Top 100 Games - as of 2015

This is my list as of the end of 2015.

1 - Space Hulk
2 - Circus Imperium
3 - Family Business
4 - Diplomacy
5 - Warhammer 40,000
6 - Assault on Hoth
7 - Illuminati
8 - Icebergs
9 - Bosworth
10 - OGRE Designer’s Edition

11 - Walk The Plank
12 - Risk
13 - Survive: Escape from Atlantis
14 - Cash ‘n’ Guns – second edition
15 - Sushi Go
16 - Bang: The Dice Game
17 - Monty Python Fluxx
18 - Groo: The Game
19 - Race Day
20 - Highlander:The Card Game

21 - Crimson Skies
22 - Car Wars
23 - Scoville
24 - Heroclix
25 - Blood Bowl 3rd
26 - Fortress America
27 - Go
28 - Star Wars: The Queen’s Gambit
29 - Conquest of the Empire
30 - Battle Masters

31 - Tsuro
32 - King of Tokyo
33 - Battleship Galaxies
34 - Daytona 500
35 - Rocketville
36 - Car Wars Card Game
37 - Camel Cup
38 - Guillotine
39 - Star Wars Miniatures: Starship Battles
40 - Horrorclix

41 - Hey, That's My Fish!
42 - Pitch Six
43 - Pandemic
44 - Blokus Trigon
45 - Cardline – Animals
46 - Blokus
47 - Timeline: Music & Cinema
48 - Spooks
49 - Bohnanza
50 - Zombies!!!

51 - Zombie Dice
52 - Cthulhu Dice
53 - Dilbert card game
54 - Rules With No Name
55 - Fluxx
56 - Shogun (Ikusa)
57 - Aliens
58 - Search for the Emperor’s Treasure
59 - Canvas Eagles
60 - Dragon Dice

61 - Pente
62 - Chess
63 - Girl Genius: The Works
64 - Elixir
65 - INWO
66 - Star Wars Starfighter Battle Books
67 - Quiddler
68 - Monsters Menace America
69 - Unexploded Cow
70 - Junta

71 - Toss Up!
72 - Risk: Balance of Power
73 - Star Warriors
74 - Martian Dice
75 - Yetisburg
76 - Risk: Battlefield
77 - Hive
78 - Chill: Black Manor Morn
79 - Filthy Rich
80 - Roll For It!

81 - Monopoly
82 - Resistance
83 - Canasta
84 - Wits and Wagers Family
85 - Scrabble Slam
86 - Iota
87 - Empire Builder
88 - Monsterpocalypse
89 - Colt Express
90 - Word Thief

91 - Qwirkle
92 - Yahtzee Free For All
93 - Blood Royale
94 - Heroscape Master Set: Rise of the Valkyrie
95 - Poo: The card game
96 - Bejeweled Frenzy
97 - Stack
98 - The x-files Card Game
99 - Nuclear War
100 - Scrabble


I am not sure how often I will go back and revise this but it was a good experience to have done it. I recommend it as a thought experiment to anyone who has played a bunch of games. A warning though - I know that it is making me look at my new purchases a little bit closer.

Top 100 games to 2015 - overview

I finally have my list together to the end of 2015. I went through the games played in the last 10 years that I had noted on BoardGameGeek and slotted them in to my list. There were 29 games that I could even not remember that were still important enough to find their way on to my top 100 list. Although none of these games ended up in the top 30.

A few interesting notes. 52 of the games on my top 100 list were published before 2000 and 31 of the games on my top 100 list haven’t even been played since 2000. I don’t have any games from 2015 on my list yet.

This tells me that I’m not really a member of the ‘cult of the new’, where I automatically rank the newer games higher. In fact, some of the newer games on my list may slide down over the next few years. I’ve already seen this with Get Bit, which would have still been on this list had Walk The Plank not come out and not only easily replaced it but hastened it’s slide off the list.

A lot more of the order games are pretty stable in their rankings. There is always the chance that a newer game may replace it but the older games are pretty entrenched.

Of the 856 game plays that I have recorded since 2006, 279 plays are by games in my top 100 list. This means that two thirds of the games that I have played in the last 10 years are not even in my top 100 list. This shows that I am willing to give new games a chance or even play games that I don’t love if someone else does.
About 20% of my plays were for games made before 2000, 37% of the plays were for games published between 2000 and 2005, 22% of the plays were for games published between 2006 and 2010, and 21% of the plays were for new games published after 2010.

The other thing about this is that it does make me look a bit closer when buying new games. If it's part of a set, or filling in a collection, I'll still get it but, if I don't think it will replace a game on my top 200, I have to seriously think about it. I still have a lot of games that could probably find a nice home on my top 100 that I haven't even gotten around to playing yet.

Wii Fit

While at Value Village, looking for games, I have occasionally seen Wii Fit Balance Boards but I could never convince myself to risk it for the $20 that they were asking. The last time I was there however they had a pair of them for $9.99 each so I figured that I would give it a try. I bought them both.

At home, with replacing the batteries, they both seemed to light up so I popped into PnP Games and bought a Wii Fit game for another $6. When I loaded it this morning, they both worked fine. I updated my profile, and it told me I weighed 301 pounds and that my BMI was obese for height. It also promptly updated my Mii to a more bloated version of myself.

I did a few of the balance exercises to start, but now I can work away at it.