About this Dataset

Board Games

About this dataset

This dataset contains data collected on board games from the BoardGameGeek (BGG) website in February 2021. BGG is the largest online collection of board game data which consists of data on more than 100,000 total games (ranked and unranked).

The voluntary online community contributes to the site with reviews, ratings, images, videos, session reports and live discussion forums on the expanding database of board games.

This data set contains all ranked games (~20,000) as of the date of collection from the BGG database. Unranked games are ignored as they have not been rated by enough BGG users (a game should receive at least 30 votes to be eligible for ranking).

How to use this dataset

Predict board game rating based on its mechanics and features.

Explore the landscape of board games

Highlighted Notebooks

Board Game Analysis by Karnika Kapoor

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Acknowledgements

If you use this dataset in your research, please credit the authors

Citation

Dilini Samarasinghe, July 5, 2021, "BoardGameGeek Dataset on Board Games", IEEE Dataport, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.21227/9g61-bs59.

License

CC BY 4.0

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Bgg Dataset

@kaggle.andrewmvd_board_games.bgg_dataset

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CREATE TABLE bgg_dataset (
  "id" DOUBLE,
  "name" VARCHAR,
  "year_published" DOUBLE,
  "min_players" BIGINT,
  "max_players" BIGINT,
  "play_time" BIGINT,
  "min_age" BIGINT,
  "users_rated" BIGINT,
  "rating_average" BIGINT,
  "bgg_rank" BIGINT,
  "complexity_average" BIGINT,
  "owned_users" DOUBLE,
  "mechanics" VARCHAR,
  "domains" VARCHAR
);