The Worst Board Game of All Time Bracket Selection Show
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
- It's time to determine the absolute WORST board game of all time, and we will do so with your help! This Selection Show introduces all 64 games that have made it into the bracket, while also looking at the poor souls that failed to make the cut.
Predict the results of the tournament by filling out your own bracket with who you think will win! Brackets will earn points based on how accurate they are, and the person who makes the winning bracket will be awarded the GRAND PRIZE revealed in the video.
The brackets will close on March 14th, as the first polls will be published March 15th for the Stink region in the community tab. Vote for which game you'd like to see move on, as the poll winners will advance to the second round in the tournament and be one step closer to greatness.
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Which game to you think is going to win it all? Which game are you mad made the cut? Let me know what you think of the tournament below!
The tournament has officially begun so brackets are now closed. Head to the community tab to vote for the games you think are bad enough to advance!
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(Disclaimer: I know now that I pronounced Deutschlandreise wrong, please accept my formal apology Germany. Honestly though at this point is it a KamSandwich video if I don't butcher at least one language along the way?)
We all know Monopoly is the worst. No game can be quite as dreaded or unenjoyable as monopoly. I only like it for nostalgia reasons because a pizza in the oven and heavy rain outside are optimal monopoly conditions.
Candyland. It's gotta be Candyland. While there are a lot of "do nothing" games on this list, Candyland doesn't even give you the joy of numbers and hates on the colorblind community. Also, how can a game called Candyland include *no* actual candy? There's only one moment of excitement with Candyland -- when you set the box ablaze while you dance around naked.
I have no clue how Yahtzee didn't make it on here.
Any chance you are going to do the other side of this to vote on best games? Would be nice to have both and mine does not qualify as I only have 100 games and that hardly makes for a best of all games tourney.
That's not a bad idea, but would need to wait a bit to set that up like this one
My grandpa was very excited to play the Oregon Trail board game when he saw it. We set it up and the first card he drew gave him Dysentery and he died
I'm sorry for your loss.
RIP, Never forget
Okay but what did he draw?
In game, right?
Valefisk is actually trying to play north africa campaign so we’ll see how that goes
is it reallly playing if your doing it for a youtube video? I dont usually consider things I do to get paid 'play'
with valefisk it's usually torture
@@thatoneguy9309 I suppose the entire let's play genre on RUclips was actually a lie and none of them were playing games. Damn 😔
Kinda hoping that means people will *not* vote for it as the worst game
Wait, did they have a tie while playing their version of Life?
The Campaign For North Africa is so complex that its next to impossible to make any progress without somebody who's entire job is to keep track of the rules
That's how war games are meant to be played.like the og kind from the 40s with the big map in the middle with refs and a gm,and the players in separate rooms with smaller maps.
Fun fact: the rules for Dos are so poorly written that I have been able to monetize my channel entirely on the back of a single video I made early on trying to explain them. When half a million people have had to look up the rules on RUclips, you know there’s a problem.
I have checked your channel and oh
You- you weren't joking
Disappointed that "Monopoly: Cheaters edition" didn't make it. The worst game I've ever played and certainly worse than Ms Monopoly
There’s a video on RUclips of a guy angrily dissecting and explaining every single thing this game does wrong, and it’s nearly an hour long and SUPER good
The Landlord’s Game: Fred Trump edition
@MrSkerpentine Chemicards guy right?
@@Pizza-gremlinyeah that’s chemicards
@@MrSkerpentineTo be fair, he doesn't mention they're playing under Ultimate Cheater's rules, which even the *rulebook* explains is not a good idea
types of games there:
a) just kinda random with the player's actions having next to no matter :(
b) *hate crime*
Don’t forget the elusive C) Extremely old game that requires knowledge from its time period of publication to be able to play well
D) literal sex
North Africa manages to be all three of those
F.A.T.A.L. is just too powerful for any board game to compete. It has all the absurd complexity of North Africa, all the horrible social aspects of literally any other game on this list (plus some serious racism), and a theme song that could win several match-ups on its own. All of these traits do, however, make it a perfect choice for a future video. Please cover F.A.T.A.L.!
Genuinely couldn't believe what I was reading with that one. Absolute travesty, lock for future coverage
Because I hate myself I searched it up on RUclips and the realization that it looks like a low budget shock RPG made by 4Chan trolls nearly made me throw up
And I Still argue it's not the worst TTRPG ever made.
While FATAL can be sexist and ablist at times (low Int characters get an [R word] strength bonus. It's big enough to negate the strength penalty women get.), RaHoWa is Built on racism. (Every enemy is named after a slur.)
