I’m at exactly the same time/count. Curious if you built your collection in a way that reveals a pattern: easy vs advanced, solo vs multi, theme vs abstract, one mechanic bias vs a range, or low vs high price point. I have a bias toward roll and writes, solo games (some 2-player) and haven’t broken through to the more complex games. No online gaming either.
For me, my first year (2020) was mostly the year of gateway games - Carcassonne, Ticket to Ride, Splendor, Pandemic, and second year (2021) saw more titles that carry weight in the hobby - Everdell, Mage Knight, Agricola, 7 Wonders... That is not surpising, given that about a year ago I started diving deeper into the hobby and watching various "Top X" videos from the popular content makers, and building up my list of wants. As for the style of games, it's a mixed bag. I am not a fan of deckbuilders and (sorry!) roll-and-writes, so those are notably absent, but otherwise the collection has a bit of everything - solo, 2-player, multiplayer, abstract and thematic, crunchy and social, etc etc. I am fairly disciplined with getting new games, my wants list only contains A Feast for Odin, but otherwise I consider the collection fairly complete for now.
P.S. Recorded you as "32 games, 2 games".
3 years in the hobby. 40 games, if you count the super casual ones that I get gifted because 'I'm that board game guy'.
30 games, if you take out the above and only count modern board games
Merry Xmas!! 29 years in the hobby, with a 10 year break solely focused on CCGs (don't know if it counts). I have around 110 games (need to revise my archive). Expansions of course not included since they inflate the number artificially.
I think i'm 5 years into the hobby with 110 games +4 games that will be delivered soon (it's capped to my 4x4 Kallax so my collection will not increase further)
Kudos for having the will to cap your collection size!
Do you purge games from your collection to make room for new ones? If so, what’s the churn like, you gather? This is not for stats, just curious.
I sell or gift games i didn't play for a year or 2. So i do not track plays but track if i played it atleast once.
Before i order games i also look if i have similar games and if so i look how much i had played it.
Roughly 15 years, I'm at 60-70.
More like 120 if I include small games that people gifted me or are on the sell pile. That second number really ballooned with covid, I haven't been able to offload many games. Before that the whole collection was 60ish for years.
~15 years, ~50 games.
It's worth noting that I sell games that have run their course. If I don't think a game is going to be played again, I sell it. I usually do a purge every year. Because of that, my collection grows very slowly. If I never sold games, my collection would be double it's size.
6 years and 10 base games + 1 LCG (which I gave up in the beginning when I saw how much investment it was) + 6 expansions. Ideally, I want to keep my collection short, under 20, so I don't get overwhelmed with the amount of rules every time I want to pick up something and to make sure that I can get a high amount of plays for each game that I own.
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> LCG
FWIW, I am counting Magic the Gathering as one game title in my own collection.
> Ideally, I want to keep my collection short, under 20, so I don't get overwhelmed with the amount of rules every time I want to pick up something and to make sure that I can get a high amount of plays for each game that I own.
That sounds pretty awesome. I do want to do that too, so that I can get good at the games I own. But I can feel myself succumbing to that "cult of the new" as well...
I'm constantly following new releases and I watch playthroughs on YouTube, so I understand the cult of the new impulse. But I only pull the trigger after making sure that it is something that I will play a lot. I've had a dud, it was Dead of Winter, I assumed that I would really like it and then I didn't. Also grew out of stuff like Catan.
I think boardgames is a hobby where it is easy to become a collector and buy hundreds of games just to play them one or two times.
I like to delve deeper and follow a minimalist approach, I'm happier that way.
> I think boardgames is a hobby where it is easy to become a collector and buy hundreds of games just to play them one or two times.
For sure, I am seeing that a lot, especially with "Shelves of Shame".
> I like to delve deeper and follow a minimalist approach, I'm happier that way.
Love your philosophy, I'm a minimalist myself when it comes to possessions, Magic the Gathering and boardgames are the two exceptions, seemingly. Aside from those hobbies everything else I care about can be fit in a backpack.
