Editing Board Game (section)

==Board Game Awards==
For some, board games R SRS BISNZ.
* '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiel_des_Jahres Spiel des Jahres]''' is the big annual one from Germany.  If you are totally lazy, games that win this award are pretty much guaranteed to be made of god.  The winners are always "family games," what we would call [[Eurogames]].  Started in 1979.
** To reiterate, these games may sound uninteresting and boring being "family games" about building productive farms, but they're really not. Agricola, which is about efficient agricultural mangement, is fucking way more enjoyable than it sounds and certainly more enjoyable than most military powerfantasy FPS games. The SdJ is like a big badge proclaiming a game to be the boardgame equivalent to those Pixar films that are aimed at kids but still a good watch for grown men in their 30s.
* '''Mensa Select''' is five games a year, meant for people with big brains or people who want to show everyone else how big and throbbing their brains are.
* '''Games 100''' was pretty cool, back when Playboy owned and operated this puzzle magazine.  Now it's just a summary of all the games they reviewed in the past year, and they've added /v/idyagaems.  The only sure-fire ones games are the classics ensconced in their [http://www.gamesmagazine-online.com/gameslinks/hallofame.html Hall of Fame] section.
* '''Japan Boardgame Prize''' started in 2002 and it's sponsored by U-more.  [[Weeaboo]]s can play these games without compromising their status as Naruto fans.
* '''Origins Awards''' are given out not just for role-playing games, but board games too.  Started in 1990, don't know what's going on since the bottom fell out of American gaming industry conventions.