A friend told me I was organizing my game shelf all wrong

I used to sort my board games alphabetically, but a buddy at our weekly meetup pointed out that nobody could find anything because we group them by play style. He said 'sort by complexity and player count, not the spelling of the name.' So last Saturday I spent 2 hours reorganizing 40+ games into light party games, medium strategy, and heavy euros. Now we can grab something fast for 3 players instead of hunting through the whole shelf like idiots. Has anyone else found a system that actually works better?

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baker.ben17d ago

Wait do you group light party games separate from medium strategy stuff even if they're both good for the same player count? Like I've got Codenames and King of Tokyo both work great for 4 people but one's a word party game and the other's a dice chucker and I can never decide where to put them. How do you handle games that don't neatly fit one box like that?

cameron_owens4916d ago

You've got it a little backwards there @baker.ben. Codenames and King of Tokyo are both light party games in my book, just different flavors. Codenames is a word association party game and King of Tokyo is a dice rolling party game, but they both fit that same slot for me since they're simple to teach and play fast. I think the mix-up is that King of Tokyo has dice and a monster theme so it feels more like a "real game," but the rules are just as simple as Codenames. I usually sort by how much thinking you have to do, not by the theme or components.