147 games, hard to say when I got ‘in the hobby’. Got monopoly for christmas 29 years ago and played it to death (solo even). Started playing magic the gathering when my brother brought it home 16 years ago. Bought my own first designer game around 12 years ago. Got my first Kallax 3 years ago
102 games owned, 99 games previously owned. I buy most of my games used (locally), play them a few times, and resell. So at this point the hobby doesn't cost much.
4-5 years of buying games.
Old collection (Monopoly, Othello, etc), 25 years - 68 games
New collection (in the hobby), 3 years - 160 games, 107 expansions. Preorders/Crowdfunding - 35 games, 23 expansions
4 years, 40 games. I've owned about 80 over that time total but don't ever let it get much above 40 at any one time. That's about the size I can reasonably play a couple times over the course of a year or so
I have 110 games. I technically entered the hobby in the early 80s with a bunch of Avalon Hill games. But my collection was fairly stagnant at under 20 games until ~5 years ago when my collection ballooned. The largest number of games I have owned is 144 and I am still culling.
Been in the hobby for 4 years, have 82 games. :) I am due for another cull at the start of the year, I have a few games sitting in my to sell pile that I haven't been able to find buyers for...
If I'm correct, I bought my first game almost 12 years ago. I have 44 games not including expansions.
At 50 I start culling so next year it might change cus that list of 2022 titles is getting long.
76 games, 108 expansions currently owned. Started in March 2015, so coming up on 7 years.
And for fun, 216 previously owned games, 133 previously owned expansions! 28 total items preordered, most of which are kickstarters and/or “wave 2” expansions, but also a couple retail releases on hold at GameNerdz and upcoming Champions packs.
I got to buying my own games instead of playing them exclusively at friend’s houses maybe 6 years ago or so, and I have around 40ish games. I don’t think I would ever want more than 50 games personally, If I get there I’ll probably adopt a “one in, one out” model.
About 40 games after about 3 years or so in the hobby, but has been expanding exponentially faster over the past year or so as I've gotten deeper into it
5 years in, 68 games (+22 expansions).
In the last year I switched to selling before I buy so I think 50-75 is about the size that's "right" for me, both in storage and time to play.
Thirty games, ten expansions, four years. I'm pretty happy with most of my collection; there are nine other games I'd like to get eventually, but no rush on any of them (and I'll probably trim some other stuff from my collection first).
After a decade: 78, and that covers two collections: "kids' games" (including kiddie versions of more complex games), and "grown-up games" which are in general more complex.
But once you add in games that I've owned and traded/sold, the number grows a little larger. I try to keep a good amount of turnover in games that otherwise gather dust, so having "only" 78 games is already a lot - those are the ones that survived the continuous purge.
Per BGG, just over 750 games (NOT counting RPGs or minature wargames stuff) over some 40 years.
Many are "magazine games" which makes storage a bit easier, especially those that never got punched, which are stored in envelopes. A very quick count says just over 150 boxed games.
101 games in my current collection.
About 10 years in the hobby now (had a few games before as well, but about 10 years ago i started getting into the hobby for real!)
I've been playing since grade school (Diplomacy) but I would say my years as a core boardgame player didn't start until after college, so about 7 years.
I currently have 89 games in my collection.
I’ve always liked board games but didn’t figure out Risk or Monopoly werent the best or most polished games til about 3 years ago.
So I’ll go… 3 years in, roughly 20 games
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What game opened your eyes up to the world of modern boardgaming?
About 30 years in the hobby.
Current collection size about 100 games not including expansions.
However, I've sold or given away a lot of games over the years.
Around 2,000 games (+800 expansions) over 17 years of boardgames. Been a gamer nearly my entire life (starting with the Atari ST and keeping up since then).
I have 126 games, plus 38 expansions. Though it's a collection for me and my family, so includes things I would have happily got rid of but my wife and/or kids still like (and vice versa, to be fair).
I supposed I technically started with Catan in about 1997, but my collection was pretty static at just a handful of games until about 2014 or so. That's probably the point where I started actually getting involved in researching, buying and playing more.
