Diplomacy board game
Ranked 3 of 15 board games by recommenders
A fun multiplayer game of negotiation and deception that people say works best with the right group, and that is good for practicing negotiation.
A fun multiplayer game of negotiation and deception that people say works best with the right group, and that is good for practicing negotiation.
13 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 12
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 92%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 12 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 12 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Fun, especially with the right crowd
“Diplomacy can be really, really, fun but you absolutely have to play it with the right crowd.”
Comment from 24 Sep 2026 in “The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (2014)” “Diplomacy is a fun parlor game”
Comment from 26 Apr 2026 in “Shall We Play a Game?” Practices negotiation and deception
“On the plus side, I got to know my co-workers better, or at least got to know how well they could deceive me.”
Comment from 25 Sep 2026 in “The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (2014)” “for its capacity to end relationships and practice war time negotiations”
Comment from 23 Apr 2026 in “Modern Board Games: and why you should play them (2022)” Memorable, unusual experience
“it was a remarkable experience that I'm not sure I'll be able to repeat”
Comment from 24 Sep 2026 in “The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (2014)” “It was quite the experience.”
Comment from 24 Sep 2026 in “The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (2014)”
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1D Chess | 16 | 2 | 89% | 1 | — | — |
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| Diplomacy board gameThis page | 12 | 1 | 92% | 3 | — | — |
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| Mastermind board game | 10 | 0 | 100% | 5 | — | Approved |
What people said
13 of the 15 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“which seems to work naturally with Diplomacy”
“On the plus side, I got to know my co-workers better, or at least got to know how well they could deceive me.”
“Diplomacy might be easier to setup and keep up”
“It was quite the experience.”
“Diplomacy can be really, really, fun but you absolutely have to play it with the right crowd.”
“it caused too many hard feelings and was a distraction”
“Diplomacy was a perfect multi-tasking game.”
“it was a remarkable experience that I'm not sure I'll be able to repeat”
“Try Diplomacy for a change. (Even if you play without explicit negotiations and only have the moves speak for themselves.)”
“You can play Diplomacy for that.”
“Diplomacy is great but computationally suffers from deterministic outcomes”
“Diplomacy is a fun parlor game”
“for its capacity to end relationships and practice war time negotiations”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.