The Games 100 is an annual feature of Games magazine, a United States-based magazine devoted to games and puzzles. The Games 100 first appeared in the November/December 1980 issue as an alphabetic list of the 100 games preferred by the editors of the magazine. In 1981, Games introduced The Games 100 Contest, which involved identifying pieces from games listed in the Games 100, with the grand prize being more than half of the games on that list. Games continues to publish this list as The Buyers Guide to Games, broken out into The Traditional Games 100 and The Electronic Games 100.
Lists are published in either the November or December of the year prior to the year of the list. The categories and winners for the following years were as follows:
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2010
- Game of the Year: Small World
- Abstract Strategy: Blox
- Advanced Strategy: Le Havre
- Family: Roll Through the Ages: The Bronze Age
- Family Card: Amerigo
- Family Strategy: Dominion/Dominion Intrigue (Expansion)
- Party: Dixit
- Puzzle: La Ora Stelo
- Historical Simulation: Fields of Fire
"2010 Buyer's Guide To Games". Games (GAMES Publications) 33 (256): pp. ??-??. December 2009.
2009
- Game of the Year: Tzaar
- Abstract Strategy: Ponte del Diavolo
- Advanced Strategy: Key Harvest
- Family: Pandemic
- Family Card: Palast Geflüster (Palace Whisperings)
- Family Strategy: Stone Age
- Party: Go Nuts!
- Puzzle: Doris
- Word Game: Jumbulaya
- Historical Simulation: Pacific Typhoon
"2009 Buyer's Guide To Games". Games (GAMES Publications) 32 (246): pp. 35–50. December 2008.
2008
- Game of the Year: Pillars of the Earth
- Abstract Strategy: Easter Island
- Advanced Strategy: Khronos
- Family: If Wishes Were Fishes
- Family Card: Bull in a China Shop
- Family Strategy: Shear Panic
- Party: Gifttrap
- Puzzle: Sacred Myths and Legends Series - DaVinci's Secret: The Clue, The Equation, Legend of the King
- Word Game: Unspeakable Words
- Historical Simulation: Ran
"2008 Buyer's Guide To Games". Games (GAMES Publications) 31 (236): pp. 35–50. December 2007.
2007
- Game of the Year: Vegas Showdown
- Abstract Strategy: PUNCT
- Advanced Strategy: Reef Encounter
- Family: Tricky Town
- Family Card: Trump, Tricks, Game!
- Family Strategy: Hacienda
- Party: Wits and Wagers
- Puzzles: Deluxe Lights-Out
- Puzzles Games: Lights-Out 3D
- Word: Parlay
- Historical Simulation: Silent War
"2007 Buyer's Guide To Games". Games (GAMES Publications) 30 (226): pp. 35–49. December 2006.
2006
- Game of the Year: Australia
- Abstract Strategy: Sacred Hill
- Advanced Strategy: Tahuantinsuyu
- Family: Der Untergang von Pompeji
- Family Card: Die Weinhändler
- Family Strategy: Primordial Soup
- Two-Player: Jambo
- Party/Trivia: Snorta!
- Puzzles: Tipover
- Historical Simulation: Friedrich
"2006 Buyer's Guide To Games". Games (GAMES Publications) 29 (216): pp. 35–47. December 2005.
2005
- Game of the Year: BuyWord
- Abstract Strategy: Yinsh
- Advanced Strategy: Tahuantinsuyu
- Family: Vanished Planet
- Family Card: Victory & Honor
- Family Strategy: Alexandros
- Party/Trivia: Cranium Hoopla
- Historical Simulation: Memoir '44
"2005 Buyer's Guide To Games". Games (GAMES Publications) 28 (206): pp. 33–48. December 2004.
2004
- Game of the Year: New England
- Abstract Strategy: Clans
- Advanced Strategy: Wildlife
- Family: I'm the Boss
- Family Card: Queen's Necklace
- Two-Player Card: Balloon Cup
- Family Strategy: Zoosim
- Historical Simulation: Hammer of the Scots
- Party/Trivia: Dibs
- Puzzles: River Crossing
- Word: Crossword Pyramids
"2004 Buyer's Guide To Games". Games (GAMES Publications) 27 (196): pp. 35–48. December 2003.
2003
- Game of the Year: Dvonn
- Abstract Strategy: Pueblo
- Advanced Strategy: Puerto Rico
- Family: Emerald
- Family Card: Vom Kap Bis Kairo (From Cape to Cairo)
- Family Strategy: Mexica
- Historical Simulation: Wilderness War
- Puzzles: Nemesis Factor
- Manual Dexterity: Villa Paletti
- Party/Trivia: Moods
"2003 Buyer's Guide To Games". Games (GAMES Publications) 26 (186): pp. 33–64. December 2002.
2000
- Game of the Year: Torres
- Family: Moonshot
- Family Card: Buried Treasure
- Family Strategy: Tikal
- Party: Apples to Apples
- Puzzles: Ricochet Robot
- Word: Double Quick!
- Trivia: Bioviva
- Memory: Mamma Mia
- Collectible Card: Pokémon
- Dexterity: Spintrek
"2000 Buyer's Guide To Games". Games (GAMES Publications) 23 (157): pp. 31–46. December 1999.
1997
- Game of the Year: 25 Words or Less
- Party: Last Chance
- Family: Mole in the Hole
- Family Card: Take 6
- Family Strategy: Priceless
- Abstract Strategy: Transpose
- Strategy and Conflict: Field Command
- Word: Bethump'd With Words
- Puzzles: Deluxe Lights Out
- Trivia: Origins
- Adventure and Role-Playing: Dragonlance: Fifth Age
"1997 Buyer's Guide To Games". Games (GAMES Publications) 20 (136): pp. 31–44. December 1996.
Hall of Fame
Part of the Buyer's Guide includes a hall of fame for "games that have met or exceeded the highest standards of quality and play value and have been continuously in production for at least 10 years; i.e., classics."[1] This Hall of Fame includes:
- Acquire
- Axis & Allies
- Blockhead!
- Bridgette
- Civilization
- Cluedo (Clue)
- Diplomacy
- Dungeons & Dragons
- Magic: The Gathering
- Mille Bornes
- Monopoly
- Othello
- Pente
- Risk
- Scrabble Crossword Game
- The Settlers of Catan
- Sorry!
- Stratego
- Taboo
- TriBond
- Trivial Pursuit
- Twister
- TwixT
- Yahtzee
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