Whose Turn 2017 saw 274 friends coming together at the Doubletree Brownstone in Raleigh for four straight days of gaming. This year brought a record 34 Play To Win games! We’re very thankful to all the publishers who supported us.

Thank you also to our sponsors, Cape Fear Games, Top Shelf Gamer, and Board Game Innovation

In keeping with tradition, we’d also like to recognize some of the games we all enjoyed over the four days of fun, as voted on by our attendees.

First, the HOT Games.  These are games that our attendees reported they saw getting the most play.

This year’s Top Five Hot Games, in order of their finish in the voting, were:

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  2. Terraforming Mars
  3. Kanagawa
  4. Scythe
  5. Clank

Congrats to these games for garnering so much attention from our amazing attendees. Honorable mention goes to Imhotep for falling just short of Clank and to A Feast for Odin for garnering 7 write-in votes!

Next up are this year’s favorites. These are the games attendees reported they most enjoyed playing. Each of the following received at least five mentions and are in order with most mentions at the top:

  1. Great Western Trail
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  2. Clank
  3. Terraforming Mars
  4. Viticulture
  5. Kanagawa
  6. Scythe

Can’t wait to get together with everyone again! See you next year!