About the double writing of Bonanza… You may not know that because you seem to be an english speaker, but as a bilingual and graphic designer, I can tell you that there is a convention with up/down title writing. You can verify this going to any bilingual french/english library. In English, the title will be written one way and in french the other way. So… I may seem pecky, but I do like to have my collection placed in a way that I can easily read the titles all in the same way (of my choosing). I just wanted to point you out the existence of that writing convention and that ignoring that convention would be ignoring other buyers cultures. Sincerely, Sebastien

My biggest regret was Gloomhaven. I love complex board games but Gloomhaven just didn't feel fun at all for me for some reason. It's too big and fiddly to the point where I'd rather play a computer co-op game with my friends. It was my lesson that complexity doesn't equal a huge box. EDIT: Just to add some optimism to my comment. I did buy a similar game after that named Nemesis, which me and my friends absolutely love. It has similar mechanics as Gloomhaven, but it spares us from all the long-running campaign stuff that never did much for me, except Hero Quest.

I think the point about amount of options each turn is interesting, and I fully agree with it. In my group of friends, we have two brothers who are infamously slow to take their turns. I think you called analysis paralysis, even though I think it's a bit different from that. I think some people are able to plan ahead while other people are doing their turns, but some only start processing when it's their turn. On top of that, and my point I'm trying to make, I have a theory that it wouldn't matter if my friends were met with the simple choice of, "buy the plot or not" or if they had 100 different options. They will always take a roughly same amount of time to make any decision. We're always left waiting for them to make a choice regardless if it's extremely simple or super complex. So in other words, having many options is simply better than having very few.

No way! You wrote Popatron! A friend of mine also wrote/produced that And yes, it was much better than you’d expect - very good in fact! Shame it can’t be found anywhere anymore

Nucleum was a big mistake!

I also used to sleeve every game, but I've realised some games play better without. I now usually only sleeve games when cards get played with a lot. Matte sleeves really helps when shuffling.

The front of the Skull box compels me to play it, but every other side of the box compels me to hide it. I'm glad someone else finally stated that publicly!

Solo Roleplaying is a decent subsitute for boardgames

Hey actualol, have you ever considered making a top ten list for board games on a budget?

Another game very similar to the 3rd is 'Fox in the Forest" except its a lot cheaper.

I totally forgot about Cluedo..

7:05 Wow Gumball😮😃 I wasn't expecting that. I'll rewatch those episodes again

I'm looking for new shelves,which did you use?

8:32 Wow I hope one day you would come here

I feel like Planet (one of the games I have), had such good potential with the artwork on the front, but then they put on logos/prizes and an entire side of the box is barcode and boring information and more logos(and just sticks out from the rest of the box)

I watched all of this and have been subscribed for years. And only now am I learning that there’s a BGG app that catalogs my collection?? Thank you for the awesome video. Found great reasons to let go, and to buy new 😈 My wife will not be happy… or, will she? 😃

… but I really did end up enjoying Scythe

How’s the resistance the same as Avalon?

6:50 like the logo, it feels retro.

I have a Kallax and like half my cubes are three games with pretty uniform height/thickness and one game that’s shorter and (usually) fatter that doesn’t fit aesthetically with the other games. Cascadia, TM: Ares Expedition, Modern Art, Hadrian’s Wall, and Viticulture all mess up any uniformity for box height on my shelves. Oh and Blitzkrieg! and Caesar! being in the same line but looking completely different when viewed from the side and even having slightly different heights kills me. Similarly with Wingspan and Wyrmspan not matching when placed side-by-side because SM logo is different size and Wyrmspan’s name/info is lower than Wingspan’s. It would have looked so good if they matched, too. Carcassonne 20th anniversary box is really nice though. As is a lot of the big-box Uwe games but some are so thick and have so many components I can’t store them vertically.

I think I understood everything you said here. My take aways from this video: 1. Only buy the newest games. 2. You need to buy more games whether you like them or not. 3. Buy any and all games that have a theme you like. 4. Sleeve everything, all your cards, hexes, tiles, figures, cubes and meeples...everything! 5. Buy all the games that reviewers like. 6. More fun comes from more content. 7. Never go to conventions. 8. Buy only the most complex games. 9. Try to do everything you can to fill the void of not playing board games. 10. Never hate any game. If you don't like it there is something wrong with you. 😉

Dude i have the same lamp in the background

I love codenames too!!

