Category: BGG Top Games Overviews
Posted on November 4, 2026
by whovian223
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We’re quickly moving through the 5000s in the Boardgame Geek game rankings list, and this week is actually pretty good and pretty bad. Pretty good because I’ve actually played three of them! (actually 4, but the extra one jumped up into last week’s century… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 5301 – 5400”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, 6 Nimmt! Baron Oxx, Amigo Spiel, Avalon Hill, Board & Dice, Card Games, Card Shedding, Card-Driven Game, Clubs, Contracts, Cooperative Games, Dice-rolling, Farm Hand, Forest Shuffle - Smoky Mountains, Fort Sumter, Freedom in the Galaxy, GMT Games, Grail Games, Hapsburg Eclipse, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, North Star Games, Phalanx Games, Purple Haze, Solo Games, States of Siege games, Tabletop Tycoon, Trick-taking games, Trismegistus, Wargames
Posted on October 28, 2026
by whovian223
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This is a weird week in the weekly look at the top ranked games on Boardgame Geek (though saying “top” when we’re down in the 5000s seems a little off). I have played only one of these games, but it is actually pretty good,… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 5201 – 5300”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 25th Century Games, Action Selection, Area Movement, Assyria 2nd Edition, Avalon Hill, Big Sur, Card Games, Doit Games, Forest Shuffle - Smoky Mountains, Garphill Games, Hitster: Rock, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Multiman Publishing, Party Games, Pole Position, Racing Game, Reluctant Enemies, Revolution Games, Solo Games, Sports Games, Stalingrad: Advance to the Volga, Statis Pro Baseball, Wargames
Posted on October 22, 2026
by whovian223
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A day’s delay, so I hope nobody’s gone blue holding their breath for this post. I’ll try to do better next week! These Boardgame Geek century of boardgame rankings posts are still getting some great reactions for me. Always love it when somebody in… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 5101 – 5200”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 13 Leaves, 2-Player Games, Alderac, Banish the Snakes, Bluffing, Brass Pittsburgh, Card Games, Card Shedding, Cardcassone, CMYK, Cooperative Games, Dice-rolling, Duel of Meloch, Economic Games, Fantasy Flight Games, Forest Shuffle - Smoky Mountains, GMT Games, I'm Out, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Player Elimination, Rio Grande Games, Roxley Games, Slugfest Games, Smash Up, Smash Up World Tour: Culture Shock, Smile, Solo Games, Stalingrad Pocket, Star Trek: Missions, Stonemaier Games, The Red Dragon Inn 7: The Tavern Crew, Wargames, Wizkids, X-Men: Mutant Insurrection, Z-Man Games
Posted on October 14, 2026
by whovian223
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We’re now on the downward slope heading to the 10,000 level of games ranked on Boardgame Geek. Yet there are still some decent ones down here! That just goes to show you that a low-ranked game does not necessarily mean it is bad. Of… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 5001 – 5100”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: Alderac, AllPlay, Amigo Spiel, Bezier Games, Board & Dice, Card Games, Compass Games, Dance of Ibexes, Duel of Meloch, Enemy Action: Kharkov, Forest Shuffle - Smoky Mountains, Game Makers, GMT Games, Hand Management, I Cut You Choose, I Made You a Mixtape, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Massive Asterisk, Mixlore, Multi-use cards, Oddland, Peloponnesian War, Ramen Fury, Set Collection Games, Smash Up World Tour: International Incident, Solo Games, Stonemaier Games, Thebai, Tile-Laying Games, Variable Player Powers, Wargames, Wingspan Pocket
Posted on September 29, 2026
by whovian223
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Even closer to 5000 on the Boardgame Geek ranking system, the pickings of played games are getting slim! Not so slim that it would keep me from doing another in this series of posts, because it’s so goddamned fun to talk about games, both… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 4801 – 4900”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, Advanced Third Reich, America - Trivia Game, Area Control, Area Majority, Avalon Hill, Bezier Games, Blitz Bowl - Ultimate Edition, Blue Panther Games, City of Gears, Compass Games, Cooperative Games, Daily Magic Games, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, Engine-building, Family Games, Fireside Games, Games Workshop, Grey Fox Games, Grid Movement, Horizons, Land and Freedom, Legends of the Void, Lunch Time Games, My First Castle Panic, Party Games, Semi-cooperative Games, The Lamps are Going Out, Twoid Games, Wargames, Worker Placement Games
