The best games from Mike Elliott 🇺🇸👨 2023
Looking for a really good game from game designer Mike Elliott 👨? Then we have just the thing: the list with the best Mike Elliott games 2023.
Who is Mike Elliott anyway?
Mike Elliott has been designing dice, card & board games since 1993. The game designer hails from Seattle, USA🇺🇸, was born in 1962 and still lives in Seattle 🇺🇸. He is also known as Michael Elliott.
Elliott's first game Dirtside II he developed in 1993 at the age of 31 - so he has been designing games for over 30 years. Famous Elliott games are for example Thunderstone, some Magic: The Gathering Expansions or Shadowrun: Crossfire.
"Most prolific Magic Designer"
Magic lead designer Mark Rosewater called him "one of the most prolific Magic designers in the history of the game." At the 2017 Origins Game Fair, he was inducted into the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design Hall of Fame.
From bridge player to Magic expansion author
While living in Phoenix, Arizona, in the early 1990s, Elliott and several of his friends were active bridge players and regularly competed in tournaments. One night after a tournament, a friend introduced the group to the trading card game Magic: The Gathering. When Elliott returned home, he purchased the game and began participating in Magic tournaments. During a Magic tournament at Arizona State University, Elliott told two fellow players what he thought was wrong with the game. During the conversation, they revealed that they worked for Wizards of the Coast. One of them, Joel Mick, invited Elliott to fly to Seattle and interview for a job with the company.
How good are "Mike Elliott" games?
There are 9 games by Mike Elliott in our Top1000 games list, making Elliott the #18 best game author out of a total of 708 authors in our database.
More information about Elliott
More information about Elliott can be found on:
- Elliott's BGG profile
- Elliott's Twitter feed
- official Mike Elliott website
- Wikipedia entry for Elliott
List of best games by Mike Elliott 2023
In this list we have listed the best board games that Mike Elliott either designed himself - or was involved in designing.
Unfortunately, not all of Mike Elliott's games are currently available. In the following list you can find all dice, board & card games by Mike Elliott that you can buy 2023:
Battle Spirits: Trading Card Game
- 2 - 4 Players
- 45 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Immediately playable
Speechless
- 3 - 8 Players
- 45 - 90 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Immediately playable
Thunderstone Quest
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Thunderstone Quest- 2 - 4 Players
- 60 - 90 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Mechwarrior Solaris VII
- 2 - 8 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Immediately playable
Quarriors!
Nominated for 6 awards and won 1.
More details for Quarriors!- 2 - 4 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
Marvel Dice Masters: Avengers vs. X-Men
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Marvel Dice Masters: Avengers vs. X-Men- 2 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
Dungeons & Dragons Dice Masters: Battle for Faerûn
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Dungeons & Dragons Dice Masters: Battle for Faerûn- 2 Players
- 30 - 60 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
Marvel Dice Masters: The Amazing Spider-Man
- 2 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
Marvel Dice Masters: Uncanny X-Men
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Marvel Dice Masters: Uncanny X-Men- 2 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
Quarriors! Qultimate Quedition
- 2 - 4 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
DC Comics Dice Masters: Justice League
- 2 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
Final Touch
- 2 - 4 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Thunderstone Advance: Towers of Ruin
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Thunderstone Advance: Towers of Ruin- 1 - 5 Players
- 45 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Terror Below
- 1 - 5 Players
- 45 - 60 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Easy to learn
Dungeons & Dragons Dice Masters: Faerûn Under Siege
- 2 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
Thunderstone
Nominated for 4 awards.
More details for Thunderstone- 1 - 5 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Axis & Allies: War at Sea
- 2 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Easy to learn
Thunderstone: Dragonspire
Nominated for 2 awards.
More details for Thunderstone: Dragonspire- 1 - 5 Players
- 45 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Video reviews for Thunderstone: Dragonspire
DC Comics Dice Masters: World's Finest
- 2 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
🔥 Great price!18€ at.de
DC Comics Dice Masters: War of Light
- 2 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
🔥 Great price!130€ at.de
Marvel Dice Masters: Age of Ultron
- 2 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
Agent Hunter
- 2 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Immediately playable
Thunderstone Advance: Worlds Collide
- 1 - 5 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Star Trek: Conflick in the Neutral Zone
- 2 - 4 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Immediately playable
🔥 Great price!25€ at.de
Star Trek: Fleet Captains
Nominated for 2 awards.
More details for Star Trek: Fleet Captains- 2 - 4 Players
- 90 - 120 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Medium difficulty
DC HeroClix: Batman (Alpha)
- 30 Minutes
- Immediately playable
Yu-Gi-Oh! Dice Masters
- 2 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
Marvel Dice Masters: Civil War
- 2 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Medium difficulty
👍 Good price!18€ at.de
Shadowrun: Crossfire
- 1 - 4 Players
- 30 - 60 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Thunderstone: Starter Set
- 2 - 5 Players
- 45 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Easy to learn
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