102) Splendor

This game is awesome. It takes about a minute to explain how to play and there is some fun strategy involved. Each turn a player can do one of the following: take some gems, purchase a card, or pick up a card for future purchase. Each card has a cost in the bottom left and a resource it produces once purchased. Additionally some cards have a point value. First person to collect 15 points wins.

Ready to start

Pieces are great

My final collection

3-player game

I really like this game. The ease of learning the game coupled with the strategy and planning make for a fun game. It's probably considered a race game as eventually you build up enough resources to snowball into buying all the cards you want, its just a matter of who can get there first. Although, in one of the games we played one player went straight for the big points and ended up destroying the other players. All in all I would highly recommend this game.

101) Endeavor

In this game you're building buildings, gaining influence, upgrading abilities, and unlocking special cards and new areas on the board. So much to try and wrangle into a cohesive strategy.

Each player gets their own player board...

...and can play on the shared board.

Opening up new spots

5-player game

I enjoyed this game and now that I know how it plays I want to try again. As you reach the end of your first game you start to think 'oh, I wish I had planned better for that...'. The game play itself is very smooth and easy to follow. It starts out slow with relatively simple decisions and before you know it you've ramped up to more complex turns and decisions that define the outcome of the game. Really neat game that combines a lot of different things very nicely.

100) Incan Gold

This is a quick and easy press your luck game. Each turn you flip up a card. That card can either be a good (blue) card that awards gold to each player still in that round or a bad (red) card. If the round doesn't end players have the choice to stay to see another card (and risk losing all their gold) or bank their gold and wait for next round. Once there are two of the same red card flipped up the round ends immediately and players who haven't banked their gold lose everything from that round.

Box may contain gold.

Trouble is brewing

Storing my gold in my tent

This is a fun game of calculating odds and taking risks with some fun twists. It's fast and easy to learn and doesn't take much thinking. It's perfect as a filler game. As I tend to enjoy games with more depth, this one won't be in my top favorites, but its certainly worth a try if you haven't played it before.

99) Saboteur

In this game each player is a dwarf working in the mines. Some players are trying to build tunnels to the gold whereas other players are saboteurs trying to thwart their plays. Of course everyone's identity is secret so you may figure out the hard way who each player is.

My hand

Slowly digging some tunnels

This is a good game for larger groups. It plays really quickly and is easy to teach. There is a bit of strategy although its a fairly linear game. A lot of the fun of the game is trying to figure out whether or not players are saboteurs. We ended up playing three times in a row as I've found this game tends to suck you into multiple plays.

98) Cockroach Poker

Another light, quick, fun game. In this game you pass a card face down to another player and claim its a certain insect. The player has two choices, they can call you on it saying either it is or is not what you claim it to be OR they can look at the card and then pass it to another player and claim its an insect of their choice. I had fun passing my cards and claiming every time that it was a stink bug, it really makes people start to wonder what's going on. Additionally when the odds were in my favor it was fun to have a player pick a card randomly out of my hand and make them question whether or not I actually was able to say what it was without looking.

Cute Art

6-player game

Oops, the goal is to not get these

This is a fun game to play although in the end its mostly a game of chance. I don't like that based on the odds you should (almost) always look at the card and pass it on as you have a 66% chance of not losing if you look vs. 50% chance if you challenge. I also don't like that each round has a loser who supposedly doesn't play again until only one player is left. We just played a few rounds without any consequences for losing, but I generally don't enjoy the player elimination mechanic.

97) Mascarade

This game is very similar to coup in that you have secret identities with different potential actions. On your turn you claim to have a certain character and thus do the corresponding action. Other players have a chance to challenge. Players aren't eliminated as in coup, but rather, the goal is to accumulate a certain amount of money to win.

Getting ready to start 

6-player game

We all enjoyed the game enough to play a second time. It plays rather quickly and is a good filler game. Not too much strategy, but trading (or not trading) character cards with other players adds a fun element to the game. If you like coup you'll enjoy this.

96) Through the Desert

This is a fun little game thats easy to learn. The initial set-up has each player in turn placing one of their camels on the board until all camels have been placed. Then on your turn you place two camels of your choosing next to any of your corresponding colored camels. You're collecting points along the way and scoring points at the end based on areas you've enclosed.

Team meeting before starting 

Placed and ready to conquer

Wish I had gotten more of these during the game

Board is developing

This game is really easy to learn and doesn't take too long to play. There is limited strategy involved although you do have to hedge your bets for future plays and take advantage of opportunities as they arise. The primary strategy or skill in this game is seeing those opportunities. I would recommend giving this one a try. It leaves me with the feeling that I could do better and thus want to play again, but it doesn't fill the deeper need for a more complex strategy game.