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BoardGameGeek Top Ranked Game (By Year, Descending, 2007AD to 3000BC)
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List of top ranked games (excluding expansions for base-game) on BGG, by year, in descending order, starting from 2007AD down to 3000BC.

Where applicable, I've *tried* to include either the corresponding top wargame or top non-wargame for each year (going back to 1969). I've also included the "Golden Banana of Discord (GBD)"**, for the game with the highest standard deviation in ratings. These go back to 1956 - games per year become scarce thereafter.

** From the annual interactive fiction competition (IFComp)

The original list can be viewed here: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/86841

UPDATE: Added games from 2007
[size=8]UPDATE: Added games from 2006
[size=8]UPDATE: Added games from 2005

NOTE: I am listing games under the dates as they appear in this database. If you feel a game has been listed under an incorrect date, please direct your information towards BGG administration. Also, this list is over 3 years old. Game ranks will fluctuate over time, so a game that, at the time it was added to this list, was the highest rank game for a given year, may no longer be the highest. If I notice the change, I'll add a note to the entry for that year.
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26. Board Game: Um Reifenbreite [Average Rating:6.93 Overall Rank:515]
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1982 Um Reifenbreite

Wargame: Gunslinger or Dawn Patrol
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Anyone have a comment as to how this compares to Breaking Away?
 
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Sure. Breaking Away is a sheer numbers game. You assign each of your racers a set of numbers before the race starts, then pick one of those numbers each round of movement, positioning for drafts and such.

Um Reifenbreite is in large part a roll-and-move game, though you do have options with cards to replace a roll now and then. There are also event cards and "cheating" rules which may be more or less utilized depending on the wishes of the players.

Um Reifenbreite is easier to learn (unless you go for the "cheating" and other optional rules -- really, you can make it as complicated as you want) but still delivers the desired "excitement of racing" factor. Breaking Away is more single-minded, by which I mean that there's basically just one thing that you're doing, and you do it over and over, but it happens to be a very interesting thing for my tastes, and the "excitement of racing" factor is still there. So while I don't usually turn down a game of Um Reifenbreite (assuming the necessary four players are on hand), I actively seek out opportunities to play Breaking Away with any number from five to eight.
 
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Other games this year include: Survive!; Mhing; Slapshot; Family Business; Car Wars; Sequence; Phase 10
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27. Board Game: Civilization [Average Rating:7.57 Overall Rank:87]
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1981 Civilization

Wargame: House Divided, A
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If Civ is a non-wargame, shouldn't AdvCiv be the top non-wargame (instead of Tichu) in 1991? Similarly, why doesn't Civ qualify as a "wargame"?

Great list BTW!
 
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Last time I looked, AdvCiv could not be played on its own.
 
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I once had this game, but I traded it for Geronimo.... What was I thinking????
 
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I'd say that civ isnt a wargame because of what my Finnish edition of the game says: "Civilization is not a wargame, it is a game of civilization" or something like that.

Anyhow, my point is, when I think of a wargame, the point of the game is to destroy your enemies and figuring out stragedies while trying to get as many new troops as possible. Yes, in Civilization you can try to figure out stragedies to defeat your enemies, and most of the time you try to maximize your population growth, but the point of the game is hardly to destroy your enemies. Most of the fights in the game are due to the lack of space, and maybe to slow a player down.

I can definetly see why this is a controversial subject, there are players who play Civilization like a wargame, but I'm not one of them. I don't find it a wargame, but more of a game of civilization, and as we all know, wars tend to be a part of a civilizations history
 
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Other games this year include: Storm Over Arnhem; Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective; Cathedral; Cry Havoc; Hitler's War; Battle of the Bulge; Dark Tower; Trivial Pursuit
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28. Board Game: Titan [Average Rating:7.08 Overall Rank:335]
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1980 Titan

Non-wargame: Can't Stop
GBD: Azhanti High Lightning
 
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I was at a con in Salt Lake City where this was being introduced, and given out as a prize. We played Circus Maximus too. Forgot the presenter's name--Jim something.
 
