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One game picker, everywhere you choose a game

Picking a game now works the same on every screen. Start a Table, On the Table, Pick a Game and Pick Cover Art in the event wizard, and adding games to your group’s collection all use one picker, with the same search and the same places to look: My Collection, Group Collection, and the Games Directory. Cards tell you where a game stands before you pick it. Added means one of your own copies is already in the group, and In group means another member added it, though you can still pick it. How the game picker works.Step-by-step guides: On the Table, Start a Table, Creating events, and Adding games to your collections, which now also covers removing them.

Meetup events now show the game you’re playing

If your Meetup listing links to a game on BoardGameGeek, WR-Games now pins that game to the synced event for you, so players searching for that game can find your event. It’s on for every linked group. To turn it off, go to Group Manage → Features and find the Meetup Integration card. How auto-pin works.

RSVP updates reach you faster close to start

If you’re hosting, the RSVP activity email and its bell notification now speed up as your event gets close. More than an hour out, you still get one update covering everything from that hour. In the last hour, updates come every 15 minutes, and in the last 15 minutes they arrive within about a minute. Manage your notifications.

Your groups come first on Events and Groups

The Events and Groups pages now put your own groups up front. On a phone, a toggle under the title switches between All Events and My Group Events, or between All Groups and My Groups. My Group Events lists upcoming events from every group you belong to, including ones you haven’t RSVP’d to, and it remembers the tab you last picked. My Groups shows all your groups, including ones outside your local area.On a computer there’s no toggle. From Your Groups and Your Groups sit at the top of each page, with everything else below. Finding events from your groups.

A new homepage for your group

Your group’s homepage is now a grid of widgets you can arrange yourself, like your next event, your game collection and your links. Select Edit Homepage to move, resize, add or remove them. The organizer makes the first call: a window offers Try It Now or Not Yet. After that, anyone who manages the group’s settings can switch with Use the New Homepage. On January 1, 2027, every group moves to the new homepage. How the new homepage works.

Reviews and kudos you still owe, in one place

The Hosted reviews tab on My Events is now Reviews. It still shows the reviews you’ve received as a host. It now also lists events where you still owe a review or kudos, with a number on the tab counting what’s waiting. Each card shows when the window closes, and Leave a review or Give kudos takes you straight there. Not planning to? Select Dismiss and it stays gone. How kudos work.The notification bell also closes now when you click through to a notification on desktop.

See all your events on one calendar

My Events now has a Calendar view. Switch over from List and your hosting, going, waitlisted, and saved events sit on one month grid, along with past and cancelled events and your groups’ custom entries. Each kind has its own color. Click a name above the grid to hide or show it, and your choices follow you to any device. The gear icon opens your calendar settings, where you can subscribe to your calendar in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook. Your calendar on My Events.

Choose whether to notify a member

When you change a member’s role, remove a member, or ban one, you now choose whether they’re notified. Notify Them sends an email and a notification, as before. Change Quietly, Remove Quietly, or Ban Quietly does it without telling them. Changing several roles at once asks one time for the whole selection. Managing members.
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More updates for table cancellations

On events that use ranked seating, a canceled table doesn’t leave its players without a seat. Everyone sitting there moves to the highest game on their ranking that has room. They each get one notification saying where they are now, and they keep their place in line for any full game they ranked higher.Whoever cancels the table sees how many players will be moved before they confirm. How ranked seating works.A few related changes:
  • Changing your RSVP away from Going now gives up your seat at any table, on any event, ranked or not.
  • A host can’t remove a table’s lead from their own table. Cancel the table or change the lead instead.
  • Game cards on On the Table are tidier, with less empty space, and covers load faster.
  • In group analytics, a requested game that someone brought but that never got a table now counts under Requested, not Brought.

Add an event to your calendar with the details already filled in

When you RSVP Going, your confirmation email gives you two ways to save the event to your calendar: open the attached calendar file, or choose Add to Google Calendar. Either way, the entry has what you need on the night, so you don’t have to dig back through the email or open the event page to find where you’re going.The calendar entry includes:
  • The event name, date, and time
  • The venue name, with its city and state
  • The host and the group running the event
  • The game that’s On the Table, if the event has one
  • Any location notes the host added
  • The nearest transit stop and how long the walk is, when there’s one to show
  • For online events, the platform you’ll play on, if the host added it
  • A link back to the event page

Send an announcement and keep going

Send a group announcement and the screen closes right away. You’ll see Announcement on its way, and it goes out to your members while you get on with something else. The send screen also shows how many announcements your group has used in the last 24 hours, so you know where you stand before you write one.

