Did you ever wonder: ♞ What makes Clue the best movie based on a game franchise? ♝ What does the doubling cube in backgammon do? ♜ How trains are even supposed to operate in Ticket to Ride: Antarctica? ♛ How the designer of the board game Pandemic feels now that he’s lived through an actual global pandemic? ♚ Whatever happened to the Monopoly game show from the 90s? Based on Ranker’s poll of almost 400,000 votes, these games define us. From multiple-award winning masterpieces of the past decade, to indestructible classics still going strong after 5,000 years of play, these are the games you must play before you die. Well, except for Sorry!. That game is a blight upon this list and mankind as a whole. Excuse me. What I’m trying to say is that I wrote this book about games, and I thought you might like it