> We like to think the best games will rise to the top, but at scale this becomes a popularity contest. There are 5,000 new board games released every year (an

> We like to think the best games will rise to the top, but at scale this becomes a popularity contest. There are 5,000 new board games released every year (and that isn't even including expansions to previously release games). The challenge is sifting through thousands of new games to pick out the wheat from the chaff. The games from popular designers are much more likely to be successful than from up and comers. I often wonder how many gems among those 5,000 games never get noticed.