About this site
Who publishes this site, why it exists, and where the board game award data comes from.
Who publishes this site
This site is published by Savinien Godineau. I build Dicea, an app for tracking your board game collection and plays. I put these award lists together for the app, then realised they did not exist anywhere else in a complete, browsable form.
Why this site exists
Award results are scattered: each competition publishes its own, in its own language, often without the early years, and never alongside the others. Wikipedia documents each award separately. This site does the one thing that was missing: it brings all four together, from the first edition to today, broken down by category and cross-referenced by year and by game.
Where the data comes from
The winner lists are entered and checked by hand from each competition's official announcements. Game metadata (canonical title, release year, designers, description) and box art come from BoardGameGeek, through its XML API. Box art is not re-hosted: it is served from BoardGameGeek's own servers and remains the property of the respective publishers.
BoardGameGeek · XML API Terms of Use
About the translations
Game descriptions are written in English on BoardGameGeek. The French version is a machine translation, produced once when the site is built. It may therefore read awkwardly in places: the English text remains the reference.
The awards
Understanding our Trophies
To give you the best guide to the board game world, we've kept only the four most influential awards on the planet.
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As d'Or
The major French-speaking award of the Cannes festival.
the crowning of the French-speaking market (France)
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Spiel des Jahres
The ultimate worldwide award for the best family game.
the worldwide benchmark (Germany)
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Deutscher Spiele Preis
The benchmark award for expert and strategy games.
the connoisseurs' choice (Europe)
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Golden Geek Awards
The award voted directly by the worldwide community of players.
the international public's favourite (USA)
Electing the Game of the Year: our ultimate crown
Every year, our algorithm names the outright winner shown at the top of the timeline. The rule is mathematical: the game that piled up the most of these awards wins. On a tie, the value of the medals (winner or runner-up) settles it. And if the tie still holds, the legendary Spiel des Jahres, the oldest and most influential institution in the world, acts as referee.
A ruthlessly demanding pick
So our badges keep all their prestige, we only keep the flagship categories and the major podiums. We deliberately leave out every sub-category and every one-off special prize.
Spotted a mistake?
Mistakes are possible, especially in the earliest editions. Write to ludiq.support@gmail.com and I will fix it.
The Dicea app
Dicea finds the award-winning games already in your collection, and keeps track of your plays.
- Free
- Works offline
- No account
- Built by one enthusiast