The Worst Board Game of All Time Bracket: Round 3 Update
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
- We've taken another step toward determining the absolute WORST board game of all time! This Round 3 Update showcases all 8 games that have advanced to the Queasy Quarterfinal, with color commentary from Joshua Jacobs and comments from the fans showing the weaknesses of each title.
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You know what's even worse? Candyland recently got rid of the characters. How the hell am I supposed to enjoy the "game" without Queen Frostine or Mr Plumpy?
At least they changed the rules so that you draw 2 cards and keep one. Gives you some amount of choice and stops you from having to go back to almost beginning constantly.
THEY FIRED PLUMPY??? NOOO
Thanks to this series for introducing me, a complete board game fandom outsider, to the idea that Candy Land has such a huge hatedom. I had no idea. I guess, yeah, I suppose the mechanics are not that great but explain that to 7-year old me who just liked the pretty pictures and eating Monopoly pieces.
@@edwardrhoads7283 oh, it's a spinner now.
@@RangerSnowthey must have gotten rid of him quite a while ago, as I have no memory of this character.
The continued insistince on reading out the full name of CFNA brings me so much joy
Because no one would know what you mean if you say sfna
The Final Eight:
- A Literally Unfinishable War Game
- An Advertisement for Reaganomics
- A Useless Toy
- An Offensive Prison Sim
- The Card Game equivalent of Facebook Boomer Memes
- A Luck-Based Baby Game
- Sexism
- L I T E R A L C R I M E
You’re not wrong about the last one, at least when it comes to seventeen states here in the US.
It’s a misdemeanor here in Georgia, and a felony in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Michigan, but hardly anywhere is it ever enforced, and the laws are only on the books because no one’s bothered to repeal them yet (which they already have in many other states).
Honestly these sorts of private matters probably don’t require a government intervention unless there’s some emergency to it, hence why the US is one of few developed countries to have these laws in some parts. But the punishments for adultery here are nowhere nearly as harsh as in Saudi Arabia.
Several of these are criminal in parts of the world.
Also, an analysis of the rules indicates that CFNA isn't literally unfinishable, just practically so.
I do think anyone who owns Candyland and Adultery and brings them both to the same party should be arrested on the spot.
I've come up with a great idea for what boardgames im bringing to the next party I go to...
I'm sure your cellmates will enjoy playing them with you. Well, maybe not Candyland.
@@LuckySketches Make sure you bring PA and CP with you as well as I am sure those will be enjoyed in jail also.
It's like gojo combining blue and red to make hollow purple, but he creates Jail instead
WDYM and Candyland are weirdly very similar: the only people that actually enjoy either are still in elementary school.
That is the target audience for Candyland so I don't understand why that makes it a bad game
Or over 70
It’s ok. 15 Love was too good for us. They deserved better. So long, Sweet Prince.
I thought Ms. Monopoly would go to the semis at least, but I guess Adultery cannot be stopped.
They've been trying unsuccessfully for thousands of years ;-)
12:58 "Hey, that's me!"
But in all honesty, Adultery is just awful. Even without it's legally questionable theme and gameplay it would still be terrible in a dull way, but the fact it's even dull for cheaters is just a level of awful only the rock-paper-scissors game and arguably The North Africa one come close to.
The complaint about Rock-Paper-Scissors is that you can just do that at home for free. Adultery has the same problem...and maybe one or two more problems
They had to include the years 1940-1943 in the Campaign for North Africa title because it's warning you how long it will take you to complete one play.
it actually takes 20 years with a sesion every 2 weeks , but yes it does warn you that it will take yeras.
It’s not really meant to be played. It’s more like a simulation rather than a game. I don’t really think it belongs here, because it’s incredible for what it tries to accomplish, and is only actually bad if the players don’t understand that
The prospect of Candyland vs Adultery is just "the thing that keeps the kids busy" vs "the reason the adults need to keep the kids busy"
My biggest upset was Pass the Pigs. I would guess that maybe people haven't actually played it. I own it. I bring it out when my German-style stategists come over to play, like Power Grid or something. The entire game is throwing miniture toys and scoring how they land. I really thought it's random nature would carry it a lot further.
