Spiel des Jahres: Bomb Busters
Kennerspiel des Jahres: Endeavor: Deep Sea
Kinderspiel des Jahres: Topp die Torte!
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Only one of those I’ve even heard of. And if it’s “Roger has never heard of it” versus “the same game everyone else is raving about”, I’ll take the former. 
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I have actually played Bomb Busters and I think it’s a good choice.
Once again my FLGS guy got it right. He was praising this last year and bought a ton of copies that his sales guys worried would never sell… but they did and it’s already at least the 2nd printing.
Looking forward to playing it more.
I haven’t tried Endeavor Deep Sea but I’ve seen it all over the place. Might give it a try if someone around me acquires a copy.
Kinderspiel as usual I haven’t heard of. But I’ll let the in-laws know about it. Their kids are the right age.
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Played it once when we arrived at our BnB in Essen. Good fun. The weight is rather light like the previous iteration: Endeavour: Age of Sails. There are scenarios and randomly generated maps which suits the favour of the modern crowd who likes “variability”
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I didn’t think I needed a new Endeavour, as I have the old one. Recently I kept seeing people saying the Deep Sea was really good, though, so I was wondering if I should take a closer look. I didn’t realise it was up for this award… go the kiwis!! I played a prototype of an Endeavour expansion with Jarratt at Wellycon one year, and I remember him saying they didn’t even know if they’d be able to get it published. That all turned into Age of Sail which seemed to do well; and now this! I’m happy to see them being so successful.
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