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Season 3 Episode 7: The Bear and the Maiden Fair1656

The worldwide ranking generated by 3.8k votes

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Season 3 Episode 7: The Bear and the Maiden Fair1656

Season 3 Episode 8: Second Sons1539

Season 5 Episode 7: The Gift1514

Season 2 Episode 6: The Old Gods and the New1503

Season 4 Episode 7: Mockingbird1484

Season 5 Episode 9: The Dance of Dragons1479

Season 3 Episode 6: The Climb1472

Season 4 Episode 6: The Laws of Gods and Men1444

Season 3 Episode 4: And Now His Watch Is Ended1438

#10

Season 3 Episode 3: Walk of Punishment1408

#11

Season 3 Episode 10: Mhysa1406

#12

Season 3 Episode 9: The Rains of Castamere1397

#13

Season 3 Episode 2: Dark Wings, Dark Words1379

#14

Season 3 Episode 1: Valar Dohaeris1367

#15

Season 1 Episode 10: Fire and Blood1365

#16

Season 4 Episode 2: The Lion and the Rose1353

#17

Season 4 Episode 8: The Mountain and the Viper1349

#18

Season 1 Episode 7: You Win or You Die1347

#19

Season 1 Episode 1: Winter Is Coming1343

#20

Season 2 Episode 1: The North Remembers1321

#21

Season 3 Episode 5: Kissed by Fire1319

#22

Season 1 Episode 9: Baelor1318

#23

Season 6 Episode 8: No One1313

#24

Season 4 Episode 10: The Children1298

#25

Season 2 Episode 2: The Night Lands1285

#26

Season 2 Episode 8: The Prince of Winterfell1283

#27

Season 6 Episode 2: Home1261

#28

Season 5 Episode 10: Mother's Mercy1259

#29

Season 2 Episode 10: Valar Morghulis1244

#30

Season 1 Episode 2: The Kingsroad1230

#31

Season 6 Episode 10: The Winds of Winter1228

#32

Season 1 Episode 5: The Wolf and the Lion1224

#33

Season 4 Episode 3: Breaker of Chains1219

#34

Season 5 Episode 6: Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken1212

#35

Season 6 Episode 5: The Door1207

#36

Season 4 Episode 1: Two Swords1201

#37

Season 2 Episode 4: Garden of Bones1193

#38

Season 4 Episode 4: Oathkeeper1187

#39

Season 5 Episode 2: The House of Black and White1181

#40

Season 5 Episode 4: Sons of the Harpy1175

#41

Season 6 Episode 3: Oathbreaker1173

#42

Season 6 Episode 4: Book of the Stranger1171

#43

Season 2 Episode 7: A Man Without Honor1169

#44

Season 4 Episode 5: First of His Name1154

#45

Season 5 Episode 3: High Sparrow1138

#46

Season 5 Episode 5: Kill the Boy1133

#47

Season 8 Episode 6: The Iron Throne1120

#48

Season 2 Episode 5: The Ghost of Harrenhal1120

#49

Season 6 Episode 7: The Broken Man1115

#50

Season 1 Episode 4: Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things1113

#51

Season 6 Episode 6: Blood of My Blood1112

#52

Season 2 Episode 3: What Is Dead May Never Die1100

#53

Season 7 Episode 3: The Queen's Justice1082

#54

Season 7 Episode 2: Stormborn1076

#55

Season 6 Episode 9: Battle of the Bastards1075

#56

Season 1 Episode 3: Lord Snow1065

#57

Season 8 Episode 2: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms1065

#58

Season 5 Episode 1: The Wars to Come1048

#59

Season 8 Episode 5: The Bells1031

#60

Season 6 Episode 1: The Red Woman1016

#61

Season 1 Episode 8: The Pointy End1007

#62

Season 7 Episode 4: The Spoils of War988

#63

Season 7 Episode 1: Dragonstone983

#64

Season 8 Episode 4: The Last of the Starks981

#65

Season 8 Episode 1: Winterfell979

#66

Season 5 Episode 8: Hardhome976

#67

Season 4 Episode 9: The Watchers on the Wall932

#68

Season 8 Episode 3: The Long Night910

#69

Season 2 Episode 9: Blackwater886

#70

Season 7 Episode 6: Beyond the Wall846

#71

Season 7 Episode 5: Eastwatch843

#72

Season 7 Episode 7: The Dragon and the Wolf777

#73

Season 1 Episode 6: A Golden Crown741

What the community says

Season 3 Episode 7: The Bear and the Maiden Fair leads with an ELO of 1,656, ahead of Season 3 Episode 8: Second Sons (1,539) and Season 5 Episode 7: The Gift (1,514). Ranked over 3,825 duels between 73 contenders, last updated October 17, 2026.

Rank the best Game of Thrones episode out of all 73 episodes of the cult series.

How this ranking is computed

Every duel won lifts a contender and every loss drops them, by an amount that depends on the opponent's strength: beating the leader is worth more than beating the last. It is an ELO, the same principle as in chess. Duels are not drawn at random — an adaptive entropy sort puts the least predictable match-ups first, which settles the ranking far faster than a full round robin. A worldwide ranking is only published past 30 completed plays. Known limit: a contender who has faced few opponents keeps an approximate score, and the bottom of the table moves more than the podium.

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