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InQuest Gamer Magazine published it's 150th and final issue in September 2007. The magazine covered all kinds of games including board games and roleplaying games but seemed to have a particular emphasis on collectible card games.

This is the staff of the magazine's "Definitive List of Gaming’s Greatest Hit". In judging the following criteria was used:
1) Impact: the game’s place in history and its popularity
2) Quality: how elegant and engaging the game’s mechanics are
3) Execution: a game’s aesthetics, production value and how well it follows a theme
4) The IQ Factor: how much fun the game really is to us, which we weighed double.

Sure you can read the list on the magazines website, but I thought it would be interesting to present it here to compare with the ratings etc on BGG.

So far I have added the top 60, will finish the list soon. Many games are role playing games and therefore Outside the Scope of BGG, for these I have tried to use a picture from a closely related game that is on BGG.

Thanks to Tom Vasel for his forum posting pointing out this list.

EDIT December 2009: with RPG's now on geekdo I am editing all my out of scopes to include the correct item or RPG, this may loose some people's comments, sorry about this but I thought it better to show the correct item.
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51. RPG: Pendragon (1st - 5th Editions) [Average Rating:7.95 Overall Rank:5]
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Pendragon RPG

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Arthurian legend as a RPG
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52. Board Game: X-Files [Average Rating:5.36 Overall Rank:7452]
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A collectible card game.
 
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53. Board Game: Doom: The Boardgame [Average Rating:7.01 Overall Rank:368]
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54. RPG: Deadlands (Original Edition) [Average Rating:7.37 Overall Rank:33]
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Deadlands RPG

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A fantasy Wild West roleplaying game.

Several games based on the RPG are listed on BGG including:
*Deadlands: The Great Rail Wars - Skirmish miniatures game
*Deadlands: Doomtown - Collectible card game is also seen as #6 on InQuest list
*Deadlands: Doomtown Range Wars - Collectible disk game
*Deadlands: Lost Colony - Showdown - Another collectible card game
*Frag Deadlands - "first-person shooter" boardgame in Deadlands setting
 
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55. Board Game: Kult [Average Rating:6.75 Overall Rank:2391]
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56. Board Game: Shadowfist [Average Rating:7.14 Overall Rank:1104]
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57. Board Game: Call of Cthulhu: Collectible Card Game [Average Rating:6.99 Overall Rank:915]
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58. Board Game: Fluxx [Average Rating:5.73 Overall Rank:4252]
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59. RPG Item: Cyberpunk 2020 [Average Rating:7.36 Overall Rank:207]
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Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0 RPG

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Was the inspiration that spawned Netrunner CCG
 
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60. Board Game: Wallenstein [Average Rating:7.63 Overall Rank:86]
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61. RPG Item: AMBER Diceless Role-Playing [Average Rating:7.59 Overall Rank:206]
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Amber Diceless RPG

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62. Board Game: Risk [Average Rating:5.62 Overall Rank:6469]
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#62 on InQuest list

Described as "lasting classic that's second only to chess as the best mainstream war game ever." Yet strangely this, which is ranked over 3000 makes the list and Chess (ranked 190 by BGG) does not?
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63. Board Game: WWE Raw Deal [Average Rating:6.65 Overall Rank:3313]
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#63 on InQuest list

A collectible card game.
 
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64. Board Game: The Wheel of Time Collectible Card Game [Average Rating:5.30 Overall Rank:7186]
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65. Board Game: Pirates of the Spanish Main [Average Rating:5.98 Overall Rank:2347]
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66. Board Game: The Pillars of the Earth [Average Rating:7.33 Overall Rank:134]
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67. Board Game: Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game [Average Rating:5.42 Overall Rank:7470]
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"Millions of players worldwide can’t be wrong." - I beg to differ and sure I could find many cases where millions of people were wrong.
 
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68. Family: Ars Magica
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Ars Magica RPG

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69. Board Game: Dark Millennium: The Warhammer 40,000 Collectible Card Game [Average Rating:5.76 Overall Rank:5247]
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#69 on InQuest list
 
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70. Board Game: Star Wars Miniatures [Average Rating:6.80 Overall Rank:840]
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71. Board Game: Axis & Allies [Average Rating:6.86 Overall Rank:488]
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72. Board Game: El Grande [Average Rating:7.89 Overall Rank:13]
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73. Board Game: Dune [Average Rating:7.63 Overall Rank:91]
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74. Board Game: Blood Bowl: Living Rulebook [Average Rating:7.93 Overall Rank:60]
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#74 on InQuest list

As I explained before thereis no edition specified so it could equally be represented by Blood Bowl (First Edition), Blood Bowl (Second Edition) or Blood Bowl (Third Edition).
 
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75. Board Game: Descent: Journeys in the Dark [Average Rating:7.53 Overall Rank:79]
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I will not rest until Biblios is in the Top 100.
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Well I been watchin' while you been coughin, I've been drinking life while you've been nauseous, and so I drink to health while you kill yourself and I got just one thing that I can offer... Go on and save yourself and take it out on me
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I generally despise Top X lists of any kind because they are so subjective, but I kinda agree with a lot of this. Its really nice to see them give credit to some of the better gateway games out there like Settlers and TTR.

It would not be an official stormseeker comment if I didn't say how much I hate The Spoils and how its entry invalidates the entire list.
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  • Posted Mon Sep 10, 2007 2:35 pm
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Hilarious! This is one of the best 'fake top 10' lists I've ever seen!

Wha? This isn't a joke? Oh. soblue
 
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  • Posted Thu Sep 13, 2007 5:13 am
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I can only wonder how they managed to print 150 issues before somebody stopped them making garbage like this list....
 
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  • Posted Sun Sep 30, 2007 1:35 am
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love it shake
 
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  • Posted Sun Dec 6, 2009 7:59 pm
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I have now updated this list to include RPGs rather than the outside of BGG scope item I used to represent them when the list was first created.
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  • Posted Mon Dec 7, 2009 12:35 am
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