{"id":26596,"date":"2026-06-19T23:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=26596"},"modified":"2026-06-19T23:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:11:10","slug":"eclectic-board-game-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/eclectic-board-game-lists\/","title":{"rendered":"Eclectic board game lists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always look at Board Game Geek for board game stuff &#8212; typically when I want to buy a new game. There&#8217;s a lot of stuff on their site from forums to reviews of games to videos that explain how to play games. Here are a few pages I&#8217;ve been known to visit.<\/p>\n<p>This is the master list of all games, sorted in order of rating. The most popular game at the moment is Brass: Birmingham. People in my friend\/family group have 11 games in the top 100. I thought it might be more but a lot of the top ones are super long ones which we don&#8217;t play:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/browse\/boardgame\">All Board Games<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a game that has specific mechanics, from Storytelling to Trading to Worker Placement, you can find them here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/browse\/boardgamemechanic\">Board Game Mechanics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a game that&#8217;s an award winner, you can check this page (&#8220;Spiel des Jahres&#8221; is &#8220;Game of the Year&#8221; in German). A game we played as kids, Scotland Yard, won the award in 1983. Then Catan won it in 1995. We (the royal we) have 18 games on this list:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/wiki\/page\/Spiel_des_Jahres\">Spiel des Jahres<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always look at Board Game Geek for board game stuff &#8212; typically when I want to buy a new game. There&#8217;s a lot of stuff on their site from forums to reviews of games to videos that explain how to play games. Here are a few pages I&#8217;ve been known to visit. This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[40,42],"class_list":["post-26596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-board-games","tag-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26596"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26600,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26596\/revisions\/26600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}