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There are three places to add games in bulk: your group’s collection, a member’s copies in that group (for organizers), and your own collection. All three use the same picker, so the tabs, search and labels work the way they do everywhere else in WR-Games. What changes is where the games end up. At the end, you’ll also find how to take games back out of your own collection.

Adding Games to Your Group’s Collection

Your group’s collection is the shared shelf of games its members have put up. You add yours from the group’s Collection tab.
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Open the Collection tab

Go to your group and open its Collection tab. The tab only shows up when the group has its collection turned on.
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Select Contribute to This Group

A window opens with two tabs: Auto Sync My Collection and Add Games. Choose Add Games.
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Pick your games

Select every game you want to add. A count shows how many you’ve picked.
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Confirm

Select the button at the bottom. It reads Contribute 3 Games, or however many you picked. The window closes and the games are in the group’s collection.

Choosing Games

The picker has two tabs, My Collection and Games Directory. There’s no Group Collection tab here, because the group’s collection is where you’re adding to. Two shortcuts sit above the games:
  • Select All picks every game that can be added on the tab you’re looking at. Select it again to clear them.
  • Not Yet Added hides the games you’ve already added, so what’s left is what you haven’t.
Search works the way it does everywhere else, including BoardGameGeek results when WR-Games has only a few matches. See How the Game Picker Works for the details.

What the Labels Mean

One Game at a Time

Every game also has its own button, so you don’t have to pick and confirm.
  • Add (+) puts that one game in the group right away. The window stays open and the rest of your picks are untouched.
  • Remove (trash can) shows on games you’ve added. It takes your copy out of the group. It only ever removes your own copy, never another member’s.
If a game keeps coming back, or WR-Games won’t let you remove it, it’s being added automatically by Auto Sync. See Why Can’t I Remove a Game from My Group?.

Auto Sync My Collection

The other tab keeps your games in the group for you, so you don’t have to add them by hand. Switch on All games to sync the games you own from every folder, or turn on individual folders. For how linked folders work, see BGG & Your Collection.
Remove all my games from this group takes out every game you’ve contributed and turns off Auto Sync. WR-Games asks you to confirm first.

Assigning Games to a Member

If you can manage the group’s collection, you can put games on its shelf in a member’s name. That’s handy when someone brings games but never adds them. You’ll find Assign Games on the group’s Collection tab. Members without the Manage group collection permission don’t see it. By default, organizers, co-organizers and moderators have that permission. On Standard and Pro plans, you can change who does under your group’s roles. See Group Roles and Permissions.
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Pick the member

Choose whose games these are. Each row shows the member’s role and how many games they already have in the group. With more than one member, a search box helps you find them.
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Pick the games

Choose from the Group Collection or the Games Directory. Select All, Not Yet Added and BoardGameGeek search work here too.
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Assign them

Select the button at the bottom. It reads Assign 3 Games, or however many you picked.
The games show as that member’s copies in this group only. Their own collection isn’t changed, and they’re told once for the whole batch rather than once per game. You can assign up to 200 games at a time. The Games Directory and BoardGameGeek only offer games that are in the WR-Games catalog.

If Games Were Assigned to You

You’ll see a note at the top of the group’s Collection tab naming who added them, and one notification for the whole batch. There’s no email. The games are yours to manage from there. If you don’t want one in the group, remove it the same way you’d remove a game you added yourself.

Adding Games to Your Own Collection

On your Collection page, select Add Games to search your collection, the WR-Games directory, or BoardGameGeek and file games into your folders.
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Select games

Select a game to pick it, and keep going to pick more. There’s nothing to switch on first.
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Choose your folders

Once you’ve picked a game, a bar appears at the bottom with the number you’ve picked. Open Adding to and select the folders you want. Each folder shows how many of your picks it already holds.
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Select Add to Collection

The games go into every folder you chose.
The folder starts on the one you opened the window from, and it resets each time you close the window. Only folders you’ve left visible are offered. To file a single game without touching your picks, use the + on its card and choose a folder. It goes in right away.
A game that’s already in the folder you’ve chosen shows an Added label here. It’s only a label. You can still pick the game.

Removing Games From Your Collection

Every game card on your Collection page has an X in the corner. What it does depends on where you’re looking.

Taking a Game Out of a Folder

Choose Remove From and the folder name. The game leaves that folder right away. It stays in your collection and in any other folders it’s in. A message confirms it, with an Undo button beside it if you change your mind.
Taking a game out of your Owned Games folder also marks it as no longer owned, and it comes out of any group collections it was shared with. The message says so, and Undo marks it as owned again and shares it back.

Removing a Game From Your Library

Choose Remove From Library and WR-Games asks you to confirm: Remove this game from your library? The game leaves your collection entirely and drops out of every folder it was in. Anything shared with your groups automatically is removed there too. Select Remove From Library to go ahead, or Keep It to back out.
Removing a game from your library can’t be undone. To take a game out of one folder only, use Remove From and the folder’s name instead.

How the Game Picker Works

Tabs, search, BoardGameGeek results and card labels across WR-Games.

BGG & Your Collection

Folders, Auto Sync and how your collection reaches a group.

Why Can't I Remove a Game?

What to do when a game won’t come off your group’s collection.

Creating and Managing Your Group

Setting up your group and running it day to day.
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