About Board Game Check
Board game rankings you can trust, suggestions that fit you, and a community that plays.
Rankings you can trust
Scores come from members' ratings and head-to-head matchups, pulled toward a fair average until a game has enough votes to stand on its own. Expansions are ranked apart from base games, and every ranking is recalculated nightly.
How rankings work →Difficulty from real play
How hard a game is comes from players' votes and “which was harder?” matchups. A game nobody has rated says “Not rated yet”; we never guess.
Difficulty ranking →Suggestions that fit you
“For you” combines players who rate like you with games similar to the ones you love, and says why each one is there. A two-minute taste quiz finds your player type and gets it started.
Take the quiz →A place to play
Log every game night, see your stats and your year in review, find friends' favourites, and find game nights, tournaments and learn-to-play sessions at stores, cafés, clubs and libraries near you.
Events near you →Where the games come from
Game facts start from Wikidata (CC0), the open knowledge base behind Wikipedia, and are completed by publishers, who can claim and update their own games, and by our editors. Covers come from Wikimedia Commons or the game's own publisher, credited on each game page. Nothing is scraped from other rankings sites, so what you see here is our members' own view.
Scores, ranks and suggestions are never for sale: nothing a publisher, venue or supporter pays for touches them. Supporter extras are cosmetic and Featured event placement is always labelled.
Get involved
- Rate the games you've played and answer a few matchups: that's what moves the rankings.
- Write a review or a session report in the community.
- Publishers: claim your games and keep their facts, covers and digital versions current.
- Stores, cafés, clubs and libraries: list your events for players nearby.