I really enjoy watching these old videos with the Sam, Tom and Zee. Nothing wrong with the new videos but these old videos have a degree of banter and nostalgia that I enjoy.

Growing up, my dad had a 1971 sports illustrated football game. He would always play as the Dallas Cowboys because they were by far the best team in the box (this was not at a balanced game). I loved playing even though i constantly lost. I remember one night, i won two games in a row. It was an amazing feeling . My dad had been cussing about the dice all night. When i won that second game, he lost his cool and ripped up his beloved dallas cowboy sheet. I was both excited and horrified. Excited because i knew i would go to bed that night as champion. Horrified, because i wasn't sure he would ever play again. Well, he taped his dallas cowboy sheet back together and we have played many times since. The game now sits in my collection. And every time i see that Dallas cowboy sheet, i am reminded of a evening of both unbridled rage and the taste of sweet sweet victory.

This felt less like a Top 10 and more like Sam Healey's Tales of Boardgaming Horror.

Almost fell of my chair laughing at "You coulda made platypus"

One of the best top 10 lists you have guys have done. Thank you much, I laughed alot during the viewing and can relate to some of the games :)

A few years ago my GF suggested we get some boardgames, so we went to a local games store and chose a couple. One of the ones we got was Risk Godstorm. After the setup, we made our initial moves. A couple of turns in, I took one of her territories... And that was the end of that game, and it never saw the light of day again.

I feel a live gameplay of Robo Rally as a stretch goal would bring in the money. :)

It's been a while to see a Top Ten with all 3 of you. Much fun to watch. Thanks guys.

Tom and Zee eating popcorn and sipping soda killed me. Thank you guys. 😄

You guys were on form for this one! Had me grinning like a yahoo throughout :D

38:15 nice story, and great impersonation of popcorn and soda by Zee :D Love these 3

They should make a "suicide squad" version of Cuttthroat Caverns where it's just a team of super villains with an uneasy alliance.

A great Top Ten video, one of my favorites. The games were good but I was laughing in tears with you guys which made it super enjoyable. Well done. :)

Definitely loved this one! Thanks a lot guys. Another solid video:D

Cash n Guns is seriously the most rage-inducing game. I've never seen a game create more tension.

Awesome, love you guys. One of the best top tens you have ever done.

fury of Dracula. when you finally find him and he beats your down then dissapears. 😠

So many great laugh out loud moments in this. Thanks for the gut busters guys!

As a frequent mysterium player, I understand why the game is on the list. Lets talk about the dreaded poison bottle. It does not matter, whatever else is out on that field, EVERYONE and their grandmother thinks they have the poison, constantly, and no matter the cards you give them, they think it somehow is the poison, ITS MADNESS

I now have this mental image of Sam getting angry in pavlovian response every time someone rings a bell. :D

you guys are awesome!!! what a great top 10 video!!! Laughed and Smiled through the whole thing :)

Ticket to ride..... I was saving for that damn freakin 8 train tunnel in Europe since the start of the GAME!

Great TOP TEN, you guys! THANK YOU!!! Unfortunately, for people who play games, like they're playing for real money (and I met a few) every game is a rage inducing game...

i watched an older episode when you list games not to play with angry people literally yesterday. possibly among the top most hilarious episodes you have ever done. couldn t be happier to see this show up.

Amazing top ten list gentlemen!! Loved it.

three amigos discussing one reason we all play games.. the memorable interactions between players. Great fun video to watch.

Settlers of Catan has caused more arguments and angry rants than any other game I have played. By far...

My favorite Dice Tower video so far. Love hearing the stories of frustration!

New to your channel. Love the lists...this one was by far the funniest! great effort!

I used to play Diplomacy with my dad and younger brother ALL the time while growing up. Betraying each other was kinda the whole thing. EVERYTHING was allowed: Stealing each others plans while mom called us to dinner, which lead to leaving FAKE plans lying around. Spying on the talks others would have. Man, I once hid a tape recorder (yes, I'm old) in the room where I knew my father and brother would go into to talk. I actually think no one ever got mad. Then, years later, I played the game with friends. First scoring round, one was backstabbed by me. He looked SO hurt. I explained that shifting allegiances is kinda the point of the game, but he just kept repeating "I would NEVER do that to a friend!" . I felt like I had kicked a puppy. Needless to say, we broke off the game and never played it again. :/

Most fun I have ever seen Sam have! That was a lot of fun to watch.

Great top ten!!. As always!!!!.... I will love to see a top ten 4x games from you guys.

I love Dark Moon for the same reason Sam hates it. It ramps up the paranoia so fast. You really have to start playing the players on round one. Oh so good.

