Top 10 Board Games I Suck At (But Still Love)

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  • Опубликовано: 28 июн 2024
  • These are the 10 board games I'm worst at but still love. I also try to explain why I think I'm bad at these games. If you would like to support the channel, you can give me a nice tip here: ko-fi.com/totallytabled
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    00:00 Intro (11. Voyages of Marco Polo)
    00:44 10. Paperback
    02:20 9. Galaxy Trucker
    04:25 8. Stone Age
    05:58 7. This War of Mine ( • This War of Mine Board... )
    07:41 6. 7 Wonders Duel
    09:20 5. Innovation
    10:48 4. Friday
    12:25 3. Hit Z Road ( • Hit Z Road Board Game ... )
    14:52 2. Madeira
    17:04 1. Grand Austria Hotel ( • Grand Austria Hotel Bo... )
    19:47 Outro (12. Dominant Species)
    Thumbnail image is from the card game Friday by artists Harald Lieske and Marcel-André Casasola Merkle.
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  • @josephciancio2282
    @josephciancio2282 8 дней назад +2

    I love this video because as the guy with the board game collection in my group, I'm always expected to be good at a game and I yet rarely win 😅 but I genuinely enjoy losing, it means my friends really got into a game and understood the strategy and that I get to rematch them! With solo games, I love losing because I'll just have to perfect my strategy and try again!

    • @wyatth2992
      @wyatth2992 7 дней назад +1

      I am also the guy with the collection in my group.
      I never win because I'm the one who is always teaching the game and in charge of knowing and enforcing the rules.
      With all of that going on, I can't spend much time developing my own strategy.
      It's always nice when the group finds a game that they enjoy enough to request.
      Then, they usually start to retain the rules, which allows me to take a step back and engage with the games mechanics more than usual.

    • @josephciancio2282
      @josephciancio2282 7 дней назад +1

      @@wyatth2992 hahaha same! When it gets to my turn I have no strategy and I've probably helped my friends to get into better situations

  • @idjester
    @idjester 8 дней назад +23

    I don't suck at any game, and either do you.... loosing doesn't mean you stink at the game, it just means you are playing the game to enjoy it and not to win...many games I just play to play and not to win, and there isn't anything wrong with that... enjoy your time and don't worry about win/loss records...

    • @TotallyTabled
      @TotallyTabled  8 дней назад +7

      Oh, for sure. This is just for fun and I try to explain throughout that not mastering a game can actually make it more fun to play. There's nothing worse (IMHO) than understanding a game inside and out. The decision become boring for me. So these are games I love to play and love my time with them. Losing never affects my enjoyment of a game and I don't care about win/loss at all. I think it is okay to recognize when a game doesn't fit your brain. Thanks for watching!

    • @Language42
      @Language42 8 дней назад +2

      ​@@TotallyTabledYeah, the reason I stopped enjoying Azul is because I got way too good at it and couldn't lose, but what that meant is I was employing roughly the same strategy every time and it was boring.

    • @TotallyTabled
      @TotallyTabled  8 дней назад +2

      Yeah, when that happens I like to try strategies I've never tried before. I kinda do that anyway, because I find that fun. But it helps to keep things more fair for the players who are less experienced than I am, which is often the case since I'm usually teaching. For solo games as well, when I win, I will retire that strategy and try something new. I think it is a good way to keep games fresh. Thanks for watching!

    • @TheSludgeMan
      @TheSludgeMan 8 дней назад +1

      It's just a video title bro lol

    • @ShineOnYouCD
      @ShineOnYouCD 8 дней назад +1

      Wrong. You can totally suck at a game.

  • @browe
    @browe 8 дней назад +2

    This is an insightful, entertaining, thought-provoking video! Your self-reflection and vulnerability here--so valuable. If there's one underlying theme to why I suck at particular games, it is because I cannot help but make intuitive, *thematic*, or "clever" moves. That means I might not tabulate the most optimal play, or shoot from the hip when I should be more deeply programmatic, or invest too deeply trying to pull off some convoluted sequence of events. 😄

  • @thepresteign8427
    @thepresteign8427 6 дней назад +1

    It’s very hard to come by these days (OOP with POD expansions) but Space Hulk: Death Angel has a D6 that is far more brutal than War’s D10. My win rate is abysmally low but I love it so.

