Krillion 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
- ShatranjDeep Cut85points
- ShaxDeep Cut85points
- Sheep, Dogs and WolvesDeep Cut85points
- Shelfie StackerDeep Cut85points
- ShenandoahDeep Cut85points
- ShendaoDeep Cut85points
- Sheng JiDeep Cut85points
- ShenShiDeep Cut85points
- Sher-bakarDeep Cut85points
- Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty's WebDeep Cut85points
- Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End AdventuresDeep Cut85points
- Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Thames Murders & Other CasesDeep Cut85points
- Sherman LeaderDeep Cut85points
- Sherwood ForestDeep Cut85points
- ShibumiDeep Cut85points
- Shift Tac ToeDeep Cut85points
- ShiftagoDeep Cut85points
- ShiftiDeep Cut85points
- Shifting SandsDeep Cut85points
- Shifting StonesDeep Cut85points
- Shikoku 1889Deep Cut85points
- ShinjukuDeep Cut85points
- Shinkansen: Zero-KeiDeep Cut85points
- Shinobi: War of ClansDeep Cut85points
- ShipsDeep Cut85points
- Shipwrights of the North SeaDeep Cut85points
- ShipyardDeep Cut85points
- ShisimaDeep Cut85points
- ShitennoDeep Cut85points
- ShitheadDeep Cut85points
- Sho shogiDeep Cut85points
- SHŌBUDeep Cut85points
- ShogunDeep Cut85points
- Shogun no KatanaDeep Cut85points
- Short assizeDeep Cut85points
- Shot & ShellDeep Cut85points
- Shoulder to ShoulderDeep Cut85points
- Show BusinessDeep Cut85points
- Show ManagerDeep Cut85points
- ShowbizDeep Cut85points
- Showdown TacticsDeep Cut85points
- ShuttlesDeep Cut85points
- ShuuroDeep Cut85points
- Si Guo Da ZhanDeep Cut85points
- SiamDeep Cut85points
- SiberiaDeep Cut85points
- SicilyDeep Cut85points
- Sid Meier's Civilization: The Board GameDeep Cut85points
- Sid Meier's Civilization: The BoardgameDeep Cut85points
- Sid Meier's Civilization: The Card GameDeep 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.