Deutscher Spiele Preis

The German game prize is a game prize for German -speaking board and card game releases. It is awarded for the best family and adult game and the best breeze of the current games vintage; with the trophy Essen spring the city of Essen for the author playing with the most exemplary rule, and as a special prize for the exemplary performance of a person, company or institution.

In contrast to the Critics' Prize Game of the Year, he is a public price at which interested individual players, playgroups, dealers and journalists are called to vote. In 1990 he joined the place of the right conferred by the trade magazine The Pawns revue Golden Pöppel.

The prize is the German game prize from Bonn Friedhelm Merz Verlag. His ceremony takes place every year on the eve of the International Game Day in Essen.

Selection mode

The German game prize is based on a broad professional audience and expert survey. Until 2000, the result of the specialist audience vote went among the readers of Pöppel revue to 40 percent in the total result. At 60 percent three surveys were drowned games journalists, games circles and dealers in the result.

In 2000 came the German game prize in the crisis after it was revealed that the pawn -Revue had published regularly by a multiple excessive number of participants in their readers' poll. In the following year presented the Pöppel revue ceased publication.

Since 2001, any player can participate via the Internet in the vote. In addition, journalists, games circles, distributors and readers of the journal Fairplay and since 2007, the Spielbox be specifically written to and asked for their participation. Thus, the vote is based on approximately 2,000 participants.

Each participant is allowed to vote for the five best games in his opinion of the current year, which extends from the middle of the previous year to the middle of the current year. This includes all games, which were presented at the Essen International match days in the previous year or at the meetings held in the same year the Nuremberg Toy Fair. In addition, a children's play can be selected.

The winners of contracts awarded by the city of Essen from 1981 Golden Pen for the best game of the year is usually determined by an expert jury and awarded since 1990, coinciding with the German game prize.

Award winners

Laureate German game prize

German laureates Kids Price

Special prices

Between 1991 and 1998, each year has been awarded a special prize for organizations, publishers, persons or particular games, then only irregularly.

Special Award to the German game prize

Once a special prize was awarded in 1994 action game:

Special Price Action Game