10 Board Games That Led To Real-Life Violence

[@Septicor]

4:36 I just want to point out that in 1989 a guy who's actual last name was "Noid" went into a Domino's Pizza in Atlanta armed and took the employees hostage because he thought Domino's mascot was making fun of him. Thankfully no one was hurt, and all he did was demand ransom money. Dominoes had to drop the Noid mascot because of it. Thought it ties in to this morbid topic.

[@kev_whatev]

Kenneth Lamar Noid later took his own life. Kind of in poor taste, that joke, but I’m assuming they had no idea.

[@DestinyZX1]

@@kev_whatev yep. Guru Larry talked about it in a Fact Hunt episode

[@TheBubbajoe7]

@@kev_whatev and now enough time has passed that they brought back The Noid and he was even in that Crash Bandicoot Mobile Runner game... wtf

[@kapage74]

Adam may not have flipped a table, but he has been put through one, so that counts, right?

[@xMrd0nut]

Definitely counts

[@greatmangreyyellow]

100 percent

[@hensleymarsh1160]

Of course it counts

[@kaistorm777]

Being put through a table is just the wrestling equivalent to a table flip

[@SuperSailorOutlawGeorgeIshaq]

1000 percent

[@KusKus1987]

My friend did the classic Monopoly up-end when I was about to beat him, but then went back to it and then threw the entire thing out of a third storey window. The game was run over by the traffic below, which, to be honest, is what it deserved.

[@anachronologist2017]

The only thing that would make this story better is if you happened to live on a street from monopoly.

[@FatherTime89]

When I realized Monopoly was #2 and we had already gone through chess I wondered what could possibly top that, and the answer did not disappoint.

[@setsunamajere]

So my parents and I were playing Risk. I seen that my mother was the most open to attack, so deciding to invading her countries. The game ended with a dice being chucked at my face, and the broad across the room. Yeah fun times, and haven't played since.

[@sorceressferaly4026]

I was kind of surprised to not see Backgammon on here. Surely, a 5000-year old game of high-stakes gambling played between emperors and nobles must have resulted in someone losing a limb or two?

[@dradkyn9118]

I love these lists. Adam. Do. Not. Stop. Please

[@C3R133RUZ]

Don't games like dominoes and bridge have classic history with toughness, gambling, and/or prison/crime?

[@TheOriginalJrod]

Spades or Hearts tend to be a little more common than bridge but yeah card games get pretty heated amongst tough guy types.

[@chibineowing]

What about the last Blood on the Clocktower game when Adam was the Lunatic? doesn't that count as a tableflip moment?

[@LunaticPrinc3ss]

Yes I think that counts. Adam probably disagree.

[@Whitesaber211]

Nah he didn't rage quit for one, he just changed his gimmick

[@IslandPride316]

I’ve been apart of some Dominos craziness. So I Fully believe that. I’d actually call that a nice story. Depending on what neighborhoods you play in, it can get bad.

[@eLiFILMSinc]

My favorite Game Story doesn't involve death but does involve Norm Mcdonald and an Old Man playing Scrabble in a cold, lone "Bed & Breakfast" It's the best

[@dpa247]

At a trivia night that had a board game element, it did have a prize at end. Anyways final round and this guy missed the question and he just sunk to the ground and just sat there in tears about because he lost. Now granted losing a prize sucks since he was so close but he was on ground for almost 20 minutes and the prize was only a gift card.

[@55Shadowknight]

I miss actually good, top 10s and lord of the board please adam these are all great videos at least the top ten its fun to know your opinion on a wider variety of games

[@JoshCreepa]

So who is more sore in these situations, the loser or the people getting hurt? It seems like an obvious answer, but I really don’t know if it is.

[@thetomatoist1]

Was not expecting a mention of my hometown on this list...

[@mikethegrunty5968]

5:01 I live around that area, and I’ve never heard of this incident. Not sure how I missed that

[@itezaley4932]

dawg, same. i was hella shocked to hear Wichita

[@mikethegrunty5968]

@@itezaley4932 I remember we had a big swatting incident here a few years ago that actually got someone killed

[@spoffette2623]

I have my dads domino set - one of which is slightly melted after it was thrown on the fire in a strop

[@achimsinn7782]

My parrents kept on yelling at me because of lego pieces on the floor... Now as an adult I understand why.

