The winners of BoardGameGeek‘s Golden Geek Awards have been announced this month.  There are many Game awards, with the foremost being the Spiel des Jahres Awards and Deutscher Spiele Preis, Both of these are German in origin, with the Spiel des Jahres awards chosen by a panel of experts and the Deutscher Spiele Preis resulting from an open vote by games clubs, gamers and people in the industry.  In contrast, the Golden Geek Awards are voted on by the users of the BoardGameGeek websiteflavour which gives them a slightly different .  There are over a dozen categories, but winners include Arcs, Castle Combo, Harmonies, SETI and Flip 7 with Fromage, Let’s Go! To Japan, Captain Flip, Heat: Heavy Rain, and Forest Shuffle: Alpine featuring among the runners up.