We announce the 21st 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: 142 boardgamers from 29 prefectures took part in the award, in cooperation with many boardgame circles and shops. They selected upto five favorites from a list of 267 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 "ARK NOVA" won the Japan Board Game Prize 2022.

Voters' Selection - 1st Prize:

ARK NOVA (Japanese edition)
(Mathias Wigge / Ten days games)

151pt.

2nd:

WHIRLING WITCHCRAFT (Japanese edition)
(Erik Andersson Sundén / KenBill)

149pt.

3rd:

CAT IN THE BOX
(Yokouchi Muneyuki / Hobby Japan)

131pt.

4th:

5th:

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Japan Boardgame Prize