  • @Ranerdar
    @Ranerdar 8 дней назад +3

    City Building games. Suburbia, and Quadropolis come to mind first. And I generally lose, because I'm more focused on making the city pretty, than I am making it high scoring. After the game, the consensus is usually that mine is the town where everyone would want to actually live.

    • @TotallyTabled
      @TotallyTabled  8 дней назад

      I love that. It's so true. Sometime when a game is too thematic, you can get caught up in making thematic decisions that aren't the best strategically. Canvas is a great example of that. That even comes into play in This War of Mine, I think. City builders are totally like that too. Thanks for the comment!

  • @nirszi
    @nirszi 5 дней назад +1

    Great video. Barrage is my absolute number 1 game I love but suck at. I just love building those damn dams.

    • @TotallyTabled
      @TotallyTabled  4 дня назад

      Barrage is a great one for this list. It is so mean and requires so much attention to what the other players are doing, I find it easy to get caught up playing my own Euro game and get blindsided by something I should have seen coming. Great game but not one I always have the stomach for, to be honest. Thanks so much for checking out the list!

  • @rudbeckia144
    @rudbeckia144 8 дней назад +1

    I played 7 wonders duel a bunch of times on BGA and lost horribly every time.
    Then at a small board game convention I signed up for a tournament just to help fill up the last spot, expecting to loose my first game, and ended up winning the whole thing instead! Something just clicked at that point.

  • @kylemoore7746
    @kylemoore7746 8 дней назад +1

    Dune Imperium... Thankfully I was gifted Uprising for Father's Day so I'll get some practice in before I meet up to play with friends again

  • @orionpyoung
    @orionpyoung День назад

    Grizzled, only beat it once playing solo. Friday is a favourite as well.

  • @jonsparks3152
    @jonsparks3152 8 дней назад +2

    This is a great topic! And I feel your pain. I love Gizmos. But I am terrible at it. People who have never played it will beat me. I am so focused on trying to do the biggest move each turn that I don’t build my engine well! And I love engine building games. Mosiac is another one. I get caught up doing the cool tech and forget to do the important part of scoring the points with the area control part. The tech is just so dang tempting.

    • @TotallyTabled
      @TotallyTabled  8 дней назад +1

      I am totally with you. Engine building games where you need to pivot to making points are hard because I just want to build a cool engine. Who cares about scoring points! I have that problem in Through the Ages a bunch. Oh yeah, I need culture. Right, right. :)

  • @allison2525
    @allison2525 8 дней назад +2

    Ah great topic! Definitely This War of Mine. I love this game so much but can’t win. Which is ok, it’s the experience!

    • @TotallyTabled
      @TotallyTabled  7 дней назад

      I agree, it is all about the story and the experience of the struggle -- that is why I like survival games so much. Thanks so much for checking out the video!

  • @hiho8084
    @hiho8084 8 дней назад +3

    LOL! I saw the title and just had to come and see. I fail constantly, so I commiserate with your concessions. The time element is also my weakness. I really go in "feeling," a game, and if I sense time is of the essence, I stress out, make all kinds of mistakes, and my blood pressure goes up! So I avoid those, and the "You must feed your people or they will die," games, [thanks Uwe...] 😂

    • @TotallyTabled
      @TotallyTabled  8 дней назад +1

      Glad to hear I'm not alone! :) The time pressure thing is why I play so few video games. I mostly just stick to digital board games when I do. The feeding your people thing is a good one. That's also in Stone Age. Thank so much for watching!

  • @charlesrobertson7676
    @charlesrobertson7676 3 дня назад

    Love this content - I am horrible at Cartographers but love playing it. I not sure if I get in my own head too much with it or just like collecting coins too much ;)

  • @sarablackburn6967
    @sarablackburn6967 7 дней назад +1

    I cannot for the life of me beat my husband at either Oh My Goods! or Patchwork, and I adore both those games. The second is I'm sure due to his superior spatial skills -- I'm not the person who you want packing the car trunk to ensure everything fits. With Oh My Goods!, it's probably a combination of factors including money management and the fact that I'm not the person who's really going to sit there and math out all my options to chose an optimal long-term strategy.

    • @TotallyTabled
      @TotallyTabled  7 дней назад +1

      Patchwork is a great one. I think a lot of people struggle with spatial puzzles and have a hard time visualizing all the options. That can be a problem for so many games, especially all these polyomino ones. I really resonate with not mathing out things. More and more I'm realizing that my strategic decision-making in games has more to do with trying to accomplish fun short-term goals, not necessarily long-term goals for scoring points. And a lot of my play is guided by instinct rather than math. Thanks so much for checking out the video, Sara!