[@jvlog2880]

Love this channel was gonna subscribe only to realize I was already subscribed 😅

[@Jamlord2061]

for the last one the table flip itself was fatal and then a rebellion which ended in thousands of deaths occured

[@Japanlover79]

I remember one holiday when a game of risk led to a screaming match

[@joked87isback]

Just as witty as his wrestling lists. Keep goin Adam! Much love

[@Themselveswhy]

Wow No Rolls Barred just went TV-14

[@rebeccalocke4849]

My grandfather asked a ouija board if he would live to see his kids grow up. The board said no. He then stopped wanting to live and stopped taking care of himself for six months

[@giovanni385]

"Domino is not a game that you associate with intensse argument" and thats how you know Adam have never meet a Cuban.

[@roryevans4295]

6:56 could you explain bridge tho, because lord know i dont want to spend a whole day reading about it only to understand nothing at all 😂

[@johnpotts8308]

Chess also has its own name for rage quitting - "The Emperor's Gambit". Napoleon (allegedly) was not a good loser at chess and upended the board when somebody was beat him. Nobody died though (on that occasion).

[@57thorns]

Of course, the common theme here is not board games but guns. With an occasional hammer thrown in. As for people behaving badly, I honestly can't remember a single occasion. And I have played some really nasty games including Secret Hitler, Maffia and various take that games.

[@GaidenDS10]

Well if ain't that worst Adam, just ask Lelouch of Britania, he's been there.

[@SheriffOutlaw]

and i thought this only happened when it came to playing cards, geez louise, what are we doing now, leaving pistols out on the table over a game of Chutes and Ladders?

[@dannydanggang1675]

3:11 Tell me right now that's not bootleg Kevin Owens

[@kaitsutokiyas1617]

Imagine... You are one of the soldier in war asking... "Why we are at war? " " Because our leader f#k when play a board game"

[@grimthefalln129]

Worst i've seen is my brother throwing his phone through the window and it landing in our pool. (i was trying as hard as i could to not burst out laughing)

[@MegaBigmac96]

The first entry is literally where I'm at rn

[@BraxtonSwine]

So for No.1 are we going with feature film or Netflix mini-series?

[@Run1tBackTV]

Adam Adam Adam, maybe different cultures play dominoes differently but american/Caribbean houses it is hella aggressive especially at a family BBQ.

[@ianflurrance8438]

So no links? Where am I supposed to buy my crimes from now!?

[@AndrewDaughtry]

My cousin punched his friend in the face during a game of spades at a barbecue.

[@PB-tk4uu]

Dominoes being played in Cape Town...

[@bobbym1799]

So me and my friends we play Yu-Gi-Oh and a whole group of us got together one day and it was one-on-one between a younger brother and an older brother the younger brother thought that it was funny to talk trash about the older brother and about how everything he had was old and outdated so when the younger brother had the upper hand and it seemed like he had the victory well within his grasp it was funny to see the older brother turn the whole game around with one card and watch the younger brother have a meltdown as he ripped his own hair out as everyone was surprised it was so crazy all of us fit back in reminisce on how crazy that was because at that moment the game wasn't officially over it was just he had had such an advantage and had been so cocky that he could not believe that the tide could turn so quick

[@David5thUltra]

Not a board game per say, but throwing a handful of dice accross a gaming hall at a Warhammer 40k tournament htting a couple of people.

[@geanfc]

Wow, no poker?

[@garethbattell9989]

I must have a very docile group of freinds...

[@BeanieGuy2112]

What I've learned from this video is that I shouldn't play board games in Utah.

[@KHFMcAwesome]

Worst reaction I’ve ever seen to a board game IRL: Was playing Game of Thrones Risk with some mates (we’re nerds I know) and one friend kept trolling my best mate by invading his territory then just leaving. Eventually my best mate slammed the table and we all jumped. He went to the toilet and as he passed he mumbled something and the friend who was trolling him said “Mate, I HEARD you say 'bellend'!” We all laughed. That’s nothing compared to the shit on this list but you did ask 😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜

[@anachronologist2017]

*Dominoes Murders* *Nick Gage isn't Involved*

[@35raksO]

I literally lost a group of friends because they wanted to put a +2 in top of a +4... all I gotta say is "My house, my house rules" 😏

[@ericathefae]

Savages!

