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Each year since 1980, GAMES Magazine has published a Buyer's Guide to Games in their year-end holiday issue. Except for once or twice in the early 1980s, the article has listed and reviewed one hundred games each year, and was thus dubbed The GAMES 100.

Early in the feature's history, the article served as a reference to many games available on the market, new and old, listing such long-time classic titles as Monopoly, Clue, and Scrabble--and even the occasional toy like Frisbee. In later years, the feature has focused more and more on recognizing the best and most unique new board and card games.

In 1991, GAMES also began recognizing the favorites in each category with a special Best designation, and has selected one game from the whole list to receive the highest honor of Game of the Year.

Through the early 1990s, more and more electronic games were included in the list, with the computer game Myst even winning Game of the Year in 1994. Beginning the following year, computer and cartridge games were split off and given their own separate Electronic Games 100 section.

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Game of the Year
TZAAR (Temporarily Out of Stock)
List: $32.95 $26.50 (20% savings!)
TZAAR is a game about making choices. There are 3 types of pieces, which form a trinity: They cannot exist without each other. The aim is either to make the opponent run out of one type of pieces or to put him in a position in which he cannot capture.

Best Abstract Strategy Game
Ponte del Diavolo (Temporarily Out of Stock) English language edition
List: $24.95 $19.95 (20% savings!)
With Ponte del Diavolo, Martin Ebel honors Alex Randolph's most famous game, Twixt, by bringing new elements to this excellent game. In this game, the players build stone bridges over the many canals of Venice. Players score for each successful...

Best Advanced Strategy Game
Key Harvest a Richard Breese "Key" game
List: $49.95 $39.99 (20% savings!)
The object of the game in Key Harvest is to score the most points. Players score points by placing tiles on their own country board. One point is scored for each field tile in the player's largest group of connected field tiles and two points for each...

Best Family Game
Pandemic
List: $39.99 $31.99 (20% savings!)
Four diseases have broken out in the world and it is up to a team of specialists in various fields to find cures for these diseases before mankind is wiped out.

Best Family Card Game
Palastgeflüster (Currently Unavailable)
$9.95 There's discontent in the courtyard of the king, and intrigue abounds: The courtyard marshal has vanished with the treasurer, and the maid is whispering with the magician. Whoever remains will be rewarded with the favor of the king.

Best Family Strategy Game
Stone Age English language edition
List: $44.95 $35.99 (20% savings!)
The times were hard indeed. Our ancestors worked with their legs and backs straining against wooden plows in the stony earth. Of course, progress did not stop with the wooden plow. People always searched for better tools and more productive plants to...

Best Party Game
Go Nuts!
List: $6.49 $5.95 (8% savings!)
Take your cheeky chances on this quick playing dice game of nut gathering nuttiness. Pile up points by rolling the dice and adding up acorns, while avoiding any cars along the way. If you roll all squirrels, scurry to score as many nuts as you can...

Best Puzzle
Doris This totally amazing set of 24 octagonal tiles with all combinations of 3 colors on their edges has millions of solutions! Or only 2, or 8, depending on what you attempt. Funagain Games does not stock this edition of this title, usually because it's out of print.

Best Word Game
Jumbulaya (Restocking)
List: $29.95 $26.99 (10% savings!) Jumbulaya is an addictive, multi-faceted word strategy game in which each player works with five letter tiles on his/her tray and all the letters on the board, rearranging, adding, and trading them, building and claiming longer and longer words each turn.

Best Historical Simulation Game
Pacific Typhoon revised version of Atlantic Storm
List: $40.00 $31.95 (20% savings!)
Pacific Typhoon is a strategy card game for 4-6 players, ages 10 to adult. The game uses the same system that first appeared in the popular 1998 Avalon Hill card game Atlantic Storm.
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