He was nominated for the 2005 Spiel des Jahres award for his game Jambo, which also placed 8th for the Deutscher Spiele Preis award. He was also nominated for the 2007 Spiel des Jahres award for his game Die Baumeister von Arkadia (released in English as simply Arkadia) and in 2012 for Las Vegas. He also won the 2014 Kennerspiel des Jahres award for his game Istanbul. In 2016, he was once again nominated for the Spiel des Jahres with his game Karuba.[2] In 2018 Luxor was also nominated for Spiel des Jahres.[3]
Working as a certified trade teacher
In addition to his career, Rüdiger Dorn works as a board game developer at the Gunzenhausen business school . He teaches the subjects: BSK, economic geography , people and the environment.