The Whole Enchilada
Here they all are - from #1 - #100!
- Puerto Rico
- Euphrat & Tigris
- El Grande
- Settlers of Catan
- Princes of Florence
- Power Grid/Funkenschlag
- Age of Steam
- Ticket To Ride
- Ra
- Tichu
- Acquire
- Lord of the Rings
- Bohnanza
- Cosmic Encounter
- St Petersburg
- Union Pacific
- Time's Up
- Crokinole
- Medici
- Mu & Mehr
- Memoir '44
- Die Macher
- Taj Mahal
- La Citta
- Lost Cities
- Civilization
- Liar's Dice/Call My Bluff
- Showmanager/Atlantic Star
- Battleline/Schotten Totten
- Modern Art
- Carcassonne
- RoboRally
- Torres
- Expedition/Wildlife Adventure
- Web of Power
- Fresh Fish
- Roads & Boats
- Through the Desert
- Tikal
- I'm The Boss/Kohle Kies & Knete
- For Sale
- Bridge
- Traumfabrik
- Lowenherz
- 1830
- Attika
- Titan
- Adel Verpflichtet/Hoity Toity
- Poker
- Goa
- Go
- Ricochet Robot
- Daytona 500
- Can't Stop
- Wallenstein
- Diplomacy
- Schnappchen Jagd
- Wizard
- Hannibal: Rome v. Carthage
- Blokus
- Stephensons' Rocket
- Smarty Party
- San Marco
- LOTR: The Confrontation
- History of the World
- Elfenland
- Citadels
- Ave Caesar
- Flaschenteufel
- Scrabble
- Breaking Away
- Basari
- Dr Jekyl & Mr Hyde
- Taboo
- Quandary
- Hare & Tortoise
- War of the Ring
- Was Sticht?
- MR1: Jack the Ripper
- 6 Nimmt!
- Spades
- Backgammon
- Age of Renaissance
- Um Reifenbreite
- Battle Cry
- Res Publica
- Vinci
- Gipf
- Code 777
- Dune
- Chinatown
- Royal Turf
- Domaine
- Carabande
- Capitol
- Mamma Mia
- McMulti
- Africa
- Dvonn
- Samurai
For more detail (designer, date of publication) and direct links to each entry, check out the Recaps listed on the right hand side.
Labels: Big Picture Stuff
posted by Mark (aka pastor guy) at 12:48 AM
26 Comments:
There are not many surprises on this list, are there? Not very much different from the top 100 of the Geek.
A shame. I was hoping to find a unique game that usually drops out of the mass statistics.
The only place where I've had that experience was at the reports of Faidutti's Ludopathic Gathering.
Well, given enough participants, most 100 lists are gonna look roughly the same, right? I mean, a good game is a good game. The surprises, if any, are gonna be near the bottom... and there are defintiely a few here.
Yeah, this is fairly close to the BGG rankings, but only if you remove every wargame first. I'd rename this list the Top 100 eurogames, if I were you, since you are ignoring all other catagories.
Hmmm... all Euros, eh?
What about:
- Acquire (pre-dates Euros by about 20 years)
- Cosmic Encounter
- Time's Up
- Crokinole
- Civilization
- Liar's Dice
- RoboRally
- Bridge
- 1830
- Titan
- Poker
- Go
- Can't Stop (which became a Euro after it's publication by Parker Brothers USA)
- Diplomacy
- Wizard
- Hannibal: Rome v Carthage
- Smarty Party
- History of the World
- Scrabble
- Taboo
- War of the Ring
- Spades
- Backgammon
- Age of Renaissance
- Dune
Over 1/4 of the list are not "Euros"... sigh.
Glad to see Go included. I like Bridge, but it's a card game, not a board game, right? And what about Chess? and Checkers (Draughts)? Both of those would, I think, belong in any top 100 list...
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Great Top 100 list, and I agree with over 90% of it. But I have one major problem with it. How can possibly Chess, the timeless game, not be in the top 100!?
-Sam
A couple of comments:
1. "LeisureGuy" in a previous post pointed out that Bridge is a card game and should not be included. In that case about 10% of the games in the list should be removed, including:
- Tichu
- Bohnanza
- Mu & Mehr
- Lost Cities
- Poker
- Wizard
- Flaschenteufel
- 6 Nimmt!
- Spades
2. Bridge is the ultimate partnership card game. Some of the card games in the list are ranked higher than Bridge, including Mu & Mehr, which is ironically an inferior derivative of Bridge!
-Sam
Why isn't Chess here? Well, frankly, because when Stephen asked 65 gamers to rank their 15 favorite games, it didn't end up on enough lists to break through into The One Hundred.
No comment on the relative goodness/greatness of Chess - probably more indicative of the folks who chose the list.
admittedly, I'm not deep into games, but off this list, I've played like...5.
And I'm only really good at one.
Did Smarty Party make it because of the whole "pants" aspect? Seriously.
YAY!!! Found you through Collin, and very happy to see two of my personal favorites - Elfenland and Ra. I'll be spending some time here reviewing the list to find more for my collection (who needs a linen closet when there are games to fill it with instead?). My husband and I do game night once a month, so this is going to open some new adventures! Thanks!!!
Where the write up on Hare and Tortoise it appears to have been replaced by Chinatown?
Anonymous - not sure what the problem is... I'm still finding H&T right where it's supposed to be.
One significant omission from the list, which is excusable for an English-language list/site. The German card game "Skat". Not well known in North America, but probably the ultimate card game. Think 3-handed Euchre amplified and diversified by 10 orders of magnitude, with trillions of combinations that guarantee a lifetime of replayability - and all with a standard "short" deck of Ace-thru-7. Brutally addictive. Check the web or a Hoyle's Game Guide for the rules.
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I am very impressed with this list! Thank you. It's really going to help me out.
This is a good job and the perfect list ranking you could get in here but I don't understand the name "Enchilada" What is it?
An enchilada is a Mexican dish - according to Wikipedia: "An enchilada is a corn or flour tortilla rolled around a filling and covered with a chili pepper sauce. Enchiladas can be filled with a variety of ingredients, including meat, cheese, beans, potatoes, vegetables, seafood or combinations."
The phrase "the whole enchilada" is an English idiom meaning (according to Wiktionary): "All of something or a group of related things taken in totality."
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I like looking at Top-100 lists online, but normally there are glaring ommissions. I don't understand how any boardgame list could leave off Axis and Allies, Risk, Chess, I think Monopoly, and even something like Twilight Imperium. I have to agree with another of the posters- the list is light on wargames and is very heavy on German-style Eurogames. That in of itself isn't a bad thing but it effectively excludes many classic wargames that are important to the developement of many games as well as the culture and history of boardgames. A large segment of the boardgame population plays these games- and many of them aren't even represented.
Also, I think your list is missing Vegas Showdown, which isn't a wargame, but just a really good one.
Because I set this site up under the old Blogger template, the sidebar is tied to the date of the original post - which means that many of you expressing disdain for the particular choices made here haven't read The Introduction:
http://fluffysnoop.blogspot.com/2005/10/introduction.html
In short - this list was skewed from the beginning towards the most-enjoyed games of a group of experienced gamers, most of whom were (at the time) a part of the Euro-game scene.
You may or may not agree with their choices, but there was no attempt to be well-rounded, exhaustive, balanced and/or objective.
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hmm, nice post but i am agree with Mark..all not Euros is it?
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nice blog :)
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