10 Most Common Fears and Phobias | Using Board Games to Face Your Fears!

0:00 hello everybody my name is Ilia and my name is Tyler together we make up c a couple that loves to play board games and spooky season is here maybe this Halloween season we will be facing some of our fears as we often do now we did want to do a little bit of a tangent we're not going to do the spookiest games spookiest games for the season instead we're going to talk about phobias phobes as we like call them phobes phobes now we have researched the 10 most common phobias or at least we found a list that says it's the most common is it an accurate list maybe not the internet is a wild wild place but what we're going to do is we're going to tell you about these phobias and then we're also going to tell you about games where you can either face those phobias or avoid them maybe you'll just want to avoid the game that we're about to recommend cuz sometimes you don't know that your phobia could be in the game and then you're playing it and you're like uh-oh uhoh so we're here to help mhm without further Ado though let's hop on in into the first phobe which is acrophobia the fear of heights and our recommendation for this one is Rolling Heights now it isn't a name it's spoton actually and there are very tall buildings in this game the way that you'll acquire the tall buildings if you'll roll little meeples and how they stand fall or go sideways will depend what you get uh as you compete to build tall and tall buildings you'll realize

1:30 there's skyscrapers all around yeah and if you've ever looked out of a skyscraper personally that can be a little terrifying it is even looking up at them cuz sometimes they like lean over oh yeah yeah that's a good point I don't like that they'll definitely have a little bit of lean in this game we live in Edmonton we don't really have skyscrapers not very big ones no anyways that's Rolling Heights now the next phobia we want to take a look at is aerophobia aerophobia which is I do want to take a pause some of these like phobias um which I find really fascinating are like very on the nose like you can tell what they're about and then others I'm just like hm where did that come from well as long as you know Latin you'll know all of them oh I do not know Latin but if I were to take a guess just kidding I I'm pretty sure I know aerophobia is the fear of flights flying flying flying and what better game to face your fear or avoid then Sky Team where you will be attempting to land and fly a plane successfully as a Cooperative two-player game now what I like about this one is you actually have the control cuz typically flying you don't have the control if you land if anything bad happens but here you are the pilot and if you don't communicate if you don't take the right coffee break I was just going to say you're not supposed to this game well you are you have to make meaning eye contact uh yes

3:01 you you are allowed to have moments of conversation before both of you roll your dice but it is essentially a dice placement game where you will be working together to land a plane and make meaningful eye contact yes make sure you are successful and work through the entire campaign I can't remember exactly how many missions there are but there's a lot of game in this box and there's an expansion coming too so there's a lot of airports you can land in there you go that's guy team now up next we have the classic Arachnophobia Arachnophobia which is fear of snakes that's incorrect that's incorrect I know I know it's the fear of spiders now here's a fun educational tidbit you may have heard of a game called hi now we have the Pocket Edition here and you know looking at it you're like there's probably no spiders in here it's bees false there is in fact spiders in here so this is a good warning that if you do have Arachnophobia you can avoid the game cuz also it's on a tile so you can flip the tile spiders right there gone or gone or gone or gone yeah there you go you never really know mhm this is a really fun head-to-head top placement game where you're placing all sort of bugs and trying to surround your be the other person's be the other person's be yes yeah and it's it's a nice little like chesses type game where all the insects in this in this game have

4:32 different like abilities so you have to like strategically use them and move them to maneuver your way into a successful Victory and it has little travel yay hi will smack you in the head smack in the head oops there you go next up we actually do have the fear of snakes o theophobia oidia phobia and the game that we chose to pair is great planes great ples now here you'll either be the foxes or foxes the foxes yes y or the or the snakes I was waiting for you to say the snakes oh sorry for some reason foxes rolled off the tongue and I was like is that right is that right is there another name for a group of foxes I don't know I don't know I think ox and Ox not a a phobe no not a phobe not a phobe anyways what are we doing in yet another two-player game look at us go well here you'll take a roll of the foxes or the snakes and you'll Traverse the ls and it's a little bit of an area control type perspective now what I like about this is you can either face the snakes so literally face your fear or you can play as the snakes and get familiar with them and face your fear in that way or again you can avoid the game Al together exactly that's great planes what planes are you going to visit maybe Sky Team planes you weren't going to Slither away with it that was a great opportunity missed opportunity I can't go back I can't go back next up we have sinophobia which is the fear of

6:04 dogs and to pair it we have dog park you could also actually just go to a dog park if you were willing to face your fears but this game is filled with them it's literally about running a walking business and you're going around training and walking dogs around the dog park you can also learn about all sorts of breeds of dogs so many there's almost every breed in this game yes yeah there's probably more breeds out there but there's a lot of breeds in this game there are yeah so you get to see all the furry little friends and you can face them or not face them mhm mhm there's also squeaky toys there are there there's like balls and there's sticks stick there's things that you would expect dogs to like at a dog and honestly for what it for what this game is which is basically like you start off bidding trying to get the dogs and you bring them into your little dog park or little kennel shelter kennel and then you decide moving forward which ones get to go on walks which ones stay in the kennel who knows you can start with the little dogs and work your way up to the big dogs exactly and that is dog park next up we have trapon aphobia which is the fear of injections mhm now no one likes the flu shot exactly but sometimes it needs to be done and where do you get those shots the clinic the clinic that's why we're recommending clinic now this is a complex game oh yes you are managing a clinic in every single aspect

