How the Random Board Game Picker Works
Enter how many people are at the table, pick a game type, and press the button. Only games that genuinely support that player count stay in the pool, and one is drawn from what is left. Each result shows the title along with its supported player range and its genre. It is useful when attendance decides which box comes off the shelf, or when your group keeps defaulting to the same game every week.
What is on the list
Twenty-two games are included, chosen because their player counts can be stated with confidence. A filter is worthless if the counts behind it are wrong, so anything uncertain was left out entirely rather than guessed at. Counts follow the base box with no expansions; adding an expansion or using a later edition can raise the ceiling. Types are split into party, strategy, cooperative, and two-player only, and the two-player option leaves just the games that are built for exactly two. Play time is not shown, because it varies too much with group size and experience to state usefully.
How the draw works
Games that pass the player-count and type filters are shuffled with the Fisher-Yates algorithm and sliced from the front, so a single draw never repeats a title. Three is the maximum per draw; if fewer games match, only those come out and a note explains the adjustment. When nothing matches at all, the message reports your player count and the size of the list so you can widen the type filter or change the count.
Frequently Asked Questions
They follow the base-box figures with no expansions added. Expansions and some later editions raise the ceiling, so check the box before you buy.
Twenty-two, chosen because their player counts can be stated with confidence. Plenty of great games are missing, but a wrong player count would make the filter useless.
No. The same game swings widely with group size and experience, so play time is not provided. Only the player range and genre are shown.