Me, watching this video on March 2020, while a worldwide pandemic is happening and the country is in total shutdown: Pj: "There is this boardgame called Pandemic..." Me: *starts sweating*
please please please make a video of you playing board games with your friends i just now im invested in these games but i cant actually buy them (broke) or gather friends to play them (lonely) so please pj let us experience the wonders of these games vicariously through your fictional adventures with friends
One of my favorites recently is called "A fake artist goes to new york" and it's like the chameleon but with drawing! And I loove the mind, I gifted it to a friend on Christmas and it was so fun playing it all together
you should play Duel! it's 7 wonders but made for two players. if you wanna play a board game but only have one person to play with, it's a really good choice. you flip a coin to see who picks wonders first then flip again to see who goes first for the actual gameplay. if you take the time to learn it it's a really good strategy game that leaves just enough to chance
Have you ever heard of or played 7 Wonders? We got this gem because you can play it with up to seven people. It doesn't take long (unlike for example Carcassonne) since everyone plays at the same time, and has since been the absolute go-to-game for our family.
*Story Cubes!!!* They're these little dice that all have pictures on each side, and you roll all of them and have to tell a story using all of the pictures you rolled. You can get little extension packs for different genres of story too, so it can get really wacky! It's really fun in a group of any size and you get to be so creative, I would definitely recommend them :D))
In my boardgame group we regulary play The Mind, Pandemic and Dead of Winter :) For everyone who likes big games with a lot of strategie I would recommend Terraforming Mars and Andor.
Some of my recent favorites are 5 Minute Dungeon, Coup, and Unstable Unicorns. I’ve also played a game that’s fairly brand new called Tavern Masters that was a 10/10 experience. Betrayal at the House on the Hill will always be one of my all-time favorites, my friends and I always play it at least once when we’re out for games and it’s so unique and ends differently every time you play it. I would definitely recommend all of these.
Do you (still) play d&d Pj? I'd love to hear some stories from that if you do. Also would love to see some boardgame gameplay (preferably dead of winter or pandemic but anything really)... Me and my three siblings have played boardgames/d&d/mtg since forever and although we're spread all over the place now whenever we are together board games ALWAYS happen... and then often we hate each other for all the terrible things we did to each other in the game... ahh, good fun. Thanks for the recommendations, haven't played plenty of these!
I highly recommend Elder Sign to keep that ominous vibe going! Also definitely a play-in-the-dark-game. Burn some candles, scare some friends, accidentally wind up in another dimension... one of my absolute favourites.
My favorite game is betrayal at house on the hill. It's a co op game where you explore a haunted house and eventually an event happens where one of the players turns into a random monster. The players have to then work together to defeat the monster. It's great to play again and again because each game you get a different bad guy with a different back story and different way of defeating them. I'm sure you would enjoy it PJ
Gosh where to start! I recommend... -Arabian Nights -Wingspan -Ex Libris -Break the Safe -Istanbul -Too Many Cinderellas -Imhotep -Lost Cities Board Game -King of Tokyo -Star Trek Panic (spin off of Castle Panic) -Castles of Mad King Ludwig -Asara ...and many more!
221b Baker Street: loads of unique cases of Sherlock Holmes and you have to go around the board collecting clues on motives, weapons and culprits of crimes, becoming your own sherlock and solving the case before the other members that are playing doing the same thing
Have you ever heard of ‘werewolves of Millers hollow’? It’s my favorite game ever, and when you play with custom cards it’s even better. It’s basically chameleon except that there’s no secret word; just murderous chameleons
A board game we enjoy as a family is 5 Seconds Rule. It’s so funny and memorable and you don’t realise how silly people can be with their answers till they have five seconds to answer. (I panicked and answered “Stalin” and “Hitler” to the question “name 3 US presidents”)
also also, PJ you should really become a D&D 5e DM, you'd love it. magic and storytelling that is unique to your table and friend group, it's a lot of fun!
There's another version of Pandemic that I really like. It's Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu where it's basically the same game except you're in the 1930's trying to stop cultists from summoning the ancient gods and it's just really fun if you want a little more of a fantasy spin on it!
