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Without a doubt the most diverse, eclectic top 100 list out there. Weill done.

I'm headed to BGG Con this weekend, what perfect timing for the perfect video! Keep up the good work! I'm taking 3 friends and they're not as passionate about board gaming as myself but your 3 minute reviews have helped quite a bit!

Awesome list, really enjoyed watching through it! Also liked your comments on why you like each game. Thanks, already looking forward to the next one!

Wow, so many interesting games I have never heard of!!! Really looking forward to looking into a lot of those!! 😍 Thank You so much for the effort of creating this video and sharing all of these and the short and concise descriptions and insider-tipps!! Just Awesome!!!! 😃 People like you make this hobby so much more fun!!!

Fantastic video.. impressive how you fit so much content into such a short video

Always love seeing your top 100. Your the number 1 reason I successfully hunted down Thunderbirds with all the expansions 😁 and that Galilean Moons is on my wishlist (can’t find that one though…). Great job as usual!

Great list! Many of my favorites or ones I’d like to try in there. Only a few that have been busts for me. Nice that you could fit it all into one video.

The absolute best top 100 videos out there. Every other top 10-100 video from other channels I am constantly fast forwarding because there is too much commentary about games I already lost interest in. This one I just have to wait 10-15 seconds and it’s on to the next one lol

This War of Mine is an absolute solo gem with base building, survival, tons of upgrading, resource management, storytelling, and exploration. 5/5

I was very happy to see Castles of Burgundy move up; not because I own it but because I asked for it for Christmas 😂. As ever great list and a great channel. Thank you! Hope you and the family are doing well

Love the pacing of this, thank you for the great list!

Thanks for your reviews :)

Always the best top 100 board games list! You do such a great job at presenting why each game is great complemented with pictures which allows us to know if we want to dig more about those games or not. The icing on the cake: the video lasts only an hour! Continue your great work!

God I love your top 100 lists, the photos and pace is just perfect. Thanks 3MBGs 😊

Always look forward to the 3MBG annual top 100; thanks Jay

Interesting lists! thanks for sharing

Jay, what a fantastic list of games. I've said it before and I'll say it again - I'm in awe of your game knowledge and breadth of taste. Foundation games appearing next to war games, with LCGs, 4Xs, a CG-CCG-sim(!), app assisted, true solitaires, and all manner of engine/efficiency games along the way. Thanks for sharing your passion and for doing what you do here, it's a pleasure to follow along. p.s. I'm still on the hunt for a game of Android, it looks like such a peculiarity and experience.

I love your lists. I keep finding new great games I never would have otherwise due to the noise of the 'new' constantly blaring.

Fantastic list. For Everdell I highly recommend trying the spirecrest expansion. In my opinion, it's the only one required and elevates the game play and decision space.

Great list! I love Terraforming Mars the same way (it's no.1 for me), love Brass, Castles of Burgundy or Underwater Cities too. And I need to play BloodBowl Manager - I have this game for so many years and for some reason never played it. So... this December it needs to be!

Overjoyed to see Healthy Heart get respect. It's one of my favorites that rarely gets mentioned. People say it's "too random" due to the cube drawing, but as someone that's worked in Healthcare for 20 years, I can confidently say unpredictability is 100% thematic. Also the character art is great and makes me think of those old harlequin romance novels I used to see in grocery stores as a kid.

Two games on the list again! And they both went up! Thank you!!! :)

Far and away the most eclectic top 100 among game reviewers. You've introduced me to so many games that reside on my wishlist. Thanks for all you do Jarrod!

Thanks to you I've bought Churchill, bloc by bloc, and last Friday. Haven't gotten to any of them yet though haha. Maybe this year.

Very nice swift and to the point comment game by game. Well done! 👏

Every year I find new games on this! One of my top lists. It is how I found Star Realms years ago.

