A Quick Quiz

A Quick Quiz

A Quick Quiz.

a) What are the last three board games or card games that you played?
b) Was everyone playing over the age of 16?

If you’re like most Australians your answers might be:

a) Monopoly, 500, and some game the kids had that you can’t remember. Or maybe Chess, Scrabble and Cluedo.

b) No – aren’t there better things for a group of adults to do?

Now the two questions are not as disconnected as they might seem…. all of the games ‘you’ answered in (a) are more than 50 years old! In fact the youngest of the five is Cluedo from 1949.

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A Perspective on Game Awards

A Perspective on Game Awards

A Perspective of Game Awards.

While we would like to think that the Boardgames Australia awards are the greatest thing since someone decided to take a slicer to a loaf of bread, we of course acknowledge the many other game awards out there, all catering for different needs and different target markets. The Spiel des Jahres award from Germany was announced recently, and the winner Keltis should make for a great family game when the English-language version reaches Australia. The Spiel des Jahres (the German Game of the Year award) is an award that specifically picks games best suited to German families, and the games selected are widely regarded as of the highest quality in the light/middle-weight Designer style of game (also known in the hobby as German or Euro games).

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