I've actually played Dead of Winter with friends! After a while (and a pretty hard vote) we kinda stopped playing our roles and checked if we remembered to lower the correct amount of motivation. We didn't. There was just one motivation point left and on the next roll the person who went for the supplies died immediately. We lost pretty bad, but it was so much fun!
Betrayal at House on the Hill! It’s this super fun game where you play characters exploring a haunted house but if you open a room with a raven inside you have to roll the dice and if a certain number is played then a Haunt begins and everyone has to work together to leave the house except one of the players is controlling the haunt and trying to kill all other players. It’s a fun game where you get to start out working together but then betray all your friends! It has expansion packs too!!
Hey PJ, I work at a boardgame shop in the Netherlands and I would like to recommend some board games to you as well. My two favorite board game producers are Jeremy Stonemaier and Red Raven games. Try Near and Far by Red Raven Games, a really cool story telling board game. Or Wingspan (one of my all time favorites) or Scythe by Stonemaier, their art work is mind blowingly good and have really well thought mechanics. Much love from NL!
it's weird to see something that even vaguely features dan and phil where half the comments aren't "wow this hits different," esp since this was posted the day before dan's coming out video
I would highly recommend Mountains of Madness. It’s a Cthulhu game where you’re all trying to work as a team to ascend a mountain, *but* there’s some madness that will impede your journey. Only takes an hour to play and is loads fun. You’ll lose more often than you win, but it’s about the journey and not the destination.
omg I love your game reviews so much, literally went to the store and bought The Chameleon and played it for hours with family and friends before even finishing the video!! Please make more videos like this💛💛💛
All those games look really fun, one game you might want to look at is Monikers, it's a group game with three rounds and two groups, I love playing it with my friends and I hope you like it too! Have funnn!
I would definitely recommend The Quiet Year. It's really great since the foundation is super simple and each game is totally unique depending on how you play it since the overall story line is created by the players. I think you can find a pdf of all of the cards somewhere online, so it's super accessible. I played it in a storytelling for video games class and it was honestly one of the most interesting games I've ever played.
My only memorable monopoly experience was when me, my sister and my cousin were playing and my cousin bought all of the properties around each corner and dubbed it “the four corners of doom”
I have fun memories playing Monopoly with my dad. We didn't like get mad or get frustrated with the game. We had a genuinely fun time. Literally the only times I would really feel like he was being a good dad lol
Me, my bf, and my bf's brother went to a board game cafe recently and actually played Dead of Winter. It took us like an hour to get the hang of and understand the rules, but it was really fun altogether. Choosing who to send out, realizing we were low and needed to send someone out for gas but it cost gas to get there, using sniper guns to somehow hit a zombie at the base from the school. Oh and how could I forget the time that at one crossroads we saved some nameless survivors and at the next we had to sacrifice them. All around a good time. XD
Co-op or 1 player game: Robinson Crusoe, very difficult but rewarding. With friends card games: Munchkins or Harry Potter Hogwarts Battle (it's actually really fun, well thought out and quite challenging) Fast paced fun: King of New York
I work at a Board Game bar in London, and The Mind is one of my absolute favorites to play, and to recommend. If you like Chameleon and haven't tried Spyfall yet, I ABSOLUTELY recommend it! It's a very similar concept, and only gets better the more you play it.
Mysterium is one of my all time favorite tabletop games! The art is beautiful, and one player has to be a ghost (who can only communicate in nonverbal ways like knocking). I hope this isn't too late bc it's a great game a lot of people would probably really enjoy!!!
If you love cooperative board games, you’d love the game Forbidden Island where each character with a set type of skills must try to escape an island about to flood. It’s really interesting, and I really think you’ll enjoy it.
Current favorites: (Currently on mobile so I'll give better decriptions later... Or just Google them) The Visitor (a guess the rule game) A Fake Artist Visits New York (basically the chameleon but with drawing) Photosynthesis (grow trees, gain light points) Concept (pictionary but no drawing) Captain Sonar (multiplayer battleship)
I have one memory from playing monopoly with my family, we were reaching the end of the game and my mom arrived on the most expensive spot and it had a hotel on so we were all like "oh well mom's lost, there's no way she can pay !" and that's when she calmy pulled out an actual wad of notes from her bra. She had been hiding notes all troughout the game and none of us noticed. It was absolutely incredible.
