So basically you can keep 8 of the bottom set?
Well, I have no idea if my tastes match yours, but going on what is regarded as a stone-cold classic / recent big hit, I’d say keep:
And 1 more that you can’t do without from:
Only manage to eliminate 7.
Part of my interest in asking
I am throwing in my 50 cents… I’d probably get rid of the ones easiest to reacquire, in case you change your mind, or that other people close by have a copy of that you can access with relative ease (gaming group, relatives, close friends, etc)
And also, I don’t think my copy of Brass: Lancashire is that big.I know there are two sizes going around, maybe trade for the smaller size?
Brass: Lancashire
Great Western Trail (2nd Ed)
Hansa Teutonica Big Box
Junk Art
Modern Art
Quest for El Dorado
Ra
The Estates
I really like BTS. If you’d culled it in the summer you’d have made a fortune. That and Rallyman go because they’ve both got good adaptations on BGA.
GWT is my favourite game, Quest is fantastic and can be played with anyone. Brass and Hansa are all time classics. Only played Ra online, but am very keen to get the reprint. Modern Art is a game that always has us in stitches. Not played Junk Art (forgotten I’d kept it on the list tbh!) It’s supposed to be good though. Also not played The Estates, but those that like it really like it.
However, looking at that list…Pan Am, GWT, Babylonia, Beyond the Sun, Hansa Teutonica, Faiyum and Wavelength must have all been bought within the last 2 years or less so I think I’d buy more shelves!
The three Power Grid boxes in the must-keep list just has me thinking of this tweet:
Big as in it can’t sit on my small game shelf. I already have the slim version
Rationally I should get rid of at least one, but none of this is rational.
Unfortunately not an option, we’re already at max shelf capacity. Any room we do find will be a home office for the totally not in plan WFH job my wife got.
If someone did offer me the £100 I kept offering it up for I’d have sold it.
Brass, keyflower, and wavelength.
I won’t weigh in on a full portfolio, but I will say that:
Babylonia
Beyond the Sun
Hansa Teutonica
Keyflower
Quest for El Dorado
These seem like games that have dozens if not hundreds of plays in them. If you are Cutting down and looking for a collection that has the most life possible, these seem like the ones that will give your collection as a whole the most mileage (kilometerage? Is there a European version of that?)
Modern Art: Can you replace it with a smaller Box version?
Great Western Trail: I really enjoy this game, but every time I play I have a sneaking suspicion that the next game won’t be as good. That hasn’t come true yet, but I feel like like there’s something not quite right. In fact I get this with all of Pfister’s titles. (Except Isle of Skye)
From the bottom list I’d keep:
Beyond the Sun
Brass: Lancashire
Hansa Teutonica Big Box
Junk Art
Keyflower
Modern Art
Wavelength
Based entirely on those being games I like, plus a couple that I’ve never played but have heard good things about!
All useful data points.
I find myself agreeing here almost exactly. I am not sure if I wouldn’t keep Babylonia over Ra. I have not even played GWT but I hear good things. Get the Oink version of Modern Art and rebox The Estates into a smaller version 
Glass Road is hard to cull but I have only ever played once at SPIEL so it goes.
PS: miscounted, so The Estates can stay
Pick each up and say the phrase “I want to teach this to another person”
See how you feel.
No, don’t make me that!
“If I find someone else, preferably several people, who already love this game as much as I do, and we put it in a weekly rotation along with all the other games I love just as much, and play them all with all our endless free time, under these ideal circumstances, do I want to keep this game?”
This is the question I ask myself.
One of my lottery win dreams is to professionalise boardgame playing.
I’d pay people I like some money to play games with me.
I think that might work but if you want to be brutal, as is the case here, the love should be able to suffer some adversity!
Going from the mentions here Brass:Lancs, Beyond the Sun, Hansa Teutonica and Rallyman all get 4 or more votes (6, 6, 5, 4). so all will stay.
Then there are loads with three votes!
Now I am asking myself what my „stay in“ criteria really are? At the moment, I think it boils down to: „do I intend to play this game again?“ While I strive to get to „will I ever play this copy of the game again?“ and at some point maybe getting to something harsher… not there yet…
I would prefer to have a smaller better curated collection but that would require me to be able to play games more often and regularly. So so many games in the last two years were bought with the „intention“ of playing them… and there is the struggle between my own tastes and what works well on game-night.
Ah well, the next culling is calling from the stack of empty boxes to my right.
A secondary reason for the shrinking.
The kiddos are getting onto superfiller games now. The larger gaming community has many many games, so I can own fewer games and everything else can be outsourced to them (such as 18XX)
I’m of little help here – of the remainder, I’m only familiar with Junk Art and Survive: Escape from Atlantis and I have no plans to get rid of either of them.
If I was forced to choose between those two… aaahhhh… I don’t even like that question. They’re so different. I think I’d keep Survive, but I’m not convinced it’s the right decision.