Last week I started looking at the Board Game Geek (BGG) top 100 games. I looked to see if I had the game in my collection and talked a little bit about each one, if I could. At the end of the first ten games I only owned 3 of them, for a paltry 30% ownership rate. Today I will cover games ranked from 90 up to 81 and see if I can improve that ratio. <\/p>\n
For all posts in this series check for the BGG Top 100 tag<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n 90: Pandemic<\/em><\/strong> 89: Paladins of the West Kingdom<\/em><\/strong> 88: Dominion<\/em><\/strong> 87: Trajan<\/em><\/strong> 86: Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Thames Murders & Other Cases<\/em><\/strong> 85: Tigris & Euphrates<\/em><\/strong> 84: Raiders of the North Sea<\/em><\/strong> 83: Roll for the Galaxy<\/em><\/strong> 82: On Mars<\/em><\/strong> 81: Codenames<\/em><\/strong> The tally so far: Getting better! After the first 10 games I was sitting at a 30% ownership rate. With the additional ten games (of which I own five) I’m now up to 40% ownership. Where will it go from here? Well I know, but you’ll have to come back next week to read the next installment. See you then! \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last week I started looking at the Board Game Geek (BGG) top 100 games. I looked to see if I had the game in my collection and talked a little bit about each one, if I could. At the end of the first ten games I only owned 3 of them, for a paltry 30% … Continue reading “Board Game Geek Top 100 Checklist, Part 2”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[94,59,100,105,57,79],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-bgg-top-100","tag-codenames","tag-dominion","tag-on-mars","tag-pandemic","tag-roll-for-the-galaxy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1124,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions\/1124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunderedrealm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nReleased 2008
\nI was surprised to see this come up so low in the top 100 rankings, and then I remembered that it’s one of the cousins of this game that shows up much higher. This game shines in so many ways. At the core it’s a hand management game, but it’s also a cooperative game…a concept that blows people away if they have only ever been exposed to traditional board games. It’s easy to each, awesome to play, and a challenge every time we bring it to the table. I have even “blinged out” my copy of Pandemic with a Biohazard Containment from The Broken Token<\/a>. I have taught this game at game day lunches<\/a>. It’s a fantastic game, and if you don’t have it in your collection I can’t recommend it enough.<\/p>\n
\nReleased 2019
\nThis is a part of a series, and at the moment I don’t own any of them.<\/p>\n
\nReleased 2018
\nOwn it! I managed to pick this up for a song via one of the many board game trading groups on Facebook. (I quite literally met a guy in a parking lot and due to social distancing rules let him load the games in my vehicle and paid him by putting cash on the bumper.) I haven’t played it yet, but as much as Pandemic<\/em> is considered a “Must have” for a modern board game collection, Dominion<\/em> is right up there too. Well, in fact; it’s rated exactly one step above. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
\nReleased 2011
\nI don’t own this game, and don’t currently know anything about it.<\/p>\n
\nReleased 1982
\nWow, if the BGG database is correct, this is now the oldest game on the top 100, having been released initially in 1982! I don’t currently own this game though.<\/p>\n
\nReleased 1997
\n…and another older game (1997) makes the top cut! This is yet another top 100 game that I don’t know about…or own. I’m starting to feel left out…<\/p>\n
\nReleased 2015
\nNow this game I don’t own, but I read about it quite a bit. It is often compared to other top 100 games (like Champions of Midgard<\/em> as a viking themed game). People will ask the Internet, “Should I buy ‘X’ or ‘Y’?” and the answer invariably is, “Why not both?” \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n
\nReleased 2014
\nI love dice! I have bags and bags of dice from my Dungeons & Dragons days, and anything that uses custom or unique dice is attractive to me. For that reason I do own this game (yay!) and not only that but I’ve actually played this game more than once. \ud83d\ude06 My son likes to play this game because he beats me all the time…<\/p>\n
\nReleased 2020
\nBack to the newer games, with (if I have been keeping track correctly) our first 2020 release. I don’t often talk about game designers…mostly because I really don’t care who designed my game as long as it’s fun to play. \ud83d\ude42 But the designer of this game Vital Lacerda<\/a> has something of a following, primarily based on one of his stronger hits, Lisboa<\/em>. I picked up this game and…wow. There are bits and parts and cards and lots of parts to move around. BGG gives it a weight of 4.61 (out of 5) which makes it one of the most complex games that I own! I haven’t trying playing it yet, but I am looking forward to it as it offers a solo mode that gets good reviews.<\/p>\n
\nReleased 2015
\nThis is a super fun game, and we enjoy playing it (with larger groups) quite a bit. I think it’s the first party game on the top 100. It’s a great game for “parents versus kids” because it’s fun to watch how different generations approach the strategy of the game. If you haven’t figured out yet, yes, I own this one. Whereas On Mars<\/em> tilts the sales at a beefy 4.61 on the complexity scale, Codenames<\/em> comes in at 1.3! It’s a nice, light, easy party game.<\/p>\n
\nGames Mentioned: 20
\nGames Owned: 8 (40%)<\/p>\n