I like Twilight Struggle a great deal, but I find its top BGG ranking somewhat odd. I'd wager there's a sort of selection effect: the sort of person willing to

I like Twilight Struggle a great deal, but I find its top BGG ranking somewhat odd. I'd wager there's a sort of selection effect: the sort of person willing to sit down for a 2 player game in the first place is probably the sort of hard-core gamer who enjoys highly complex brainburners, and thus is more likely to rate it highly. Compare that to the sort of moderate/casual boardgamer who prefers something along the lines of 7 Wonders. The former will play 7 Wonders and (may) give it a mediocre rating, while the latter aren't even going to try TS. Just a theory. And for the record, the last time I played, TS took 5 hours, but neither of us were fluent and were thus often consulting the rules and/or stuck in analysis paralysis.