Choose the right board game for my group
Board and card game recommendations matched to your group's size, ages, experience, budget, and taste.
The prompt
Recommend board or card games for my group.
Players: [usual number, and the range we sometimes get]
Ages: [AGES]
Experience: [new to games / casual / enthusiasts]
Games we already love or own: [LIST]
Games we didn't enjoy and why: [LIST]
What we want: [e.g. "party laughs", "cooperative", "strategy", "quick to teach", "two-player for a couple"]
Play time: [e.g. "under 45 minutes"]
Budget: [AMOUNT per game]
Give me 6-8 picks. For each:
- Name and one-line pitch.
- Player count, typical play time, and suggested age.
- Why it fits this group, based on what I told you.
- Teaching difficulty (easy / moderate / heavy).
- A possible drawback for us.
Then:
1. My single best first buy and why.
2. One free or almost-free option (a classic card game, a print-and-play game) we can try tonight.
Rules: only recommend games you're confident exist. Prices change, so describe cost as a rough range and tell me to check current prices. Don't recommend games I listed as owned or disliked.
Highlighted [brackets] are blanks to replace with your own details.
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What to fill in
- usual number, and the range we sometimes get
- AGES
- new to games / casual / enthusiasts
- LIST
- e.g. "under 45 minutes"
- AMOUNT per game
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the Few-Shot structure (Few-shot prompting). A few-shot prompt includes one or more worked examples of the input and the output you want, so the model can copy the pattern instead of guessing it.
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