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Graf Ludo
An award for the best board-game artwork, in the family-game and children's-game categories.
since 2009
Winner gallery
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Evergreen
★ 6.7 · 👥 1–4 · 45 min
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Glow
★ 6.3 · 👥 2–4 · 45 min
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Krake beim Schneider
· 👥 2–99 · 20 min
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Storytailors
★ 5.6 · 👥 2–6 · 30 min · $40
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Everdell
★ 7.8 · 👥 1–4 · 80 min · $72
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The Taverns of Tiefenthal
★ 7.3 · 👥 2–4 · 60 min · $73
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Fuchs und Hase
· 👥 1–99 · 20 min
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Tief im Riff
★ 5.5 · 👥 2–6 · 20 min
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Chickwood Forest
★ 5.6 · 👥 2–5 · 45 min
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Sleeping Queens
★ 6.1 · 👥 2–5 · 20 min · $12
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Kanagawa
★ 6.7 · 👥 2–4 · 45 min
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Mysterium
★ 7.0 · 👥 2–7 · 42 min
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Spookies
★ 5.6 · 👥 2–5 · 30 min
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Abyss
★ 7.1 · 👥 2–4 · 60 min
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Alle Vögel sind schon da!
· 👥 1–4 · 10 min
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Gruselrunde zur Geisterstunde
★ 5.5 · 👥 2–4 · 25 min
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Coal Baron
★ 6.7 · 👥 2–4 · 75 min
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Legends of Andor
★ 6.9 · 👥 2–4 · 90 min · $55
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Die verzauberten Rumpelriesen
★ 5.5 · 👥 2–4 · 20 min
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Grimoire
★ 5.8 · 👥 2–5 · 30 min
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Spinnengift und Krötenschleim
★ 5.5 · 👥 2–4 · 20 min
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Engine, Engine No. 9
★ 5.6 · 👥 2–4 · 20 min
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Eselsbrücke
★ 5.7 · 👥 3–12 · 45 min
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Vampires of the Night
★ 5.5 · 👥 2–4 · 20 min
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Fresco
★ 7.0 · 👥 2–4 · 60 min · $147
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Bonnie and Clyde
★ 5.7 · 👥 2–4 · 45 min
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Hide the Kids!
★ 5.6 · 👥 2–8 · 20 min
Grow trees across a planet where sunlight scoring rewards careful spatial planning over simple expansion.
Race around the world where every action costs more the more often it's been used.
A memo game that pairs 26 kids with the food allergen behind their reaction — and teaches which allergen hides where.
Five kingdoms, five different laws about which cards you're allowed to play there.
Drop water beads into a wooden vegetable patch, flip up carrots, and remember where the snails are hiding.
Forest creatures prepare for winter by gathering resources and crafting cozy comforts.
One adult, one child, one bedtime quest — finish it before the Dreamer wakes up.
Wear a cat paw, point at the fish you want, and hope nobody else picked the same one.
Fill the sea with islands in ascending order — and do it without saying a single word.
Collect sea creatures and gamble on one last catch
Hum your bumblebee onto the right flower — and don't let the wizard Pestizido muddle your senses.
Recruit adventurers whose dice feed each other, then roll your way back into the light.
Nadia Budde's absurd animal rhymes as a memory game, packed in a sewing box.
Race the monkeys up the palm before the snake gets there — pulling faces the whole way.
Layer three transparent cards to create a painting. What you hide matters as much as what you show.
Flick garlic into the right graves with vampire bats before the hourglass runs out.
Move towers over other towers to trap rival wizards. A magical stacking spatial puzzle.
Empty your hand by playing equal or higher — then survive the face-down row you can't see.
Observe wildlife and collect nature's treasures along winding trails
The escape-room card game formula, rebuilt from scratch for kid detectives with no app required.
Build a critter city through the seasons — cozy strategy at its finest.
Cast the wrong animal in the right role and talk your way into the best story.
Explore jungle ruins while building your deck — adventure euro at its best.
Steer a spinning top through 56 missions to rescue the forest spirits before it topples.
Roll, set aside, reroll — and know when to stop before the monster gets away.
Give clues with nothing but 'similar' or 'different' until your friends find the one right character.
Bluff about your spice cards in this fiery ladder-climbing game where getting caught means eating the penalty pile.
Draft and place garden tiles to build the most breathtaking imperial landscape in Tang dynasty China.
Cover the nightmare with exactly the right cuddly toy — the smaller, the better.
Find the stolen dwarven treasures and return them in exactly the right order to relight the forest.
Build the best tavern in Bavaria — one beer and guest at a time
Hold the card against the world until the picture is finished — a lawn becomes trousers, a jumper becomes a pillow.
A two-player duel in two halves: recruit followers by trick-taking, then use them to win three of five factions.
Help your youngest player guess the hidden animal using only picture icons and yes-or-no answers.
Help a mixed-up monster sort his feelings into the right jars, one shared memory at a time.
Monopoly's Austrian cousin swaps real estate for protection rackets and ransom demands.
Stack a gecko on a frog on a turtle on a crocodile and race downriver without hitting a bridge.
Get every child onto the carousel and collect enough sunshine before the rain sets in.
Guess which branch everyone else is climbing, then grab the fruit before the snowballs start flying.
Deliver wheat to the dark side and gems to the sunlit side before the map scrolls away beneath your airship.
Place dice on ancient ruins where high rolls claim the site and low rolls still pay you in stones.
Stack the castles with treasure and traps, raid one, then buy glory by giving the loot away.
Steer four fish through a reef together, because a shoal uncovers far more than a lone swimmer.
Draft beautiful tiles, arrange them perfectly, and penalize your rivals.
Spin the trees that look blank to you and hope for a picnic basket instead of the wolf.
