Friedhelm Merz Verlag / spielbox
Deutscher Kinderspielepreis
A children's game award voted by families and children, alongside the Deutscher Spielepreis.
since 1992
Winner gallery
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Little Alchemists
★ 5.9 · 👥 2–4 · 40 min · $55
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Magic Keys
★ 5.8 · 👥 2–4 · 30 min
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Mysterium Kids: Captain Echo's Treasure
★ 5.7 · 👥 2–6 · 21 min · $35
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Quacks & Co.: Quedlinburg Dash
★ 6.1 · 👥 2–4 · 25 min · $30
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Andor: The Family Fantasy Game
★ 6.2 · 👥 2–4 · 45 min
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Concept Kids: Animals
★ 6.0 · 👥 2–12 · 20 min · $38
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Memoarrr!
★ 6.2 · 👥 2–4 · 20 min
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ICECOOL
★ 6.5 · 👥 2–4 · 30 min · $61
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Leo
★ 5.9 · 👥 2–5 · 30 min
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Spinderella
★ 5.9 · 👥 2–4 · 20 min
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Feuerdrachen
★ 5.6 · 👥 2–4 · 20 min
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Bugs in the Kitchen
★ 5.7 · 👥 2–4 · 20 min
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Cheating Moth
★ 6.1 · 👥 3–5 · 30 min · $16
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Monster Trap
★ 5.6 · 👥 2–4 · 20 min
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Kraken-Alarm
★ 5.5 · 👥 2–4 · 20 min
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Mirror Mansion
★ 5.5 · 👥 2–4 · 20 min
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Whoowasit?
★ 5.9 · 👥 2–4 · 45 min
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Château Roquefort
★ 6.2 · 👥 2–4 · 30 min · $28
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Nacht der Magier
★ 5.9 · 👥 2–4 · 20 min
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Akaba
★ 5.6 · 👥 2–4 · 20 min
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Dawn Under
★ 5.8 · 👥 2–6 · 30 min
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Schloss Schlotterstein
★ 5.5 · 👥 1–6 · 20 min
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Highly Suspect!
★ 5.5 · 👥 2–4 · 20 min
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Zapp Zerapp
★ 5.6 · 👥 2–4 · 30 min
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Pete the Pirate
★ 5.5 · 👥 2–4 · 30 min
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Kayanak
★ 5.7 · 👥 2–4 · 15 min
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Chicken Cha Cha Cha
★ 6.1 · 👥 2–4 · 20 min
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Hallo Dachs!
★ 5.5 · 👥 2–4 · 20 min
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Husch Husch kleine Hexe
★ 5.5 · 👥 2–6 · 15 min
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In a Spin
· 👥 2–5 · 10 min
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Galloping Pigs
★ 5.6 · 👥 2–5 · 30 min
Brew potions, deduce ingredient secrets, and unlock new chapters as you master alchemy.
Roll deeper into the forest for better gems, or stop before every die falls asleep.
- 2.Lecker Lava
- 3.Unlock! Kids – Geschichten aus der Vergangenheit
A pirate ghost who can only answer with a tambourine, and a whole table trying to understand him.
- 2.Carla Caramel
- 3.Gigamon
The beloved bag-pulling chaos of Quacks of Quedlinburg, now aimed straight down a racetrack for the whole family.
A gentle, kid-friendly cooperative quest where your family races a dragon to save a pack of wolf cubs.
Help your youngest player guess the hidden animal using only picture icons and yes-or-no answers.
A pirate memory duel where every card you forget can sink your streak.
Penguins flick through school corridors grabbing fish while one player chases them down as the Catcher.
Guide a chatty, procrastinating lion to the barbershop before closing time, together or not at all.
Two players work the spider's strings while everyone else races their ants to the finish and hopes she does not swoop.
Ride your dragon around an erupting volcano and stuff your pouch with more rubies than anyone else.
Steer a genuinely unpredictable robot bug through kitchen utensils and trap it before your rivals do.
A card game about playing by the rules and secretly breaking them at the exact same time.
You control left and right, your partner controls forward and back, and the monster needs to reach the trap.
Hunt sea creatures by memory until the kraken tips the board and shuffles everything you knew.
Angle mirrors inside a cardboard castle until you can see around a corner to the thing you need.
A talking electronic castle hides a stolen ring, and your team has to search, feed animals, and deduce fast.
A shape-shifting castle maze where your mice hunt cheese and the floor itself might eat them.
An award-winning push-your-luck game played half in the dark, where one careless push sends a disc clattering.
Blow your flying carpet across the board and collect the presents before anyone else.
A vampire-hunting memory game where remembering your rivals' end pieces decides who survives the graveyard.
Steer a ghost through a castle with a magnet wand under the board.
Tilt the whole board and slide every figure at once until your detective corners the crook.
Shake wooden pots against the clock to guess how far your pawn moves.
Hide your gems in half a treasure chest, then keep track while everyone spins it.
Punch real holes in the ice and fish out steel balls with a magnetic rod before the other Inuit fishers do.
A memory game where matching tiles sends your wooden chicken hopping toward the henhouse before anyone else.
Walk your badger to a meal, then remember your way through the courses.
Roll a colour, lift a hat and hope your memory survives the shuffling.
Four dice name four animals, and you have to find all of them in one go.
Push plastic pigs around a card track and let them leapfrog into the lead.
How the awards work
- Winner:
- Chosen by the jury as the year's best game (Deutscher Spielepreis: #1 of the public vote).
- Nominated:
- A finalist — one of three games on the jury's official shortlist.
- Recommended:
- Additionally recommended by the jury — excellent, but not in the final three.
- Rank 2–10:
- Public ranking: retailers and avid gamers vote (Deutscher Spielepreis, À la carte).
Spiel des Jahres, Kennerspiel and Kinderspiel are awarded by an independent critics jury (Spiel des Jahres e.V.). The Deutscher Spielepreis is a public vote, À la carte is run by Fairplay magazine, Graf Ludo honours game artwork.