Category:Ranked List: Difference between revisions

Lists are a staple of every board gamer's diet and Board Game Barrage are no different. Every episode that features a list is ... listed at the end of this page, unless you prefer a more curated approach:

One List to rule them all, One Year to find them, One ... yearly ritual inventively called the Board Game Barrage Top 50 Games of All-Time.

Four tanks, 5 quadruple crossovers and 138 unique games!
50-41, 40-31, 30-21, 20-11, 10-1
(full 2020 lists)

Three tanks, 6 triple crossovers and 118 unique games.
50-41, 40-31, 30-21, 20-11, 10-1
(full 2019 lists)

The inaugural year; three tanks, 5 triple crossovers and 117 unique games.
50-41, 40-31, 30-21, 20-11, 10-1
(full 2018 lists)

Five selections per tank, per episode ...

• games for a desert island
• games under $20
• party games
• games for the holidays

• co-operative games
• relaxing games
• games that deliver unique experiences
• dexterity games
• gobble gobble (2019)
• gobble gobble (2020)
• cute games

• games we are bad at (September 2018)
• most anticipated, unplayed games (October 2018)
• most anticipated games, Essen 2018
• games we want to play again (April 2019)
• games we thought we were going to hate but we loved (June 2019)
• games that left our collections (March 2020)
• games we are looking forward to after quarantine (April 2020)

• games BGG got wrong - underrated
• games BGG got wrong - overrated
• games that replace other games

Originally slated to be normal top 5 episodes but things got weird. Each tank submits their own list of the best games and, using the Pub Meeple ranking engine, these appear in a series of 1 v 1 battles. In each battle the tanks reach a majority decision on which game they prefer, ultimately producing a ranked list of the best games according to BGB.

Fire away!

• filler games
• party games
• social deduction games
• board game bugbears (no, these are not games but they get the BGB BOB treatment anyway; this is what happens when Kellen is out of town)
• heart warming games
• board game gifts

Episode featured topics not yet implemented, hence ...