Tom's Top 92ish Board Games (as of March 2022)

I hated Pipeline. But I did play it tired and hungover and needing to cook lunch. I was rubbish at the spatial puzzle. By the end of the game 2 players were churning these ridiculous engines whilst I was essentially poking things with a stick.

I reckon there is a great game there, but not my cup of tea at all

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We didn’t have the auto-threading here in January 2020 when “Matt’s Top 59 Board Games (as of January 2020)” was posted so I’ll stick this here instead. If it turns out that we want a thread about “SU&SDers’ collections” that would seem reasonable…

This counts just the stuff that was actually shelved, not the review-pile-overflow on the bed.

Grey Box 1

  • weird cards
  • Hey, That’s My Fish (in a bag)
  • Arkham Horror card game expansions
  • Two Rooms and a Boom P&P
  • FFG Star Wars mat
  • Prototype for first Monikers Nonsense Box
  • Funemployed
  • Bargain Quest
  • Pandemic + Pandemic - In the Lab (“all the expansions in these two boxes”)
    [shelf]
  • Silk
  • (PAX Unplugged card sleeves)
  • Mysterium
  • The Taverns of Tiefenthal
  • The Quacks of Quedlinburg
  • Pandemic Legacy Season 2
  • V-Commandos + Résistance + Secret Weapons

Return to Grey Box (the expansion)

  • Inis
  • Sheriff of Nottingham + Merry Men expansion
  • Cosmic Encounter (+ Cosmic Storm in shrink)
  • Brass Birmingham
  • Lords of Vegas
  • Arctic Scavengers big box
    [shelf]
  • Arkham Horror card game
  • Keyforge
  • Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
  • Last Will
  • unknown brown case (maybe chess or backgammon set?)
  • Bärenpark (expansion box has just the monorail towers)
  • unknown plastic bag to the right of Bärenpark
  • Lowlands
  • Ladies & Gentlemen
  • Tigris & Euphrates

Grey Box 2

  • Altiplano
  • Keyflower
  • Alchemists
  • Pipeline
  • Forbidden Stars
    [shelf]
  • Kemet (with expansions)
  • Gloomhaven
  • Imperial Assault

The Other Cupboard

  • Insider
  • Monikers (several boxes)
  • The Metagame
  • The Game
  • Ultimate Werewolf
  • Coup
  • Mascarade
  • Citadels
  • Condottiere
    [shelf]
  • Arboretum
  • Railroad Ink (blue)
  • Ice Team
  • Burgle Bros
  • Paperback
  • Machi Koro
    [shelf]
  • Not Alone
  • One Night Ultimate Werewolf
  • The Resistance: Avalon
  • Decrypto
  • Pictomania
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Wow, I own a gigantic TWO of Matt’s collection (Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective and Railroad Ink Blue).

And not much more of Tom’s:
Sprawlopolis, Herbaceous (pocket), High Society, Cascadia, Dune.

However, there’s a lot in Tom’s collection I very much want, in rough order:
Beyond the Sun, Inis + Seasons, Concordia, Pax Pamir 2e, The Quest for El Dorado, Great Western Trail

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My overlap with 2020-Matt: Mysterium, Quacks, V-Commandos, Coup, RRI Blue, Not Alone, Resistance Avalon.

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This was my favourite game of 2015. Highly recommend

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My overlap with Matt:

Hey, That’s My Fish
Funemployed
Bargain Quest
Silk
Mysterium
Inis
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
Bärenpark
Lowlands
Altiplano
Monikers
The Metagame
Coup
Citadels
Condottiere
Arboretum
Ice Team Bear Chess
Paperback
The Resistance: Avalon
Decrypto
Pictomania

So the exact same amount I share with Tom! (If you count Evolution, and only a couple of Button Shy games as I couldn’t see more to confirm.)

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I’m on a roll apparently. “Quinns’ Top 136 Board Games (as of April 2019)”

Not here

  • Decrypto
  • Sheriff of Nottingham
  • Kemet
  • Food Chain Magnate
  • Infinity

Main section

Column 1

  • Through the Desert
  • Tigris and Euphrates
  • Ra
  • Samurai
    [shelf]
  • Modern Art
  • Taj Mahal
  • Trains Rising Sun
  • Archipelago
    [shelf]
  • Quantum
  • El Dorado
  • Flamme Rouge
  • Merchants & Marauders
    [shelf]
  • Cosmic Encounter
  • Twilight Imperium
  • Carcassonne

