The Internet Top 100 Games List is a ranked list of non-computer games, mostly board and card games. The list is maintained by Aaron D. Fuegi at Boston University, who publishes, weekly, both a list of all rated games and a list containing the top 100. A board game is any game played with a premarked surface, with counters or pieces that are moved across the board. ... A card game is any game using playing cards, either traditional or game-specific. ... Boston University is a non-sectarian private university located in Boston, Massachusetts. ...

The rankings are generated by ratings sent in by Internet users, who give each game they wish to rate a score between 0 and 10. Rankings are not determined according to average rating-- as this would allow a single '10' vote to place a game at the top of the list-- but according to a score measuring both the average rating and the number of ratings given (since a game receiving more ratings, if not necessarily a better game, is at least better known and has therefore somehow achieved better market penetration). Specifically, each game is given, in addition to ratings sent in by contributors, 5 ratings of 3.25. This prevents games with very few ratings from achieving high scores that could corrupt the rankings. As a game accumulates more ratings, its score asymptotically approaches the average of the ratings given to it.

As of March 2005, 708 contributors have submitted 75,666 ratings. ← - 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in March • 31 – Terri Schiavo • 30 – Mitch Hedberg • 29 – Johnnie Cochran • 27 – Wilfred Bigelow • 26 – Paul Hester • 26 – James Callaghan • 21 – Jeff Weise • 21 – Bobby Short • 19 – John De Lorean • 18 – Gary Bertini • 17 – George F...

Controversy

One of the greatest problems with such a list is verifiability. Though it is not known to have happened in this particular case, it is possible for contributors to "cheat" by voting multiply by establishing multiple anonymous email accounts. Fuegi retains the right to reject suspicious contributions for this reason, in order to prevent such behavior. E-mail, or email, is short for electronic mail and is a method of composing, sending, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems. ...

Similarly, as preferences of the gaming community change over time, there is no expectation that the rankings will be stable. Indeed they likely will not, with new games being created all the time. Gaming is an umbrella term that includes a number of special hobby game types: Board games Collectible card games Computer and video games Tabletop wargaming (i. ...

Finally, the unexpected high or low positions of certain games call the validity of the rankings, as a measure of game quality, into question. For example, Chess is ranked only at #234, with an average rating of 6.20. Some would argue that it, by its sheer longevity and ability to captivate the minds of those who play it, is deserving of a much higher rating, and accuse that Chess and Go have been seemingly underrated simply because few people play these games often enough to understand them at even the most basic level. A chess table is a table with a chessboard painted or engraved on it. ... Longevity is long life or existence. ... A chess table is a table with a chessboard painted or engraved on it. ... Go is a strategic, two-player board game originating in ancient China between 2000 BC and 200 BC. Go is a popular game in East Asia. ...

Similarly, Monopoly is rated quite lowly on Fuegi's list, even though it has shown enormous commercial success. Monopoly is one of the best-selling commercial board games in the world. ...

Most of the games in the top 20 are German-style board games, and none is more than twenty years old. German-style board games, also known as Euro games, designer games, family strategy games or hobby board games, are family games designed to appeal simultaneously to older children and adults. ...

Some games featured on the list

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The top eight

• Puerto Rico is listed as #1, with 225 ratings averaging 8.65.
• Tigris and Euphrates is #2, with 402 ratings averaging 7.94.
• Princes of Florence is #3, with 228 ratings averaging 7.85.
• Settlers of Catan is #4, with 575 ratings averaging 7.79.
• El Grande is #5, with 404 ratings averaging 7.57.
• Modern Art is #6, with 284 ratings averaging 7.59.
• Power Grid is #7, with 36 ratings averaging 8.01.
• Ohne Furcht und Adel is #8, with 266 ratings averaging 7.51.

Euphrat und Tigris is a German board game by Reiner Knizia. ... Princes of Florence (German: Die Fürsten von Florenz) is a renaissance-themed German-style board game designed by Richard Ulrich and Wolfgang Kramer, and published in 2000 by Alea in German and by Rio Grande Games in English. ... Settlers of Catan is a multiplayer board game invented by Klaus Teuber, first published in 1995 in Germany by Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co. ... El Grande is a German-style board game designed in 1996. ... Modern Art is a bidding game designed by Reiner Knizia and published in 1992 by Hans im Glück in German and by Mayfair Games in English. ... Citadels is a German-style Card game, designed by Bruno Faidutti and originally published as Ohne Furcht und Adel, which (loosely) means Fearless and Aristocratic. Citadels was a finalist for the 2000 Spiel des Jahres award. ...

Ranks of well-known games

• Bridge is #28, with 190 ratings averaging 7.16.
• Go is #64, with 209 ratings averaging 6.75.
• Chess is #228, with 341 ratings averaging 6.21.
• Scrabble is #366, with 318 ratings averaging 5.91.
• Backgammon is #622, with 254 ratings averaging 5.49.
• Reversi is #961, with 185 ratings averaging 5.11.
• Monopoly is #2668, with 368 ratings averaging 3.96.

Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game for four players who form two partnerships, or sides. The partners on each side sit opposite one another. ... Go is a strategic, two-player board game originating in ancient China between 2000 BC and 200 BC. Go is a popular game in East Asia. ... A chess table is a table with a chessboard painted or engraved on it. ... Scrabble is a popular word board game, in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a 15x15 game board. ... Close-up of modern backgammon set. ... Screen dump of WZebra 4. ... Monopoly is one of the best-selling commercial board games in the world. ...

At the bottom

• Chutes and Ladders is #4874, with 103 ratings averaging 2.26.
• Candy Land is #4876, with 93 ratings averaging 2.13.
• Bingo is #4878, with 50 ratings averaging 2.04.
• War (card game) is #4879, with 92 ratings averaging 1.76.
• Tic tac toe is last, at #4880, with 132 ratings averaging 1.49.

Chutes and Ladders is a game produced by Hasbro and mainly distributed in the United States of America. ... A simple race game that requires no ability to read or count, Candy Land has become something of a cultural icon in the U.S., where it is often the first board game played by children. ... Bingo Bingo is a game of chance where randomly-selected numbers are drawn and players match those numbers to those appearing on 5x5 matrixes which are printed or electronically represented and are known as cards. ... War is a card game for two players. ... Tic-tac-toe, also called noughts and crosses and many other names, is a paper and pencil game between two players, O and X, who alternate in marking the spaces in a 3×3 board. ...

Other facts

• The highest-rated public domain game is Bridge, at #28. The oldest game rated above it is Sid Sackson's Acquire (1962).
• The highest-rated game published after January 1, 2004 is Power Grid, but this was a new edition of the earlier Funkenschlag. The highest-rated game which was truly new in 2004 is Goa, ranked at #14 with 39 ratings averaging 7.82.
• The most-rated game is Settlers of Catan, with 575 ratings.
• To rank in the top 100 games, a game must acquire a score of 6.508.
• Designer Reiner Knizia is heavily represented on the top 100, with six games in the top 20 and fifteen in the top 100.
• The most rapidly-rising game appears to be San Juan, at #25, which debuted on the list in early 2004.

The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ... Sid Sackson (1920–November 6, 2002) was a significant American board game designer. ... Acquire is an abstract board game of investing in hotel chains. ... January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Settlers of Catan is a multiplayer board game invented by Klaus Teuber, first published in 1995 in Germany by Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co. ... Reiner Knizia is a prolific board game designer. ... San Juan is a card game designed by Andreas Seyfarth and published in 2004 by Alea in German and by Rio Grande Games in English. ...

External links

• The Top 100 Games
• The Full List of 4689 games