While FATAL has some poor mechanical choices (The cost of leveling a class past 1 doubles each time, so a level 3 fighter could have had 7 levels in different classes instead) RaHoWa is literally unfinished, it does not function. (There are no to hit or damage rules.)
It is possible for the right group of players to have a bit of fun laughing at FATAL's absurdity and stupidity. RaHoWa can't even manage that.
RaHoWa, the TTRPG written by a priest for the Church of the Creator, a white supremacist cult.
@@MrSkerpentineNah, I don't think it could be just a low-budget troll's effort.
FATAL has an authenticity to its madness. FATAL is nine hundred pages long. FATAL has rules such as for determining... how to put this in a youtube-friendly way? For determining the amount of cream you might have for dessert after a good meal, how many spoonfuls of cream, and the relative decreasing size of the spoonfuls of cream after the first. The rules for determining that take into account how much you enjoyed the meal.
FATAL subdivides charisma into "face" "voice" "kinetic" and "rhetorical" charismas, while there is also a "bodily attractiveness" subdivision to a separate stat. Did I mention that it's 900 pages long? There are separate divination skills for every kind of divination, telling the future in substances from fire to chickens to, yes, poop. The list of careers with description and some stats includes "delouser", "pewterer", and "thatcher". These are a half page each. The Dexterity stat includes "enunciation", as in how fast you can speak and gives a maximum WPM, while "vocal charisma" gives an average WPM. The author remembered to state that you cannot have a maximum WPM lower than your average WPM, but failed to do the same for the infamous minimum and maximum circumference stats for various bodily regions. The spells and their rules are two hundred pages alone, and include things as specific as causing someone to talk in their sleep.
FATAL is many bad things, but low budget it is not. The sheer girth of the whole project is not the kind of thing one would do as a simple surface level effort. The amount of time and effort that the (hopefully pseudonymous) author poured into it is beyond mere silliness, and into the realm of "this warrants deep-dive videos". It is, quite frankly, a tome of madness.
@@calemr motherfucker heard that whole thing about Dungeons & Dragons being accused of making children into satanists and damning them to hell and just went “wait a minute they’re onto something”
Just a reminder that you can’t vote until you’ve completed all of North Africa, to be fair of course!
"What do you meme" really was the worst. I was the exact target audience at the time, a memelord in a friend group of memelords, and even we were like "nah let's go back to Cards Against Humanity."
But man, lmao, yeah, FATAL would've been an unfair competition to these board games. Even the most bad-due-to-offense titles on this list have little compared to *that*.
I was in a room with people who were playing it and it was absolutely cringeworthy. Just the stalest, least funny thing imaginable. That and it came from the FuckJerry Content Theft Empire. There are a lot of strong entries here but I have a special hatred for this one.
What do you meme has been collecting dust at the local store for years, nobody wants it even on sale 😅
I propose that W.W.B should be disqualified for being specifically made to be bad, giving it an unfair advantage over the other games that were (presumably) meant to be fun to play.
Fun fact about Tic-Tac-Toe: I've actually been in a several-years-long Tic Tac Toe themed roleplay! I'm not sure if that's a pro or a con for the game.
Okay, you can't just drop it, you HAVE to give me context
@@Mekmassimochannelthe context is an ever growing and shrinking story that just goes ham… I don’t even know how to give context.
@@Mekmassimochannel Okay, so:
There was once a online...uh...experience called Blaseball. It (get this) was a simulation of Baseball, but with a surrealist horror twist and the ability for fans to influence the game. Now of course, everything these days has a Discord, so it's no surprise that Blaseball also had a discord. It was more or less impossible to really control, but the mods did their best. (Did you know that mentioning Homestuck was banned because it caused too many fights?) One of the activities the fans did during the off-seasons was play Tlic-Tlac-Tloe, which was essentially a mashup of Blaseball's surrealist horror vibes / amorphous form and Tic Tac Toe's gameplay, told through improv. When Season 24 ended and the server went into a Grand Siesta, someone had the great idea to give Tlic Tlac Tloe its own dedicated channel...and it very quickly gained established characters and lore and spiraled out of control in a matter of weeks. It became too much for the mods to handle, and they more-or-less had to ban the lore to keep it under control. But the people invested in the story still wanted to keep telling it, so eventually someone made a side-server for the roleplay and everyone who was interested hopped in it. It's certainly drifted away from Blaseball quite a bit from these years, and it's now matured into its own unique flavour of storytelling.
Blaseball itself never really got back on its feet after S24, and it quietly died in June 2023. I still miss it dearly.
