| Summary: | Boardgame evenings participants often consider the social pleasure of the encounter one of the main appeal of boardgames. Yet, they let it be understood, through their dialogue, that the social interaction of the aforementioned evenings is not guaranteed to succeed. This fact is confirmed by Goffman's approach (1961), which demonstrates that the strength of social interaction mainly relies upon the strategies used by participants to maintain it. In this article, I set as a goal to study the strategies implemented by the players in order to maintain their involvement throughout the game. To accomplish this, I will first rely on the normative discourse produced by the players on games and expected social behaviours ; then I will study the different practices they used to maintain and foster their participant’s involvement.
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