The Dice Tower Awards for 2018 were announced at Dice Tower Con in Florida.
Game of the Year – Root.
Nominees: Teotihuacan: City of Gods; Chronicles of Crime; Underwater Cities; Brass: Birmingham; Western Legends; Rising Sun; Architects of the West Kingdoms; Everdell; The Mind.
Best Theming— Detective: A Modern Crime Boardgame.
Nominees: Western Legends; Root; Stuffed Fables; Chronicles of Crime.
Best Cooperative Game: Chronicles of Crime.
Nominees: Just One; The Mind; Detective: A Modern Crime Boardgame; Stuffed Fables.
Best Strategy: Teotihuacan: City of Gods.
Nominees: Root; Brass: Birmingham; Coimbra; Underwater Cities.
Best Production: Rising Sun.
Nominees: Fireball Island; Everdell; Brass: Birmingham; Grimm Forest.
Best Party Game: Just One.
Nominees: Decrypto; The Mind; Drop it; Trapwords.
Best Family Game: Fireball Island.
Nominees: Gizmos; Reef; Space Base; My Little Scythe.
Best Artwork: Everdell.
Nominees: Root; Grimm Forest; Cerebria; Rising Sun.
Most Innovative: Chronicles of Crime.
Nominees: Nyctophobia; Detective: A Modern Crime Boardgame; KeyForge; The Mind.
Best Reprint: Fireball Island.
Nominees: Brass Lancashire; Endeavor: Age of Sail; High Society; The Estates.
Best Expansion: Scythe: Rise of Fenris.
Nominees: Terraforming Mars: Prelude; Roll Player: Monsters and Minions; Great Western Trail: Rails to the North; Root: The Riverfolk.
Best Game from a Small Publisher: Root (Leder Games).
Nominees: Chronicle of Crime (Lucky Duck Games); Underwater Cities (Delicious Games); Vindication (Orange Nebula LLC); Obsession (Kayenta Game).
Best Two-Player: Keyforge: Call of the Archons.
Nominees: War Chest; Duelosaur Island; Haven; Mythic Battles: Pantheon.
Best New Designer: Wolfgang Warsch (Quacks of Quedlinberg, The Mind, & Ganz Schon Clever).
Nominees: David Cicurel (Chronicles of Crime); Catherine Stippell (Nyctophobia); Ivan Lashin (Smartphone Inc.); Tim Eisner (Grimm Forest).
