The Board Game Lobby
The Pudding You walk into a board game cafe. You do not have a group. You have a game you want to play — say, Settlers of Catan — and you need three other people. In most cafes, you stand around looking awkward until you spot someone else standing around looking awkward, and one of you gets brave enough to say, “Hey, want to play?” It works. It is also painful, inefficient, and heavily biased toward extroverts. ...