Boardgames Recommender

How to use the board game recommender?

Input: Your favorite board game!

Output: Our recommendation of 6 board games that we think you will love!

Example:

A: What is your favorite board game?

B: I love "Kingdom Builder"! I wonder if there is any other game like it.

A: Let me see...Take a look at the following!

• Carcassonne
• Web of Power
• Carcassonne: The Castle
• Domaine
• Gold West
• Rattus

B: Cool! I'll take a look at Carcassonne.

How does our recommender work?

Our recommender tries to suggest games that have the most similar mechanics and categories/themes to the user's favorite game. Similarity is calculated as Euclidean distance.

Sneakpeek of the code...

Recommender Demonstration

We are demonstrating some examples of our recommender below. See if you can find any game you like!

Shiny App

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