Japan Boardgame Prize 2016

We announce the 15th Japan Boardgame Prize! It is divided into two categories, namely, U-more Award and Voters' Selection.

We award a good game for beginners and families, named "U-more Award". The jury consists of seven administlators of our family gaming society. After 3 months of discussion and selection, we decided "KARUBA" as game of the year and two nominees.

U-more Award - Game of the Year:

KARUBA (Rüdiger Dorn / HABA dist.by SUGOROKUYA)

KARUBA

Nominee

Dr.EUREKA (Roberto Fraga / Blue Orange Games dist.by Ten days games)

Dr.Eureka

COMPLETTO (Heinz Meister / Schmidt Spiele dist.by Mobius Games)

COMPLETTO



And Voters' Selection: 254 boardgamers from 37 prefectures took part in the award, in cooperation with many boardgame circles and shops. They selected upto five favorites from a list of 284 titles, which were sold in Japanese market within the last one year. We added up for each voter 5 points to the first favorit, 4 points to the second ... 1 point to the fifth.

As a result "CODENAMES (Japanese edition)" won the Japan Board Game Prize 2016.

Voters' Selection - 1st Prize:

CODENAMES (Japanese edition) (Vlaada Chvátil / Hobby Japan)

CODENAMES

221pt.


2nd:

COMPLETTO (Heinz Meister / Schmidt Spiele dist.by Mobius Games)

COMPLETTO

165pt.


3rd:

PANDEMIC LEGACY: SEASON 1 (Japanese edition) (Matt Leacock, Rob Daviau / Hobby Japan)

PANDEMIC LEGACY

138pt.


4th:

7 Wonders Duel (Antoine Bauza, Bruno Cathala / REPOS Production dist.by Hobby Japan)

129pt.


5th:

Auf den Spuren von Marco Polo (Japanese edition) (Simone Luciani, Daniele Tascini / Arclight Games)

109pt.



6th:Wie ich die Welt sehe... (Japanese edition) (Urs Hostettler / Ten days games)
7th:FOOD CHAIN Magnate (Japanese edition) (Jeroen Doumen, Joris Wiersinga / New Games Order LLC)
8th:Isle of Skye From Chieftain to King (Andreas Pelikan, Alexander Pfister / Mayfair Games dist.by GP Inc.)
9th:INSIDER (Jun Sasaki / Oink Games)
10th:THROUGH the AGES: A New Story of Civilization (Japanese edition) (Vlaada Chvátil / New Games Order LLC)

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

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Japan Boardgame Prize