Long Learning Curve

The best games which require multiple plays in order to play well...

• 18xx
• Age of Steam
• Die Macher
• Euphrat & Tigris
• Power Grid

Also nominated:

• Antiquity
• ASL
• Civilization/Advanced Civilzation
• Diplomacy
• Fresh Fish
• Goa
• Mu & Mehr
• Princes of Florence
• Puerto Rico
• Reef Encounter
• Roads & Boats
• Tichu
• Titan
• Up Front

This category did not appear in 2002, so there are no comparison results.

Party/Social

The best party/social games...

• Apples to Apples
• Balderdash/Beyond Balderdash
• Smarty Party
• Taboo
• Time's Up!
• Wits & Wagers

Just missed the cut:

• Scattegories

Also nominated:

• Barbarossa
• Catchphrase
• Cluzzle
• GiftTrap
• Guesstures
• Personal Preference
• Thingamajig
• Trivial Pursuit
• Werewolf

For comparison purposes, the top five games from 2002:

• Apples to Apples
• Balderdash/Beyond Balderdash
• Taboo
• Take It Easy
• Time's Up

Not Dead Yet

Sorry it's taking so long to continue The Apples Project - life is getting in the way of my hobby.

Stay tuned - there are 9 more categories to go! (Well, 6 waiting to be tabulated, 3 needing to be cleaned up for nominations, and about 6 more I'm debating about whether & how to do. Which actually adds up to 15, so everyone can figure out why I wasn't a math major.)