Posted on September 23, 2026
by whovian223
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We’re getting close to the 5000 mark on this look at centuries of Boardgame Geek game rankings, and one thing is becoming clear: I haven’t played a lot of these as we get deeper! Last week was a bit of a return to form… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 4701 – 4800”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: Area Control, Bezier Games, Bohemians, Card-Driven Game, Colossal Cat in the Box, Compass Games, Crusader Kings, Deckbuilders, Drafting Games, Europe in Turmoil, First Giants, Free League Publishing, GMT Games, Junk Orbit, Leaping Lemmings, Lock & Load Publishing, Pick Up & Deliver, Portal Games, PSC Games, Quartermaster General: Victory or Death, Renegade Games Studios, Set Collection Games, Space Cowboys, Trick-taking games, Wargames, World at War '85: Storming the Gap
Posted on September 16, 2026
by whovian223
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After a week where I literally had not played any of the games in the Boardgame Geek century I was talking about, this week is going to be huge! Well, maybe not huge, but we’re back to at least a few. That will probably… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 4601-4700”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: Alderac, Auf Teufel Komm Raus, Betting, Board & Dice, Card Games, COIN Games, Downfall, Drafting Games, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Entropy, France '40, GMT Games, Heavy Cardboard, Looney Labs, Lost Legends, Lunch Time Games, People Power, Pirate Fluxx, Queen Games, Railways of the World: The Card Game, Rondel Games, Set Collection Games, Smash Up: Marvel, Solo Games, The Hunted: Twilight of the U-Boats, Wargames
Posted on September 9, 2026
by whovian223
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We have reached the midway point of the 4000s in the Boardgame Geek game rankings, and we have also hit another milestone. I have not played or do not own any of the games in this century. I know I said originally that I… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 4501 – 4600”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 1 vs Many games, Alderac, Avalon Hill, Capstone Games, Card Games, Cascadia: Alpine Lakes, Catherine: The Cities of the Tsarina, Cooperative Games, Cosmic Encounter, D-Day at Peleliu, Decision Games, Drafting Games, DVG Games, Flatout Games, Fliptoons Season 2, Hidden Movement, KuZOOkA, Last Friday, Lunch Time Games, Negotiation Games, Pegasus Spiele, Pendragon Game Studio, Phantom Leader, Rondel Games, Scorpius Freighter, Set Collection Games, Solo Games, Thunderworks Games, Tile-Laying Games
Posted on September 2, 2026
by whovian223
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We’re halfway through the 4000s in our weekly look at games on the Boardgame Geek top games list, and things are looking up again. Slightly. Last week, I had only played two of the games in that century and I was beginning to despair… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 4401 – 4500”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, AllPlay, Andreas Odendahl, Area Control, Arkham Horror: Final Hour, Battalion Combat Series, Bezier Games, Bill Eberle, Card Games, Carlo A Rossi, Christopher Wray, Cooperative Games, Cosmic Encounter Duel, Dean Essig, Dice Drafting, El Burro, Fantasy Flight Games, Francisco Gradaille, Frank Brooks, Game Makers, GMT Games, Greg Olotka, Ignacy Trzewiczek, La Granja, Lane Battler, Last Blitzkrieg, Levy & Campaign Series, Lunch Time Games, Michael Keller, Multi-Man Publishing, Neuroshima Convoy, Oops You Did It Again, Paul Peterson, Plantagenet: Cousins' War for England, Pollen, Portal Games, Reiner Knizia, Smash Up, Spielworxx, Stonemaier Games, Todd Michlitsch, Trick-taking games, Wargames, Wingspan Pocket
Posted on August 26, 2026
by whovian223
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Welcome to another look at a century of Boardgame Geek game rankings! These posts have been really cool for me because of the conversations they’ve started with friends and colleagues, but they’ve usually had at least a few games that I’ve played and can… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 4301 – 4400”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 12 Rivers, 2-Player Games, Area Majority, Ascension, Auction Games, Avalon Hill, Bezier Games, Board & Dice, Canasta, Card Games, Cooperative Games, Deckbuilders, Donning the Purple, Dutch Resistance: Orange Shall Overcom, First Fish Games, Founders of Teotihuacan, Gift of the Elements, Good Games Publishing, Hanami, IV Studio, Keymaster Games, Liberation Game Design, Lunch Time Games, Multi-Man Publishing, Realm of Reckoning, Roll and Move, Stoneblade, Storm Over Stalingrad, Subdivision, Talisman 5th Edition, The Korean War, Tile-Laying Games, Tompet Games, Town Builder: Coevorden, Victory Games, Wargames