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Board Games Timeline - Honorable Mentions

From Erik Arneson,
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Not quite part of the 50 most significant games published since 1800

These games didn't make it into the Top 50 for various reasons, but deserve to be mentioned as culturally and historically significant modern games.

  • Authors (1861, G.M. Whipple & A.A. Smith)
  • Carrom (1896, Ludington Novelty Company)
  • Little Wars (1913, H.G. Wells)
  • Bridge (1925, Harold Vanderbilt)
  • Salvo - ancestor of Battleship (1931, Starex Novelty Co.)
  • Canasta (1939, Segundo Sanchez)
  • Careers (1955, James Cooke Brown)
  • Stratego (1961, Milton Bradley)
  • Panzer Blitz (1970, James F. Dunnigan)
  • Odyssey I (1972, Magnavox)
  • 1829 (1974, Francis Tresham)
  • Clue VCR Mystery Game (1985, Parker Brothers)
  • Taboo (1989, Brian Hersch)
  • Guesstures (1990, Milton Bradley)
  • Cranium (1998, Cranium)
  • Lord of the Rings (2000, Reiner Knizia)

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