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I have a love-hate relationship with this game. I really do enjoy playing, but I've never quite mastered it in terms of knowing all the combinations, ways and means of beating the system (and thereby one's opponent). I hope Hasborg decide to reprint this one (perhaps a re-redevelopment would be in order, too?).
 
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Other games this year include: Empire Builder; War and Peace; Grass; Doctor Who - The Game Of Time & Space
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29. Board Game: Dune [Average Rating:7.63 Overall Rank:91]
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Wargame: Cross of Iron
GBD: Title Bout

Dune is categorized on BGG as a war game, but I thought I'd list the next highest wargame - to be safe. The highest non-wargame would be Hyle7.
 
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Maybe it's just me, but I can't see Dune as a non-wargame... mind you, nice to see two wargames for this year!
 
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Cross of Iron should be disqualified on the same grounds that Advanced Civ is - it is an expansion of, and not playable without, Squad Leader.
 
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Cross of Iron should be disqualified on the same grounds that Advanced Civ is - it is an expansion of, and not playable without, Squad Leader.

Looks like there's a few games on BGG that've been under classified. The next wargame for that year is Crescendo of Doom. But, that's also an expansion of Squad Leader (and, once again, it is not categorized as such). So, we can move on to Ironclads, which seems to fit the criteria of being a wargame, and not being an expansion for a base-game.
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Düne -- the Dessert Game.


To be played after the Starter and Main Course games, naturally. laugh
 
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Other games this year include: Paydirt, Divine Right, Star Fleet Battles, Circus Maximus, The Awful Green Things from Outer Space, Stop Thief.
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30. Board Game: Apocalypse: The Game of Nuclear Devastation [Average Rating:6.73 Overall Rank:2227]
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1978 Warlord

Non-wargame: Magic Realm
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Clinton Smith(Artaxerxes) wrote:
Cosmic Encounter doesn't have a year of first publication on Boardgamegeek. I'm not positive but I think it might have been published in 1978. Or perhaps 1977. If 1978 is correct CE beats Warlord. Does anyone reading this know for sure when CE was first published?
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CE was released in 1977.
(The design dates back to 1972 though!)
 
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Warlords is the first game on this list I haven't played.
I gotta find me a copy.
 
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"The Next War" is currently the highest ranked game for this year.
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Other games this year include: G.E.V.; Sorcerer's Cave, the; Simon
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Warlord was published in 1967.
 
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31. Board Game: Squad Leader [Average Rating:7.46 Overall Rank:191]
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1977 Squad Leader

Non-wargame: Melee (RPG)
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Melee's less a RPG than a boardgame of man-to-man combat. Advanced Melee added RPG skills to become The Fantasy Trip.
 
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One of my all-time favourite tactical consims. I especially love to play the Cross of Iron scenarios. See my comments under ASL (1985) for the reason I rate the original higher.
 
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Other games this year include: Russian Campaign, The; Machiavelli; Victory in the Pacific; Ogre; Black Box, Rummikub; Pass the Pigs.
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32. Board Game: Panzergruppe Guderian [Average Rating:7.25 Overall Rank:812]
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1976 Panzergruppe Guderian

Non-wargame: Boggle
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Other games this year include: Napoleon's Last Battles; Caesar at Alesia; Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers; War At Sea.
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33. Board Game: Wooden Ships & Iron Men [Average Rating:6.96 Overall Rank:541]
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1975 Wooden Ships & Iron Men

Non-wargame: Cosmic Wimpout
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A classic, though somewhat flawed. I still play by mail on a nearly constant basis. The flaws come hand in hand with trying to regulate sea movement by strict hexes. Can't be helped really, and I think Taylor did a very good job given the imposed limits. In college I used to play a set of rules -- perhaps they were titled "Age of Sail"? and (perhaps) reated to WSIM? That was a long time ago...
 
