2024 Spiel Des Jahres Nominees Review! Who Will Win the Board Game of the Year?

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In this very special video we take a detailed look at all the nominees for the Spiel Des Jahres 2024! We discuss by what criteria the nominees get chosen, and which criteria are considered when it comes to picking a winner! This award for the Board Game of the Year is one of the most prestigious in the industry.
We break down each board game by it's general concept, playability, innovation, rulebook, layout, design and production, before giving you our estimation of which game we think deserves to win one of the most highly sought after prizes in the industry.
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00:00 Intro
02:57 Overview of the contenders
07:54 Comparing the game concepts
14:11 Rules structure comparison
18:21 Production and design comparison
25:27 Conclusion and predictions

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[@LeScorpionmasque]

Thank you for the kind words about Sky Team. The competition is definitely fierce 🙂.

[@boardstupiduk]

We love Sky Team! If Matt had the final say it would definitely be the winner! It's a fabulous game. Thank you for checking out our video!

[@robtrounce3543]

Such a great array of titles, and honoured to have Darwin in the mix ❤️

[@boardstupiduk]

It's a wonderful, wonderful game, we hope you enjoyed the video Rob! Let us know your thoughts on our analysis

[@GeorgMierau]

Sky Team is great! Hope to test play two others on Spiel 2024.

[@boardstupiduk]

Sky Team is TREMENDOUS, will it with the SDJ? What do you think? The other games are great, especially in the Footsteps of Darwin, which is my favourite.

[@GeorgMierau]

@@boardstupiduk I hope it wins! It‘s really a one-of-a-kind type of a game and also a fun one (because I don’t have to try to compete with my favorite but also very win-oriented player aka my wife ;).

[@boardstupiduk]

haha! The perfect reason - my partner is also pretty competitive, made worse by the fact she often kicks my ass lol

[@sorrywearefrench]

Thank you for your review of In the Footsteps of Darwin. We cross the fingers ! Definitely a difficult choice for this year :).

[@boardstupiduk]

You're very welcome! We will be doing a more in depth review of it soon.

[@stevekingswell9143]

Great analysis, I agree with you. Darwin gives me Targi vibes, and I love Targi.

[@boardstupiduk]

It's a fab game. For me it's a toss up between that and sky team. If they weigh innovation highly, it'll be sky team, if they decide based on a broad brush across the criteria, it'll be Darwin. If captain flip wins I'd be disappointed, but also not surprised as it's incredibly family friendly.

[@BoardGamecomments]

My concern is that the Spiel has been trending very light as of late. It might've been better for Sky Team if they had been nominated for the Kennerspiel.

[@boardstupiduk]

I kinda agree with you on this one. Sky Team feels more like a Kennerspiel game in complexity terms at least ones released in the past couple of years. Similarly Captain Flip feels more like a Kinderspiel game (although a complex one).

[@vincebrannon3353]

Spill dess Djarrez Stop trying to pronounce german words.

[@boardstupiduk]

Stop commenting on KZbin videos and we have a deal

[@mattboardstupiduk]

LOL