Yeah, I'm normally pretty down with dice-rolling games, but Pass the Pigs is kind of nothing. You could compare it to Farkle (represented in this bracket by the worse-branded Makin' Bacon) except at least that gives you an ever-decreasing number of dice to base a strategy on. Pass the Pigs is just rolling the same two pigs until they land unfavorably (which is like, 50% of the time) or you decide to stop. The pigs don't even hold up well over time.
14:46 You missed your line here. It should have been "The champion of keeping children busy vs. the champion of adults getting busy".
Confound it, that's really good
Seeing these videos formatted with very obvious, highly telegraphed ad breaks makes me feel guilty about using an ad blocker. I just can't stand RUclips ads.
I'm sorry I have nothing more to offer but my thanks for your efforts to mitigate the frustration of ads, even though I was never going to see them anyway.
Three breaks in a 17min video is aggravating nonetheless. I get that it’s supposed to be a show bit there is a reason why so many people fled the tv for youtube all those years ago. If every video here become this, I’ll probably just read books ^^
Do NOT stop using an ad blocker. They make the site way more fun to use. I include the breaks to make it seem more like a "professional broadcast" but if you can turn off the ads by all means do
It's more amusing with Premium (i'm a mobile viewer)
Cheers to avoiding corporate ads through whatever means at hand!
@@kamsandwich It's not like YT even shows an actual ad for all of them, just some. Even if it did I'd stand with your choice 100%, it's great for the hype.
As much as i want that coveted Candy Land vs Adultery matchup, I think What Shall I Be? A Career Game for Girls might have the upset.
Swingers can use Adultery as a way to spice up the night, nobody's having fun with WSIBACGfG
I strongly agree, but I think sadly people are misunderstanding the point of Adultery (including in this very video) due to the title and not realizing it's meant for swingers rather than nonconsensual cheating.
I just keep imagining someone pulling out Adultery at a swingers party and trying to get people to play it; why would you want to sit around moving a pawn around a board when you can just get to the action right away
@@RangerSnow Idk, foreplay?
@@heroponriki5921i agree that people are absolutely missing the point of adultery but i still kind of think it should win if CFNA didnt exist. its like trying to create and market a real game out of those flirty dice. its not the game thats enjoyable its the screwing around part. but then again im not a swinger from the 1960s or anything so idk what theyre into, maybe they just love shitty board games
i agree career girls is worse than candyland though
I think people are being unfair to cfna. It is a thing of true beauty.
It might be. But what it is not is a good game.
Kinda bummed that there's now no possibility of Capital Punishment vs Public Assistance for the grand final, but also, pretty glad.
babe wake up the board game bracket update dropped
There's only two games remaining I would refuse to play by-the-rules-as-written for $100, Adultery and CNA. The other six are bad, sure, but I don't think they come close in terms of unplayability.
i would absolutely pay to get to play The Campaign For North Africa just because of the insanity of it
yay another episode can't wait to see who will win!
The Adultery game really doesn't seem all that bad. The default assumption is that it takes place between two couples that have already consented, and if someone plays without their partner's presence/approval, that's a personal failing, not a fault of the game. If a person doesn't feel comfortable with swinging, that's fine, but that's not the audience the game is aiming for.
im starting to really believe in Adultery but also i just am really not a The Campaign for North Africa: The Desert War 1940-43 fan. I think the allure of the game is to figure out how to play it, which means i dont think its the worst board game of all time.
Looking back at my bracket with hindsight is just so funny sometimes.
I am devastated we didn't get the Ms. Monopoly vs Career Girls matchup, it would have been very funny
It definitely feels like at this point we're all but destined for a CFNA v. Adultery final. I also have no idea how What Do You Meme has gotten this far or why it's currently winning its quarterfinal matchup. Nothing about the rules or the game itself screams "Worst 4 game all-time" to me.
Well, at least I called What Shall I Be being the secret sleeper to go deep. Don't think it gets much further though.
WDYM has the advantage of being a relatively popular game that many of the people voting on the bracket have played before. Even though CFNA for instance is conceptually bad, nobody has firsthand experience of actually playing it and having a bad time like they do with WDYM.
RE: Candyland. I don't think reshuffling the deck counts as "gameplay". I also don't think rolling dice counts as "gameplay". So I'm going to repost a comment I made under someone else's comment about the Big C in Round 1:
"Chance does not make a game. In fact, Candyland and War are both 100% chance games. It's just the chance is decided and set at the start. Would Candyland be any more of a game if you shuffled the deck every time someone drew a card?
