Top 10 Most Played Games 

I think it's awesome how much you guys can argue and end it with a laugh and smile. It's encouraging.

Stats! From all the Top 10 Lists with Tom, Sam, and Zee (no expansions): Overall # of Individual Games: 660 Tom's # of Individual Games: 354 Sam's # of Individual Games: 270 Zee's # of Individual Games: 342 Overall Most Discussed (10+ Times): -Cosmic Encounter - 17 -Battlestar Galactica - 16 -King of Tokyo - 16 -Shadows over Camelot - 16 -Pillars of the Earth - 14 -The Resistance - 14 -Fury of Dracula - 13 -Dominion - 12 -Bang! The Dice Game - 11 -Ghost Stories - 11 -Kingsburg - 11 -Lost Cities - 11 -Summoner Wars - 11 -Alien Frontiers - 10 -Pandemic - 10 -Cash n' Guns - 10 -Mission: Red Planet - 10 -Legendary: Marvel - 10 Tom's Most Discussed (Top 1% of Total): -Dominion - 7 -Lost Cities - 7 -Cosmic Encounter - 5 -Battlestar Galactica - 5 -King of Tokyo - 5 -Legendary: Marvel - 5 -Police Precinct - 5 Sam's Most Discussed (Top 1% of Total): -Shadows over Camelot - 9 -Battlestar Galactica - 8 -Fury of Dracula - 8 -Kingsburg - 8 -Stone Age - 8 -Cosmic Encounter - 7 -The Resistance - 7 -Bang! The Dice Game - 7 Zee's Most Discussed (Top 1% of Total): -Pillars of the Earth - 6 -Ghost Stories - 6 -Robinson Crusoe - 6 -Cosmic Encounter - 5 -King of Tokyo - 5 -Neuroshima Hex! - 5 -Alien Frontiers - 5 -Atlantis Rising - 5 -Freedom: The Underground Railroad - 5 -Magic: The Gathering - 5 -Alhambra - 5

Watching this made me realize I'd be interested in seeing a follow up list of Top 10 Most Played Games from the last 5 years. A lot of the games on the video's list were things the crew played as kids growing up or in college, etc, which is cool but it makes me wonder what games they currently play the most often.

This is the best top 10 list, in terms of sound quality. The new hire is paying off.

Careers was the go-to game for my family when I was growing up, and Tom is the only other person I hear talking about it. With the ability to choose your victory condition, the experience cards to move a specific number of spaces instead of rolling the dice, and the opportunity cards to be able to teleport to a desired profession track, it really was a step above other games of its time.

Sam/ Tom / Zee 10. Blood Rage/ Cosmic Encounter/ San Juan 9. Shadows Over Camelot/ Apples to Apples/ Pandemic Legacy 8. Memoir 44/ Careers/ The Resistance 7. Carcassonne/ Stratego/ Magic the Gathering 6. Spyfall/ Lost Cities/ Dominion 5. The Resistance/ PitchCar/ Neuroshima Hex 4. King of Tokyo/ No Thanks/ Liars Dice 3. Stone Age/ Axis and Allies/ Onirim 2. Kingsburg/ Uno/ Blue Moon 1. Bang! The Dice Game/ Overpower/ Pandemic

Well according to Sam a whole Magic Tournament would count as one game. It's really only one big game with one winner at the end.

"Careers" gets some love! The best game of my childhood. Hurrah!

Props to Tom and Zee for giving us an interesting Top Ten list and sticking to the premise. I'm far more interested in what you guys played a lot of in your youth and your college days (your gaming heritage) than what you think is cool now. Maybe none of us want to admit how much how much Uno or Stratego we played as kids because NOW we think those are uncool or nonchallenging games. But it's a lot more interesting to know how we got to where we are today. Tom's story about writing strategy manuals for Stratego as a kid and Zee's story about playing games between class and rehearsals were a neat peak into what shaped them into what they are today. Bravo!