Cover the right cards as a team to break the lake's spell and get three magicians safely ashore.
Fish a key on a chain into a keyhole, open the door and collect clues until you can name the fox's accomplice.
Grow a forest where the rotating sun turns tree shadows into weapons in this stunningly beautiful area control game.
Build a viking deck of beer, buildings and berserkers, then raid your neighbours without knowing their defence.
Put on the sleeping mask, and let your friends decide whether your dream is sweet or sabotaged.
Roll, reroll, and lock dice to recruit the best citizens before rival kings do.
Paint a panoramic scroll under master Hokusai by drafting lesson cards with patience and artistic timing.
A silly, sneaky card game for the whole family where queens get stolen, defended and put back to sleep.
Steer a flock up the mountain together while a wolf you cannot predict prowls behind you.
A tight polyomino puzzle about squeezing flowerbeds into every last square.
Memorize the forest, pack the backpack, and help young Jonas cross before the Queen of Draconia appears.
Place stars to shape a hidden picture without making it obvious to the one player who doesn't know it.
Bid your fuel and ammo for the best route, then spend what is left fighting your way to the coast.
Penguins flick through school corridors grabbing fish while one player chases them down as the Catcher.
Roll a wooden witch through the magic forest and grab more of her lost belongings than your rivals.
Sin your way through the Renaissance, then buy enough indulgences to end up closer to heaven than your rivals.
Draft rooms and furniture card by card until your house is finished and better arranged than everyone else's.
Gather food with your hedgehogs and put each one to bed before the snow catches it.
Interpret ghost visions to solve a murder — no words allowed.
Climb a haunted house one dice roll at a time and decide when your luck has run out.
Run a murderous French inn where guests are both your workforce and your victims in this darkly comic card game.
A memory game of German sayings, with Philip Waechter drawing every phrase far too literally.
The Stone Age theme shrunk into a simple memory game that five-year-olds can actually win on their own.
Rally ocean lords and rule the depths through cunning alliances
A cooperative flipping game where a sliver of colour tells you which bird still needs a present.
Build a comic page out of wordless panels, then read it out loud and let the table judge it.
Hold a washing line in a circle and peg monsters to the correct side faster than everyone else.
Dig coal mines and fulfill train contracts in a worker-placement Euro where occupied spaces cost extra workers to claim.
Push cardboard ghosts through the slots of a lightbox villa and peek to see if the right two met in the ballroom.
Ride your dragon around an erupting volcano and stuff your pouch with more rubies than anyone else.
Forage mushrooms along a forest path and cook them into scoring dishes in this peaceful two-player card game.
Mice heroes fight through a giant castle in a storybook campaign that charms kids and adults alike.
A cooperative fantasy adventure where the story reveals itself turn by turn as a marker creeps toward disaster.
Sweep leaves aside with a wand to find the right imp before the sand runs out and the giants stir.
Build medieval Bruges one agonizing card choice at a time
A tiptoi music school where monster bands train their ears before the big competition.
Two actions a turn, four gates falling, and a whole table arguing about which disaster to ignore.
Watch shadows dance past a screen and work out which creature was never there.
Everybody has the same spells, so the whole game is guessing which page your neighbour just bookmarked.
Remember where the toad slime went, fill the cauldron, and grab the monsters when it bubbles over.
Drive the circuit, stop at exactly one Cuban, and get to the ship before your rival takes the contract.
A talking magic compass, an invisible maze and a mischievous ghost your whole team has to outsmart together.
Send the chimp to peek at the goods before you gamble your money on them.
Turn three random words into a story your friends will have to remember, without ever saying the words.
Race locomotives on tracks you build yourself, and reroute your rivals while you are at it.
Slam cauldron halves together and spin them until your ingredients match the recipe, faster than everyone else.
You control left and right, your partner controls forward and back, and the monster needs to reach the trap.
Throw coins at a spice market, knock your rival's money off the good bowl, and cook for the maharaja.
Wake your apprentices early for the best paints, or let them sleep in. Restore a Renaissance fresco either way.
Shove vampires around a castle with a bat and get the garlic out before it hits the dungeon.
Lay track tiles to stretch your cable car route as long as possible before someone slams it shut.
Steer crystals with a magnetic broom while your rival rolls dice to stop your clock.
Stack turtles on a hippo's rounded back and pray the plant you feed her has no crab under it.
Play clue cards to narrow down buried treasure locations on a beautiful modular island.
Rummy with an FBI case file and one card that decides when the hand ends.
Five seconds to hide your goats, then the wolf lifts two pieces of furniture and finds out.
Angle mirrors inside a cardboard castle until you can see around a corner to the thing you need.
A maze with invisible walls that you only learn about the moment your marble drops.
Shift suspicion onto other monks without revealing which one is you.
Rebuild the tower you are climbing, one block at a time, and get above everyone else.
Harvest Mediterranean fruits using a windmill rondel where the number of workers on each vane multiplies your harvest.
Stack coloured discs so the overlap makes the right flower colour, one die roll at a time.
Corner the market, but be careful you are not also the stingiest person at the table.
Every card is either your movement or your points, never both.
Same cards for everyone, secretly chosen, resolving in an order that decides who gets there first.
Claim a die, plant a tent on the Zambezi, and hope your diamonds were worth the gamble.
Crack safes with dice while your opponent tilts the whole board to slide a police car after you.
Dump your pigs on the muck heap before anyone else, and watch out for the boar.
Recruit outlaws, plan raids and cheerfully sell your friends a robbery you know is a trap.
Pull hay bales out from under a wobbling wooden cow, one careful tug at a time.
Build a picture out of cloud shapes and hope somebody recognises it before the sheep get home.
Do all ten animals fit on the raft? Vote yes and you'll have to prove it against the timer.
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.