Player choice is necessary, but not sufficient to make a game. Would Candyland be any more of a game if you cut the deck and made two piles and players choose one of the piles to draw from each turn?
Would Candland be any more of a game if you used dice every turn to decide how far someone advances?
I say no. I consequently must contend that Snakes and Ladders is also not a game. If the players make no meaningful, at least semi-informed, strategic decisions (actual decisions), then [the 'game' in question is] just Candyland wearing a skinsuit.
-I would also contend that Sorry! is very arguably a non-game, because the only decision a player makes is how to use a Sorry! card when said card is drawn, but is that really a decision? You use it on the player with the most pawns in his safe zone; if all opponents have the same number of pawns in the safe zone, use it on the one with a pawn closest to the safe zone. Seems like an illusion of choice to me."-
Since -Sorry! and- Snake and Ladders are already out, I hope Candyland wins, because the worst games are "games" that aren't even actually games at all.
I just made a comment mourning Pass The Pigs. You literally throw plastic tiny pigs and grade how they land. It is 90% random, in some players try to add skill to the mix, but really, these pigs weigh less than a die. You might as well be running a backally hustle.
You also decide how to move your pawns. Y'know, like in every other pachisi
@@DelTashlin I mean, you still make decisions on when to bank your points. And that decision matters, numberphile did a big analysis of the game a while back. There *is* a mathematically optimal strategy but it is decidedly nontrivial.
@@keiyakinsAh! Thank you! I did overlook that (I have never actually played, but I did look up how to play). I'm not quite sure how I got the impression you can only move one pawn at a time.
Capital Punishment might have some good design ideas, but I would have a much easier time existing with the worthless rock paper scissors game in my house.
Imagine having a guest over and they ask about it. Imagine teaching someone who's not into board games how to play Capital Punishment. Imagine your uncle pulling this out at the holidays and insisting the whole family play.
Now imagine playing Rock Paper Scissors. One of these is clearly worse.
as tough a competitor as Campaign for North Africa is, it'd be very cool to see Public Assistance vs Capital Punishment as the final match
I'm currently working on a card game and been taking mental notes on what not to do in design. I think that ends here as our final selections are mostly exercises in absurdity.
Can't say I know will win but I know who won't: Know What I Meme and Career Girls.
KWIM is cringe sure, but humor is still subjective and a Cards Against Humanity for your Facebook using grandparents may be enough. Meanwhile, Career Girls just sounds bland when you brush off the antiquated gender roles.
And thanks to this series for introducing me, a complete board game fandom outsider, to the idea that Candy Land has such a huge hatedom.
I really think Rock, Paper, Scissors has to win this. Its such a pointless game! Like I think you all mentioned as a joke "Its a way to play rock paper scissors if you don't have any hands!" But, like, there are ways to play it without hands FOR FREE! You could literally just say the word "Rock" "paper" or "Scissors" Out loud at the same time as your opponent and that will have the same effect! Like there are build in accessibility options for this free game! No one ever has a reason to buy it!
Oh shoot, I'm one of the people in the tie for 3rd. Had no idea I'd make it this far, considering that I filled out my bracket before watching the first video and before knowing what half of the games were
That's really all it takes
I'm voting against Adultery, because I want to forget that Adultery was made into a board game.
my only hope for this tournament is that Adultrey doesn't take the whole thing. it's just a more boring spin-the-bottle or 7 minutes in heaven + price tag, but for folks in open relationships.
IMO, Adultery gets a bit too much hate for being immoral. I can only really see it being played at like swinger parties or something where no one is going to be upset that their partner slept with someone else. That said, the actual gameplay mechanics....
Yeah, the game clearly presumes you're in an open relationship if you're playing, so is that really even cheating?
I am biting my nails while sitting on the edge of my seat!
Charm schools were an actual thing, it was meant to teach "social graces" to the daughters of families who could afford it. They were basically normal (often boarding) schools but with a high focus on learning stuff like sewing, etiquette, etc, so that women could snag a husband.