One of the funniest top 10 you guys have ever done. Now I want to play babel!

This is my favorite top 10 video of yours so far haha

Zee's thing about Deception: Murder in Hong Kong where people get off track onto some wild-ass alternate theory...every single game of Codenames ever. JUST PICK YOUR FIRST GUESS AND YOU'LL BE RIGHT!

settlers of catan totally. nothing worse then getting land locked in the first turn.

I usually do not enjoy your negative based top 10's, but this ome came through very fun and energetic and I enjoyed it alot. Had a lot of fun watching the video.

Used Diplomacy's reputation for inducing rage to my advantage once. My friend and I were playing with a new group, he was Austria and I was France. I had teamed up with England and Germany. A couple turns in they stabbed me on something inconsequential, think it was one of the lowland neutrals. When they did, I went on a 5 minute rant about how I'm going to throw everything I have into ruining them even if it costs me the game. My friend and I have been gaming forever and he knows me well. The discussion phase after my rant we go into another room to talk. As soon as he closes the door he goes "So, Italy it is then?" I'm like "Yep". Poor guy left himself wide open thinking his border with me was safe, and England and Germany were bracing for impact. Took 3 bases from Italy in one turn.

this top 10 list is #3 on my top 10 top 10 dice tower lists! loved this one :)

Loved the video guys. I'm not sure if I'm sadistic, but I kinda find it entertaining watching someone rage during a game (as long as it's not violent). Not only did you lose the game, but you lost your sanity!

I love darkmoon... I took that dice mechanic and put it into an Role Playing Game when I gave each player a note saying, "You feel something attempt to take over your mind, but you kept control...did the rest of your party feel this? and more importantly, did THEY keep control?" They had to use the dice mechanic to sneak and disable alarms......and they turned on each other FAST! Bwahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!

Catan can be sooo frustrating with unbalanced dice, one time I had a 6, an 8, and some other numbers, this other guy had a 3, a 2, AND THEY KEPT COMING AND COMING, all 2s and 3s, he literally had more than 20 cards in his hand and NO 7 CAME UP. Meanwhile no 6 nor 8 ever happened, so I had to look how he just cut every possibility of advancement that I had not because it was particularly good for him but just because he saw that he could do it, and then just make 3 points in his last turn and still have more than 10 cards in his hand, aaaah. This other time with a different copy of the game I was going to build a house somewhere, I just had to build the house, and then turn after turn went on and I got no resources, and this other gal comes and just builds a road and builds another road and then builds the house, ok, I'll go this way instead then-nope, the same gal comes and blocks me there, and the same thing the third time! This was with the recommended set up for first time players but I got NO resource, NO 6 almost in the whole game. Catan is a great game, but it comes with so cheap dice and there's nothing you can do about it if it happens to you, ok I'll just sit here and watch you take everything away from me why not, that seems fun. Very funny list btw, really enjoyed watching it!

There are many games that have gotten me or someone else angry. When I was a kid, my brother, our friend, and I played A LOT of Risk and Fortress America. So much so that I never wanted to see another copy of Risk again. Flash forward several years and my brother pulls out the NEW Risk that has these special mission cards. Well, I bite, but remind my brother I'm done with the game. We get our mission cards and do our setup. Looking at the board, I notice a few things that would let me win the game easily so I set my plan in motion. I vacate Africa and begin attacking our friend, leaving everything ripe for a blitzkrieg down through Africa, for my brother. I'm green, he's red, and our friend is blue. I turn to my brother and smile. "I know you like Africa, I'm going to finish off Russia, why don't you take him out in Africa? My brother always goes for Africa so he smiles in return and I wipe out the blue forces in Russia. He then does his blitzkrieg and takes out the remaining blue in Africa and sees that I'm stretched out really thin and am easy pickings. Our friend is upset that he's been eliminated before his first turn when I smile and let him know that the game's over. That's when I reveal my secret mission card: I win if the blue player is eliminated. My brother went in to such a rage that I think he threw the game away. He's not as easy to manipulate after that, but boy oh boy was he angry! HAH! I really enjoyed this video, you guys had me laughing pretty hard at the end :)

Spyfall - if you've been given the Spy card for the 4th turn in a row...although all the other players find this hilarious 😁

Hanabi...The fact when people don't get your clues or give you weird clues.

My resistance anger came when I was playing a 9 player game in which I was one of three spies, I threw the suspicion on myself by tanking a mission, but through some quick talking and arguing with my teammates I got both on the 4th mission which required two fails, when the vote was shown to have only one fail, I nearly lost my mind!

Possibly the funniest top ten yet. loved it!