@@Mekmassimochannel I literally wrote an entire paragraph explaining it and it got nailed by the spam filter >.> I'm currently asking Kam in the discord to manually review it
I have no idea how to un-spam the message, it won't give me the option. I can however re-post the whole comment!
@Mekmassimochannel Okay, so:
There was once a online...uh...experience called Blaseball. It (get this) was a simulation of Baseball, but with a surrealist horror twist and the ability for fans to influence the game. Now of course, everything these days has a Discord, so it's no surprise that Blaseball also had a discord. It was more or less impossible to really control, but the mods did their best. (Did you know that mentioning Homestuck was banned because it caused too many fights?) One of the activities the fans did during the off-seasons was play Tlic-Tlac-Tloe, which was essentially a mashup of Blaseball's surrealist horror vibes / amorphous form and Tic Tac Toe's gameplay, told through improv. When Season 24 ended and the server went into a Grand Siesta, someone had the great idea to give Tlic Tlac Tloe its own dedicated channel...and it very quickly gained established characters and lore and spiraled out of control in a matter of weeks. It became too much for the mods to handle, and they more-or-less had to ban the lore to keep it under control. But the people invested in the story still wanted to keep telling it, so eventually someone made a side-server for the roleplay and everyone who was interested hopped in it. It's certainly drifted away from Blaseball quite a bit from these years, and it's now matured into its own unique flavour of storytelling.
Blaseball itself never really got back on its feet after S24, and it quietly died in June 2023. I still miss it dearly.
Rip Valefisk's torture game 😭
Need a public release on that one so it can get the recognition it deserves
@@kamsandwichit can be quite easy for him to do too
52:57 It sounded like you said "funko" as in funko pops, and that filled me with so much fear.
Also going to have to defend Gay Monopoly. It's clearly based on in-group sterotypes, so its not offensive, and the hanky code trivia is guessable if you were involved in gay culture at the time. It was a real way of indicating sexual preferences.
there actually is a Funko Pop based board game, Funkoverse... I can't believe it's not bad enough to make it into this bracket
yeah it's always strange when people call something clearly made by a group of people discriminatory towards those same people. it comes across as a bit virtue signaly...
agreed on the gay monopoly point!!!
its absolutely mindblowing to me that in the 80's we had "gay furry/scalie monopoly" lol
@@theunwelcome There's always next time!
YOU CAN ALREADY PLAY ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS WITHOUT FINGERS WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was going to comment: "Avgn playing board games"...
Then I remembered that he did that...
We need to get every board game RUclips channel to weigh in on this tournament
Lord I would love to see their thoughts on this travesty
Dice Tower: incoherent screaming
@@theunwelcome
Tom throwing his pick for oneupsmanship!
Meanwhile Tom from Shut up and Sit down will happily just stare at wall in dispear
You should check out the polish game super farmer. You have trade your animals up till you have of each.
You need 6 rabbits for 1 pig. But there’s only 5 rabbit spots on the board
Scene -It Games were fun when they actually had you answer questions about the clips they showed; too many of the later editions just show a clip then ask a random, unrelated question.
Only real problem they couldn't've solved with better writers: DVDs have a limited amount of memory, so you watching the same clips again & again game after game. But most trivia games have a similar problem; they only come with so many questions.
The memory problem could be solved with a Scene-It Blu-Ray edition.
You don't just draw a card & see what happens in "Sorry!" You select what pawn you move, allowing a bit of tactics, like Pachisi, Backgammon, & Senet. Also, there's an advanced version of the game, where players hold a hand of cards, giving them more movement options.
I'd also defend Trouble & Ludy Ludo, but I'd be repeating myself.
I don't even know how they all got on. They're all just pachisi with a coat of paint.
Candy Land is the game where you just draw a card and see what (color you move to) happens.
@@CMinusMelendeznot just that when the deck is made the game is already decided
@@keiyakins All three were eliminated round 1 so there's reason to believe they're all filler picks
The Stunk region is absolutely stacked between having W.W.B., Ungame, and Candyland as its top 3 seeds
*Slowly raises hand to bring up No Rolls Barred’s excellent video defending The Ungame*
*Slowly lowers hand remembering that video was by Adam Blampied*
@MrSkerpentine I love NRB, hopefully Adam gets his shit sorted soon cause those allegations are disgusting if true
@@jacohenn42and this is the *second* time this has happened too :((((
WWB is intentionally bad so surely that's not in its favour when the others aren't meant to be bad. Ungame, likewise, isn't meant to be a game, so again that plays into the opposition's hands.
Surprised you didn't mention What Do You Meme
Somehow, Ms. Monopoly is the actual most misogynist game here.
