Is there a game you have regrets about?

I would *love* to see a 10 games you regret purchasing video.

Yes! We’ll definitely steal this idea and make this top 10 after we’re done w/keep or cull 😁

You need to put out a Wanted Poster on the Roast Beef Guy. He needs to be sent away for a long long time.

I laughed so hard at that Inis story. Naveen, you are NOT wrong. I definitely would have been exchanging "wtf" glances with you.

That Inis story had me laughing out loud! I would also have trouble focusing in that situation. Great video!

I'd love to see a video of you guys showing off your collection :)

Been loving your playthrough videos and previews! Thanks for amazing content. Becoming my favorite gaming channel 😊

That roastbeef story is hilarious lmao

Ok I'm hooked to your content! Love the quality and variety!

Hey guys thanks for posting these board game content! i am from Singapore and because of you guys my family and friends have been enjoying the board games i'm teaching them learning from you guys. it has made us closer for sure. Thank you so much, keep up the god sent work

The roast beef story...so hilarious but painful to hear. Great video!

Great video. I need to make some culling decisions soon... Loved the new thumbnail style too!!

I’ve loved your channel so much! For me I’m not at the point that I think I have too many games to cull. But I’m gettin there

Great list! There are some classics there like Star Realms, Ethnos, and Betrayal that I’ll never cull! Also your story about the roast beef sandwich guy greasing up the cards at the table gives me shivers!

What a great idea for a video, and -- as always -- entertaining to boot! - The Cardboard Dad

House on the hill is so unique, in that, the story scenarios end up being super broken/one sided half the time... but it's ruleset is digestible enough to make the game very accessible and quick to teach, and a game usually ends up with a memorable story that usually ends up getting recanted.

Everyone has a Roast Beef guy and it drives me up the wall. I'd love to see a video on recommended snacks when gaming.

you guys are amazing, everything you touch is gold! Keep up the good work. I really want to get ethnos because I've only heard great things about it and it looks like a great one.

Betrayal is one of my favorite games of all time!! I haven’t played it since getting Legacy but it will sit on my shelf FOREVER! I love so many things about it!

I’m still in the hoarding phase and have been very fortunate to find some excellent games (e.g., Lisboa, Vinhos, Barrage) for very reasonable prices from folks downsizing their collections. Love your channel!

Hi guys, congratulations on your subscriber growth!

This is nice, it is like a list of recommendations :)

I definitely want to try Inis! I actually enjoy the feeling of someone at the table saying "I'm about to win, try and stop me." It means you have to maneuver your positioning in such a way that you can't be stopped. Love it! Usually makes for some tense gameplay

This was a fun video. Star Realms was one of the very first games I bought when I got into the hobby. It is a great game - and takes up no shelf space (it is in a drawer with other card games). You should definitely pick it up at your FLGS. Ethnos is also a favorite - but I can see how it might drag at larger player counts (I have only played it with two). A couple of times you mentioned a game being out of print. Something that has struck me as I have learned about the hobby is how quickly some games go out of print, which is one reason I am reluctant to part with anything because if I change my mind, I might not be able to track it down again. BTW, the roast beef story was excellent - I can completely sympathize as I am the one who plays food-and-drink cop in my house.

Great video! Thanks! I would recommend playing Inis again with the expansion. I find it an fun game, and working out card and turn management strategies to assure a win, even with an early in the round pretender token draw, can be part of the fun. Also, a person does not have to take a token just because they have a win condition, but must to win. So managing that tension can be an addition to game play. Hope you enjoy it!!

Wooo! Love the top 10 content!

Camel Up and Oh My Goods! Are treasures in my collection. Camel Up is unique in that it is on the line of party game/strategy game and can play up to 8 people well.

Excellent video as usual. I would recommend looking into Hero Realms instead of going back down the Star Realms path. Get the character packs for some asymmetric starting hands and have a blast!

I usually don't write comments but your roast beef story deserves one, it is like a "horror what if story" becoming real.

That's a really unique topic/take. Been fortunate enough to keep building gaming cabinets, but at some point I might have to start deciding what stays and what goes, lol.

"I'm basically telling you to wash your hands" LOL. It would be great to hear your suggested gaming snacks.

What a great category or topic. I don't think I've really given a game away that I regret since I hoard so much, but thank you for reminding us to keep the games we do love and to think carefully before discards.

You guys, SSSHHH!! A few of these are on my To Buy list, I don't need you driving up demand! 😂 I hate when I first hear about games like the month after they go out of print... The recent reprint of Ginkgopolis has given me hope for a Quantum reprint as well. OMG the roast beef story is priceless!

