
Rulebook.io
Community-curated board game rules
Rulebook.io launched on December 12, 2017 with 110 votes, #355 of 2,482 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
Rulebook.io is an alternative to Googling "[insert game name] rules pdf"... it's a lightweight, easy-to-use board-game rules viewer. It's also open-source! Both the website code (https://github.com/camden/rulebook-source) and the rulebooks themselves (https://github.com/camden/rulebooks) are publicly editable.
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