Japan Boardgame Prize 2009

Dominion

1st Prize:

Dominion
(Donald Vaccarino / Hobby Japan)

716pt.

Pandemic

2nd:

Pandemic
(Matt Leacock / Hobby Japan)

419pt.

Agricola

3rd:

Agricola
(Uwe Rozenberg / Hobby Japan)

257pt.

Le Havre

4th:

Le Havre
(Uwe Rosenberg / Lookout Games)

210pt.
Japanese Distributer: Gamestore Banesto
(Japanese Edition is to be on sale since March 2010 from Hobby Japan)

Let's Catch the Lion!

5th:

Let's Catch the Lion!
(Madoka Kitao / Gentosha Education)

196pt.

6th: Small World (Philippe Keyaerts / Hobby Japan)

7th: Dominion: Intrigue (Donald Vaccarino / Hobby Japan)

8th: Galaxy Trucker (Vladimir Chvatil / Czech Games Edition)

9th: ... aber mit bitte Sahne (Jeffrey D. Allers / Winning Moves)

10th: Domemo (Alex Randolph / Gentosha Education)

We announce the 8th Japan Boardgame Prize!

Voters selected upto five favorites from a list of 224 titles, which were sold in Japan from October 2008 to September 2009. We added up for each voter 5 points to the first favorit, 4 points to the second ... 1 point to the fifth. Total number of voters amounted to 349 from 36 Prefectures in cooperation with many boardgame circles and shops.

As a result "Dominion" won the Japan Board Game Prize 2009.

Apart from this, we award a good game for beginners and families, named "U-more Award". The jury consists of seven administlators of our family gaming society.

Let's Catch the Lion!

U-More Award:

Let's Catch the Lion!
(Madoka Kitao / Gentosha Education)

Domemo

Nominee

Domemo
(Alex Randolph / Gentosha Education)

Marrakech

Nominee

Marrakech
(Dominique Ehrhard / Gigamic Japan)

Monza

Nominee

Monza
(Jürgen P.K. Grunau / Haba-Habermaaß)

Japanese Distributer: Brother Jordan

If you have any question or opinion, please mail to us.

-Result of 1st Japan Boardgame Prize 2002
-Result of 2nd Japan Boardgame Prize 2003
-Result of 3rd Japan Boardgame Prize 2004
-Result of 4th Japan Boardgame Prize 2005
-Result of 5th Japan Boardgame Prize 2006
-Result of 5th Japan Boardgame Prize 2007
-Result of 5th Japan Boardgame Prize 2008

U-more, Official Nonprofit Organization (NPO) to spread boardgame culture on Japan