sport-i-rozrywka: Spiel des Jahres

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The Spiel des Jahres (German: [ˈʃpiːl dəs ˈjaːʁəs], "Game of the Year") is an award for board and card games, created in 1978 with the purpose of rewarding family-friendly game design and promoting excellent games in the German market. It is thought that the existence and popularity of the award was one of the major drivers of the quality of games coming out of Germany, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s. A Spiel des Jahres nomination can increase the typical sales of a game from 500–3,000 copies to around 10,000, and the winner can usually expect to sell as many as 500,000 copies. As Germany is considered the biggest for Board Games worldwide, being awarded 'Spiel des Jahres' has a tremen…

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Dominion is a card game created by Donald X. Vaccarino and published by Rio Grande Games. Originally published in 2008, it was the first deck-building game, and inspired a genre of games in that category. As of 3 October 2026, sixteen expansions to the game have been released. In Dominion, each player takes turns drawing from their own personal deck of cards. Each player's deck starts identical, but players can purchase new cards from a common supply to upgrade their deck; these new cards can then be drawn and used on future turns. Players seek to build the strongest deck with the most victory points needed to win the game. The game has a medieval theme with card names referencing pre-indus…

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Liar's dice is a class of dice games for two or more players in which deception is a significant gameplay element. In "single hand" liar's dice games, each player is given a set of dice, all players roll once, and the bids relate to the dice each player can see (their hand) plus all the concealed dice (the other players' hands). In "common hand" games, there is one set of dice which is passed from player to player. The bids relate to the dice as they are in front of the bidder after selected dice have been re-rolled. Originating during the 15th century, the game subsequently spread to Latin American and European countries. In 1993, a variant, Call My Bluff, won the Spiel des Jahres.

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Dorfromantik is a 2022 strategy puzzle video game developed and published by Toukana Interactive. The player places a series of hexagonal tiles containing elements of a pastoral environment to create a landscape. They earn points and additional tiles by connecting like sides of the tiles together, closing off fields, forests, and villages, and completing quests to make areas of contiguous regions. An additional creative mode allows the player to create their own landscapes. The game was developed by four German and Swiss students in a game design master's program at HTW Berlin: Timo Falcke, Sandro Heuberger, Luca Langenberg, and Zwi Zausch. They founded Toukana to create a peaceful, minimal…