Column 2

  • Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective + expansion
  • Watson & Holmes
  • Witness
  • Tash-Kalar
    [shelf]
  • Whitehall Mystery
  • Letters from Whitechapel
  • Mysterium
  • Deception: Murder in Hong Kong
  • Fury of Dracula
    [shelf]
  • Pictomania
  • Lords of Vegas
  • Kingsburg
  • Tales of the Arabian Nights
    [shelf]
  • 1812 Invasion of Canada + 1775 Rebellion
  • El Grande
  • Shogun

Column 3

  • Citadels
  • Terra Mystica
  • Lowlands
  • Power Grid
  • Concordia
    [shelf]
  • Betrayal at House on the Hill
  • Scrabble
  • Ghost Stories + Black Secret
  • City of Horror
    [shelf]
  • Roll for the Galaxy
  • Race for the Galaxy
  • Space Cadets
  • Space Cadets Dice Duel
  • Robo Rally + expansions
    [shelf]
  • Root + expansion
  • Rex
  • Dogs of War

Column 4

  • Castles of Burgundy
  • Istanbul
  • Great Western Trail
  • Village
    [shelf]
  • A Feast for Odin
  • Nusfjord
  • Isle of Skye + expansion
    [shelf]
  • Chinatown
  • Ladies & Gentlemen
  • Ethnos
  • Panic on Wall Street
  • Sidereal Confluence
    [shelf]
  • Space Alert
  • Steam Park
  • Captain Sonar
  • Escape the Curse of the Temple

On top

  • Vinhos
  • Inis
  • Mafia de Cuba
  • Flick 'em Up + Red Rock Tomahawk
  • Brass Birmingham
  • (playing cards)
  • Sushi Go Party
  • Escape From the Aliens in Outer Space (Ultimate Edition)
  • Hanafuda deck

Too Large Games

  • Century Spice Road + Eastern Wonders
  • Space Base + Shy Pluto
  • Fireball Island + expansions
  • Mage Wars + Forcemaster vs Warlord
  • Battlegrounds Domination
  • Container
  • Conan
  • Blood on the Clocktower (prototype)
  • Galaxy Trucker (anniversary edition)
  • Star Wars X-Wing and Armada shelf of shame

Little Games

  • The Resistance: Avalon
  • Dead Last
  • Mr Lister’s Quiz Shootout
  • Mundus Novus
  • Codenames
  • Welcome to the Dungeon
  • Welcome Back to the Dungeon
  • Schummel Hummel
  • Assel Schlomossel
  • Kakerlaken Suppe
  • Kakerlaken Poker
  • Kakerlaken Poker Royal
  • Pit Crew
  • The Mind
  • Quinto
  • Skull (and Roses)
  • The Fox in the Forest
  • Parade
  • Lords of Scotland
  • Arboretum
  • Chimera
  • Archaeology
  • Trapwords
  • Monikers
  • Love Letter
  • Bang
  • Billionaire Banshee
  • Railroad Ink Red
  • Two Rooms and a Boom
  • Champion of the Wild
  • Funemployed
  • Condottiere
  • Jaipur
  • The Metagame
  • Welcome To…
  • Hive
  • Toc Toc Woodman
  • Catacombs
  • Cube Quest
  • A Few Acres of Snow
  • The Estates
  • Diamant
  • Cutthroat Caverns (multiple boxes)
  • Samurai Spirit
  • Memoir '44 (multiple boxes)
  • String Railway
  • Bunny Bunny Moose Moose
  • Diplomacy
  • Wiz-War
  • Black Gold
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And my overlap with 2019-Quinns: Modern Art, Flamme Rouge, Whitehall Mystery, Mysterium, Deception: Murder in Hong Kong, Scrabble, Ghost Stories, Robo Rally, Captain Sonar, Mafia de Cuba, The Resistance: Avalon, Welcome + Back to the Dungeon, Parade, Love Letter, Railroad Ink Red, Jaipur.

So my overlap with 2022-Tom is 5/92ish or 5%; with 2020-Matt, 7/59 or 12%; with 2019-Quinns, 17/137 or 12%.

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Current Overlap with 2020 Matt

  • weird cards
  • Bargain Quest
  • Pandemic (minus expansions)
  • Mysterium
  • The Quacks of Quedlinburg
  • Inis
  • Sheriff of NOttingham + Merry Men expansion
  • Brass: Birmingham
  • Lords of Vegas
  • Arctic Scavengers
  • Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
  • Last Will
  • Lowlands
  • Ladies & Gentlemen
  • Tigris & Euphrates
  • Altiplano
  • Alchemists
  • Pipeline
  • Gloomhaven
  • Coup
  • Mascarade
  • Citadels
  • Condottiere
  • Railroad Ink
  • Burgle Bros
  • Paperback
  • Machi Koro (on it’s way out of the collection)
  • The Resistance: Avalon
  • Decrypto
Of those, the following I would not have had at the time of the video release
  • The Quacks of Quedlinburg
  • Arctic Scavengers (I think it was this video that prompted me to go check for cheap, used copies on the BGG market, which resulted in me buying it)
  • Tigris & Euphrates
  • Gloomhaven
  • Mascarade
  • Citadels
  • Burgle Bros
  • Paperback
  • Machi Koro
  • Decrypto

