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Spiel des Jahres
The Spiel des Jahres (German for Game of the Year) is a prestigious award for board and card games.
The award was created in 1978 to reward excellence in game design, and to promote top-quality games in the German market. It is thought that the existence and popularity of the award is one of the...
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Klaus Teuber
Klaus Teuber (born June 25, 1952) is a well-known German designer of board games. He has won the Spiel des Jahres award four times, for The Settlers of Catan, Barbarossa, Drunter und Drüber and Adel Verpflichtet. He retired from his profession as a...
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Richard Ulrich
Richard Ulrich 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 El Grande with Wolfgang Kramer.
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Wolfgang Kramer
Wolfgang Kramer (born June 29, 1942 in Stuttgart) 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...
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Werner Hodel
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Reiner Knizia
Reiner Knizia (German pronunciation: [ˈraɪnɚ ˈknɪtsiːə]) is a prolific German-style board game designer. Born in Germany, he developed his first game at the age of six. He has a PhD in mathematics, and has been a full-time game designer since 1997,...
Alan R. Moon
Alan 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...
Michael Kiesling
Michael 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.
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Klaus-Jürgen Wrede
Klaus-Jürgen Wrede (born 1963) is a German board game creator, the creator of the best-selling Carcassonne and Downfall of Pompeii.
Born to music-teacher parents in Meschede, Germany, Wrede grew up in the town of Arnsberg, Germany. He attended...
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Andreas Seyfarth
Andreas Seyfarth (born November 6, 1962) is a German-style board game designer, who is most famous for creating Puerto Rico, which until August 2008 was rated #1 on BoardGameGeek and is now ranked #2 . In 2002, the game was awarded first place for...
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Bill Payne
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Dirk Henn
Dirk Henn (1960–) is a German-style board game designer who was born in Bendorf, Germany
Dirk Henn is best known for his game Alhambra, which won the Spiel des Jahres and placed 2nd in the Deutscher Spiele Preis in 2003.
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Thomas Liesching
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Karen Seyfarth
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Michael Schacht
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