Brian Bankler has organized on ongoing poll which attempts to rank games according to the opinions of Internet savvy gamers from around the world. A few months ago, Brian sent me this snapshot of his poll. Games were ranked 1-10, with 10 being the best. Votes were then tallied in an arcane fashion involving a full moon, three yards of twine, an abacus with five beads missing, and a dead cat (found, of course, as no animals were abused while producing this list).
No doubt these numbers have also drifted out of date. Contact Brian at bankler@rtp.ericsson.se for a more up to date list.
Note that this is a short version of this list and that Brian is more than happy to fill your mailbox with the complete list of 793 ranked games.
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Total Games on List = 793
Total Votes Counted = 1787
Average of the List = 5.3315053161723557906
20% Threshold = 5.7999999999999998224
| 1 | Die Siedler von Catan | 8.20 | (10) |
| 2 | Dune | 8.11 | ( 9) |
| 3 | 1856 | 8.07 | ( 7) |
| 4 | Go | 7.83 | ( 6) |
| 5 | Bridge | 7.38 | ( 8) |
| 6 | Elfenroads | 7.25 | ( 8) |
| 7 | Hare and Tortoise | 7.20 | (10) |
| 8 | 1830 | 7.08 | (12) |
| 9 | Modern Art | 6.94 | ( 8) |
| 10 | Outpost | 6.86 | ( 7) |
| 11 | Cosmic Encounter(EON) | 6.85 | (10) |
| 12 | Hearts | 6.83 | ( 9) |
| 13 | Iron Dragon | 6.79 | ( 7) |
| 14 | Can't Stop | 6.75 | ( 6) |
| 15 | Titan | 6.73 | (15) |
| 16 | Republic of Rome | 6.60 | (10) |
| 17 | Acquire | 6.58 | (12) |
| 18 | Advanced Civilization | 6.58 | (12) |
| 19 | Pit | 6.58 | ( 6) |
| 20 | Airlines | 6.50 | ( 6) |
| 21 | 6 nimmt | 6.42 | ( 6) |
| 22 | Civilization | 6.32 | (17) |
| 23 | Set | 6.31 | ( 8) |
| 24 | Suzerain | 6.29 | ( 7) |
| 25 | Adel verpflichtet | 6.25 | (10) |
| 26 | Scrabble | 6.25 | (12) |
| 27 | Diplomacy | 6.22 | (18) |
| 28 | Wiz War | 6.22 | ( 9) |
| 29 | Kremlin | 6.19 | (13) |
| 30 | Illuminati | 6.17 | (12) |
| 31 | Eurorails | 6.15 | (10) |
| 32 | Merchant of Venus | 6.11 | (14) |
| 33 | Circus Maximus | 6.08 | ( 6) |
| 34 | Magic: the Gathering | 6.00 | (11) |
| 35 | Manhattan | 6.00 | ( 7) |
| 36 | Junta | 5.95 | (10) |
| 37 | Silverton | 5.92 | ( 6) |
| 38 | Santa Fe | 5.86 | ( 7) |
| 39 | Britannia | 5.83 | ( 9) |
| 40 | Backgammon | 5.79 | ( 7) |
| 41 | Rette Sich Wer Kann | 5.79 | ( 7) |
| 42 | Jenga | 5.75 | ( 6) |
| 43 | Fast Food Franchise | 5.71 | ( 7) |
| 44 | History of the World | 5.71 | (14) |
| 45 | Empire Builder | 5.62 | ( 8) |
| 46 | Spades | 5.43 | ( 7) |
| 47 | Pax Brittannica | 5.40 | ( 6) |
| 48 | Cribbage | 5.33 | ( 6) |
| 49 | Stratego | 5.33 | ( 9) |
| 50 | Uno | 5.32 | (11) |
| 51 | Roborally | 5.29 | ( 7) |
| 52 | Clue | 5.28 | ( 9) |
| 53 | British Rails | 5.14 | ( 7) |
| 54 | 1835 | 5.00 | ( 7) |
| 55 | Family Business | 5.00 | ( 7) |
| 56 | Kings N Things | 5.00 | ( 8) |
| 57 | Risk | 4.89 | (14) |
| 58 | Shanghai Trader | 4.75 | ( 6) |
| 59 | Yahtzee | 4.71 | ( 7) |
| 60 | Shogun(MB) | 4.62 | ( 8) |
| 61 | Kingmaker | 4.60 | (10) |
| 62 | Pictionary | 4.41 | (11) |
| 63 | Axis and Allies | 4.33 | (15) |
| 64 | Star Fleet Battles | 4.29 | ( 7) |
| 65 | Talisman | 4.28 | ( 9) |
| 66 | Trivial Pursuit | 4.23 | (11) |
| 67 | Squad Leader | 4.22 | ( 9) |
| 68 | Car Wars | 4.14 | ( 7) |
| 69 | Milles Bourne | 4.00 | (12) |
| 70 | Scattergories | 4.00 | ( 7) |
| 71 | Monopoly | 3.96 | (13) |
| 72 | Maharaja | 3.93 | ( 7) |
| 73 | Abalone | 3.88 | ( 8) |
| 74 | Fortress America | 3.83 | ( 6) |
| 75 | INWO | 3.62 | ( 8) |