There's a lotta stuff in your list that I'm deeply interested in; hopefully the game café my group visits every so often has some of them to try out! The games on this list I've played, with a * on those I own: 97) Azul: Summer Pavilion - I think this is my favourite of the Azul series. I like the crunchier puzzle, and the tiles are prettier colours! 95) Dead of Winter - I've played this twice, and didn't really get on with it. I can't entirely remember why; it's been years since the second play. 91) Root* - I love this game, and the six boxes of it on my shelf probably says more than I could here, haha. The asymmetry between factions means every combination has fresh challenges and quirks to adapt to. 82) Star Realms* - A fantastic, quick deck builder that's ideal for when all but one guest has gone home at the end of a board game night; it's good for coasting the night out and chatting over. 76) Between Two Cities - This game was cool, and I'd like to play it again, but I dunno if I'd wanna own it. The competitive co-op structure is the best part of it. 71) Dune - I've played this once and kinda stumbled into a victory as the Fremen, thanks to everyone else nuking each other in a series of betrayals and abilities. It was a hoot. 70) Potion Explosion - Bejeweled, but with clacky marbles! I like the clacky marbles. 68) Above and Below - Played this too long ago to really remember, but I do know I had fun with it! 67) Lords of Waterdeep* - The first board game I bought post-Catan, and unlike Catan, it remains in my collection. The corruption mechanic in the Skullport expansion is a very fun bit of spice. 58) Century* - I own Spice Road & Eastern Wonders; SR is fun if very simple, good for introducing your parents to board gaming. EW is more involved, and I enjoy the area control sailing game on top of the trading. The combined game is a bit unwieldly, but a fun novelty; Eastern Wonders (or whatever its Golem version is) would be my pick as a standalone game. I've not much interested in the third of the series, cuz I feel I've already got worker placement well-covered with Waterdeep. 56) Tyrants of the Underdark - One of my friends bought this immediately after we played it for a second time at the local game café. The deck builder-area control mix is very entertaining, even if the Drow theme does little for me. 39) Santorini - I've played this twice, and its New York version twice; the original is the better game, as I feel New York's mechanic tweaks don't do much for the play experience; NY has a better aesthetic to me, and that's all I can give it. 22) Azul - My second favourite of the Azul series, and the one I'd play with people new to Azul's tile-shop mechanic. 15) The Castles of Burgundy - I greatly enjoy this game, but it always goes for about 20-30 mins longer than I'd like. Everything in its mechanics hook together well. 1) Spirit Island* - My gaming group has just gotten comfortable enough with the game to start playing against the Adversaries. The sheer amount of difficulty and goal tweaking options available in this game means it'll be in my collection forever. The Branch & Claw spirits are fun; it's the only expac I've found in a shop so far.

Great list! I’m dying to get Obsession to the table. Soon!

Glad to see Nemesis so high. Might play Lockdown for my birthday coming up, and from everything I've heard, it's just a better Nemesis, which is also in my top ten.

As always great top 100 I would give 2 thumbs up just for including Kolejka :)

The digital version of Gloomhaven is done extremely well. It's so much work to put it on the table so the digital version is just perfect for that. I absolutely recommend it although it's a bit on the pricey side I'd say. Also love your number one. Spirit Island is also my favourite game and I can't imagine it won't be for the next decade. Can't wait for the new expansion. I also really want to see your homemade Spirit!

Really like How you present your entire list in 1 hour.

Thanks for outlining that you can do Nemisis as a legit co-op game. I was reluctant to consider getting it because most reviewers yeah about how the backstabbing is kinda inevitable and you can't do much about it. But if it can be genuinely co-op where people can work together to survive then I'm all in

Nice list! I do miss a Lacerda game in it (like Kanban, my most favourite game ever), but seeing your game taste I understand why they are not there. And I liked to see Lords of Waterdeep and Underwater Cities with their spotlights

Great list mate 👍 if you like this war of mine I've heard frostpunk scratches the same itch, Crisis looks cool and mansion of madness has always been on my Semi radar but your high praise of it makes me look again. And plus yokohama! Yokohama duel is out but looks expensive!

I am so thrilled that my game (The Captain is Dead) is still on your list!

What a long-long but outstanding list:)! However, how regretfully I am right now when I realized that I should've added a bunch of games from this list to my "Need 2 Play" list, after 40m in the video :/

I just got Bloc by Bloc: Uprising in the mail and seeing it up high on your list I was like "oh yeah! I found the game through him!" So thank you for getting me hooked on a crowdfunding campaign, J. :P

Thanks a lot, great list, lots of games i have to try out. I'm surprised there was no wingspan on the list, since you like engine builders and all.

Love that Thunderbirds remains so high on the list. One of my favorite two co-ops.

Really enjoyed this rapid fire top 100. Your tastes may be eclectic but then so must mine be! I own 65 of your top 100. Love games like Dawn of the Zeds and Healthy Heart Hospital which rarely feature on other reviewers Top 100’s so I was thrilled to see them here. Good call on Defenders of the Last Stand too. When I finally got my Kickstarter my initial reaction was that it was, indeed, a hot mess but it somehow works. Minis are truly terrible too but I kind of like that all the more because of it. Could DOTLS be the Plan 9 from Outer Space of board games? So bad that’s it actually good. I love it too. Thanks for an excellent Top 100. Mark Alberta, Canada

fantastic list. like others have said, cool to see both unique and common games in these lists and loved the way you succinctly explained why they made the list. have you played the rogue one expansion to rebellion?

