Ever play any really weird board games?

Quelf.

Not really a board game, but when I was in college we used to play Squad Leader and Jutland with ¼8 scale model pewter ships, figurines and vehicles.

Any game that comes with a cut out you assemble dice tower is weird.

I will probably totally TLDR this one, but I am a board game geek and have played literally several hundred board games. Most of them would seem weird to people, but I will focus on the ones that even I thought were a little weird.

Five Card Nancy is a dadaist DIY card game where you photocopy and make cards out of single panels of the old Nancy comic strip. Everyone has five cards and tries to fit the comics together to make something that manages to make sense. The stuff can get really surreal and weird.

Battlestar Galactica is a unique game because it starts out with two teams. Everyone against one secret bad guy who is trying to sabotage the mission. At some point in the game, there is a chance that one of the good guys will find out that they are a bad guy and switch sides. You have to find all of the bad guys before a certain number of turns. If you don’t the Cylons win. It’s cooperative, but you may be teaming up with someone who is trying to make you lose.

Bell Bottomed Bad Asses on the Mean Streets of Funk is a game where you are competing to create the blockbuster 1970’s blaxploitation movie of the year. At some point, we had a giant flying vampire shark loose on the board eating all of the other players’ props and actors.

Duck Duck Go is this game where you use real rubber ducks as playing pieces, you build the board as you go, and the ducks are trying to win the game by swimming down the drain. The game itself isn’t that weird, but the people I know who really are into this game get obsessed with collecting rubber ducks. You can get TONS of odd ducks and everyone I know hooked on this game ends up with like 50 or so unique individual novelty ducks all over their house.

Faux-cabulary – is a game where you roll dice with suffix and prefixes and common couplets found in the English language. Everyone writes down a definition of the fake word and votes on which one is the best.

Scary Tales is a series of board games that you can play interchangeably with each other. It’s kind of hard to explain. The basis of the game is you have two fairy tale characters trying to beat the crap out of each other. Each game comes with two characters. If you buy more of the games, you can have any two characters from any of the games fight. I think I played one where Little Red Riding Hood tried to beat up Goldilocks.

@keobooks Haha, Scary Tales kind of reminds me of Monster Madness, except that game I don’t think had ’‘add ons’’ so to speak, plus it didn’t have that much of an emphasis on famous characters battling it out.
Also that Bell Bottom game sounds completely fantastic. I’d play that. I’m guessing most of these can be a bit if a bitch to find though. :/ Cool list.

I have no idea how hard they are to find. I have a good game store near my house that has all of these except Five Card Nancy.

The Badass one is good because it’s small and cheap. There are also other games in the series and some people like to mix all the cards together. There’s a Western one, a Tolkein Style Fantasy—you name the movie and it’s there. I’ve never played them, but I guess they get REALLY strange when you have hobbits with pimp canes attacking zombie cowboys.

I think you may be able to find Battlestar Galactica or Duck Duck Go easily. Also, Amazon is your friend. They sell almost all these games.

I got a question, since you’re a board game fan; how popular are board games today? As far as I know, they’re still going strong. I know about the Walking Dead one, and those are you smarter than a fifth grader or whatever were popular for quite a while, and Monopoly seems eternal. But in my recent online searchings, seems to me this kind of stuff was way bigger in the nineties? Or is that wrong?

I can’t really say. I’m in a weird subculture of gamers. For instance, this week, one of the largest gaming conventions in the world is in the town where I live, GenCon. It’s huge and tens of thousands of people come from around the world to play board and tabletop RPGs there. I could do research on the statistics, but I have no clue how mainstream it is.

I’m a board game fan and I tend to hang out with tons of board game people and because I live in the town that hosts the big convention, I have lots of specialty gaming stores around where I live. I kind of live in a board game bubble. I sometimes assume that everyone in the world plays since I don’t know many people who don’t play.

I second Quelf, it is completely insane (though perhaps not in the sense you meant). Play it with a group of outgoing people, especially if you don’t know them very well!

I think board games are fairly popular right now… Settlers of Catan probably helped a little with that.

I agree with the Catan game starting the upswing. Though I don’t recommend the game myself because it can get frustrating for board game newbies. Carcassonne is a better one and almost as mainstream as Catan.

I need to play Quelf. I keep hearing about it but have missed it. Anyone play Fluxx?

Oh and if you like the idea of the Badass game you may like Munchkin Which is kinda the same game, but has a DnD theme. But you may have to be into RPGs to really think it’s funny. I picked Badasses because while not everyone can relate to tabletop RPG humor, everyone can relate to blockbuster movies.

@keobooks Damnit, you’re lucky to live in a place where conventions like that take place. There isn’t much around here, except a book store that sells some boardgames.

@glacial All insane is fine with me. :) Read up on Quelf, definitely seems weird lol. I’d be up for that, for sure.

Also guys, check out this one. Key to the Kingdom. Would love to try this one.

Now I wanna play Quelf.

I have a tile game where you lay the 3” square cardboard tiles out on a table in numerical order, then each player has a chance to move the tiles to different places, which interrupts the path to the finish. On turn, they move tiles to spoil other players path, or enhance their own path.

Board? Not really (unless Car Wars and BattleTech maps count as “boards”). I am more into card games that involve laying cards on the table, like the Steve Jackson Games lineup (Hacker, Illuminati, Chez Geek…) and similar games like Pimp:The Backhanding, though you won’t catch me in the collectible ones seeking out rare cards for vast amounts of money. I outgrew Magic years ago :p

@Symbeline I was going to say Key to the Kingdom. I took way too much joy in crushing my friends with the world in that game. As in, I didn’t actually play to win, just to crush everyone else.

Cards Against Humanity is fantastic, but it’s not really a board game.

When I was around 14, my aunt bought me this board game while on holiday in Denmark, no it wasn’t called Rape & Pillage the Vllage the Viking Way.
It went by the name of Conquer Everest & it was the most complicated piece of shit ever devised by man. There were literally hundreds of little pieces that needed constructing before you even thought about tackling the bible thick instructions on how to play the fucking thing.
I lost patience after only a short while & tossed it in the bin, which it filled.

Left an I out of village, only coz i’m a dopey cunt though.

@amujinx Yeah, when you get on the whirlpool, you flip the board open and the game just expends. That’s awesome lol.

@ucme I would have tried that. Super complicated games with millions of pieces kick ass! Man you shouldn’t have thrown it out, you could have maybe got something for it on Amazon.

@Symbeline Yeah, hindsight is a wonderful thing, destroying & binning the bloody thing seemed fairly reasonable at the time. Quite a few annoying toys were smashed to bits come to think of it, maybe I was just a sadistic twat.

I wouldn’t object to anyone destroying a Mr. Bucket though. :D

Buckaroo, or Fuckaroo as I liked to call it, deserved smashing on general principle alone.
Hoping you know what toy this is, if not, just google the fucker XD

You mean that horse? Lol.

Still doesn’t beat this guy.

Wow, did Ronald McDonald & Where’s Wally just have a kid??

@Symbeline LOL I wanna get my balls into Mr. Bucket. LOL

Nightmare and Atmosphere are both pretty neat board games. They use video tapes that play along with the board game, and constantly interrupt the game and instruct the progression of the game. (plus they like to embarrass and belittle you also) :-P

@Only138 LOL I’m keeping away any MrBucket I might find away from you. XD

@Symbeline LOL.

Have you ever played Qwirkle? Very strange game…
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