It's *misandrist*.
I'd say it's anti-feminist for missing the point of feminism. The problem is the system of patriarchy, which is bad for men and worse for women. Creating a wage gap going the other direction doesn't solve the problem. The problem is the system which demands the existence of inequity to begin with. That system cannot be fought by just giving historically disadvantaged people more resources now. It must be shattered beyond repair.
@@CybeastID Its both. By making a game where it textually discriminates against men, it creates a implication that women can only make it by doing the same kind of shit sexist men do. It implies that a more equitable way isn't possible, just that some women can fit a patriarchal mold.
Ms. Monopoly sounds like it was invented for an episode of The Big Bang Theory
There is absolutely nothing in Ms. Monopoly that hasn’t been done better by the Barbie movie, in probably less time
WWB and similar titles intentionally trying to be bad/unplayable from their inception just don't have the same feeling as games that try to do something, albeit poorly.
Quelf by 10000000
that is a somewhat disturbing percentage of bacon-based games
My group actually really enjoys Dos... Until it's time to count the points. The game is legitimately fun with a group that can banter but counting the points after every round is dreadful and kills momentum
well, counting points is in Uno as well
@@xolotltolox7626 But is it really? Does anyone care about anything other than the person who got rid of all their cards?
@@NeonRunes yes, it is part of the rules, just because people always ignore the rule, doesn't mean it isn't there
and it especially counts for the discussion, when counting points is the thing you complain about for dos, so if you can ignore it for uno, you can ignore it for dos
@@NeonRunesIt's a race to 500
In Uno my family never does the whole "points" nonsense. If you just do it as "no cards first wins", it's more fun
Kam isn’t actually a sandwich irl 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥
Dude STOP LYING
I gotta curb these misinformation campaigns
Noone knows
That’s just his IRLtuber model dude, of course he’s a sandwich
That actor's lip syncing skill is INSANE, Kam, how much are you paying him?
He's getting the finest table scraps leftovers can buy
@@kamsandwich Well it's good to see you gave him a raise!
He's earned it
This randomly came up as I was setting myself up for Magic card cataloging. Very enjoyable to listen to. 🙂
Thank you! Good luck on your catalog!
I choose my bracket before watching this video and my bracket is absolutely cooked for choosing Anima over Adultery
But if it hits, you're on the treasure train to first place
Huh, that's interesting. I actually played the Mad boardgame a lot as a child, and never really considered it to be bad.
Well, maybe that's just because I was a child.
And the Angry Bird game as well! Though I never really played according to the rules and just built my own stuff
Aaand Deutschlandreise too. I think the Airports actually give it enough strategy to be fun, and it taught me German cities pretty well (as well as the inner German borders since the game was still divided into BRD and DDR)
Hah, I had basically the same experience with the angry birds game. The slingshot never really worked for that game imo.
Fantastic video. I guess I should consider myself blessed that I hadn't heard of most of these games before this. Thank you for putting this together!
Absolutely! Had a lot of fun researching this
This video is so ridiculous and I love every second of it
As somebody who spends a lot of time in the woods bored out of his mind with only a skat deck, i wanna firmly defend war from the one seed. Nothing is better to kill time with another person for an hour or something.
“This press-your-luck title…”
Where are the whammies?
The whammy is the bear going to eat you
This is an incredibly fun idea. The fact that you’re doing it in March just makes it better 😂
Some interesting games in this list. Unfortunately, I think your top 16 is going to have none of them. It's just going to be a bunch of barely-games that no one has ever played.
It's all out of my hands from here. What the community votes for the community gets
CANT WAIT FOR THE ROCK PAPER SCISSORS ADULTERY FINALES 🔥🔥🔥
Nice
People don't like Pass the Pigs? It's a dice game, but with pigs for dice.
It's literally the dice game Pig but with nifty dice. It's not great, but not bad, and I like a good press-your-luck game.
At least it's worth the money, unlike RPS game
We player this in my 7th grade math class and we liked it
I love the electric guitar riff happening in the background lmao
Will there be a board game NIT for bubble games that missed the cutoff as well as 1 seeds in mid major genres who lost in their conference tourney?
Campaign for North Africa is a very hard one to call. It's a bit of a cult classic these days, but that could swing it either way
I'm not sure whether or not I should feel honoured to have the game I helped make be listed as a near miss for this.
"Absurdly overcomplicated but the game's mechanics all work perfectly fine" is a very apt description though, mind you.
I still hold my previous stance of the game sounds amazing and would love to play
@@kamsandwich It is a surprisingly fun game, and I am surprised at how many people actually enjoy it. We do have a game Discord for people who want to try to organize games since finding other people who want to play this in the wild can be difficult.
