Laravel's pivot table + Pivot table in general

Question

What are laravel pivot tables and pivot tables in general? What is this all about?

Recently I made research about Pivot table. I thought I know them and What they are bu

Answer 1

Simply put is a pivot table a table that joins two tables together

say you have a table users

USERS:
user_id, user_name

say you have a table games

GAMES
game_id, game_name

a user can play many games. games have many users playing them.

To link them you make a third table

GAMES_TO_USERS
game_id, user_id

with this table you can request which games a user plays, and which users play which game.

this table GAMES_TO_USERS is in this case the pivot table.