[@randompiizzadude7888]

Should someone tell Adam about the Dominos murders that almost happened when a man named Noid thought Dominos was making fun of him?

[@ChristopherJames1993]

That's Dominos the brand not dominoes the game. Different thing.

[@dirkmalloy]

That is why monopoly is not allowed in the house. Some have been accused of cheating, I’m not saying who but it’s not my fault I had to be the banker. No one stepped up

[@davidjackson9426]

Not surprised Dominoes is on the list and would be very surprised if it was only two deaths. The money bet on dominoes is horrendous. It is especially a problem with NFL (that’s right American Football) players.

[@MasterSackhuman]

Not a board game, but it is a table top. Years back, 2018 I think, I was playing in a Yu-gi-oh Regional. Behind me my friend was playing someone who was getting more and more fustrated with the game as my friend kept having counters to everything he did, until it boiled over, my friend was punched in the face. The man was kicked out of the game store, but then smashed one of the windows. My friend was fine, just a bit shocked and had adreniline kick in so they felt next to nothing.

[@lebutzki]

Anyone else shocked that the vast majority of these took place in America?

[@MisterBigPip]

I've never said "yikes" so much in my life, but this video? Yikes...

[@khaloriah7777]

In the American black community I can promise the young adults take dominoes very seriously

[@SLAUGHTERAMA]

Yugioh. Some of the worst reactions I have /ever seen/ have been over TCG games.

[@Alucard-A-La-Carte]

Ah, insufficient mental health help plus easy, unregulated access to firearms! The American Way! And careful what you say about the Noid and real crimes, a man named Kevin Noid took a Domino's pizzaria hostage at gunpoint, claiming Domino's had invented the Noid, and told people to "avoid" it, as a joke at his expense. This caused the company to completely abandon the character until THIS VERY YEAR. All of that is true.

[@whatdoesit_takeuk3062]

Are all these examples in the USA lol

[@blakedean904]

Not quite as crazy as all of these, but my grandmother said that she broke up with her boyfriend because he lied about cheating at a card game. She said "If you are willing to lie to me about something as small as this, you are willing to lie about something much bigger."

[@jackwilliamtaylor5656]

In her defence, I 100% get her logic

[@57thorns]

I do get her logic completely. Lies within the rules of a game is something different. Just the act of cheating in itself says something about a persons character.

[@unsociablebutterfly67]

Bruh my family added a house rule to our monopoly where you can cheat as long as you don’t get caught. As in grabbing money from the bank when no one’s looking, stealing peoples stuff when the go to the bathroom. We have no shame when it comes to cheating.

[@jimbobjones9330]

"We're not going to show any gruesome images..." I'm sorry, but you showed Monopoly at least twice in the intro. Where's the trigger warning for THAT?!?

[@kimmikkelsen9601]

So this was told to me by my aunt, at Christmass: My grandparents were quite poor, and my grandmother was basically an litteral evil person in life. One christmass an aunt gave my dad and his 3 sisters a board game. I think monopoly. For once they had something fun to do and a real present for christmass. Grandmother didn't like "the noice" from the kids, packed the game up, and tossed it into the fireplace. She simply couldn't abide anyone around her being happy. I must have looked completely aghast, cause my aunt just said: "That's your granny...." and my dad just nodded. It happened. I still don't understand people who would do that to children.

[@BadDayLp]

You know this moment when you can see broken dreams in someones eyes? Yeah, some people live for that moment.

[@ChristopherJames1993]

I'd have thrown granny in the fire after it.

[@popnpeaceprincess]

the correct response to seeing someone play monopoly /j

[@boskoboskovic1227]

It was a right thing to do if it was monopoly

[@57thorns]

@@boskoboskovic1227 No, and definitely not at that time. A friendly game of Monopoly without haggling, rents or stupid game prolonging house rules are just snakes and ladders. You walk around, buying properties and pray that you get a full set. Eventually someone wins, or you run out of time, but who cares, "it is only a game". And it is still a better gateway to more serious board games than football.

[@bleemwisspillow8686]

Thanks for throwing some token non-American incidents on this list so we don't feel so bad.

[@TheImpaler27]

When I play board games I try my damnedest not to work myself into a shoot.

