The best games from Sid Sackson 🇺🇸👨 2023

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

Who is Sid Sackson anyway?

Sid Sackson (1920 - 2002) was an American world famous board game designer and collector. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA🇺🇸 in 1920 and died in New York City, USA🇺🇸 in 2002.

Sackson's first game "Poke (2-player poker variant)" he developed in 1946 at the age of 26 - so he has been designing games for over 56 years of games. Famous Sackson games include Acquire, Can't Stop & I'm the Boss!.

Sackson is best known as the creator of the business game Acquire. Several of his games reached sales figures in the millions.

In love with games

Sackson was not only a game inventor (he started as an 8-year-old), he was also a game reviewer, a columnist in "Strategy & Tactics" game magazine, and a book author of well-received books about games and their rules. Furthermore, he was also a passionate game collector. At the time of his death, his archive was estimated at over 18,000 titles. After his death, however, the collection was sold at various auctions and thus fragmented.

Game of the Year Winner: Focus

In 1981, Sackson also won the Spiel des Jahres Award with Focus.

How good are "Sid Sackson" games?

There are 2 games by Sid Sackson in our Top1000 games list, making Sackson the #147 best game author out of a total of 708 authors in our database.

List of best games by Sid Sackson 2023

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

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