Games Statistics

This spreadsheet with all the games makes it really easy to get various statistics on the games.

As of May 2023, there are currently 238 games in this wiki. 161 of those have their own page on BGG. That's 67.6%.

Top Ten Designers (by quantity)

19 games: Mark A. Biggar
16 games: Michael Schoessow
13 games: Ron Hale-Evans
12 games: James Kyle, Ken Leyhe, Phillip Lerche
11 games: Trevor L Davis
9 games: Clark Rodeffer
8 games: Eric Witt, Jorge Arroyo, Stephen Schoessow

Licenses

CC BY-SA: 112 games (47.1%)
Public Domain: 28 games (11.8%)
GNU FDL: 25 games (10.5%)
no license: 22 games (9.2%)
CC BY-NC-SA: 15 games (6.3%)
CC BY: 11 games (4.6%)
custom license: 25 games (10.5%)

That means

216 games (90.8%) can be distributed
194 games (81.5%) can be modified
181 games (76.1%) can be used commercially
28 games (11.8%) can be uncredited

How many games can N people play?

1 player: 50
2 players: 173
3 players: 142
4 players: 154
5 players: 35
6 players: 31
7 players: 17
8 players: 18
9 players: 14
10 players: 13
10+ players: 11

How many games need how many piecepacks?

203 games can be played with 1 piecepack
51 games can be played with 2 piecepacks
8 games can be played with 3 piecepacks

How many of the pieces do the games use?

66 games (27.7%) use all of the pieces
72 games (30.3%) use at least 85.7% of the pieces (that's the equivalent of all tiles and coins)
32 games (13.4%) use between 64.3% (that's the equivalent of all the tiles and half of the coins) and 85.7%
41 games (17.2%) use between 42.9% (that's the equivalent of only tiles) and 64.3%
27 games (11.3%) use less than 42.9%

How original are the games?

138 of the games are original
67 are based on pre-existing games
33 are in between, sort of original but inspired by other games

How many games have been invented over the years?

This sort of shows the piecepack's popularity throughout the years, and when the designer contests were.

2000: 3
2001: 15
2002: 28
2003: 54
2004: 38
2005: 14
2006: 19
2007: 2
2008: 8
2009: 11
2010: 4
2011: 1
2012: 0
2013: 0
2014: 1
2015: 1
2016: 6
2017: 0
2018: 12
2019: 6
2020: 3
2021: 5
2022: 3
2023: 2 (so far)