Definitely the funniest episode I've watched, thanks

I'll never not miss Sam and their interactions

Monopoly : What is more enraging that having your kid receive a Monopoly (not the short dice or kids version, but the "real" one) from some distant relative and know that you'll be asked to play it and won't be able to say no ?

The funniest top 10 ever! Thanks o/

Munchkin and Cyclades. I will never ever play these games again and both for the same reasons: 1. King making by helping that player direktly and basically admitting that they want him to win 2. King making by doing nothing even though you could 3. Dragging emotions and grudges from last game into next and start to target players from the start. the result is always indirect king making. If you can't tell by now: King making for the sake of pissing off someone always makes me rage.

Can't believe MTG isn't on here. I've seen people tear up lands as they are drawn, flip tables because their permanents keep getting bounced, etc.

Nothing can be more rage inducing than that one absurdly lucky friend, you know the one who takes out your army of 32 with 2 people in Risk.

Monopoly. I had many arguments playing that game. I used to like it even though there had been a few arguments. But a few years before I was a board game hobbyist, my wife and I, with a friend and his wife a couple other players played Monopoly. 1 player we discovered never traded at all, ever! No matter how sweet the deal was made to him he wouldn't trade. I got angry. But the there were other arguments, I decided after that game I would never play Monopoly again.

Targi- the worker placement is so tightly constricted that I spend the whole game feeling like I just got shafted. Doesn't help that my opponent is really good at it and I've never managed to beat him.

Lol what a good laugh I had! Nice work guys!

Was Zee throwing a Dave Chappelle impersonation out there @ 34:20?! Fantastic!

I agree with Tom that Diplomacy is probably the most frustrating game ever. I've been back-stabbed by people because another player gave them a doughnut! It is an incredibly frustrating game - you can spend a whole day (we'd play 1 move a day) planning and negotiating the most amazing move and then the ones who are supposed to support you do something else and you've just lost the game. But I also think this is one of the best games ever...

Finally a new top 10. Thank you! How about top dungeon crawl / skirmish adventure -type?

There's nothing like the rage the first time somebody breaks a treaty with you in Risk. Rage is not relieved until YOU break a treaty. In college we all four got so enraged that we tore up each card individually, and the board, and threw them all over the room. What euphoria!

I shall raise the rage level regarding Diplomacy. I was walking through the gaming area at GenCon on a Sunday morning, passing by the tables hosting the final round of the Diplomacy Tournament. Just in time I saw one player totally lose it. He turned to another player with total anger on his face and lunged at him. They both grappled for a few seconds, then their combined momentum took both of them, still embracing in mutually applied death grips, away from their gaming area and into the tables next to them where they both collapsed onto the tables that were currently hosting a large scale miniatures game. That got the miniatures judge involved, and it took the arrival of convention security to bring the matter to an end. Later on I learned that the two guys in the Diplomacy game were (up to that time!) good friends who had come to GenCon specifically to enter the Diplomacy Tournament, having already agreed to work together to their mutual benefit. Only after both made it to the final round did one of the guys decide to betray his best friend. Game-wise, beautiful move; in reality, I had witnessed a long friendship dissolve before my eyes.

the resistance for the same reasons. And still trying to get my hands on lifeboats. great show.

that face when "casanova frankenstein" has a FRIGGIN OSCAR

What a random 'Mystery Men' reference, I love it

51:14 Tom's Bill Cosby impression on full display

Hey guys, I love your lists! This one too, of course. But I miss a top 10 "space games" list. You once did a "sci-fi" list, which ended up in a huge discussion, of what sci-fi is. :D Not that it wasn´t cool and funny but I´d love to see a top 10 of space games. And/or an updatet top 10 Cp-op list.

Haven't watched it yet but I'm already feeling the rage......this is a gonna be a good one!

The first game that comes to mind is Nile. You see everyone else harvesting their fields but you can't even plant one at times and if you do manage to plant one, you'll be outplanted the very next turn, causing you to discard the field. And as if that wasn't enough, once you get three or more crop fields under your control, before you can say "wait, my fields have the same number of cards and they're tied for most cards"- the next flipped card will be Plague of Locusts. All of those cards - eaten.

best top 10 ever...awesome!!!!

Awesome list, even my wife who has no interest in board games was watching with me and laughing. Anyway, my rage inducing games would be Monopoly, Diplomacy, this game where it's a team of aliens vs. astronauts and everyone has a dry-erase hidden-movement pad (I forget what it's called but I played it once and never will again), and Agricola. God damn I get so goddamn angry in Agricola. I hate that game now with a blazing hatred of a thousand suns.

I once had a friend who, during a game of Catan, stood up, went to the wall, and punched a hole in it. One of the nicest guys you'll ever meet too.

