Top 10 Board Games That Require a Lot of Strategy
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Settle in, we might be here a while. From Sequence, to Cranium, to Monopoly, these board games require more strategy than your typical game night. WatchMojo counts down ten board games that require a lot of strategy.
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#10: Sequence (1982)
#9: Cranium (1998)
#8: Ticket to Ride (2004)
#7: Monopoly (1935)
#6: The Settlers of Catan (1995)
#5: Carcassonne (2000)
#4: Risk (1957)
#3, #2 & #1???
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It's like watching list of "10 best movies" where random movies are taken out of Target's straight to DVD movie discount bin...
*the hard part is finding friends*
Yes
Yeah I've noticed that.
You won't keep them long with Risk and Monopoly! 🤣
You can go to a local board game cafe and find people to play there. Maybe you'll make some friends in the process.
Or find a boardgame group on meetup!
This list is disrespectful to anyone who buys and plays games at the hobby shop level. This should be called top 10 board games sold at Walmart that non gamers think require the most strategy.
Lol
Yeah, where's Advanced Squad Leader?
Or if they're scared of going hardcore wargaming, they could have chosen Twilight Struggle.
Yea man, this was a top-10 strategy games for people who have no idea what they are talking about... Go to boardgamegeek, filter strategy and go from there. I just knew that the list would suck, but I had to see it. Talk about amateur hour...
@@timometsanoja9666 its watchmojo, what did you expect? all their "Top 10"s are trash
Can somebody please explain to me how monopoly takes more strategy than Scythe, Twillight Imperium, Gloomhaven and so much more.
Am you see... you have a very important decision to make in monopoly. And that is... do I want to waste my time with this while there are better games out there? I'm being facetious, of course.
You keep using the word ‘strategy’ and I’m not sure you understand what it means when you include more luck based games such as monopoly.......
Actually? Monopoly is a strategy game. It may not be warfare based, but it is useful in pondering of decisions and alliances that affect stuff like the poor pawns who go into war for kings and queens or whoever is setting the stones down on the board. If your pawn? All you can really do is just play with a deck or take a chance on the dice that was tossed.
Guess what stock market investment is luck based game too
@@1986BNick it's more tactical than strategic because player adgency is so low it's nearly impossible to make a long term stratergy. For example I could go into a game thinking 'my stratergy will be to buy all the railroads' and then I could never land on them, or worse land on them only once they've been purchased. The decisions you make are based almost entirely on what is best for you that turn and then you have little to no information (other than moving between 2 and 12 spaces) about what might be best next turn. This is tactical gameplay, not strategic.
Monopoly is actually also heavily strategy based.
In monopoly you have to learn how the get the probability on your side, its more strategic than you think.
Umm... Twilight Imperium, Pandemic, Suburbia, Dead of Winter, Smash Up, Five Tribes. Just to name a few.
I was thinking of pandemic
people don't know these games unfortunately :(
Terra Mystica, that one is ALL strategy
Come on, Eric. Smash Up's strategy isn't that deep. :)
I went into the comments section to find a real gamers. Hi Eric! This list is terrible.
The Best monopoly strategy is
Overturning the board and ending the game in a rage
Lmao so true tho XD
Burn it, giving it away just spreads the bad game or recycle it for parts
my every cousin ever does that
TheMDXtreme lmao hahaha yup
But only if you roll-move, negotiate with unwilling players, put up with player elimination, and make up house rules to not make it drag on forever, just to table flip.
I collect the Star Wars Monopolies just for the pieces.
This is like someone making a list of the top 10 restaurants in New York and filling it with McDonald's and Wendy's.
Suhail Habib haha so true
Oh my good, this list is horrible. Have you ever been in a boadgame shop or a boardgame convention in the past 20 years or so?
The biggest convention / fair "Essen Spiel" with almost 200k visitors took just place 2 weeks ago and nobody there would even consider most games on this list. There are so many better games that require more stategy out there.
You can't argue that they were 110% right with chess though...
@@gdrngdragon2892 Lol yes you can. Chess is teached to kids of 5 years old. I can show you numerous games where you need way more strategy than Chess
@@jeandeguise2210 No mate, you are delusional and uneducated if you think so.
