Top 100 Board Games Of All Time - 60 to 51 (2021)

0:00 hello welcome back to the channel and this is a channel where we give you reviews play through his unboxings we generally like to talk a lot bollocks about tabletop gaming in general and in this video we're going to be continuing our countdown of our top 100 ball games of all time this is number 60 down to 51 but clearly we'll be almost halfway through by the end of this video and then we'll be starting to get into the better games on this top 100 so if you haven't killed yourself already then congratulations and let's crack on with this list bollocks so number 60 on this list is a abstract puzzle game called quirkle this one spilled a jar back in 2011 or 2012 1m2 and in this game you'll have a bunch of tiles in front of you and you'll be trying to place the tiles out into the most lucrative point scoring places as possible you will have different types of shapes and each shape will be of a different color and if you can get all the different shapes of one color in a line or all different colors of all different shapes in one line think that's how it works confusing myself now then you will get a quirk and you'll get loads of points you'll also score points for getting sets of colors and shapes in different lines and essentially when the bag of tiles runs out that'll signature the game the person with the most points will win whilst this is an abstract game it is really quite fun trying to figure out where the best place to put the tiles are and because the board side

1:30 speaks starts off really small and gradually expands as the game progresses the amount of different combinations that are available to you becomes lost in this sea of shapes and colors right so it's quite fun thinking that there's no spaces to put your tiles that are going to score and then suddenly out of blue you spot one in the corner and hope that nobody else goes there right quirkle a well-deserved spilled ajar winner and it's quite cheap so even if you don't like abstract puzzle games this one is really really good so number 59 on this list is a game that is probably the oldest game on this list it's a dexterity game called crocodile with this game takes place on a circular wooden board with a hole in the center or recess in the center i should say and there'll be different quadrants on the board you can play without the four players but it works best for two and you'll be flicking a disc trying to get it into the center hole right if you score you get 20 points if you miss your disc stays on the board but in your next go you will have to hit one of your discs that's already on the board before the disc you just shot comes to rest right if it doesn't you have to pull off the board once you've used up all your discs you've got different points depending on where your disks are on the board and if you get over 100 points after a certain amount of games i think that's the rules then you'll win the game of crocodile right this is a wildly popular game fingers dropped down on our list quite a bit because there's another game that's sort of similar sort of overtaking it's made this not redundant but we just prefer playing the other game right so yeah crocodile is a world wide renowned classic and of course it's quite expensive you can get cheap sets

3:00 but they're not really that good it's not worth wasting your money on these shitty plastic sets that you get from amazon.der a world-renowned game that is about 200 years old and it's never nothing's ever going to go away is it so number 58 honestly this is a game by the venerable not vulnerable rhino kenichi it's the race to el dorado in this game you will be playing cards that will allow you to move across different types of terrain you might be playing one machete two mache three machete to move across jungle spaces you can play treasure cards that will allow you to buy cards from a market that will embolden your deck and allow you to move through spaces more efficiently right this is essentially a deck building slash racing game it's on this list for the very reason that i've never ever lost a game of this i might sound considered but i've never lost the game with this that's why it's in the top 100 but even if i had lost this game it's still a fantastic game there's two expansions like hexers and heroes and some golden temple thing which whilst they add quite a bit to the game you don't really need to go and get them this game plays in about half an hour 40 minutes and it's a modular board setup so most of the games won't be the same so yeah we really do like the race to el dorado and it's highly recommended by us right number 57 is a miniatures game by cool mini or not all semon as they like to be called these days it's rum and bones this is essentially a two two-player skirmish game you will have control of a series of captains and you'll have the

4:31 crew which is this big mass of miniatures will just be moving forward and trying to take out anything that comes in their path right one of the things we really like about this game is the amount of variety it's got what seems like hundreds and hundreds of different captains that you can choose from there's loads of different sets there's even a viking set called the hammers of ragnarok which we don't have it's the only thing that we don't have for this game we can't track it down anywhere but yeah roman bones yeah it's just dumb stupid fun it's just going to be a dice chucking luck fest but it doesn't matter because it's one of the games that you can sort of forgive the lack of luck mitigation because there's just so much stuff to do so many different variables so many different combinations of characters and different ships that you can use and thankfully i don't think we're ever going to see any more rum and bone stuff fingers crossed because i really don't want to spend any more money on it right so yeah one of the best pirate games out there yeah we do like it a lot and uh yes we're on bones number 56 is a game that was out of print for years and years and years and some stupid [ __ ] decided to pay stupid money for it and just when they bought it it came out back in print and it was going for about 20 quid we already had it we weren't one of those num nuts that went out and spent 100 quid on this but it's pillars of the earth it's just a basic worker placement game you'll be placing people out on the board and then you'll go around the board in a sequence and resolve the action spaces where you've come from it's got a novel mechanic about turn order where you'll be pulling tokens out of a bag and then you've got different types of craftsmen that are going to be doing different stuff right this game came with like a little jigsaw puzzle cathedral which people slag off