I'm with you on the roast beef guy, Naveen. We were playing Stone Age with friends when one of them spilled her ice tea all over the board. We scrambled quickly to clean it up, drying the board, cards, etc. Needless to say the game ended prematurely, but we tried again later with no food or drinks on the table. Recently saw these friends again and one of them commented how particular I am about my games. What!?! Who likes the ice tea covered version of Stone Age?! Thanks for your story and the list.

Hey! I like your new thumbnail art. Looks great

I'm a bit late in watching this video, but I hope you guys got a chance to revisit Inis. I adore that game. Naveen mentioned that he wants to feel clever in his games, and counter to his point, I have seen some of the most clever, surprising plays in Inis. The fact that you have to "announce" your impending victory doesn't necessarily mean you can't do anything sneaky. I've seen several games, for example, where players have (through keen drafting and timing of card play) won the game as the last player in a round after all other players were out of cards. I also love how you are encouraged to cooperate with other players, but only one person can win. Kingmaking doesn't bother me at all, but I can understand how people might disagree with me.

I agree with your Arboretum #1. I have the deluxe version and although it's fine, there's something to be said about the first edition. Great vid!

Star Realms has an app on both IOS and Android that is quite good. Even has a pass n play mode available for purchase.

You guys should do a collection list for what you currently have or have kept for a long time. We'd be curious for you to contrast this video to one like that.

Did you guys catch the foil kickstarter for the base set of + extras of Star Realms? It's taking forever, but I'm hyped about it. WW got a new one coming out called Robot Quest, where it's like Robot Arena with a deckbuilding side thing. I'm pretty excited for that. Like Clank! but interaction between players.

Awesome topic! I know I’ve had my share on this one! 😅

I love Oh My Goods, I definitely recommend also picking up the Longsdale expansion for it, it makes the game even better. You switch from having the number of buildings built be the timer to having an event deck be the timer, there's a bunch of new buildings, and the events are a good edition to it. Oh man, I would never get rid of Star Realms, that's such a fantastic deckbuilder, I would definitely recommend adding events (just a fun randomizer to throw in), missions (gives alternate win conditions to players) and cosmic gambit (gives player asymetric starting bonuses) and potentially looking into the command decks for asymetric player powers. I can't say I have much regret in terms of getting rid of games, there are definitely good games that have left the collection, but looking through the list of 200+ games I have let go over the years, I still find my reasoning for letting them go to remain solid. Either I wasn't prioritising them (meaning there were too many other games I'd rather play) or I swapped them out for app version or a different game that did the job better.

Fun list guys, the sandwich story was hilarious! Please no food at the table! I have a few regrets of my own during my culls. I try to keep my collection at 50 games or less. As a result some tough decisions come up from time to time. My biggest regret was getting rid of my copy of Forbidden Stars. No longer in print...I wish I kept that one. It was a wonderful game, and I remember I got rid of it because the box was too big, and it was only getting played a few times a year. I really do miss those couple games a year though.

Camel Up is a great family game (why it won SdJ) that belongs in every collection. I never did find an OG green-box of Arboretum when it first came out - was so happy for the reprints. Good luck with that quest! :)

Naveen, that's a bangin' sweater.

Great topic with the stories. Sort of meta-review of games :-). I find the music/muzac in the video a bit distracting though...

Hi there! Just starting following your channel! Where do you go to get rid of your games when you are done playing them?

Woah you guys really need to revisit Inis! Timing for win declarations is so key. I’ve not ever had king making problems in the game.

I also got rid of Quantum and regret occasionally but then I played again on BGA and remembered all the unbalanced cards along with how it can drag towards the end trying to stop the leader.

sounds like it was a good roast beef sandwich! haha More on topic, this also sounds like an evolution of understanding 'game language' (specifically to Navin's comment on Star Realms/deck builders) Once someone understands how games work, thats when the lightbulb turns on and its great seeing how things develop like taste preference, strategy exploration, etc

I would stay home from work to watch the video where you guys play Star Realms!

If you do pick up Star Realms, that would be a fun one to do a livestream playthrough of your first playthrough of it again :)

I think the only one I have culled that I have serious regret over is the nice big version of Cidadels I had gotten tired of it, but a few years later I just miss being able to bust it out for a quick easy to teach game with a big group.

Quantum is one of my favorite games!! I got it when it came out when I first starting getting into modern gaming.