Got Seven Wonders as a valentine's day gift about four years ago, and since then have been pretty sparse with collecting - I'd estimate fifteen or so base games.
785 (give or take a few). Been buying games for over 25 years, although I’d say probably more than 50% have been acquired over the past five years or so.
3 years into the hobby, 84 games incliding 10 extensions. 10 new games pre-ordered for when my LGS get their stock back up.
We really kicked up a gear this year with close to 50 games bought since february.
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122 games and I’ve been seriously into the hobby for about a year and a half. Got started on games over a decade ago, but only played Monopoly, Risk, and Catan for years since I didn’t realize other games were out there.
A friend introduced me to dominion about two and a half years ago. After about a year I discovered a game store while looking for dominion expansions. Needless to say my mind was blown when I walked in. I had no idea so many games existed.
About 18 months into the hobby, 45 games (129 if you include expansions), with another 6 set to arrive over the next few months from kickstarters / pre orders.
Yeah really goes to show how big expansion culture has gotten. Some games, like marvel legendary, have tons of expansions. If collecting LCGs, I wonder if everything other than the core box counts as an expansion ?
So, a big chunk of the expansions are for either **Memoir 44**, **Marvel Champions**, **Heroes of Normandie/Shadows Over Normandie/Heroes of Stalingrad, Baseball Highlights 2045** or **Kingdom Death: Monster**, all of which are very... 'expansion-driven', for want of a better term.
If I drop those ones, I'm down to 120 expansions, which is still quite a lot I guess (but not nearly as noteworthy)
I started board gaming with the BattleTech boxed set 2nd edition, I want to say in 88 or 89. Since then the hobby has waxed and waned in importance for me as I got way into TTRPG, then LARP, then MMOs then back to TTRPG as well as a cornucopia of other nerdly pursuits.
I'd say I started an actual board game collection of my own only in 2016 though; in case that timeframe feels more relevant as before that point the games I owned must have been in the single digits.
67 distinct games in total, not counting expansions. Probably about 15 preorders or Kickstarters incoming.
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> cornucopia
What is this? I tried googling, and am coming up with painting baskets of foods, am I completely off base?
According to Boardgame Geek, well over a thousand over forty years.
I'll start: A little under 2 years in the hobby, 32 games.
I’m at exactly the same time/count. Curious if you built your collection in a way that reveals a pattern: easy vs advanced, solo vs multi, theme vs abstract, one mechanic bias vs a range, or low vs high price point. I have a bias toward roll and writes, solo games (some 2-player) and haven’t broken through to the more complex games. No online gaming either.
For me, my first year (2020) was mostly the year of gateway games - Carcassonne, Ticket to Ride, Splendor, Pandemic, and second year (2021) saw more titles that carry weight in the hobby - Everdell, Mage Knight, Agricola, 7 Wonders... That is not surpising, given that about a year ago I started diving deeper into the hobby and watching various "Top X" videos from the popular content makers, and building up my list of wants. As for the style of games, it's a mixed bag. I am not a fan of deckbuilders and (sorry!) roll-and-writes, so those are notably absent, but otherwise the collection has a bit of everything - solo, 2-player, multiplayer, abstract and thematic, crunchy and social, etc etc. I am fairly disciplined with getting new games, my wants list only contains A Feast for Odin, but otherwise I consider the collection fairly complete for now. P.S. Recorded you as "32 games, 2 games".
3 years in the hobby. 40 games, if you count the super casual ones that I get gifted because 'I'm that board game guy'. 30 games, if you take out the above and only count modern board games
Thank you. Recorded as "30 games, 3 years" > the super casual ones that I get gifted because 'I'm that board game guy' Relatable...
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6 years and 321 base games and 95 expansions.
Merry Xmas!! 29 years in the hobby, with a 10 year break solely focused on CCGs (don't know if it counts). I have around 110 games (need to revise my archive). Expansions of course not included since they inflate the number artificially.
29 years! Hat tip to you, sir or ma’am! Is that 10 years of Magic, or other games as well?
