Japan Boardgame Prize 2009

1st Prize:

Dominion (Donald Vaccarino / Hobby Japan)

Dominion

716pt.


2nd:

Pandemic (Matt Leacock / Hobby Japan)

Pandemic

419pt.


3rd:

Agricola (Uwe Rozenberg / Hobby Japan)

Agricola

257pt.


4th:

Le Havre (Uwe Rosenberg / Lookout Games)

Le Havre

210pt.
Japanese Distributer: Gamestore Banesto
(Japanese Edition is to be on sale since March 2010 from Hobby Japan)253pt.


5th:

Let's Catch the Lion! (Madoka Kitao / Gentosha Education)

Let's Catch the Lion!

196pt.



6th: Small World (Philippe Keyaerts / Hobby Japan)
7th: Dominion: Intrigue (Donald Vaccarino / Hobby Japan)
8th: Galaxy Trucker (Vladimir Chvatil / Czech Games Edition)
9th: ... aber mit bitte Sahne (Jeffrey D. Allers / Winning Moves)
10th: Domemo (Alex Randolph / Gentosha Education)


We announce the 8th Japan Boardgame Prize!

Voters selected upto five favorites from a list of 224 titles, which were sold in Japan from October 2008 to September 2009. We added up for each voter 5 points to the first favorit, 4 points to the second ... 1 point to the fifth. Total number of voters amounted to 349 from 36 Prefectures in cooperation with many boardgame circles and shops.

As a result "Dominion" won the Japan Board Game Prize 2009.

Apart from this, we award a good game for beginners and families, named "U-more Award". The jury consists of seven administlators of our family gaming society.

U-more Award:

Let's Catch the Lion! (Madoka Kitao / Gentosha Education)

Let's Catch the Lion!

Nominee

Domemo (Alex Randolph / Gentosha Education)

Domemo

Marrakech (Dominique Ehrhard / Gigamic Japan)

Marrakech

Monza (Jürgen P.K. Grunau / Haba-Habermaaß)

Monza
Japanese Distributer: Brother Jordan

If you have any question or opinion, please mail to us.

U-more, Official Nonprofit Organization (NPO) to spread Boardgame culture on Japan


Japan Boardgame Prize

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