How the board games communities compare
A few giants dominate — r/boardgames, r/Boardgamedeals and r/tabletopgamedesign together account for 98% of the combined membership. r/boardgames is both the biggest and the busiest, with about 71 new posts a day. Per member, the liveliest is r/BoardGameExchange: 14 posts a day from 32.3K members — a smaller crowd, but an engaged one. The oldest is r/boardgames, founded in 2008, and every community here is more than five years old — this is a long-established corner of Reddit.
The 6 biggest board games subreddits
r/boardgames 5,459,592 members · ~71 posts/day · +1.8K since Oct 19 · since 2008The #1 Reddit source for news, information, and discussion about modern board games and board game culture. Join the community and come discuss games like Codenames, Wingspan, Brass, and all your other favorite games!
- Br/Boardgamedeals 124,470 members · ~2.3 posts/day · since 2013
Deal posts only. Affiliate links are not allowed. Self promoting posts are limited to one post per week, on Fridays only. Kickstarter (or similar) submissions are not allowed. Massdrop (or similar) submissions are not allowed. On…
- Tr/tabletopgamedesign ↗ 80,621 members · ~18 posts/day · since 2011
All things related to *designing* Board Games, Card Games, RPGs & more!
- Sr/soloboardgaming ↗ 64,003 members · ~18 posts/day · since 2014
All about exploring, discussing, and playing board games solo... as in solitary, alone, one-player, without others, etc. Solitaire Board Gaming: Get together and play by yourself!
- Br/boardgamescirclejerk ↗ 38,026 members · ~5.6 posts/day · since 2012
#8 in Top 10 Circlejerks that begin with the letter B
- Br/BoardGameExchange ↗ 32,289 members · ~14 posts/day · since 2014
Welcome to the r/BoardGameExchange market, the #1 trading community for tabletop games on Reddit. Trade, sell, and barter for games.
Choosing where to post
r/boardgames moves fastest, with about 71 new posts a day, so posts there get replies quickly but also slide off the front page within hours. Jokes and memes have their own home in r/boardgamescirclejerk; the serious communities tend to remove them, so keep the two apart.
Big subreddits give a post the widest audience, but they also bury it quickly; the mid-sized communities on this list are usually friendlier for questions and first posts. Always read the rules in the sidebar first — each community is run by its own volunteer moderators. Our guide to searching Reddit explains how to dig through any of these communities, and the subreddit info tool gives you the stats of one we don't list.
Frequently asked questions
Which board games subreddit has the most members?
r/boardgames is the largest, with 5,459,592 members, followed by r/Boardgamedeals (124.5K) and r/tabletopgamedesign (80.6K).
Where are the most new board games posts?
By new posts per day, r/boardgames leads with about 71, ahead of r/tabletopgamedesign (18). Counts are averages over the last seven days.
How many board games communities are on this list?
We list 6 active, safe-for-work board games communities with at least 25,000 members each, 5.8M members in total (people can be in several). Reddit has many smaller ones too; our guide on searching Reddit shows how to find them.
What is the oldest board games subreddit?
r/boardgames, created on Sep 16, 2008.
Are these board games subreddits safe for work?
Yes. Every community on this page is public and not marked 18+ by Reddit, and we filter out communities whose name or description points to adult content.
Data: Reddit's public subreddit search and the Arctic Shift archive (Oct 30, 2026), growth from SubMouse's weekly snapshots. Member counts of communities outside our Top 1000 come from the archive and can lag a little. Not affiliated with Reddit.