The best games with "Highest-Lowest" scoring 2024
Looking for a really good game with "Highest-Lowest" scoring? Then we have just the thing for you: The list with the best "Highest-Lowest" scoring games 2024.
What are "Highest/Lowest" scoring games?
In "Highest-Lowest" scoring games, the score achieved by a player is equal to the lowest value from several categories. Whoever has the highest lowest score is the winner.
Highest-Lowest scoring is a special case of collection mechanism/set collection, where only complete sets are counted.
Examples of games with Highest-Lowest Scoring
This system is usually known as Knizia scoring. Tigris & Euphrates is an early example of this mechanism. Players collect four different color cubes - red, green, blue, and yellow - and their score is the color they have the least of. A player with 12 red, 10 green, 6 blue, and 2 yellow cubes has a final score of 2. This forces players not to specialize too much in which cubes they collect.
List of best highest-lowest score games 2024
That's Pretty Clever!
That's Pretty Clever is a strategic dice game where players must make thoughtful choices to optimize their score. The game's title, Ganz schön clever in German, aptly describes the need for cleverness and tactical thinking.
Nominated for 8 awards and won 1.
⭐️ Nominated for Kennerspiel des Jahres 2018
More details for That's Pretty Clever!- 1 - 4 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
👍 Good price!10€ at.de*Ingenious
Ingenious, also known as Einfach Genial, is a strategic tile-placement game that challenges players to think tactically about color scoring. It's a game that balances individual progress with the need to perform well across different areas.
Nominated for 14 awards and won 7.
⭐️ Nominated for Spiel des Jahres 2004
More details for Ingenious- 1 - 4 Players
- 30 - 45 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
Between Two Cities
Between Two Cities is a collaborative, tile-drafting board game set in the early 1800s, a period of significant urban development. Players take on the role of master city planners, working in partnership to design two distinct cities.
Nominated for 5 awards.
More details for Between Two Cities- 1 - 7 Players
- 25 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig
More details for Between Two Castles of Mad King LudwigBetween Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig is a distinctive tile-drafting game where players take on the role of master builders, collaboratively designing grand castles for the whimsical and demanding King Ludwig. This game is a unique collaboration between Stonemaier Games and Bezier Games, blending elements of creativity, strategy, and cooperation.
- 2 - 7 Players
- 45 - 60 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Easy to learn
Ingenious: Travel Edition
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Ingenious: Travel Edition- 2 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Easy to learn
Beer & Bread
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Beer & Bread- 2 Players
- 30 - 45 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Easy to learn
👍 Good price!25€ at.de*Nile DeLuxor
- 2 - 6 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Axio
- 1 - 4 Players
- 30 - 45 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
Video reviews for Axio
Tigris & Euphrates
Reiner Knizia's Tigris & Euphrates is a highly regarded strategy board game, often considered his masterpiece. It's set in the ancient fertile crescent and involves building civilizations through strategic tile placement.
Nominated for 2 awards and won 1.
More details for Tigris & Euphrates- 2 - 4 Players
- 90 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Hard to learn
Video reviews for Tigris & Euphrates
Yellow & Yangtze
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Yellow & Yangtze- 2 - 4 Players
- 90 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Video reviews for Yellow & Yangtze
Ingenious Extreme
- 1 - 4 Players
- 30 - 45 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
Heaven & Ale
Heaven & Ale is a strategic board game set in the intriguing world of monastic brewing. Players take on the roles of monks in charge of ancient monasteries, tasked with brewing high-quality beer. The game combines resource management, timing, and competitive elements, challenging players to skillfully balance the upgrading of their monastery's garden with the efficient harvesting of resources necessary for brewing.
Nominated for 7 awards and won 2.
⭐️ Nominated for Kennerspiel des Jahres 2018
More details for Heaven & Ale- 2 - 4 Players
- 60 - 90 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Fields of Arle
Fields of Arle is a strategic farming simulation board game designed by Uwe Rosenberg. Set in the small East Frisian town of Arle, it allows one to two players to experience the life of farmers during a period of prosperity, focusing on the cultivation of flax and other agricultural ventures.
Nominated for 6 awards.
More details for Fields of Arle- 1 - 2 Players
- 60 - 120 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Hard to learn
👍 Good price!50€ at.de*Video reviews for Fields of Arle
Allegra
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Allegra- 2 - 6 Players
- 30 - 40 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
👍 Good price!12€ at.de*A Game of Thrones: B'Twixt
- 3 - 6 Players
- 90 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends
Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends is a captivating game of magical strategy and tactics, where two to four players assume the roles of summoners in an epic arena battle. Each summoner, either working alone or in teams, demonstrates their mastery of magic by deploying minions to create complex patterns, summoning powerful beings, and outmaneuvering their opponents.
Nominated for 2 awards and won 1.
More details for Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends- 2 - 4 Players
- 30 - 60 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Video reviews for Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends
Crown of Emara
Crown of Emara cleverly blends elements of card management and worker placement into a strategic board game set in a peaceful and prosperous kingdom. Players compete to become the successor of the benevolent King Thedorius by proving their ability to care for the citizens of Emara. The game challenges players to balance the demands of building homes and meeting the needs of the citizens, all while navigating their counselors around two separate roundabouts to maximize the efficiency of their actions.
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Crown of Emara- 1 - 4 Players
- 45 - 75 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Video reviews for Crown of Emara
Merchants of the Dark Road
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Merchants of the Dark Road- 1 - 4 Players
- 60 - 120 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Welcome to Centerville
- 2 - 4 Players
- 40 - 80 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Easy to learn
Samurai: The Card Game
- 2 - 4 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Easy to learn
The Prodigals Club
- 2 - 5 Players
- 40 - 100 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Wendake
Nominated for 1 award.
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More details for Wendake- 1 - 4 Players
- 60 - 120 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Hard to learn
🔥 Great price!50€ at.de*Ker Plunk
- 2 - 4 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 5+ years old
- Immediately playable
Sapiens
- 2 - 4 Players
- 45 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Einfach Genial Junior
- 1 - 4 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 6+ years old
- Immediately playable
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