Games must be received by the jury before the end of March to be eligible and then must still be selected by at least 50% of the jury to be officially nominated. Jury members might receive up to 400 games per year which must be played and weighed for potential nomination. Since the jury members are volunteers, they play potential nominees within their own circles of friends and family. This set of recommendations can contain as few as five and as many as sixteen titles.
The jury reviews games which have been released in Germany within the last twelve months, then announces their recommendations for the prize in May. New members are nominated and voted upon by existing members of which there are ten (at the time of this writing). The Spiel des Jahres jury consists of volunteer members of the German-language board game media, but may include anyone associated with the design, production or marketing of board games. He banded together with a number of his colleagues and created the “Kritikerpreis Spiel des Jahres” (most commonly known as “the Spiel des Jahres” or SdJ), an award whose winner would be selected by a jury of like-minded game critics. The History of the Spiel des Jahres Awardsīefore the 1978 Nuremberg Toy Fair was set to open, a German journalist named Juergen Herz came up with the idea of establishing an annual board game award. And while the United States saw the release of both Space Invaders and Connect Four, something decidedly…different was happening in the world of games in Germany. The first Walkman and the first cellular phone were both revealed, Grease was at the top of the movie charts, and Garfield had his debut in newspapers. This is everything you ever wanted to know about the Spiel des Jahres board game awards, including a complete list of every winner, nominee, and recommendee from 1979 to present day.
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