East Tennessee Gamers

EAST TENNESSEE GAMERS (01/2019)

Editor’s Note:  This is a compilation of the Top 20 games based on the ratings submitted by our members.  We secure ratings after each game played, and maintain these on a spreadsheet.  To be eligible, a game must have registered at least 5 ratings.

We also use a Bayesian average method wherein twenty “6” ratings have been added to each game.  This helps prevent skewed ratings resulting from too few ratings as compared to other games.

Below are the Top 10 lists from ETG members. As you can see, we have a wide variety of tastes which makes the above ratings more consistent with the general gaming population than any one segment of gamers.

INDIVIDUAL TOP TEN LISTS

PAUL AINSWORTH (01/17)

1. Union Pacific
2. Modern Art
3. Puerto Rico
4. Power Grid
5.  Terraforming Mars
6. Bruges
7. Blood Rage
8. Pandemic Legacy
9. Isle of Skye
10. Star Realms

RICHARD ARCHER (7/11)

1.  Mystery of the Abbey
2.  Arkham Horror
3.  St. Petersburg
4.  Louis XIV
5.  Tribune
6.  Caylus
7.  Puerto Rico
8.  Power Grid
9.  Telestrations
10.  Clue: The Great Museum Caper

MATTHEW BADDORF  (01/2019) 

1. Android: Netrunner
2. War of the Ring
3. Battlestar Galactica
4. Codenames
5. Pandemic
6. San Juan
7. 7 Wonders
8. 7 Wonders: Duel
9. Mansions of Madness
10. Arkham Horror Card Game

TERRY BAILEY (01/17)

1. Orleans
2. Agricola
3. Caylus
4. Caylus: Magna Carta
5. Ave Caesar
6. Lords of Waterdeep
7. Ticket to Ride
8. Power Grid
9. El Grande
10. Russian Railroads

NATHANIEL BARKER (09/15)

1. Battlestar Galactica
2. Pandemic
3. Twilight Imperium
4. Diplomacy
5. Sentinels of the Multiverse
6. Can’t Stop
7. Tales of the Arabian Nights
8. Arkham Horror
9. Telestrations
10. Krypto

THOMAS BASS  (09/2014) 

1. Fresco
2. Ginkgopolis
3. Castles of Burgundy
4. El Grande
5. Belfort
6. Caylus
7. Catan: Cities & Knights
8. Scrabble / Upwords
9. Jet Set
10. Power Grid

KEVIN BENDER  (01/2019) 

1. Mansions of Madness (2nd edition)
2. Android
3. Twilight Imperium (4th edition)
4. Trickerion
5. Terraforming Mars
6. Conan
7. A Study in Emerald
8. Euphoria
9. Thunderstone Quest
10. Tyrants of the Underdark

RHONDA BENDER (07/2019) 

1. Mystic Vale
2. Valley of the Kings
3. Tyrants of the Underdark
4. Abyss
5. Obsession
6. Takenoko
7. Kingdom Builder
8. Stone Age
9. Telestrations
10. Hardback

MATTHEW BOKUNIEWICZ (12/2016)

1. The Resistance:  Avalon
2. Keyflower
3. Terra Mystica
4. Dominion
5. Magic: The Gathering
6. Chaos in the Old World
7. Twilight Struggle
8. Through the Ages
9. Orleans
10. Space Alert

SALLY BOYINGTON (09/2014) 

1. Tzolk’in
2. Splendor
3. Power Grid
4. Robinson Crusoe
5. Rise of Augustus
6. Alhambra
7. Dominion
8. Race for the Galaxy
9. Discworld: Ankh-Morpork
10. Lord of the Rings Card Game

DAN CALHOUN (07/11)

1.  bridge
2.  Power Grid
3.  Le Havre
4.  Through the Ages
5.  Race for the Galaxy
6.  Railroad Tycoon
7.  Ticket to Ride
8.  Dominion
9.  Settlers of Catan
10.  Bohnanza

STEVE COBB (07/11)

1. Power Grid
2. Twilight Imperium
3. Railroad Tycoon
3.  Le Havre
4. Steam
5. Through the Ages
6. El Grande
7. 7 Wonders
8.Nexus Ops
9. Bootleggers
10. Puerto Rico

CHARLIE DAVIS (01/19)

1. Terraforming Mars
2. Grand Austria Hotel
3. Castles of Mad King Ludwig
4. Kremlin
5. Um Reifenbreite
6. Last Will
7. Merchant of Venus
8. Power Grid
9. Memoir ’44
10. El Grande

ERIC EDENS (12/16)

1. Pandemic Legacy
2. Sherlock  Holmes: Consulting Detective
3. Dominant Species
4. Terraforming Mars
5. Codenames
6. Power Grid
7. Risk: Star Wars Edition
8. Orleans
9. T.I.M.E. Stories
10. The Grizzled

RACHEL ELY (08/11) 

1. Puerto Rico
2. TransAmerica
3. Guillotine
4. Ra
5. Lord of the Fries
6. Chez Geek
7. Apples to Apples
8. Lord of the Rings
9. Munchkin
10. Chronos

MICHAEL ENNIS (08/11)

1. Go
2. Fits
3. Blokus
4. Ingenius
5. 7 Wonders
6. Ascension
7. Year of the Dragon
8. Race for the Galaxy
9. Set
10. Tonga Bonga

IAN FERGUSON (7/2011)

1. Through the Ages
2. Le Havre
3. Power Grid
4. London
5. 7 Wonders
6. Martian Rails
7. Poker
8. Endeavor
9. Bohnanza
10. Puerto Rico

JIM FERGUSON (12/16)

