From: Brian Bankler Subject: RGB List, May 9th El Grande fell a bit to #5, but otherwise the list is unchanged. It's interesting to compare this to Joe Huber's notes regarding the 'Ten Favorite Games List.' So, let's compare. Game 10_Fav_Votes Place Here ---------------------------------------------------- Die Siedler Von Catan 13 1 7.58 (2) Cosmic Encounter 11 2 6.89 (9) Adv Civ/Civ 8 3/4 6.88(12)/6.32(22) Wiz War 8 3/4 6.03(32) 18xx 7 5/6 (*) Modern Art 7 5/6 7.76 (1) Diplomacy 6 7/9 5.86 (36) Merchant of Venus 6 7/9 6.07 (31) Titan 6 7/9 6.89 (10) * I track by seperate 18xx games, but the highest place is 13th for 1856. 1835 is 53rd, so there's a pretty wide gap. So, only 3 games made the top 10 in both lists (actually, there is a huge tie with 5 votes for 10th on Joe's list). Games in this list's top ten and the number of votes they got on Joe's list: Modern Art(7), Siedler(13), Outpost(2), Dune(4), El Grande(5), Medici(4), Go (3), Bridge(0), Cosmic Encounter(11), and Titan (6). Take it for what you will... Total Games on List = 1955 Total Votes Counted = 4735 Number of Contributors = 58 Average of the List = 5.44 Threshold (minimum number of votes needed to appear) = 11 Best Games Rank Game Name Average +- std. (votes) ---------------------------------------------------- 1 Modern Art 7.76 +- 1.68 (23) 2 Die Siedler Von Catan 7.58 +- 2.19 (26) 3 Outpost 7.40 +- 1.50 (21) 4 Dune 7.08 +- 2.17 (24) 5 El Grande 7.07 +- 1.73 (14) 6 Medici 7.00 +- 1.95 (12) 7 Go 6.92 +- 2.90 (13) 8 Bridge 6.91 +- 2.56 (22) 9 Cosmic Encounter 6.89 +- 2.20 (33) 10 Titan 6.89 +- 2.74 (27) 11 Hare And Tortoise 6.88 +- 1.96 (17) 12 Advanced Civilization 6.88 +- 2.20 (25) 13 1856 6.83 +- 2.62 (12) 14 Elfenroads 6.70 +- 2.91 (15) 15 Illuminati 6.68 +- 1.48 (30) 16 Iron Dragon 6.59 +- 1.96 (16) 17 Can'T Stop 6.54 +- 1.57 (14) 18 Set 6.46 +- 1.84 (14) 19 Airlines 6.43 +- 2.21 (14) 20 Acquire 6.43 +- 2.04 (27) 21 1830 6.36 +- 2.69 (25) 22 Civilization 6.32 +- 2.05 (34) 23 Adel Verpflichtet 6.31 +- 1.78 (21) 24 Hearts 6.22 +- 2.00 (20) 25 Circus Maximus 6.21 +- 1.76 (17) 26 Railway Rivals 6.17 +- 1.34 (12) 27 Shark 6.15 +- 1.52 (13) 28 Kremlin 6.13 +- 2.11 (26) 29 Manhattan 6.12 +- 1.59 (16) 30 Awful Green Things From 6.08 +- 1.32 (13) 31 Merchant Of Venus 6.07 +- 2.06 (21) 32 Wiz War 6.03 +- 2.32 (20) 33 Britannia 5.98 +- 2.10 (22) 34 Rette Sich Wer Kann 5.96 +- 0.88 (13) 35 Liars Dice 5.92 +- 2.43 (12) 36 Diplomacy 5.86 +- 2.75 (37) 37 Santa Fe 5.85 +- 2.23 (13) 38 6 Nimmt 5.68 +- 1.94 (14) 39 Scrabble 5.63 +- 2.13 (27) 40 Empire Builder 5.62 +- 1.41 (16) 41 History Of The World 5.62 +- 2.78 (32) 42 Eurorails 5.58 +- 1.90 (18) 43 Nuclear War 5.56 +- 1.62 (18) 44 Junta 5.50 +- 1.95 (27) ***** Average = 5.4400000000000003908 ***** 45 Republic Of Rome 5.42 +- 3.11 (19) 46 Cribbage 5.38 +- 1.26 (13) 47 Pit 5.23 +- 1.47 (15) 48 Jenga 5.23 +- 2.02 (11) 49 Family Business 5.22 +- 1.73 (18) 50 Roborally 5.17 +- 2.41 (24) 51 Third Reich 5.09 +- 2.55 (11) 52 Magic: The Gathering 5.08 +- 2.72 (24) 53 1835 5.07 +- 1.49 (14) 54 Backgammon 5.03 +- 2.19 (20) 55 British Rails 4.92 +- 1.78 (12) 56 Shogun 4.91 +- 2.14 (17) 57 Abalone 4.91 +- 2.51 (11) 58 Star Fleet Battles 4.78 +- 2.49 (18) 59 Kings N Things 4.77 +- 1.92 (13) 60 Chess 4.74 +- 2.32 (21) 61 Axis And Allies 4.67 +- 2.13 (32) 62 Kingmaker 4.60 +- 1.68 (25) 63 Milles Bourne 4.60 +- 1.45 (15) 64 Fortress America 4.58 +- 2.81 (12) 65 Clue 4.56 +- 1.52 (17) 66 Stratego 4.52 +- 1.44 (21) 67 Risk 4.50 +- 1.64 (35) 68 Talisman 4.48 +- 2.52 (24) 69 Car Wars 4.44 +- 1.20 (18) 70 Uno 4.38 +- 2.12 (20) 71 Maharaja 4.35 +- 1.80 (13) 72 Squad Leader 4.22 +- 2.71 (18) 73 Yahtzee 4.21 +- 1.47 (19) 74 Pictionary 4.07 +- 1.89 (21) 75 Trivial Pursuit 3.98 +- 2.18 (27) 76 Monopoly 3.92 +- 1.65 (31) 77 The Great Dalmuti 3.81 +- 2.45 (13) 78 Inwo 3.54 +- 2.22 (13) 79 Supremacy 2.89 +- 2.81 (19) Contributors: Aaron D. 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