6:01 for being pointless but it's basically actually the timer right ain't got a problem with that i've yet to meet anybody that has actually read the [ __ ] book right i've never read the book i've got no plans on reading the book pillars of the earth but i do like the game so yeah stuff the book that could just sit on the shelf but pillars of the earth comes out quite a bit and we do like it a lot so number number 55 on this list is star wars x-wing the miniatures game right this is the first edition we're not talking about the second edition we don't generally buy games that we already own so when we that the second edition was being released and the first edition was practically redundant unless you want to spend money on upgrade kids we were a bit lift about that but yeah star wars x1 sees you take a load of miniatures out onto a bear table and you'll be using these sort of movement markers to move forward and then you'll be using dice to engage in combat it's a scenario basically you might have to just blast your opponents out of space right or you might be trying to convey different things to different places on the table right this game probably got a little bit too bloated there was a load of ships and stuff that nobody had ever heard of there was the sort of massagely type characters that were at their own sort of blue sets and all that we didn't bother with any of that but we have got enough of this to last us a lifetime it's just a bit annoying fantasy fight to try to you know milk the cash cow again and again and again try and get you to part with more money and buy stuff at your audience that's a big known ass one of the reasons why this game is not higher on the list right but anyway star wars x-wing has a standalone skirmish game on your tabletop it's got a wonderful theme and yeah if you can pick up the corset cheap it's not a lot

7:31 in it but if you can pick up a corset or two on the cheap then it's well worth a look so number 54 on this list is a dexterity game that's right here is catacombs third edition this is a one versus all game where one player will be taking control of like an overall character and everyone else will be selecting a different type of hero you might have wizards barbarians the walls elves all that stuff and other bits and pieces and these characters will be represented as discs right and you'll be flicking them around this little arena with holes in you'll be filling the holes in as sort of obstacles you'll put a border around the arena you'll be trying to flick these discs to move around and each character may have some weapons that'll have little discs you can flick if you hit the opponent then you'll do damage and then you'll work your way through the levels of the dungeon and you'll come across a big bad boss and if you defeat that then you'll be the winner of catacombs it's a very novel game it's just flicking discs right but the way that the designer has added layer and layer theme onto this is nothing more than astonishing it looks absolutely fantastic the artwork in the third edition is fantastic there's loads of expansions for this there's the wyverns expansion the caverns of solath expansion it's just a huge game and you can even combine it with catacombs and castles and have that loaded in as well right so there's an infinite number of possibilities with this and if you like dexterity games this is one way of sort of trying to merge an rpg type thing with a dexterity game it works really really well nice one so the next game on this list is a game called tales of the arabian nights this is a reprint of the original

9:03 80s version made by avalon hill i think it was this is a random style game you could have a big book a book of tales right which acts like a sort of a fighting fantasy game book two's road adventure thing you'll be moving around the board stop it on locations and you'll be taking an encounter card that will have numbers on it and then that will tell you to turn to a certain space in the book you will choose a reaction to the encounter and then that will tell you how the encounter goes right this is a crazy game you can go mad in this you can have a sex change in this you can get pissed out your nut you can get thrown in prison you can be chased around the map by an unrequited lover it's a crazy game there are rules for points so you can win it but these get thrown out the window it's just a case of running around the world going completely and utterly hope [ __ ] and we love it we love the sense of chaos we love the sense of randomness in this it's one of the very few games that lives and breathes off of its random nature and for that reason tales of the arabian nights is one of our favorite storytelling games it's just a real shame that they haven't tried to create an expansion for this because it really does deserve more content number 52 on this list is another dexterity game [ __ ] house loads of dexterity games on this top 100 but that's because we love dexterity games and you should know that right it's blocky mountains this is a game which comes with an explorer token with a little hook on the top a bear and some provisions and you'll be using these hooks to lift push pull whatever you want to do these

10:34 characters across blocky mountains out of mountains made of blocks right there's about a billion and one scenarios in the core boxes loads of expansion says the rock style expansion and you've also got another scenario book that introduces even more challenging scenarios so yeah blocky mountains is really underrated game yeah i don't know why this isn't more popular it is still available you can still get it on amazon in germany so if you're interested in a really thematic beautiful looking dexterity game blocking mountains it can't really go wrong with it you know number 51 is a rather bizarre car game by bruno for duty i think that's how he pronounced his name but it's a game called masquerade in masquerade everyone will be given a role of a courtly personality which has a special ability associated with it on your turn you'll be asked to take a card off somebody put it with your card under the table and then you will either swap the cards around or you won't swap the cards around you'll swap or not and you'll give the player a card back face down right they won't know what that is on their turn they can either take a card or somebody else swap or not or they can look at their card and activate the special ability right whoever gets a certain amount of money i think it's 10 gold or something like anyway they will win the game this game is absolutely crazy because there's loads of stuff about accusing people of swapping stuff you can try and bluff your way around the table take a punt on whether or not you think you've got the character that you need right there's an expansion for this which adds even more characters allows you to play with more even more players and lo and behold they have just released a second edition of masquerade

12:04 it's a dirt cheap game so it goes for about 12 quid it's a wonderful wonderful party game there's so many laughs everyone's shouting at each other accusing each other of being a complete another [ __ ] and uh more often than not we are but yeah masquerade a cheap as chips card game the sort of thing that you'd expect from mr fadooti and yeah it doesn't disappoint so you go that's the next installment of our top 100 ball games of all time come back for the beginning of the top 50 if you aren't bored out of your tree already if you haven't subscribed to this channel do us a favor and do that hit the like button comment and like crap and we'll see you when we start the top 50.

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