The Big Picture, Part One
Of those 397 games, 166 games walked away with one or more finish in the top five of a category.
The nine games with the most finishes in the Top Fives were:
- 6 - Can't Stop
- 5 - Age of Steam
- 5 - Ticket To Ride
- 4 - Acquire
- 4 - Blokus
- 4 - Crokinole
- 4 - Diamant
- 4 - Diplomacy
- 4 - Settlers of Catan
The eight games with the most finishes in the Top Fives in 2002 were:
- 6 - Settlers of Catan (4 in 2006/7)
- 5 - Bohnanza (1 in 2006/7)
- 5 - Can't Stop (6 in 2006/7)
- 4 - Carabande (3 in 2006/7)
- 4 - Carcassonne (3 in 2006/7)
- 4 - Cosmic Encounter (3 in 2006/7)
- 4 - Die Macher (3 in 2006/7)
- 4 - For Sale (2 in 2006/7)
Within the 50 categories, 40 games "won" their category (received the most votes). The games that won multiple categories were:
- 3 - Ticket To Ride
- 2 - 6 Nimmt!/Take 6/Category 5
- 2 - Acquire
- 2 - Age of Steam
- 2 - Crokinole
- 2 - Die Macher
- 2 - For Sale
- 2 - Liar's Dice
- 2 - Lost Cities
- 2 - Ricochet Robot
- 2 - Settlers of Catan
- 2 - Tikal
The twelve games with the most nominations were:
- 9 - Diplomacy
- 7 - 18XX (all versions)
- 7 - Can't Stop
- 7 - Carcassonne
- 7 - Settlers of Catan
- 6 - Bohnanza
- 6 - Civilization/Advanced Civilzation
- 6 - Diamant
- 6 - Lord of the Rings
- 6 - RoboRally
- 6 - Tichu
- 6 - Ticket To Ride
The twelve games with the most nominations in 2002 were:
- 7 - The Settlers of Catan (7 in 2006/7)
- 6 - Bohnanza (6 in 2006/7)
- 6 - Can't Stop (7 in 2006/7)
- 6 - Diplomacy (9 in 2006/7)
- 5- 18xx & family (7 in 2006/7)
- 5- Carabande (4 in 2006/7)
- 5- Carcassonne (7 in 2006/7)
- 5- Civilization/Advanced Civilization (6 in 2006/7)
- 5- Mississippi Queen (1 in 2006/7)
- 5- Starfarers of Catan (1 in 2006/7)
- 5- Take It Easy (4 in 2006/7)
- 5- Wildlife Adventure/Terra X/Expedition (4 in 2006/7)
Only five games received 90% or more of the possible votes in a particular category... all of them in the designer's best categories:
- Settlers of Catan (Klaus Teuber)
- For Sale (Stefan Dorra)
- Acquire (Sid Sackson)
- China/Web of Power (Michael Schacht)
- Princes of Florence (Wolfgang Kramer - heavy)
In 2002, only four games received 90% or more of the possible votes in a particular category:
- Acquire (in the Sid Sackson category)
- Bohnanza (in the Negotiation with Trading category)
- Can't Stop (in the Dice category)
- Settlers of Catan (in both the Klaus Teuber and the Negotiation with Trading categories)
BTW, no game received 100% of the votes in any category in 2002 or 2006/7.