Random Board Game Selector - Board Game Pick

Board Game Pick is a tool dedicated to help you chose the best board game, proposing a selection of 3 random games out of your Board Game Geek collection, considering your criteria. It is using your BoardGameGeek.com account to read your collection and to show the result of your request.

Search criteria ( Save criteria in cookie)

Your username is required.

Number of players

Min. Playing time(mn)

Max. Playing time(mn)

Your Min BGG Rating

Board Game Family

Board Game Mechanic

Collection Settings

Hide expansions

Owned games only

Hide unplayed games

Player Count Settings

Estimate Play Time

Show recommended

Show not recommended

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This tool is interrogating your BGG collection. The only thing you need to enter is your BGG account, and eventually different other optional criteria to refine your search.

For more information, you can get a complete description of every filters below on this page. Enjoy!

Please note that the initial loading of very large collections (>500 board games) can take up to 30 seconds. Please be patient and do not close your browser during the loading!

How to use Board Game Pick

What is Board Game Pick?

Board Game Pick is your handy tool helping you to chose the perfect board game to play with your friends, randomly selecting 3 games in your Board Game Geek collection.

The only prerequisites are a Board Game Geek account, used to fill your board game collection on their website.

What if I don't have a BGG account?

Creating a Board Game Geek account is easy and free! Just register an account, and start adding board games to your collection by using the dedicated icon.

What are the different filters available?

Board Game Pick is coming with a lot of different filters permitting you to adjust how this tool will provide the random board games you are requesting. Here is the full list, and a short description explaining how they work:

Standard filters

All the standard filters are the ones directly available from the form without having to click on "Show more filters", that are the most convenient and useful to refine your random board games selection.

BGG Username: Maybe the most important, mandatory filter! Just put your Board Game Geek username here, it will permit Board Game Pick to get your public board game collection in order to present you 3 random games.
Number of players: This filter is important for two reasons. Firstly, it will avoid every board games that are not designed to be played with this number of players. Secondly, it will permit you to finely define if you want only games that are best, recommended, or not recommended (why not, after all!) using the player count settings (see below).
Min. Playing Time (mn): The main purpose of this filter is to avoid every quick games, fillers, in order to give the priority to more ambitious board games that will be able to occupy you and your friends for the whole night.
Max. Playing Time (mn): Complete opposite of the previous filter, the Max. Playing Time criteria will help you find a great selection of random board games that will fit the time you have to dedicate to gaming - like a fun party game like Love Letter with your kids before dinner.
Your Min BGG rating: A great filter to get a random selection of the board games you prefer! This filter is based on the rating you can give on every games on Board Game Geek, but keep in mind that selecting this filter will avoid displaying every board games of your collection that you didn't rate yet. So if you don't use this feature on BGG, leave this filter blank.
Min and Max weight: Users on Board Game Geek are answering to a poll permitting to guess the general difficulty of a game, from Light to Heavy. The heavier a board game is, the more difficult it is to learn its rules and build a winning strategy. this said, you will find convenient to define Min. and/or Max game weight, whereas you're playing with your kids or with a bunch of Twilight Imperium addicts, in order to refine your selection of random board games.

Advanced filters

All those additional filters, hidden by default and available through the "Show advanced filters" button, will help you tweak Collection settings and Player count settings, refining your selection of 3 random board games.

Board Game Family: Based on the type poll available on every board games on BGG, this filter will permit you to focus on a specific family of games - like thematic ones, for example.
Board Game Mechanic: Hyped for a deck building game only? Select the "Deck, Bag, & Pool Building" entry, and the games returned in the results will take into consideration your choice.
Collection settings / Hide expansions: Checked by default, this option will hide every game expansion to focus on base board games only. Pure logic, if we must say, but we wanted to leave you the option to show them too.
Collection settings / Owned games only: Checked by default, this option will hide every board game not marked as "owned" in your collection.
Collection settings / Hide unplayed games: Unchecked by default. Your pile of shame is growing, and you want to keep it that way? Just check this box, and you'll be sure to never play those unplayed games of your collection! Warning: if you are not recording your plays on BGG, DO NOT CHECK THIS OPTION! Or your random list will be empty.
Player count settings / Estimate Play Time: Checked by default. Will calculate, if possible, the play time of a game, based on its min players / max players / min play time / max play time, and the number of players you are specifying, for more accurate results.
Player count settings / Show best: Checked by default. Show every board games best played with the number of players you defined. No impact if no number of players has been defined.
Player count settings / Show recommended: Checked by default. Show every board games recommended to be played with the number of players you defined. No impact if no number of players has been defined.
Player count settings / Show not recommended: Unchecked by default. Show every board games not recommended to be played with the number of players you defined. No impact if no number of players has been defined.