Japan Boardgame Prize 2018

We announce the 17th 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 "CODENAMES: DUET" as game of the year and two nominees.

U-more Award - Game of the Year:

CODENAMES: DUET (Japanese edition)
(Vlaada Chvátil, Scot Eaton / Hobby Japan)

CODENAMES: DUET

Nominee

Einhorn Glitzerglück : Eine Party für Rosalie
(Kristin Mückel / HABA dist.by Brother Jordan)

Einhorn Glitzerglück

Hitotoiro (Match Me!: What color is this?)
(Ohtani Tadashi / COLON ARC)

Hitotoiro



And Voters' Selection: 241 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 345 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 "TERRAFORMING MARS" won the Japan Board Game Prize 2018.

Voters' Selection - 1st Prize:

TERRAFORMING MARS (Japanese edition)
(Bruno Cathala / Arclight Games)

TERRAFORMING MARS

238pt.


2nd:

AZUL (Japanese edition)
(Michael Kiesling / Hobby Japan)

AZUL

235pt.


3rd:

SCYTHE (Japanese edition)
(Jamey Stegmaier / Arclight Games)

SCYTHE

179pt.


4th:

Die Quacksalber von Quedlinburg
(Wolfgang Warsch / Arclight Games)

139pt.


5th:

Hitotoiro (Match Me!: What color is this?)
(Ohtani Tadashi / COLON ARC)

97pt.



6th:GAIA PROJECT (Japanese edition) ( Jens Drögemüller, Helge Ostertag / Ten days games)
7th:Time Bomb (Satou Yusuke / Arclight Games)
8th:TOKYO SIDEKICK (Emi Yusuke / LITTLE FUTURE)
9th:Word Sniper (Ogawa Masahiro / Rigoler)
10th:Shadow Raiders ( Ikeda Yasutaka / GroupSNE)

If you have any question or opinion, please mail to us.

U-more, Official Nonprofit Organization (NPO) to spread Boardgame culture on Japan


Japan Boardgame Prize