  • @danielvanrooyen9602
    @danielvanrooyen9602 7 дней назад

    Any push your luck game, I just can not help myself going for the one in a million shot. Glass Road by Rosenburg, love the game, but just not able to figure out how to optimise that puzzle. Also Tiny Towns, again way to ambitious with the buildings I go for.

  • @Biodelic
    @Biodelic 6 дней назад

    My most recent discovery in regard to absolutely sucking at, while really liking the game, is the freshly delivered Weirdwood Manor. I think it is a really great and fun game but oh boy do I suck. The puzzle elements of the time managment and it's pressure, combined with the parallel requirement to build my charachter/s all while also handling the boss is really overwhelming in a bizarrely simple way. I don't think it is because the game just arrived and I haven't figured it out yet, it's more like I am an onlookers, always a couple steps behind with comprehending what is going on. It's like watching hockey on small black & white TV. 😁 But I really like the game.
    My all-time favorite being bad at game is Core Worlds Empires. It's like doing a Chinese plate on a stick juggling while riding a broken unicycle on the edge of a volcano, all while solving math riddles. But also here, I love the game, the weird analysis paralysis it creates, the unforgivingness and the utter chaos it can spiral into.
    And finally, The Edge Dawnfall 1.5. I love this game so much and it is so much fun playing it, but the solo is just brutal and absolutely unforgiving. There isn't really a "meta" that usually exists in such games, so every match is kind of a fresh experiment and the Darkness (solo automa) can go really whacked out at times.

  • @JulianTheLecturer
    @JulianTheLecturer 7 дней назад

    Basically I’m not good at any board games BUT if I started beating them all the time, I’d probably not play them. So I just enjoy the challenge.
    My biggest one atm is ark nova, but that’s mainly due to make wanting to make a nice zoo with my favourite animals in (Ooh I love that eagle and need three rounds to get to play it) rather than developing a strategy for the most points! One day these two things might coincide and I get well over 100pts!

  • @tracieperez2629
    @tracieperez2629 6 дней назад

    Oh Shaggi, you crack me up! "It's actually a good thing that I'm bad at it" 😂, but I completely understand your logic here. I so appreciate your glass half full approach.
    I am really bad at playing push your luck games or dice rolling games lol. I don't know when to stop. It could be obvious and I'd just keep going.

  • @kellyjones9846
    @kellyjones9846 6 дней назад

    I suck at hidden movement games as I just can't follow a mental path like this. Probably why I am completely reliant on Sat Nav too as I never remember how to get to places.

  • @Kmhutchins30
    @Kmhutchins30 7 дней назад

    Thanks for the great video! I totally suck at The Lost Expedition. I cannot make it past Day 2 usually but will remain hopeful and always try again.

  • @michaelrobison7650
    @michaelrobison7650 7 дней назад

    I’m terrible Oink Games' Maskmen, but I will always suggest it if we’ve got time at the end of game night.

  • @87sammartin
    @87sammartin 6 дней назад

    I feel like I'm not great at 7 wonders duel either, and it's probably for the same reasons as you. Too many things catch my attention and I don't stick to a strategy. I've never been great at word games either. Great idea for a video, now maybe do a video on games you expect to be awful at, but actually you do quite well!

  • @SanderPastoor
    @SanderPastoor 7 дней назад

    Love this video! I have this with two games. My girlfriend always wins Quacks of Quedlinberg for some reason, which is mind boggling because it's supposed to be mostly luck, but it apparently really isn't! And my brother always beats me at Neuroshima Hex, which is so tactical that I must simply suck at it. Still absolutely love playing both games though!

  • @eugeneeeeeee
    @eugeneeeeeee 7 дней назад

    Cartographers is the one that came to mind immediately. I'm ok with tile laying games like Patchwork, but for some reason here by the end of the round I can't fit anything properly on the map anymore. I can't really figure out why.
    And yeah, as for 7 Wonders Duel: I play myself trying to figure out what my opponent will do, then building around that, then assuming he'll go around that himself, etc, then the simplest option happens and I'm stumped.

