@Merlberg-And-Jamaal0
We do provide board games, and initially we left them in our cottage, until one time we found 2 games upended in our coffee table chest, UGH.
We actually have 3 listings on our farm so we opted for a New System. Now all the games are kept with me in the main house where we live. The full list of board games is in the Guest Manual, but I also mention it in the pre-arrival message and offer to send through the list before arrival so they can have them placed in their cottage. I save this as a message, and I have 3 versions: 1 of all games, 1 of 2 player games, and 1 with "best for kids". We have over 50 board games.
We found that having to open the games and check them during turnover was too much work, now a guest can borrow a game and we retrieve it after checkout and only have to check the games we know they borrowed. And the guest knows that we know which game they borrowed, so there's some accountability on their part to put it back properly.
We have had some pieces lost, namely Operation has lost 2 pieces, but you can buy replacements on eBay.
One of our listings is open to families with kids of all ages so we leave the kids games, toys and books in the cottage, and frankly even that is getting to be a giant pain to reset (especially as we do mostly 1-2 night stays). Cleaning up after a family is SO much extra work because you have to look for the sticky marks, crumbs and other surprises, and they could be anywhere. And I daresay our Mr Potato Head is not going to have all his pieces by the end of 2023. We even used to leave chalk, until kids drew all over the veranda, adding a very annoying hose down and scrub to our turnover. We took the chalk away after that. Not even an option to request.
For most of our board games I have written inside the lid "please pack up the game as you found it". I usually deploy ziplocks for board games, that's the best way to keep things tidy. You could even go further and list the items that need to be returned (I've done this when we loan out our mini projector) but I don't get too wound up. The majority of our board games we got in thrift shops (and many of them were never used, or hardly used!). Up until recently we didn't offer TV, so the board games were very popular. Sadly, now we have TVs in 2 listings, we are finding fewer guests are requesting them.