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An annual popular-choice award. From 1996 to 2008, it was organized by Eileen Mullin of Xyzzy News. Beginning in 2009, it is now organized by Dan Shiovitz at xyzzyawards.org.

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• 2008

The full results, at ifwiki.org

• Best Game
  • Finalist: The Light: Shelby's Addendum, Lost New York, The Meteor, The Stone And A Long Glass Of Sherbet, Time: All Things Come to an End
  • Winner: So Far
• Best Individual NPC
  • Finalist: Phlegm, Ralph
  • Winner: Frobozz Magic Support, Kissing the Buddha's Feet, Small World
• Best Individual Puzzle
  • Finalist: Fear, The Meteor, The Stone And A Long Glass Of Sherbet
  • Winner: So Far
• Best NPCs
  • Finalist: Lost New York, Small World, The Underoos that Ate New York, The Wedding
  • Winner: Kissing the Buddha's Feet
• Best Puzzles
  • Finalist: Frobozz Magic Support, Lost New York, The Meteor, The Stone And A Long Glass Of Sherbet, Time: All Things Come to an End
  • Winner: So Far
• Best Setting
  • Finalist: The Light: Shelby's Addendum, Lost New York, Night at the Computer Center, So Far
  • Winner: Small World
• Best Story
  • Finalist: Delusions, Lost New York, So Far, Time: All Things Come to an End
  • Winner: Tapestry
• Best Writing
  • Finalist: Aayela, Lost New York, The Meteor, The Stone And A Long Glass Of Sherbet, Tapestry
  • Winner: So Far

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The official announcement of results, at Xyzzy News
The full results, at ifwiki.org

• Best Game
  • Finalist: Babel, A Bear's Night Out, The Edifice, Glowgrass
  • Winner: I-0
• Best Individual NPC
  • Finalist: The Edifice, I-0, The Lost Spellmaker, Sins Against Mimesis
  • Winner: She's Got a Thing for a Spring
• Best Individual PC
  • Finalist: Babel, A Bear's Night Out, The Frenetic Five vs. Sturm und Drang, The Lost Spellmaker
  • Winner: I-0
• Best Individual Puzzle
  • Finalist: Heist, Pick Up The Phone Booth And Die, Sins Against Mimesis, Sunset Over Savannah
  • Winner: The Edifice
• Best NPCs
  • Finalist: Everybody Loves a Parade, I-0, She's Got a Thing for a Spring, Zero Sum Game
  • Winner: The Frenetic Five vs. Sturm und Drang
• Best Puzzles
  • Finalist: Babel, Everybody Loves a Parade, Heist, Zero Sum Game
  • Winner: The Edifice
• Best Setting
  • Finalist: I-0, Mercy, She's Got a Thing for a Spring, Sins Against Mimesis
  • Winner: A Bear's Night Out
• Best Story
  • Finalist: Glowgrass, I-0, Madame L'Estrange and the Troubled Spirit, Mercy
  • Winner: Babel
• Best Use of Medium
  • Finalist: I-0, A New Day, The Space Under the Window, Sunset Over Savannah
  • Winner: The Tempest
• Best Writing
  • Finalist: Babel, I-0, She's Got a Thing for a Spring, The Space Under the Window
  • Winner: Sunset Over Savannah

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The official announcement of results, at Xyzzy News
The full results, at ifwiki.org

• Best Game
  • Finalist: Anchorhead, Little Blue Men, Once and Future, Photopia
  • Winner: Spider and Web
• Best Individual NPC
  • Finalist: Anchorhead, Enlightenment, Mother Loose, Photopia
  • Winner: Spider and Web
• Best Individual PC
  • Finalist: Bad Machine, Muse: An Autumn Romance, Spider and Web, Zork: A Troll's-Eye View
  • Winner: Little Blue Men
• Best Individual Puzzle
  • Finalist: Little Blue Men, Losing Your Grip, Photopia, The Plant
  • Winner: Spider and Web
• Best NPCs
  • Finalist: Guilty Bastards, Mother Loose, Muse: An Autumn Romance, Photopia
  • Winner: Once and Future
• Best Puzzles
  • Finalist: Anchorhead, Enlightenment, Losing Your Grip, Once and Future
  • Winner: Spider and Web
• Best Setting
  • Finalist: Losing Your Grip, Muse: An Autumn Romance, Once and Future, Spider and Web
  • Winner: Anchorhead
• Best Story
  • Finalist: Anchorhead, Little Blue Men, Losing Your Grip, Spider and Web
  • Winner: Photopia
• Best Use of Medium
  • Finalist: Arrival, or Attack of the B-Movie Clichés, Bad Machine, Once and Future, Photopia
  • Winner: Spider and Web
• Best Writing
  • Finalist: Anchorhead, Little Blue Men, Muse: An Autumn Romance, Spider and Web
  • Winner: Photopia