Greeeaat and imense job. Great and sincere list. My number one still is Robinson Crusoe.

Love the list! Agree with others that this is an ominvorous list of the whole panorama of games available. I did crack up about "Cricadians: First Light". I guess your spell check was up a "cric" without a paddle? ;)

Just bought Spirit Island! The first expansion will only come to my country at the end of this year, but I'm already excited :) Also looking forward to get Terraforming Mars at a later date

When you got to Anachrony, I looked over at my Shelf of Shame and started thinking, "When can I finally crack this open and start learning how to play it?!?" The theme and mechanics absolutely appeal to me, but I have nearly everything for it and am overwhelmed just looking at it that I haven't tried it yet.

At first glance I read this as 'top 100 games of all time in three minutes' and thought, how fast can this gent possibly talk 😵‍💫

Lots of interesting games here that I haven't heard of yet :D Also very satisfying to see some overlap with my own collection. Does Eclipse still hold up if one prefers the negotiation side of Twilight Imperium? It seems a bit more combat focused (but TI did leave us exhausted... so an alternative would be welcomed). Thanks for the video, I really enjoyed it!

thanks a bunch

Thanks for the list. Deffo a couple of games I'll check out. I thought Beyond the Sun might have made your list but clearly not.

We might have pretty different tastes in games, but I am happy to see Yokohama and Underwater Cities in the teens, as those are my number 1 and 3 respectively! I do prefer both Ares Expedition and Ark Nova to the vanilla Terraforming Mars, but I didn't play any of these until 2022. I find the original game seems really wide and disconnected, whereas Ares Expedition is really clean and snappy, and Ark Nova seems a lot more interconnected in its various mechanisms. But to each their own! Thanks for the effort put into this video!

Have you heard about the new Heroes of Might & Magic III board game? The cult video game it was based on was super famous in europe some 25yrs ago and defined the childhoods of my whole generation heh - so the news of the board game now is pretty exciting. Not sure if it was a well known title out in NZ, but I'd love for you to review the board game one day. Following your channel for a while know, i do think you might like it :)

Appreciate your thoughts as always. Surprised to see 7 Wonders ranked higher than It's a Wonderful World; IAWW has replaced 7 Wonders for me in gameplay style.

Really cool list. I’m thinking on getting my hands on a copy of Argent the Consortium, but I’m not sure I can fit it on my table. .

My group plays Nemesis exclusively as a co-op game and we have yet to all make it off of the ship alive. We've only played Lockdown a few times but I don't like it quite as much. The light/dark element is fine but I don't care for the contingencies and the elevator and cargo pods don't add much to the experience. Aftermath is a bit of a disappointment but the new characters are pretty cool so I'd only get it if you are a completionist. Also I've heard that the comic book/story models are really good but I've yet to try them.

Legendary Encounters Alien is one of my favs! I would love to see Legendary Encounters using IPs like Stranger Things, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Sandman, or Game of Thrones.

Great list as always! Minor typo for Above and Below though! it should be #68 not #64.

Lots of unknown games to me, lots of great ones I know or even own but #2 and #1 surprised me a lot (despite you saying it's the least surprising heh). I've played Terraforming Mars only once (with Venus) nad found it quite boring. I've also tried Spirit Island on my phone (not sure if it's exactly the same as the board version) and uninstalled it after two plays as I found it so not interesting that I suspect I've missed something as it's well praised game. Never the less, having different taste is good. No boredom! :) Cheers!

Great list, you rock! Why no love for the viscounts though mate?

Nice list. Glad to see so many WP games. COB is probably my number 1. So ugly,but wow,do much fun. Cheers

Wow! A top 100 in under an hour; this is how it should be done!

Thanks for the wonderful list. I was hoping to see Oathsworn since recently you gave that game gold medal. I guess Gloomhaven is hard to beat as the best dungeon crawler game?

Lovely list! Giving a lot of older games some love. I quite like Chinatown's theme. Entrepreneurs in 1960s New York at least gets us away from the Mediterranean, even if it would be executed with better art nowadays (and hopefully not silly American money that's all the same colour and size! )

I'm honestly at the point with Robinson Crusoe where I feel like I have its number. I win basically every time. The only real exception was Cannibal Island, but that's an impossible scenario. LOL It's a fantastic game though. I've actually had it for years and never played it because it was hard to understand how to play it. But when I watched a playthrough of it and learned how to play and did it myself, I had a blast. Great game.