This is your best top ten ever! Thank you! My family loves it.

I love the bantering and nit picking yall do lol great video! And I am pretty sure my most played it clue, MONOPOLY, and then Yatzee... I need to get my hands on blood rage and axis and allies!

Really like how you show more stills of the games now. Big thumbs up!

This was one of my most fave videos to watch. Great chemistry between Zee and Sam again

Great top 10, love the interaction between everyone this episode :)

I'd like to see a list of the games that they've spent the most time playing. That would see a bigger involvement of longer games that don't rack up plays.

1. DC Comics Deck Building Game 213 plays 2. Coup 188 plays 3. Star Realms 178 plays 4. The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game 155 plays 5. Sentinels of the Multiverse 79 plays 6. Dominion 72 plays 7. Spyfall 64 plays 8. Shadows of Brimstone 54 plays 9. Neuroshima Hex! 52 plays 10. Marvel Dice Masters: Avengers vs. Xmen 50 plays

Great show. Gratified to hear Tom's shout-out for Axis&Allies, something I've been playing with my friend Jon for over 20 years. We recently sprang for the expansion packs to the tune of $450 (roughly). While I typically win, it's been a lot of fun. (Jon continues to play the Axis)

Loved Over Power!! Me and the wife played this 50 times at least back in the day. Broke my heart that my cards came up missing in a move.

10- Lost Cities (Hey Tom!) 9 - Coup (Quick games) 8- FUSE (yup, already) 7- Race for the Galaxy 6- Star Realms (no digital plays) 5- Bang! The Dice Game (Hey Sam!) 4- Pandemic (Hey Zee!) 3- Friday 2- Onirim (Hey Zee!) 1- Android: Netrunner

Tom 10. Cosmic Encounter 09. Apples to Apples 08. Careers 07. Stratego 06. Lost Cities 05. Pitchcar 04. No Thanks! 03. Axis & Allies 02. Uno 01. Overpower Zee 10. San Juan 09. Pandemic Legacy 08. The Resistance 07. Magic: The Gathering 06. Dominion 05. Neuroshima Hex! 04. Liar's Dice 03. Onirim 02. Blue Moon 01. Pandemic Sam 10. Blood Rage 09. Shadows over Camelot 08. Memoir 44 07. Carcassonne 06. Spyfall 05. The Resistance 04. King of Tokyo 03. Stone Age 02. Kingsburg 01. BANG! The Dice Game

My son turned 7 recently and we play King of Tokyo a lot since he's 6 and a half. He took a few plays to grok the card buying and abilities, but now he's a pro gamer :D

My 4 and 6 year olds play King of Tokyo. It's easy, they buy the cards with powers they think are cool. Sometimes, you think venom is cool and you end up behind saving up for it, and come back to poison your parents later.

I love you guys. I love how DICE TOWER's developed; you are the best "company/association" for board games, brining honest reviews, laugh and fun. Thank you!

So entertaining!!! 😊 I enjoy every top ten.

Me (Cause I feel like it) 10. Dead of Winter 9. Betrayal at House on the Hill 8. Monopoly (hey, I was young and naive) 7. Scrabble 6. Cards Against Humanity 5. Axis & Allies 4. Uno (Refer to #8) 3. Pandemic (and Legacy) 2. Race for the Galaxy 1. Dominion

Boardgames are pretty much my biggest hobby but that intro is still way too exciting for anything boardgame related :D

My Top 10: 1.) Magic: the Gathering 2.) Scrabble 3.) Trivial Pursuit (including all expansions) 4.) Uno 5.) Yahtzee 6.) Strat-o-Matic Baseball 7.) Monopoly 8.) Title Bout 9.) Sorry 10.) Parcheesi

I understand what Sam's getting at. I don't agree with it, but I understand. Look at it like this: Pandemic Legacy is a book, with many chapters. Each chapter is separate yet a part of the whole. If the book has 30 chapters and you've read 20 of them, you haven't read the book 20 times. You haven't even finished reading it once; you've just experienced 20 "parts" of the larger whole.

