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The market should dictate what's worth buying and what is not, and in time the bad games companies will fail. That's not a lot of consolation when you're in a shop, facing a wall of choices and with limited time.

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Boardgame Beast was started in December 2006. Since then, we've gone from strength to strength, reviewing hundreds of the best board games ever produced, and lots of new releases.

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How we rate our games: one of our reviewers plays the game multiple times. We confer until a general opinion is agreed upon, though the original writer has the final say in how the game is scored, from one to five footprints (half scores are possible).

One footprint is the lowest rating, and if a game scores just one, you can forget about buying it (really!). Five is the highest, and if a game gets five footprints, it's a true smash.

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