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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! Founded 2008 · 5.5M members

5.5M members. The best post we have captured here reached 57.7K upvotes, which works out to 11 per 1,000 members.

11peak upvotes per 1,000 members
5.5Mmembers
57.7Kbest post
4.4Kmost comments
1Kposts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

31% 21% 20% 17% 8%
Text 31% Question 21% Image 20% Gallery 17% Link 8% Video 3%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Question 203 Custom Project 49 Game or Piece ID 29 Review 24 Session 24 Daily Game Recs 24 Rules 23 Humor 20 How-To/DIY 20 COMC 18

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Some of my friends take Dune night more seriously than others

↑ 57.7K 💬 426 gallery 2024

Ban X.com (formerly Twitter) links from this subreddit?

↑ 42.3K 💬 1.5K question 2025

Cards Against Humanity officially surpasses acoustic guitars as the most annoying thing you can bring to a party [Satire]

↑ 35.2K 💬 1.2K link 2018

"Are you gonna play the victim all life long?" My experience as a woman in board gaming, in brief.

↑ 26.7K 💬 3.5K question 2018

Message from a teacher

↑ 23.1K 💬 667 image 2026

I created a board game group in my small town and last night we had 25 people show up

↑ 22.1K 💬 252 image 2026

My little boardgamer.

↑ 18.5K 💬 502 text 2017

Cards Against Humanity is donating 100% profits made from red states to National Network of Abortion Funds

↑ 15.7K 💬 397 link 2022

Guy Who Bitched for Five Straight Hours Wins Board Game at Last Second

↑ 12.3K 💬 675 link 2018

2 months of design and planning, 3 months of building later, I have the gaming table of my dreams.

↑ 11.8K 💬 296 gallery 2021

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/boardgames, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/boardgames?
r/boardgames describes itself this way: 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. It was founded in 2008 and has 5.5M members.
How many members does r/boardgames have?
r/boardgames has about 5.5M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1K of its posts; the biggest reached 57.7K upvotes, which is 11 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/boardgames?
"Some of my friends take Dune night more seriously than others" reached 57.7K upvotes and 426 comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/boardgames.
What subreddits are similar to r/boardgames?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/awfuleverything, r/interesting, r/JustGuysBeingDudes, r/freefolk, r/awesome.
What kind of posts do best on r/boardgames?
Of the posts we hold, 31% are text posts and 21% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/boardgames?
Across 1K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 16:00 UTC (10.4K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 21:00 UTC (5.3K avg upvotes), Monday at 01:00 UTC (4.9K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/boardgames?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/boardgames has 8.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 302 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/boardgames, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.