I’m treating this a bit like Your ideal 3-game collection in that I’m trying to cover a range of options with my selections…
Gut feeling for right now, and ordered purely by BGG ranking:
- 502: No Thanks! (2004)
- 1,162: China (2005)
- 1,998: Snake Oil (2010)
- 3,308: Tetrarchia (2015)
- 3,875: Judge Dredd: Helter Skelter (2019)
(Ugh, that was brutal. I started with a short list of 10, and didn’t want to lose any of them.)
Bonus Chudyk (the only one I own, but a neat little game):
- 870: Red7 (2014)
My biggest surprise sorting my collection by BGG ranking is that The Hobbit Card Game (2012) is the second-lowest ranked game that I own, which is insane because it’s a lovely little card game. I have no problem at all with it being outside the top 500, but its rating is super close to that of Cthulhu Dice (2010) which is something I bought purely as an object – a weird custom die which I occasionally use as a decision-maker in RPG sessions – and which does not even qualify as a game IMO. (The respective rankings are 25728 and 25792, which is a crazy juxtaposition.)