There is not a *SINGULAR* more strategyc board game in existance then Chess.
There is a reason why it's considered a sport
@@jeandeguise2210 There ars only a few games which are even on par with chess in terms of strategy
First of all, it seems you guys didn't do your home work so here goes: there are way better games than your very shallow list, most games in the list are here mostly because popularity not quality so here goes.
Strategy: A plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim.
Tactics: A plan for attaining a particular goal (think more, short term)
Sequence: is a tactical game, you do with what you have you may have the most amazing strategy but if the cards don't appear for you it's for naught.
Try instead: Ticket to ride
Cranium has no strategy, you move with dice and if you answer right you advance.
Try instead: Wits and wagers, codenames
Ticket to ride: This one I have no problem with. A bit more tactical but at least you have more control of your destiny.
Monopoly: almost not a game, roll and move, you have almost no control of your destiny. Popular because people don't know better.
Try: any other game. But seriously, settlers of catan, Space base, century golem/spice road, power grid
Settler of catan: Same as ticket to ride but way better than the others so gets a pass.
Carcassonne: Good pick. I don't like it but I think it's a good game with enough strategy/Tactics to be compelling.
Risk: It's strategic in the sense you can plan what you will try to achieve all right. Not a good game, specially the first version that took 6 + hours.
Try instead: Memoir 44, risk legacy (good version of risk), small world
Scrabble: Meh game, I can see strategy on where to place your tiles but the game is not really good.
Try instead: paperback
Go: Good pick
Chess: Good pick
Simpler but good: Onitama
Try boardgamegeek.com to find way better more strategic and fulfilling games
Thanks for the positive reply! Yeah this list is horrible, but making suggestions for better picks is a useful idea.
It's WatchMojo, soooo what do you expect? Lol! Though I do agree, Chess IS a game that requires intelligence AND strategy. No luck required.
And I swear, there are videos I saw where there are lots of negative comments, despite them having a lot higher likes than dislikes, like... what? Do people have nothing better to do other than to just like videos they criticized so badly?
I was going to like your comment, as you made some very good points especially about risk and monopoly however I retain my like because you said scrabble is not a good strategic game; I wholeheartedly and entirely disagree with this have a few more games of it then edit your comment, saying nothing other than its an excellent game and I will award you a like. ☺
It says in the description of the video that these games require more strategy than your typical gamenight. What is a typical gamenight then, these are the most mainstream games that exist!
People that have typical gamenight wouldn't put any of these game in a strategy list. If they do then they killed their gamenights :p
Jean De Guise I’d say a couple are good catan and ticket to ride.
have you guys even played any modern strategic boardgame of the last 10 years? No way that Monopoly, scrabble or cranium are making this list there's just pure luck in these games! If you guys want to advertise games why don't you do more research and actualy bring some good ones of the last years? for example: Azul, Dragon Castle, castles of burundy,... some of my favourites but almost no luck in them and still simpler than monopoly but they offer 5 times more depth.
Monopoly actually requires a lot of strategy.
@@giuseppemaggio5894 no guiseppe, it doesnt
@@TeChNoWC7 Trust me, it does. Deciding which colour to focus on, trying to negotiate with other player, trying to block their strategies
Giuseppe Maggiò that is very minimal strategy not top 10 worthy not even top 100 worthy. If you actually play a lot of table top games you’ll know that this list spits in our faces.
Let me guess number 1 is chess and I haven’t watched this video yet
Same here.
Dark Shadow Well, chess _is_ very strategic. I think it definitely deserves to be number one or at least in the top three.
Welp, you were right. (Chess is pretty fun tho)
Garrett Tsumaki It is a lot of fun. But it can be so damn stressful (if you're competitive).
he's lying, he saw the video
I love board games, There are some good gateway choices on this list, but there are so many other cool modern board games out there to explore and try. :)
You can tell how few games watch mojo knows about. When luck is so strong in games like Monopoly, Catan and Risk and so bad the others games are, the list dies on is own.