Oh how I wish I had enough friends to play boardgames with. This is not a self deprecating comment, just straight up facts, like I ACTUALLY wish I had friends to play boardgames with.
I dont know why but, PJ I think you would love the game TIME Stories. It is a time traveling game where you and your friends must work together in a specific scenario to save the world and the time continuum
a game that I love is called mysterium. its really simple but pretty fun. also a coop game. One person is the ghost and they try to communicate who murdered them. the other players are mediums of all kinds who are trying to find out what happened to the ghost. the ghost tries to tell who killed them, where and whit what using these vision cards that are really beautifully drawn but are really vague. it is a really simple game and only takes like 20-30 minutes depending how good the ghost is but its really fun.
You should check out 'Unstable Unicorns' - seems like a lighthearted card game about collecting unicorns for your stable until suddenly your 'friends' are betraying you left and right.
I've been obsessed with Pandemic lately, playing it whenever possible. I highly recomend Betrayal at House on the Hill, the game is so different every time you play it and everyone I've played it with get so invested in the game!
No one:
PJ: Throws Phil under the bus
I wish I could like this comment again because your name is hilarious
Crispy Squid of The Acid Cats thanks 😂
this made me lol
He probably did it as revenge for when Phil said he was missing out on Harold’s tickling treatment
P.J., Dan, Phil, and Chris playing Chameleon would be a video I would watch
Your friends don't trust you anymore
Bold of you to presume I had friends in the first place
Craig Lowe i love how no one has replied, NO FRIENDS
Lmao.. agree too much! ♥️
all of you don't have friends ,let's be friends
Me, watching this video on March 2020, while a worldwide pandemic is happening and the country is in total shutdown:
Pj: "There is this boardgame called Pandemic..."
Me: *starts sweating*
He is so weird, I love him.
Also,
PJ fix your head back
lmaoo ikr
Lmfao! Righg!? 😄♥️
Please do a video of you playing games with Dan and Phil, it seems so fun! ^^
Roblox on mobile. Scary
Anddd phil has been thrown under the bus. As dan has been called out 😂
And Chris played 84 and made them lose 😂
@@eleventyelena haha yep
No one:
Literally no one:
Pj:DaNIeL😬
Danny boi: 🤡😐
Lol me: 😳
I was not ready for the first board game, watching in 2020, I just wanted a wholesome video
Thats's going to stick with me for the rest of my life
Daniel
He said he played a game with Dan and Phil recently! That makes me happy!!
please please please make a video of you playing board games with your friends i just
now im invested in these games but i cant actually buy them (broke) or gather friends to play them (lonely) so
please pj let us experience the wonders of these games vicariously through your fictional adventures with friends
Pj the king of game
Also the king of uploading consistently 👍🏼glad you’re back
I (very kindly) DEMAND a board-game-playing video/livestream
pleaaaase this sounds so fun and I need to feel like I have friends
wow my roommates and I were just talking about how we should play more board games this is such perfect timing
Me in august 2020, seeing that that the first game is called Pandemic and is about an outbreak of the worst virus the world has ever seen: TOO SOON
The Chameleon is just Secret Hitler but for kids
(I’d highly recommend Secret Hitler)
it sounds exactly like Spyfall, or even Faking It!
Dear God I would kill to see PJ, Sammy and the rest of the British Art crew play that game
You should really play Dixit, it's quite simple but very creative and fun plus the cards are really beautiful especially the expansions
thank you for the subtle reassurance that Dan is okay
0:52 well you don’t need a board game to discover what that would be like anymore...lol
One of my favorites recently is called "A fake artist goes to new york" and it's like the chameleon but with drawing! And I loove the mind, I gifted it to a friend on Christmas and it was so fun playing it all together
I would love to recommend exploding kittens; this game is hilarious with a bit of betrayal and wonderful artwork
Love it
now i need a video of pj playing these board games aghhh
I like sad ghost lamp thingy in back.