I subscribed.. you do good reviews. Thanks!

1. Cosmic Encounter (1977 Eon) 2. Kingmaker (1974 Ariel) 3. Settlers of Catan 4. Panzerblitz (1970 Avalon Hill) 5. Exploration (1967 Waddington’s) 6. Imperium (1977 GDW) 7. Fight in the Skies (1966 TSR) 8. Afrika Korps (1964 Avalon Hill) 9. Android: Netrunner 10. Magic the Gathering Left out of the running: Chess, Monopoly, Stratego, Risk, all of which probably go between #1 and #2. My list shows how much more time there was for games long ago! And now there are so many great games that the only ones that can get enough plays are the lifestyle games (A:NR, MtG) and the ubiquitous Settlers. Nothing will ever catch Cosmic Encounter. I still have the shreds of my Eon copy for nostalgia's sake, and I teach the beautiful FFG reprint to the next generation :)

great episode!

You guys should do a top ten games that should be reprinted.

Ordered Onirim from the U.S. last week - can't wait to try it out! Thanks Zee

Careers: I played that so much! I owned it and every week in Jr. High and much of HS, we went to a house in the boonies for banjo band rehearsal. The girl of the house was just a year or two older than me, and we got hooked on Careers. We played that every week for months on end -- and more than once in an evening!Loved that game and wish I still had a copy just for fun!

If you get the nachos stuck together with the cheese, that's one nacho

Enjoyed this - added Spyfall and BANG! The Dice Game to my wish list.

Based on Tom's criteria (most played throughout my life), my #1 most played game is one I played the mess out of with my mom when I was a baby. I'd see her disappear behind a weird barrier and then it would magically move out of the way whenever she said "Peek-a-Boo" and I giggled and giggled endlessly. Now that I'm an adult, I play it with little ones all over again. My #1 most played game, "Peek-a Boo".

Great top 10!

Funny episode guys, good job.

One of the best and funniest episodes ever.

Love the back and forth between these guys. lol.

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AXIS AND ALLIES!!!! Finally made a list. I played a ton as a kid. Wish I could play more now but hard to find people to play with. Classic.

I would argue that a Pandemic Legacy campaign is 12-24 plays of Pandemic with slightly different rules for each play. I'm with Zee.

..."You really played Pandemic twice" sigh. I have a real love hate option about Sam man.

Love the personal touch. Made everything funnier. And also not necessarily the 'best game' of some kind. Allowed the anecdotes to flow. More like this! (Although the game type specific ones are great too.

wassup! awesome video.

I'd like to see a list similar to this but it's the most played games that were designed in the last 10 years. This will take out all the old games that you played a million times because there just weren't nearly as many options and you didn't own as many games so you just played the same one over and over again. Also, I'd like to see a list similar to this that is most played games that take longer than 30 minutes to play...this filters out those games you can play 4 times in a night because they take 5-15 minutes to play....like Magic, you can play a game in 3-4 minutes or even less...so you could play it 10 times within an hour without problem.

I have played at least 77 games of Catan since January 2017. My wife and I play with my father in law and keep track of everyone's wins.

One of the funniest lists. I'm shocked Overpower was Tom's No. 1 and Uno was his No. 2. Actually would have guessed Stratego or Dominion.

Hey guys, Started watching your videos and really enjoying you three talk about board games. Have now watched A LOT of top 10s. I haven't seen you guys talk much about the splotter spellen games (unless I have just missed it). Do any of you like them?

I agree with Zee and Tom in regard to the spirit of the list. It's not "The games you've played the most that you like". It's "Games you've played the most". It's a shame Sam didn't go by this because I am very interested to hear what all Sam has played over the years that he felt the need to disqualify from the official list.

I don't think I've ever laughed so much during a top 10 list!

