Name a strategy board game - Krillion Answers 2026-10-29

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

Krosmaster: QuestDeep Cut85points
KruisvuurDeep Cut85points
KrurDeep Cut85points
KrusadeDeep Cut85points
KruznoDeep Cut85points
KryptosDeep Cut85points
KubaDeep Cut85points
KubuguzaDeep Cut85points
KulamiDeep Cut85points
Kulikovo 1380Deep Cut85points
Kumo HogoshaDeep Cut85points
KuniUmiDeep Cut85points
Kunst StückeDeep Cut85points
Kupferkessel Co.Deep Cut85points
Kutná Hora: The City of SilverDeep Cut85points
Kyō shōgiDeep Cut85points
KyotoDeep Cut85points
Kyoto shogiDeep Cut85points
L gameDeep Cut85points
L'AéropostaleDeep Cut85points
L'AttaqueDeep Cut85points
La Bataille d'Albuera-EspagnolDeep Cut85points
La Bataille d'AuerstædtDeep Cut85points
La Bataille d'AusterlitzDeep Cut85points
La Bataille d'Espagnol-TalaveraDeep Cut85points
La Bataille d'Halle 1806Deep Cut85points
La Bataille d'OrthezDeep Cut85points
La Bataille de Corunna–EspagnolDeep Cut85points
La Bataille de Deutsch WagramDeep Cut85points
La Bataille de DresdeDeep Cut85points
La Bataille de la MoscowaDeep Cut85points
La Bataille de LignyDeep Cut85points
La Bataille de LützenDeep Cut85points
La Bataille de Mont Saint JeanDeep Cut85points
La Bataille de Preussisch EylauDeep Cut85points
La Bataille de ValmyDeep Cut85points
La Bataille des Quatre BrasDeep Cut85points
La BatallaDeep Cut85points
La Belle ÉpoqueDeep Cut85points
La Carga de la Brigada LigeraDeep Cut85points
La CittàDeep Cut85points
La Famiglia: The Great Mafia WarDeep Cut85points
La Grande ArméeDeep Cut85points
La GranjaDeep Cut85points
La Granja: No SiestaDeep Cut85points
La Guerra de los MundosDeep Cut85points
La HabanaDeep Cut85points
La IslaDeep Cut85points
La LoireDeep Cut85points
La Patrie en DangerDeep 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.