The best games from Ted Alspach 🇺🇸👨 2023

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

Who is Ted Alspach anyway?

Ted Alspach has been designing dice, card & board games since 2005. The game designer hails from New York City, New York, USA🇺🇸, was born in 1968 and currently lives in Louisville, Tennessee, USA🇺🇸.

Alspach's first game was the "Bay Area" expansion for "Age of Steam." He developed it in 2005 at the age of 37 - so Ted Alspach has been designing games for over 18 years. Famous Alspach games include Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Suburbia & many titles of the Werwolf-Series.

Marketing studies

He studied Bachelor of Science in Marketing at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania, USA🇺🇸. During his time there, he founded and published a school magazine which he funded through local advertisements.

Career start in the IT industry

After graduating, he worked for various graphics and desktop publishing companies (e.g. Corel, Adobe). Along the way, he also published various articles in IT magazines (MacAddict and Macworld) and wrote entire books (such as "Adobe Illustrator For Dummies"). Alspach published 18 books over the course of his 20 years as an IT guy.

From 1999 to 2006, Alspach worked at Adobe as Group Product Manager for Illustrator and the Creative Suite.

2006: start board game company on the side!

Alspach's experience in the game industry began with the release of several expansions for Age of Steam. Then in 2006 he founded Bézier Games, the first release was "Start Player". In 2013, he renounced the IT industry completely and since then has been dedicated only to the board game world.

In addition to serving as CEO of Bézier Games, Inc, Alspach continues to design new games and oversee and develop titles by other designers.

Alspach's games range from social deduction and party-games to medium-heavy strategy-games. He has carved out a unique niche with werewolf-themed games, from Ultimate Werewolf to Werewords to the Silver Series.

How good are "Ted Alspach" games?

There are 6 games by Ted Alspach in our Top1000 games list, making Alspach the #37 best game author out of a total of 708 authors in our database.

More information about Alspach

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List of best games by Ted Alspach 2023

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

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

This list was last updated on December 4, 2023. We compared 40 board games for this list and selected the top 22. There's also a print version for this list.
  1. Werewords

    All details for the board game Werewords and similar games

    Nominated for 2 awards and won 1.

    ⭐️ Nominated for Spiel des Jahres 2019

    More details for Werewords
    • 4 - 10 Players
    • 10 Minutes
    • 8+ years old
    • Immediately playable
    👍 Good price!11€ atAmazon.de
  2. One Night Ultimate Werewolf: Daybreak

    All details for the board game One Night Ultimate Werewolf: Daybreak and similar games
    • 3 - 7 Players
    • 10 Minutes
    • 8+ years old
    • Immediately playable

    Video reviews for One Night Ultimate Werewolf: Daybreak

    • YouTube Review for the game "One Night Ultimate Werewolf: Daybreak" by BoardGameGeek
      Video is in English
    • YouTube Review for the game "One Night Ultimate Werewolf: Daybreak" by Shut Up & Sit Down
      Video is in English
  3. One Night Ultimate Werewolf

    All details for the board game One Night Ultimate Werewolf and similar games
    • 3 - 10 Players
    • 10 Minutes
    • 8+ years old
    • Immediately playable
    👍 Good price!12€ atAmazon.de

    Video reviews for One Night Ultimate Werewolf

    • YouTube Review for the game "One Night Ultimate Werewolf" by BoardGameGeek
      Video is in English
    • YouTube Review for the game "One Night Ultimate Werewolf" by Shut Up & Sit Down
      Video is in English
  4. Ultimate Werewolf: Ultimate Edition

    All details for the board game Ultimate Werewolf: Ultimate Edition and similar games
    • 5 - 68 Players
    • 30 - 90 Minutes
    • 8+ years old
    • Immediately playable

    Video reviews for Ultimate Werewolf: Ultimate Edition

    • YouTube Review for the game "Ultimate Werewolf: Ultimate Edition" by Shut Up & Sit Down
      Video is in English
  5. Castles of Mad King Ludwig

    All details for the board game Castles of Mad King Ludwig and similar games

    Nominated for 14 awards and won 4.

    More details for Castles of Mad King Ludwig
    • 1 - 4 Players
    • 90 Minutes
    • 13+ years old
    • Medium difficulty
  6. Start Player

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    • 2 - 99 Players
    • 1 Minutes
    • 14+ years old
    • Immediately playable
  7. Suburbia

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    Nominated for 3 awards and won 1.

    More details for Suburbia
    • 1 - 4 Players
    • 60 - 90 Minutes
    • 8+ years old
    • Medium difficulty
  8. Silver

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    • 2 - 4 Players
    • 30 - 60 Minutes
    • 8+ years old
    • Easy to learn
  9. Ultimate Werewolf

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    • 5 - 30 Players
    • 30 - 90 Minutes
    • 13+ years old
    • Immediately playable

    Video reviews for Ultimate Werewolf

    • YouTube Review for the game "Ultimate Werewolf" by BoardGameGeek
      Video is in English
    • YouTube Review for the game "Ultimate Werewolf" by Shut Up & Sit Down
      Video is in English
  10. One Night Ultimate Super Villains

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    • 3 - 10 Players
    • 10 Minutes
    • 8+ years old
    • Immediately playable
  11. Werwölfe

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    • 6 - 24 Players
    • 30 - 60 Minutes
    • 8+ years old
    • Immediately playable
  12. One Night Ultimate Vampire

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    • 3 - 10 Players
    • 10 Minutes
    • 8+ years old
    • Easy to learn
  13. Beer & Pretzels

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    • 2 - 5 Players
    • 15 Minutes
    • 6+ years old
    • Immediately playable
  14. Kniffel: Das Kartenspiel

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    • 2 - 4 Players
    • 30 Minutes
    • 8+ years old
    • Immediately playable
  15. Werwölfe Deluxe

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    • 5 - 68 Players
    • 30 - 90 Minutes
    • 8+ years old
    • Easy to learn
  16. Maglev Metro

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    Nominated for 1 award.

    More details for Maglev Metro
    • 1 - 4 Players
    • 60 - 90 Minutes
    • 14+ years old
    • Medium difficulty
  17. One Night Ultimate Werewolf: Epic Battle

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    • 3 - 10 Players
    • 10+ years old
    • Easy to learn
  18. Colony

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    Nominated for 1 award.

    More details for Colony
    • 1 - 4 Players
    • 45 - 60 Minutes
    • 13+ years old
    • Easy to learn
  19. Ultimate Werewolf Legacy

    All details for the board game Ultimate Werewolf Legacy and similar games
    • 8 - 16 Players
    • 60 Minutes
    • 13+ years old
    • Easy to learn

    Video reviews for Ultimate Werewolf Legacy

    • YouTube Review for the game "Ultimate Werewolf Legacy" by BoardGameGeek
      Video is in English
    • YouTube Review for the game "Ultimate Werewolf Legacy" by Shut Up & Sit Down
      Video is in English
  20. One Night Revolution

    All details for the board game One Night Revolution and similar games
    • 3 - 10 Players
    • 15 Minutes
    • 14+ years old
    • Easy to learn
  21. Mutant Meeples

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    • 2 - 7 Players
    • 45 Minutes
    • 8+ years old
    • Easy to learn
  22. The Palace of Mad King Ludwig

    All details for the board game The Palace of Mad King Ludwig and similar games
    • 2 - 4 Players
    • 75 Minutes
    • 13+ years old
    • Medium difficulty

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