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
  • Monopoly: TransformersDeep Cut85points
  • Monopoly: U.S. Air ForceDeep Cut85points
  • Monopoly: U.S. ArmyDeep Cut85points
  • Monopoly: Unicorns vs. LlamasDeep Cut85points
  • Monopoly: V8 SupercarsDeep Cut85points
  • Monopoly: VegemiteDeep Cut85points
  • Monopoly: WickedDeep Cut85points
  • Monopoly: World of WarcraftDeep Cut85points
  • Monopoly: WWEDeep Cut85points
  • Monster chessDeep Cut85points
  • Monster Hunter World: The Board GameDeep Cut85points
  • Monster LandsDeep Cut85points
  • Monster SlaughterDeep Cut85points
  • Monsters Menace AmericaDeep Cut85points
  • Monsters on BoardDeep Cut85points
  • MontageDeep Cut85points
  • MontanaDeep Cut85points
  • Monte CarloDeep Cut85points
  • Monty's Gamble: Market GardenDeep Cut85points
  • MonumentalDeep Cut85points
  • Monuments: Wonders of AntiquityDeep Cut85points
  • MoonDeep Cut85points
  • Moon AdventureDeep Cut85points
  • Moon BaseDeep Cut85points
  • Moon Base ClaviusDeep Cut85points
  • Moon Colony BloodbathDeep Cut85points
  • Moon-Sun-AngelDeep Cut85points
  • Moongha Invaders: Mad Scientists and Atomic Monsters Attack the Earth!Deep Cut85points
  • MoonrakersDeep Cut85points
  • MoonstarDeep Cut85points
  • MorabarabaDeep Cut85points
  • MordredDeep Cut85points
  • MorelliDeep Cut85points
  • MoriDeep Cut85points
  • MorisiDeep Cut85points
  • MoroccoDeep Cut85points
  • MorubaDeep Cut85points
  • Mosaic: A Story of CivilizationDeep Cut85points
  • MosaixDeep Cut85points
  • Mosby's RaidersDeep Cut85points
  • Moscow '41Deep Cut85points
  • Mothership: Tabletop CombatDeep Cut85points
  • Motor CityDeep Cut85points
  • MottainaiDeep Cut85points
  • Moulin RougeDeep Cut85points
  • Mount EverestDeep Cut85points
  • Mouse Guard: Swords & StrongholdsDeep Cut85points
  • Mouse IslandDeep Cut85points
  • MozaicDeep Cut85points
  • MozaikaDeep 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