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BGG Hot 40: July 2007
John Clark
Australia
Canberra
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This is the seventh edition of the Hot 40: The games which were most played in July, in terms of the number of different people who played.
See the January edition for more info:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/19941
Summary for July:
Carcassonne reclaims its top standing in the Hot 40 after Notre Dame interrupted its 5 month streak at number one. Notre Dame fell back to 2.
The big mover in the chart is Zooloretto, which shot to number 3, up from 21 last month.
However, perhaps the most interesting development is the rapid increase of Caylus Magna Carta (10), at the expense of its parent game, Caylus (29).
Other games to reach all-time highs (since January 2005) in July:
5 (up from 8) Age of Empires III: The Age of Discovery
10 (up from 63) Caylus Magna Carta
33 (up from 65) Can't Stop
34 (up from 40) Ca$h'n Gun$
39 (up from 60) Vikings
Notable games to reach all-time lows (since January 2005) in July:
Ticket to Ride (11)
Battlelore (24)
Caylus (29)
Samurai (56)
Arkadia (74 down from 22 in May)
Biggest improvement in rating over the last year:
+18 Diamant (41 to 23)
+6 Coloretto (21 to 15)
Biggest decline in rating over the last year:
-33 Blokus (31 to 64)
-29 St Petersburg (20 to 49)
-28 Samurai (28 to 56)
-25 Caylus (4 to 29)
-24 Memoir '44 (16 to 40)
Bonus Stat:
Total number of unique players for each of the big game franchises:
603 Carcassone
602 Settlers of Catan
636 Ticket to Ride
(Includes all seperate games which would be reasonably listed under one game. For example, players of Seafarers of Catan are included, since they would reasonably NOT list their play in two places, but players of The Count of Carcassonne would likely list their 'play' of the game in two places. Including ALL expansions etc of Carcassonne amounts to 939 players)
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John Clark
Australia
Canberra
ACT
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Carcassonne
This month: 1 (422 players)
Last month: 2 (389 players)
One year ago: 3 (282 players)
Highest position: 1
Months in Hot 40: 31
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John Clark
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Canberra
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Notre Dame
This month: 2 (413 players)
This month: 1 (435 players)
One year ago: ( players)
Highest position: 1
Months in Hot 40: 4
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Canberra
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Zooloretto
This month: 3 (402 players)
This month: 21 (199 players)
One year ago: ( players)
Highest position: 3
Months in Hot 40: 2
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John Clark
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Canberra
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Puerto Rico
This month: 4 (362 players)
This month: 3 (335 players)
One year ago: 2 (300 players)
Highest position: 1
Months in Hot 40: 31
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Canberra
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Age of Empires III: The Age of Discovery
This month: 5 (348 players)
This month: 8 (300 players)
One year ago: ( players)
Highest position: 5
Months in Hot 40: 2
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Canberra
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Settlers of Catan, The
This month: 6 (341 players)
This month: 5 (322 players)
One year ago: 5 (267 players)
Highest position: 2
Months in Hot 40: 31
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John Clark
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Canberra
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Power Grid
This month: 7 (333 players)
This month: 4 (326 players)
One year ago: 10 (230 players)
Highest position: 4
Months in Hot 40: 31
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John Clark
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Canberra
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Lost Cities
This month: 8 (324 players)
This month: 6 (310 players)
One year ago: 7 (244 players)
Highest position: 4
Months in Hot 40: 31
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John Clark
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Canberra
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Bohnanza
This month: 9 (291 players)
This month: 14 (240 players)
One year ago: 12 (200 players)
Highest position: 6
Months in Hot 40: 31
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John Clark
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Canberra
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Caylus Magna Carta
This month: 10 (286 players)
This month: 63 (118 players)
One year ago: ( players)
Highest position: 10
Months in Hot 40: 1
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Canberra
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Ticket to Ride
This month: 11 (285 players)
This month: 7 (301 players)
One year ago: 6 (253 players)
Highest position: 1
Months in Hot 40: 31
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Board Game: Ra
[Average Rating:7.60 Overall Rank:48]
John Clark
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Canberra
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Ra
This month: 12 (278 players)
This month: 12 (244 players)
One year ago: 8 (234 players)
Highest position: 3
Months in Hot 40: 31
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John Clark
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Canberra
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Yspahan
This month: 13 (254 players)
This month: 9 (285 players)
One year ago: ( players)
Highest position: 5
Months in Hot 40: 8
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John Clark
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Canberra
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San Juan
This month: 14 (250 players)
Last month: 10 (275 players)
One year ago: 9 (231 players)
Highest position: 4
Months in Hot 40: 31
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Canberra
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Coloretto
This month: 15 (231 players)
Last month: 21 (199 players)
One year ago: 21 (149 players)
Highest position: 14
Months in Hot 40: 31
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John Clark
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Canberra
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Citadels
This month: 16 (224 players)
Last month: 17 (218 players)
One year ago: 14 (167 players)
Highest position: 9
Months in Hot 40: 31
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Canberra
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Hey! That's My Fish!
