10 most popular board games among Board Game Geek readers

It’s no secret that board games have become crazy popular in recent years — and that the flood of new titles means websites and online forums like BoardGameGeek.com have become the Yelp or Wikipedia of the gaming community. BoardGameGeek has information, video and reviews for more than 100,000 tabletop games of every variety, from European-style to party games, cards games and more.

So when the Dinesh Vatvani blog set out to analyze the most popular board games, the analysis used BoardGameGeek data to rank the top 50+ games by user rating, rather than sales. If you’re looking for a popular game to try, here’s the top 10 for inspiration.