Essen Feather

{{Short description|German board game award}}

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The Essen Feather ({{langx|de|Essener Feder}}) is an award for German-style board games, given at the Deutscher Spiele Preis ceremony at the Spiel game fair in Essen, Germany. The award is given to games with well-written rules, as it was felt that too many good games were spoiled by incomprehensible rules.{{Cite book |last=Woods |first=Stewart |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GPdRVOl8fU0C&dq=The+Essen+Feather+award&pg=PA51 |title=Eurogames: The Design, Culture and Play of Modern European Board Games |date=2012-08-16 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-6797-6 |language=en}}

The trophy is a brass goose quill and inkwell on a chessboard.