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Dishing

06/11/2018 | Paul Dussault

Form of shelf wear consisting of the sinking or sagging of the lid or bottom of a game box, often resulting from vertical storage and/or split aprons or box corners.
By analogy with a plate. From Latin discus (“dish”, “platter”), that became disc (“plate”, “bowl”) in Old English, and eventually dish.
If given a choice between a copy with dishing or none, the choice is obvious.Deleted042816
I must admit that when I read the title of this thread I thought it was going to be about some kind of gossip about a game (“dish”). I have never heard that term used to describe the damage done by stacking games.Marcus Gabriel
Dishing seems like normal aging of a boardgame – depending on the severity.fortheloveofdice

The term is mostly used to describe a game’s condition in the second-hand board game market.

Board game stores are among victims of game box dishing that is regularly caused by transport and handling. Clients can benefit from this since merchants often offer such lightly damaged games at discount prices.

The pros and cons of various methods of game storage are the objects of an ongoing debate among gamers. Vertical storage (or stacking) is a known cause of dishing unless it is practiced with special care.

Rigid box inserts, such as those made by Broken Token, or even sophisticated storage solutions, such as the BoxThrone, can reduce or eliminate dishing, at a cost, however.

Dishing is not to be confused with warping.


References and Further Browsing

  • Etymology of Dish
  • On the Subject of Stacking Game Boxes, on Boardgamegeek
  • How much does dishing affect the value of a game, on Boardgamegeek
  • How to fix box warp/dishing?, on Boardgamegeek
  • Fixing a badly dished box top, on Boardgamegeek
  • What causes the side of a board game lid to bulge out?, on Boardgamegeek
  • The Surgery: Board Game Repair Tips, on Boardgamegeek
  • Boardgame arrangement, on Boardgamegeek
  • Best Way to store Games?, on Boardgamegeek
  • Ludobits BGG Term Tag for Dishing
  • BoxThrone – The Modular Board Game Shelving System
  • The Broken Token

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