While this is inteded as a summary of the project, a few details about the OSAI Top 25 Board Games – Bang For Your Buck results:

OSAI Top 100 Board Game Rankings

OSAI Top 100 Board Games Rankings – Price Is No Object

• In this list the games are ranked by the Value Rating column which is just to the left of the bold OSAI Final Score Rating.
• The OSAI database is only through 2021. Games made in 2022 or later can’t be reviewed ceurrently.
• This list shows the rankings of gamesbased on the amount of “fun” you get relative to the cost of the game.  Essentially, it is a Great Game foe Great Price..  The OSAI Final score does take into consideration the bang for the buck quotient but here we are focusing on games which rank highest in Value Rating.
• The OSAI database is only through 2021. Games made in 2022 or later can’t be reviewed ceurrently.
• While the OSAI final score includes the bang for the buck rating, this post is focusing on the games that have the highest Value Rating.  OSAI Rankings can be filter to create similar lists which will be posted as separate articles.
• OSAI seems to know what it like.  Only a couple games outside the OSAI Top 50 made it into the Bang For Your Buck Top 25.
• OSAI also seems to know what it hates.  Games with poor play scores cannot have their ranking overly influence just by being cheap.
• This list would serve as a great starting list of games for someone new to board gaming.  By using this list you can get some of the best game play available while spending a modest amount.

Right now it would appear the best way to look at the OSAI Final Score is:

Hall of Fame  90+

Great Game   85 – 89.99

Cross-Genre  82 – 84.99

Genre Game 77 – 81.99

Niche Game  70 – 76.99

Vintage Game 60 – 60.99

Children 59.99 and below

The OSAI Project is an attempt to use Open Source Artificial Intelligence to rank, review, and rate board games.  The first part of the project was to have OSAI use it’s database to rate from 1 – 10 the top 100 BGG board games in terms of several categories:

• Strategy – The amount of strategic decisions during a game
• Complexity – How difficult it is to learn and master
• Player Interaction – How much player vs player orplayer with player action is there.
• Replayability – How often can it be played where every game feels new
• Game Rating – An average of all known board game ratings or scores for the game
• Cost – the relative cost of the game

From thats several scores were calculated:

• Weight = Strategy + Complexity
• Playability = Player Interaction + Replayability + Game Rating – Complexity
• Play Rating = 2*(weight + Playability)
• Value Rating = Play Rating / Cost
• Final Score =  Play Rating + Value Rating

In addition to ratings and calculated scores, OSAI also recommends up to 10 games similar to the game it reviewed.  Each individual review is available by clicking the game name in the chart below.

The chart shows the following information about each game:

• BGG Ranking
• Name of the game – click to read the review
• BGG Geek Rating
• BGG Average Rating
• OSAI Value Rating
• OSAI Final Score
• OSAI Rank