by Greyfax

Here is the discussion for this week:

Here's a list of games that play with at least five people and that are well known. (To create a list like this yourself, you can use the Advanced Search option in the search menu. I chose games published since 2015 that have a rating of at least 7.5 with at least 15,000 ratings and a "game weight" rating of at least 2 that accommodate 2-5 players.)

Hopefully some of these will work for your group and you could focus on those. You didn't mention how large a selection you have each week. I would absolutely recommend proposing a limited subset of games for the week that folks would be happy to play. This way, assuming you have a Discord or similar, you could propose a couple of games every week to be played: one good with four players, one good with five. This at least would limit the number of games you would need to learn for any given session. As you go along, be sure to rotate those games so folks have something different to play.

You could also propose playing a legacy game like Oath, which fits four or five players and continues every session. It's also designed for folks to come and go. Hopefully folks responding can also suggest other legacy games that might work with both four and five players.

Hopefully this will help as I can totally relate to what you are going through...

Best,

Ms. Meeple (Jennifer Schlickbernd)

P.S. If there's a situation in your board game group or at a meetup that you would like advice on, please send me a Geekmail with "Ms. Meeple" in the title.