1st Prize:

Dominion (Donald Vaccarino / Hobby Japan)

716pt.

2nd:

Pandemic (Matt Leacock / Hobby Japan)

419pt.

3rd:

Agricola (Uwe Rozenberg / Hobby Japan)

257pt.

4th:

Le Havre (Uwe Rosenberg / Lookout Games)

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)

196pt.

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)

Nominee

Domemo (Alex Randolph / Gentosha Education)

Marrakech (Dominique Ehrhard / Gigamic Japan)

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

Japanese Distributer: Brother Jordan

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

Japan Boardgame Prize