  • @laurencesingh3948
    @laurencesingh3948 8 дней назад

    Haha fun list idea and enjoyable watch! I want to add GAH to my collection so badly but only if I can get the Let's Waltz expansion to play it solo. I watched your solo playthrough and you did get crushed. :) Honestly, I would enjoy a video of yours highlighting ten games you think you're pretty good at and explaining what about them just works for you and clicks with your brain. Just a thought.
    As for me, games that I am pretty poor at but still enjoy:
    5. Planet Unknown - I think I just don't plan well enough to tetris out my planet and I often forget the shared objectives that I'm (supposed to be) competing towards
    4. Amritsar: The Golden Temple - I've only played this solo and lost my first six games. I've since won three out of my last four, which is why it isn't as high. But it's a really challenging solo opponent.
    3. Endeavor: Age of Sail - Even though this is a top ten game for me, I think I may only have won once ever. My last three plays were against my girlfriend turned fiance turned wife (who is not a gamer but is very intelligent and clever) and I've lost all three.
    2. For Northwood! - maybe I'm just not great with trick-takers...? I think I also go for the more valuable alliances too early (feeling overly optimistic about my chances/skill) and that often sinks me when I don't have the right allies to help mitigate poor card draws.
    1. Anachrony - I think I jumped into this one too early before I was familiar with euros of this weight. My first game was downright embarrassing as I had the fewest points but the most water at game end. My friends still jokingly refer to this game as "Water." I tried the solo and was continually crushed. But that was a few years ago and I've since mastered some of Turczi's other designs (Weather Machine, Darwin's Journey, Nucleum, Voidfall) as well as the most complex Garphill Games (WotST, SotST, E&N). So, it may be time for another go at Anachrony.

    • @TotallyTabled
      @TotallyTabled  8 дней назад

      I enjoyed reading this. Thank you, Laurence! Endeavor is a good one. I distinctly remember getting crushed at that game once. Great game. I will probably make a Top 10 games I'm good at list at some point, but that will be difficult to put together. Maybe it will need to be a Top 10 Games I'm OK at. :) Thanks for checking out the list!

  • @halforange1
    @halforange1 6 дней назад

    Azul and 7 Wonders. I am too willing to take Azul tiles that are okay for me and okay for my opponent instead of playing cutthroat and making them take bad tiles. I don’t a have particular reason for losing 7 Wonders, but I’m usually toward the bottom in scoring.
    Bizarro topic: there’s only one game Im too good at - Utter Nonsense. Mimicry and accents are some of my gifts. I win about 50% of the rounds when playing with friends. It’s more fun for the group if I let others shine.

  • @Neon_Gorilla
    @Neon_Gorilla 8 дней назад

    Love the topic, I might have to “borrow” this one:)

    • @TotallyTabled
      @TotallyTabled  8 дней назад +1

      Absolutely! I'd like to hear your thoughts! Thanks for watching.

  • @mygirlfriendismean
    @mygirlfriendismean 8 дней назад

    I found One Deck Dungeon initially frustrating. I took it to the iPad app, because the luck mitigation is where the fun is, and you play faster and progress in the campaign faster on the app and get more skills n stuff.
    Too Many Bones was tough for me to pick up. I like the mechanics so much I keep coming back for more!
    I actually wasn’t that good at Earthborne Rangers , but I fell so deeply in love with it I couldn’t stop playing. 😊
    I guess I kind of think I always suck the first few times and tabletop games take a while to set up and play. So some are just not ones I keep wanting to set up.
    Another thing I’d be interested in hearing you talk about is rules intimidation! I find that keeps games in boxes more than their difficulty.
    Big fan. Keep up the great work!

  • @anorthodocs
    @anorthodocs 8 дней назад

    Troyes, Nippon, Food Chain Magnate are definitely on my top. But quite a few from your list (Madeira, Galaxy Tracker etc) are very high up as well.

  • @morgaknightgames
    @morgaknightgames 7 дней назад

    I remember your cursed playthrough of This War of Mine. It makes me wonder how you'd fare in Machina Arcana as that d10 is also notoriously cursed. Especially the last time I played. 😂 I'm pretty cursed in Escape the Dark Castle and tend to die pretty regularly thanks to the dice in that one, but it's one of my favorite games anyway.

    • @TotallyTabled
      @TotallyTabled  7 дней назад

      I'm not sure I could handle another game with a d10. But I've been wanting to try Escape the Dark Castle. That looks fun. I imagine every gamer has at least one die archnemesis. :) Thanks for checking out the video, Morga!

