Editing Spiel des Jahres (section)

===2008 awards===
The nominations for the 2008 award were announced on May 25, 2008, and the winner on June 30, 2008:

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Game of the Year
|-
! style="width:140px;"| Game
!  style="width:225px;"| Designer
!  style="width:120px;"| Publisher
! Result
|-
| ''[[Keltis]]''
| [[Reiner Knizia]]
| [[Kosmos (publisher)|Kosmos]]
| {{win}}
|-
| [[Stone Age (board game)|''Stone Age'']]
| Michael Tummelhofer
| [[Hans im Glück]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| ''Wie verhext! (Witch's Brew)''
| Andreas Pelikan
| [[alea (game publisher)|Alea]]/[[Ravensburger]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| ''Blox''
| [[Wolfgang Kramer]], Jürgen P.K. Grunau, Hans Raggan
| Ravensburger
| {{nom}}
|-
| ''Suleika''
| Dominique Ehrhard
| [[Zoch Verlag]]
| {{nom}}
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Children's Game of the Year
! style="width:140px;"| Game
!  style="width:225px;"| Designer
!  style="width:120px;"| Publisher
! Result
|-
| ''Wer war's? (Whoowasit?)''
| [[Reiner Knizia]]
| [[Ravensburger]]
| {{win}}
|-
| ''Geisterjäger (Ghost Hunters)''
| Andreas, Ueli und Lukas Frei
| [[Habermaaß|HABA]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| ''Fluss der Drachen''
| Inka and Markus Brand
| [[Kosmos (publisher)|Kosmos]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| ''Didi Dotter''
| Ariel Laden
| [[Zoch Verlag]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| ''Capt'n Sharky: Abenteuer auf der Schatzinsel''
| Kai Haferkamp
| Die Spiegelburg
| {{nom}}
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Special Prize
|-
! style="width:140px;"| Game
!  style="width:225px;"| Designer
!  style="width:120px;"| Publisher
! Category
! Result
|-
| [[Agricola (board game)|''Agricola'']]
| [[Uwe Rosenberg]]
| [[Lookout Games]]
| Complex Game
| {{win}}
|}