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
  • Tic Tac ChecDeep Cut85points
  • Tic Tac Doh!Deep Cut85points
  • Tic Tac Toe Times 10Deep Cut85points
  • TichuDeep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the WestDeep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: AfricaDeep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: Alvin & DexterDeep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: AmsterdamDeep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: AsiaDeep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: BerlinDeep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: Deutschland 1902Deep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: Dice ExpansionDeep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: Europa 1912Deep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: Europe – Orient ExpressDeep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: First JourneyDeep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: FranceDeep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: GermanyDeep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: Ghost TrainDeep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: IberiaDeep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: IndiaDeep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: ItalyDeep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: JapanDeep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: LondonDeep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: MärklinDeep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: Mystery TrainDeep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: NederlandDeep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: New YorkDeep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: Nordic CountriesDeep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: Northern LightsDeep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: Old WestDeep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: ParisDeep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: PennsylvaniaDeep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: PolandDeep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: Rails & SailsDeep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: San FranciscoDeep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: South KoreaDeep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: Stay at HomeDeep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: SwitzerlandDeep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: The Card GameDeep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: United KingdomDeep Cut85points
  • Ticket to Ride: USA 1910Deep Cut85points
  • Tidal Blades: Heroes of the ReefDeep Cut85points
  • Tide of IronDeep Cut85points
  • Tides of MadnessDeep Cut85points
  • Tides of TimeDeep Cut85points
  • Tiến LênDeep Cut85points
  • Tiger and buffaloesDeep Cut85points
  • Tiger gameDeep Cut85points
  • Tiger game played with fortyDeep Cut85points
  • Tiger LeaderDeep 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