Things I don’t have in Matt’s 2020 collection, and why

  • Hey, That’s My Fish – should probably get at some point, to have for family game nights.
  • Arkham Horror card game – I bought into Lord of the Rings LCG instead, which is more inline with my tastes. I’m sure AHLCG is the better game (it came later and benefits from lessons-learned), but I like the Middle-Earth setting
  • Two Rooms and a Boom P&P – have the files, haven’t printed yet. When am I going to get 20 people together to play it? Not for a long time
  • Pandemic expansions – I think Pandemic is fine. It’s not great and I don’t know how much more Pandemic I need. I think I prefer the dice game more than the original. I also have Fall of Rome, which I also prefer
  • Silk – would definitely play, given the option. But it looks too abstract and cutthroat
  • Taverns of Tiefenthal – waffled between this and Quacks. Opted for Quacks. Would play Taverns and would possibly change my mind, but my partner likes the luck-fest of Quacks
  • Pandemic Legacy Season 2 – I actually have Season 0 waiting to get started as a 2-player experience with my partner and I.
  • V-Commandos – this is on my watch list. It’s pretty pricey and hard to come by. I’m hoping the next Kickstarter fulfillment will improve secondary market availability
  • Keyforge – already have too many 2-player games, don’t need a not-collectable-collectable game.
  • unknown brown case – I prefer known brown cases
  • Bärenpark – 1) bears are terrifying 2) too thinky for a polyomino game
  • unknown plastic bag to the right of Bärenpark – prefer cloth or canvas bags
  • Keyflower – would need to play it first. I got the impression a long time ago that I don’t need any of the Key series
  • Forbidden Stars – out-of-print and overpriced. It’s also being redeveloped without the GW license
  • Kemet – recently got Kemet Blood & Sand
  • Imperial Assault – on my watchlist, hoping to pick up someone’s used collection for a good price

Current Overlap with 2019 Quinns

  • Decrypto
  • Sheriff of Nottingham
  • Food Chain Magnate
  • Through the Desert
  • Tigris and Euphrates
  • Ra
  • Modern Art
  • Trains Rising Sun
  • El Dorado
  • Flamme Rouge
  • Carcassonne
  • Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective + expansion
  • Watson & Holmes
  • Whitehall Mystery
  • Mysterium
  • Deception: Murder in Hong Kong
  • Lords of Vegas
  • Kingsburg
  • El Grande
  • Shogun
  • Citadels
  • Lowlands
  • Power Grid
  • Concordia
  • Betrayal at House on the Hill
  • Ghost Stories + Black Secret
  • Roll for the Galaxy
  • Race for the Galaxy
  • Robo Rally + expansions
  • Root + expansion
  • Castles of Burgundy
  • Istanbul
  • Great Western Trail
  • Village
  • Nusfjord
  • Isle of Skye + expansion
  • Chinatown
  • Ladies & Gentlemen
  • Ethnos
  • Sidereal Confluence
  • Space Alert
  • Vinhos
  • Inis
  • Mafia de Cuba
  • Flick 'em Up + Red Rock Tomahawk
  • Brass Birmingham
  • (playing cards)
  • Sushi Go Party
  • Century Spice Road + Eastern Wonders
  • Space Base
  • Fireball Island
  • Mage Wars + Forcemaster vs Warlord
  • Container
  • Galaxy Trucker (anniversary edition)
  • The Resistance: Avalon
  • Mundus Novus
  • Codenames
  • Welcome to the Dungeon
  • Welcome Back to the Dungeon
  • The Fox in the Forest
  • Trapwords
  • Love Letter
  • Billionaire Banshee
  • Railroad Ink Red
  • Champion of the Wild
  • Condottiere
  • Jaipur
  • Welcome To…
  • Toc Toc Woodman
  • Catacombs (different editions, though)
  • The Estates
  • Diamant (well, I have Incan Gold)
  • Cutthroat Caverns (I have the Anniversary edition)
  • Samurai Spirit
  • Memoir '44 (I only have base game)
Of those, the following I would not have had at the time of the video release
  • Decrypto
  • Food Chain Magnate
  • Through the Desert
  • Tigris and Euphrates
  • Modern Art
  • Trains Rising Sun
  • El Dorado
  • Whitehall Mystery
  • Deception: Murder in Hong Kong
  • Kingsburg
  • El Grande
  • Shogun
  • Citadels
  • Lowlands
  • Ghost Stories + Black Secret
  • Roll for the Galaxy
  • Race for the Galaxy
  • Robo Rally + expansions
  • Great Western Trail
  • Nusfjord
  • Chinatown
  • Sidereal Confluence
  • Space Alert
  • Vinhos
  • Inis
  • Mafia de Cuba
  • Flick 'em Up + Red Rock Tomahawk
  • Space Base
  • Fireball Island
  • Mage Wars + Forcemaster vs Warlord
  • Container
  • Galaxy Trucker (anniversary edition)
  • Mundus Novus
  • Trapwords
  • Billionaire Banshee
  • Condottiere
  • Toc Toc Woodman
  • Diamant (well, I have Incan Gold)
  • Cutthroat Caverns (I have the Anniversary edition)
  • Samurai Spirit

