Boardgame Geek guideline - how to choose your game

As most of you know, BGG is one of the most popular website for boardgames.

However, the template of the website is kind of outdated - It is not easy to use the website for a first-timer.

How do you look for games?

First, you can always use search engine. However, I doubt that you know what you are after...

Click "browse" -> "database" -> "games" and you can see the full list of games available, by order of ranks.

List of boardgames

Click "browse" -> "database -> "mechanics"/"category" etc, and you can search for games based on your preference.

However, as there are lots of terms (and lots of games!), it can be very hard to find a game that you want. You can take a look at the "Recommendation" forum, try to ask questions based on your preference or just look at the threads here. You can learn a lot of new games here.

Recommendation

Finally, I am known as "ninjap" in BGG, you can take a look at my profile. The most important information from my profile is the list of gams that I own!

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/user/NinjaP

Store that I visit to purchase boardgames

Here you can find a few websites which I usually place my order.
The reason I post this up is that you can check the availability of a game. A lot of the games that you want can be temporarily out of stock or even no longer available.

Local (With physical store)
Siu Mui Games
War Game Club

Boardgame Cafe that you can purchase games
Jolly Thinkers
Capstone

I know Edward pretty well. He often has games that aren't available anywhere else for sale, you can take a look at his facebook page.
Ed桌遊屋

I also order games from overseas. I shop in a lot of places, but mostly these.
CSI
Cardhaus

For some harder to find title from Germany, I shop in Germany Amazon as well.