I’ve finally crumbled and decided to give the UK Math Trade a try. I’m treating it as a kind of experiment.

What is a Math Trade? It’s a complicated way to trade games. People add to a list the games they want to trade. That bits simple. They then look through what people have put up for trade and hopefully find some that they would like to get. This part is handled by a separate website to the list. When you find something you would like you then have to say which of the games you added to the trade you’d like to offer for it. Once again that seems simple. Once everyone has done this by a given deadline, a piece of software does the complicated stuff and matches people up. After that you get to decide if you will accept the offer being made to you that was assigned by this algorithm. While you are doing that, others are also doing the same. All accepted offers then get sent out, and people have got rid of old games they no longer want and get new games that they want to try. And I think that’s the whole Math Trade in a none coherent explanation.

So I’ve put up an unopened Dark Souls the board game, a Kickstarter Edition of Clans of Caledonia with the metal coins, and the expansion for Star Wars: Rebellion unopened.

If I can get The Gaia Project then I’ll be really happy. But Nations or Civilisation would also not be a bad result.

So let’s see how this goes.