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Oh yea! Nice vid PJ 🌚
"I've known about pandemic for a really long time" - thanks for the heads up mate
0:49 i screamed in my heart
These games are so cool!! And im glad Dan and Phil are socializing and doing what they love (playing board games)😁
This calls for another 'SOME LOVELY BOARD GAMES' with yourself included as a player
I am so excited you made a vid about card/boardgames aahhhh 🧡👌
you should play Duel! it's 7 wonders but made for two players. if you wanna play a board game but only have one person to play with, it's a really good choice. you flip a coin to see who picks wonders first then flip again to see who goes first for the actual gameplay. if you take the time to learn it it's a really good strategy game that leaves just enough to chance
The Fantastic Foursome should make a video play through of ALL OF THESE GAMES.
All in favour, give this a like. 👍🏽
Please please please can this happen
i would pay to see this
i watched all of this on 1.25 speed and almost nothing changed
h o w what
Alexander Birt ahhhhh I did it and your so right 😂
I did it and I forgot that it was on 1. 25
Honestly, if I ever have a terminal illness I will honestly play board games with pj as my make a wish.
Icarus' Guardian ok, i hope and wish you never come down with an illness that severe, but at the same time, yes
first one "pandemic, one of the worst outbreaks of a virus ever seen" major foreshadowing
i genuinely want to play some of these with my friends, but i’m too broke to buy them 😭😔
Damn, that really was a memorable game of Dead of Winter!
that thumbnail made me indescribably concerned for PJ.
We were looking through our boardgames and found pandemic... Yeah that one went in the loft
Game rec.:One Night Ultimate Werewolf (with the companion app and daybreak extension), Coup, Salem 1692, Donner Dinner Party, The Resistance: Avalon
Have you ever heard of or played 7 Wonders? We got this gem because you can play it with up to seven people. It doesn't take long (unlike for example Carcassonne) since everyone plays at the same time, and has since been the absolute go-to-game for our family.
*Story Cubes!!!* They're these little dice that all have pictures on each side, and you roll all of them and have to tell a story using all of the pictures you rolled. You can get little extension packs for different genres of story too, so it can get really wacky! It's really fun in a group of any size and you get to be so creative, I would definitely recommend them :D))
In my boardgame group we regulary play The Mind, Pandemic and Dead of Winter :) For everyone who likes big games with a lot of strategie I would recommend Terraforming Mars and Andor.
I wish my friends would play board games with me 😢
Roblox for mobile makes my head do that too
I LOVE YOUR DANG VIDEOS. They calm me down and get me ready for the day at the same time and I applaud you for that.
If you never want your friends to trust you again (I noticed this theme), play One Night Ultimate Werewolf. I love it so much!
Some of my recent favorites are 5 Minute Dungeon, Coup, and Unstable Unicorns. I’ve also played a game that’s fairly brand new called Tavern Masters that was a 10/10 experience. Betrayal at the House on the Hill will always be one of my all-time favorites, my friends and I always play it at least once when we’re out for games and it’s so unique and ends differently every time you play it. I would definitely recommend all of these.
Do you (still) play d&d Pj? I'd love to hear some stories from that if you do. Also would love to see some boardgame gameplay (preferably dead of winter or pandemic but anything really)...
Me and my three siblings have played boardgames/d&d/mtg since forever and although we're spread all over the place now whenever we are together board games ALWAYS happen... and then often we hate each other for all the terrible things we did to each other in the game... ahh, good fun.
Thanks for the recommendations, haven't played plenty of these!
Omg how could you interrupt me of rewatching dap sims videos
English is on point oof
I highly recommend Elder Sign to keep that ominous vibe going! Also definitely a play-in-the-dark-game. Burn some candles, scare some friends, accidentally wind up in another dimension... one of my absolute favourites.
My favorite game is betrayal at house on the hill.
It's a co op game where you explore a haunted house and eventually an event happens where one of the players turns into a random monster. The players have to then work together to defeat the monster. It's great to play again and again because each game you get a different bad guy with a different back story and different way of defeating them.
I'm sure you would enjoy it PJ
Thank you for making these videos PJ! I love tabletop games and I wish more people took them seriously.
Gosh where to start! I recommend...
-Arabian Nights
-Wingspan
-Ex Libris
-Break the Safe
-Istanbul
-Too Many Cinderellas
-Imhotep
-Lost Cities Board Game
-King of Tokyo
-Star Trek Panic (spin off of Castle Panic)
-Castles of Mad King Ludwig
-Asara
...and many more!