I'm really enjoying this tournament, even tho I'm late to the party. But it's honestly ironic that you're lambasting a sexist board game while having no idea about the development of women's education.
North Africa vs Public Assistance will likely be are hard fight.
This time, most of my lack of votes were due to indecisiveness and not knowing what my bracket was.
it'd be really funny if public assistance and capital punishment faced off against each other
Adultery is riding on its name. Sure, the “gameplay” is almost non-existent but if it was named “Swingers” it wouldn’t have made it here. It’s basically adult spin the bottle
the rules of adultery are, by function, literally adultery, you are committing a crime in some states if you play this game, it is, riding on a lot of things, its name is probably one of the smallest things going for it right now
@@poppybubbles. sure but the shock value comes from the name. As mentioned, if it was named “swingers” or “adult spin the bottle” and the tagline/rules said “spice up your intimate life!” instead of “adultery” the shock value of committing adultery would be lost and it probably wouldn’t have made it this far. Despite it being the same premise with the same gameplay. In fact, I even doubt anyone would have even mentioned the act of adultery with either of those names.
Stumbled upon this randomly, CFNA shouldn't be here lol. It's iconic and should be in the greatest game bracket instead!
It's sad to see Ms Monopoly go, we'll miss it 😢
Are you going to do a loser's bracket?
I begged for this in the first episode
What Do You Meme is a real dark horse here. The others I could definitely see making it this far, but WDYM? Really?
I think the winner of the "Worst Board Game Tournament" has to be an actual game, and some of these just aren't.
- Candyland is a relatively short kids' activity to get them to take turns.
- Adultery is an excuse for swingers to have sex.
- CFNA is a work of art that just happens to be playable.
Hoping that their streaks end here, and the winner is something that actually tried to be a game and failed. Among the remaining contenders, I'm backing Public Assistance.
Holding the intended audience of Candy Land against it is really weird imo. It's just simplistic, it's not confusing or mean or immoral
Kids aren’t that dumb
Rest in piece Vanilla Ice…
Calling it here that Campaign for Africa and Adultery is going to be the final 2.
One game is unplayable, the other could get you arrested, making it legally unplayable. At least with Campaign for Africa there's a game. Adultery, as far as I can tell, has little in terms of gameplay as well as being morally reprehensible. That's a combo that even Candyland can't compete with, which is simply just boring.
The commercial break framing device probably feels so smooth for free users, they always feel weird when viewing from a Premium account
People watch youtube ads? Sounds bad
Have to nitpick a bit of the commentary: a game with a higher-numbered seed is the lower seed, not the higher. (e.g. a 10 seed is lower than a 3 seed)
but if we're looking for the worse game, wouldnt a lower number fit even more than a higher number in your terms?
Honestly I think Ms. Monopoly should've won, Adultery might be, well, Adultery, but at least it succeeded at what it set out to do, the same thing can not be said about Ms. Monopoly that tried to girl power so hard it wraps back around to being misogynistic.
1.5x speed feels like it has the correct cadence
This is terribile and bad. I love it. kinda.
ive lost faith in humanity as oy vey lost to fucking rps
I cant wait for the espn special about this.
the war fight is funny.
Am I crazy or is the Josh segments not edited into this? I miss the bear guy
A wise man once said: "what's the most important elements of any game? Being able to fucking play it!"
North Africa cannot be played. You literally can't play a whole game of it. That absolutely has to be the worst possible crime a game can commit.
Its not literally impossible, it just takes forever :P
Can't wait for campaign for North Africa to get second in the loser competition
it has to be the north africa campaign
literally actually unplayable
im sure campaign for north african is going far because at least with all the other games most people can and will finish themm
I've played What do you Meme exactly once and had a great time. You just need to go in with a mocking mindset. Likely REALLY depends on the group that's playing if you have any fun at all
This. I've played it with my folks and a group of friends at two separate parties and it was a pretty fun time overall. Not as great as CAH, mind, but for what it's trying to be it's not as bad as other games we've tried.
This video series just has the weirdest format.
I know I’ve made it big when my comment appears in the Bracket Update
The hate for Rock Paper Scissors it’s just the internets ableism on full display. As someone who just got done spending three months with a serious hand injury, ain’t no way I could’ve done rock paper scissors, and it is a quick solution to millions of minor decisions so let everyone play yall.
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