How MyBoardGame works

A quick tour of every section

Collection

  • All your games in one place — add them in a couple of clicks or manually.
  • Search checks the site database first, then Tesera and BoardGameGeek.
  • Card badges: price tag — listed on the market, paperclip — rule files attached, heart — likes, trash — remove the game from your collection.
  • The “Share” button copies a public link to your collection — it can be opened even by people who aren’t registered.
  • Not sure what to play? Hit the dice button, pick the number of players, and the site will randomly pick a game for your game night.
  • Expansions live as thumbnails on the game card’s big photo — click a thumbnail to view the expansion instead of the base game, click again to switch back.
  • The “+” tile on the photo opens the expansion catalog — tick the ones you own. If a game has no expansions at all, the “+” hides itself.

Playgroups

  • Add friends with an invite code — yours lives in your profile.
  • Open your friends’ collections and see what they play.
  • Mark a friend with the house icon to make them family: your collections merge into one shared pool, and every change is visible to the whole family.

Session

  • Create a session: date, time, place and notes.
  • Pick the game yourself or set up a vote — offer your friends up to 5 games from your collection or their collections.
  • Open sessions are visible to all registered users, private ones to friends only; invites go to friends either way.
  • Share sessions via a public link — it can be opened even by people who aren’t registered.
  • Confirm with “I’m in” and vote for the game.

Marketplace

  • List a game for sale or trade: price, city, comment.
  • Reserve others’ games — seller’s city and phone are shown only to the reserver.
  • The first reserver is the buyer: until the reservation is removed by the buyer or the seller, the game stays taken for everyone else.
  • When the seller confirms the sale, the game automatically moves to the buyer’s (reserver’s) collection and is removed from the seller’s collection.
  • Confirm the sale or remove the listing anytime — the “Remove from sale/exchange” button sits right on the lot card.
  • The seller gets an email when their listing is reserved — with the photo, price and buyer’s name.

Profile

  • Name, email, phone and avatar in “Profile info”.
  • Import your BoardGameGeek collection: enter your BGG username — games come over with descriptions and stats. BGG may take up to a minute to assemble the list, that’s normal.
  • Interface language and password change live there too.

Notifications

  • Menu icons glow gold when something new appears: friends, sessions, market listings.
  • Open the section and the glow clears.

Feedback

  • “Report a bug” and “Contact us” are in the profile menu, top right.
  • Tell us what’s wrong — we read every message.