I'd be happy to throw a server invite your way if you'd like :)
Yes please!
@@kamsandwich I don't think I can post the link because the comments keep getting removed by RUclips...
The invite link can be found on the workshop mod page in the tabletop simulator workshop.
Sounds good, thank you!
what a fun idea + I love the framing that the games are happy/proud to be in this bracket, gives the whole thing a nice spirit :) just one criticism: as a defender of the game of LIFE myself, wtf do you mean "ease of setting up"? I've never once been able to put this fucking thing together without breaking at least one of the delicate plastic buildings LOL
Yo this should be called march sadness
I don't want to live in a universe where Phase 10 is not in the Final Four.
I'll defend phase 10 more than most people, but honestly if you are gonna play that game play phase 10 twist. Helps with the game speed problems because you can skip over some of the phases and they even add unique special phases and some strategy.
And yeah it is one of those card games where points are dumb and most people ive ever played with just didn't bother keeping track; idk that that's a huge deal though, I feel like there are many of those.
I think it's actually possible to lose Phase 10 even if nobody else has made it to Phase 9 when you finish the 10th Phase
My family always plays Pass the Pigs while waiting for food at restaurants. They're often shocked that I decide to sit out.
I just found this randomly today and i am so pumped lol
Finding it right before it starts, great timing!
Same here.
Oh my gosh, I misinterpreted what this video was and ended up making my bracket after it was mentioned before moving on with the rest of the video and learning about the games, just judged everything by its cover (and any knowledge I had about the games in the tournament prior to filling my bracket out), whooops ;u;
My blunder aside, this is a pretty fun(ny) tournament idea! I like how you kept it serious and genuine while talking about every game's upsides and downsides, no matter how bad the games were.. :P
Hey best part of the brackets is that filling them out wrong still gives you a decent chance
Sorry! is actually a good game and I can't believe it's on this list
Wait people don’t like Secret Hitler? Why? It’s prob my fav board game lol
Awhile back I wrote a defense of "The Game of Life" I'll just copy/paste it here:
First, it's well-made; the components are fun to use; they're like little toys.
Second, it's a Goose game; those date to the 1580's, & folks kept making variations on the concept till 10 or 20 years ago. For a concept to last 400+ years, it cannot be bad. The questions isn't "is this bad," but "does it have a place today?" To answer that, we've got to answer some other questions: "Why was this invented?" and "Why did it last?"
Alright, let's pretend it's 1500. You're a noble man or merchant in Italy, it's the end of a long day, & you're both bored & tired. You decide to play a game to pass the time. What are your options? Well, there's Nine Men's Morris, but you're too tired to play a strategy game. Besides that, you've played it a few times before, & you feel you're partner, who always goes first, has some sort of advantage. There's Backgammon; the dice rolls would eliminate any advantage given to the first or second player, but you're still tired, & the game still involves a lot thinking. You want to relax; you don't want to think. Ok; there are dice-based gambling games, but, after awhile, those get old. What else is there?
Suddenly, someone knocks on your manor's door; they have a new game. It has a spiral track, with numbered spaces, several of which are marked by small drawings. It's "The Game of the Goose;" it combines betting with dice, & a board which will provide some variety. The spaces with obstacles are kinda like blocked spaces in Backgammon, except they're already set up; you don't need to think about them; you only need to react to them. It even gives you a bit of story as you progress. So it's a dice-based game of chance; it's easy to learn, with enough variety to keep things interesting.
Fast forward a bit, to the 19th century. Mores have changed; gambling's considered bad. Does the basic game still work? Yes. The obstacle spaces are the key; they tell a story as the game progresses. Replace them, substitute tokens for real money, & you can create hundreds of games which tell stories. These stories aren't as involved as a story in a magazine or a book, but they allow more variety; you can revisit them, & they'll be different each time you visit. They also require less effort, & they allow families to interact with each other. Modify the board's layout, & the story becomes more interesting. Instead of just traveling along a spiral, you can travel across a kingdom, across an ocean, etc.
Fast forward a bit more, to the mid-20th century, or even to today. TV's been invented; radio's been invented; you don't need a game to have experience a story with out having to read, & there are hundreds of stories available, so the variety added by dice rolls isn't necessary. But there's a problem: families don't interact with each other. TV demands your full attention; it's considered wrong to talk during a movie or TV show; talking distracts from the narrative. In a game; talking with other players is ok, even encouraged. I suggest that Goose, Snakes, & Ladders, Life, & similar games of chance using tracks on boards are primarily narrative experiences which allow a degree of interaction between players. While much of their niche has been taken by TV, they still serve a purpose, & aren't bad at all.
