Japan Boardgame Prize 2017
We announce the 16th 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 "Kingdomino" as game of the year and two nominees.
U-more Award - Game of the Year:
Kingdomino (Japanese edition)
(Bruno Cathala / Ten days games)
"Kingdomino" won both Voters' Selection 1st Prize.
Nominee
ICE COOL (Japanese edition)
(Brian Gomez / Hobby Japan)
Go Go Gelato! (Japanese edition)
(Roberto Fraga / Ten days games)
And Voters' Selection: 203 boardgamers from 39 prefectures took part in the award, in cooperation with many boardgame circles and shops. They selected upto five favorites from a list of 330 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 "Kingdomino" won the Japan Board Game Prize 2017.
Voters' Selection - 1st Prize:
Kingdomino (Japanese edition)
(Bruno Cathala / Ten days games)
169pt.
"Kingdomino" won both U-more Award - Game of the Year.
2nd:
3rd:
4th:
5th:
7th:VITICULTURE ESSENTIAL EDITION (Japanese edition) (Morten Monrad Pedersen, Jamey Stegmaier, Alan Stone / Arclight Games)
8th:GREAT WESTERN TRAIL (Japanese edition) (Alexander Pfister / Arclight Games)
8th:UNLOCK! (Japanese edition) (Cyril Demaegd / Hobby Japan)
10th:EXIT:Das Spiel Die verlassene Hütte (Japanese edition) (Inka Brand, Markus Brand / GroupSNE)
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