Czech Republic has global leaders in board gamesAfter their success in Germany, they have taken off (not only) in the US
"Board game players are really passionate about what we do. We like to play and sit at the same table together – and that is also reflected in our business. There is huge competition, as up to three thousand new games appear on the market every year. But unlike computer games, board gaming is not a mass-market activity. If a game is produced in about twenty thousand copies, it’s a success. But if you're lucky and come up with something amazing, it can go way beyond these numbers. We have already sold fourteen million copies in forty-five languages of our most successful game called Codenames. We’ve sold more than half of that, which is over seven million copies, in the US," says Petr Murmak, founder and co-owner of Czech Games Edition (CGE). We have talked to him at the company’s HQ in Prague's Černý Most, surrounded by – not too surprisingly – board games.
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