BoardGameGeek
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BoardGameGeek is a website started in January 2000 as a resource for the board gaming hobby. The database holds reviews, articles and session reports for over 21,000 different games, expansions and designers, including card games and other tabletop games, as well as German-style board games, wargames and traditional board games.
The site includes bulletin boards and a marketplace, together with a gamer database to match up board gamers in the same location. The site also features online playing of some of the board games.
Game rankings
The site allows users to rate games. As of May 2006, the top five rated games were: The lowest-rated games are Snakes and Ladders, Bingo and Tic-tac-toe.GeekGold
The site uses a virtual currency, GeekGold, to reward users who provide images, reviews, rule translations or other information about games on the site. GeekGold can be spent to obtain various types of avatar, or to buy games that are being auctioned off by other users of the site.External link
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