Alejo's Tenuki

-Which game should we play today?
-… dunno… you choose…
-… choose whatever you want.

Tired of having too many of these dialogues with my play-pals, I decided to fix it last month. There are a few boardgame randomizers available over the net, but I failed to find one suitable for my android phone. Though it would be awesome to have this feature included in the “BGG mobile” app, it seems we’re not going to enjoy it in a short term.

So here is my tricky solution… with some pros and cons.

1. To begin with you have to install the bbg2nanDECK application on your windows machine (or virtualize it). Once you’ve installed it, you’ll have to set it up properly so that it connects to your BGG profile.
2. Choose your preferred card style with all the information you’d like to have. If you know something about programming, you may want to create your own style or modify one of the availables. In fact, I modified Solamar’s style, but forgot to move the “Weight” on the upper right corner…
3. Run nanDECK. It’ll create a card for every single game you own on BGG.
4. Install PictureViewer on you Android.
5. Copy the nanDECK cards to your phone and make PictureViewer point into their folder.
6. While in PictureViewer, select random mode, just once.

Now, every single time you open PictureViewer, you’ll have a random game displayed from your collection; you can randomize again by sliding to the right side. As no doubt you have already guessed, this method is only possible for a BGG user, with a previously known collection (since it requires some work at home before actually using it) and some patience in order to understand how nanDECK works for the first time.

As you can see from the image above, this unknown game called Go is recommended for 2 players, takes 90 minutes on average, I’ve rated it 10/10 though BGG average is 7.7 and is ranked the 36th. It was created around -2200 and has a weight average -as game complexity- of 4.0/5. There is a short description, a list of categories where you can find it and its mechanics. Both BGG rating and weight are extracted from BGG users average

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