I can get behind catan. Has lots of luck but more often than not good planning and trading skills will win that just luck
Totally agree AeonRoxas
Go and Chess both require strategy and a great deal of practice. Everything else on the list is a joke in comparison.
Holy crap, this list is horrible. The ONLY games they got right were #1 and #2. Meanwhile, some people from WatchMojo might want to ask people who attend the World Boardgaming Championship or EuroQuest, or at least spend at least a couple minutes at Boardgamegeek.com.
I can MAYBE grant Carcassonne and Ticket to Ride, but Puerto Rico should be more than 'honorable mention'; meanwhile, you can add games like Agricola, Pandemic, 7 Wonders, Castles of Burgundy, Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Splendor, Ra, Navegador, Scythe, ...
@John Denver fuckin' non-nerd
They probably based this list on a top 50 popular games to give it more appeal. Im sure warhammer or the 90$ Starcraft the board game would beat the top 8. But no one would know of those games.
Relax, nerd! Gonna get an asthma attack!
I totally agree with you. This is a very shallow list.
Well, a confrontational attitude about it does not seem to be working. Why can't we all be happy dancing in Ja Love? Or playing Twixt at least.
you guys clearly don't have any clue about board gaming x'D
seeing Monopoly in a "Top 10 Strategy BG" makes me believe the Earth is actually Flat
... you guys have no idea what you doing... Funny Video ^_^
Idk if you know how to play monopoly, but it involves more strategy than you think.
@@naturalhitmanjr That's cute
@@naturalhitmanjr no it doesn't its completely based on luck
@@unitymanwelp8937 well that's like saying poker is based on luck because you can't control what cards you will get just like you don't know what dice roll you will have. But, why are the best poker players consistently the same people? It has to do with social intelligence, its a strategy of its own that is part of both monopoly and poker. Look at all the components involved, if you play by the rules it is not revolved around luck. In monopoly the strategy is in trading and buying and selling at the right time in a way that will benefit you. Just saying you can be the luckiest noob playing against the most skilled player with the worst luck and the noob will lose hands down.
@qvistus82 the reason why Monopoly requires no skill besides making in game alliances beyond deals is because the dice completely determine where you will land which in turn determines. Sure y can increase the probability that someone will land on your properties by having more but how much properties you have is also determine d by the dice. Monopoly is a game based on risk that's what makes it fun. No one argues that slot machines require skill you play it for the rush
4:59 One time me, my dad, and my sister played that game a long time ago. I was purposely taking one part of Asia, so my sister couldn't get a bigger army to invade the countries I had. It was back and forth on who conquered that one part of Asia. Meanwhile my dad just absorbs her countries and we both slowly took over Asia.
Cool video! I also had a lot of fun playing MadMobz. My friends and I played it and had sooo much fun 😄
Clearly you guys have never heard of Power Grid
More research is needed here, there is a whole world of boardgames out there. Literally thousands to choose from and a large community built around the hobby.
Guys I’m calling it. Number 1. It’s gonna be chess
Diplomacy?
I know right
Wow! My friend’s video being in this video? Bless you WatchMojo! (My friend is Norm H. from the Board Game Museum)
No way does monopoly take more strategy than Stratego. I can win Monopoly without really making all that much attention. Stratego not so much.
Nice topic idea
I really expected to see Terra Mistica on the list, but I'm not surprised since it's WatchMojo.
Zombicide is a great game to try. You play as a team to work towards a common goal. Try it.
6:42 My version of that quote is "A game won is a game well played, but a game lost is a game played best."
FYI: Go can be played with 19×19 lined grids for tournaments, 13×13 lined grids, and 9×9 lined grids for casual styles
My favorite is Stratego. My brother and I would make up all sorts of new rules to make it even harder.
10. Poker: the Board Game
9. (...have they ever actually played Cranium?)
8. Monopoly: Just the Railroads
7. Monopoly (rolling dice! so much strategy!)
6: Catan (okay yeah this one's sort of strategy game)
5: Carcassonne (this one also involves strategy)
4: Risk (this one too)
3: Scrabble (wait you guys don't check the Scrabble dictionary to see if *insert random letters you have* is a word?)
