INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

search_games

Searches the howtoplay.ro catalog by name (autocomplete-style).

howtoplay.ronone authenticationAvailability not checked

LIVE ENDPOINT

https://mcp.howtoplay.ro/mcp

No auth detected

Connect to this endpoint to inspect the live schema for search_games and invoke it with your own arguments.

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Inferred read-only · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

No write-capable action terms were found; this is not proof that invocation has no side effects.

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.howtoplay]
url = "https://mcp.howtoplay.ro/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "howtoplay": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.howtoplay.ro/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: howtoplay
Remote MCP URL: https://mcp.howtoplay.ro/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "howtoplay": {
      "url": "https://mcp.howtoplay.ro/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "howtoplay": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.howtoplay.ro/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "howtoplay",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://mcp.howtoplay.ro/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

find_best_deal — Returns the cheapest current price for a board game across all Romanian shops, with deal-quality verdict and 90-day all-time-low.
get_price_history — Returns time-series price data per shop for a board game over the last N months (default 3).
check_availability — Returns the full list of shops carrying a game with current price, stock status, and discount %.
discover_games — Suggests board games matching constraints (player count, max duration, max budget in lei, max complexity 1-5).
get_game_info — Returns full BGG metadata for a game (year, players, duration, complexity, mechanics, designers, BGG rating + rank) plus current min price in Romania.
compare_prices — Optimizes a multi-game shopping cart across all Romanian shops, returning the cheapest per-shop arrangement including shipping costs.
get_game_rules — Checks whether howtoplay.ro has rules content for a board game (ingested from a video tutorial or a publisher rulebook), returning availability, the source, its language, any CC BY-SA attribution, and a link to ask the full rules question on the site.
get_market_benchmark — Returns the market price distribution for a board game across all Romanian shops: min, median and max current in-stock price, the spread between them, where the cheapest offer sits vs the median, and the 90-day low.