Choose which group emails you get

A group’s Email preferences now have two switches: Receive announcement emails from this group and Receive new event emails from this group. Turn off one and keep the other. If you’d already switched announcement emails off, new event emails start off too, so nothing extra lands in your inbox. In-app notifications arrive either way.

A fuller weekly digest

Your weekly digest leads with upcoming events from your groups that you haven’t RSVP’d to yet. When there aren’t enough of those to fill it, it now adds events you’re already part of, each marked You’re Hosting, You’re Going, or You’re Waitlisted. Manage your notifications.

Add a venue without leaving your event

Can’t find your venue while you’re setting an event’s location? Choose Submit it to our directory and a short form opens right there, with your draft untouched behind it. Enter the name, city, and state, and the venue is selected on your event as soon as you submit. We review new venues before they appear in the public directory. Creating and managing events.
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Review your BG Stats import without touching every row

Leaving a suggested match alone now counts as accepting it, so you only step in on the rows you want to change. The players and locations steps both sort by plays, last play, or BG Stats name, and filter by matched, suggested, or outstanding. You can select several locations and act on them together, and if one of your online games is matched to the wrong platform, you can change it yourself. Importing from BG Stats.

Vote for the games you actually want to play

On the Table now has voting. Tap the ▲ on any game to back it, and a new Up for vote tab sorts the night by what the room wants. You can also request a game nobody is bringing yet. A request belongs to everyone rather than one person: it lives as long as people are voting for it, and whoever taps I’ll bring it becomes the bringer with all the votes carried over. Votes are tied to attending, so if you drop from Going they go with you. How On the Table works.

Rank your games and get seated automatically

Hosts can now turn voting into a ranking. Put the games you would play in order, and when a table opens you are seated at your best available choice before anyone can race you for it. If a seat frees up at a game you ranked higher, you get moved up and told about it. Your ranking is private, and it keeps working all night rather than only at the moment a table appears. Turning it on for your event.

Your capacity updates where you pick the game

When you create a Game Session, the capacity and guest settings now sit right beside the game picker. Add an expansion and the number updates in front of you, instead of changing quietly and turning up at the end of the wizard. Both settings are still further along as well, showing the same values.

Custom Events tell you when a game changes your capacity

Swapping the game on a Custom Event has always re-derived its capacity. Now it says so. You get the same heads-up Game Sessions in a group already had, on both creating and editing, and if the event is already published with people going, the notice tells you how the new number compares to your headcount. Creating and managing events.

Choose which game art your event displays

Events with a game attached no longer have to use the base game’s box art. The cover control now offers the art for your event’s game, each expansion you’ve selected, a custom upload, or any game’s art from the catalog. Three expansions means three options, and nothing is picked for you. Once you choose one it sticks, so deselecting the expansion whose art is showing does not quietly revert your cover. How cover images work.

Meetup listings can pin their own game

If you put a BoardGameGeek link in your Meetup listings, WR-Games can now read it and pin that game to the imported event for you. Switch on Auto-Pin a Game from a BGG Link in Group Manage → Integrations. It’s off until you turn it on, and you stay in charge: a game you pin by hand is never overwritten, and a pinned game you remove does not come back. How auto-pin works.

Invite people directly to your group

You can now invite a specific person to your group instead of only sharing a general join link. Pick a friend or an existing member, or enter an email address, and they get an invitation they can accept straight in. Need a link you can hand around? Create a shareable join link capped to a set number of uses. Event invitations got the same care: when someone accepts an invitation to one of your events, you get a notification instead of checking the event page. You have more control over them too: revoke an invitation and you can still invite that person again later, and when you send a batch you’ll see exactly what sent, who was already invited, and anything that didn’t go through.

Your WR-Games calendar, everywhere

Open My Events, switch to the Calendar view, select the gear icon, and turn on Enable Calendar Feed to get a private link. Subscribe to it once in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook and every event you’re hosting or attending shows up there, across all your groups, and stays up to date on its own. Waitlisted events are off by default; switch them on and they appear as tentative. Each group’s extra calendar entries can be turned off per group without touching the events you’re attending. The link is yours alone, so keep it private. You can regenerate it or turn the feed off at any time. How your calendar feed works.

Messages: side-by-side view, archive, and live updates

On desktop, Messages now keeps your conversation list visible while you read a thread. Archive a conversation from the thread menu, next to Mute and Block, to hide it from your list without deleting anything; it comes back on its own if either of you sends a new message. Open threads now update within a couple of seconds, and the Inbox loads in pages so it stays fast as it fills up.