The average member of a game forum probable won't want to play one, but they're just a small, often snobbish, sliver of the market.
(Most of this also applies to "Candyland" "Mr. Bacon" etc.)
I have a lot of issues with this comment.
"For a concept to last 400+ years, it cannot be bad [...]"
Plenty of bad concepts have existed for much longer. Racism, sexism, classism. This is just a straight up assertion that falls flat on its face.
over half of this isn't even a defense for why the game should be considered good. It's a story of why some hypothetical people enjoyed it. I get you're trying to state in a poetic manner why the game is good, but does this actually help with that? I don't think it does. For something to be considered good you need to have something to compare it to, or at least some form of standard to critically analyze it, and for almost 3 paragraphs all you talk about is the game having good qualities, a couple of stories, and a short bit actually comparing games. If this is meant as a way to say Life is a good game, or at least defend it from people who state it is bad, then pointing to (fictional) people is a waste of everyone's time. Whether or not the game has a couple of things going for it isn't automatically a defense of the overall experience. If the game was actually good, why does it need a fictional metanarrative to stand up to scrutiny?
"The average member of a game forum probable won't want to play one, but they're just a small, often snobbish, sliver of the market."
Whether or not a game is bad has nothing to do with whether or not it's popular. If a billion people have different or lower standards, that shouldn't change other people's standards, that just means they're okay with a different or worse game. I get on a subjective issue like this popularity can be seen by some as the end all be all, but I don't think so. We've all had things we loved that weren't as popular as something else in the same medium, did that make it inferior by default? No! It just means that one is more popular. It may be a better experience, it may be a worse one. It's a silly point. Also, the "snobbish" bit is an irrelevant jab.
@@lightningninja6905 "If the game was actually good, why does it need a fictional metanarrative to stand up to scrutiny?" To put the game's qualities into perspective. It's a game of chance that creates a narrative; there's been a purpose for such things for a long time, & there is still a purpose for such things today.
I'll admit I probably shouldn't've called board game forum members snobbish; that was bitterness seeping through. Forgive me for that.
"If a billion people have different or lower standards" I agree that people can have different standards, but I rankle a bit at the phrase "lower standards." A purely random game is not bad, if it still creates joy in whoever plays it. That does not mean that those people have lower standards than someone else. (Such arguments are what caused the bitterness that seeped through in my comment.)
@@stillbuyvhs
I had a fair amount of bitterness too, so I can't judge you there. Sorry about that. I absolutely agree with your last point, I meant (but forgot) to remove the "lower" part add a final paragraph explaining that enjoying a game is fine and in the subjective world of games, that makes it good for that person.
There's a recent philosophy that seems to believe you can objectively quantify whether or not a piece of art is good beyond opinion, and I've never agreed with it. Rather my overall point was going to be that I just don't think this is how you defend a game, and that comparison or talking against the points against the game more would be better.
To clarify, obviously you couldn't have known that this is how I felt, so I don't blame you for proceeding without that info, rather I just wanted to clear up any remaining confusion.
Interesting that I am not the only one doing a youtube board game bracket tournament although mine is for the best game of the ones we own...
I do want to note that Chutes and Ladders is a great one to teach math to kids aged 3-5.
I love that each board game has their positives and negatives listed out, as well as the fact that NO ONE IS SPARED. NOT EVEN CHUTES AND LADDERS.
I'm starting a band called Gay Hitler's Secret Monopoly, and no one can stop me!
putting candyland and life in the same conference is deranged but I appreciate it.
why was secret hitler even nominated i love it and games like it i know it is a bit more luck centered then the games its base off of but it is still really good
tf, the random elements is what makes the game even work in the first place, if a double liberal government couldn't draw triple red the fascists would be always unbelievable
IMO, I don't hate it either, but I hate the gatekeeping community that labels you as toxic if you don't play it according to 'the meta'
@@Radman1889 the problem with not playing "meta" is that people will expect you to do so, and make assumptions on your identity based on that. So if someone comesi n with a radically different playstyle than the status quo the group is used to, then it will throw them off
KamSandwich in the flesh
Flesh reveal
I wish less youtubers would do a face reveal and more youtubers would do flesh reveals
I’m a bit surprised Mouse Trap avoided the cut, but maybe I was just so annoyed by the assembly I’d completely forgotten how the game played.
