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I'm searching for some nice games that are filled with strategy, but are not too much time-consumming. (about an hour or less)
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26. Board Game: Portobello Market [Average Rating:6.50 Overall Rank:932]
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Just bought this one for 20$. Loved my first game, and anxious to replay. My girlfriend won, so she liked it too
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ok Alain, you bought the game at a low price... and your girlfriend like it but - so sorry about that - i found it rather boring...

(and after all, this geeklist isn't about games for $20 that suit well my girlfriend taste !)

Alain, as-tu déjà tenté Hansa, Ausburg, Louis XIV ou encore China avec Madame ? tu verras, c vraiment autre chose: ça reste simple, c rapide et ça plait aussi bien aux joueurs avertis qu'aux joueurs occasionnels

Mes amitiés
 
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27. Board Game: Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation [Average Rating:7.27 Overall Rank:172]
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Excellent game, easily playable twice in one hour (so you can swap sides, if you wish).
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One of the few entries that are really strategic and not tactic only.
 
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28. Board Game: Attila [Average Rating:6.58 Overall Rank:916]
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Like China and most of the other smaller area influence games, best with exactly 3 players. Attila is a surprisingly subtle and even slightly counter-intuitive game. There's significant depth of choice and strategy both through hand management and board position manipulation.
 
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29. Board Game: China: Grenzstreitigkeiten [Average Rating:7.78 Unranked] [Average Rating:7.78 Unranked]
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Takes China, which isn't as good as Web of Power, and brings it back into contention. Slightly deeper, more confrontational, slightly better rewards for card counters, and of course and like the rest, best with exactly three players.
 
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30. Board Game: Die Dolmengötter [Average Rating:6.62 Overall Rank:1559]
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Yet another best-with-3 game, and yet another area influence game. This time it is also a delightful dance of incentive vs disincentive management as the areas and scoring tile investments progress. Really delightful.
 
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Looks nice! Do you know if it's easy to find?
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Boards and Bits has it, at least.
 
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31. Board Game: Terra Nova [Average Rating:6.55 Overall Rank:1029]
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All the juiciness of Hey, that's my fish! combined with many of the sterling qualities of Through the Desert.
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VASTLY underrated, IMHO
 
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32. Board Game: Aggersborg [Average Rating:6.33 Unranked]
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Small press and a little hard to find, but a really quite delightful pattern building game.
 
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Wow!

This is cool. I did not know that a game had been made about Aggersborg. This is one of several viking strongholds found in my country, definitely worth a visit if you ever end up here. Besides 'Aggersborg' at the Limfjord, there was build five other viking strongholds in Denmark and the Danish part of Sweden around 980 by Harald Bluetooth in an attempt to consolidate his power over the kingdom; 'Borgeby' in Scania (Sweden), 'Fyrkat' at the city of Hobro, 'Nonnebakken' below the city of Odense, 'Trelleborg' at the city of Slagelse and finally 'Trelleborg' in Scania (Sweden).
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33. Board Game: Sticheln [Average Rating:7.00 Overall Rank:432]
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Ahh, can there even be a better trick taking card game for three players?
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How about with 6? Is it still good?
 
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yes
 
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Brilliant little game.
 
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34. Board Game: Die Fugger [Average Rating:6.50 Overall Rank:1318]
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Another of the small box Adlung Spiele card games masquerading as a board game.
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Absolutely!

I'd also add "Vom Kap bis Kairo", but since the Adlung lineup is already pretty well represented...
 
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35. Board Game: Verräter [Average Rating:6.81 Overall Rank:615]
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Another of the small box Adlung Spiele card games masquerading as a board game.
 
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36. Board Game: Meuterer [Average Rating:7.07 Overall Rank:321]
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Another of the small box Adlung Spiele card games masquerading as a board game.
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This game you need exactly 4. It says you can play with 3 in the box but it's really not that good with 3 i think. But yes it's a good cardgame that plays pretty fast and filled with strategy and luck. Oh and it's cheap.
 
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37. Board Game: City and Guilds [Average Rating:6.67 Overall Rank:2075]
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Unusually for a small area influence game, City and Guilds works well with both 3 and 4 players.
 
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38. Board Game: UR [Average Rating:6.60 Overall Rank:1051]
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Hands down the single best game from 2006. A real delight with both 3 and 4 players.
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How true!

UR delivers just about as much tension and tough choices as can reasonably be expected to fit into 45 minutes. And as an added bonus, there's a clever 2-player variant in the variants forum ( www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/134571). Works like a charm.
 
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39. Board Game: Atta Ants Expansion [Average Rating:6.06 Unranked] [Average Rating:6.06 Unranked]
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Really needs the fist expansion, and the sectioned deck (see my ratings comment fopr details), but oohhh yeah this is logistical gaming goodness for 3 players.
 