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The official announcement of results, at Xyzzy News
The full results, at ifwiki.org

• Best Game
  • Finalist: For a Change, Lunatix, The Mulldoon Legacy, Worlds Apart
  • Winner: Varicella
• Best Individual NPC
  • Finalist: Exhibition, Hunter, in Darkness, Worlds Apart
  • Winner: Varicella
• Best Individual PC
  • Finalist: Aisle, A Day for Soft Food, Exhibition, Winchester's Nightmare
  • Winner: Varicella
• Best Individual Puzzle
  • Finalist: Break-In, For a Change, The Frenetic Five vs. Mr. Redundancy Man, The Mulldoon Legacy
  • Winner: Hunter, in Darkness
• Best NPCs
  • Finalist: A Day for Soft Food, The Frenetic Five vs. Mr. Redundancy Man, The Mulldoon Legacy, Worlds Apart
  • Winner: Varicella
• Best Puzzles
  • Finalist: Lunatix, Not Just An Ordinary Ballerina, Varicella, Worlds Apart
  • Winner: The Mulldoon Legacy
• Best Setting
  • Finalist: Erehwon, For a Change, The Mulldoon Legacy, Winter Wonderland, Worlds Apart
  • Winner: Hunter, in Darkness
• Best Story
  • Finalist: Aisle, Common Ground, Lunatix, The Mulldoon Legacy, Varicella
  • Winner: Worlds Apart
• Best Use of Medium
  • Finalist: Hunter, in Darkness, Six Stories, Varicella, Worlds Apart
  • Winner: Aisle
• Best Writing
  • Finalist: Exhibition, Lunatix, Varicella, Worlds Apart
  • Winner: For a Change

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The official announcement of results, at Xyzzy News
The full results, at ifwiki.org

• Best Game
  • Finalist: Galatea, LASH -- Local Asynchronous Satellite Hookup, Rameses, Shade
  • Winner: Being Andrew Plotkin
• Best Individual NPC
  • Finalist: Augmented Fourth, Being Andrew Plotkin, Fail-Safe, My Angel
  • Winner: Galatea
• Best Individual PC
  • Finalist: Being Andrew Plotkin, LASH -- Local Asynchronous Satellite Hookup, Nevermore, Shade
  • Winner: Rameses
• Best Individual Puzzle
  • Finalist: 9:05, Above and Beyond!, Ad Verbum, Being Andrew Plotkin
  • Winner: Rematch
• Best NPCs
  • Finalist: Galatea, Heroine's Mantle, Kaged, Punk Points, Rameses
  • Winner: Being Andrew Plotkin
• Best Puzzles
  • Finalist: Augmented Fourth, Dinner with Andre, The End Means Escape, Heroine's Mantle, Metamorphoses, Nevermore
  • Winner: Ad Verbum
• Best Setting
  • Finalist: LASH -- Local Asynchronous Satellite Hookup, Metamorphoses, Nevermore, shrapnel
  • Winner: Shade
• Best Story
  • Finalist: Being Andrew Plotkin, Heroine's Mantle, LASH -- Local Asynchronous Satellite Hookup, Masquerade, Rameses, Shade, shrapnel
  • Winner: My Angel
• Best Use of Medium
  • Finalist: Ad Verbum, Metamorphoses, Rameses, Shade
  • Winner: shrapnel
• Best Writing
  • Finalist: My Angel, Rameses, Shade, You are a Chef!
  • Winner: Metamorphoses

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The official announcement of results, at Xyzzy News
The full results, at ifwiki.org

