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Best Solo Game Winner 2023
During the reign of Emperor Yao, the people of ancient China were constantly plagued by deadly floods along the Yellow River. Eager to put an end to the devastation, Yao selected Gun, one of his officials, to devise a plan. After nine years of failed attempts using dams and dikes, Gun's employment came to a questionable end. After his passing, Yu inherited his father's work. Learning from Gun's failures, Yu set out to construct a series of canals to direct the surging river into nearby fields and smaller waterways.

Legacy of Yu is a solo-only, fully-resettable, nonlinear campaign game in which you step into the role of the legendary hero of the Xia Dynasty, Yu the Great. It will be your job to build the canals ahead of the impending flood, while also defending your growing village against neighboring barbarian tribes. With each game, stories will be shared and new gameplay elements added. The campaign features a self-balancing system which adapts to how well you are doing. The campaign ends once you either win or lose seven games.

—description from the publisher

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Year Published: 2023
Designers: Shem Phillips
Publishers: Garphill Games
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Best Solo Game Nominee 2023
Year Published: 2023
Publishers: Chip Theory Games
Year Published: 2021
Designers: Wilhelm Su
Publishers: (Web published)
Year Published: 2024
Designers: Kevin Wilson
Publishers: Incredible Dream Studios
Year Published: 2023
Designers: Ryan Laukat
Publishers: Red Raven Games
2023
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Best Party Game Winner 2023
Blob Party is a co-operative party game in which players start as individuals and try to become one big blob by giving all the same answers! This description isn't just metaphorical. Each player starts with a small blob of dough and a googly eye. As you match with more and more other players, you merge blobs, growing larger and adding more googly eyes!

Let's say the group starts with the category of "Music" and the word is "Lightning". All players write an answer on a dry erase card matching their googly eye, maybe "Bohemian Rhapsody", "David Bowie", or "Grease". Everyone reveals their answer, and anyone who wrote the same thing becomes a blob and works together for the rest of the game!

A new category and word are revealed each round, with players and blobs again coming up with answers that ideally match with others. As the game continues, blobs and individuals merge until (hopefully!) everyone gives the same answer, becoming a Mega Blob and winning the game!

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Year Published: 2023
Designers: Pam Walls
Publishers: WizKids (I)
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Best Party Game Nominee 2023
Year Published: 2023
Designers: Stefan Godot
Publishers: Godot Games
Year Published: 2023
Designers: Peter C. Hayward
Publishers: BoardGameTables.com (Allplay)
Year Published: 2023
Designers: David Carmona
Publishers: Unfriendly Games
Year Published: 2023
Designers: Kasper Lapp
Publishers: Ravensburger
2023
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Best Two-Player Game Winner 2023
Sky Team is a co-operative game, exclusively for two players, in which you play a pilot and co-pilot at the controls of an airliner. Your goal is to work together as a team to land your airplane in different airports around the world.

To land your plane, you need to silently assign your dice to the correct spaces in your cockpit to balance the axis of your plane, control its speed, deploy the flaps, extend the landing gear, contact the control tower to clear your path, and even have a little coffee to improve your concentration enough to change the value of your dice.

If the aircraft tilts too much and stalls, overshoots the airport, or collides with another aircraft, you lose the game...and your pilot's license...and probably your life.

From Montreal to Tokyo, each airport offers its own set of challenges. Watch out for the turbulence as this could end up being bumpy ride!

—description from the publisher

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Year Published: 2023
Designers: Luc Rémond
Publishers: Le Scorpion Masqué
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Best Two-Player Game Nominee 2023
Year Published: 2023
Designers: Ryan Miller
Publishers: Ravensburger
Year Published: 2023
Designers: Paolo Mori
Publishers: Deep Print Games
Year Published: 2023
Designers: Akiyama Koryo
Publishers: BoardGameTables.com (Allplay)
Year Published: 2023
Designers: Caleb Grace
Publishers: Fantasy Flight Games
2023
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Best Welcoming Game Winner 2023
Each year, the graduating classes of the Ravenrealm Magic School compete to demonstrate their mastery of magic. For the final exam, all the wizards of each class must assemble at the legendary Ravenskeep… but every last one of them has procrastinated, distracted by learning new spells. They’ve also used all their potions—they can’t show up unprepared, with empty potion bottles!

Help your wizards get to Ravenskeep as quickly as possible. Using their magic they could even move the very towers atop which they stand to get there more easily! But how can they refill their potion bottles along the way? Well, here’s a little secret: Trapping wizards allows you to capture some of their magical essence in a bottle…

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Year Published: 2022
Designers: Michael Kiesling
Publishers: ABACUSSPIELE
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Best Welcoming Game Nominee 2023
Year Published: 2023
Designers: Garrett Herdter
Publishers: Arcane Wonders
Year Published: 2023
Designers: Peter C. Hayward
Publishers: BoardGameTables.com (Allplay)
Year Published: 2023
Designers: Thomas Dupont
Publishers: Bombyx
Year Published: 2023
Designers: Paul Waite
Publishers: Perfect Day Games
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