Loaded Dice

Leonard's board game data experiments

Introduction

In July 2011 I grabbed a lot of information about board games from BoardgameGeek's excellent database, using their simple web service. My original purpose was to create the art project Board Game Dadaist, but as I grew to understand the dataset I found that I had a lot of questions about board games that this data could answer. These pages contain some interesting facts, graphs, and lists I discovered. I've updated it twice, in 2012 and 2013, with analysis of how the dataset changes over time.

Get the raw data

I'm making available the raw data I've collected from BoardGameGeek over the years. I don't have time to update this essay anymore but I still collect the data.

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