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BoardGameGeek was founded in January 2000 by Scott Alden and Derk Solko, [6] and marked its 20th anniversary on 20 January 2020. [7]Since 2005, BoardGameGeek hosts an annual board game convention, BGG.CON, that has a focus on playing games, and where winners of the Golden Geek Awards are announced.
These are winners of the American Tabletop Awards, a US-based board game award selected by a committee of board game media creators for games released in the previous calendar year. [14] Early Gamers These are winners in the Early Gamers category, a category for games targeted at people new to board games.
Squatter is a board game that was launched at the Royal Melbourne Show in 1962, invented by Robert (Bob) Crofton Lloyd. [1] With more than 500,000 games sold in Australia by 2007, [2] it became the most successful board game ever developed in Australia. [3] As of 2018 there are still Squatter competitions and active Squatter clubs.
Agricola is a Euro-style board game created by Uwe Rosenberg. It is a worker placement game with a focus on resource management. In Agricola, players are farmers who sow, plow the fields, collect wood, build stables, buy animals, expand their farms and feed their families. After 14 rounds players calculate their score based on the size and ...
Cascadia is a 2021 board game designed by Randy Flynn and published by Flatout Games.In Cascadia, players draft and add habitat tokens and matching wildlife tokens to score victory points based on various scoring conditions.
Users voted Twilight Struggle the highest-ranked game on BoardGameGeek from December 2010 until it was unseated by Pandemic Legacy in January 2016. [23] This led later commentators like FiveThirtyEight 's Oliver Roeder to call it "the best board game on the planet"; [2] Vice Motherboard 's Michael Gaynor called it "the best board game ever ...
Kingmaker is a board game for 2–7 players in which each player controls one or more royal families in 15th-century England. [1] Through war, diplomacy, and politics, the players attempt to gain control of one or more members of the two rival royal families, the House of Lancaster and the House of York, to place one of them on the throne of England while eliminating all other "pretenders."
The Pandemic Legacy games have been received with critical acclaim, with Season 1 ranking 2nd place on BoardGameGeek out of approximately 22,000 games. [5] [6] Leacock began designing the game in 2004 after realizing that competitive games were making for strained evenings with his wife. He based the Pandemic board game on the 2002–2004 SARS ...