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62 lines
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---
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title: "Board Games"
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tags: [ "data", "recfiles" ]
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---
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You can play with a board games database from boardgamegeek.com.
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## Download the Database
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```sh
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mkdir board_games
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cd board_games
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curl -Lo bg.zip 'https://www.kaggle.com/api/v1/datasets/download/threnjen/board-games-database-from-boardgamegeek'
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unzip bg.zip
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```
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The header line shows fields with a bunch of colons, which will confused `recutils`, so we'll have to get rid of them.
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```sh
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sed -i '1s/://g' *.csv
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```
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Convert the games to `.rec` format.
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```sh
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csv2rec games.csv > games.rec
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```
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## Queries
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If you try to look at older games, you'll find lots of results.
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```sh
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recsel games.rec -e "YearPublished < 1800" -c
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recsel games.rec -e "YearPublished < 1800" -Cp Name
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```
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But most are wrong.
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The problem is games with a `YearPublished` date of `0`, probably because the year published is unknown.
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```sh
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recsel games.rec -e "Name = 'The Goblin King is Angry'" -p YearPublished
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```
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Fix the query by removing games published in '0 AD'.
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```sh
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recsel games.rec -e "YearPublished < 1800 && YearPublished != 0" -R YearPublished,Name
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```
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Or fix the database setting `YearPublished` to 'unknown':
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```sh
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recsel games.rec -e "YearPublished = 0" -Cp Name
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recset games.rec -e "YearPublished = 0" -f "YearPublished" -S 'unknown'
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```
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Strategic games which work best with 3 players, sorted by Average Rating:
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```sh
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recsel games.rec -e "BestPlayers = 3 && CatStrategy = 1" -CR Name --sort=AvgRating
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```
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