Name a strategy board game

October 29, 2026 · Daily Dive #106

Explore 8,049 recorded answers and their points for question 3 on October 29, 2026.

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8,049 recorded names on October 29, 2026, 7,879 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

Cast your net over the hobby market rather than the toy aisle: the deepest scoring pools sit in specialist catalogues of abstract designs, historical simulations and long numbered series. Any published board or tabletop game whose rules reward planning and decisions counts, whether abstract, card-driven or simulation; role-playing games, video games and luck-only party games do not.

8,049 recorded answers7,879 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut7,87885 pts
  • Rare14460 pts
  • Schooler2030 pts
  • Plankton610 pts
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Recorded answers

8,049 recorded answers

How to approach it

Treat this as a memory-and-ranking exercise rather than a definitions test. First, list every tabletop design you can genuinely describe, from family staples and abstract classics to card-driven conflicts and economic simulations, because breadth sets your ceiling. Then sort the list by how many people worldwide could name the same title; the crowd-pleasers everyone remembers are the ones other respondents will also submit, so they pay least. Push toward items you know only from a specialist catalogue, a convention programme or a single play: regional editions, tiny print runs, series entries numbered in the dozens. Finally, test each entry against the definition, since a title without real strategic choice will not count, and copy the name exactly as the source spells it.

Get a hint

Nearly every published design qualifies, so the work is one of memory: sweep every shelf, club night and convention you have ever seen and note the titles that made you plan several moves ahead.

A little more

Move past mass-market shelves into specialist catalogues: small-press runs, imported editions, long-running series with dozens of numbered instalments and historical simulations reward the deepest memory.

One step further

The rarest picks live in the deep long tail: entries known only from hobby databases, many carrying a year and a colon in the title, odd punctuation at the front or a sparse abstract rule set.

Reveal answers 8,049
  • Arkham Horror: The Black Goat of the WoodsDeep Cut85points
  • Arkham Horror: The Card GameDeep Cut85points
  • Arkham Horror: The King in YellowDeep Cut85points
  • Arkham Horror: The Lurker at the ThresholdDeep Cut85points
  • Arkham Horror: Under Dark WavesDeep Cut85points
  • ArktiaDeep Cut85points
  • ArkwrightDeep Cut85points
  • Arkwright: The Card GameDeep Cut85points
  • ArlecchinoDeep Cut85points
  • ArmadaDeep Cut85points
  • Armada: The War With Spain 1585-1604Deep Cut85points
  • ArmageddonDeep Cut85points
  • Armageddon: Tactical Combat, 3000-500 BCDeep Cut85points
  • Armenian draughtsDeep Cut85points
  • Armor SupremacyDeep Cut85points
  • ArmoricaDeep Cut85points
  • Arms RaceDeep Cut85points
  • Army AntsDeep Cut85points
  • Army of FrogsDeep Cut85points
  • ArnhemDeep Cut85points
  • Arnhem 1944Deep Cut85points
  • Arnhem and Operation Market-GardenDeep Cut85points
  • Arnhem BridgeDeep Cut85points
  • ArondaDeep Cut85points
  • Around the World in 80 DaysDeep Cut85points
  • ArquebusDeep Cut85points
  • Ars AlchimiaDeep Cut85points
  • Ars MysteriorumDeep Cut85points
  • Art DeckoDeep Cut85points
  • Art SocietyDeep Cut85points
  • ArtifactDeep Cut85points
  • Artifacts, Inc.Deep Cut85points
  • ArtificiumDeep Cut85points
  • ArtusDeep Cut85points
  • Arydia: The Paths We Dare TreadDeep Cut85points
  • AsaltoDeep Cut85points
  • AsanteDeep Cut85points
  • AsaraDeep Cut85points
  • Ascending EmpiresDeep Cut85points
  • Ascension (1982 abstract game)Deep Cut85points
  • Ascension X: War of ShadowsDeep Cut85points
  • Ascension: Apprentice EditionDeep Cut85points
  • Ascension: Darkness UnleashedDeep Cut85points
  • Ascension: Dawn of ChampionsDeep Cut85points
  • Ascension: Deckbuilding GameDeep Cut85points
  • Ascension: DreamscapeDeep Cut85points
  • Ascension: Gift of the ElementsDeep Cut85points
  • Ascension: Immortal HeroesDeep Cut85points
  • Ascension: Realms UnraveledDeep Cut85points
  • Ascension: Return of the FallenDeep Cut85points

Why these answers count

Almost the entire field scored: of 7,473 recorded answers, 7,459 cleared sixty points, so the puzzle rewarded breadth of memory rather than luck. The single hundred-point entry, Rithmomachia, is a medieval arithmetic game that only a specialist would reach for, and it shows how far a genuinely obscure name can climb. The eighty-five-point band is dominated by hobby-catalogue depth: railway-economics titles such as 1830: Railways & Robber Barons, 1846: The Race for the Midwest and 18Chesapeake, alongside historical simulations like 1776 and 1812: The Invasion of Canada, all scored 85. The sixty-point tier held two hundred and twenty-four answers, recognisable designs that many respondents could name, which is precisely why they paid less. The pattern is blunt: the more players who can produce the same title, the smaller the reward, so the best move is the most specific published design you can honestly defend as a strategy game.

Recorded from the game’s published reveal · Source · Checked 29 Oct, 08:25 UTC

Names and scores reflect the linked dated reveal. The original game makes the final decision on live acceptance. Editorial policy