This is the short edition of More or Less.

First broadcast on the BBC World Service.

Thank you for downloading from the BBC.

The details of our complete range of podcasts

and our terms of use go to BBCWorldService.com slash podcasts.

Hello and welcome to More or Less on the BBC World Service.

With a programme which is to numerously

what the coffee bean is to cafe culture

and I'm Tim Harford.

In today's programme, which are the world's best

and worst board games?

But first.

The More or Less inbox has been pinging away

about Oxfam's claim that soon the richest

one percent of the world's population

will own more than everyone else put together.

The interesting thing about this debate

is that all claims of the form,

the richest x percent of the planet,

own more than the poorest y percent,

seem to have blurred into one.

They all sound the same as they whizz by

...