Japan Boardgame Prize 2020

We announce the 19th 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.

However, this year, due to the influence of COVID-19, administlators could not perform enough test play for selection, so we decided to forgo the selection of "U-more Award".



And Voters' Selection: 236 boardgamers from 36 prefectures took part in the award, in cooperation with many boardgame circles and shops. They selected upto five favorites from a list of 265 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 "IT'S A WONDERFUL WORLD" won the Japan Board Game Prize 2020.

Voters' Selection - 1st Prize:

IT'S A WONDERFUL WORLD (Japanese edition)
(Frédéric Guérard / Engames)

IT'S A WONDERFUL WORLD

209pt.


2nd:

JUST ONE (Japanese edition)
(Ludovic Roudy, Bruno Sautter / Arclight Games)

JUST ONE

185pt.


3rd:

THE CREW: THE QUEST FOR PLANET NINE (Japanese edition)
(Thomas Sing / GP inc.)

THE CREW

154pt.


4th:

Tenka Meidou (Rumble Nation)
(Yogi Shinichi / Hobby Japan)

152pt.


5th:

GLOOMHAVEN (Japanese edition) ( Isaac Childres / Arclight Games)

130pt.



6th:PICTURES (Japanese edition) (Christian Stöhr, Daniela Stöhr / Hobby Japan)
7th:LITTLE TOWN BUILDERS(Little Town) (Shun&AYA(Studio GG) / Arclight Games)
8th:WINGSPAN (Japanese edition) (Elizabeth Hargrave / Arclight Games)
9th:BARRAGE (Japanese edition) (Tommaso Battista, Simone Luciani / Ten days games)
10th:AEON'S END (Japanese edition) (Kevin Riley / Arclight Games)

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