You were right, Tom. "Uno is number 2."

nice hat Sam! the Hawks are on the "Cup every other year plan"

Hey Vasel! I log too! LOLOLOL! Love your videos guys!

My top 5: 1. 7 Wonders 2. Settlers of Catan 3. Carcassonne 4. Concordia 5. Splendor

I agree, Zee played Pandemic Legacy twice. It's not like a campaign of D&D where one campaign can last a month or 4 decades. I would prefer we say "I've played through two boxes" since you have to buy a new box for each play through.

I cant believe how different Tom looks than a video from last Oct. You look fantastic and the weight you dropped is quite noticeable.

Sam, you play a variant of Spyfall where you don't count points. If you did that the number of "plays" would fall drastically.

One of the best top 10's I've seen, is it bad for me to love the mild conflict between Sam an

I'm surprised by all the people who complain about the in-fighting in these countdowns. To me that's what makes it interesting! I think it's funny how they push each other's buttons. If there was no disagreement it would be a snoozefest.

Tom, I used to play Overpower when I was in Middle School, and I played it until the DC set came out and it broke the original set, or at least to me it did. It was my favorite CCG of the time. I recently got into Dice Masters, and DM really reminds me of Overpower, with a heavy dose of MtG. I hope Wizkids keeps producing Dice Masters for a long time.

A cool list, but wow! I can't disagree more with Sam's approach. Doesn't matter if it's a card game or a board game it still counts. And as Zee says, how many times did you set up the game and then put it away? Or finish a specific scenario? Pandemic Legacy is a 18+ played game by the time you finish it, not only a "single" play! :P

Amazing opening music!

1 - Axis and Allies 2 - Risk 3 - Catan 4 - Monopoly 5 - Stratego

Realize how old the video is, but want to thank you guys for excluding digital plays. Mainly for the reason to see what games hit the table most frequently. (when there are a multitude of options instead of what games have the best app implementation)

Sam is a Blackhawks fan!? Blues fan here, great series!

The only problem I find with this list is something that was brought up by Tom. When you start getting in to board games, your collection builds slowly. So you end up playing your first couple of games A LOT! As your collection increases and you have more options on what you 'feel like' playing at the time. I want to see a list of games you have kept in your rotation the longest. (which you may have done already, but there is a lot of top 10's to get through ;) )

Great idea for a top 10 list!!! I agree with Zee... MTG, between the deck building element and the curiosity of seeing who's deck might be better. I agree with Sam... Memoir 44 (all expansions). 1) Chess (with my dad and uncle) 2) Cribbage (with my dad and uncle) 3) Old AH war games (with my friend George) 4) Operation Tannhauser (developing new scenarios) 5) Panzer Blitz and Panzer Leader (as a solo player) 6) Poker (5 card draw and 7 card stud) 7) Hearts and Spades (in the army) 8) Carcassonne (making up new games within the pieces) 9) **** MTG (the best!) 10)Gears of War ( new and standard scenarios) Great top 10 list... ***11) "Warfighter" with all expansions

Dominion is the only modern hobby game that can hold a flame to all my childhood plays. Risk, Chess, Connect 4, Monopoly, Clue. Chess *easily* takes the lifetime win though as I've played even more as an adult as a child.

Thanks for this video guys. Mine is: 1. Dominion. 2. Race for the Galaxy. 3. The Lord of the Rings LCG (mostly solo). 4. Carcassonne. 5. Ticket to Ride. 6. Lost Cities. 7. 7 wonders. 8. War of the Ring. 9. Agricola. 10. The Castles of Burgundy.

You still became a rock star, Tom! ;)

My first grader has his own copy of King of Tokyo. He plays it sans coaching just fine (with the Power Up expansion).

