Krillion Answers

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
03

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 Oilman GameDeep Cut85points
  • The Old King's CrownDeep Cut85points
  • The OpulentDeep Cut85points
  • The Oracle of DelphiDeep Cut85points
  • The OthersDeep Cut85points
  • The Outcast HeroesDeep Cut85points
  • The Palace of Mad King LudwigDeep Cut85points
  • The Palaces of CarraraDeep Cut85points
  • The Peloponnesian WarDeep Cut85points
  • The Penguin UltimatumDeep Cut85points
  • The PerfumerDeep Cut85points
  • The Phoenix SyndicateDeep Cut85points
  • The Pillars of the EarthDeep Cut85points
  • The Pillars of the Earth: Builders DuelDeep Cut85points
  • The Pirate RepublicDeep Cut85points
  • The Plot to Assassinate HitlerDeep Cut85points
  • The PrimaryDeep Cut85points
  • The Prince: The Struggle of House BorgiaDeep Cut85points
  • The Princes of FlorenceDeep Cut85points
  • The Princes of Machu PicchuDeep Cut85points
  • The Prodigals ClubDeep Cut85points
  • The Producer: 1940-1944Deep Cut85points
  • The Pursuit of HappinessDeep Cut85points
  • The Quest for El DoradoDeep Cut85points
  • The Ratcatcher: The Solo Adventure GameDeep Cut85points
  • The Red Burnoose: Algeria 1857Deep Cut85points
  • The Red CathedralDeep Cut85points
  • The Red Dragon InnDeep Cut85points
  • The Red Dragon Inn: Battle for GreyportDeep Cut85points
  • The Red Storm: NATO versus the Warsaw PactDeep Cut85points
  • The Rich and the GoodDeep Cut85points
  • The Rise of QueensdaleDeep Cut85points
  • The Rise of the LuftwaffeDeep Cut85points
  • The Road to CanterburyDeep Cut85points
  • The RomansDeep Cut85points
  • The Rose KingDeep Cut85points
  • The Ruhr: A Story of Coal TradeDeep Cut85points
  • The Russian CampaignDeep Cut85points
  • The Sanctuary: Endangered SpeciesDeep Cut85points
  • The Sands of TimeDeep Cut85points
  • The Sands of WarDeep Cut85points
  • The Scepter of ZavandorDeep Cut85points
  • The Search for Lost SpeciesDeep Cut85points
  • The Search for Planet XDeep Cut85points
  • The Settlers of CanaanDeep Cut85points
  • The Settlers of NurembergDeep Cut85points
  • The Settlers of ZarahemlaDeep Cut85points
  • The Shipwreck ArcanaDeep Cut85points
  • The Siege of ConstantinopleDeep Cut85points
  • The Siege of JerusalemDeep 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

Find an answer for this questionCheck an answerAll seven questions for this dive