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    Why Board Games, Why Now? on the sociology of board games

    Board games are pretty hip right now – playing them, collecting them, inventing them. A friend tells me that “working on developing a board game” is the new “I have a novel in a drawer” of a certain urban demographic. No longer relegated to cottages and church basements, board games have found new homes and reimaged cultural capital with the emergence of board game cafés. Since the opening of the board game café Snakes & Lattes in 2010, Toronto has seen a boom in the creation of board game cafés and pubs, including Castle Board Game Cafe, Roll Play Café, Café Princess, and Chit-Chat-Play. Other cities have also seen this trend, with cafés like Ottawa’s Monopolatte, Kitchener’s The Adventurers Guild, Winnipeg’s Across the Board, and Edmonton’s Table Top Café.

    Chess is mentioned but by no means as the most popular board game.

    Link here.
    Dogs will bark, but the caravan of chess moves on.

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    On YouTube there is a channel called "Geek and Sundry". They have a bi-weekly board games segment hosted by Wil Wheaton of ST: TNG and TBBT fame. Anyway, the show is usually about 40 mins long and features a small group of players playing a different board game. It's a good way to see if a particular board game is something you would enjoy without forking over fifty bucks or more for a copy. Most episodes have around a half-million views.
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      Originally posted by Tom O'Donnell View Post
      On YouTube there is a channel called "Geek and Sundry". They have a bi-weekly board games segment hosted by Wil Wheaton of ST: TNG and TBBT fame. Anyway, the show is usually about 40 mins long and features a small group of players playing a different board game. It's a good way to see if a particular board game is something you would enjoy without forking over fifty bucks or more for a copy. Most episodes have around a half-million views.
      In victoria, at a local cafe close to the (previous) location of the chess club on the same night, a group meets to play a range of board games. They typically have a better turn out than the chess club and a better gender split.

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        The Aurora library will start a chess and board games program for youth. Before was only chess.

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