A CodeSights flagship for the games and analytics crowd: 447 board games scraped wide from each game's {{Infobox game}}, with every column at least a quarter populated. Beyond designer and publisher it carries player counts parsed to a minimum and maximum, minimum age, setup and playing time parsed to minutes, the luck-versus-skill random-chance rating (None, Low, Moderate, High), skills and the Wikidata publication year. The famous finding is that luck and skill split the shelf: 46 games carry a random chance of None, the pure-skill classics like chess, Go and draughts, while mass-market titles lean on the dice (71 moderate, 18 high). Player counts pile up at 2 and 4, and playing times run from a few minutes to the all-day war games measured in hours. Publication years reach from the 1890s to today, and the modern designer-game era (Catan 1995, Pandemic 2008) fills the recent decades. Nine acceptance tests, one enforcing the 25 percent fill rule on every column. Games without a dedicated article are out of scope.
447 rows in one CSV file, with 16 columns in total: Game, Game_ID, Year_Published, Designer, Publisher, Players, Min_Players, Max_Players, Min_Age, Playing_Time, Playing_Time_Min, Playing_Time_Max, Setup_Time, Random_Chance, Skills, Game_URL.
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