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The Thing: The Boardgame

1–8 players · ~60–90 min to play · ages 14+ · 2022

complexity · Medium

language · Some necessary text - easily memorized or small crib sheet (7 votes)

BGG 7.6/10 (3,242 ratings) · weight 3.0/5 · rank #1,047 View on BGG ↗

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Asked 10 times · 2 answered · 8 honest abstains

🔧 answerability — what this table has actually asked
answered ratio
20% answered — 2 of 10 attributable asks
recent asks
7 of 10 asks in the last 30 days
outcome bucket asks
ANSWERED Answered answered 2
ABSTAINED Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below honest abstain 8
question (normalized) asked latest outcome
how do i setup the game? asked 5 times Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below Nov 8, 2026 04:41 UTC
how do i play? asked 3 times Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below Sep 15, 2026 02:53 UTC
when does the game end? asked once Answered Oct 24, 2026 20:23 UTC
how do i take my turn? asked once Answered Oct 24, 2026 20:23 UTC
🔧 BGG — every figure this page shows, and where it came from
the word this page prints
Medium
community weight
2.96 of 5
votes behind it
118 weight votes
community rating
7.62 of 10
ratings behind it
3,242 ratings
rank on BGG — the boardgame subtype
#1,047
players
1–8
recommended counts — read out of BGG's poll-summary sentence
5–8
language dependence — the level BGG's poll names, ties read upward
2 of 5 — Some necessary text - easily memorized or small crib sheet
votes in that poll
7 votes
minimum age — the figure BGG reports, which a printed box can disagree with
14+
play time — the min and max BGG reports
60–90 min
play time — the headline figure BGG reports
90 min
year published
2022
captured
Aug 24, 2026
source
BoardGameGeek XML API

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