How This Works

There are two ways in, depending on how you were invited.

You have a join link (it looks like /join/your-team): open it and sign up right there — continue with Google, or enter your name, email, and a password. If your organizer had already added you to the roster, use “Claim your name” at the bottom of that page instead, so you pick up your existing ratings and history rather than becoming a second copy of yourself.

Your organizer registered you and didn't send a link: choose “New here” on the front page, enter the email they registered for you, and create a password. Without a join link, only pre-registered emails can create an account.

Either way it's a one-time setup; after that use “Sign in” with your email and password. The site remembers you (until you sign out or clear cookies), so you won't need to log in every visit.

Everything except this guide requires signing in.

This is the single most useful thing you can do, and it takes about a minute. Linking your BoardGameGeek account means the games you own and the ratings you've already given get pulled in automatically — so the group's suggested games reflect yourtaste from day one, and you don't have to re-rate a shelf full of games by hand.

🎲 BoardGameGeek — find your username

Your username is not a second login and notyour display name. It's the handle in your profile's web address:

1. Go to boardgamegeek.com and sign in.
2. Click your avatar (top-right) to open your profile.
3. Look at the address bar — the last part of the URL is your username. Copy it exactlyas it appears; it's case-sensitive.

Then pull your games & ratings in

1. On your Profile page, paste it into 🎲 BoardGameGeek username and Save.
2. Click Import my games & ratings just below it. That stocks the games you own into the library (so you can offer to bring them) and copies your BGG ratings onto those games.

Ratings you've already set in the app are never overwritten, and importing again later is safe — it only fills in what's new. Only games the group actually has get a rating; your full collection is the team library's overnight sync, not your personal import.

Nothing imported?Nine times out of ten it's a typo in the username (case matters), a collection set to private on BGG, or games not marked “Owned.” Fix that on BGG and import again.

🎟️ Tabletop.Events (optional)

If you host games at conventions, add your Tabletop.Events display nameon your Profile. It lets the app recognize the events you're running and show them on your dashboard. On tabletop.events, sign in → account menu (top-right) → your profile; copy the Display Name shown there exactly (capitalization and spaces matter).

🏟️ BoardGameArena (optional)

Add your BoardGameArena username on your Profile so teammates can find you and play online between game nights — it shows up on the Scoreboard.

If your group runs game nights through Discord, a bot posts a live boardfor each night — who's coming, which games are on offer, and who's sitting where. You RSVP and pick tables with the buttons right on that board; it all writes to the same place as this site, so the two always agree.

First: link your name (one time)

Discord knows you by your Discord handle, not your name on the roster — so before the bot can credit your RSVPs and games to you, connect the two once:

1. In any game-night channel or thread, type /link. A menu of the bot's commands should pop up as you type — tap /link in that menu rather than sending it as a plain message.
2. A name box appears. Start typing your name — don't just hit enter — and a list of roster names pops up below the box.
3. Tap your name in that list, then send the command. The bot replies “Linked” and you're set for good.

Type /link and no command menu shows up at all(it just sends as a normal message)? That's a bot-permission thing on the server, not something you did — tell whoever runs game night so they can re-check the bot's setup.

Don't see your name in the list? The list is the roster, so you're not on it yet — if your group uses a join link, that just means you haven't signed up (step 1); otherwise ask whoever runs game night to add you. Then try /link again. Changed your mind and linked the wrong name? Just run /link again and pick the right one; it moves the link over.

Then use the board

• Attending / Can't make it / Arriving late…: buttons to set your RSVP. “Arriving late” asks for an ETA so the group knows which games can still fit you.
• I'm bringing a game…: offer a game for the night — start typing and pick it from your group's library.
• Join a game: each offered game gets a button to grab a seat; a full table flips to “Full,” and bowing out frees your seat automatically.

A few of the same actions are also slash commands if you prefer typing: /bringing (offer or withdraw a game), /eta (set an arrival time), and /board (refresh the board).

The full game collection, kept in sync with BoardGameGeek.

• Rate it (★ 1-10): click a star to set your personal rating for a game — this is your standing “favorite” score, not tied to any specific session. Click your current rating again to clear it. The line underneath shows the group average and how many people have rated it.
• 🔥 Play next: a separate toggle — use it to say you specifically want this game picked for the next session, regardless of your rating. It resets automatically once the game actually gets logged in History (within the last 7 days).
• 🎓 Teach: shows up on games the group hasn't played yet — volunteer if you know how to play and are willing to teach it. Not-yet-played games only get suggested for a session once someone's signed up to teach them.
• Mark as played: flags a game the group has actually played together. This is shared (not personal) and different from the play count BGG shows.
• Filters: narrow the list by player count, difficulty (“weight”), whether it's been played, a mechanic/category tag (like “Cooperative”), games you've rated, or include expansions (hidden by default).
• Sort: by name, rating, player count, playtime, difficulty, or played status.
• Top rated / Your ratings / Want to play next / New games to try: quick-reference chips at the top of the page — they only appear once there's actual data to show.
• Copy list for text message: copies whatever games are currently showing (after your filters) as a plain-text list, ready to paste into a group chat. Handy for “what should I bring for N people” situations.
• Read more: some games have a description and mechanic/category tags — click to expand the full text.

Shows the recurring Tuesday and Saturdaygame nights, plus any one-off days someone's added with “+ Add a game day” (any date, not just Tuesday/Saturday).

• Weekdays (Mon-Fri) default to “available” (green) for everyone. Click your own name if you can't make it — it turns red.
• Weekends (Sat/Sun) default to “unknown” (gray) since they're occasional. Click your own name to cycle: unknown → available (green) → unavailable (red) → back to unknown.
• You can only change your own availability — everyone else's is visible but not clickable.
• Location / Time: pick from presets (whose house, or a spot like Yergey Brewing) or choose “Other” to type your own. Weekday sessions pick a start time (7:00 PM by default); weekend sessions pick a time block.
• Game / Backup game: anyone can set the game for a session. The backup pick (weekdays only) is a fallback that still works if one person can't make it.
• Suggested games: ranked automatically based on who's coming, 🔥 play-next nominations, ratings, difficulty, and whether the group has played it before — it rotates between favorites and new games across the month. New games only show up here if someone's volunteered to teach them.
• Weekend suggestions (Saturday and Sunday) stick to heavier games (weight 3.0+) that the group can actually get to the table — either played before or with a volunteer teacher — and assume a 4-player table until people respond.
• 🔥 Want to play nextonly shows games that aren't already picked for an upcoming session — once a game gets scheduled (as the main or backup pick), it drops off this list.

Long-range availability — every Tuesday and Saturday for the next 3 months, so you can mark yourself available or unavailable far in advance instead of only week-to-week. It uses the exact same availability as the Schedule page, so anything you set here shows up there automatically once that date falls within the next 3 weeks.

Log games after you've actually played them.

• Pick the date, the game, who played, their score (if the game has one), and who won.
• There's also a checkbox for who was the hidden traitor, for games that have that role — because someone always is, and he'll never admit it.
• Standings at the top track total wins (and traitor count) per person across everything logged — it's meant to be a little competitive.
• Made a mistake? Anyone can remove a logged entry.

• Once signed in, everyone has equal access — anyone can vote, log games, sync the library, or edit the calendar.
• The library refreshes automatically overnight, or click “Refresh from BGG” on the Library page to sync immediately.
• Solo-only games and expansions are hidden from voting by default since they're not really group-playable — expansions can be shown with the filter above.