• Best Game
  • Finalist: Best of Three, Fallacy of Dawn, First Things First, Pytho's Mask
  • Winner: All Roads
• Best Individual NPC
  • Finalist: Best of Three, The Gostak, Stiffy Makane: The Undiscovered Country, The Weapon
  • Winner: Fallacy of Dawn
• Best Individual PC
  • Finalist: The Beetmonger's Journal, Best of Three, Fallacy of Dawn, Fine Tuned
  • Winner: The Tale of the Kissing Bandit
• Best Individual Puzzle
  • Finalist: All Roads, Pytho's Mask, Silicon Castles, Textfire Golf, Vicious Cycles
  • Winner: The Gostak
• Best NPCs
  • Finalist: Best of Three, Fallacy of Dawn, Textfire Golf, You Are Here
  • Winner: Pytho's Mask
• Best Puzzles
  • Finalist: Degeneracy, The Gostak, Stiffy Makane: The Undiscovered Country, Vicious Cycles, The Weapon
  • Winner: First Things First
• Best Setting
  • Finalist: Fallacy of Dawn, Fine Tuned, Heroes, Pytho's Mask, Textfire Golf
  • Winner: All Roads
• Best Story
  • Finalist: Fallacy of Dawn, First Things First, Pytho's Mask, Vicious Cycles, Voices
  • Winner: All Roads
• Best Use of Medium
  • Finalist: Best of Three, Heroes, Pick Up the Phone Booth and Aisle, Textfire Golf
  • Winner: The Gostak
• Best Writing
  • Finalist: All Roads, Best of Three, No Time To Squeal, Pytho's Mask
  • Winner: Fallacy of Dawn

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The official announcement of results, at Xyzzy News
The full results, at ifwiki.org

• Best Game
  • Finalist: 1893: A World's Fair Mystery, Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky, Lock & Key, Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out of Me!
  • Winner: Savoir Faire
• Best Individual NPC
  • Finalist: Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky, The Temple, When Help Collides
  • Winner: Lock & Key
• Best Individual PC
  • Finalist: Dutch Dapper IV: The Final Voyage, Goldilocks is a FOX!, Janitor, Photograph
  • Winner: Savoir Faire
• Best Individual Puzzle
  • Finalist: Constraints, Forever Always, Savoir Faire, Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out of Me!
  • Winner: Lock & Key
• Best NPCs
  • Finalist: Forever Always, The Frenetic Five vs. the Seven Deadly Dwarves, The PK Girl, Tookie's Song
  • Winner: Lock & Key
• Best Puzzles
  • Finalist: Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky, Lock & Key, Out of the Study, Tookie's Song
  • Winner: Savoir Faire
• Best Setting
  • Finalist: Augustine, Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky, The Moonlit Tower, Savoir Faire
  • Winner: 1893: A World's Fair Mystery
• Best Story
  • Finalist: Augustine, The Moonlit Tower, Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out of Me!, When Help Collides
  • Winner: Savoir Faire
• Best Use of Medium
  • Finalist: Lock & Key, Photograph, Savoir Faire, When Help Collides
  • Winner: Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky
• Best Writing
  • Finalist: Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky, Savoir Faire, Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out of Me!, When Help Collides
  • Winner: The Moonlit Tower

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The official announcement of results, at Xyzzy News
The full results, at ifwiki.org

