The best games from Richard Garfield 🇺🇸👨 2023

Looking for a really good game from game designer Richard Garfield 👨? Then we have just the thing: the list with the best Richard Garfield games 2023.

Richard Garfield has become world famous for his smash hit "Magic the Gathering" - but he has also invented some other very good board & card games. We bring light into the darkness and have picked out the best for you.

Who is Richard Garfield anyway?

Richard Garfield has been designing dice, card & board games since 1993. The game designer hails from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA🇺🇸, was born in 1963 and currently lives in Kirkland, Washington, USA🇺🇸. His full name is Richard Channing Garfield.

Garfield's first game "Magic: The Gathering" he developed in 1993 at the age of 30 - so he has been designing games for over 30. Famous Garfield games include King of Tokyo, Magic: The Gathering, Android: Netrunner & RoboRally.

In 1998, Garfield was inducted into the Origins Award Hall of Fame.

Inventor of collectible card games... and patent holder

Richard Garfield is one of the most famous game designers in the world. He was granted a patent on trading card games for his first game, Magic: The Gathering - now a multi-billion dollar industry worldwide. Since then, he has designed many award-winning collectible card games and board games.

Garfield's childhood & youth

Richard Garfield spent his childhood traveling the world as his father worked in architecture. Eventually, they moved to Oregon when he was 12 years old. While initially interested in puzzles, his passion for games began with the discovery of Dungeons & Dragons. Richard Garfield designed his first game "RoboRally" at the age of 13 - but did not find a publisher until 1991, when he published it in 1994.

Professional career

Garfield earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computational mathematics in 1985. He then initially worked at Bell Labs, but eventually continued his studies at the University of Pennsylvania, this time in combinatorial mathematics. He then received a PhD in mathematics from the same university in 1993.

He was then a professor of mathematics at Whitman College before co-founding Wizards of the Coast (WofC) - also abbreviated as "Wizards" and the original publisher of Magic. Today, WofC is now owned by Hasbro.

Then, when Magic was published in 1993, Garfield decided to take a full-time job as a game developer.

How good are "Richard Garfield" games?

There are 9 games by Richard Garfield in our Top1000 games list, making Garfield the #18 best game author out of a total of 708 authors in our database.

More information about Garfield

More information about Garfield can be found on:

• Garfield's BGG profile
• Richard Garfield's Facebook page
• official Richard Garfield website
• english Wikipedia entry for Richard Garfield
• german Wikipedia entry for Garfield

List of best games by Richard Garfield 2023

In this list we have listed the best board games that Richard Garfield either designed himself - or was involved in designing.

Unfortunately, not all of Richard Garfield's games are currently available. In the following list you can find all dice, board & card games by Richard Garfield that you can buy 2023: