Factory Fun - I know Factory Funner was mentioned but this is the… second edition of… the original? I think? Gravwell - Great racing game. Myrmes - Ant colony eurogame. Pit Crew - Great 6+ player team game. Sleuth - Great logic deduction game.
Eliminated by @bruitist: Knit Wit - Venn Diagram Scattergories basically. Trapwords - Like Taboo but the other team creates your (secret) list of words you have to avoid.
Eliminated by @pillbox: Indian Summer - The particular Uwe season polyominoe game for us! New York Slice - I cut you choose, gamified with pizza. Nippon Rails - @pillbox you have this one I’m guessing? Watson & Holmes - Great mystery-solving game.
Eliminated by @Mintochris: Paris: La Cite de la Lumiere - Did anyone else pick this up from Tom’s review?
This was a perfect late-night game last time I was at PAX Unplugged. We were all giddy and laughing our heads off at how obvious all of us were being in our roles. At one point I tried to casually ask “How does the hybrid win again?” and everyone was immediately like “Well, Dan’s the hybrid.”
Our friends have Myrmes, so I have played it but I don’t own it
I was going to get Paris but then my downsizing efforts led to the realization that 2 player games are hardly ever a success here… is it as good as it looks?
I’m not usually a buy-before-I-try kinda guy, but I love the aesthetics and the gameplay looked fun and I have to say, we must have played 10 games of it by now and had a great time every time.
That’s why I’ll use python and the BGG API to do most of the analysis for me. The rest will be guesswork and a touch of hubris
The list of games that might be unique:
1822CA 1837 (this is likely short lived, as I suspect either @lalunaverde or @EnterTheWyvern will be getting a copy soon)@EnterTheWyvern 1860 (same as 1837, part of All-Aboard Games Wave 4)@lalunaverde
1883
18MS
18Mag
1987 Channel Tunnel
20th Century Limited
221B Baker Street
8Bit Box
A Column of Fire
Akrotiri
Alubari: A Nice Cup of Tea (@yashima sold her copy)
Animals on Board (great little I-split-you-choose game)
Arcane Academy
Arcane Alley Arkwright: The Card Game@lalunaverde
Ausonia
Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra
BUS (the Pack O’Games one)
Belle of the Ball (like Guillotine, but better art and a more family-friendly setting)
Beneath the Med: Regia Marina at Sea 1940-1943 Big Trouble in Little China: The Game@VictorViper’s dreams Blue Moon City (this may be a databasing error; I thought Mr Verde had this one)@Acacia
Blue Skies
Bohemian Villages Carcassonne: Hunters and Gatherers@Phil
Carcassonne: Over Hill and Dale
Cargo Express
Cargo Noir Caylus 1303@mr.ister
Century: A New World
Century: Spice Road (surely not?)
Chai China (probably doesn’t count)@lalunaverde
Cinque Terre
Circle the Wagons
Claim / Claim 2
Cleopatra’s Caboose
Coal Baron a.k.a. Glück Auf (fantastic K&K game)
Coal Baron: The Great Card Game
Commands & Colors: Medieval
Counterfeiters
Crazy Eggz
Dale of Merchants 1/2/3/Collection
Dampfross
Dice City Downforce@COMaestro
Dragonwood
Dungeon Party
Dungeon of Fortune
Early American Chrononauts
Egizia: Shifting Sands
Embark
Empires
Felicity: The Cat in the Shack (this is really, really good. I’m so sad to see it on this list) Fief: France 1429@lalunaverde Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-kar@Acacia’s 1st edition
Firefly Adventures: Brigand and Browncoats
Firefly: Shiny Dice
Fist of Dragonstones: Tavern Edition Fleet@InkyBloc
Flying Colors
Football Highlights 2052
Freshwater Fly
Fzzzt!
GPS Gods Love Dinosaurs@bruitist
Going, Going, Gone! Grand Austria Hotel@Acacia
Grog Island HMS Dolores@bruitist Hands in the Sea@mr.ister Harbour@Brattyjedi
Harvest Dice Harzbahn 1873 (Wave4 AAG)@lalunaverde
Honga IOTA@RogerBW
Jórvík
Kraftwagen Last Will@Brattyjedi
Letter Tycoon Lowlands@bruitist Mars Needs Mechanics@Brattyjedi Mascarade@Acacia
Merchants of the Dark Road
Mini Express
Nations: The Dice Game
Nur die Ziege zählt
Parfum Petrichor@yashima
Piñata
Police Pricinct
Purrrlock Holmes: Furriarty’s Trail
Queen’s Architect
Rail Pass
Rails Through the Rockies
Railways of Nippon Red November@bruitist & @Brattyjedi
SPQR (Deluxe Edition)
Sail to India Samurai Spirit@COMaestro
Scoville
Scrutineyes Set a Watch@malkav11 Shadows: Ampsterdam@bruitist
Sheep & Thief
Silent Victory: U.S. Submarines in the Pacific, 1941-45 Skyward@bruitist
Smartphone, Inc Snow Tails@Suz
Snowdonia
Spell Smashers
Spike
Star Trek: Five-Year Mission Star Wars: Outer Rim@COMaestro
Steam Works
Stuffed Fables Toc Toc Woodman@Monochrome_Penguin
Tales & Games: The Hare & the Tortoise The Champion of the Wild@bruitist The Dragon & Flagon@bruitist
The Gnomes of Zavandor
The Great Heartland Hauling Company
The Hobbit
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Hunters: German U-Boats at War, 1939-43
The Prodigals Club
The Ratcatcher
The Scepter of Zavandor
Titanium Wars Tramways Engineer’s Workbook@EnterTheWyvern
Unicorn Fever
Urban Sprawl Valley of the Kings@lalunaverde Vast: The Crystal Caverns@malkav11
Vault Wars
Vikings Gone Wild
VivaJava: The Coffee Game
Warehouse 13: The Board Game
Whales Destroying the World
What’s He Building in There?
World Without End
Yardmaster Express
Yura Yura Penguin
Goodness that’s a lotta games! You’ll have to take off Fleet though; that one’s in my collection (although it’s never really gone over well and it’s hell trying to explain how the processing vessel license works).
I hear that. I’ve contemplated adding Railways of the World to my collection, which would overlap with this standalone Railways of Nippon. I’ll have to see how the new solo mode pans out for me with Nippon
I sorted my BGG collection by number of ratings, making the broad assumption that fewer ratings would mean less likely to be in peoples’ collections. Could also just mean newer or other confounding factors, but it was a place to start. Using that method and knocking out anything I feel certain I’ve seen mentioned…
Harry Potter Dicers
Harry Potter Halls of Hogwarts
Les Miserables: Eve of Revolution
Holmes and Moriarty
The Rocketeer: Fate of the Future
The Amberden Affair
Empires of Zidal
Iliad: Heroes of Troy
Gothic Doctor
Rival Realms
Edge of Darkness
Stygian Society
Dragon Racer
Lucky’s Misadventures Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell@bruitist
Scoundrel Society
Stuff and Nonsense Story War@malkav11
Star Wars Jedi Unleashed
Revolution of 1828
Hobbit Deckbuilding Game
Dragon Run
Villages of Valeria Untold@pillbox
Einstein
Bomb Squad Academy
Loop, Inc.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Mystery at Hogwarts (Clue/Cluedo without the branding and with a few minor twists)
Excavation Earth
Asgard
Revolution: The Dutch Revolt
Olympus
Then I think things start to get popular enough someone is bound to have it.