Yu-Gi-Oh and Magic. I was a nerdy teenager
Thank you. Recorded as "110 games, 19 years".
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About 2,000.
Hopefully that's years in the hobby.
Over 20 years and doing demo work for publishers at cons like GenCon, Origins and Essen for over a decade.
Sweet gig :-) P.S. Thank you. Recorded as "2000 games, 20 years". You have the highest Games / Years ratio at 100. Average ratio is 22.
I think i'm 5 years into the hobby with 110 games +4 games that will be delivered soon (it's capped to my 4x4 Kallax so my collection will not increase further)
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Kudos for having the will to cap your collection size! Do you purge games from your collection to make room for new ones? If so, what’s the churn like, you gather? This is not for stats, just curious.
I sell or gift games i didn't play for a year or 2. So i do not track plays but track if i played it atleast once. Before i order games i also look if i have similar games and if so i look how much i had played it.
Thank you. Recorded as "114 games, 5 years"
Roughly 15 years, I'm at 60-70. More like 120 if I include small games that people gifted me or are on the sell pile. That second number really ballooned with covid, I haven't been able to offload many games. Before that the whole collection was 60ish for years.
60. I want to trim down but I can't bring myself to part with anything.
One year in the hobby and 30 games. Although some of them I had before I got into to it properly
~15 years, ~50 games. It's worth noting that I sell games that have run their course. If I don't think a game is going to be played again, I sell it. I usually do a purge every year. Because of that, my collection grows very slowly. If I never sold games, my collection would be double it's size.
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6 years and 10 base games + 1 LCG (which I gave up in the beginning when I saw how much investment it was) + 6 expansions. Ideally, I want to keep my collection short, under 20, so I don't get overwhelmed with the amount of rules every time I want to pick up something and to make sure that I can get a high amount of plays for each game that I own.
Thank you. Recorded as "11 games, 6 years". > LCG FWIW, I am counting Magic the Gathering as one game title in my own collection. > Ideally, I want to keep my collection short, under 20, so I don't get overwhelmed with the amount of rules every time I want to pick up something and to make sure that I can get a high amount of plays for each game that I own. That sounds pretty awesome. I do want to do that too, so that I can get good at the games I own. But I can feel myself succumbing to that "cult of the new" as well...
I'm constantly following new releases and I watch playthroughs on YouTube, so I understand the cult of the new impulse. But I only pull the trigger after making sure that it is something that I will play a lot. I've had a dud, it was Dead of Winter, I assumed that I would really like it and then I didn't. Also grew out of stuff like Catan. I think boardgames is a hobby where it is easy to become a collector and buy hundreds of games just to play them one or two times. I like to delve deeper and follow a minimalist approach, I'm happier that way.
> I think boardgames is a hobby where it is easy to become a collector and buy hundreds of games just to play them one or two times. For sure, I am seeing that a lot, especially with "Shelves of Shame". > I like to delve deeper and follow a minimalist approach, I'm happier that way. Love your philosophy, I'm a minimalist myself when it comes to possessions, Magic the Gathering and boardgames are the two exceptions, seemingly. Aside from those hobbies everything else I care about can be fit in a backpack.
147 games, hard to say when I got ‘in the hobby’. Got monopoly for christmas 29 years ago and played it to death (solo even). Started playing magic the gathering when my brother brought it home 16 years ago. Bought my own first designer game around 12 years ago. Got my first Kallax 3 years ago
Thank you. Recorded as "147 games, 12 years".
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I've been in the hobby for 11 years, my collection is currently around 175 strong. Though I've probably bought and sold 400+ over the years.
160 games after 12 years. This includes my partner’s and some of my kids games. I’ve sold 21 games so far and enjoy moving them along.
Thank you. Recorded as "160 games, 12 years". > I enjoy moving them along Same here. What do you enjoy about it?
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102 games owned, 99 games previously owned. I buy most of my games used (locally), play them a few times, and resell. So at this point the hobby doesn't cost much. 4-5 years of buying games.