Blue moon is one of the best 2p card games I know thanks to Zee. Glad to see it mentioned here again :)

Don't worry Sam, I understand where you're coming from! I disagree, but I get what you're saying. If Zee had been counting multiple sessions of T.I.M.E. Stories whilst doing the same scenario (say you just ended each session when you reset the cards due to running out of TU) then I would agree with you completely - that's just one, multi-sessioned game. For Legacy, though, each game has a distinct beginning and end that you can physically 'win' or 'lose' so I've always counted them as separate games. Keep up the good work, buddy! Watching you guys banter is a blessing to me each week!

I agree with Sam, the entire game, start to finish is all 14 events together. That would be one play[through] of Pandemic Legacy.

As the resident "old fart" in this posting, I will just come out and say it: Monopoly, Life, Clue, Sorry, Risk... Couldn't even begin to count how many games of chess and poker I've played.

trying to remember where all my overpower cards went, it was one of the first games that i came up with custom additions for (I made up my own for superheros i didn't have)

I agree with Sam. It only counts as 1 for a broken up campaign style game, no matter how many sessions it takes.

Fun list!! 👍👌

There's no necessary dichotomy. Both Sam and Zee are correct. It's a pretty decent analogy to the old 'Ship of Theseus' so-called paradox - it just depends on how you look at it.

I actually count my plays by how often they get to the table rather than how many plays of them. If we play the same game 3 times in one night, it only gets recorded once. This helps me balance the stats for longer games and in showing my how much my group actually likes a game, rather than how many plays you can cram in on one session. Campaign games are still recorded once per day played. So if we play a 6 campaign game over 6 weeks (a game a week) it gets recorded 6 times. But if we play 2 campaign levels in one day, it's recorded once. As far as tablet/online, I count one play per week, and only if it was against a real person. Because it's so much easier to play 2 or more games of an online game, because setup and takedown isn't there, it runs faster, and it's easier to find players to play with you. I can't say these limitations effect the outcome too often. Maybe 20-30 games each year aren't recorded due to the way I count. It's not a big deal. I don't record scores/players.

This has been the funniest top 10 I've watched so far.

Y'all ought to do a top 10 tabletop games for mobile/tablet

Chess, Poker and Oh Hell, in no particular order, probably comprise more plays than all my other games put together.

Definitely UNO, recently uno FLIP has become a family favorite. You can see both sides which adds a fun strategy element and some surprise

I've now played Hearthstone the most. After that it is Innovation, Splendor, Dominion, Kupferkessel Co, Takenoko, and Lost Cities.

The most entertaining top 10 they have ever done.

I can't wait for Top 10 Top 10 Lists.

I'd like to see a 10 best 'campaign' games list. like Descent, Imperial Assault, Pathfinder: the adventure card game....

i think "deception murder in hong kong " should take part in one of these lists it's really amazing

"And I would argue, 'Who cares?'." - Voice of the People

I actually agree with Sam on the Legacy/D&D subject. One session/campaign/whatever of those games is still one full-fledged game...you're just taking breaks between each session. Now, vanilla Pandemic...each one of those games is different, and should be counted as separate plays. I've only played one D&D campaign, but I don't feel like I've played it 20-30 times. I feel like I've played through one story out of countless others.

I agree with excluding video game plays. I think that the frequency of logged board game plays should fully reflect the element of setup and tear-down. That has a real effect on how often some games are played, and is one of the measures of a board game design, IMO. Video game versions mask that element.

Wow, you guys are bagging on Rahdo with Bang the Dice Game

This Top 10 goes in my Top 10 Dice Tower Top 10(s). So valid.

every list toms like "okay everyone favorite m-class planets" and Sam's all "aaaand, top 10 gas giants"

Carcassonne and Star Realms used to be big go-tos for gaming in my experience since they're quick. Dominion, Mice & Mystics, lots of things fell to the wayside since I usually had to leave for work in the evening an they would take up the whole time I had. Now I have a consistent gaming group with the ability to play longer since getting a better job. That's my story anyways.

Tom, I love Overpower and it is still to this day the game I play the most. I love the game and it definitely deserves more love.