  • @bookaddict777
    @bookaddict777 8 дней назад

    Crown of Emara is the game that immediately springs to mind for me. I very much enjoy playing it, but cannot win for anything, lol.

  • @erickl7551
    @erickl7551 8 дней назад +2

    I just started Resist! And can't imagine getting the highest score. It feels very Friday-impossible to beat. I do think it comes to the luck of the shuffle and card drawing order.

    • @jonsparks3152
      @jonsparks3152 8 дней назад +1

      I am with you. Great comp as well. I traded away both games because I just never felt good at either.

    • @TotallyTabled
      @TotallyTabled  8 дней назад +2

      Yeah, I can't tell if I'm just bad at Resist or if the game is simply impossible. I think average to good decisions don't necessarily result in fantastic results. But the brutality is part of the story it is telling, and I think the way it ends and the scoring that gives you partial victory is part of that. Thanks for watching!

    • @erickl7551
      @erickl7551 8 дней назад

      @@TotallyTabled 🤯 holy crap! I hadn't thought of how the hard gameplay actually reflects on the story it is based on. You just gave the little Maquis cards a whole new dimension for me.

    • @TotallyTabled
      @TotallyTabled  7 дней назад +1

      For sure. It is a game about sacrifice. That can be a tough thing to gamify, because we want to be in constant control and win every time. But sometimes we need to adjust what winning looks like and feels like, especially for certain stories. And I think Resist! does a great job of playing with those ideas.

    • @erickl7551
      @erickl7551 7 дней назад

      @TotallyTabled well put sir! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

  • @birchlover3377
    @birchlover3377 8 дней назад

    Café! I love this game but cannot break 25 - and most often closer to 20. One game I got 30 but admittedly cheated, I was one coffee cup short and just could not leave all those beans in the roasters! I've tried different strategies: focusing on pairing up dryers and roasters, focus on planting tonnes of beans, focus on lots of coffee cups, focus on the higher-scoring cards... I haven't cracked it yet.

  • @joelsummerell1012
    @joelsummerell1012 8 дней назад

    I suck at Lacerda games. His were the first games I bought getting into the hobby less than a year ago. Talk about throwing yourself into the deep end before you can swim. I've had to go back a bit. Lol. Medium and light weight games are important too; not only to help learn mechanics, but to better prepare and help get over the intimidation hurdle that heavy weights throw at you.
    Suck big time at Voidfall too. Same reason as Lacerda. But I love this game so much. Set up and game time don't bother me at all. it's all part of the fun really.

  • @jonathanantscherl
    @jonathanantscherl 8 дней назад

    God that image spoke to me. Friday was the first solo game I got and I absolutely SUCKKKKED at it. Never won in about 8-10 plays then traded it away. Just so glad it didn’t put me off solo games full stop! Perhaps with a bit more experience at it I should revisit it to see if I get better results hmmm

  • @blueroselion5243
    @blueroselion5243 7 дней назад

    I suck at Gin Rummy. I'd play against my grandmother and she'd whip my backside every time! I taught it to my sons and I love playing against them but still get my backside kicked 😂 I guess I taught them too well.

  • @coyotemoon722
    @coyotemoon722 8 дней назад

    Yeah Friday definitely has tiers of skill level. I got to where I could beat it pretty regularly on normal difficulty. The mobile app is excellent.

  • @daem0nfaust
    @daem0nfaust 6 дней назад

    I'm easily distracted, so engine building... OH LOOK SQUIRREL

  • @eledv4521
    @eledv4521 8 дней назад

    After the Virus (except the first 4/5 missions), Maquis (the level 2 missions), Resist!, Eldritch Horror, Paleo, Trailblazers.

    • @eledv4521
      @eledv4521 7 дней назад

      How could I forget, the lost expedition!

