The Tao of Gaming

Just to allow the mocking to go both ways, my Top 15.

1. Shadowfist
2. San Juan
3. Puerto Rico
4. Bridge
5. Titan
6. Power Grid
7. Scrabble
8. 1830
9. Apples to Apples [I've been playing with my children recently, and it works here too]
10. Age of Steam
11. Poker
12. Attika
13. Web of Power / China
14. Ursuppe
15. War of the Ring

The last few slots are contentious, and I could see reordering the top slots around. Go, Time's Up, Acquire, Colossal Arena, Settlers, Struggle of Empires all call to me for the last few slots. War of the Ring and Attika may be too new to really deserve their votes, but there you have it.

1830 is a somewhat tactical vote. I've played 1830 so much that I'd rather play 1856 or 70 (or a new one), but I can't see any of the other games getting enough votes to make the list (much like Joe Huber mentioned for 2038). On the other hand, I would have been shocked to see Shadowfist appear on anyone else's list, but I've played it ten times more than any other game (face to face) over the last five years. [And it's not necessarily short, either].