Some recent favorites of mine include Codenames, Love Letter, Honshu, and Hanamikoji
Pandemic is my family's favourite game. It's simple enough that my dad likes it and my brothers get really into the strategy
221b Baker Street: loads of unique cases of Sherlock Holmes and you have to go around the board collecting clues on motives, weapons and culprits of crimes, becoming your own sherlock and solving the case before the other members that are playing doing the same thing
I thought this would be about the Nintendo E3 presentation, but this is great too!
Have you ever heard of ‘werewolves of Millers hollow’?
It’s my favorite game ever, and when you play with custom cards it’s even better. It’s basically chameleon except that there’s no secret word; just murderous chameleons
(Also it's a thousand times more fun and interesting if you have discuss&accuse time before you vote)
A board game we enjoy as a family is 5 Seconds Rule. It’s so funny and memorable and you don’t realise how silly people can be with their answers till they have five seconds to answer.
(I panicked and answered “Stalin” and “Hitler” to the question “name 3 US presidents”)
can you make your playlist for good old board gaming public on spotify thank u
That first game recommendation- "Things can and will go wrong". PANDEMIC. Hello 2021.
"daniel." HAHAHA that made me laugh so hard omg
jainalicious when haha do u have a timestamp
Never mind. I found it 9:46
Chameleon is pretty much my favorite game ever!! Nice games are pretty tough to find, so thanks for another one of these.
also also, PJ you should really become a D&D 5e DM, you'd love it. magic and storytelling that is unique to your table and friend group, it's a lot of fun!
i was so immersed by your wonderful storytelling-like description of these games that your "bye" at the end of the vid jump scared me
I wish I could play but I have no friends..
Here's some of my favourite tabletop games:
1. One Night Ultimate Werewolf
2. Scythe
3. Dice Throne
4. Roll Player
5. Above and Below
I can't wait to have my friends not trust me anymore! Thanks PJ!
His H A I R
There's another version of Pandemic that I really like. It's Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu where it's basically the same game except you're in the 1930's trying to stop cultists from summoning the ancient gods and it's just really fun if you want a little more of a fantasy spin on it!
I've actually played Dead of Winter with friends! After a while (and a pretty hard vote) we kinda stopped playing our roles and checked if we remembered to lower the correct amount of motivation. We didn't. There was just one motivation point left and on the next roll the person who went for the supplies died immediately. We lost pretty bad, but it was so much fun!
Betrayal at House on the Hill! It’s this super fun game where you play characters exploring a haunted house but if you open a room with a raven inside you have to roll the dice and if a certain number is played then a Haunt begins and everyone has to work together to leave the house except one of the players is controlling the haunt and trying to kill all other players. It’s a fun game where you get to start out working together but then betray all your friends! It has expansion packs too!!
Hey PJ, I work at a boardgame shop in the Netherlands and I would like to recommend some board games to you as well. My two favorite board game producers are Jeremy Stonemaier and Red Raven games. Try Near and Far by Red Raven Games, a really cool story telling board game. Or Wingspan (one of my all time favorites) or Scythe by Stonemaier, their art work is mind blowingly good and have really well thought mechanics. Much love from NL!
it's weird to see something that even vaguely features dan and phil where half the comments aren't "wow this hits different," esp since this was posted the day before dan's coming out video
I would highly recommend Mountains of Madness. It’s a Cthulhu game where you’re all trying to work as a team to ascend a mountain, *but* there’s some madness that will impede your journey. Only takes an hour to play and is loads fun. You’ll lose more often than you win, but it’s about the journey and not the destination.
omg I love your game reviews so much, literally went to the store and bought The Chameleon and played it for hours with family and friends before even finishing the video!! Please make more videos like this💛💛💛
the board game kingdom lead by our ruler, the king of games, *KING PJ*
Recommendation timestamps:
Pandemic - 0:49
The Chameleon - 1:49
The Mind - 3:29
The Binding of Issac: Four Souls - 4:55
Dead of Winter - 5:55
All those games look really fun, one game you might want to look at is Monikers, it's a group game with three rounds and two groups, I love playing it with my friends and I hope you like it too! Have funnn!