  • @elikurtz729
    @elikurtz729 6 дней назад

    Fun video, thank you :D - I do feel a bit like minded so it was hilarious for me to watch :D - Stone Age is our to -go-to comfort game. It is always great fun despite sucking at it (recommend the trader expansion which we always include). A newer game that falls into this category is Forest Shuffle. Yesterday I had 40 points unplayed in my hand when the third Winter was drawn. Pushed it too far and the winter came really early :P ... Quacks of Quedlinburg also always makes me go bust by drawing the untimely 3 or 2 white token even if I have 20 others in the bag :P Still really love the game.
    I do have the most-evil-die experience in plenty of games :D Have not played This War of Mine for the theme but there are so many other games that have this issue for me ( particularly every dice driven Dungeon Crawl/Boss Battle or RPG :P) For real time games I ak´lso quite liked Galaxy Trucker. My favourite in the genre is Escape from Queen Games :D
    Paperback is a very recent addition to our game pool and we all seem to suck at it, which is why we occasionally try to figure out words together not caring if this will make another person win :P There is also a co-op mode :D Would really love to get my hands on Paperback Adventures ...
    Wish you happy gaming! :D

  • @shayman33
    @shayman33 8 дней назад

    I suck at wingspan even though i feel like im doing well. As far as a solo game Id say spirit island was a disaster for me. And friday is a tough sob.

  • @yingling69
    @yingling69 8 дней назад

    Games I love, but am terrible at: Mage Knight and Dawn of the Zeds come to mind right away. Maybe it's due to turning off my real life crisis management skills to play a game?
    It could also be due to the infrequent plays and always needing to relearn the game and solo rules or I'm just not smart enough to be good at them. I freely admit that's a possibility and it would definitely explain my affinity for dice-chucking dungeon crawls over most everything else! HA!
    This video made me smile, thank you.
    Edited for spelling :)

    • @TotallyTabled
      @TotallyTabled  8 дней назад +1

      There is definitely something comforting about being able to blame the dice. Sometimes you just want to ride the luck and not have everything be your fault. I think that is a big part of the appeal of games with a lot of randomness or push your luck. The stakes are lower and that can bring up the fun factor. And Mage Knight could have made the list for me as well. I think I might not be aware of just how bad I am at it. :) Thanks for watching and I'm glad the video made you smile. Have a great day!

  • @Sarah-wn8kz
    @Sarah-wn8kz 8 дней назад

    I play a lot of games with my boyfriend and there’s a type of game I always win and the other type he does. Im really not good at optimizing a game, I want to play as I feel and not calculate everything. So Im good at euro games when everything is worth something, but he is particularly good at game with objectives you need to optimize to win! 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️

  • @frantz2000
    @frantz2000 8 дней назад

    YOu and me both on GAH. One of my favorites, and I'm horrible. Somehow I always end up with no money and the guests don't help me....just stuck.

  • @blindGuardianGR
    @blindGuardianGR 8 дней назад

    Terra Mystica. I was so excited when it was announced for boardgamearena but man did I suck playing it...... After 30 games, not only losing but being last or pre-last i quit. And every game felt like it worked for everyone else but me. Got age of innovation at my solo wishlist but I am a bit scared to take the step 😂
    Friday on the other hand I beat it in a day in hardest mode without checking any video or reddit. Have lost quite a few since then but I m pretty confident playing it.

    • @TotallyTabled
      @TotallyTabled  8 дней назад +1

      Terra Mystica is a great one for this list. Personally, I've improved a bit with many plays, but it feels like a game where you need to know what you're supposed to do with your faction in order to do well. I don't enjoy the game enough to devote that kind of study into it. I find Gaia Project is a bit less on rails, or at least feels that way to me. Thanks for watching!

  • @moo2k4
    @moo2k4 8 дней назад

    The first one that came to my mind was Nemesis Lockdown. I've played this... probably 7 or 8 times now, and I've won one time. And it was pure luck. For me, the noise die in it always brutal and just seems to hate my existence. And some of the event deck that just causes fire or malfunctions everywhere is just not something you can ever prepare for and feels like it comes at the worst possible time every time.

  • @emmafradd
    @emmafradd 8 дней назад +3

    Great video Shaggi. Robinson Crusoe and this war of mine are two games I’ve never been able to beat. I finally beat Friday a couple of months ago and haven’t played it again since. It must be tricky when you’re designing a board game to make it that good balance of difficult but not so difficult that you deter people from wanting to play, and not so easy that people get bored with it…. Hey that could be a good next list for you? Best balanced games?

    • @TotallyTabled
      @TotallyTabled  8 дней назад

      Yeah, finding that right balance has to be tough, especially when you need to accommodate new players and experienced players. I think Spirit Island is a shining example of how to do it right. I think the Book of Adventures does a great job for Robinson Crusoe. I really liked the balance in Gloomhaven. Each scenario I'd either barely win the first time, or win the second time. That felt good. An interesting list to think about. Thanks Emma!