Quinns overlap:

Decrypto
Carcassonne
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
Mysterium
Pictomania
Citadels
Lowlands
Concordia
Scrabble
Race for the Galaxy
Dogs of War
Ethnos
Inis
Sushi Go Party*
The Resistance: Avalon
Codenames*
Kakerlaken Poker Royal
The Mind
Skull
Arboretum
Trapwords
Monikers
Love Letter
Bang*
Billionaire Banshee
Champion of the Wild
Funemployed
Condottiere
Jaipur
The Metagame
The Estates
Cutthroat Caverns

(*Games where I have a significantly different version, eg regular Sushi Go rather than Party.)

Percentages: Tom - 21/92 (23%) / Matt - 21/59 (36%) / Quinns - 32/137 (23%)

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Tom overlap

The King is Dead
Undaunted Normandy + Reinforcements (don’t have North Africa)
Inis + Seasons
Concordia
Tigris & Euphrates
TI4 (but not the expansion)
Decrypto
Race for the Galaxy
A Game of Thrones the Board Game
Hansa Teutonica big box
Night of the Ninja
Jaipur
Space Hulk: Death Angel
Galaxy Trucker (old edition)
High Society
The Crew: The Search for Planet Nine (Tom mentions he owns it)
Hey, That’s My Fish!
Arboretum
Renature
Catacombs
Chinatown (also mentioned by Tom, but just out at the moment)

I also own Battle Line, which is essentially Schotten Totten from my understanding.

Matt overlap

Hey, That’s My Fish!
Arkham Horror the card game and some expansions
Pandemic
Mysterium
Quacks of Quedlinburg
V-Commandos (not yet, but I backed the last KS so it’ll be coming my way in the future)
Inis
Sheriff of Nottingham + Merry Men
Lords of Vegas
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
Lowlands
Tigris & Euphrates
Kemet (Blood and Sand for me, but still…)
Imperial Assault
Coup
Citadels
Condottiere
Arboretum
Railroad Ink (blue)
One Night Ultimate Werewof
Decrypto

and, finally…

Quinns overlap

Decrypto
Sheriff of Nottingham
Kemet (again, B&S version)
Tigris & Euphrates
Flamme Rouge
TI4
Carcassonne
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
Letters from Whitechapel
Mysterium
Fury of Dracula
Lords of Vegas
El Grande
Shogun
Citadels
Lowlands
Concordia
Betrayal at House on the Hill
Ghost Stories (no Black Secret)
Race for the Galaxy
Istanbul
Isle of Skye (no expansion)
Chinatown
Ethnos
Space Alert
Escape the Curse of the Temple
Inis
Escape from the Aliens in Outer Space (same edition)
SW: X-Wing
Codenames
Welcome to the Dungeon
The Mind
The Fox in the Forest
Arboretum
Love Letter (mine is Batman version though, and I also have Lovecraft Letter)
Condottiere
Jaipur
Welcome to…
Catacombs (newer edition than his)
Cutthroat Caverns (just the base box)
Samurai Spirit
Black Gold

So I have a lot of overlap. To be fair, a bunch of that overlap is due to these gentlemen.
So for Tom - 22/93 (24%), Matt - 22/59 (37%), and Quinns - 42/137 (30%)

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For me the cross overs are as follows

Quinns 10/136 7.5%

FCM

Love Letter

The Fox in the Forest

Container

Robo Rally

Terra Mystica

Trains Rising Sun

Tigris and Euphrates

Food Chain Magnate

Infinity

Matt 5/59 8.5%

Burgle Bros

Gloomhaven

Pipeline

Keyflower

Tigris and Euphrates

Tom 6/92 6.5%

Food Chain Magnate

Tigris and Euphrates

Hansa Teutonica

Terra Mystica

Pipeline

Blue Lagoon

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I will have to do this overlap thing as well. I think I‘ll use a diff tool :stuck_out_tongue: When I get to my computer.

