Watch “Essen Spiel 2026 – My One Day Plan #boardgames,” a board game video from Board Game Dad on BoardGameVideo.
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Heading to SPIEL Essen 2026 (Oct 22–25)? Here's how I'd spend a single day at the world's biggest board game fair — every booth on my route, hall by hall, plus my picks for the games that will be the talk of the show.
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📍 MY ONE-DAY ROUTE
🏛️ HALL 4
BUY FIRST:
🌿 Carl von Linné — @PinkTroubadour 4G515
🏙️ Prague Unseen — @gamesalbi (4D400)
🦁 Night at the Zoo — @gamesalbi (4D400)
🏚️ Potemkin Villages — @gamesalbi (4D400)
🏛️ HALL 2
🔥 Flame & Forge — Vesuvius Media (2C400)
🏛️ HALL 3
⚔️ Kingdom Come: Deliverance — @CzechGamesEdition 3V400
♟️ Queen Alice — Combo Games 3U210
🎲 Codenames: Critical Role Adventures — @CzechGamesEdition 3V400
🌊 Kalypso — @insideupgames 3R400
🌍 Dawn of Pangaea — Treeceratops 3Q400
🗾 Nippon Zaibatsu — @crowdgames (3P200)
⚡ For the Gods — @mightyboards (3M300)
🍃 Under the Leaves — @GrandGamersGuild 3D600
🏰 Gaudí — @devir-games 3D600
❄️ -60° — Nanox (3C115)
⏳ Timespan — Alion Games 3F110
🏛️ HALL 4
🍄 Gnomeville — @AdamsAppleGames (4H120)
🔠 Defenders of the Dictionary @AdamsAppleGames
🏛️ HALL 5
🌎 @wonderfulworldboardgames45 — 5H400
🏛️ HALL 6
🧩 Fragments — IELLO (6F200)
🏛️ HALL 7
🎵 Melodies — Space Cowboys (7C111)