  • @BrunoCostaBBC
    @BrunoCostaBBC 7 дней назад

    Area control games. All area control games! Even the cute ones. 😂

  • @janbates1881
    @janbates1881 6 дней назад

    Le Havre and Terra Mystica. Love them both but can never win.

  • @chaclemrenovation
    @chaclemrenovation 7 дней назад

    E-Mission and Spirit Island are my nemeses, very likely all catastrophe managemant games except Pandemic. I've never won either without a very generous interpretation of the rules...

  • @ManonZonder
    @ManonZonder 8 дней назад

    I love Robinson Crusoe but only ever won it one time (of 20 games) 😅

  • @5192aaron
    @5192aaron 7 дней назад

    While the point of any game is not winning or losing, but having fun... I am NOT good at the Ghost position in Mysterium. I don't draw great cards and am TERRIBLE at giving hints.

  • @mrsamtheman80
    @mrsamtheman80 6 дней назад

    #1: Robinson Crusoe! Ok, prediction is submitted 😂

  • @MarceldeJong
    @MarceldeJong 8 дней назад

    I suck at strategy games, like Risk and Small World. And while I don’t like Risk, I do like Small World.

  • @arashii_8
    @arashii_8 8 дней назад

    I completely suck at Mage Knight and just generally in games with deck building. I'm never thinking about any synergies between my cards, I don't plan anything, I just go with whatever I want at the moment from pool and it never works long term. :P Yeah, I suck at games where I have to plan pretty far ahead, I prefer to react to what is happening at the moment. Thats why Final Girl became initially one of my favorites but now I don't really have any desire to play it, idk why... 😢
    I absolutely love Arkham Horror lcg and I completely suck as well, never finished any campaign and I'm not that good with planning my decks for them, that's similar to deckbuilding games because I buy cards that look just fun or interesting and they don't necessarily work the way I imagined or I don't see them at all as usually in a scenario you don't go through whole deck.

  • @mjschryver
    @mjschryver 8 дней назад +4

    Friday has NOT been solved. There are some really good strategy tips over on BGG in the forums, but in no way does that "solve" this game.

    • @TotallyTabled
      @TotallyTabled  8 дней назад +2

      I believe there is a pretty strong strategy that results in victory the vast majority of the time on the highest difficulty level, making this an "easy" game once you know it. Not technically 'solved" but essentially solved. For me, this is an extremely difficult game that I rarely win on the easiest levels. So, quite the gap. Thanks for watching!

    • @nobuthatsme9201
      @nobuthatsme9201 8 дней назад +1

      @@TotallyTabledI have tried this strategy and it helps but I still lose a lot. A lot. Brutal game. Love it

  • @sapien01010
    @sapien01010 8 дней назад

    I’m bad at Gaia Project and other TM games, but it’s not my fault. My opponents simply have secret sources of victory points that I have yet to uncover.

    • @TotallyTabled
      @TotallyTabled  7 дней назад

      I totally feel this. It is the nature of those games, I think, that they are more on rails than they appear and I'm one for trying new things and wild strategies. It is a bit like how in Chess there are only like 3 opening moves that make strategic sense. In Terra Mystica I think there are things you need to do for each faction to have a chance, and I can't be bothered with that sort of thing. I could also just be bad at it and be totally mistaken. Thanks for watching!

  • @kitcarpo4745
    @kitcarpo4745 8 дней назад

    How do you do at Frostpunk? (If you have played....)

    • @TotallyTabled
      @TotallyTabled  8 дней назад +1

      Not only have I played but I have a full solo playthrough on the channel. I'm okay at it, but I wouldn't say I win often. I need to play more, but I think my knowledge of Robinson Crusoe really helped me to understand how do to fairly well in Frostpunk. Thanks for watching!

  • @ProfessorB.
    @ProfessorB. 8 дней назад

    Hardback is a much better game than Paperback and it is available as an app. I play it all the time on my iPad. Another great app version of a solo game is Maquis.

