The Custom Filter in Board Game Stats offers a lot of filtering options for all the games in your app, like Collection status, Play count, and Minimum age. From version 5 even more filters are included: general game data (like Designer, Publisher, Artist etc), BoardGameGeek data (like Rating, Rank, Mechanics and Category), and Community data from BGG users (like recommended and best player counts etc.).
All these filters together can help you select that one specific game you were looking for in your collection to play with a certain play group.
With the Tagging expansion even more options are available, like saving custom filters and viewing combined stats over filtered games. You can read more about those here: Advanced filter.
NOTE: Adding your own Rating and filtering and sorting on your own Rating is in Beta now.
NOTE: challenges can be created from saved filters (see Tagging and Advanced filter) and templates for everyone will be added later this year.
How it works
On the Games list, tap on the top menu and select “Custom Filter“. You can also get there from the All Games list by tapping the funnel icon. When in the Custom filter, you can always tap the funnel icon to close the Custom Filter screen and go back to the All Games list.
A few filters are always visible. You can tap these, or select your filter from the dropdown list you’ll get when you tap “All ▾“. If one ore more filters are active, a white badge on top of the “All ▾” button will show you how many are active. Active filters will be listed at the top of the dropdown list as well. You can remove an active filter by swiping right-to-left over it in the dropdown list, or remove all filters with the “Clear Filter” button.
Any filter you select will open in a new popup window. Configure the filter to your liking and tap the “Filter” button at the top right to confirm your choices. The list of games will be updated only showing games that match all your active filters (so selecting more filters will narrow down your results).
Below you’ll find a description of every available filter.
Available Filters
Collection status:
Select 1 or more Collection statuses. Games that have 1 or more of the selected Collection statuses will be shown. Selecting the status “Any” will clear the filter.
Play count:
Select 1 or more Play counts. Games that match 1 or more of the selected Play counts will be shown. Selecting the status “Any play count” will clear the filter.
Playing time:
Select 1 or more Playing times. Games that match 1 or more of the selected Playing times will be shown. Selecting the status “Any” will clear the filter.
Tags (available with the Tagging expansion):
Select 1 or more Tags.
- Tab “Any“: Games that have 1 or more of the selected Tags will be shown.
- Tab “All“: Games that have all of the selected Tags will be shown.
Tap the “x” behind the number of selected Tags to clear the filter.
Possible number of Players
Select 1 number.
- Option “Match player count exactly“: If enabled only games that match the selected Player count exactly will be shown.
Select multiple numbers to select a range of Possible number of Players.
- Tab “Any“: Games that match 1 or more of the selected Player counts will be shown. Games can support other Player counts not selected.
- Tab “All“: Games that match all of the selected Player counts will be shown. Games can support other Player counts not selected.
- Tab “Exactly”: Only games that match the selected Player count exactly will be shown.
Tap the “x” behind the selected numbers to clear the filter.
There are three available options:
- Official: Filters on the official published Player count. If you have manually set or changed the player counts in the Edit Game dialog, those will be used instead.
- Recommended: Filters on the BoardGameGeek voted Recommended Player count.
- Minimum total votes to apply filters: The game has to have at least the selected number of votes to be shown.
- Max not-recommended percentage: If the percentage of votes not recommending the game is higher than the selected percentage, the game will not be shown.
- Best: Filters on the BoardGameGeek voted Best Player count.
- Minimum total votes to apply filters: A game has to have at least the selected number of votes to be shown.
- Max not-recommended percentage: If the percentage of votes not recommending the game is higher than the selected percentage, the game will not be shown.
Designer
Select 1 or more designers. You can search for designers by typing their name in the search. Games that are designed by 1 or more of the selected designers will be shown.
- Option “All items“: Shows all designers (that fit the name search above, if used)
- Option “Items with a result“: Shows all designers that are possible with other already activated filters (for instance, if you have selected Collection Status: Owned, only designers from Games you own will be shown)
Tapping a designer a second time will make the selection turn into a cross with red background. This means no Games from this designer will be shown.
Tapping the “Clear filter” option will clear the filter.
Artist
Selecting Artists works the same as selecting Designers.
Publisher
Selecting Publishers works the same as selecting Designers, with one extra option.
- Option “Search publishers only in my copies“: when enabled, a game will only be shown if you have a copy of that game in your collection from the selected publisher.
Category
Selecting Categories works the same as selecting Designers.
Mechanic
Selecting Mechanics works the same as selecting Designers.
Family
Selecting Families works the same as selecting Designers.
Minimum Age
- Option “At Least“: Select an age. No games where the Minimum Age is lower than the selected age will be shown.
- Option “At Most“: Select an age. No games where the Minimum Age is higher than the selected age will be shown.
There are two available options:
- Official: Filters on the official published Player count. If you have manually set or changed the minimum age in the Edit Game dialog, this will be used instead.
- Community: Filters on the BoardGameGeek voted Minimum Age.
- Minimum total votes to apply filters: A game has to have at least the selected number of votes to be shown.
Year Published
Select two years. Games that are published in the selected range will be shown. To filter on one specific year, select that year on both sides.
- Option “Use year published from my copy if available“: When enabled, if you have a version of a game selected in the app, it will use the published year of that version.
Language
Selecting Languages works the same as selecting Designers, with one extra option:
- Option “Maximum in-game language dependence“: Select a level of Language dependency. No games where the Language dependency is higher than the selected dependency will be shown.
Weight / Complexity
Select a minimum and maximum Weight / Complexity rating. The chosen range is displayed on the top right. Games that fall in the selected range will be shown. Tap the “x” before the displayed range to clear the filter.
There is one extra option available:
- Option: “Minimum total votes to apply filter”: A game has to have at least the selected number of votes to be shown.
Classification
Selecting Classifications works the same as selecting Designers.
Rating & Rank
Average Rating
Select a minimum and maximum Average Rating. The chosen range is displayed on the top right. Games that fall in the selected range will be shown. Tap the “x” before the displayed range to clear the filter.
There is one extra option available
- Option: “Minimum total votes to apply Rating filter”: A game has to have at least the selected number of votes to be shown.
Rank
Select a minimum and maximum Rank. The chosen range is displayed on the top right. Games that fall in the selected range will be shown. Tap the “x” before the displayed range to clear the filter.
There is one extra option available:
- By default the Overall rank is used, if you select a Subdomain only games with the selected Rank range in that Subdomain will be shown.
Game properties are loaded from BoardGameGeek.