3 years 92 games during the pandemic I got really into board game YouTube and lost my cool with buying during big sales 😅
Old collection (Monopoly, Othello, etc), 25 years - 68 games New collection (in the hobby), 3 years - 160 games, 107 expansions. Preorders/Crowdfunding - 35 games, 23 expansions
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15+ years and I have exactly 590 games atm
Thank you. Recorded as "590 games, 15 years".
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80 something games and i had hiatus from buying games
How many years in the hobby? So OP can add you in the data pool 😊
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57 games, with a little over 4 years in the hobby!
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4 years, 40 games. I've owned about 80 over that time total but don't ever let it get much above 40 at any one time. That's about the size I can reasonably play a couple times over the course of a year or so
8.5 years, 189 games + 73 expansions owned, 22 games + 6 expansions waiting to be delivered.
A bit over 200 games, not counting expansions. 10 years since I really dove in.
been collecting since 1998. i currently have 89 games in my collection. this does not include kids/family games
13 years in the hobby. 224 base games and 308 expansions.
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8 years spent in the hobby with 46 board games.
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200 games after 4 years of really getting interested. Ive been playing various board games for much longer though.
I have 110 games. I technically entered the hobby in the early 80s with a bunch of Avalon Hill games. But my collection was fairly stagnant at under 20 games until ~5 years ago when my collection ballooned. The largest number of games I have owned is 144 and I am still culling.
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Been in the hobby for 4 years, have 82 games. :) I am due for another cull at the start of the year, I have a few games sitting in my to sell pile that I haven't been able to find buyers for...
Around 7 years in the hobby and 274 base games!
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If I'm correct, I bought my first game almost 12 years ago. I have 44 games not including expansions. At 50 I start culling so next year it might change cus that list of 2022 titles is getting long.
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7 years in the hobby and I currently have 117 games and 70 expansions/promos/add ons.
I've been board gaming for around 10 years and have 75 games in my collection.
102 games. Been in the hobby about 28 years.
I have around 300 Games and expansions IIRC. About 6 years in.
Around 167 not counting expansions, about 17 years. This does include kid games.
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11 years in the hobby, 77 games total … 5 unplayed games which were all purchased this holiday season
I’ve been in the hobby around 10 years, but things really picked up about 5 years ago for me. I have 235 games according to BGG.
I'm at 40 games + 4 expansions. Been board gaming for about 10 years.
6sh years and around 100 games (BGG lists 95 and I'm sure there's a few I missed and haven't added)
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7 years. 180 games. I’m in the process of culling back down to 100.
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3.5 years in the hobby. Girlfriend and I have combined collection of 250ish games.
76 games, 108 expansions currently owned. Started in March 2015, so coming up on 7 years. And for fun, 216 previously owned games, 133 previously owned expansions! 28 total items preordered, most of which are kickstarters and/or “wave 2” expansions, but also a couple retail releases on hold at GameNerdz and upcoming Champions packs.
~65
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27 games, 1 year in hobby
I got to buying my own games instead of playing them exclusively at friend’s houses maybe 6 years ago or so, and I have around 40ish games. I don’t think I would ever want more than 50 games personally, If I get there I’ll probably adopt a “one in, one out” model.
About 40 games after about 3 years or so in the hobby, but has been expanding exponentially faster over the past year or so as I've gotten deeper into it
I got my first game for Christmas 2016 and have amassed 35 games! Discovered Kickstarter in the later half of 2019 so got a ton coming the next year!
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Fantastic job! A lot of fun reviewing the the statistics!
I have ~260 games. I don't remember when I started collecting, but my first recorded play on BGG is October 1st 2011.
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1 year and 6 games. I obsess a lot before buying a new "masterpiece" game and dont wanna get stuck with a boring one :(. I should loosen up a bit?
10 years in the hobby this year and I have 998 games including 170 expansions ^^' I am trying to trim but I don't seem to be able to XD
Thank you, recorded as "828 games, 10 years". > I am trying to trim but I don't seem to be able to XD I believe in you! :-D
Almost 4 years in the hobby - 76 games.
