Greatest board games

Requested by a visitor · October 24, 2026

We asked 10 models: The greatest board games of all time. Each named its own top 10.

Agreement between models

52%

Same model, run twice

74%

Different picks

29

When agreement between models is well below a model's agreement with itself, the split reflects real differences in taste rather than randomness.

The consensus

Each cell is the position that model gave the pick; blank means it left the pick off. Click a row for each model's reasoning.

#	Pick	Score	Listed by	Claude Haiku 5.5	GPT-6 Luna	Gemini 4 Argon	Qwen 3.8 Flash	DeepSeek V4 Pro	GLM-5.3	Kimi K3	MiniMax M3	Mistral Large 4	Nemotron 3 Ultra
1	Chess		9/10	1	1	1	1	2	1	1		1	1
2	Go		9/10	2	2	2	2	1	2	2		2	2
3	Catan		9/10	3	5	3	5	6	7	5		5	8
4	Pandemic		6/10	5		6		3	3	6		7
5	Twilight Struggle		7/10			4	10	8	5	3		3	10
6	Brass: Birmingham		6/10				8	5	6	4	3	9
7	Gloomhaven		4/10			5			8		1	8
8	Scrabble		4/10	6	4		6	7
9	Bridge		3/10		6							4	3
10	Carcassonne		6/10	7	9	7		10		7		6
11	Terraforming Mars		5/10			9	7			9	5		6
12	Terra Mystica		3/10			8			4		4
13	Diplomacy		2/10					4					5
14	Ticket to Ride		4/10	4	8			9				10
15	Backgammon		2/10		3								7

14 lower-scoring picks are not shown; every ballot below lists them in full.

Every ballot

Hover a pick to find it on the other ballots. Marked picks appear on no other ballot.

Claude Haiku 5.5

1. Chess
2. Go
3. Catan
4. Ticket to Ride
5. Pandemic
6. Scrabble
7. Carcassonne
8. Monopoly
9. Azul
10. Risk

81% with consensus · 97% self-consistent

GPT-6 Luna

1. Chess
2. Go
3. Backgammon
4. Scrabble
5. Catan
6. Bridge
7. Poker
8. Ticket to Ride
9. Carcassonne
10. Risk

68% with consensus · 83% self-consistent

Gemini 4 Argon

1. Chess
2. Go
3. Catan
4. Twilight Struggle
5. Gloomhaven
6. Pandemic
7. Carcassonne
8. Terra Mystica
9. Terraforming Mars
10. The Castles of Burgundy

87% with consensus · 69% self-consistent

Qwen 3.8 Flash

1. Chess
2. Go
3. Monopoly
4. The Castles of Burgundy
5. Catan
6. Scrabble
7. Terraforming Mars
8. Brass: Birmingham
9. Risk
10. Twilight Struggle

69% with consensus · 58% self-consistent

DeepSeek V4 Pro

1. Go
2. Chess
3. Pandemic
4. Diplomacy
5. Brass: Birmingham
6. Catan
7. Scrabble
8. Twilight Struggle
9. Ticket to Ride
10. Carcassonne

66% with consensus · 62% self-consistent

GLM-5.3

1. Chess
2. Go
3. Pandemic
4. Terra Mystica
5. Twilight Struggle
6. Brass: Birmingham
7. Catan
8. Gloomhaven
9. Dominion
10. Scythe

84% with consensus · 88% self-consistent

Kimi K3

1. Chess
2. Go
3. Twilight Struggle
4. Brass: Birmingham
5. Catan
6. Pandemic
7. Carcassonne
8. Through the Ages
9. Terraforming Mars
10. Dominion

81% with consensus · 80% self-consistent

MiniMax M3

1. Gloomhaven
2. Twilight Imperium
3. Brass: Birmingham
4. Terra Mystica
5. Terraforming Mars
6. Concordia
7. Arcs
8. Through the Ages
9. Ark Nova
10. Root

8% with consensus · 38% self-consistent

Mistral Large 4

1. Chess
2. Go
3. Twilight Struggle
4. Bridge
5. Catan
6. Carcassonne
7. Pandemic
8. Gloomhaven
9. Brass: Birmingham
10. Ticket to Ride

80% with consensus · 70% self-consistent

Nemotron 3 Ultra

1. Chess
2. Go
3. Bridge
4. Poker
5. Diplomacy
6. Terraforming Mars
7. Backgammon
8. Catan
9. Magic: The Gathering
10. Twilight Struggle

61% with consensus · 90% self-consistent

Who agrees with whom

Overlap between two models' lists, weighted toward the top · 100 means identical · Color runs from 0 (lightest) to 86 (darkest)

	Claude Haiku 5.5	GPT-6 Luna	Gemini 4 Argon	Qwen 3.8 Flash	DeepSeek V4 Pro	GLM-5.3	Kimi K3	MiniMax M3	Mistral Large 4	Nemotron 3 Ultra
Claude Haiku 5.5		73	79	72	59	67	72	0	71	59
GPT-6 Luna	73		65	69	52	60	65	0	71	71
Gemini 4 Argon	79	65		66	54	77	83	11	83	61
Qwen 3.8 Flash	72	69	66		53	63	68	6	66	63
DeepSeek V4 Pro	59	52	54	53		66	61	7	55	51
GLM-5.3	67	60	77	63	66		78	17	74	60
Kimi K3	72	65	83	68	61	78		13	86	61
MiniMax M3	0	0	11	6	7	17	13		4	5
Mistral Large 4	71	71	83	66	55	74	86	4		70
Nemotron 3 Ultra	59	71	61	63	51	60	61	5	70