• Best Game
  • Finalist: City of Secrets, Risorgimento Represso, Scavenger, To Hell in a Hamper
  • Winner: Slouching Towards Bedlam
• Best Individual NPC
  • Finalist: City of Secrets, Narcolepsy, Scavenger, Shadows on the Mirror
  • Winner: Slouching Towards Bedlam
• Best Individual PC
  • Finalist: Gourmet, Narcolepsy, Shadows on the Mirror, Slouching Towards Bedlam
  • Winner: Episode in the Life of an Artist
• Best Individual Puzzle
  • Finalist: Max Blaster and Doris de Lightning Against the Parrot Creatures of Venus, Risorgimento Represso
  • Winner: The Recruit
• Best NPCs
  • Finalist: Narcolepsy, Risorgimento Represso, Shadows on the Mirror, Slouching Towards Bedlam
  • Winner: City of Secrets
• Best Puzzles
  • Finalist: The Erudition Chamber, Inevitable, Risorgimento Represso, Scavenger
  • Winner: Gourmet
• Best Setting
  • Finalist: City of Secrets, Gourmet, Narcolepsy, To Hell in a Hamper
  • Winner: Slouching Towards Bedlam
• Best Story
  • Finalist: City of Secrets, Narcolepsy, Redemption, To Hell in a Hamper
  • Winner: Slouching Towards Bedlam
• Best Use of Medium
  • Finalist: City of Secrets, Narcolepsy, Slouching Towards Bedlam, To Hell in a Hamper
  • Winner: ASCII and the Argonauts
• Best Writing
  • Finalist: City of Secrets, Max Blaster and Doris de Lightning Against the Parrot Creatures of Venus, Slouching Towards Bedlam, To Hell in a Hamper
  • Winner: Narcolepsy

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The official announcement of results, at Xyzzy News
The full results, at ifwiki.org

• Best Game
  • Finalist: Dreamhold, Future Boy!, Necrotic Drift, Return to Ditch Day
  • Winner: Blue Chairs
• Best Individual NPC
  • Finalist: Future Boy!, Gamlet, The Great Xavio, Return to Ditch Day
  • Winner: Necrotic Drift
• Best Individual PC
  • Finalist: Blue Chairs, Gamlet, Luminous Horizon, Necrotic Drift
  • Winner: Sting of the Wasp
• Best Individual Puzzle
  • Finalist: Blue Chairs, Dreamhold, Future Boy!, Necrotic Drift
  • Winner: All Things Devours
• Best NPCs
  • Finalist: Blue Chairs, Future Boy!, Luminous Horizon, Necrotic Drift
  • Winner: Sting of the Wasp
• Best Puzzles
  • Finalist: All Things Devours, Future Boy!, Goose, Egg, Badger, Square Circle
  • Winner: Dreamhold
• Best Setting
  • Finalist: Dreamhold, Future Boy!, Gamlet, Mingsheng, Necrotic Drift
  • Winner: The Fire Tower
• Best Story
  • Finalist: The Act of Misdirection, The Cabal, Dreamhold, Future Boy!, Necrotic Drift
  • Winner: Blue Chairs
• Best Use of Medium
  • Finalist: All Things Devours, Bellclap, Future Boy!, Return to Ditch Day
  • Winner: Dreamhold
• Best Writing
  • Finalist: Dreamhold, Future Boy!, Gamlet, Necrotic Drift
  • Winner: Blue Chairs

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The official announcement of results, at Xyzzy News
The full results, at ifwiki.org

• Best Game
  • Finalist: All Hope Abandon, Chancellor, Distress, Finding Martin
  • Winner: Vespers
• Best Individual NPC
  • Finalist: All Hope Abandon, Flat Feet, Gilded, Vespers
  • Winner: Whom The Telling Changed
• Best Individual PC
  • Finalist: Beyond, Conan Kill Everything, Flat Feet, Vespers
  • Winner: Tough Beans
• Best Individual Puzzle
  • Finalist: All Hope Abandon, Chancellor, Distress
  • Winner: Beyond
• Best NPCs
  • Finalist: All Hope Abandon, Bolivia By Night, Flat Feet, Gilded
  • Winner: Vespers
• Best Puzzles
  • Finalist: Building, Cheiron, Finding Martin, Vespers
  • Winner: Distress
• Best Setting
  • Finalist: All Hope Abandon, Building, Chancellor, Distress
  • Winner: Vespers
• Best Story
  • Finalist: All Hope Abandon, Chancellor, Distress, Vespers
  • Winner: Beyond
• Best Use of Medium
  • Finalist: Book and Volume, Distress, A New Life, Whom The Telling Changed
• Best Writing
  • Finalist: Bolivia By Night, Chancellor, Mix Tape, Tough Beans
  • Winner: Vespers

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The official announcement of results, at Xyzzy News
The full results, at ifwiki.org