I have been trying to find a copy of your #4 game for about 2 years after I played it at a board game cafe. We only grabbed it off the shelf because of its name/theme, but it was an instant hit. kia ora.

Thanks for your list! I definitely see rankings where I disagree and you know what, that is okay! I see that as my own tastes and critiques for games maturing. If I have to pick apart some just to add a bit to the conversation, it would be Last Friday, Spirit Island the lack of Oathsworn (wait what?!). I've played LF a few times now and it has gotten stale very quickly. The theme is there and it definitely is easy to immerse yourself but the design of the board/map and with it the amount of meta gaming that can be done by a clever player against the killer is astounding. It is so easy to outrun the killer, figure out his strategies, and there are no guarantees you will make a comeback since you need to kill so many campers to ensure your abilities are refreshed for the next round. The lack of balance makes it less and less fun over time. My group liked it but I could see on their faces by Act 2 it overstayed it's welcome. You could play it one act at a time but the issue I find is, it becomes blatantly clear who will live and who will die so quickly when you find out where the killer is by turn 3. By then we have one or two campers with keys and the Act plays the rest out like a script. I've tried using the abilities as a killer to make it more suspenseful but it just crippled my performance in future acts because it didn't score me more kills. Man the comment about Spirit Island getting too bloated is really concerning to me. The fact they announced that will be far from the final expansion before they will release a "Big Box" to carry it all frightens me. It is the top game among me, my wife, and my game group. It can quickly become a chore as they add more and more components..... Lastly Oathsworn. I can see it getting a spot in the coming year or two. I'm not surprised it didn't earn a spot but I also wouldn't be surprised if you had given it a top 20. Cheers friend. Your lists are always entertaining.

I love your channel ❤ Thank you for making such great content! Would you please share what game replaced Caverna for you? I've been thinking about getting this game but if there's something that's better that would be good to know now 😊 Thank you!

Nice list! Not many party games but oh well ^_^ I'm curious btw; have you already played Foundations of Rome by any chance?

Great list, lots of games I need to check out. One piece of advice though: please mention the name of the games next time since a lot of people watch these longer videos in the background while doing something else. I put it on while painting minis and had to switch to watching something else since it required me to look and see what game you’re talking about every couple of minutes

Hearing you say the game is a bit fugly on 56 took me off guard and it made me laugh as I was thinking the same thing.

My Top-10 Board Games: 11.* Glen More II Kroniki - ta gra jest genialna w swojej prostocie zasad 10. Pax Pamir - gra trafiła na radar dzięki materiałowi Gambita i jest GENIALNA 9. 51. Stan - świetny klimat, świetne mechaniki i świetne znaczniki zasobów 8.Brzdęk! Nie drażnij smoka - pokochałem tą grę od samego początku 7. Brzdęk! Raban w próżni - jeszcze bardziej dopracowana wersja Brzdęka 6. Diuna: Imperium - ta gra świetnie odzwierciedla klimat Arrakis i całej DIUNY 5. Mage Knight - świetny klimat, świetny świat, po prostu Mage Knight !! 4. Etherfields 0 My Board Games this Year 3. Anachrony - bardzo fajnie pomyślany świat i klimatyczna gra 2. Scythe - klimat tej gry jest genialny... Świetnie odzwierciedla klimat konfliktu... 1. Bonfire - jak wzajemnie zazębiają się mechaniki w tej grze, to jest po prostu niesamowite !! Ta gra to dla NUMBER 1 !!

Omnigamers have the most eclectic and interesting top 100 games. There are surprisingly few people like that (like you, hah) in board game media. Though it also makes it so much harder to find where our tastes overlap (as another omnigamer), hah. Usually I can look at a reviewer and know, "Oh that person likes the same sort of euros I like, and this person also appreciates the operational economic games, this person appreciates the same lighter games, etc." With you... you're the only board game person I've seen that appreciates some games I love like Spartacus, Tyrants of the Underdark, Argent and Yokohama... but we have VERY different tastes in different areas. Board game tastes are always so interesting to me what hits for somebody but not someone else.

Glad to see your top 1 staying at top 1 😁 its definitely the best game out there. 😄

I would love if you had affiliate links so any purchases I make act as an additional thank you financially for sorting these out for me

Jesus, 7.5 thousand views in less than 12 hours. Nice going

Have you played the Hostage Negotiator Career Expansion? I'm wondering if that might push it back in the Top100. It's a really great campaign mode. The actual negotiations stay the same 95%, but there is a lot of stuff going on in between that can somehow influence the negotiations by making you (mostly) better while you get more experience or even a promotion. I would have sold Hostage Negotiator if there wasnt the career expansion while waiting for a German version of final girl, but it was really worth keeping my hostage negotiator stuff in the shelf for almost 2 years. I could imagine the career mode being even more motivating than having very different Final Girl "one shots".