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Well I guess regulating the movement of the sea is always going to be difficult..

Unless you're Moses
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Other games this year include: Stellar Conquest; Dungeon; 221B Baker Street and Expansions; Pay Day.
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34. Board Game: Liar's Dice [Average Rating:6.98 Overall Rank:298]
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1974 Liar's Dice

Wargame: Bar-Lev
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I had a huge game night at my house for total non-gamers a few weeks ago and used Perudo (Liar's Dice) as the gateway game. Nobody had ever heard of it but all of them absolutely LOVED it and wanted to buy it.

I had no idea it came out 30 years ago. Oh LD, where have you been all my life?
 
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"Napoleon" is now the highest rated game for this year.

Other games this year include: McMulti; 1829; Rail Baron; Kingmaker; 1776; Connect Four.
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35. Board Game: War of 1812 [Average Rating:7.07 Overall Rank:867]
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1973 War of 1812

Non-wargame: Big Boggle
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Still a great little game. Block games rule!
 
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Highest ranked non-wargame for this year is now "Hare and Tortoise".

Other games this year include: Railway Rivals; Escape from Colditz; Statis Pro Football; Conspiracy.
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36. Board Game: Quebec 1759 [Average Rating:6.99 Overall Rank:928]
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1972 Quebec 1759

Non-wargame: Statis Pro Basketball
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37. Board Game: Speed Circuit [Average Rating:6.83 Overall Rank:816]
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1971 Speed Circuit

Wargame: Napoleon at Waterloo
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38. Board Game: Napoleon: The Waterloo Campaign, 1815 [Average Rating:7.24 Overall Rank:542]
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1970 Napolean

Non-wargame: Monad
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Clinton Smith(Artaxerxes) wrote:
The year of first publication for Napoleon is 1970 according to the Boardgamegeek, but that is incorrect. The game was first published in 1974. It was published after both Quebec 1759 and War of 1812 by Gamma Two Games. I submitted a correction about a year ago but it didn't work for some reason.
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Just afixed the stickers on my Napoleon blocks. This looks like a fun 3 player game.
 
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I'd always thought Napoleon was a Gamma II game first, but someone recently told me it had been published earlier than that by Avalon Hill. I've no idea if that statement holds water, but if it does maybe it's the reason for the date discrepancy?
 
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Napoleon was first published by Gamma Two in 1974, then published by Avalon Hill in 1979, then published by Columbia in 1993.
 
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If Napolean was published in 1974, then it would be the highest ranked game for that year. The highest ranked game for 1970 would then be Monad and the highest ranked wargame would be Panzerblitz.
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39. Board Game: Anzio [Average Rating:6.61 Overall Rank:1561]
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1969 Anzio

Non-wargame: Ulcers
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Definitely a consim to have and to hold (and fondle) and play. The 1974(?) 4th edition is the one to have, however, although it will (hopefully) eventually be supplanted by Tom Oleson's redevelopment "Italia" which will include all of Italy and Sicily. No doubt many of you are already aware of this (and have even seen the Italia map).
 
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40. Board Game: Ninety-Nine [Average Rating:7.29 Overall Rank:1396]
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Charades must be a lot older than 1968.
 
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I think it's safe to say that the traditional party game is older. This entry refers to the productized version.
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Looks like Dunnigan's 1914 is the highest rated wargame for the year.
 
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41. Board Game: Sleuth [Average Rating:6.78 Overall Rank:640]
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1967 Sleuth
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And Dunnigan's Jutland is the highest rated wargame for the year.
 