Firefly the board game. When I stole the other guy's whole crew, he sure wasn't happy.. ;-)

I've seen people just leave a session of Citadels after being assassinated multiple times. The most rage inducing game I've seen first hand is Merchants and Marauders. When a player boards another player's ship, and takes all their stuff that they have been working on for 2 hours, it usually ends in components being thrown.

Thank you. Great list

Great list and love your humor. My #1 is resistance. “Since it’s your copy/ you are hosting the event you must be the red team”.........I gave away my copy.

Great review! Top stuff. Died with laughter, and found it interesting that u were all laughing when describing the game u hate most! For that reason, DIPLOMACY is the game I LOVE and NOT love the most! :)

@48:00 you are describing 90% of the time in software development.... maybe that's why I like Mech vs Minions... it's the same feeling but without the pressure to get it right yesterday :D

I really wanted to hear Sam say, "Ssooooorrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyy!"

31:15 "...you punched him" oh man that line makes me laugh every time just imagining Sam punching Marty over Mysterium.

The instant Sam mentioned Diplomacy I thought "I bet that's Tom's #1 and he's gonna try to shut him up." 😂

Like the bloodrage conversation. Dropping the Fool on someone for there 15th card in Everdell. Watch there eyes melt from their skulls.

The first time we played Arboretum, we misunderstood the rules to allow stealing runs that other players had spent the entire game building. So the end-game was like Babel on steroids. Things got a bit tense - then we re-read the rules and had a good laugh.

Paperback comes with a variant to help mitigate the analysis paralysis, I'm allowing others to help you make your word out of your letters, and whoever's word you pick gets a penny to use for their next turn

lol "I avoid Sam" - Zee

My tabletop night occasionally had games of diplomacy, but we either set a reasonable time limit or would decide the next turn or 2 to be the last to not have it go 8 hours. The short periods combined with the fact that we pretty much used the whole room to pace around and negotiate made Diplomacy an amazing experience. But I don't think I would ever play a full game.

Pit with the grab a spoon variant made teenage me so wrathful lol.

I happen to find Merchants and Marauders very rage inducing as well. My gaming group plays this game relatively often and everytime 1 or 2 people are absolutely flabbergasted and enraged about the luck another player has. good times :D

How did Settlers of Catan not make any of the lists? That is the classic game of BS like trading away all your rock and then playing Monopoly or cutting off someone's longest road.

I have not had a 'rage' experience in a very long time. My last one would have been Axis and Allies with my brother. In the late eighties and early nineties we had about a five year stretch where it seemed EVERY board game we played ended up in a rules dispute and whoever of the two of us came out on the short end would just rage quit. I remember the time when one of us, I think it was me,could well have been him, admitted the other just might be right. It was an A&A game and from that time, he is the person with whom I would more prefer to at a game than anyone else.

VTES: Vampire the eternal struggle. It is a collectible card game that you play usually 3-5 players. It has got betrayal, revenge, teaming up, king making, all the good stuff.

I agree with the Catan comments! I played a game with another father and his two sons. He and one son agreed to gang up on the other, who was about to win the game. In order to steal the longest road card, he needed four wheat to trade for a brick. So he traded one wheat for two wheat from his son, giving him the four he needed and stealing the road. The other son had no more road pieces and ended up losing! It might not have been legal-in fact, I’m sure it wasn’t-but the ensuing rage lasted fifteen minutes!

I completely agree with Diplomacy. Though for my part I tend to play online, so a game spans months. Which I think helps mitigate some of the rage, because I can always walk away from the game for a few hours.

There was a game that all my friends agreed was a fun game and we played it over and over for more than a year. Then we put it away and swore never to play it again to preserve our friendships. Every single game had one or more shouting matches, slammed doors, and general hurt feelings. That game was Supremecy. A very well made game about Cold War politics and brinksmanship. But once the nukes fly, someone gets too invested and goes balistic. What's worse is a player who gets mad can ruin the game inside the rules by nuking their own territory to bring the nukes on the board up to 12 which destrroys the world. Any game with a if-I-can't-win-everybody-dies mechanic will trigger rage eventually.

When playing Cosmic Encounter with dual aliens/with one hidden, and someone's Warrior alien is super beefed up, and then they reveal their hidden alien is the Machine.

Could you imagine playing Paperback with Tom? You’d have to constantly be saying “That’s not a word”

Cosmic Encounters (first time playing): People draw Encounter cards. All of them your color, consecutively. People remember that day as "The Flip".

Needs more Twilight Struggle. Always results in a fair amount of yelling

Laughed so hard at 57:10 - 57:40 This was a great video