This month: 17 (219 players)
Last month: 18 (209 players)
One year ago: 30 (125 players)
Highest position: 7
Months in Hot 40: 14
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John Clark
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Canberra
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Colosseum
This month: 18 (217 players)
Last month: 11 (272 players)
One year ago: ( players)
Highest position: 11
Months in Hot 40: 2
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John Clark
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Canberra
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Arkham Horror
This month: 19 (209 players)
Last month: 24 (194 players)
One year ago: 37 (114 players)
Highest position: 8
Months in Hot 40: 16
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John Clark
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Canberra
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Thurn and Taxis
This month: 20 (207 players)
Last month: 16 (233 players)
One year ago: 1 (339 players)
Highest position: 1
Months in Hot 40: 16
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Canberra
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Ingenious
This month: 21 (202 players)
Last month: 20 (208 players)
One year ago: 17 (155 players)
Highest position: 11
Months in Hot 40: 30
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John Clark
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Canberra
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Pillars of the Earth, The
This month: 21 (202 players)
Last month: 13 (243 players)
One year ago: ( players)
Highest position: 2
Months in Hot 40: 5
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Canberra
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Alhambra
This month: 23 (200 players)
Last month: 27 (181 players)
One year ago: 13 (179 players)
Highest position: 10
Months in Hot 40: 31
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Canberra
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BattleLore
This month: 24 (197 players)
Last month: 15 (235 players)
One year ago: ( players)
Highest position: 1
Months in Hot 40: 8
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Canberra
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Diamant
This month: 24 (197 players)
Last month: 23 (196 players)
One year ago: 42 (101 players)
Highest position: 14
Months in Hot 40: 24
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Posted Wed Aug 1, 2007 9:41 am
Canberra
ACT
1 Age of Empires III: The Age of Discovery (120 mins)
2 Power Grid (120 mins)
3 Arkham Horror (180 mins)
4 Puerto Rico (90 mins)
5 Notre Dame (75 mins)
6 Settlers of Catan, The (90 mins)
7 Twilight Struggle (180 mins)
8 Descent: Journeys in the Dark (240 mins)
9 Pillars of the Earth, The (120 mins)
10 Twilight Imperium 3rd Edition (240 mins)
11 Caylus (120 mins)
12 Ticket to Ride (75 mins)
13 Carcassonne (45 mins)
14 Yspahan (75 mins)
15 Zooloretto (45 mins)
16 Tigris & Euphrates (90 mins)
17 Age of Steam (180 mins)
18 RoboRally (120 mins)
19 Shogun (150 mins)
20 Railroad Tycoon (120 mins)
21 Imperial (120 mins)
22 Bohnanza (45 mins)
23 Caylus Magna Carta (45 mins)
24 Colosseum (60 mins)
25 Ticket to Ride: Europe (75 mins)
26 Ra (45 mins)
27 Princes of Florence, The (90 mins)
28 Alhambra (60 mins)
29 Goa (90 mins)
30 BattleLore (60 mins)
31 San Juan (45 mins)
32 War of the Ring (180 mins)
33 Runebound Second Edition (180 mins)
34 Amun-Re (90 mins)
35 Citadels (45 mins)
36 El Grande (90 mins)
37 Shadows over Camelot (60 mins)
38 Thurn and Taxis (45 mins)
39 Tikal (90 mins)
40 Vikings (60 mins)
Aalborg
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You might want to cut down on the 'this month's' though
Zabcice
Xiangtan
Hunan
If this damn Chinese connection goes down one more time and loses me another post...
Anyway...
I had a nice long example showing that weighting a unique # of plays list for length of the game...doesn't make any sense.
I also showed that weighting a # of plays list (non-unique) by game weight is very cool, and gives us the total # of gaming minutes spent on each game. That's actually a much more useful statistic than the unique # of players I think. The problem is getting an accurate game length #, as I think some people still argue that the stated #'s aren't accurate...
Other than that gripe, a very cool list
Canberra
ACT
I had a nice long example showing that weighting a unique # of plays list for length of the game...doesn't make any sense.
I also showed that weighting a # of plays list (non-unique) by game weight is very cool, and gives us the total # of gaming minutes spent on each game. That's actually a much more useful statistic than the unique # of players I think. The problem is getting an accurate game length #, as I think some people still argue that the stated #'s aren't accurate...
I think I understand where you are coming from - multiplying number of players by game length does not produce a number that is 'meaningful', in the sense that you can't call it anything. However, it is simply a rough attempt to adjust the number of unique players for the tendency of players to play shorter games rather than longer. That is, Descent is played by less people than Lost Cities partly because Lost Cities is a much shorter game. As I said in the June edition of the list, I think that the play time weight is a bit too much in favour of longer games.
Weighting for game complexity is another way of doing the same thing, which would have a high correlation with game length - longer games tend to be more complex.
I agree that accurate play times are a problem, and vary a lot for each game. For example, I can play 3-player Settlers in 25 minutes while some people have 4-player games which go from 3 hours!
In addition, games played online can be much quicker.