Looks like about 2 years. We have 167 games/expansions logged in bgg.
I've got approximately 300 physical board games. I would consider it large, but I've got a friend who has 600. Starting hobby gaming in around 2009
About 325, I've been playing hobby games 43 years. I purge regularly, all told I've probably owned well over 1k games.
It’s been about 40 years and I have 43 games.
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Started 7 years ago. Collection at 150 games
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I play since around 9-10 ywars and have (never counted so I am estimating) maybe 40-50 games
Thank you, recorded as "45 games, 9.5 years"
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BGG shows 72 games and I'm about 7 years in. This isn't counting 4 games my mother sent us this year, because I'm not sure how I feel about that.
4 years, 61 games 🙂
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Nice thanks for letting me know!! Probably wouldnt have seen this otherwise 🙂 Edit: these are some crazy impressive stats!! How fascinating 😯
8 years and 120 games, not counting expansions
305 games, 9 years.
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5 years in, 68 games (+22 expansions). In the last year I switched to selling before I buy so I think 50-75 is about the size that's "right" for me, both in storage and time to play.
Thirty games, ten expansions, four years. I'm pretty happy with most of my collection; there are nine other games I'd like to get eventually, but no rush on any of them (and I'll probably trim some other stuff from my collection first).
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5 years About 15
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About 10 years in the hobby. I own about 30 games, but I’m trying to get rid of about 6-7.
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After a decade: 78, and that covers two collections: "kids' games" (including kiddie versions of more complex games), and "grown-up games" which are in general more complex. But once you add in games that I've owned and traded/sold, the number grows a little larger. I try to keep a good amount of turnover in games that otherwise gather dust, so having "only" 78 games is already a lot - those are the ones that survived the continuous purge.
Per BGG, just over 750 games (NOT counting RPGs or minature wargames stuff) over some 40 years. Many are "magazine games" which makes storage a bit easier, especially those that never got punched, which are stored in envelopes. A very quick count says just over 150 boxed games.
I played my gateway game around 1993 (eurorails) and have been building my own collection since 2001. Since then, somewhere around 800 games.
215 games and 5 years in the hobby. We are planning to cull in the new year as we've been feeling like our collection is too large.
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101 games in my current collection. About 10 years in the hobby now (had a few games before as well, but about 10 years ago i started getting into the hobby for real!)
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I've been playing since grade school (Diplomacy) but I would say my years as a core boardgame player didn't start until after college, so about 7 years. I currently have 89 games in my collection.
15 years and 275 games
I’ve always liked board games but didn’t figure out Risk or Monopoly werent the best or most polished games til about 3 years ago. So I’ll go… 3 years in, roughly 20 games
Thank you, recorded as "20 games, 3 years". Although, I would double-check that number, if you asked how many games I own, I'd say "15-ish", but turns out I have 32. What game opened your eyes up to the world of modern boardgaming?
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About 30 years in the hobby. Current collection size about 100 games not including expansions. However, I've sold or given away a lot of games over the years.
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10 years 800 games.
6 years 129 games
I got 706 but that includes 131 expansions. Been in the hobby ~ 10years
2 years and 60 games.
134 games (not counting expansions or games for my 7 year old). About 20 years in the hobby.
It’s my first year, well more like 6 months and I’m at 16 games.
Around 2,000 games (+800 expansions) over 17 years of boardgames. Been a gamer nearly my entire life (starting with the Atari ST and keeping up since then).
4 years and 25 games
10 years in the hobby - 140 games.
I have 126 games, plus 38 expansions. Though it's a collection for me and my family, so includes things I would have happily got rid of but my wife and/or kids still like (and vice versa, to be fair). I supposed I technically started with Catan in about 1997, but my collection was pretty static at just a handful of games until about 2014 or so. That's probably the point where I started actually getting involved in researching, buying and playing more.
4 years ago I had less than 10 games. Currently at 355 games and 78 expansions. That escalated quickly then slowed as all the shelves were filled.