[@HarleyMM1328]

Not so much a "heated" moment but while we were once playing Ticket To Ride, one person at our table (who realised she was losing) screamed that we were all nerds for playing the game before my partner shouted back in her face: "YOU'RE PLAYING IT TOO!" Thankfully, no one took it too seriously and we dissolved into laughter and continued the game. Just goes to show what happens when people start to lose 🤣

[@meatypatte7125]

Probably the weirdest rage I have ever seen was a friend swallowed a bunch of monopoly hotels

[@ExpiredSa1t]

is your friend ok?

[@meatypatte7125]

@@ExpiredSa1t last I heard he was okay it happened a while ago so but if I remember correctly he had to go to the hospital the next day

[@paulgibbon5991]

He was eating into his profits?

[@meatypatte7125]

@@paulgibbon5991 that’s an amazing pun

[@fiftyslashfifty]

Room service lol

[@Fluffyudders]

I once witnessed my brother get so salty over a game of Monopoly he legitimately wrote a letter of complaint (to Waddington's I believe) detailing the events of the game and asking them if they agreed that what happened was unfair.

[@JackOfLads]

A game of D&D I hosted recently slipped into pretty grim territory when, after a particularly bad run of luck for both began to build more and more resentment, two of my players, (brothers I might add) began to air their long standing grievances with each other in front of 7 other players.. 3 of which were joining via discord. Nd this was far from "in character". It led to a bizarre scene in which I had to essentially play dad, put my foot down and say something close to the effect of "this behaviour stops NOW or I'm turning this campaign AROUND!!".. Pretty tame week compared to some :P

[@Sykelone]

You said "200 dollars". Adam, you're British, fella. Stick with us.

[@ryanalexdoyle6468]

You said "fella" your British sykelone stick with us partner

[@BadenAW]

@@ryanalexdoyle6468 you said "your"... you are British, its "you're", stick with us

[@ryanalexdoyle6468]

@@BadenAW you said its it is it is it's stick with us

[@harveyholmes9533]

@@ryanalexdoyle6468 guys please don’t argue I’ve heard it could potentially cause a rebellion in China

[@ryanalexdoyle6468]

@@harveyholmes9533 are you related in any way to a man called sherlock?

[@radnotit]

I only flipped the table once. It was a game of Risk. What makes it interesting is that I was winning. What made me mad was how my brother was (and still is) unable to lose with any sense of dignity. After asking him a couple of times to stop being so defeatist, I lost it and flipped the board. To be fair, I was still a teenager, but ever after more than 15 years I still remember this vividly.

[@DarthNater246]

Most table flips are not because of the game. It's because someone playing is being a major asschunk.

[@BadDayLp]

Most tableflips could be prevented if people would decide BEFORE the start of the game if they play according to the rule book or with a homebrew. And EVERY "but the rules..." need to be put down immediatly because everybody agreed beforehand. Since doing that, there never was a risk of a table flip ever again. I just had to make clear a few times that there is NO complaing about rules IN the game. You can voice your ideas beforehand and not when it comes great to your current game.

[@garthantash]

I played tournament 40k for about 20 years. I have seen plenty of models launched around rooms, furious storm outs and tables flipped. The "best" would have been the metal dreadnought picked up by its owner and launched into the wall on the other side of the room we were playing in. It shattered but not before it left a fist sized dent in the wall. The guy calmly packed up the rest of his gear and left the event, never to be seen again.

[@domijmac]

One time I played a game of monopoly with some mates and had a mate get hotels pretty early. Another mate eventually got hotels on the reds and right before the first guy looked like running away with it, he landed on Fleet Street, Trafalgar Square and then chance carded a “go to Trafalgar Square” and was made bankrupt immediately. He stood up silently, got in his car and drove away. The next morning he got onto a plane and travelled interstate and we didn’t see him for two weeks.

[@eriksoberanis6409]

I guess the phrase, "it's just a game" doesn't apply here.

[@lostalone9320]

Adam is clearly the guy who inspires board flips, not the guy flipping the table.

[@theinfamousmrsleep]

Not a board game, but I remember an incident from Monterey, CA. where some person was doing a Vampire The Masquerade LARP campaign and stabbed an old lady to death with a sword. No joke. He took kayfabe too far. It was on local news too.

