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Of all the categories I find “Quickteach” the hardest to quantify btw. But weight would be equally hard if not for the fact that BGG asks users for weight ratings. I still think this should be separated into play complexity and rules complexity. Which would then allow us to get at “quick-teach” games more easily.

It is even more interesting then–if you didn’t plan for it–that in many cases on this forum the remains are vaguely what we tend to call Euro these days. Also proves how washed-out and watered-down the label is.

What are your leftovers though?

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I haven’t done this in a while, so it is a bit frustrating to see that over 1/3 of my collection falls into these three categories. And with 55, “Medium” is sort of the catch-all of the catch-alls, just for any games that don’t fit anywhere else.

(I also need to add a few games to prior lists and put in my scenario, skirmish, quickteach, and filler entries…)

Highlights from “Light:”

  • Roll for the Galaxy
  • Res Arcana
  • Ethnos
  • Lords of Vegas
  • Blue Lagoon (still haven’t given an honest shake to Through the Desert to see which I prefer)
  • Neom
And the rest
  • Everdell
  • Heat
  • Architects otWK
  • Parks
  • Rajas of the Ganges
  • Istanbul
  • Modern Art
  • Nidavellir
  • Forest Shuffle
  • Camel Up 2e
  • Long Shot (likely to be killed by the above…)
  • Survive: Escape from Atlantis
  • Tiny Epic Galaxies
  • Flamecraft
  • Honey Buzz
  • Pan Am
  • Fantastic Factories
  • Through the Desert
  • Bullet♥
  • New York Zoo
  • Tiny Epic Dinosaurs
  • Chronicles of Avel
  • Age of Galaxy
  • Terra Nova
  • Foundations of Metropolis
  • Tournament at Avalon
  • Mind Space
  • Harvest 1e
  • Message from the Stars
  • Tindahan
  • Switchbacks

Notables from “Heavy:”

  • Brasses (both)
  • Gaia Project
  • Barrage
  • Kanban EV
  • Caverna
  • Tzolk’in
  • Clans of Caledonia (I feel this is lighter but when I play it with people they experience Heavy)
  • Carnegie
  • GWT: NZ
  • Troyes (another hard to categorize weight)
  • Nations
  • Bruxelles 1893
  • Pipeline
And the rest
  • Anachrony
  • Lisboa
  • The Gallerist
  • Paladins otWK
  • Revive
  • Nucleum
  • Imperium
  • Marrakesh
  • Argent: The Consortium
  • War of the Ring: The Card Game
  • Keyper
  • Impulse
  • Key Market 2e
  • Trick of the Rails

And then the overlarge “Medium:”

  • GWT 2e (once you get past the teach, it’s medium to play)
  • Le Havre (like RFTG, gets breezy the more time you spend with it)
  • Beyond the Sun
  • Keyflower
  • Hansa Teutonica
  • La Granja
  • Isle of Skye
  • Hallertau
  • Great Zimbabwe
  • Nusfjord
  • Furnace
  • Ginkgopolis
  • London 2e
  • Oceans
  • Carson City (interesting that I put Lancaster and Wise Guys as skirmish but Carson and Argent as bucket…it’s a feel)
  • Babylonia
  • New Frontiers
  • Empyreal
  • Formosa Tea
  • Pollen
And the rest

Ark Nova, Arnak, Orleans, Puerto Rico, Teotihuacan, Planet X, White Castle, Lorenzo Il Mag, Yokohama, Viscounts, Red Cathedral, Village, Pulsar 2849, Steam: R2R, Rococo, Cryptid, Manhattan Project EE, King is Dead 2e, Mission: Red Planet, Gugong, Iki, Brian Boru, Whistle Mountain, Palaces of Carrara, Lowlands, Windmill Valley, Habitats, Stephenson’s Rocket, Photograph, Bruxelles 1897, Iberian Gauge, Bear Raid, Galactic Ren, Barracks Emperors, Panda Spin

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