We need an Ava video next.

And then we need to figure out the most-owned games and do we actually like and play them?

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What I buy: cheap, small boxes that are easy to justify and fit on the shelf
What I play: 45 minutes or less with low rules overhead, based on the tolerance of the others in my household. Or strong solos.
What I like: Generally 3-3.5 BGG complexity games, euro/conflict hybrids that require about 5 games to fully grok.

So yeah, we’ll give Pipeline a chance. Even if it takes some time to give it that chance :confused:

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This is more consistent than I expected:

Overlap with Tom: 19/101 (19%)
Overlap with Matt: 14/60 (23%)
Overlap with Quinns: 33/138 (24%)

I’m especially surprised that I have a similar overlap with Matt to the other two, as I’m not often excited about the things he seems excited about.

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Overlap with Tom - 28/101 (28%)
  • Ride the Rails
  • The King is Dead
  • FCM
  • Inis + Seasons (except it comes in the base game box because I am expecting more expansions lmao)
  • Tigers & Pots
  • Cosmic Encounter
  • Just One
  • Startup
  • Maskmen
  • A Fake Artist Goes to New York
  • Schotten Totten - except mine is Battle Line: Medieval; there are all the same to me
  • Race for the Galaxy
  • Hansa Toot Big Box
  • Babylonia
  • Pax Pamir 2
  • Terra Mystica
  • QE
  • Monikers
  • Innovation + 4 expansions
  • Galaxy Trucker
  • The Estates
  • Memoir 44
  • Sidereal Confluence
  • The Crew
  • Avalon
  • Arboretum - the green one
  • Renature
  • Modern Art
Overlap with Matt - 12/60" (20%)
  • Pandemic Legacy Season 2
  • Inis
  • Cosmic Encounter
  • Arkham Horror the card game
  • Sherlock Holmes
  • Tigers & Pots
  • Keyflower
  • Monikers
  • Coup
  • Condottiere
  • Arboretum
  • Avalon
Overlap with Quinns - 28/138 (20%)
  • FCM
  • Through the Desert
  • Tigers & Pots
  • RAAAAAAA
  • Modern Art
  • Taj Mahal
  • Cosmic Encounter
  • Carcassonne
  • Sherlock Holmes
  • Watson & Holmes
  • Fury of Dracula
  • El Grande
  • Terra Mystica
  • Race for the Galaxy
  • Dogs of War
  • Sidereal Confluence
  • Inis
  • Container
  • Galaxy Trucker
  • Avalon
  • The Mind
  • Parade
  • Lords of Scotland
  • Arboretum
  • Monikers
  • Condottiere
  • The Estates
  • Memoir 44

What i have in common with all three of them

  • Cosmic Encounter
  • Inis
  • Monikers
  • Tigris & Euphrates
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Looking at the lists, my overlaps are currently as follows:

Quinns (as of April 2019)

  • Carcassonne
  • Codenames
  • Concordia
  • Cyclades
  • Fury of Dracula (although I have the 1st edition)
  • Ghost Stories
  • Love Letter (I have the PnP version)
  • Memoir '44
  • Monikers
  • Mysterium
  • Nusfjord
  • The Quest for El Dorado
  • Sheriff of Nottingham

Matt (as of January 2020)

  • Lords of Vegas
  • Monikers
  • Mysterium
  • Pandemic
  • Sheriff of Nottingham
  • V-Commandos

Tom (as of March 2022)

  • Agropolis (I have the PnP version)
  • Concordia
  • Endangered (in his “Out” column)
  • Monikers
  • Memoir '44
  • No Thanks
  • Nusfjord
  • The Quest for El Dorado
  • Sprawlopolis (I have the PnP version)
  • Star Realms Frontiers (which looked to be the top game in his “Out” column)
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I had this pending, and last night I was a bit bored, so here we go:

Overlap with Tom:
-Decrypto
-A Game of Thrones: The Boardgame
-Root + Expansions
-High Society
-Arboretum

Overlap with Matt:
-Pandemic
-Taverns of Tiefenthal
-Gloomhaven
-Arboretum
-Decrypto

Overlap with Quinns:
-Merchants and Marauders
-Tales of the Arabian Nights
-Root + Expansions
-Rex
-Arboretum
-Love Letter
-Welcome to…

Not too shabby for my meagre 58 games collection…

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Needs more games. :wink: