{"id":3110,"date":"2024-10-08T15:08:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T14:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/?p=3110"},"modified":"2024-10-08T15:08:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T14:08:20","slug":"forest-shuffle-scoops-germans-biggest-community-voted-board-game-award-sky-team-and-white-castle-also-impress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/08\/forest-shuffle-scoops-germans-biggest-community-voted-board-game-award-sky-team-and-white-castle-also-impress\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest Shuffle scoops German’s biggest community-voted board game award, Sky Team and White Castle also impress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Woodland-themed tableau-building card game Forest Shuffle<\/a> has triumphed in this year’s Deutscher Spiele Preis, the biggest community-voted board game award in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The game is only the second published design from mononymous designer Kosch, following his 2022 debut FYFE<\/a>, and marks the first Deutscher Spiele Preis win for publisher Lookout Spiele<\/a> since Uwe Rosenberg’s Agricola in 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Forest Shuffle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The DSP is Forest Shuffle’s first major award win despite a string of nominations since its release last year, including being ‘recommended’ in the 2024 Kennerspiel des Jahres contest and picking up nominations for Golden Geek Medium Game of the Year and Board Game Quest’s Best Card Game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year’s Spiel des Jahres winner Sky Team<\/a> added to its bulging cabinet of awards by picking up the second-place prize, while small box Edo-period Japan worker placement game The White Castle<\/a>\u00a0finished in third place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While nominally a \u2018family games\u2019 award like the SdJ, Deutscher Spiele Preis-winning games have varied heavily in complexity and play time over the last few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sky Team finished second in the 2024 Deutscher Spiele Preis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Recent winners have included The Crew, Planet Unknown, Lost Ruins of Arnak, Wingspan and Terraforming Mars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ark Nova is the most complex game to win the award since Mombasa in 2016, according to \u2018game weight\u2019 ratings compiled on BoardGameGeek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Azul was the most recent design to scoop both prizes in the same year, in 2018, with Dominion the last game to do so prior to that in 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The DSP has been running since 1990, when Catan designer Klaus Teuber\u2019s Hoity Toity came away with the inaugural prize. The award is presented annually at the Spiel Essen game fair<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Votes are only counted from people who live in Germany, Austria and Switzerland for games published between May 1 and April 30 each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deutscher Spiele Preis 2024 – Full Results<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

First place: Forest Shuffle<\/a><\/strong> by Kosch<\/strong>, published by Lookout Spiele<\/strong> \/ Asmodee<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second place: Sky Team<\/a><\/strong> by Luc Remond<\/strong>, published by Scorpion Masque<\/strong>\u00a0and Kosmos<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third place: The White Castle<\/a><\/strong> by Sheila Santos<\/strong> and Israel Cendrero<\/strong>, published by Kosmos<\/strong> and Devir<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fourth place and below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n