r/boardgames
Founded September 2008 · Public — anyone can post
The #1 Reddit source for news, information, and discussion about modern board games and board game culture. Join the community and come discuss games like Codenames, Wingspan, Brass, and all your other favorite games!
Members
5,449,518
5.4M
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
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no sample yet
Comments per post
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Growth · 7d
+0.0%
+1.4K members · ≈6d
Growth · 30d
+0.1%
+6.6K members · ≈28d
Promo tolerance
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not assessed yet
Last post
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no sample yet
Distinct posters
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Tracking since Aug 10 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
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Communities that discuss what r/boardgames discusses.
A place for news, information, and discussion about card games and card game culture. Whether it's physical card games or virtual card games, feel free to join and discuss your favorite card games!
Giochi da tavolo, giochi di carte, giochi di ruolo e wargames. Qui si parla di tutto, ma proprio di tutto quello che ci fa stare in compagnia attorno ad un tavolo.
LFG is a place for tabletop gamers to organize groups for the games they love to play.
This subreddit is a place to discuss all forms of online and digital card games.
See the full lists on similar subreddits.
r/boardgames — frequently asked
How many members does r/boardgames have?
r/boardgames has 5,449,518 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 7. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/boardgames growing?
Over the last ≈28 days r/boardgames changed by +0.1% — a gain of 6.6K members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".
How active is r/boardgames?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/boardgames yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.
When was r/boardgames created?
r/boardgames was founded in September 2008 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Can I promote my product in r/boardgames?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/boardgames yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.
How do I monitor r/boardgames for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/boardgames into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/boardgames's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/boardgames's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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