I fell in love with Arboretum from watching a SU&SD video with the z-man art. Picked up the new version because that was all I could find. Loved the game play... and finally bought the z-man version on eBay. Happy ending.

Your INIS story enraged me. I love that game and I don't want to think about it being defiled like that.

Cartographers app is great to play too! Love both!

Fantastic list.... it almlst makes me want some of there titles.

You should try and see if you can late pledge the Star Realm Nova Collection. It’s a great re-entry to the series IMHO, you get a bunch of foil cards from various expansions in a neat big box

I really love Ethnos. It is easy to learn and teach, and the battle for control of the board really becomes tense, especially as the dragons start coming out. My experience is that with 4+ players the rounds become faster and faster as the game goes -- at times, we forget whose turn it is because we are all struggling with which band to play, should I keep waiting or act now with what I have while trying to watch the board and the cards on the table. To me, that tension and tactical play is very enjoyable.

Great video guys I related a lot to this list, we are a board gaming couple too, my partner is Emma. We have Quantum, but it's in the "cupboard" not on the shelf, I agree it is a good game and needs to come out of the cupboard! Camel Up is in the cupboard too but we never want to play this as 2 player so that's why its there. It's a good family game though, good fun. Emma and I like Star Realms too this is on our shelf and comes to the table now and then, it's small, so easy to transport when on holiday.

I got the Feast for Crows expansion for the Game of Thrones game and I really look forward to playing it at its reduced playtime!

I definitely felt the same about some of these games, but my desire to store them is waning. I'd totally hand them off were we only in the same area.

Would of loved to see more pictures of games but great idea for a video

Arboretum is the bomb. Hard as hell to teach the scoring aspect of it but when the players understand it - woo that game gets nasty. Love it

No. 2 expansion is a modular expansion, with, I believe, 5 individual elements that you can add a you choose. It's great.

I have so many of these games still on my shelf. No. 2 is my all time favourite game. I also have No. 8 and 9, and adore both. Finally, I have the green box edition of No. 1. I'll bring them all to the next in person SHUX and you folks should make the trip up and join us and we can play a few! Hahah! I promise, no beef sandwiches, certainly not around my favourite game!! Did you know, the artist that they licensed all the card art from is the same artist that painted the iconic Che Guevara poster!

Inis is such a great game! I have no problems with kingmaking in the case of Inis. With careful planning and clever tactics, you can outsmart the other players I think, putting them in a tough situation in which their kingmaking attempts simply won't succeed. It's pretty rewarding :P

Arboretum's original box is a fascinating case, because it's not like Quantum where people still sell it but make sure to double the price - it's instead so popular that people won't part with their copies at all, to the point that price never comes into play. That's the sign of a truly universally beloved classic. Both are games that I luckily held onto.

I'll say the same thing I did on the last video, Star Realms is amazing and everyone should own a copy. My favorite recommendation is Frontiers with the 2 booster packs "Fleets & Fortresses" and "Bases & Battleships". Still fits in the same small box and it's so much content for so little investment both money and time.

Woow I would never get rid of Ethnos ! Very interesting video 👍

Totally agree about Arboretum ZMan ed. I found the new version garish. Great game!

The thing about Ethnos is even at the highest player counts the game is so fast; It’s always your turn again. Fantastic high player count game.

Cartographers is my favorite in your bunch. I regretted culling Five Tribes. Bought it again a few years later.

Which of these games do you think you will repurchase or trade for to get it back into your collection? I've done that for a couple of games: legendary encounters: alien and mansions of madness 2ed

Hahaha, in regards to the inis story, I know exactly what you mean. Id be completely distracted by that as well!

Quantum is so good! And tough to find now. Its funny playing a space game where your ships are just big chunky dice but they different layouts make the game highly re-playable. I don't own it but loved it when I played it. Ethnos is also one of my favorites, scales great anywhere from 2-6 players. I hope they make a 2nd edition with a new look and some more area control elements that occur on the map. I need to cull my collection as well. I made a lot of purchases early in the hobby that I don't think fit my tastes nowadays.

I am moving soon so I just culled a bunch of games last week. I got rid of my 1st printing of Betrayal because it sat on my shelf for 5+ years without getting played. No regrets yet, but we'll see. Actually I do regret selling it for such a low price, lol.

I'm so glad to have sleeved my green Arboretum !

the digital version of star realms is really good btw and theres plenty of extra content

In regards to Inis the kingmaking is EXACTLY what makes the game so great, you have to set it up so that even with you announcing it you will still win.