I board game in my opinion that has both elements from both modern and old board games is diplomacy. In the game you can get eliminated and friendships can be ruined because of false promisses it is still a lot of fun and not every turn you get supply centres. There is no luck in the game (especially if you pick nations by player choice) and every game is different in terms of play styles, players and nations.

We started with patchwork and now we have a hundred games collection 😅❤ Now we are planning to make some new players to enjoy new games

Pitchcar is a great flicking game.

In fairness, Oathsworn is incredible. But great video. I feel like many of these points are almost a right of passage. But there is so much truth in this video.

Magic Maze fell into the Steep Learning Curve category. I would play it for 15-20+ minutes with a couple of students at the end of a class. 2-3 weeks later I would get a chance to play it again and it felt like we were restarting again from the early scenarios. I could never get to the advanced scenarios. But I love the concept of it. Great video

I almost cheered to see Spring Meadow. It's possibly my absolute favorite game, and I do believe I got it on your recommendation!

As soon as I saw the card that read "Initials" and the letters L and B, I reflexively shouted "Leo-nard Bern-stein!"

Awesome, so many small hills to die on its almost a national park in the UK, the Peaqued District

Barcodes are required for shop sales - they go on the side as specified by the US market. Parents Choice award is also for the US market. But we will be certain to pass on your feedback to the Kosmos publishing team!

There's this french publisher called "Matagot" who used to have these dull gray spines on every game they published. I hate that my copy of Scythe looks like this. They now stopped doing that and instead just put their logo on the spine. It's much better but I'm not gonna buy the same game twice lmao

That was not the first US release of Settlers of Catan. The first and second release was a dark brown box and the tiles used photos instead of artwork. 2nd edition was the same cover, but had 4 different colored player pieces so you could combine two sets and play with up to 8.

British person being absolutely neurotic about completely mundane things for a needlessly long period of time, should be an entire KZfaq category. Yes, I watched the entire thing, don't look at me. XD

Holy cannoli actual lol! And I'm tellin' ya! If you hate the best game of the 20th century monopoly, you're gonna turn into a Goomba!

So this popped up in my feed. I just have one thing to say: You and I have VERY different board game taste. You have 250 games, and there may be 10 games there I enjoy or have any interest in playing.

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Wow 777k views

that video was way better than it had any right to be

Could "Root" join "hanging in the Louvre" team?

Very nice review, but one thing I´m not so sure about: the little games. These games are so tiny that you can display them anyway you want. Don't need to stack them into a big pile. Just display them on a shelf with small space or display them in front of something else, games or books or whatever.

THE BIN JUICE?!?!? 🤢

Don't be hard on yourself. We all have a manner of speaking, and using the word "simple" isn't a huge deal. You did a great job with this video, and I like the shelf walkthrough!

In the thumbnail you look like discount Jim Carrey 😆

Video idea: overused animal (plants, ... or produce) vs most unique. Bonus for calling out rote/unexpected anthropomorphic qualities

Offhand, I think the only major house rule we have done recently was changing how food was used in Tainted Grail to avoid having to grind for more food after every few game days, because that was the one thing about the game that my wife and I were finding not-so-fun.

The fact that you arent displaying Burgle Bros with the skyscraper side out hurts me. Im getting that came for its display potential alone

Dominion is a brilliant game but a box that size for a deck of cards is ridiculous. And the insert actually makes it harder to organise than if the cards were just randomly strewn all over the floor. Then with expansions, you need a full-size shopping trolley if you actually want to take it anywhere. However with a cut-up picture frame and some custom dividers I've managed to get the base game and four expansions all in the original box (minus the poxy insert of course). Weighs a bloody ton mind

The concept of Scrawl seems amazing, if you're on a budget you can just grab paper and a pen and choose movie/book titles, that's how I played it as a kid and it was H I L A R I O U S