BoardGameGeek Awards

From the BoardGameGeek.com website: "The BoardGameGeek Golden Geek Award is presented every year at the BGG.Con event in Dallas, Texas. The winners of the Golden Geek are selected by the nomination and voting of the user community of BoardGameGeek.com website."

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BoardGameGeek Awards: 2008

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Game of the Year

Agricola (Temporarily Out of Stock) English language edition, no Z-deck
List: $70.00 $55.99 (20% savings!) In Agricola (Latin for "farmer"), you're a farmer in a wooden shack with your spouse and little else. On a turn, you get to take only two actions, one for you and one for the spouse, from all the possibilities you'll find on a farm: collecting goods...

Best Gamer's Game

Best Wargame

Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage 2007 edition
List: $64.95 $51.99 (20% savings!) Covering the 2nd Punic War, this game details the struggle between Carthage's Hannibal and the Roman Empire. It is a reprint of the classic Avalon Hill game of the same title.

Best 2-Player

Best Family Game

Thebes (Restocking) multilingual edition of Jenseits von Theben
List: $59.95 $47.95 (20% savings!) More than 100 years ago, within a period of only a few decades, unusually many historical finds, treasures and whole cities of antique cultures were found and excavated; Schliemann discovered Troy, Evans investigated Crete, Carter found the grave of...

Best Artwork/Presentation

Jamaica
List: $59.99 $47.99 (20% savings!) A great challenge is organized to celebrate the nomination of Henry Morgan, governor of Jamaica: a race around the island. At the end, the winner is the one with the greatest quantity of gold in his holds. All aboard!

Best Party Game

Say Anything
List: $24.99 $19.95 (20% savings!) From the makers of the award-winning Wits & Wagers comes the next great party game -- Say Anything. Say Anything is a light-hearted game about what you and your friends think. For instance, "What's the best movie of all time?" or "If I could have a...

Best Card Game

Race for the Galaxy
List: $34.95 $27.99 (20% savings!) The players all compete to explore the galaxy by exploring new worlds and developing new technologies. Each turn each player chooses one action, but the others will share in the actions chosen. In the end, the player with the most points is the winner!

Best Children's Game

Chateau Roquefort (Restocking) English language edition of Burg Appenzell
List: $49.95 $39.95 (20% savings!) Monsieur de Montforte no longer lives in his Chateau. When he vacated the premises, the highly acclaimed gourmet left behind a collection of the finest cheeses in the world. As the years passed, the cheese aged, but so did the Chateau. Now the mice...