Literally, we had it growing up but could never get it to play properly because the pieces wouldn’t fit together correctly, also the fact Pass The Pigs is on here is a crime lmao, it’s simple, yes, but genuinely really silly and fun for how simple it is
There's quite a few games here that I am now interested in playing, including Meganation, Global Survival, 15-Love, Oy Vey!, The Oregon Trail Card Game and Deutschlandreise. 15-Love especially intrigues me.
I feel like serial killer: the game should have been on this list. It is arguabley more offensive than any other games on this list.
I think something that people often don’t consider when talking about bad board games is how likely you are to play them. Something like “the worst board game ever” or “Monopoly longest game ever” are something no one would ever try to play with a random person, but the amount of times I’ve been forced to play what do you meme, and even been bought what do you meme by my friends and family that know I like board and card games, makes it a whole lot worse
At first I was quite shocked that an entire genre of game was omitted from the brackets: Religious Knock-Off Games!
Despite multiple entries making the brackets on the back of their social controversy, not a single attempt at 'bible-washing' a game made the list.
The Game of Life is well deserving its title for its uninteractive play and lack of meaningful choices to make, but what of the "Treasures In Heaven" or "The Richest Christian"? games that take the Life formula and add the 'spice' of making the money you make in the 'life' play irrelevant while only tallying your eternal rewards for 'good deeds' (which are often also just he results of random spaces).
There are multiple Trivia games on the list, from obscure 90s celebrities to classic Trivial Pursuit, but where is the love/hate for "Let's Have Church", an unholy amalgamation of trivia, charades, and true-or-false focused around Christian scripture! "Which of these names does *not* appear in the lineage of King David?"...
And let's not forget the truly obnoxious ripoffs that only exist to try and confuse parents into buying something that sounds popular, but with a churchy twist. "Settlers of Canaan?" anyone?
Then at the end I realized why. this was a community nominated set of bad games. It's highly unlikely that enough people would even have experienced these attempts at 'entertainment' to even suggest them. Be happy that you have been spared!
Yeah I didn't know these existed. I took a lot of recommendations and researched a bunch of lowly rated and controversial ones. Guess none of those got recognised enough to hit the radar for BGG
One time I found Christianopoly at a Goodwill in Utah
"Settlers of Cannan" was an official variant of Catan, by the game's original designer. He actually released a few other rethemed versions of Catan early on, before he or his publisher decided to use the Catan name for everything.
I personally love beanboozled… as a modification for other games. Me and some friends modified Cards Against Humanity to where, instead of picking the best card, you pick the worst, and that player has to spin the spinner and consume a bean. If you eat the bean, you only receive one point. If you refuse, or spit it out, you get 3.
We would use a time limit instead of a point limit, and, like golf, the player with the least points at the end is the winner.
I expected to see Blacks & Whites to be mentioned, for similar reasons to Capital Punishment, Battle of the Sexes, and the other horribly insensitive games.
I'm honestly shocked to see Trouble here.
There's a few undeserving games, but that's always how these things go. Trouble, Sorry, Phase 10, and several others will surely get knocked out in the first round.
If I could make a point about Bean Boozled as a strong fan of the game.
The beans were originally just repackaged Harry Potter beans given new names. At first, the beans are nasty, but the more times you play, the more you get used to the flavors. It's now gotten to the point where I can buy and eat the beans alone as a fun snack.
RUclips just recommended this to me today, so no brackets for me
I actually played LCR for real money. You are certainly right it was high energy. How is it one of the worst?
Money makes it go from pointless to stressful.
Gay monopoly was made by queer people for queer people. It actually rocks lol
Inherited a copy of Public Assistance from my dad (who I swear isn't some far right weirdo) and played it once when I was 18 at a punk house, I used to think the game was kind of funny for how over the top it was but the overall experience of actually sitting down and playing it was pretty depressing.
It's a shame you got the worse of the two games from that developer, but still a great relic to have!
There were a bunch of games like "Deutschlandreise" published between the 1890's & the 1960's. What makes "Deutschlandreise" worse than something like "Pirate & Traveler" or "The Game of the States"?
It got requested
I love how you tried to say something nice about every single game, no matter how bad they were. It feels nice to have that
wow, I've played a surprising amount of these. Some of them i agree with, others I just... like huh? Connect Four of all games??? strange...
Oh wait connect four didnt get in. Good. Still, games like Sorry! are a bit odd to see in here.
I'm a little surprized to see some of these here since I have fond memories of playing them(Sorry, Quelf, Candyland), but I personally wouldn't mind Scene it winning because it gave me anxiety.
Bunco is an excuse for moms to get drunk and shout
You really listened to us, props
Coming back to this video after the end of the tournament
Yeah, tCfNA,tDW:40-43 was robbed
monopoly not being a #1 seed and actually not being in it at all disqualifies this tournament from any relevance.
