Spiel Des Jahres Bucket List

A cycling race with dice, drafting and a peloton that behaves like one.

Plan a route through a fantasy map using transport cards others also need.

Five detectives hunt Mister X across a London map; he surfaces every five turns.

Buy tiles in four currencies and build a palace with the exact change.

Colours and shapes on wooden tiles; Scrabble without the words.

Seat the guests so the nationalities work out; a tile game about a crowded bar.

Stack blocks into skyscrapers and take over the ones already built.

Move your own columns higher without bringing the whole villa down.

Stack your pieces on top of your opponent's in an abstract Sid Sackson designed in 1963.

An action-point expedition through the jungle, uncovering temples and treasure.

Build postal routes across Bavaria, drawing cities that fit end to end.

Real casebooks, a London directory and no dice; you solve it or you do not.

Write a one-word clue, then delete every clue two players duplicated.

Domino-shaped land tiles and a five-by-five grid; a masterclass in small design.

A card game where you can see everyone's hand but your own.

The area-majority classic: caballeros, a castillo and one hidden placement.

Bet on stacked camels racing round a pyramid; pure, delighted chaos.

Tile-laying puzzle of Pacific Northwest wildlife (2021).

The original deck-building card game (2008).