  • @user-mf1cu3tn7s
    @user-mf1cu3tn7s 8 дней назад

    I generally am not good at any games but I still loving playing them because they feel very fun and thematic…
    But! I have to say I really suck at chess like two players games. Those where you need to read a few moves ahead to win and when you play against people who are better than you you can lose 100/100 games. Which felt embarrassing and defeated.
    Example of these games are santorini and Onitama. I still love them I like the abilities of different gods in santorini and Onitama also felt very fun watching what kung fu the other player has. But sadly I am never good at them

    • @TotallyTabled
      @TotallyTabled  8 дней назад +1

      Those are great ones. 2 player abstracts can really suffer from this. Even dueling card games have this problem. I don't play many of these types of games, but I bet they would dominate a lot of players lists of games they're bad at. Thanks for watching!

    • @user-mf1cu3tn7s
      @user-mf1cu3tn7s 8 дней назад

      Yes! Generally head to head games give me a sour feeling at times. Including the 7 wonders duel you mentioned….
      I rather play a 4 player wingspan and lose there

    • @TotallyTabled
      @TotallyTabled  7 дней назад

      That's a great point. Always losing a 2-player game feels worse and can make it harder to enjoy a game. Dueling games are the worst, because you didn't just lose but the other player beat you. In less confrontational games, you can play well but the other player just played a bit better, which feels more satisfying.

  • @norty6357
    @norty6357 8 дней назад

    Blood Rage! I am terrible because I just want big miniatures in my army and I don’t prioritize strategy! 😂

    • @TotallyTabled
      @TotallyTabled  8 дней назад

      Ah, this is a great one! This could have made my list, but I've cooled a lot on Blood Rage. I'm the same way -- give me the big monster! And then it gets killed immediately by some card. Uh. Thanks for watching!

  • @nobuthatsme9201
    @nobuthatsme9201 8 дней назад

    Splendor.:.: greatest game EVER.. but I completely suck at it. My flaw is that I love building engines. I get addicted to building my engine and completely lose track of the game. If splendor went to 200 points I would be galaxy champion.

  • @Pestilents
    @Pestilents 8 дней назад

    I suck at hidden traitor games. the last time I played unfathomable my mannerism changed. I would say "us" vs "them" without knowing

    • @TotallyTabled
      @TotallyTabled  7 дней назад

      Ha! :) I've definitely seen that sort of thing before. I bet a lot of people feel the same way. Any kind of lying or bluffing in games can really foil a lot of people. I actually think this is one of the things I'm best at. Not sure what that says about me... :) Thanks for watching!

  • @mazman9355
    @mazman9355 8 дней назад

    i needed over 10plus plays of friday to get to the third level, when finallly i clicked into one or two ideas 😅 I still had fun... frustrating fun 😂 another bunch of plays for my first win🎉 I won't spoil if my strats win most of the time. ........ .. ... (they don't...i spoiled)

    • @TotallyTabled
      @TotallyTabled  8 дней назад +1

      That is WAY better than I've ever done with Friday. Nice job! Thanks for checking out the video!

  • @NadDew
    @NadDew 8 дней назад

    lol this list looks exactly like ADHD symptoms 😂😂

  • @TheErnieforss
    @TheErnieforss 8 дней назад

    I never won a pandemic. I think its because we dont card count.
    But i aweful at captain is dead. That game is impossible. I dont know how you can win. The hand limit and trying to go through the deck and get the cards you need plus try to stop everything from advancing. Nope. Its unwinable unless you are cheating.

  • @bmrigs
    @bmrigs 8 дней назад

    Grand Austria Hotel and Obsession are my top two games I suck at and games my wife wants to play.

    • @TotallyTabled
      @TotallyTabled  8 дней назад +1

      Obsession is a great one. I've definitely improved with more plays but I often throw in a stinker in there. It's weird -- you can kind of get off rhythm in that game and nothing seems to work, or you find the groove and everything keeps falling into place. At least that has been my experience. Great game! Thanks for checking out the list!

  • @CristianoErre-sh8kh
    @CristianoErre-sh8kh 8 дней назад

    Frostpunk! Love that game. impossible to win

    • @TotallyTabled
      @TotallyTabled  8 дней назад

      You might be good at Frostpunk and still not win. :) I think I'm okay, but the wins are rare. I'd love to see someone play who has mastered the game, just to see what that looks like. Thanks for watching!

  • @ManonZonder
    @ManonZonder 8 дней назад

    I love Robinson Crusoe but only ever won it one time (of 20 games) 😅

    • @TotallyTabled
      @TotallyTabled  8 дней назад

      One win might make you good at RC. :) Thanks for checking out the video!