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SALT LAKE CITY — The board game bracket challenge continues, though a lot of the modern games have been tossed out of contention. So if you're a fan of the classics, you're in luck!
The biggest winner from last week's Round of 32 voting was none other than ... Pandemic! No, not COVID-19, though it's certainly keeping everyone home, but the board game released in 2008 that pretends (maybe a little too accurately) several diseases have broken out all over the world. The game claimed 75% of the vote over Dungeon Mayhem.
The two other big winners were Yahtzee, the old-time dice classic, and card game Exploding Kittens. Each game garnered 73% of the vote against its competitor. But the closest matchup of the day was between Chess and Sorry. In the end, Chess edged out Sorry with 11 more votes — very close!
As a reminder, the 64 games were seeded based on its ranking on boardgamegeek.com and slated into the bracket in a similar style to the NCAA Tournament.
The Sweet 16 round of voting will go all through Wednesday and will conclude at midnight. The Elite 8 round will be released Friday.
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Board games
To learn more about each game, click on its title, which will direct you to its Board Game Geek page. Maybe you'll find a new game to play.
- Gloomhaven
- Terraforming Mars
- Great Western Trail
- Scythe
- Wingspan
- Puerto Rico
- Orleans
- Agricola
- Blood Rage
- Root
- Power Grid
- Azul
- 7 Wonders
- Clank!
- Rising Sun
- Codenames
- Dominion
- Pandemic
- Quacks of Quedlinburg
- Stone Age
- Cosmic Encounter
- Splendor
- Ticket to Ride
- Viticulture
- Cyclades
- Carcassonne
- Secret Hitler
- Sushi Go Party
- Telestrations
- Arboretum
- King of Tokyo
- Flash Point: Fire Rescue
- Sheriff of Nottingham
- Settlers of Catan
- Shadows Over Camelot
- Evolution
- Bohnanza
- Chess
- Coup
- Betrayal at House on the Hill
- Blokus
- Qwirkle
- Smash Up
- Machi Koro
- Axis & Allies
- Labyrinth
- Dragonwood
- Bananagrams
- Scrabble
- Dungeon Mayhem
- Unstable Unicorns
- Sequence
- Exploding Kittens
- Apples to Apples
- Clue
- Risk
- Yahtzee
- Connect Four
- Sorry
- Monopoly
- The Game of Life
- Candy Land
- Chutes & Ladders
- Cones of Dunshire