[@etrain402]

I've never heard of Adam before a week ago, and I'm not sure how he mad this way into my algo, but I'm glad he's here 🙃

[@heyrelife]

The fact that a kid actually went all Green Arrow on a guy over Monopoly is absolutely insane

[@DXKramer]

Not a board game, but still applies. I was playing Magic the Gathering against someone at a Ravnica: City of Guilds prerelease. I cast the spell Tunnel Vision, naming a card that caused my opponent to mill down to a out three cards in his deck. He lost by decking out. He punched me. I almost had a broken nose.

[@sinciti9354]

"relying on someone else to win a game is a one way ticket to stressville a town on the outskirts of resentmentburg" And yet we keep designing all of our competitive video games to be 5v5... No wonder gaming sucks right now

[@scottybuckets2365]

The irony of people going to prison for life over a game of dominos, only to play dominos for life.

[@QT5656]

Thanks for another excellent video. My younger brother (when he was about 7 years old) once flipped cluedo but I was never in fear of my life.... There was no danger of it escalating to Master Jones, in the bedroom, with the candlestick.

[@IceMetalPunk]

Well done.

[@theunamiable]

Should have had a photo from the Sopranos episode where arguing over Monopoly house rules led to a mob hit. Admittedly not of anyone present at the time.

[@SponsorNo1]

Bloody hell, Adam. NRB after Dark...

[@gusto8169]

Make the volume louder on your videos. Especially Adam's. The ads are far louder and Adam's dynamic voice overs often have me turning it up and being blown out by an unexpected ad.

[@NGMonocrom]

Wait! This isn't What Culture at all? 🤨

[@bcfcfantv5339]

When i was young i played monopoly with my dad i beat him and right after he left to go the shop and never came back

[@SACosby-lp5td]

I was playing Trivial Pursuit with some friends and the boyfriend of one of the ppl playing got mad because he couldn't answer one question correctly so he grabbed the game and the box with the questions and tossed it out the window

[@thomassiggaardandersen6759]

Red flag.

[@thedman-zx1ip]

Kind of surprised that there wasn't any poker on this list. I think that poker cheating was one of the leading causes of cowboy death

[@sheepdog8140]

Spongebob almost ended up on here after Eels and Escalators.

[@vaarios]

Gotta be more careful who I invite over for my game night tomorrow

[@SESauvie]

I've been in a few online d&d sessions where one player or another has just lost their cool and attacked a pillow or desk. As for ones I have seen, the venue for fighting game tournaments I played at was a shared space with card game players and the magic the gathering days had more than one instance of throwing punches or flipping tables.

[@rawdonjones8814]

My siblings cry If they are losing in Risk or Monopoly.

[@DimMak73]

This is why I like cooperative games lmao

[@InstilledPhearCostumeCavern]

I know this isn't quite the same genre, but I broke my Gameboy Advance on my forehead when I was a kid because I couldn't beat a secret boss in Golden Sun. I never told my parents exactly how it broke, but I knew that if I wanted another GBA, I would have to be the one to pay for it. That $40 I spent on a lightly used GBA was a lot for 12-year-old me, and needless to say, I learned very quickly how to reel in my temper after that incident. I still have the replacement Gameboy and it still works like new.

[@charlescassis]

A few friends and I were playing Cards Against Humanity and after the most puritan man ever said the things he had to read, he got up from the table put the box in the bathroom and flushed the toilet. Making it sound like he flueshed the cards.

[@theMainFNMan]

Those Domino's pizza murders sounds like a new AEW Nick Gage t-shirt

[@jonmel]

I can think of an future one when I send Adam an themed monopoly gams for the Xmas special 😄

[@dylanogg347]

All games on this list have had at least one session attended by Marcus. Coincidence?

[@Bynx08]

This video is so depressing, I gotta go stare are the Takenoko panda for a while.

[@dougbarrett619part2]

For me it was a game of Uno in which I got hit with a draw 4 3 times in a row. I ended up tossing the cards into a fireplace then piss on said cards. And Yes I was drunk

[@jacksoncorvus]

A friend of mine actually got divorced after a game of Monopoly. His then-wife got so pissed that he wouldn't sell her Boardwalk and Park Place for a Get Out of Jail Free card, bitching about "We're married, we should be sharing them anyway" and flipped the board over. He was talking to his lawyer the next day. Didn't help the fact that it was revealed she was sleeping with his brother....