Each year, three games are nominated for the Spiel des Jahres award. The nominees are usually announced around May of each year before the winner is selected in June/July. Previous winners of this award include amazing games such as Code Names and Micro Macro.

Once the nominations are announced, I'll organize them alphabetically and update our list accordingly. "Nominee 1" will be replaced with the name of the first game in this alphabetical arrangement, and similar updates will be made for the subsequent nominees.