Thanks to everyone who commented on my post last week with your top five filler games - this has really helped with my selections.

This week I would like to ask you all what your top 5 2 player games are. I have a few potential 2 player games which are on my probable list, but your suggestions of your personal top 5 would be most appreciated.

Of the releasedgames I have tried I would say

1. War of the Ring
2. Memoir 44

1 Memoir 44
2 Battle Line
3 LoTR - The Confrontation
4 Blue Moon
5 Lost Cities

Not that you needed me to tell you that; you should have been able to guess

1. Memoir '44
2. Battle Line
3. Yinsh
4. LOTR - The Confrontation
5. Lost Cities

I suspect BattleLore will be my main favourite when it's released.

Recently I'm playing a lot of games with just two players, even though the games themselves aren't 2-player games.

So these past few weeks my top 5 two-player games would have to be

1) Ticket to Ride:Europe
2) Magic:The Gathering
3) LOTR:Confrontation
4) Lost Cities
5) Settlers of Catan

and 6th would be Heroscape with the kids (ages 8 and 9)

I hope that helps...
Simon

In no particular order, these are games my wife and I, or my friends and I enjoy regualrly as two player games:

Battle Line
Lost Cities
Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation
Castle
Thurn and Taxis
Reef Encounter
Starfarers of Catan (with a variant here on BGG)
Elfenland (with a variant here on BGG)
Elasund
Torres
Fairy Tale
Citadels

Some of these are better than others, but these are all games I highly enjoy whether two player or otherwise.

Good luck!

Cheers!

Giles.

1. Commands & Colors: Ancients
2. Roma
3. Battle Line
4. Aton
5. Coppertwaddle

YINSH
La Città
Settlers Cardgame
Puerto Rico
PÜNCT
(Ticket to Ride
Phoenix)

Crokinole
Roma
Kupferkessel
YINSH

Battle Line/Phoenix/Carrousel/Gene Pool are vying for the last slot.

my choice :
dvonn
objectif catan
lost cities
battle line
Mr Jack

and as soon as possible : battlelore :-)

Currently, subject to change, and not necessarily in strict order:

1. EastFront
2. Wiz-War
3. Command and Colors: Ancients
4. Mag-Blast
5. Mystery Rummy: Jack the Ripper

I won't be much help as most of my answers you have already seen.

5. Babel
4. Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation
3. YINSH
2. PUNCT
1. Jambo

My collection isn't that big, but FWIW here's my top 5:

1. LOTR - Confrontation
2. Catan Card Game
3. San Juan
4. Lost Cities
5. Odin's Ravens

1. Odin's Ravens
2. Yinsh
3. Lost Cities
4. MR: Jack the Ripper
5. Caesar & Cleopatra

lately I'd say:
Go
Hive
Quarto
Backgammon
Carcassonne

1. Carcassonne -The City
2. Memoir '44
3. Blue Moon
4. Caylus
5. Puerto Rico

Hive
Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation
Quoridor
Twilight Struggle
YINSH

(In alphabetical order.)

Carcassonne
Caylus
Die Saulon der Erde (sp?)
Goa
'Settlers' card game

1) Caylus
2) Kahuna
3) Lost Cities
4) Travel Blokus
5) Fjords

Goa
Antiquity
Caylus
Tigris & Euphrates
Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage

Oddly enough only the last one is exclusively a two player game.

2 player only games:
Memoir 44
Battle Line
Streetsoccer
Carcassonne - The City
Blue Moon


Just games that play 2 players:
Memoir 44
Runebound 2nd Edition
Battle Line
Hey! That's My Fish
Through the Desert

For me, I'd say:

1. Phoenix
2. Times Square
3. Cribbage
4. Carcassonne (w/o all the expansions)
5. LOTR: The Confrontation

My top 5 games played with 2-players:
1. Reef Encounter
2. Caylus (but burned out after my made me play a billion times)
3. Cribbage
4. Volcano
5. Lost Cities

I also don't have a huge collection, but from what I've played:

1. LOTR: The confrontation
2. Bonaparte at Marengo
3. Battleline
4. ASL/ASLSK (would be #1 if I could only get more people to play it!)
5. War of the Ring (despite its flaws)

Blood Bowl: Living Rulebook (when played in a league)
A House Divided
Twilight Struggle
YINSH
Lord of the Rings: the Confrontation Deluxe Edition