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¿Question #1993?
[Deleted user]: [deleted question]

Butterbane: Because they are very efficient, methodical and exact ... just think of what they could do with a couple of tanks and a few planes.
joni: Nah, it is only a few of them who have the gift
jeffwolfe: Practice.
diemacher: Because they buy them
scriptorum: It's the beer and sausage.
stray_flux: because they're dead sexy! (my bad Mike Myers impression required)
DHEK: Maybe it's a culture thing. I dunno.
elirlandes: Logical thought.
aleo09: determination
Eric Haas: Practice.
guslikesguinness: They are brilliant!
ryokowerx: Crappy TV?
bigbadsteve: clever marketing. it actually the slovanians making the games, the germans just get the credit
SisyphusX: They like order.
bwildrick: Years and years of regimented lifestyle.
troken: less lazy
lone: Because we are german.
kmcre8f: Part of it is their heritage. At the time, 'The Mansion of Happiness' was published in the US in 1948 (first board game in US), there were already 40 established game companies in Germany. They've taken gaming seriously far longer than any other culture.
ralpheous: efficiency
KineticKill: Everybody's good at something
MaksimSmelchak: Ich weiß es nicht.
Croesus: Because they are good engineers
WatchmanX2000: it's temporary
Helenoftroy: games have been more popular in Germany for a long time and there education system is better with much more selective colleges.
Peechy: Because they have two brains, it was a conspiracy deviced around the late 1800s that all germans who make board games have 2 brains
Chemik: Because they are so bad at making good food.
Kazin: They have the word "Panzershreck" in their dictionary.
crimsonlady: I don't know, but I'm glad they are
brainrob: Because they're less interested in profit and more interested in making something good.
Cyberjunk: Have you seen German TV?
skrutsch: I don't know.
locusshifter: They are so damn smart
MochaKimono: Once they stopped their trying-to-take-over-people tendencies, they devoted the last decades to peaceful hobbies instead.
GrandpaDave: Because we kicked their ass in WWI and WWII
javelin98: Ich weiß es nicht.
jellospike: Because they are perfectionnists
Dorque: Bad weather. Ugly women.
Longbow: Germans have always been good at making machines, and boardgames resemble.
Mike A: They were just born that way?
obob: why are so many non-Germans so bad at it?
Legend Dan: It must be the beer.
sourwyrm: good market for shorter, stream-lined games?
Lord_Prussian: I'm not sure, but I think it has to do with WWII.
thoia: nothing better to do?
Dave: Fahrvergnügen
Cavedog_pdx: The Germans make a lot of good things - cars, beers, chocolate cakes, coffee makers, howitzers, Gewurtztraminers, and many other things that it only makes sense that they would make good games as well.
Gamegrunt: They needed to channel their warlike instincts into something constructive.
AWildEep: Conquering europe didn't work, try something new.
Jern: Habit
ThatFalafelGirl: i figure their TV programing really sucks.
snoozefest: luck
Karlsen: A very good question. If I knew the answer to that I'd be a very wealthy man
MisterCranky: Because they are so bad at making leadership decisions? No, that can't be right, or we'd be JUST as good here in the USA.
nexttothemoon: I think it's because they are all just so fun-loving and intelligent and wonderful and creative and generous. (Any free copies of Die Macher, Tadsch Mahal or Ra that anyone in Germany may have lying around taking up space may now be sent to me...I'll pay the postage) :)
heli: lousy television and other reasons
pronoblem: Because there is a market in Germany.
tragicpoet: They gave up on making crappy cars?
Flyspeck23: They are?
AlorielLelyn: Ve haf vays to make you enjoy our games *said with terrible german accent*
gnomehome: Tradition ?
CDRodeffer: They care.
djlg: Practice makes perfect, except when it comes to retheming monopoly.
jttm: Its part of their evil plan to take over the world.
Blackwind: Cause they got nothing better to do when they aren't marchin over Europe.
Redneon: Ve haf vays of making you enjoy something.
skelebone: Years of oppressive organization?
chaddyboy_2000: Schokolade Weinachtsmann.
CortexBomb: Because they do it constantly. It's the same reason Americans are good at hamburgers