• Best Game
  • Finalist: De Baron, Floatpoint, The Primrose Path, The Traveling Swordsman
  • Winner: The Elysium Enigma
• Best Individual NPC
  • Finalist: Aunts and Butlers, De Baron, The Bible Retold, Legion
  • Winner: The Elysium Enigma
• Best Individual PC
  • Finalist: De Baron, Legion, The Primrose Path, The Traveling Swordsman
  • Winner: Delightful Wallpaper
• Best Individual Puzzle
  • Finalist: Floatpoint, Madam Spider's Web, Mobius, Strange Geometries
  • Winner: Delightful Wallpaper
• Best NPCs
  • Finalist: Aunts and Butlers, De Baron, Delightful Wallpaper, Moon-Shaped
  • Winner: Floatpoint
• Best Puzzles
  • Finalist: The Elysium Enigma, Mobius, The Traveling Swordsman, The Warlord, The Princess & The Bulldog
  • Winner: Delightful Wallpaper
• Best Setting
  • Finalist: Ekphrasis, Star City, Strange Geometries, Unauthorized Termination
  • Winner: Floatpoint
• Best Story
  • Finalist: De Baron, The Elysium Enigma, Moon-Shaped, Pantomime
  • Winner: The Traveling Swordsman
• Best Use of Medium
  • Finalist: Another Goddamn Escape the Locked Room Game, Attack of the Yeti Robot Zombies, Bronze, Legion
  • Winner: De Baron
• Best Writing
  • Finalist: De Baron, Floatpoint, Legion, Pantomime
  • Winner: Delightful Wallpaper

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The official announcement of results, at Xyzzy News
The full results, at ifwiki.org

• Best Game
  • Finalist: An Act of Murder, Child's Play, Fate, Suveh Nux
  • Winner: Lost Pig
• Best Individual NPC
  • Finalist: Child's Play, Treasures of a Slaver's Kingdom
  • Winner: Lost Pig
• Best Individual PC
  • Finalist: Ferrous Ring, A Fine Day for Reaping, The Reluctant Resurrectee, Varkana
  • Winner: Lost Pig
• Best Individual Puzzle
  • Finalist: Child's Play, Orevore Courier, Slap That Fish, Suveh Nux
  • Winner: An Act of Murder
• Best NPCs
  • Finalist: An Act of Murder, The Chinese Room, Lost Pig, Slap That Fish
  • Winner: Child's Play
• Best Puzzles
  • Finalist: An Act of Murder, Child's Play, The Chinese Room, Lost Pig
  • Winner: Suveh Nux
• Best Setting
  • Finalist: Blighted Isle, Ferrous Ring, Lost Pig, Suveh Nux
  • Winner: Varkana
• Best Story
  • Finalist: An Act of Murder, Deadline Enchanter, Fate
  • Winner: A Fine Day for Reaping
• Best Use of Medium
  • Finalist: An Act of Murder, Fate, Lost Pig, Slap That Fish
  • Winner: Deadline Enchanter
• Best Writing
  • Finalist: An Act of Murder, Child's Play, The Chinese Room, Deadline Enchanter
  • Winner: Lost Pig

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The full results, at ifwiki.org

• Best Game
  • Finalist: Everybody Dies, Gun Mute, Nightfall, Piracy 2.0
  • Winner: Violet
• Best Individual NPC
  • Finalist: Gun Mute, Snack Time!
  • Winner: Violet
• Best Individual PC
  • Finalist: Everybody Dies, Gun Mute, Nightfall
  • Winner: Snack Time!
• Best Individual Puzzle
  • Finalist: Afflicted, Gun Mute
  • Winner: Violet
• Best NPCs
  • Finalist: April in Paris, Gun Mute, Snack Time!, Violet
  • Winner: Everybody Dies
• Best Puzzles
  • Finalist: Piracy 2.0, Violet
  • Winner: Gun Mute
• Best Setting
  • Finalist: Buried In Shoes, Gun Mute, Piracy 2.0, Violet
  • Winner: Nightfall
• Best Story
  • Finalist: Afflicted, Everybody Dies, Gun Mute, Violet
  • Winner: Nightfall
• Best Use of Medium
  • Finalist: Afflicted, Everybody Dies, Gun Mute, Violet
• Best Writing
  • Finalist: Everybody Dies, Gun Mute, Nightfall
  • Winner: Violet

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