2: Go: Chess for people who hate chess
1: Of course it's chess
i think that people get mad because there so many other board games that have more strategy like the ones show up (Puerto Rico and Axis and Allies may as well earn a spot at least between 2 - 5) but i think that they only choose board games for the general audience. but i think that it would actually be better if they at least went to BGG and look for some games.
Woo, Puerto Rico was at least on the Hon Men list. I bought that game back in 2003 and kept it ever since.
Well, Those light kid friendly games do require more thinking then making Watchmojo top 10 lists, I will give them that much.
Ever heard of umm Scythe? Terraforming Mars? Through The Ages? Gosh... Monopoly, seriously?...
This list is a crap. Why did you make this list if you didn't know anything about board games? Most of these games requires much more luck than strategy. What about Through The Ages, Terra Mystica, Puerto Rico, Caverna, Great Western Trail, Terraforming Mars, Concordia, Brass etc, etc? These ARE strategic games, not Monopoly.
Now we are talking
@@saschadorian7609 I challenge you then, using the draft variant.
Still way less luck than Monopoly.
All shit games compared to Monopoly.
"Number 2 : Go"
Me : Oh no, if chess is in the first place...
"Number 1 : ..."
(overturned my laptop)
Chess is great tho
Had fun playing Catan with my friends and my PE Teacher 😂
Everytime my friends or my PE teacher make a move, I just would say "why there?"
This list is cringy... love, Board Game Geek.
Hurrah - pleased to see Carcassonne in there ...
I don't know if they consider shogi to be a version of chess, but I found shogi to be more complex, as any piece captured can be used as a reinforcement. It makes sacrifice a much more dangerous strategy.
There are so many similarities between the two, they must share common ancestory.
It is basically the Japanese version of chess like chaturanga from India
There are also tiked to ride extentions for India and Swiss, Afrika, Japan and a experience on the German version.
This is definitely a rough list with the current surge of indie strategy games that can't in any way all be accounted for.
I learned about Go from an Otome game.
Ticket to ride is a german game, the US version is not the "typical" version, and did not come out first either.
Yellow farmer at 4:25 is an illegal placement. Probably need to replace that clip with another example.
What about tic tac toe, that games impossible
That Simpson’s bit made me fucking laugh out loud!!! hahahaha i love that show
10.Sequence
9.Cranium
8.Ticket to ride
7.Monopoly
6.Settlers of catan
5.Carcassonne
4.Risk
3.Scarrable
2.Go
Honarable mentions
Puerto rico
Axis and allies
Mancala
1.Chess
Risk got a lot people angry at me mostly because I would take up the one small country next to big one and start attacking what was cloest
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Monopoly? Good lord, that's like having a video about "top 10 colors that aren't blue" and having blue in your list. No other game could possibly invalidate this list any more than monopoly.
Axis and Allies has more strategy in its pinky finger than Monopoly has in its breadth of knockoffs combined.
@Simon Dewitt Your populist criteria of what constitutes strategy is lacking, to say the least. You could be missing out on truly strategic games, but because they're not on clearance at Target, they don't count to you.
Oh I was gonna make a home made board game xD
Honourable mentions should include diplomacy. JFK and Kissinger's favourite board game. 👌
6 hours on Risk? That’s cute. Talk to me when it’s an all night campaign after Friday night football and finishing up as mom is finishing her coffee before going to work on Saturday.
Risk is lit. I've played many 5 hour games lmao
Well, people can recover from making blunders (a.k.a. the swindle). Although it is excruciatingly difficult to do, it is still possible and has been done before.
we have a game mancala called "SUNGKA" here in the philippines
Are yu gi oh should be on the list ? I know yu gi oh might be need u buy a lot of card but at least it's still hard to master and what the game I love from the list are chess, risk,and the monopoly
I like that you included some more recent games. But ever heard of Pandemic? The real game is suppose to last 6 months, 1 game a month, and is ridiculous. The casual game is great, too, kinda like risk but it's all the players together against the disease. Fun and strategic!
