Each year since 1980, GAMES Magazine has published a Buyer's Guide to Games in their year-end holiday issue. The article lists and reviews one hundred games each year, and is therefore known as the "Games 100". The list features the very best games published in the last year.
This is a list of the games selected by Games Magazine for the year 2003, courtesy of Funagain Games:
Game of the Year
- Dvonn (Don and Co / Rio Grande)
Abstract Strategy
- Pueblo (Ravensburger USA / Rio Grande)
- Warp6 (Pair-of-Dice Games)
- Knockabout (Pair-of-Dice Games)
- Halleluja (Piatnik)
- Blokus (Sekkoia)
- Hive (Gen Four Two Games)
- San Gimignano (Piatnik)
- Agora (Cheapass Games)
Advanced Strategy
- Puerto Rico (Alea / Rio Grande)
- Wallenstein (Queen)
- Liberté (Warfrog)
- Java (Ravensburger Germany / Rio Grande)
- Die Magier von Pangea (Queen)
- Im Zeichen des Kreuzes (Queen)
- Entdecker (Kosmos / Mayfair Games)
- Funkenschlag (2F Spiele)
Family Games
- Emerald (Abacus)
- The Touch (Anthony Innovations)
- Magic Hill (Ravensburger USA)
- Dragon Land (Ravensburger Germany / Rio Grande)
- TransAmerica (Winning Moves Germany / Winsome Games / Rio Grande)
- Carcassonne: The Expansion (Hans im Gluck / Rio Grande)
- Top Secret Spies (Amigo / Rio Grande)
- Clash of the Gladiators (Hans im Gluck / Rio Grande)
- Africa (Goldsieber / Rio Grande)
- Kingdoms (Fantasy Flight Games)
- Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation (Fantasy Flight Games)
- Kupferkessel Co. (Goldsieber)
- Royal Turf (Alea)
- Hexen Rennen (Queen)
- Hick Hack in Gackelwack (Zoch)
- Lumberjack (Schmidt Spiele)
- The Settlers of Canaan (Mayfair Games / Cactus Game Design)
- Solomon's Temple (Talicor)
- Brewmaster: The Craft Beer Game (Cold Creek Publishing Company)
- Gouda! Gouda! (Eurogames Descartes USA)
- The Legend of Landlock (Gamewright)
- SuitUP (CoCoCo)
Family Card Games
- Vom Kap bis Kairo (Adlung Spiele)
- The Settlers of Catan Card Game expansions (Mayfair Games)
- Too Many Cooks (R&R Games>
- Tin Soldiers (R&R Games>
- Citadels (Fantasy Flight Games>
- Die Pyramiden des Jaguar (Kosmos>
- Alles im Eimer (Kosmos>
- Ebbe & Flut (Adlung Spiele>
- Pompeji (Adlung Spiele>
- Der Herr der Ringe: Die Gefährten: Das Kartenspiel (Ravensburger Germany>
- Alibi (Adlung Spiele>
- Combit (Winning Moves Germany>
- You're Bluffing! (Ravensburger USA>
- Xactika (Set Enterprises>
- Babel (Kosmos / Rio Grande>
- Wyatt Earp (Alea / Rio Grande>
- The Gnumies (Amigo / Rio Grande)
- Where's Bob's Hat? (Abacus / Rio Grande)
- Golden Deuce (Playroom Entertainment)
- Cube Farm (Cheapass Games)
- Nexus (Cheapass Games)
- Theophrastus (Mayfair Games)
- Who Stole Ed's Pants? (Eight Foot Llama)
Family Strategy Games
- Mexica (Ravensburger Germany / Rio Grande)
- Urland (Doris and Frank)
- San Marco (Ravensburger USA>
- Santa Fe Rails (GMT Games>
- The Starfarers of Catan 5-6 player expansion (Kosmos / Mayfair Games>
- Monkeys on the Moon (Eight Foot Llama>
- Evo (Eurogames Descartes USA>
- Armada 3 (Eurogames Descartes USA>
- Lord of the Rings: Friends & Foes expansion (Fantasy Flight Games>
- Dschunke (Queen>
- Atlantic Star (Queen>
- Tyros (Kosmos>
- Die sieben Weisen (Alea>
- Goldland (Goldsieber>
- Pampas Railroads (Winsome Games>
- Warhamster Rally (Jolly Roger Games>
- Pizarro & Co. (Hans im Gluck / Rio Grande>
- The Traders of Genoa (Alea / Rio Grande>
Historical Simulation Games
- Wilderness War (GMT Games)
- Zero! (GMT Games)
- War! Age of Imperialism (Eagle Games>
- Red Badge of Courage (GMT Games>
- Thirty Years War (GMT Games>
Manual Dexterity Games
- Villa Paletti (Zoch)
- Fubi (Fubi-Spielvertieb)
- Cairo (Schmidt Spiele>
- Superplexus (Hasbro>
Puzzles
- Nemesis Factor (Hasbro)
- Coast to Coast Puzzle (Binary Arts)
- Roadside Rescue (Binary Arts>
- Cube Brick (Avax Corporation / Kadon Enterprises>
- Color Up (Avax Corporation / Kadon Enterprises>
- Mad Triada> (Playroom Entertainment>
- Scramble Squares: Football (B Dazzle>
- Scramble Squares: Forest Animals (B Dazzle>
- Scramble Squares: Frogs (B Dazzle>
- Scramble Squares: Golf (B Dazzle>
- Scramble Squares: Pufferbellies (B Dazzle>
- Scramble Squares: Retro Rods (B Dazzle>
- Scramble Squares: Tropical Fish (B Dazzle>
- Scramble Squares: Turtles (B Dazzle>
- Scramble Squares: Vintage Tractors (B Dazzle>
Party Games
- Moods (Hasbro)
- Phoney Baloney (Thing-O)
- Switch (Out of the Box Publishing>
- The Birthday Game (Late for the Sky>
- Draco & Co. (Eurogames Descartes USA>
See Also: Other Award-Winning Board Games, Games 100 Winners for Other Years
