Honors

Personal

• Spoke on panel with Chief Scientist and head ichthyologist on World Ocean Day at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in June 2025!

• Guest of Honor at the All aBOARD EXPO in the Philippines in May 2025!
   

• Special Guest at Tantrum Con in Feb 2026!

• Special Guest at PAX Unplugged in Nov 2025!

• Special Guest at CuseCon in Sep 2025!

• Nominated for the Play Creators 2025 Game Designer of the Year for IP-driven product for Monkey Palace!

• MOJO 100 2025! Check out page 76 here.

So thrilled and honored to have had my games ranked in top 10 games of the year over 20 times!

Monkey Palace

• Monkey Palace won the 2025 Guldtärningen 2025: Årets Familjespel (Golden Dice Family Game of the Year)

• Monkey Palace won the 2024 Belgian Games Federation Strategy Game Of The Year!

• Monkey Palace earned 2025 Mensa Recommended award!

• Monkey Palace nominated for the 2024 BGG Golden Geek Award for Innovative Game Of The Year!

• Monkey Palace nominated for the 2025 American Tabletop Awards!

• Monkey Palace Finalist 2024 Games & Puzzles Gift of the Year UK!

• Monkey Palace won 2024 Top Christmas Must-Have Big Kids category!

• Monkey Palace nominated for the 2024 Danish Golden Pawn Award for Family Game of the Year!

• Monkey Palace nominated for Best Visuals in the Board Game Revolution Community Awards of 2024 here.

• Monkey Palace ranked #6 game of the year of 2024 by Adam Wales here.

Finspan

• Finspan won the 2025 Astra Star Play Award Geek Game of the Year!

• Finspan ranked in Top 10 2025 Game of the Year by Kovray, Tantrum House, Zilla Blitz, Around The Board, Board Games With Rob, Board Gaming Doctor, Tabletop Tolson, and others; ranked #58 in Winds of the North’s Top Games of All Time by and #82 in Dice Tower’s 2025 Top 100 Games of All Time.

Crafting The Cosmos

• Crafting The Cosmos ranked 2025 #1 Game of the Year for Production by Dice Tower here.

• Crafting The Cosmos won Dice Tower Seal of Excellence here.

• Meeple University favorite new games (Crafting The Cosmos #4!) here.

• Grant Lyon Top 10 Strategy Games of 2025 here.

• Beer City Board Games #5 Game of 2025 here.

• Grant Lyon Top 5 Games of March 2025 (CTC #2!) here.

• Foster The Meeple Top 10 2025 Games of the Year here.

• Grant Lyon’s Top 10 Anticipated 2025 (Crafting The Cosmos #2!) here.

Pinched!

• Pinched! ranked #6 Family Game of the Year by Grant Lyon here.

• Tabletop Turtle ranked Pinched! in Top Games of 2025 here.

Floristry

• Floristry selected as Barnes & Noble Game of the Month for May, 2025!

• Floristry ranked #3 on Paula Deming’s 2024 Gen Con Top 10 here.

• Board Game Bite ranked Floristry #1 2025 Two Player Game of the Year here.

• Diced Onion ranked Floristry #2 and #3 2025 Two Player Game of the Year here.

Push Push Penguin

• Grant Lyon top 5 games of March 2025 here.