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A fact from Board game café appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 October 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that board game cafés can be found across the world?

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 03:37, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that board game cafés can be found across the world? Source: "This idea spread around the world, and now board game cafes can be found in most major US cities, including Denver, Kansas City, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Omaha, Galveston, New York, and many more, as well as overseas in countries like China, Indonesia, and the United Kingdom." ([1])
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Created by JamJamSvn (talk). Self-nominated at 21:53, 16 October 2022 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Meets DYK requirements and no QPQ appears to be needed, so looks good to go! Ploni^💬 14:59, 17 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@JamJamSvn and Ploni: may i suggest an alternate hook? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 20:35, 18 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- ALT1: ... that Korean board game cafés discourage playing games considered classic there, such as Mahjong and Go-Stop?

Sumqayıt Azerbajian & Albania

Hey, I have seen at least one board game café in Sumqayıt near Baku. Since it was mostly elder men sitting there, I assume such tea cafés with board games must be common in Azerbajian.

Also, in Albania they have the practice of playing dominos in parks. If there is a café nearby they usually get espresso there. It is probably worth mentioning in the article.

I do unfortunately not have any references, just personal experiences.

2001:7E8:F452:A101:6853:FB8E:A77E:E5D5 (talk) 06:56, 29 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This is also my experience. In Baku, there is a cafe in a park where mostly old men play backgammon. But they have to sit on the terrace because the boards are of wood and it makes a lot of noise when they bang the checkers down on the board for every move, as the custom is. Inside the cafe, people read newspapers and do not want the noise.

All across the middle east, you see people in cafes playing backgammon. Just ask for chai and tavla, as the boards are called.

I think this could be metioned in the introduction. Elektrobjørn (talk) 11:56, 29 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]