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Board Games Timeline - Honorable Mentions

Not quite part of the 50 most significant games published since 1800

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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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