I would definitely recommend The Quiet Year. It's really great since the foundation is super simple and each game is totally unique depending on how you play it since the overall story line is created by the players. I think you can find a pdf of all of the cards somewhere online, so it's super accessible. I played it in a storytelling for video games class and it was honestly one of the most interesting games I've ever played.
My only memorable monopoly experience was when me, my sister and my cousin were playing and my cousin bought all of the properties around each corner and dubbed it “the four corners of doom”
I have fun memories playing Monopoly with my dad. We didn't like get mad or get frustrated with the game. We had a genuinely fun time. Literally the only times I would really feel like he was being a good dad lol
Bold of you to assume I have friends
Me, my bf, and my bf's brother went to a board game cafe recently and actually played Dead of Winter. It took us like an hour to get the hang of and understand the rules, but it was really fun altogether. Choosing who to send out, realizing we were low and needed to send someone out for gas but it cost gas to get there, using sniper guns to somehow hit a zombie at the base from the school. Oh and how could I forget the time that at one crossroads we saved some nameless survivors and at the next we had to sacrifice them. All around a good time. XD
Betrayal at house on the hill! It’s an amazing story based game with teamwork, a betrayer, and many many outcomes.
Co-op or 1 player game: Robinson Crusoe, very difficult but rewarding.
With friends card games: Munchkins or Harry Potter Hogwarts Battle (it's actually really fun, well thought out and quite challenging)
Fast paced fun: King of New York
I work at a Board Game bar in London, and The Mind is one of my absolute favorites to play, and to recommend. If you like Chameleon and haven't tried Spyfall yet, I ABSOLUTELY recommend it! It's a very similar concept, and only gets better the more you play it.
Mysterium is one of my all time favorite tabletop games! The art is beautiful, and one player has to be a ghost (who can only communicate in nonverbal ways like knocking). I hope this isn't too late bc it's a great game a lot of people would probably really enjoy!!!
If you love cooperative board games, you’d love the game Forbidden Island where each character with a set type of skills must try to escape an island about to flood. It’s really interesting, and I really think you’ll enjoy it.
My friend and I always play the binding of Issac, it’s definitely made us both cry in anger and happiness.
Current favorites:
(Currently on mobile so I'll give better decriptions later... Or just Google them)
The Visitor (a guess the rule game)
A Fake Artist Visits New York (basically the chameleon but with drawing)
Photosynthesis (grow trees, gain light points)
Concept (pictionary but no drawing)
Captain Sonar (multiplayer battleship)
That first recommendation didn’t age well...
I have one memory from playing monopoly with my family, we were reaching the end of the game and my mom arrived on the most expensive spot and it had a hotel on so we were all like "oh well mom's lost, there's no way she can pay !" and that's when she calmy pulled out an actual wad of notes from her bra. She had been hiding notes all troughout the game and none of us noticed. It was absolutely incredible.
Betrayal at the House on the Hill and Cult Following. Two of my recent favourites to play with my friends.
Oh how I wish I had enough friends to play boardgames with.
This is not a self deprecating comment, just straight up facts, like I ACTUALLY wish I had friends to play boardgames with.
I dont know why but, PJ I think you would love the game TIME Stories. It is a time traveling game where you and your friends must work together in a specific scenario to save the world and the time continuum
I got the chameleon for my mum for Christmas last year, she absolutely loved it. it's a great game to play at dinner parties.
a game that I love is called mysterium. its really simple but pretty fun. also a coop game.
One person is the ghost and they try to communicate who murdered them. the other players are mediums of all kinds who are trying to find out what happened to the ghost. the ghost tries to tell who killed them, where and whit what using these vision cards that are really beautifully drawn but are really vague.
it is a really simple game and only takes like 20-30 minutes depending how good the ghost is but its really fun.
You should check out 'Unstable Unicorns' - seems like a lighthearted card game about collecting unicorns for your stable until suddenly your 'friends' are betraying you left and right.
I've been obsessed with Pandemic lately, playing it whenever possible.
I highly recomend Betrayal at House on the Hill, the game is so different every time you play it and everyone I've played it with get so invested in the game!