Found out the average board game has 87 pieces...

I was reading through a geeklist on BoardGameGeek last night where someone actually counted the components in 50 random games from their shelf. Turns out the average is 87 pieces per game, which blew my mind... I counted my copy of Castles of Burgundy just to check and it came out to 164 tiles alone. The guy who made the list said he spent 14 hours total sorting and counting everything from dice to wooden bits. Made me wonder how many pieces I've lost over the years without even noticing... Has anyone else ever actually inventoried their game collection like this?

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uma_williams24d ago

Nope those 87 pieces are base game only. @dakota415 expansions would wreck that average.

dakota41524d ago

Does that count include expansion packs or just the base game?

betty_kelly924d ago

Wait, hold up - does that seriously only cover the base game? I figured you'd need at least a couple of the big expansion packs just to get started.