The 15 Best Board Games of 2021

"I considered any games that were first released in the United States from Dec. 1, 2020, through Nov. 30, 2021. There were some games that just missed this cutoff, like Red Cathedral (released in late November of 2020), that would have made the list otherwise, but I have to cut it off somewhere. All data on player count, age ranges, and play time come from Boardgamegeek."