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42. Board Game: Win, Place & Show [Average Rating:6.70 Overall Rank:1104]
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1966 Win Place & Show
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43. Board Game: Nuclear War [Average Rating:6.24 Overall Rank:1388]
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1965 Nuclear War
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A great party game. I used to play this one a great deal (beginning not very long after its first release -- which sort of dates me). Although I'm not a great fan of games which use spinners for random events, its use for this game (and newer printings have kept it through the years) is somehow appropriate. The Cold War was sort of like that -- I'm talking of the "golden" era (50s and 60s) of the Cold War, of course -- not nemby-pamby Reagan/Thatcher/Gorby years (or even the 70s) by which time just about anyone with half a brain (rightly) believed a nukewar between the superpowers just wasn't on. And nowadays, of course, most people don't even know what "fallout shelter" means, let alone where the nearest one to them at any given moment is located.
 
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Many of the BART (metro rail) stations in Berkeley bear "Fallout Shelter" labels. Now that I live in the South Bay / Peninsula part of the Bay Area, I don't know where my nearest fallout shelter would be.

Of course, by the 70s and onward, the Bay Area could reasonably expect to become a giant vapor cloud in the event of nuclear war, making the shelters less than useful.
 
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44. Board Game: Focus [Average Rating:6.58 Overall Rank:1359]
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45. Board Game: Formula-1 [Average Rating:6.69 Overall Rank:1602]
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1963 Formula-1
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46. Board Game: Acquire [Average Rating:7.41 Overall Rank:106]
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1962 Acquire
GBD: Strat-o-Matic Baseball
 
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The GBD to Strat-O-Matic? For anyone who knows baseball knows that this game was the most accurate simulation of baseball pretty much up until video games became complex enough to duplicate statistical models as SOM does. The closest you can get to being a manager of a baseball team without actually being one in real life.
 
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The GBD is for the ranked game with the highest standard deviation in ratings. In other words, it doesn't say the game is good or bad, it just says that people's ratings for this game differed to a greater degree than with other games in this year. When this list was made, Strat-o-Matic Baseball held this honour, with a stdev of 1.85, and yet it was (and currently is) the second highest ranked game for this year (and ranked 217 over-all). Since then, Pass-out has received enough new ratings to become ranked; and, with a stdev of 2.16, it now claims the GBD for 1962.
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Ok, cool, thanks for that clarification.
 
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47. Board Game: Twixt [Average Rating:6.60 Overall Rank:858]
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1961 Twixt
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48. Board Game: Bughouse Chess [Average Rating:7.46 Overall Rank:1061]
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1960 Bughouse Chess
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The year 1960 on the Bughouse page may not be correct. In his authoritative Encyclopedia of Chess Variants, Pritchard estimates that Bughouse was created in the 1960s, so it's not likely that 1960 is the correct year. Perhaps it's appropriate to list some alternative entries for the top ranked game for 1960.
 
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There are only three. From highest ranked to lowest, they are: Dutch Blitz, Malefiz, and Game of the States.
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49. Board Game: Diplomacy [Average Rating:7.13 Overall Rank:250]
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1959 Diplomacy
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How I love thee, Diplomacy. Shall I count the ways? No, since I also hate thee (though not with the same passion). While 1959 is historically accurate, it wasn't until 1971 that the Diplomacy most people know and love (or loathe, depending) first saw the light of day. Some old friends and I very occasionally play "1958" Diplomacy, using an older set (and rules), but I generally prefer "1971" or Tarzan's "Sail Ho!" variant these days.
 
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50. Board Game: 5ive Straight [Average Rating:6.26 Overall Rank:2751]
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I see you did make your journal entry into a list great!
 
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imbiginjapan wrote:
All I have to say is 1600 must have been a terrible year for the SdJ awards.
Scopa, which is now ranked, has replaced Game of Goose for the year 1600.
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JeremiahClayton wrote:
Where is XiangQi for -200?
Added.
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You can add:

Hanafuda (1700)
Fanorona (1680)
Game of Goose (1600)
Fox and Geese (1400)
Patolli (1350)
Oware (550)
Pachisi (400)
Mehen (-2000)
Hounds and Jackals (-2000)

Good job!
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What about 1867's Crokinole? Was that not in the database 3 years ago? It is ranked 42 overall, and #3 in family games. It certainly deserves to be on this list.
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