#board games

[todays-xkcd]

I can't believe Candles of Vienna caved to commercial pressure and added the Goku expansion.

Types of Board Game [Explained]

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Types of Board Game

[Under this header text, the comic contains 8 panels. Each of them is labeled at the top with a short description of the board game being played and features (from left to right) Cueball, Ponytail, Megan, and White Hat sitting on chairs around a table trying to play it.]

Boring Megan: Each turn, roll a die and move your token. Turns proceed clockwise around the table until we get bored and go home.

Abstract Cueball: Each turn, you can place any number of red triangles or blue squares on a hexagon, or move any hexagon to a...

Hyperspecific Theme Ponytail: It's October 2, 1814. The Congress of Vienna convenes. You are each in charge of distributing and lighting candles for the opening ball, which was held at these three locations...

Overcomplicated White Hat: It's a cross between *Twilight Imperium* and *Cones of Dunshire,* but implemented entirely in category theory. Every cone is a monad, and...

Cooperative Megan: We're working together to sort these decks of cards using only hand gestures. After that, we'll silently organize my junk drawer.

Branded Cueball: You can play as Phoebe, Chandler, Monica, Rachel, Ross, Joey, or, due to an ill-advised tie-in, Goku.

Party Ponytail: Each of the cards in your hand has a bad word on it. On the count of three, yell the...

Social Deduction Megan: Remember, per our *Find the Secret Murderer* house rules from last week, discovering that a player had committed a real-life murder does *not* count.

[bobby-luv]

[quantummoonjune]

me when i explain a board game to my friends but i haven't played it in like a year

[prokopetz]

It's very apparent that "board games" can mean very different things to different people when one game feels the need to warn you that it can take up to thirty minutes to play, while another prides itself on being "quick playing" on the basis that a minimal two-player game should only take two to three hours.

[thesilicontribesman]

The Lewis Chess Pieces, 12th Century CE, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh

[gluebottles]

Candyland 1984/1997 board

[sablingart]

Starting work on a Pokémon board game

what would you like to see included?