Leaving out Munchkin is a crime. I watched that game very nearly end friendships.
Yeah, but munchkin is actually *FUN*.
11:00 OH MY GOD I HAD THIS GAME! Not for very long. I don't think we played it more than four times because I don't remember anything except that the bright yellow box had a distinct texture to it, it wasn't totally smooth like most board game boxes are
That's wild. Some of the best praises from people who have played the game I've heard are mostly that it's so short that you can stop playing the game really fast
@@kamsandwich I think I may have only played it once. I think my family politely declined to play it until we sold it at a garage sale years later.
Extremely chuffed at the draw for my boys over at Phase 10, top 2 seeds look very vulnerable on account of not really being games, and a very winnable potential Elite 8 matchup with Candyland, I think a Final 4 trip is in our future Bob.
Reading through its reviews it has a sneaky good chance for a deep run, definitely a dark horse.
Ok but at the end of the day Mad magazine the game is actually really fun when you sit down and play it.
I grew up playing the Worst-Case Scenario board game. I thought it was honestly pretty fun to see what people thought they would do in a certain situation.
Very interesting! Raises the question of what traits make a game the "worst". Personally, I think it has to be a game an actual human might play. WWD and North Africa might be the worst to actually play, but no one seriously would.
My vote is for any of those mid 2010s "edgy" games that were just terrible versions of Cards Against Humanity.
I bought a The Walking Dead board game which definitely belongs here. It's completely broken.
In its defense; the quality of the physical parts is decent, and if you made your own rules it could be alright.
9:10 JUST PLAY REGULAR TENNIS
Edit so I'm not spamming you;
Kam, I didn't think I was going to get this invested in a board game bracket. I'm moving on Tuesday and I hope I have time to fill it out because every single one of these games has garnered a verbal reaction from me along the lines of "Oh that SUCKS"
Listening back to the video I MADE I get that reaction from some of the games
@@kamsandwich I'm not even all that into board games but something about your presentation makes every video worth watching.
I like how you have both the simplest war game and the most complicated war game here. Waiting to see if you have Solarquest, the educational space themed Monopoly clone that somehow takes even longer to play than Monopoly!
Surprised Monopoly Cheater's Edition didn't make the cut.
glad i just got in, i honestly think adultery and rock paper scissors will make it quite far
Time for The Ungame to have their one shining moment.
I love the sports commentary style.
Sorry's pretty fun if you're playing on Strategy Mode and have the Fire and Ice rings (Strategy mode has you holding 3 or 5 cards in your hand letting you choose, Fire and Ice allow you to give your pieces special abilities if you play a 1 or 2 card). If you aren't playing with those 2 things, you're just playing Trouble But Worse™
I personally like the Game Of Life, but I can see why people don't. I just think the game is charming :)
I own Dos, I played it once and it was pretty okay. Would play again.
Candy land is a game for babies, but I think it would have potential if it had more strategy
Trouble In The Bubble is a childhood favorite of mine, to this day pressing the bubble fills me with joy. I'd still play this game to do just that, and I would buy the bubble+dice itself as a fidget toy :)
Gay Monopoly is clearly here as a joke, truly a perfect masterpiece
Those are all the games here I have an opinion on
If Top Trumps is voted worse than fucking *CAPITAL PUNISHMENT* I will cry. Predicting big things from cringefest What Do You Meme, and upsets by Doggie Doo, Quelf, Vanilla Ice and Smoker's Wild.
Also, as an additional spike: this *video* takes longer than the Campaign for North Africa.
Oh my god he has a physical form. And more importantly, the Crim & Sons Paving hat is real
I was really hoping to see dicecapades. A lot of these games are ultimately pure dice rolling, but dicecapades makes me the most mad. I don’t know why, just something about how sure of itself it is really bothers me.
Also gotta defend pass the pigs, if only for the pig sex bonus points.
Pig sex bonus is the first image on the BGG page, I love it
Sorry is much better when you play with the optional rule that you get a hand of three cards to choose from and draw to replenish your hand.
How did phase 10 get in but not Skipbo that game is garbage
I'm very impressed there's enough tie-in and variant games in the dumpster that one of the classic bad board games, Risk, didn't make it into the tournament.
Oh wow you're right. Risk wasn't brought up by anyone in the selection process, and I completely forgot about it.
I'm genuinely surprised no one brought it up, a lot of people hate that game
Monopoly Cheaters Edition better be here
I actually own the Mad Magazine board game. I found it to be a fun time. Just a silly board game to break out from time to time.