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

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
  • BƤrenpark – 1) bears are terrifying 2) too thinky for a polyomino game
  • unknown plastic bag to the right of BƤrenpark – 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 Iā€˜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 ā€œOutā€ 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 ā€œOutā€ 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:

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I’m really looking forward to the Ava Collection! Assuming it’ll make an appearance in 2023, and it’ll be a long one as Ava has 344 games owned on BGG.

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Here’s my crossover with the boys.

Tom 23/92 52%
  • The King is Dead
  • Inis + Seasons
  • Concordia
  • Brass Birmingham
  • For Science (Pre-order)
  • Decrypto
  • A Feast for Odin
  • Startups
  • A Fake Artist Goes to New York
  • Cockroach Poker
  • The Quest for El Dorado
  • Nusfjord
  • Hansa Teutonica Big Box
  • Bus
  • Skull
  • Deception: Murder in Hong Kong
  • Fleet the Dice Game
  • High Society
  • The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine
  • Fantasy Realms
  • Hey That’s my Fish
  • Arboretum
  • Great Western Trail
Matt 19/59 32%
  • Hey That’s my Fish
  • Pandemic + In the Lab
  • Silk
  • Mysterium
  • Quacks of Quedlinburg
  • Inis
  • Brass Birmingham
  • Lords of Vegas
  • Arctic Scavengers Big Box
  • Barenpark + Bad News Bears
  • Lowlands
  • Gloomhaven
  • Coup
  • Condottiere
  • Arboretum
  • Railroad Ink Blue
  • Not Alone
  • Decrypto
  • Pictomania
Quinns 37/137 27%
  • Decrypto
  • Through the Desert
  • Quest for El Dorado
  • Flamme Rouge
  • Merchants and Marauders
  • Mysterium
  • Deception: Murder in Hong Kong
  • Pictomania
  • Lords of Vegas
  • Lowlands
  • Concordia
  • Castles of Burgundy
  • Istanbul
  • Great Western Trail
  • Village
  • A Feast for Odin
  • Nusfjord
  • Isle of Skye
  • Chinatown
  • Captain Sonar
  • Escape the Curse of the Temple
  • Inis
  • Brass Birmingham
  • Sushi Go Party
  • Mundus Novus
  • Codenames
  • Cockroach Poker
  • Skull
  • Parade
  • Arboretum
  • Archaeology
  • Love Letter
  • Champion of the Wild
  • Condottiere
  • Hive
  • Toc Toc Woodman
  • Diamant

And my secret 38th Quinn’s game is Netrunner which they didn’t mention in the video but I think have retrospectively added to the post listing all his games on their website.

What are your best stupid games for stupid people?

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Depends what you mean by ā€œstupidā€ā€¦

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Sorry :sweat_smile: I botched it, I misquoted Quinn’s from Tom’s collection video.

What he actually says is ā€œall you’re punchup games are too smart, where’s your game for idiotsā€.

If Inis, Cosmic Envounter, Games of Thrones,
Root, Pax Pamir, Oath and Twilight Emperium are all too smart or weird; what is your punchup game for idiots?

Tom suggests 878 Vikings and Quinn’s suggests Kemet.

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Smallworld is my usual recommendation as a Risk-killer, but it’s not great (just better than Risk, which is saying nothing of value whatsoever).

The standard trilogy of Kemet, Inis, and Cyclades are all good recommendations, although I think Inis might be too well-balanced for ā€œidiotsā€ā€¦ but they’re all very, very good.

Other than that… Battle for Rokugan is tight and tiny and pretty straight-forward, I’ve heard good things about the new Dune Conquest but haven’t tried it yet (although I do own it), and Tyrants of the Underdark could be worth a consideration as long as you’re okay with some deck-building in your punching.

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To a first approximation, nobody’s played War of the Nine Realms. I think this is a shame. It’s a relatively quick troops-on-a-map game that effectively penalises turtling.

(Disclaimer: I demo for Wotan Games, the publisher.)

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Risk 2210 is surprisingly solid despite the Risk moniker. A lot of innovations in that one that are foundational for modern punch ups.

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