If you like Century Golem, try to combine the game with either Eastern Mountain (Century 2) or Endless World (Century 3). The combination elevates the game by enhancing the mechanics.

Yeah, I always try to explain to people that Xia is sort of like the old Elite PC game and I am often saddened to learn that too many people never played Elite. heh

Were the Nemesis miniatures in the video the ones you painted yourself? Because they look fantastic! Do you have any links to vids that show how to get them to look like that?

This video was amazing. I have been looking for a game to suit my children as they age, they are 5 and 3 now. My 5 year old can play Star Realms, LE: Alien, Horizons of Spirit Island, Clank!, Wingspan, and a few others. I just bought Century: Golem Edition. Can you recommend another appropriate for this group? My wife really likes Clank!, Wingspan, and Pandemic, LE: Alien is my favorite game of all time.

Great list. Have you tried Cascadia and Oathsworn?

Surprised not to see Dune Imperium on the list 😱

Agreed on Terraforming Mars. It is still a top 10 game for me, and I like it better than Arc Nova. I played Arc Nova a number of times and the first few times I thought, "this is really cool!" But after a few plays, I started thinking, "Yeah, this is fun... but I'd rather play TM." Arc Nova isn't a bad game, but there are a number of things elevates TM in my opinion. One is the shared board space. You HAVE to pay attention to what your opponents are doing in TM or you're just going to lose on the board (by not blocking tree/city combos). The shared draft in TM is also great, and the whole "I can play a 3 hour game and end up with negative points" of Arc Nova wasn't exactly captivating. Like I said, I did like Arc Nova and would generally be happy to play it. And it does a number of really cool things, like the cards changing their power level depending on how often you choose to use them. But in the end, Arc Nova is just a "good" game and TM is a top 10 (IMO).

I love Cascadia 🔝

Thanks for listing BSG instead of Unfathomable! So say we all! PS: how do I find your fan made expansion? hundreds of files on BGG!

We can all make top X lists > It's eternally subjective and won't change the top list of the people around us (our secret but impossible goal lol)!

god i love netrunner so much

A lot of games on this list that i dont know.. Have you played Cthulhu death may die,Tang garden,Heroes of land air and sea,Mechs vs minions,Stone age,Ticket to ride,Paris,Nidavellir,Ishtar,Coloma,Maracaibo,Great western trail,5 tribes,rise of tribes?

Are you aware that they remade elite in 2013? Called Elite dangerous. It's pretty cool.

How did you rank 1000 games? Pubmeeple? Own method? Thanks for the videos!

3MBG, you made 51 minutes feel like 5 or 10, so agreeably did the time fly by. Interesting there is so little representation of certain genres I have always felt drawn to, namely deduction (including hidden movement) and abstracts. You've always been up front about the types of games you most enjoy, and I'm certainly not suggesting any change. In fact my confidence in your sound analysis makes me question myself! It also makes me wonder if it's possible the 'great' deduction game has yet to be made. Cheers, and every blessing!

We have very similar tastes with a few violent exceptions at the top end

Just checking if Spirit island is still number 1, and then I'll watch the whole video later :D Btw they already revealed 6 of the 8 new spirits, which one do you like the most?

While I am disappointed that Spheres of Influence is off of the list, I get it. I picked it up about a month ago and my group keeps asking me to bring it after our epic 6 player game that ended up being settled by a nuclear strike.

Great list, what are your thoughts about these games? Pax pamir 2nd edition Inis Elgrande Five tribes Mage knight Kings dilemma Food chain magnate Agricola Concordia Kemet Decrypto I personally love these games

What, no Garphill in the top ten?!

Curious, where do you rank Catan and Carcassone? -- newcomer to boardgames here so obviously i've only tried the mainstream ones

Question about #18 Argent: The Consortium... are there any games you feel take what you love about Argent and streamline or simplify the complexity? I have some great friends that love deep games, but the analysis paralysis can often ruine the experience. Seems like Argent could fall into that category.

I'm interested to know why Chaos in the Old World dropped off your list. Is there a game (or multiple games) you think do a similar thing better, or you just don't think it's top 100 worthy? What I'm really getting at is that I really like it, but since it's out of print I'd be happy to hear about alternatives. Also, does anyone want to help me parent trap GW and Fantasy Flight Games?