10 Games to Make You SOUND Smart

[@truce11]

Netrunner immediately came to mind. Omg plz do a Null Signal Netrunner vid plzzzzzzz. Rez the assets to get credits, fast advance agendas in remote servers, fire the subroutines, end the run...

[@Shelfside]

Wow you sound pretty smart. But yeah it's been on my mind! My netrunner friends are currently consumed by Grand archive -Ashton

[@robertthurman9866]

According to legend Campaign for North Africa was never meant to be played. It was an exercise in logistics to show how complex war is and see how much detail could be researched. As well as water for pasta for the Italians you have to figure out how much gasoline has evaporated for every vehicle. When the game came out the KayPro and Compaq "portable" computers arrived. They came with BASIC language on disk. This was before spreadsheets were invented. People wrote special data bases for the game and would take them to conventions where 8 people would play it over the course of a long weekend convention. I wrote several Apple II data bases for my Wizardry characters as well as another that would print out rows of "*" to make a bar graph of performance data for an auto racing board game I made. Fun stuff!

[@robertthurman9866]

I really did all this stuff but I wanted to sound smart! How well did I do?

[@Shelfside]

dang yeah you sound really smart :) -Ashton

[@jatedin1077]

Super fun list, made me think of John company which unironically taught me some history I didn’t know about all while getting crushed at an absurdity complex game

[@Shelfside]

oooh! That's a good one actually. Forgot about that -ashton

[@okuzhori]

I explained john company 2e to my friend on the train and i felt like the biggest dork

[@wmarclocher]

Oh man, you invited Cuba Libre and just to have them stand in the corner holding your glasses. On the other hand, probably just happy to be getting some attention since now everyone is only talking about Mars.

[@Shelfside]

and so will we soon! -ashton

[@DP-wf8ws]

You guys are litterally my go-to board game reviewers and I really wish you found time to review Twilight Struggle..

[@Shelfside]

We're getting there! I have played it 3x and already have the thoughts fleshed out, its more about finding the time now :) -ashton

[@Zombie8tHeart]

Scrabble is my number 1 sign of intelligence

[@Shelfside]

Was thinking about that, but you can just do cheese words and win the game -ashton

[@ProgressIsTheOnlyEvolution]

@@Shelfside True but you can technically also be terrible at chess, poker, Magic the Gathering, Dune Imperium and Diplomacy and be bad at the game. You just have to be better than those you play against. Still Scrabble at least should mean you know words, the meaning and spelling of words, and how those words score the most points which means you know some math which already may make you smarter than the average person out there.

[@Shelfside]

@@ProgressIsTheOnlyEvolution ahaha had a good chuckle at that, cheers -Ashton

[@markchamberlain7715]

Campaign for North Africa! Yes! A play through would break the internet.

[@spitfire4209]

Look into the game Leaving Earth. It's a space simulation boardgame that requires the player to use real world mass weight ratio mathematics to figure out game actions before taking them and was designed by Nasa engineers. You're already using loaded terms like Maths and Nasa that are associated with intelligence so it ticks the box. The actual aim of the game though is to collect enough points by completing missions such as getting into orbit or first mission to mars.

[@daem0nfaust]

I want to sound smart talking about games, but I think I just sound confusing.

[@ProgressIsTheOnlyEvolution]

Great list, though I think a lot more could be added and it depends on which circles and which people you associate with on what may make you sound smart. You could add to that most 4x games or more detailed strategy or mystery solving games like Orient Express, War of the Rings, A game of Thrones, Star Wars: Rebellion, Axis & Allies, Go, Sudoku maybe even Gloomhaven, Root, Agricola, Terra Mystica, Twilight Imperium, Nemesis and of cause Dungeons and Dragons.

[@closedchill5243]

If you play Dune Imperium and not the vastly superior Dune 2019, sounding smart isn't the first thing that comes to mind. Wargames are very complex looking and people often think you're smart if you play them, but also kind of a nerd. You missed High Frontier which is Rocket Science, the game. Actual smart people play Go.

[@kintreveis1019]

No mention of Go?!

[@Shelfside]

Was thinking about it! It's just not very big in the west from what I've seen, chess kind of takes that spot -Ashton

[@FalseHell]

Turing machine is my smart game, and actually pretty fun.

[@Shelfside]

still need to play it! -Ashton

[@joeymcjoeysalot6596]

Rounders would have been my film adaptation example ;)

[@Shelfside]

honestly I've never watched it, but it did come up when I googled "poker movies" lol. Also 21 came to mind -Ashton

[@rightleftspin]

Crazy that Tigris & Euphrates wasn't in the list????? rigged

[@simondupuis8372]

10 games to make you appear funny next?

[@misterek6797]

7:28 POLSKA GUROM!!!

[@balthrus]

Labyrinth: War on Terror is better than TS unless cold war is your jam or war on terror makes you sad or angry. 🧐🤔

[@CamilleDeveveraux]

Blasphemy.

[@alanrobertson8626]

Hilarious video. I am guessing it was a gag, but the game in Casino Royale is baccarat.

[@xaviercaparrosgelabert5436]

it's poker on the movie baccarat on the book 🤓

[@Shelfside]

I've only seen the movie! And it is some type of poker there -ashton

[@arepasxo]

Shouldnt have included that game you didnt play. Total filler number.

[@Shelfside]

ahahhaa, well its a bit too crazy it has to be mentioned -Ashton