When you say ‘real game’, do you mean coronavirus lol - or are you referring to Pandemic Legacy? Because it is split into ‘months’ but this is a game term, not actual months 🤣
This is is damn near identical to your top 10 board games list. You just added Chess and Go and Trains while removing Battleship. Snakes (Chutes) and ladders and Trivia Persuit
Hmmm... Agricola, Raiders of the north sea, champions of midgard, splendor, everdell, gaia project, clans of caledonia, 7 wonders duel, five tribes, great western trail. Just to name a few.
Yes another great video
www.boardgamegeek.com should be a good source for a real good list.
It seems the biggest mistake of WM wasn't just the selections, but being completely oblivious to the fact that there's a large community of people who are very invested in the topic, and have spent years researching and participating in the activity (to which I cannot claim to be a part of) and that they are probably going to be the ones watching this particular video. If they had just referenced any of the gamers (not even the most advanced gamers, simply some of the more popular ones, quill18 comes to mind) they would know some of the "must-have" entries for the list which are absent, and above all else knowing the the inclusion of Monopoly is a catastrophic choice; it's the equivalent of including Pee-Wee Herman in a list of "all-time greatest actors." I like some of the suggested choices in the comments such as Pandemic, but am surprised that no one has mentioned Battlestar Galactica: the Board Game. my understanding is that it requires a good amount of strategy and is one of the more engaging games. More advanced gamers: is this not the case?
I'm surprised Statego didn't make an appearance on here.
Where's Scene It? The DVD Board Game?
Does Mario Party require strategy?
I would say it's more luck-based than strategy-based.
That's... Not even a board game...
Seems like you didn't do your homework for this list and just named a couple of games you know. Next time you could ask the people from The Dice Tower for some expertise.
I actually was introduced to Mancala via a child's video game, when I was a child.
Also, _Red Dragon Inn_, anyone?
I've heard of 3 of them and played Risk only once
I hope they include Game of the Generals.
What about the game of "Clue" always liked that game.
Good lord, this list is... really, really bad!
I had never heard of Go
Mancala? in the Philippines its called "Sungka".
I'm really surprised that LCR isn't on this list!
I thought Clue would be in here somewhere
i own Sequence it is not that hard to play but it is fun and is a awesome game if you don't own it you need to buy it my mom played it when i was a kid and i am 31 it is still fun
Clearly who ever made this list doesn't know much about board games... 4-10 are overtly luck based games and very cliche. That list of 10 are like the very very tip of the iceberg when it comes to "board games". Only a few of these games make the top 1000 on BGG but none in the top 100 let alone "top 10" haha
I thought that Axis and Allies is Risk on steroids....so......yes.
Ticket To Ride really just reminds me of the Beatles song.
Where is the game called the "game of the generals"? Its good you know
Chest monopoly and scrabble is ma fav ♡♡
Of the games in the list, only Catan, Go, and Chess are listed as strategy or abstract strategy by Board Game Geek. And let's face it, Catan doesn't require deep thought. The rest are mostly family. You don't get a lot of strategy in games that eight year olds can handle.
The game "Diplomacy" would be great...
None of these games (barring Chess) fits on my top500 games list. I can make a series of "top10 -games missing from this list" :D
4:23 that move is illegal, Land is already claimed by the blue guy
Boardgames have evolved you know? Go to boardgamegeek and kickstarter to see how much the industry has grown.
The Oregon Trial should of been on here😂
The only ones I've heard of on this list is Monopoly, Scrabble, Go & obviously Chess.
*1 hour ago* *329 likes* *41 dislikes* *3,690 views* WTF
Title should be "Top 10 MAINSTREAM Board Games That Require a Lot of Strategy"
*and half require none
How about Cash Flow by Robert Kiyosaki? As soon as I know it's challenging and useful. Who played this before please let me know how good it is.
Great list and I enjoyed it and have a blessed day
Welcome to the World of Othello :) definitely a game that will activate your brain
With the possible exception of Go, all of these are considered gateway games. They are to strategy what fast food is to cuisine.
Board gaming is enjoying a golden age, with conventions appealing to strategists to casuals to children alike. Neither Hasbro or Monopoly are anywhere to be found.
You don't add shogi surprising.