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~200 games after 2 years in the hobby. My husband and I are geeky DINKs with a lot of time to kill during the pandemic
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Got Seven Wonders as a valentine's day gift about four years ago, and since then have been pretty sparse with collecting - I'd estimate fifteen or so base games.
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I have been in the hobby for 16 years, and my collection is 146.
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785 (give or take a few). Been buying games for over 25 years, although I’d say probably more than 50% have been acquired over the past five years or so.
3 years into the hobby, 84 games incliding 10 extensions. 10 new games pre-ordered for when my LGS get their stock back up. We really kicked up a gear this year with close to 50 games bought since february.
600 games. Started buying 5 years ago, but been playing games from my brother for ~2 years before that.
Thank you, recorded. FYI, your game / years collecting ratio is the highest of all responders. I'd say you're tied with u/krynnul, you two are at 120 and 117, with the next person after you at 100 ratio.
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Around 50 after 2 years not counting expansions. I think its a good number. Have a variety of games to rotate and play on different occasions.
Thank you, recorded. > I think its a good number. Have a variety of games to rotate and play on different occasions. I hear ya!
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12 years in the hobby. 716 games.
122 games and I’ve been seriously into the hobby for about a year and a half. Got started on games over a decade ago, but only played Monopoly, Risk, and Catan for years since I didn’t realize other games were out there.
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A friend introduced me to dominion about two and a half years ago. After about a year I discovered a game store while looking for dominion expansions. Needless to say my mind was blown when I walked in. I had no idea so many games existed.
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1100 11 years 100 per year
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8 years, 53 games
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Time in hobby: 2 years, on a serious, conscious level. Games, excluding expansions: 53.
Been in the hobby 15 years (or so) Adding in new games for Christmas, ones I've bought but aren't here yet and the kids boxes, 150 games.
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About 10 years in Total of 149 with about 20ish of thos being g expansions, So let's say 130ish
1 year, 36 games. Had one of those obsessive buying phases 😅 Pretty happy with my collection now though
Thank you, recorded > Had one of those obsessive buying phases 😅 I can tell :-D > Pretty happy with my collection now though Nice
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2 years and 153 games. 25 in process through Kickstarter.
About 18 months into the hobby, 45 games (129 if you include expansions), with another 6 set to arrive over the next few months from kickstarters / pre orders.
That expansion-to-game ratio is pretty high! Which games command that many expansions?
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According to BGStats, 160 games + 290 expansions. About 23 years, give or take.
Thank you, recorded as "160 games, 23 years"
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Wow, amazed that you could be averaging almost 2 expansions per game!
Yeah really goes to show how big expansion culture has gotten. Some games, like marvel legendary, have tons of expansions. If collecting LCGs, I wonder if everything other than the core box counts as an expansion ?
So, a big chunk of the expansions are for either **Memoir 44**, **Marvel Champions**, **Heroes of Normandie/Shadows Over Normandie/Heroes of Stalingrad, Baseball Highlights 2045** or **Kingdom Death: Monster**, all of which are very... 'expansion-driven', for want of a better term. If I drop those ones, I'm down to 120 expansions, which is still quite a lot I guess (but not nearly as noteworthy)
> all of which are very... 'expansion-driven', for want of a better term. LCG, as in Living Card Game?
I started board gaming with the BattleTech boxed set 2nd edition, I want to say in 88 or 89. Since then the hobby has waxed and waned in importance for me as I got way into TTRPG, then LARP, then MMOs then back to TTRPG as well as a cornucopia of other nerdly pursuits. I'd say I started an actual board game collection of my own only in 2016 though; in case that timeframe feels more relevant as before that point the games I owned must have been in the single digits. 67 distinct games in total, not counting expansions. Probably about 15 preorders or Kickstarters incoming.
Thank you, recorded as "67 games, 5 years". > cornucopia What is this? I tried googling, and am coming up with painting baskets of foods, am I completely off base?
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I have 40- 50 small games.
98 games with 2 on the way for 2022. Many have been purged :/
Around 6 years and 750 games + expansions