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A few weeks ago, we announced our finalists for the 2019 GeekDad Game of the Year. The weekend before Thanksgiving, several of us got together to play all ten of those finalists, and then play many of them again, before an agonizing discussion leading to a decision. It was, as always, a hard choice, since all of the finalists are really great games, but in the end we had to pick one, and so, without further ado, our Game of Year for 2019: The Quacks of Quedlinburg.
Before we share our individual thoughts on why we picked Quacks, I do want to address a potential issue, and something we definitely discussed. Quacks has already won a fairly major award, the Kennerspiel des Jahres award … in 2018. So why are we naming a game as our winner in 2019 that won another award in 2018? Well, it’s simple: we use a different timeline for eligibility than Spiel. Quacks was originally released in Germany in 2018, putting it in the running for those awards in that year. But it wasn’t released in the US until 2019, and that’s the timeline-and geography-we look at.
Anyway, you can read Jonathan’s original review here, and keep reading to see what we had to say about it.
Anyway, you can read Jonathan’s original review here, and keep reading to see what we had to say about it.