1. Strat-O-Matic Baseball
2. El Grande
3. Paths of Glory
4. Ora et Labora
5. Caverna
6. Automobile
7.  Terraforming Mars
8. Castles of Burgundy
9. Power Grid
10. Keyflower

TRIP GODEL (8/11)

1. Acquire
2. El Grande
3. Chinatown
4. Granada
5. The Princes of Florence
6. St. Petersburg
7. Taj Mahal
8. Tribune
9. Egizia
10. Steam

BRYAN GRUBAUGH (1/19)

1. Carcassonne (with Inns & Cathedral)
2. 7 Wonders: Duel
3. Dominant Species
4. Agricola
5. TransAmerica
6. El Grande
7. Viticulture
8. Heaven & Ale
9. Five Tribes
10. Quiddler

RENEE HARRIS (01/19)

1. Trickerion
2. Fresco
3. Ora & Labora
4. Caverna
5. Fields of Arle
6. Clans of Caledonia
7. Keyper
8. Scythe
9. Orleans
10. Raiders of the North Sea

KYLE JOHNSON (09/15)

1.  Power Grid
2.  Lords of Waterdeep
3.  Cutthroat Cavers
4.  Guillotine
5.  Navegador
6.  Survive: Escape from Atlantis
7.  Fairy Tale
8.  Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation
9.  Deduce or Die
10.  Cartagena

DANIEL KACHELMEYER (01/17)

1.  Puerto Rico
2.  Russian Railroads
3.  Orleans
4.  Grand Austria Hotel
5.  Castles of Burgundy
6.  Princes of Florence
7.  Chess
8.  Ticket to Ride (Marklin Edition)
9.  Caverna
10.  Trains

CHARLES LICATA (7/11)

1. Siege of the Citedal
2. Lord of the Rings the Boad Game
3. Fasylwood
4. Kings Court 
5. Troyes 
6. Epic 40K
7. Notre Dame
8. Queens Gambit
9. World of Warcraft Board Game
10. Axis and Allies Gudalcanal

JIM McDANOLD (08/19)

1.  Global Mogul
2.  Outpost
3.  18xx
4.  Goa
5.  Castles of Burgundy
6.  Cartagena
7.  Power Grid
8.  Energy Empire
9.  Die Speicherstadt
10.  Brass

BENJAMIN M. (09/14)

1. Dominion
2. Power Grid
3. Ascension
4. Lancaster
5. Small World
6. Airlines: Europe
7. Ticket to ride (and expansions)
8. Age of Empires III
9. Descent
10. El Grande

JOHN MOORE (09/15)

1. Puerto Rico
2. Merchants and Marauders
3. Dungeon Lords
4. Dugeon Petz
5. Arkham Horror
6. Forge War
7.  Vihnos
8. Tzolk’in
9. Dominant Species
10. Evolution

SHEILA MORTON (01/19)

1. Puerto Rico
2. Terraforming Mars
3. Merchant of Venus
4. Macao
5. Dinosaur Island
6. Alchemists
7. Hawaii
8. Russian Railroads
9. Castles of Burgundy
10. Age of Empires III

JONATHAN RICKER (12/16)

1. Eldritch Horror
2. 7 Wonders
3. Mansion of Madness
4. 7 Wonders: Duel
5. Castles of Mad King Ludwig
6. Pandemic Legacy
7. Five Tribes
8. Scythe
9. Caverna
10. The Resistance: Avalon

LIJAH ROBINSON (09/14)

1. Le Havre
2. Through the Ages
3. Cosmic Encounter
4. Android: Netrunner
5. Ghost Stories
6. Eclipse
7. Battlestar Galactica
8. Power Grid
9. Acquire
10. Pandemic

GREG SCHLOESSER (08/19) 

1. El Grande
2.  Torres
3. Coimbra
4.  Princes of Florence
5.  Pandemic Legacy
6.  Euphrat & Tigris
7. Steam
8.  Railways of the World
9. Grand Austria Hotel
10. Small World

MARK SLIWOSKI (07/11)

1. Age of Empires III
2. Le Harve
3. Ticket to Ride series
4. 7 Wonders
5. Terrible Swift Sword (SPI)
6. Bang
7. Settlers of Catan
8. Dominion
9. Rummikube
10. Shipyard

MARK SMITH (12/16)

 1.  Tigris & Euphrates
2.  Puerto Rico
3. El Grande
4. Steam
5. Taj Mahal
6. Power Grid
7. Ra
8. Acquire
9. Lost Cities
10. Ascension

ZACH SMITH (01/17)

1.  Runewars
2.  Small World
3.  Dominion
4.  Le Havre
5.  Eldritch Horror
6.  Scythe
7. Alchemists
8. Merchants & Marauders
9.  Merchant of Venus (2nd edition)
10.  Game of Thrones: Board Game

ALISTAIR THACH (12/16)

1.  El Grande
2.  Power Grid
3.  Lords of Waterdeep
4.  18xx
5.  Catan: Cities & Knights
6.  Acquire
7. Terraforming Mars
8. Coup
9.  Codenames
10.  Princes of Florence

ADAM VUCELICH (09/14)

1.  Twilight Struggle
2.  Axis & Allies: Anniversary Edition
3.  Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage
4.  Carcassonne
5.  Memoir ’44

JON WADDELL (09/15)

1.  Codenames
2. Witness
3. Tragedy Looper
4. Five Tribes
5. Caverna
6. Stone Age
7. Elysium
8. Aquasphere
9. Terra Mystica
10. Mysterium

DAVID WILLIAMS (11/12)

 1.  bridge
2.  Stone Age
3.  Lancaster
4.  Martian Rails
5.  Navegador
6.  Sun, Sea and Sand
7.  Le Havre
8.  Formula De
9.  18GL
10.  Kingsburg: To Forge a Realm