Boardgames To Go 199 - Top Ten Revisited

Published: March 1, 2022, noon

b'Opener: 7 Wonders: Architects, France\'s Game of the Year winner (the As D\'Or) Do you have a Top 100 list? How about just a Top Ten, and do you update it every year? I have a sort of list, but it\'s the same one I\'ve had for over twenty years. In fact, I ran through it very quickly on the first episode of this podcast back in 2005! (No need to dig up that old fossil, but my show had to start somewhere. ) I\'ve been thinking about a new top ten of more recent games, but I\'m not ready with that. Perhaps that will be in a future show, because there ARE plenty of modern titles that I really enjoy. It would be fun to talk about them, in part to contrast them against the "hotness" on BGG and Kickstarter that I often can\'t connect with. Again...that\'s a future show. In THIS episode I thought my original top ten was worth discussing all over. In some cases they are games I love just as much as ever. Others are more sentimental favorites, not really making it to the table any longer. In a few cases I think the games represented of a type of game that I still enjoy, and there are newer examples. Closer: Fragility in boardgame mechanics -Mark'