The Dice Tower Awards

• Encourage new developments and innovations in the board game industry.
• Promote board and card games to a larger audience.
• Award the best games in different categories released each year.
• Present a slate of games with wide appeal from a variety of genres.
• Point out games that are simply fun!

Best Game of the Year	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 New Game Designer	Duel in the Dark     World War 2 air combat game depicting the nighttime air raids of British bombers hitting German cities. As the head of the British Bomber Command, you plan the attacks on Germany in order to undermine the morale of the civilian population. Or as a... Funagain Games does not stock this edition of this title, usually because it's out of print.
Best New Game Designer	Duel in the Dark  Second Edition w/ 9 expansions    (Preorder)     List: $59.99 $47.99 (20% savings!) World War 2 air combat game depicting the nighttime air raids of British bombers hitting German cities. As the head of the British Bomber Command, you plan the attacks on Germany in order to undermine the morale of the civilian population. Or as a...
Best Game Reprint	Thebes  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...
Most Innovative Game	Cutthroat Caverns         List: $29.95 $23.99 (20% savings!) An artifact of untold power lies in your hands. To claim it, you must escape the caverns alive. No less than nine horrific beasts stand in your way -- that, and the greed of the other players...
Best Game Expansion	Memoir '44: Air Pack         $43.99 "Never in the field of human conflict, has so much, been owed by so many, to so few!" Winston Churchill - August 1940
Best Game Artwork	StarCraft: The Board Game         List: $89.95 $71.99 (20% savings!) Three powerful alien races battle for control of the galaxy. Whether you choose to lead the nomadic Terran, mysterious Protoss, or voracious Zerg, in StarCraft: The Board Game you'll command an army like no other in the universe!
Best Family Game	Zooloretto         List: $44.95 $35.99 (20% savings!) Each player uses small, large, wild and exotic animals and their young to try and attract as many visitors as possible to their zoo. But be careful -- the zoo must be carefully planned. Before you know it, you have too many animals and no more room for...
Best Game of the Year Runner-Up	Zooloretto         List: $44.95 $35.99 (20% savings!) Each player uses small, large, wild and exotic animals and their young to try and attract as many visitors as possible to their zoo. But be careful -- the zoo must be carefully planned. Before you know it, you have too many animals and no more room for...
Best New Game Designer Runner-Up	Cold War: CIA vs. KGB         List: $24.95 $19.99 (20% savings!) World War II has left the world in upheaval, and many nations' futures are filled with uncertainty. The USA and the USSR are the only Superpowers who can lead the world toward a better future.