Root
2–4 players · best with 4 · ~60–90 min to play · ages 14+ · 2018
kind · Wargame complexity · Heavy
BGG 8.1/10 (65,501 ratings) · weight 3.8/5 · rank #34 View on BGG ↗
Questions here read: Rootbg-237182-en-1e
About this game
How do I play? → · Strategy guides → — community tips, kept separate from rulings · Rulebook pages open one at a time from any ruling's citation — we don't hand out whole files. ·
What this table has asked
Asked 20 times · 15 answered · 4 honest abstains · 1 refused
🔧 answerability — what this table has actually asked
- answered ratio
- 75% answered — 15 of 20 attributable asks
- excluded — measurement asks
- 13 measurement asks
- recent asks
- 16 of 20 asks in the last 30 days
outcomes — the rows every figure above was counted from
| outcome | bucket | asks |
|---|---|---|
| ANSWERED Answered | answered | 15 |
| REFUSED_UNVERIFIED Refused — answer could not be verified against the rulebook | refused | 1 |
| ABSTAINED Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below | honest abstain | 4 |
most-asked questions
| question (normalized) | asked | latest outcome |
|---|---|---|
| how do i setup the game? | asked 5 times | Answered Aug 17, 2026 23:16 |
| when does the game end? | asked 4 times | Answered Aug 2, 2026 01:41 |
| how do i take my turn? | asked 4 times | Answered Aug 2, 2026 01:41 |
| how do i set up the game? | asked 2 times | Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below Aug 8, 2026 14:15 |
| how do i play? | asked once | Answered Aug 15, 2026 14:31 |
🔧 BGG — every figure this page shows, and where it came from
- the word this page prints
- Heavy
- community weight
- 3.84 of 5
- votes behind it
- 2,727 weight votes
- community rating
- 8.07 of 10
- ratings behind it
- 65,501 ratings
- rank on BGG — the boardgame subtype
- #34
- players
- 2–4
- best with
- 4 players
- how that best-with count was read
- BGG's own poll summary
- recommended counts — read out of BGG's poll-summary sentence
- 3–4
- 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
- 2018
- captured
- Aug 10, 2026
- source
- BoardGameGeek XML API
🔧 Kinds — what each one rests on, and when it was approved
- Wargame · the kind of evening
- From this shelf's owner.
- Approved Aug 17, 2026, one at a time.
Kinds are chosen by this shelf's owner. Some start as a suggestion — from BoardGameGeek's listings, or from the rulebook itself — and none of them shows on a listing alone. A person approved each one before it appeared here. Last reviewed Aug 17, 2026.
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