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40. Board Game: Scarab [Average Rating:5.77 Unranked]
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The partnership game is a brilliant wonder of turn angst and tongue biting.
 
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41. Board Game: The Bridges of Shangri-La [Average Rating:6.80 Overall Rank:588]
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Another game that's best with exactly three players, and this time also the best of Leo Colovini's games to boot.
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42. Board Game: Twixt [Average Rating:6.60 Overall Rank:858]
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A knife fight in a telephone booth, just bloodier.
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Yes, this is highly tactical, but there is also a lot of strategy. Any game where you are advised to "play the whole board" has to have strategy. Also it usually finishes in under 30 minutes.
 
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this is a terrific game, but differences in skill between two opponents can very easily make this a slaughter, and not much fun for the weaker player.
 
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Row handicapping is possible if you can find two pieces of neutral color which look nothing like Twixt pegs, and which will fit in a hole. One dimension of the board is reduced. The weaker player moves first and has less distance to cross. The neutral color pieces are placed in the two new corners of the grid, which are now out of play. an alternative method is to stretch a large red rubber band around the board to indicate the new red border line.

Of course, getting the weaker player to accept a handicap in the first place is another issue entirely.
 
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43. Board Game: Kathai [Average Rating:5.77 Overall Rank:4829]
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Another good Adlung-Spiele card game.
 
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44. Board Game: Khet: The Laser Game [Average Rating:6.72 Overall Rank:668]
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(aka Deflexion)

This is a great little no-luck gem that plays in about 15 minutes, leaving plenty of time for a rematch.
 
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45. Board Game: Dungeon Twister [Average Rating:6.94 Overall Rank:366]
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More like chess than a dungeon crawl.
 
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One of my best game, but unfortunatly none of my friends nor my girlfriend likes it.cry
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46. Board Game: Mr. Jack [Average Rating:7.23 Overall Rank:171]
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This is a great two-player deduction game.
 
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which is the game I got in mind.
So i second this Mr. Jack.

a 2 player game, nice to play back to back switching roles. But be aware you need a complete different mindset for each of the two sides.
Because your goal is so different depending on which side you play.

 
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I agree too. Mr Jack is very good even without the expansion. But the expansion adds replayability and more ways to set up the game (instead of fixed setup in the base game). And this makes it even better.

Mr. Jack =

My favorite game with minimum luck factor that plays in under 1 hour. But good luck getting a copy. It is pretty hard to get your hands on one. Let alone with the expansion.
 
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47. Board Game: Leonardo da Vinci [Average Rating:6.95 Overall Rank:391]
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Official game time is 60 minutes, though it tends to gets longer with more players.
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This is one of the game I most want recently. But I heard it's like Prince of Florence so I was expecting a really heavy game, much more than an hour.
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This game is very very fast for it's depth. The thing I don't like about it too much is the blind feeling of the game. You don't know what people are trying to invent. I guess if you play with a steady group of people then you can have a metagame going.
 
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I don't think the game really belongs on this geeklist, as it takes at least 90 minutes, but it is a great game that takes concepts from games like Princes of Florence, Louis XIV, Caylus, etc. and welds them into a very elegant package, where by elegant I mean the game has very little chrome but feels meaty as hell...

I think this has passed under the radar (it is top 100, but I think based on quality that it deserves a spot in the top 20) for two reasons: one is that people hear that it is derivative of other games and thus never even try it; secondly, it requires thinking ahead and is too punishing of mistakes for some people, but the high level of interaction and the semi-random order that inventions come up in make it too "chaotic" for others... for me it's just right, a game that really rewards planning ahead but has variability due to the multi-player interactions...
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This is our favorite "just over an hour" game.
 
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48. Board Game: The Downfall of Pompeii [Average Rating:7.15 Overall Rank:245]
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I prefer this as a 2-player game, but it does play up to 4.
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49. Board Game: Mesopotamia [Average Rating:6.60 Overall Rank:891]
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It's not the deepest game, but it combines exploration with interesting decisions to make a good little 45-minute diversion.
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50. Board Game: Hansa [Average Rating:6.98 Overall Rank:320]
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Another simple, short and good strategic Schacht game
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THE game if u have just an hour to play but want something strategic !

i play it regulary with my brother very often (may be 100+ games under our belts)

Play it, love it, and say with me: one of my best games !
 
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How many players?
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Yeah! My first .01 geekgold! Thanks to the tipper! 3000 like that and my avatar is there

And thanks to all the suggestions up to now... Please keep them coming... I'm making up my birthday list cool
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This is a good idea for geeklist so I did gave you 1 GG for youe effort.

You are welcome!
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Cool! Thanks alot!!
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Alain,
Would you consider setting this list to sort by Average Rating?
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