Poll of the Day > What is a board game you don't like?

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I hate Monopoly. It goes on way too long and I don't think I ever played it through. When it comes to Board games with money, I prefer the game Life.

Tiddlywinks.

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captpackrat posted...

Tiddlywinks.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/07e5e486.jpg

I don't think I ever played Tiddledywinks but I have heard of it.

I think everyone hates monopoly because everyone makes up their own house rules that make the game go on for way to long. Supposedly the official rules make the game go way faster but I don't think anyone in the history of ever has read them and I aint ever going to read them either.

Pretty sure Monopoly is a game you're *supposed* to hate

HylianFox posted...

Pretty sure Monopoly is a game you're *supposed* to hate

Your post made me and my girlfriend laugh.

Completely agree with TC

I prefer either party games or non traditional board games

Mouse Trap because it is so disappointing. It looks so cool on TV but really you just get to the end then go round and round for 5 minutes

Most modern Eurogames with 10,000 pieces and a hundred page long rulebook.

Most party games that have a turn timer.



Demogoblin92 posted...

Your post made me and my girlfriend laugh.

They're not wrong though. The entire point of the game as it was originally designed was supposed to annoy you, to basically teach a lesson that "unregulated capitalism bad".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord%27s_Game


Though dedbus was also right that one of the things that makes Monopoly more annoying is because people add house rules (like putting money under Free Parking) that keep pumping money into the economy and prolong the game. If you follow most of the rules that are actually in the rules and avoid adding to it, it goes much faster.

Candyland should be everyone's answer lol

ParanoidObsessive posted...

because people add house rules (like putting money under Free Parking) that keep pumping money into the economy and prolong the game. If you follow most of the rules that are actually in the rules and avoid adding to it, it goes much faster.

Yeah, but people don't like losing so that's why you got the "Free Parking money" shit, which yes makes the game go on forever since nobody goes bankrupt

Well that, and nobody ever wants to trade/sell their properties, and nobody ever does auctions when they don't want/can't afford to buy the property they landed on

Demogoblin92 posted...

I hate Monopoly. It goes on way too long and I don't think I ever played it through.

Players aren't being aggressive enough - exploit their weak play by conceding property for cash

EDIT: I rather loath Snakes'n'Ladders, you have no agency! There's no point in even being there. In a close second to that is Mousetrap which is exactly the same, but at least it puts on a show.

Monopoly is maybe my favorite boardgame (probably next to settlers of catan). In my house growing up, we only ever played strictly by the rules. One summer we used to play it every day and got so efficient at everything that games would last only half an hour.

Chinese Checkers just because I never took the time to learn it.

dj1200 posted...

Chinese Checkers just because I never took the time to learn it.

Chinese Checkers is pretty easy to learn. Which is why it's a fun game for kids.

I used to love it when I was a wee sprout in the 80s. Though I never had a full six player game going - I think the most I ever managed was three.



HylianFox posted...

Well that, and nobody ever wants to trade/sell their properties, and nobody ever does auctions when they don't want/can't afford to buy the property they landed on

Yeah, auctions are what I was thinking of when I said "follow most of the rules that are actually in the rules".

So many people don't like doing auctions, then wonder why the game is taking so long. Auctions are a huge part of speeding things up.


Though, with all the Monopoly talk, I feel like I need to post this here now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkN6xxyEgZc

Anything that is 100% luck based. So games like Candy Land.

Ones that don't make sense.

Demogoblin92 posted...

I hate Monopoly. It goes on way too long and I don't think I ever played it through.

Sounds like sour limes.

VideoboysaysCube posted...

Anything that is 100% luck based. So games like Candy Land.

You can make improvements to Candy Land. Start by giving players a hand of cards that they have to select from every turn, and then make adjustments to make the game more fair. But the hand of cards automatically adds an element of strategy to Candy Land

Guess Who? is bad because you can literally develop a set of questions to win every time. Unless they perfectly designed the characters which I doubt

Damn_Underscore posted...

