And the Winner is...

By Mel

The 2010 winner for the Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year Award) has been announced. Dixit took the prestigious award on June 28th. The nominees included Portrayal, A la Carte, Roll Through the Ages: The Bronze Age and Fresco.

Dixit, designed by Jean-Louis Roubira and illustrated by Marie Cardouat, is a game where storytelling is the name of the game! On each turn, one player becomes the storyteller. This player makes up a sentence from one of the six interesting and abstract images in his hand. The other players select from amongst their six images the one that best matches the sentence made up by the storyteller. They each then give their chosen image to the storyteller who shuffles and lays the images down on the table. Everyone then votes on which image they think is the storyteller's. Points are scored (or not scored) based on vote tallies. The game ends when the last card has been drawn. The player who is the furthest on the scoring track wins Dixit!

Chicagoland Games would like to congratulate the winner and all the nominees! Well done!