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10 Mysteries of the Board Game World

In life much is certain such as taxes, death and war. However when it comes to board games there are eternal mysteries which no man will ever solve. Below are some of the most common phenomena known to the Board Game Geek. Behold and marvel these wonders of the Board Gaming World....

Mystery 1 : The mystery of shuffling new cards

Description : No matter how much you shuffle the cards when playing a newly purchased game for the first time, the cards will still be in perfect grouped order.

Example Game : Pandemic

"Are you sure you shuffled these cards properly ? All the starting diseases are black"
"Yes I really really shuffled them, threw them up in the air, shuffled them again and then again to be sure"
Next 10 turns : Nothing but black cards are drawn.

Solution : Nothing. There is nothing you can do about this. After you have played the game 25 times the cards may appear to start having some random element to them. Maybe.

Mystery Number 2 : Watch Out Below

Description : At some point during setup or during game (or usually both) at least one piece, card or dice will fall on the floor. This is guaranteed to happen in every game session and has actuallly hapenned in every board game ever played since 1903. Some theorists have tried to expand on this rule by suggesting all dropped pieces are drawn to under the sofa but this has never been proved. Clever BGGs have tried to bypass this rule by playing on the floor - unsuccessfully as the rule still applies and the pieces just fall through the floor

Solution : Avoid playing games with more than 1 piece. This will still fall on the floor but at least it's easier to keep track.

Mystery Number 3 : The rule of expanding space

Descrption : No matter how much game space you clear to play a game, it expands to need about 5 times that space. If you then find a game space 5 times that size it will still be no good - the game wiill then need a space 5 times that size. And so on.

Solution : The art of balancing. Remember cards, rule books and other bits can be balanced very well on chairs, the sofa, your wife, your pets etc.

Mystery Number 4 : Which game are we playing again ?

Descrption : During any gaming session someone will be using part (or all) of the rules from a completely different game. Sometimes this is a completely unrelated game which no logical link to the game you are playing.

Example Game : Agricola.

"So can I put my meeple on this farm ?"

Solution : This is usually the first sign of insanity so slowly move away from the person in question (sliding the game table with you). If the person in question actually has meeples in front of them then beware - it really is an advanced case.

Mystery Number 5 : The inverse law of game box size

Description : The bigger the box the less will be in it. The smaller the box the more pieces there will be that don't fit in it. Expansions just make this worse - there was no room for the original game so you might as well just abandon hope now. A board game with 10000000000000 pieces will come in a biscuit tin 10cm square. Magically it all fits until you push out all the parts - after which you might as well try to fit an elephant in a microwave.

Solution : Be selective. Do you reallly need all the bits in a game ? Many games are improved 50% by losing just a few bits. Tip : Start with throwing away the cards you don't like.

Mystery Number 6 : The vagueness of plastic people

Description : Despite studying all the minatues for 10 minutes, you are not able to be sure that the minature you have picked is actually the character you are supposed to be playing. It is always fun to discover half way throught the game that the fearsome male warrior who has slaughtered 100 elves is actually the minature for daisy the cow.

Solution : Don't worry - it is likely everyone has the wrong minature. Also if you losing you can always reclaim the right one from another player midgame and most likely get away with it.

Mystery Number 7 : The Game to end all games

Description : It's your favourite game. You've played it endlessly over the last few months. Then comes "The Game". The best game of the game you have ever played. People laugh. People are happy. People fall in love over the gameboard and all is well in the world of gaming. But that's it. The next day the game is on Ebay for £3 buy it now - how could you ever play it again ?

Solution : Only play the game with really really dull people. I know some if you want references.

Mystery Number 8 : Fail to launch

Description : You really want to play the game. You have people who want to play it. However the anticpation of setting it up overtakes the exctiment of playing so you decide not to bother and instead watch that rerun of Friends - hey you've only seen this episode 36 times before. Often called "BGF" by medical experts (Board Game Fatique).

Solution : Leave the game setup all the time. Tip : Use super glue to make sure those parts don't get knocked about over time.

Mystery Number 9 : The Power of Imagination

Description : No matter how basic the game bits you can transform them in your head into wonderful images of the subject matter. Most people see a few counters, dice and cards...in your head you can see cavemen hunting and trading and have even given them all names. You can ever smell the dinosaurs.

Solution : None needed. Just be careful to come back to the real world at some point - for example every year around 300 people never come back from Agricola and start up new lives as farmers, trying to effect small scale farming with wooden block hedges and meeples.

Mystery Number 10 : The fun of Cellophane

Description : You've been trying for 10 minutes already to open the game with just your fingernails. It's never going to work. After an hour you admit defeat and finally fetch scissors to break open the cellophane. And then joy - you have 6 decks of cards to break free as well.

Solution : Leave the cards in the cellophane and play with the block of cards.

Mystery 11: The Summoning Ritual

Description: You're expecting one more player - maybe. Finally, you decide that they're not coming, so you start the game. If it's a new game, especially one with complicated rules, then the player finally shows up just after all the rules have been explained and the board is set up. Otherwise, they show up when you've played about 3-5 turns.

Solution: Just start the game, so they'll show up sooner! Our group calls this "performing the summoning ritual". Often, a quick filler game will work just as well.

Mystery #14 : The reprint Doom

Description : It's been proven by empiric studies that just when you buy the most expensive game ever, it will be announce a couple days later that a reprint has been secretly scheduled and is due out in less than a week.

Solution : Don't refrain from buying old version of a game you want, else, it will never come to the mass market again.

Mystery #15: The Cross Breeding Colors

Description: Color selections which looked perfectly fine to the game producer / artistic coordinator, and in fact perfectly fine in the pre-production samples, are somehow muddled and confusing when the game buyers open the box.

This mystery has been known to show up on boards, playing tiles, and the various wooden bits that are used to designate particular players. Playing the game in anything less than high strength lighting will lead to the previously mentioned player confusion (such as, "Oh, that's a blue city??")

Solution: The pieces must be cross breeding in the boxes after they leave the factory. To prevent this, all pieces of different colors should be packaged separately in pentration proof plastic. (Although, see the 'cellophane mystery' for potential adverse sied effects of this.)

Mystery 17 : The curse of the tower

Description : No matter how irregularly shaped the pieces someone will always try and build a tower with them

Solution : Play marbles

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