years old
    • 🧩 Immediately playable

    Video reviews for Draftosaurus

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