Change an event’s type after it’s published

A published event is no longer locked to the type you picked when you created it. Open the event wizard and switch between Game Session, Open Game Night, and Custom Event. You’ll see what the change affects before anything happens, and nothing changes until you save. Close the wizard without saving and the event stays exactly as it was. If a change would clear claimed tables or what attendees said they’re bringing, you’ll confirm first. Compare the event types.
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Rescheduling an event now re-notifies attendees

When you move an event, we now notify attendees of the new time. A change of 24 hours or more re-opens Roll Call for the new date, clearing earlier answers and asking everyone again, so your confirmed list reflects the time people are actually committing to. A change of 72 hours or more re-sends the 24-hour reminders as well. Smaller adjustments stay quiet. How Roll Call handles reschedules.

Six more notifications now reach your bell

Event reminders, waitlist confirmations, kudos requests, RSVP activity, organizer role updates, and leadership updates now appear in your notification bell alongside the email. If you don’t watch your inbox closely, you’ll still catch them. Manage your notifications.

Clearer cancellation notices

Everyone going or waitlisted gets the same clear notice when you cancel an event. Cancelling a series tells recipients the whole series has ended rather than naming a single date, and the Not Going link in a cancellation email now registers your response directly. More on cancelling events.

Three choices when you hand off a series

Transferring a recurring series to a new host now asks what happens to your own place in it: stay on as a Co-Host, keep your seat as a regular attendee, or step away entirely. How recurring series work.

Search BoardGameGeek from My Collection

The Add Games panel in My Collection now searches BoardGameGeek, not just games already in the WR-Games directory, so you can add a game we don’t have yet. You can also drop a game into several folders at once instead of adding it one folder at a time. Managing your collection.

Bring a game from your group’s shared collection

The bring-a-game picker on an event now offers a third source, Group Collection, alongside My Collection and the Directory, so you can pick from what your group already owns together. How On the Table works.

Co-organizers can manage custom roles

Creating and editing custom group roles is no longer organizer-only. Co-organizers can manage them too, so role upkeep doesn’t wait on one person. Roles and permissions.

Add a walk-in guest without leaving the picker

Someone shows up who isn’t on the list and hands you a game. You can now create that walk-in guest directly from Change who brought this and Change table lead, instead of backing out to add them first. What’s on the table.

Divvy: set player bounds, edit your own games

Hosts can set minimum and maximum players for a Divvy session, and players can edit or remove the games they added themselves rather than asking the host to do it.

Help where you’re stuck, and a tidier event page on mobile

Contextual help links now sit next to the settings and controls they explain across the app, so the answer is one tap away instead of a search. The event page also collapses more neatly on mobile, with the details that matter above the RSVP button. Browse the help center.

Every cancellation reaches you

If an event you’re signed up for is cancelled, you get a clear notice, including when WR-Games has to cancel it on the host’s behalf. No more finding out because the event quietly disappeared. Manage your notifications.

Group Game Sessions suggest a capacity

Create a group Game Session, pick a game, and the capacity field now starts with that game’s max player count, including any expansions you selected. It’s a suggestion, not a rule: change it, clear it for an unlimited event, or raise it if you’re running several tables. Existing events aren’t touched. Creating an event.

Tools and sites we recommend on /apps

The /apps page now has a section pointing to useful tools built by other teams, starting with Shared Game Timer and Board Game Video. They’re recommendations, not integrations; nothing connects or syncs. See the /apps page.
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Transit options on event pages

In-person event pages in the DC area now show transit options: the Getting there card gives you the nearest Metro station or bus stop, walking time, and the lines or routes served, plus live train and bus arrivals from eight hours before the event until four hours after it ends (with first and last departures so you know you can still get home). It’s public, so anyone can see how to reach a venue. See how it works.
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Connect your Meetup group to WR-Games

Already running your group on Meetup? You can now connect it to WR-Games and bring your events over: sync them in to sit side by side with your WR-Games events so members can RSVP without leaving, or simply link out to Meetup. A quick Refresh pulls the latest whenever you cancel or update something on Meetup. See how the Meetup integration works.

Your BoardGameGeek collection, fully under your control

Syncing your BGG collection is faster and far more flexible. Your games show up almost immediately while the details fill in behind the scenes, you choose which collections to pull when you first connect, and you can reset or wipe your synced collection whenever you want. Learn how BGG sync and your Collection work.

Add custom entries to your group calendar

Mark up your group’s calendar with custom entries: birthdays, reminders, social nights, whatever your group needs. They save automatically, show up for everyone in the group, and flow into any subscribed calendar feed. See group calendar custom entries.

A new support center at help.wr-games.com

We launched a support center: clear, searchable guides for groups, events, RSVPs, integrations, and more, so you can get an answer fast instead of guessing. This changelog lives here too. Visit the support center.