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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.

Dated record7 questions · 16,727 recorded answers

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
  • The Island of El DoradoDeep Cut85points
  • The Isle of CatsDeep Cut85points
  • The Italian Campaign: SalernoDeep Cut85points
  • The Kaiser's BattleDeep Cut85points
  • The Kaiser's PiratesDeep Cut85points
  • The Keep (board game)Deep Cut85points
  • The Kids of CatanDeep Cut85points
  • The King Is DeadDeep Cut85points
  • The King's AbbeyDeep Cut85points
  • The King's ArmoryDeep Cut85points
  • The King's DilemmaDeep Cut85points
  • The King's GuildDeep Cut85points
  • The King's WarDeep Cut85points
  • The Last Blitzkrieg 1982Deep Cut85points
  • The Last DroidsDeep Cut85points
  • The Last Kingdom Board GameDeep Cut85points
  • The Last SpikeDeep Cut85points
  • The Last SuccessDeep Cut85points
  • The Legend of DrizztDeep Cut85points
  • The Legend of LandlockDeep Cut85points
  • The Legend of Robin HoodDeep Cut85points
  • The Longest DayDeep Cut85points
  • The LOOPDeep Cut85points
  • The Lord of the Ice GardenDeep Cut85points
  • The Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-earthDeep Cut85points
  • The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the FellowshipDeep Cut85points
  • The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-EarthDeep Cut85points
  • The Mage's TriangleDeep Cut85points
  • The Magnates: A Game of PowerDeep Cut85points
  • The MagnificentDeep Cut85points
  • The Major Battles and Campaigns of General George S. PattonDeep Cut85points
  • The Man in the MoonDeep Cut85points
  • The Manhattan ProjectDeep Cut85points
  • The Manhattan Project 2: Minutes to MidnightDeep Cut85points
  • The Manhattan Project: Chain ReactionDeep Cut85points
  • The Manhattan Project: Energy EmpireDeep Cut85points
  • The March on India, 1944Deep Cut85points
  • The Market of AlturienDeep Cut85points
  • The Marne: Home Before the Leaves FallDeep Cut85points
  • The Mines of ZavandorDeep Cut85points
  • The Ming VoyagesDeep Cut85points
  • The Mystery of the TemplarsDeep Cut85points
  • The Mystic WoodDeep Cut85points
  • The Mystique DeckDeep Cut85points
  • The Name of the RoseDeep Cut85points
  • The Networks: PrimetimeDeep Cut85points
  • The New EraDeep Cut85points
  • The New ScienceDeep Cut85points
  • The Next War: Modern Conflict in EuropeDeep Cut85points
  • The Night CageDeep 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

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