Amazon Best Seller Analysis: Board Games
This article offers a thorough analysis of Amazon best sellers board games. It explains how you can leverage DataHawk’s Amazon Best Seller Rank (BSR) data to become the next best seller. After assessing a list of Amazon best sellers board games, this report demonstrates how you can draw correlations between your sales velocity and your product’s Amazon BSR performance.

This DataHawk-generated BSR report analyzes Amazon board games best sellers that entered the top 100 list on Amazon in terms of their sales rank or best sellers rank. The Amazon board games best sellers analysis creates a leaderboard of brands with products that spent the most time in the best sellers list for the given time period through key performance indicators (KPI) called the Presence Rate. Note: the higher it is, the better.
- Introduction
- Amazon Best Sellers Board Games: Category Overview
- Amazon Best Sellers Board Games: Market Dynamics Overview
- Amazon Best Sellers Board Games: Brand Performance
- Amazon Best Sellers Board Games: Top 30 Brands Leaderboard
- Amazon Best Sellers Board Games: Top 30 Products Leaderboard
- Amazon Best Sellers Board Games: Top 4 Performing Products
- Brand Presence Rate by Product (Top 30) and Their ASP
- Brand Presence Rate by Product (Top 30) and Their Best Average Sale Rank
- Conclusion
Introduction
Amazon Best Sellers Board Games: Category Overview

In this study, DataHawk analyzed over 653 unique products from 201 brands using its Amazon BSR Tracker. The top-performing brand was Hasbro Gaming, with 121 best-selling products. The average price for the best sellers in the category is $21.80. With an average product rating of 3,602, the best sellers’ average star ratings for the Amazon board games best sellers category were 4.7 stars.
The number one brand, Hasbro Gaming, has 212 best selling products that spent 12,411 days in the Amazon Best Sellers board games category, with an average presence rate per product of 28.1 percent. Hasbro Gaming’s competitors, Pressman, Wonder Forge, and Winning Moves Games, are competing next with positions 3 and 4, both having 18 best selling products in one year on Amazon US.
The following section analyzes the Amazon Best Sellers board games category through different parameters.
Amazon Best Sellers Board Games: Market Dynamics Overview
The graphs in the image below display key data on products that spent the most time in the Top 100 list:

Out of the top 100 products, 75 percent of the products are on average priced at $27.20 with average star ratings of 4.8. The minimum star ratings obtained are 4.
The maximum price quoted in this category in the top 100 is $89.90, and the maximum star ratings are 4.9. It can be inferred that the competition in this category is super high, especially in terms of price. A product with good ratings and in the top quartile price range could easily make it to the top 100.
Amazon Best Sellers Board Games: Brand Performance
The bar graph below reveals the brands that spent the most time in the top 100 BSR list. The presence rate is an indicator that measures the time spent by one or more products of a brand in the top 100 of a given category.
The presence rate formula = Days spent in the Best 10 * / 365 X 100.

As you can see, Hasbro Games takes the lead with an impressive 121 best selling products and a brand presence rate of 100 percent, which comes to a total of 12,411 days. Its top-performing product is the Hasbro Connect 4 Game, which was present for 95.9 percent of the year on Amazon, followed by its second best selling product, the Monopoly Classic Game, which is also present 95.9 percent of the year on Amazon.
This data demonstrates that Hasbro Games was the Amazon best sellers board game because of the number of products it sold, along with the brand presence rate, average ratings, and competitive pricing. The brand is ahead of its competitors in the Amazon board games best sellers category, with 121 listed products vs. 18, 17, 21, etc.
It is interesting how Mattel Games did not rank in the top 4 best-performing brands of the category, despite having the second-highest number of products sold on Amazon, 21. The reason for that is that they have remained merely 1,248 days in the best seller, compared to Pressman. The latter was there for 1,654 with 18 products, which enabled the brand to earn the second position, with Mastermind Game being its top-performing product and a presence rate of 79.5 percent on Amazon.
Wonder Forge is in third place with 18 best selling products and a total presence of 1,621 days. Its best selling product is Wonder Forge Disney Classic Characters Matching Game, with a presence rate of 72.92 percent.
Amazon Best Sellers Board Games: Top 30 Brands Leaderboard
DataHawk’s findings reveal that 16 brands have had a presence rate of 100 percent.

The type of product dominating the Amazon board games best sellers category is Scrabble, as it ranked twice in the top 20 brands listing on the leaderboard, with an average price of $16. Followed by Monopoly, which ranked twice in the top 30 brands, and 37 times out of 640 by different brands, mainly Hasbro Gaming. The latter has a strong presence on the top 30 brands leaderboard, as it has ranked 12 times with 6 other best selling products and is also dominating the category in terms of the number of ratings, 18,591.
The findings also indicate that the total number of ratings for the top 30 brands is 165,041. Additionally, the total ratings for the rest of the 630 brands in the Amazon best sellers board games category are 633,662.
Amazon Best Sellers Board Games: Top 30 Products Leaderboard

Surprisingly, Jax, Czech Games, and Catan Studio are in the first, second, and third positions but did not make it to the top 30 brands list. Among the top 5, Hasbro Gaming, which ranked fourth, is the only top 10 best selling brand with products in the top 30 best selling product list.
The top 30 best selling products list is dominated by products with an average price of $22. The average selling price of the list is $27. Interestingly, the top 10 brands had different types of products listed as best sellers.
Amazon Best Sellers Board Games: Top 4 Performing Products

Moreover, it is interesting that the top 4 best performing board games rank is for different games at different prices. Nevertheless, the data reveals that they all have one thing in common: all the games ranked at the top require a strategic and tactical skill set. However, what you can deduce from these findings is that each of the top-ranking board games requires players to obtain strategic skills to win the game.
Brand Presence Rate by Product (Top 30) and Their ASP
The scatterplot graph below exemplifies how the top 100 brands in the “Toys & Games,” “Games & Accessories,” and “Board Games” categories have been competing over the past year on Amazon.

ASP Average is the average of one or more products’ selling price of brands in the top 100 over the last year.
Thus far, this report’s interpretation of the data has presented the performance of the best ASINs of brands in terms of their ASP with respect to the presence rate. You can use DataHawk’s Amazon Best Sellers Tool to unveil the leading metrics of the top 100 products in any category or sub-node.
The brand with the highest ASP is Magic the Gatherir, with an average selling price of $102, followed by Days of Wonder, priced at $45.
These two brands do not seem to compete closely in terms of the share of voice on the presence rate. The average ASP price for the top 30 products on page 1 for this category is $22.
Moreover, the Amazon board games best sellers category has extremely high competition on Amazon. From this analysis, you can determine which brands are in close competition with each other. For example, Chess Armony, Revents, and Unsolved Case Files in this category compete vigorously with each other.
If you want to be a best seller in the category, you should consider undergoing a market analysis based on pricing. Conducting a competitor analysis report that thoroughly examines the average selling price of your competitors can help you rank higher and reach the top 100 best selling products in this category.
Brand Presence Rate by Product (Top 30) and Their Best Average Sale Rank

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Conclusion
Data tells a story. In order to tell the story, you must first have the adequate tools to collect, organize, decipher, filter, and make sense of the data at large. Optimization software can facilitate these processes. DataHawk’s Amazon Best Sellers Rank browser lets you browse the top 100 selling products in over 20,000 categories.