Jeu de l'année
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The Jeu de l'année was a French games award, given by the Association de Promotion et d'Evaluation des Jeux in October to outstanding parlour game
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Finalists
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Parlour game
A parlour game is a group game played indoors. During the Victorian era in Great Britain and in the United States, these games were extremely popular among the upper and middle classes. They were often played in a parlour, hence the name....
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- published during the previous year
- published in the French languageFrench languageFrench is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
- available in sufficiently many stores
In 2005 the Jeu de l'année merged with the As d'Or
As d'Or
The As d'Or is a games award given out by a jury at the Games Festival in Cannes, France.From 1989 to 2003, a jury of journalists allotted Golden Aces by category to games presented by their editors. A special prize, the Super As d'Or, was allotted to the best game from any category.In 2004, the...
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2004
Winner- Squad Seven - Roberto Fraga, TF1 Games/Fox Mind Games
Finalists
- Crazy Circus - Dominique Ehrhard, Fox Mind Games
- Queen's Necklace (Le Collier de la Reine) - Bruno Cathala and Bruno FaiduttiBruno FaiduttiBruno Faidutti is an historian and sociologist, living in France, who is best known as an author of board games. His best known games include Knightmare Chess , Mystery of the Abbey and Citadels . He is also involved in the boardgaming community with his "Ideal Games Library" website and...
- GobbletGobbletGobblet is a board game for two players designed by Thierry Denoual and published in 2001 by Gigamic and Blue Orange Games. Gobblet was a finalist for the 2004 Jeu de l'année....
- Thierry Denoual, GigamicGigamicGigamic is a French seller of games. Their games include:* Gobblet* Pylos* Quarto* Quoridor... - Composio - Jean Fin, TF1 Games
- Serengeti - Michael SchachtMichael SchachtMichael Schacht is a German game designer, graphician and owner of the small publishing company Spiele aus Timbuktu.- Life and work :...
- Mare NostrumMare Nostrum (board game)Mare Nostrum is a board game for 3 to 5 players, designed by Serge Laget and published in 2003 by Eurogames. It was also the name of a 1983 board game in the Fronte Mare series.- Gameplay :...
- Serge Laget, EurogamesEurogames (game publisher)Eurogames is a publisher of board games, founded in 1984 as Jeux Rexton to publish the man-to-man miniature combat game, Cry Havoc and its expansions. In 1988 Duccio Vitale expanded the company to begin publishing more board games, starting with six games purchased from the bankrupt Italian gaming...
2003
Winner- War of the Sheep (La Guerre des Moutons) - Philippe des Pallières, Asmodée
Finalists
- EvoEvo (board game)Evo: The Last Gasp of the Dinosaurs is a German-style board game for three to five players, designed by Philippe Keyaerts and published by Eurogames. The game won the GAMES Magazine award for Game of the year 2002 and was nominated for the Origins Award for Best Graphic Presentation of a Board...
- Philippe KeyaertsPhilippe KeyaertsPhilippe Keyaerts is a Belgian designer of German-style board games. His two most popular games are Evo and Vinci. Those two games use the mechanism of allowing the players to spend victory points to improve the characteristics of their play. He also invented Space Blast, a small space battle game...
, EurogamesEurogames (game publisher)Eurogames is a publisher of board games, founded in 1984 as Jeux Rexton to publish the man-to-man miniature combat game, Cry Havoc and its expansions. In 1988 Duccio Vitale expanded the company to begin publishing more board games, starting with six games purchased from the bankrupt Italian gaming... - Werewolf (Les Loups-Garous de Thiercelieux) - Philippe des Pallières and Hervé Marly, Lui-Même
- MedinaMedina (board game)Medina is a board game designed by Stefan Dorra and published by Hans im Glück and Rio Grande Games in 2001. In the game, three or four players compete to be the most influential developer of Medina, a desert city near the Atlas Mountains in 1822. Variations of the game allow 2 or 5 players...
- Stefan Dorra, Hans im GlückHans im GlückHans im Glück Verlags-GmbH is a German board and card game publisher. Though many of their own games are language-independent they themselves publish only printings for the domestic market which include only German-language rules; English-language printings of their games have been published... - San MarcoSan Marco (board game)San Marco is a 2001 designer board game by Alan R. Moon and Aaron Weissblum. The game is set in Venice, and the title comes from the name of one of the city's districts....
- Alan R. MoonAlan R. MoonAlan R. Moon is an author of board games, born in Southampton, England, and currently living in the United States. Despite his nationality, he is generally considered to be one of the foremost designers of German-style board games. Many of his games can be seen as board game variations on the...
and Aaron Weissblum, RavensburgerRavensburgerRavensburger Spieleverlag GmbH is a German game company. It is a leader in the European puzzle market.-History:The company was founded by Otto Robert Maier with seat in Ravensburg, a town in Upper Swabia in southern Germany. He began publishing in 1883 with his first author contract... - MexicaMexica (board game)Mexica is a board game designed by Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling and published in 2002 by Ravensburger in German and Rio Grande Games in English. Mexica was awarded 5th prize in the 2002 Deutscher Spiele Preis....
- Michael KieslingMichael KieslingMichael Kiesling is a German board game designer. Many of his games have been nominated for or have won the Spiel des Jahres, a German games award.He is best known for co-authoring the board game trilogy Tikal, Java and Mexica with Wolfgang Kramer....
and Wolfgang KramerWolfgang KramerWolfgang Kramer is a German board game designer.Kramer formerly worked as an operations manager and computer scientist, but since 1989 he has worked full-time on game design. He has designed over 100 games, many which have been nominated for or have won the Spiel des Jahres...
, RavensburgerRavensburgerRavensburger Spieleverlag GmbH is a German game company. It is a leader in the European puzzle market.-History:The company was founded by Otto Robert Maier with seat in Ravensburg, a town in Upper Swabia in southern Germany. He began publishing in 1883 with his first author contract...