Guess Who? is bad because you can literally develop a set of questions to win every time. Unless they perfectly designed the characters which I doubt

The character demographics are pretty well thought out, however there is a dominant strategy that few people use that is explicitly permitted in the rules, and that's the use of compound questions.

For example, you can ask Does your person have a hat OR glasses; that eliminates a lot more than asking either individually and allows you to attack larger percentages.

Lokarin posted...

The character demographics are pretty well thought out, however there is a dominant strategy that few people use that is explicitly permitted in the rules, and that's the use of compound questions.

For example, you can ask Does your person have a hat OR glasses; that eliminates a lot more than asking either individually and allows you to attack larger percentages.

Wtf so you could theoretically end the game with one question

Yeah thats bad

Monoply is bad, I agree.
I never liked Mouse Trap.
Candy Land is so simple stupid only like 8 year olds would like it.
I don't hate Life but I think it is overrated.

Lokarin posted...

Players aren't being aggressive enough - exploit their weak play by conceding property for cash

EDIT: I rather loath Snakes'n'Ladders, you have no agency! There's no point in even being there. In a close second to that is Mousetrap which is exactly the same, but at least it puts on a show.

I like Mouse trap but I have not played it in years. I never hated Chutes and Ladders. I used to play it as a kid on a computer my parents had that had a floppy disc dive, a hard disc drive, and 640 kilobytes of memory.

By pure coincidence Magic the Noah is playing Snakes''n'Ladders and they actually made it fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E65EHqMeVjM

Chess is overstated for sure

There are literally people who like it because its an intelligent persons game

Trivia pursuit

How dare they expect people to know things. That's what Google is for.

SunWuKung420 posted...

Trivia pursuit

How dare they expect people to know things. That's what Google is for.

It says Moops get over it

The real problem with Trivial Pursuit is that the game ages. If you play a 1935 version of Monopoly, it's going to be pretty much the same as the modern version. The 1949 version of Clue/Cluedo is not much different from the current one. But the questions in a 1981 copy of Trivial Pursuit would all be in the history category for kids today. Many of the science and geography questions are just plain wrong now.

"What is the largest country on Earth?" USSR

"What is the farthest planet from the Sun?" Pluto

"What is the capital of Yugoslavia?" Belgrade

"What is the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany?" Bonn

The other problem is that if you play it enough, you begin to memorize the answers, so the person who owns the game eventually gains an unfair advantage.

dedbus posted...

I think everyone hates monopoly because everyone makes up their own house rules that make the game go on for way to long. Supposedly the official rules make the game go way faster but I don't think anyone in the history of ever has read them and I aint ever going to read them either.

I think most people know the real rules.

The one that most people sack off which makes the game take much, much longer is auctions.

Glob posted...

The one that most people sack off which makes the game take much, much longer is auctions.

The auctions themselves are kinda tedious, but they actually speed up the game because the properties get sold quicker

HylianFox posted...

The auctions themselves are kinda tedious, but they actually speed up the game because the properties get sold quicker

I completely agree.

I meant that sacking them off is what makes the game longer, in case that wasnt clear.

Board games? More like bored games!

ummm Belgrade is the capital of Ireland :p

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mShbA18oi6c

captpackrat posted...

The real problem with Trivial Pursuit is that the game ages. If you play a 1935 version of Monopoly, it's going to be pretty much the same as the modern version. The 1949 version of Clue/Cluedo is not much different from the current one. But the questions in a 1981 copy of Trivial Pursuit would all be in the history category for kids today. Many of the science and geography questions are just plain wrong now.

"What is the largest country on Earth?" USSR

"What is the farthest planet from the Sun?" Pluto

"What is the capital of Yugoslavia?" Belgrade

"What is the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany?" Bonn

The other problem is that if you play it enough, you begin to memorize the answers, so the person who owns the game eventually gains an unfair advantage.

You have consider the year and adjust your answers to that, seems like a good intellectual goal to go for tbh

Its the same when you play an old Jeopardy video game