Board games - Topics

How do board games bring people together? A four-hour board game is a commitment and nobody warns you Digital board games and the friends you can finally schedule with Is a board game cafe worth the table fee when you own the game at home? What is the point of a rulebook that needs a FAQ to be playable? Why do board game boxes lie about how long a game takes? Two-player only board games that do not fall apart Two-player card games that actually stay interesting after ten rounds Sleeving your cards or letting them get worn — which camp are you in? Teaching a heavy euro to beginners is its own skill How do you store a collection that has outgrown the shelf? Kickstarter board games — is the hype ever worth the two-year wait? Someone at the table is playing to win and everyone else is playing for fun What is the polite way to tell someone their house rules are broken? How do you get a group to stop playing the same three games forever? Why do co-op board games make one person boss everyone around? Deck builders vs trick-taking games: which one hooks new players faster? Are legacy games with stickers and torn cards a gimmick or a genre? Playing a mystery game twice turns it into a completely different game Cooperative deduction games fall apart when one player does all the talking A board game mystery has to hand each player a different piece of the truth Adapting a novel's clues into a playable game means cutting half of them