7:36 where your car is going to be parked how much staff are you going to have how many injections are going to be made when do you decide to build upwards there's a lot going on in this game and I will say that if you are a heavy gamer that is looking for something that's like very about optimizing a game Clinic is definitely worth checking out M obviously um obviously cautioning against the the whole if you don't like injections kind of thing well the game is so heavy you could be so distracted trying to make your strategy work you could forget about the injections that happen in the hospital itself that is true it is quite stressful to try and manage your own Hospital once my Hospital went bankrupt and failed MH we had to start the game over yeah cuz my clinic wasn't successful everyone wants a successful Clinic exactly and that's Clinic next up we have astrophobia which is the fear of thunder and lightning Zeus himself Zeus himself game wise though we're going to recommends checking out this yet again another heavy game called weather machine you thought you want to control the weather well here you are here's your opportunity you can control when and where that lightning strikes yes and the loudness of the Thunder you actually cannot do that I was just kidding but this game is exactly that you'll be working through building this basically like operating an invention that helps you uh create different weather and you

9:10 get to kind of decide how you're going to navigate through that will it be for the benefit of you I sure hope so because that's how you win the game everyone loves good weather and you can be a part of it and that's a weather machine so now we have agoraphobia which is a fear of being alone in a situation where you cannot Escape so being in a crowded room or being in a room where you just can't leave yes and the game that we have for you today is Groundhog Day the game now you may be familiar with a movie but in the movie the same day keeps repeating and that day is Groundhog Day which is my favorite holiday yeah but you'll be doing that in this game as well it's a little bit of a puzzle you'll be trying to navigate through making your day more and more like it should be perf day but you'll be reliving the same things exactly and you'll feel almost trapped in them almost trapped I think this one was the hardest one for me to like come up with a recommendation for well the groundhog day is a great recommendation because it would not be a good feeling to be stuck in the same day again and again and not be able to do anything about it no it would not no and that's Groundhog Day now we have misophobia misophobia which is fear of germs and dirt and dirt uncleanly things uncleanly things and what is more not Messier what is more Messier what is more messier than a food fight well it's definitely

10:42 not the game food fight food fight but you will basically be simulating a food fight in this dice chucking game where you'll be rolling looking at the dice and throwing away the uh appropriate food from your plate onto other people's platters thankfully we're not throwing them at each other but but almost mhm we're throwing at each other's plates and we're grabbing the new food and it's all messy and it's a race to empty your PL and you're just touching all the different components and everybody else's as well yes so we'll have to be careful with the food fight exactly I really like to throw the Popsicles cuz they melt cuz well yeah they they would in real life that's true and in the game yeah they could mhm and that's Mickey and Friends poot fight last but not least we have social phobia well that one sounds like a good recommendation well it's a well what is it oh it's the fear of social situations exactly you can't just expect people to know which is what we're going to be doing in dorum in decorum you're trying to cohabitate with another person mhm and maybe two maybe three and you know you're living the true uh introvert life and you're trying to communicate to them in a very limited way yes by passive aggressively moving furniture and coloring walls your preference but you're trying to find the preference of everybody in the same house mhm and that

12:13 may not be the same and sometimes you'll paint the same wall six different colors in the same day thankfully because we're playing a game there's always a right answer that you can find yourself in but it is about having those awkward uncomfortable situations where you're not quite sure what your uh roommates or Partners might be looking for passive aggressive confrontation exactly that's decorum that's what you'll find in decorum you will so that has been 10 phobias or phobes as we like to call them 10 phobes and 10 games to face those phobes or to avoid them yes exactly and for the question of the day what do we got what is your phobia what are you what fear are you facing in this Halloween season or maybe you're not facing it you just have that fear let us know down in the comments below and of course if you enjoyed this video you're not going to tell them your phobia your phobe my phobia is talking about my phobia I don't know what my fear is I don't like I don't think I have Arachnophobia but I definitely don't don't love spiders I make Tyler deal with the spiders once there was a really big one in our basement and I didn't like it I don't think I have any phobias I'm not I'm I'm a little I have a big fear of drowning that's that I'm sure that's a phobia yeah yeah in fact it

13:47 is I researched it after this video and let you in on the education then awkwardly just pointed to the screen while I watched wondering what he was going to do exactly maybe that's it maybe that is it well thank you so much for watching if you enjoyed this video hit that Thumbs Up Button hit that subscribe button if you're new here cuz we make weekly board game content where we talk about board games on a weekly basis and phobes once a year that was pretty redundant not the phobes part but what I said anyways we'll see you in the next one bye