I like the quickness of Star Realms, and the low setup time. It’s great for me to bring to my students. What I prefer in Dominion is that it isn’t as nasty … you don’t have to win by eliminating your opponents. I also prefer the creativity of Dominion, because in Star Realms you already know exactly what cards work well with each other (because of the factions), but in Dominion you have no idea what cards will pop up and therefore what will work together well, so you have to come up with a new strategy every game. I quite like that! As for Arboretum, I’ve never seen the old art before but it does look beautiful! Have you played Songbirds? I feel like Songbirds is to Arboretum as Star Realms is to Dominion … Songbirds is the quick and simple little sibling, with many of the same mechanics, including creating a tableau of adjacent cards (only one in Songbirds, though), set collection, and needing to keep high-numbered cards of a suit in order to benefit from the scoring. I think I prefer Arboretum, but if you’re that level of fan of Arboretum, you might like Songbirds. It’s definitely more intense and much more rides on a single decision, so it lacks the sort of grace that Arboretum has, but it’s great for the quick, simple adrenaline rush and brain-burn.

Suggestion for a next episode. What games do you and your parents play?

So Naveen culled Star Realms because he wasn't good at culling, but now that he culls more he is considering unculling Star Realms.

The Inis expansion doesn't change the way the pretender tokens work or having to declare you are about to win, it just help decide ties so that you don't have multiple rounds of players tied to win. I think the reason declaring you are about to win works in the game is that there are multiple paths to victory and simultaneous victory can be very common, so it's not necessarily bashing the 'leading player' since there may be three players vying for the same title. Also, I think it's very thematically fitting since each player is a chieftain trying to become the high king/queen of the Celts ruling over the other clans, so it's realistic that a chieftain would publicly nominate himself while displaying he had what it takes to rule.

Didn't like Quantum when I first played it but tried it again more than a year later. I've been playing it a lot now and I love it!

OK, this is the second time I've heard Quantum this week (the other mentioned by Chaz on Watch it Played's "OUR Top 10 Board Game picks for May 2021") !! I had never heard of it prior to this week and now want to play it but cannot find it anywhere !! #sad

I have Inis (+ expansion) and would gladly play it with you guys if you want :) I'm pretty sure we live fairly close to each other.

I think I would have been enraged with roast beef person, probably just stopping the game altogether. Great video, keep up the great work! You bring an air of freshness to the scene which I do appreciate.

Fun list! I have had a long interest in Quantum but never had the right opportunity to play it or purchase it. Love the unique dice pip/ship ability mechanic, but an leery of it's ultimately very abstract, chess-like game play. Star Realms will never leave my collection, it's fast, fun and a classic entry level deck builder. Ethnos has been a near-miss for me; thanks for helping me feel better about not getting it. I think I regret culling Smallworld the most, but not really. The art and box organizer are great, but the inevitable decline of your fantasy hoardes always sours the game play for me.

Nice vid as usual. Two thoughts: my friends and I enjoy Star Realms more on the computer than the hard copy cards. If someone was thinking about that title, would encourage them to check out the online version. And..... Betrayal.... ugh, I SO want to like that game. And the opening of the game (pre-Haunt) is wonderful. But.... so often we have run into issues where the person who cracked and has to now act alone is unsure what they have to do once they go off and read their new directive. Even the rest who have their own rules to read, they are often too briefly written with ambiguous plot and rules holes! It can be thoroughly frustrating. I so wish they would have created a game with 12 longer, better-composed, more descriptive, tight, clear storys, instead of 25 that often lead to confusion and rules arguments.

5 overlaps, so you've picked some great ones. Don't think I will ever forget your roast beef story. 😂

Betrayal at the house on the hill is amazing - sadly I had so much difficulties playing it with people who don't have a very good grasp of english as a language; played it 3 times, loved it but everyone was "meh"... so sad to trade it away.

I also culled Inis before giving it a proper chance and before the expansion was out, I want to give to give that one another chance. Other ones I regret are Grand Austria Hotel and Concordia.

Cartographers has some expansions coming out later this year, might be a good reason to pick it up again.

Naveen will be hooked at Star Realms. At really dislike very confrontational head-to-head games, but Star Realms is different. It holds a sweet spot in my heart.

We have camel up and haven't played it in years. We have betrayal at house on haunted hill and have never played it!

Ethnos is an underrated games. It holds up well in our game group, the same way Medici does.

Cartographers will now stay..😄1846 is a staple in my collection