How many board games can you fit in a handbag

[@3MBG]

So here we are, after what was essentially an excuse to do a bunch of small box game reviews in a single video. Not much more to say other than, don't let the size of a game box fool you. Some of these games pack a ton of skill and depth into them. Big is not always better, that's for sure. Anyway, let me know some of your favourite small box games that i can try out.

[@DanielGarciaGrandes]

A Spanish board game youtuber couple has been creating these type of videos each summer for the last years. They try to pack as many games, covering as many gaming categories, into a backpack for the holidays, and that's how I found out about some absolute gems that come in really tiny boxes. There's some overlap with those lists, but I've still found some games through you that I now NEED to try. And yes, I own Buttons & Bugs and it is incredible how much game they could pack in that box

[@3MBG]

Ha! Well rest assured I did not see their video but I'm not surprised, it seems like a logical enough thing to do.

[@inesucrvenom]

would you mind sharing the channel name?

[@inesucrvenom]

It's nice to see some very different games than bigger channels pick! Thanks for sharing!

[@3MBG]

Cheers. Being from New Zealand and never engaging with anyone from any other channel in person, i tend to have the space to come up with my own reckons a fair bit. Less of an echo chamber down here away from all the convention scene.

[@RumpleMatt]

Love that Regicide is in there. Also love Mint Works, good on you for those. I would have had maybe a couple more Buttonshy Games, as there are many great ones! Finally, track down a Japanese copy of Last Penguin and thank me later - it's Twister with bluffing, for your hands.

[@Poiuytrew.Q]

I often have For Sale and Animal upon Animal Small and Yet Great, and a few Buttonshys or Similo. Sea Salt and Paper is also cute.

[@eduardoserpa1682]

Thanks for sharing these with us, there's a lot to love here.

[@darbyl3872]

Gold Panners is a new game for a standard deck of cards. It's easy to play, but a little more complex than Rummy, especially with the variants.

[@Trystaticus]

all the love in the world for small games

[@cardboardconflicts]

Scout and Regicide are tops! Another memory and bluffing game” that’s not a hat” is fun in larger groups. Not serious but just some fun!

[@robertsvensson8251]

"Skull" is probably the most "game" with the fewest rules! Easy to teach and always a hit! "Frenzy" is a stone cold classic! It's a great filler game for a 2- player game night, and it plays lightning fast! "Cthulhu Dice" is criminally underrated and a perfect opener for Eldritch Horror! "Zombie Dice"! I keep burying it, but it keeps reanimating back to the table every once in a while!

[@SquidChild]

You can even add a few games to an emergency bag!

[@amagrude]

Need at least one dice-centric game in the mix. Spots is my family’s favorite. Variable dog tricks add a bunch of depth.

[@3MBG]

One deck Galaxy is very dice focused, I also like Deep space D6 but had covered it in another video

[@amagrude]

@ True! I got One Deck Galaxy last week. Will get it on the table this weekend. :)

[@damaddestgamer]

Some of my favorites - Cafe, (ultra) tiny epic series, port royal, sea salt and paper, Cabo, Deep sea adventure, Castles of Burgundy card/dice game.

[@3MBG]

I just got SS&P yesterday

[@Christian_from_Copenhagen]

Yay, looking forward to hear your thoughts on it! ​@@3MBG

[@Inarode]

Didn't even recognize the channel at first. Just saw the guy in the thumbnail and he looks like he's having a great time. I click, and it's even better when I realized just who did the video

[@3MBG]

Lol!

[@tommyhinzo7]

Great video. Small games are sooooo underrated, and there are so many that when I see videos like this, I always find a few new ones to pick up. A few others that we love and keep on playing: 1. Silver and Gold 2. For Sale 3. Mountain Goats 4. Pass the Pigs (fight me on this one if you must, but I will have my Pigs)

[@3MBG]

I think i played pass the pigs 20 years ago or more. I can't recall anything about it.

[@tommyhinzo7]

@3MBG It's about a 5-10 minute game. Great for passing the time and when you're up for a little game of chance. Roll the Pigs, score points based upon how they land (trotter, leaning jowler, oinker, and other ridiculous names), bank your points and pass the Pigs, or keep rolling until you win or crap out. We pull them out on trips, in coffee shops, etc. We make it a habit to play a game on vacation and take pictures of the Pigs in places like Times Square, the Grand Canyon, and Miami Beach. The Pigs seem to enjoy it.

[@seantirney5182]

😂 Was one of our go to college drinking games.

[@PyrenZero]

Playing Gloomhaven B&B at the moment. It's mini-Gloomhaven in form and in function. Wondered why I've heard basically nobody talk about it up until now as it's quite fun.

[@Maenso1]

I was hoping to see Dutch Blitz on the list, it's one of my favorite games that I can easily put in any suitcase :)

[@seantirney5182]

Great Video Mine include: Skull King Seers Catalog Hanamikoji Air, Land and Sea And Pretty much any trick taking game

[@gregorys9629]

High Society is probably my favourite and most played small box game.

[@darthkt]

Super clever gag for doing small game reviews

[@3MBG]

Thank you

[@birchlover3377]

There was an even smaller Hanabi Pocket in a tin, size of a standard deck of cards. I think it's out of print. Mine goes camping with me 😊

[@3MBG]

That would be even better, i love tins for small box games.

[@ratguy69]

Great list, I love many of those and there are several I need to try out sometime. A few that would make my list: Skull: dead simple, plays well with a wide variety of people. Can be very funny. Coup: also very simple to learn. A little thinkier than Skull and involves a lot of bluffing. Glory to Rome: on the complete other end of the scale. Very heavy for a card game, can take a while to learn and to play. Also very hard to get a copy of unless you print your own. Worth it though, such a great tableau/engine builder.

[@3MBG]

I was just about to say "I know a guy who printed their own copy", but that guy is you

[@TalenLee]

This rules, and speaking as someone who makes a lot of small pocket-sized games, I appreciate giving these folk attention.

[@3MBG]

Thank you kindly. Problem i was having is each of these games probably wouldn't be worth the time doing as a standalone video, but as a group, heck yeah

[@TalenLee]

@@3MBG I should just bombard you with my games so you can do a second episode.

[@snakysalamander]

I bloody love 6 nimmt. I've literally played it for hours before.

[@Table.Fables]

One Deck Dungeon goes on every trip with me. It’s a great game in a tiny box with plenty to play (5 heroes and 5 dungeons/bosses). It keeps me quiet :)

[@3MBG]

Played one deck galaxy yet?

[@Table.Fables]

@ no not yet but I do plan to give it a go. Would you say it’s worth playing/different enough if already own One Deck Dungeon?

[@3MBG]

Yeah, in many ways its a lot more advanced than ODD

[@Table.Fables]

@@3MBG awesome! Thanks for the heads up. I’ll look to pick it up 👍🏻

[@kitcarpo4745]

Nice, thanks! Try Palm Island!

[@CamObscura88]

15:40 isn’t sprawlopolis cooperative with multiple people? How would competitive work?

[@3MBG]

Just a Slip of the tongue, i only ever played it solo.

[@johnsullivan1476]

Surprised you didn't feature one of the Tiny Epic Games (favourite is Galaxies), Bohnanza or Zuuli/Moving Wild. An alternative to Bananagrams that we take is Wibbell++ and one that will once it is released that will go with us all the time will be Sakana Stack.

[@Poiuytrew.Q]

Wow! I’ve never seen Sprawlopolis in a box.

[@3MBG]

Huh? Is it sold in a bag like love letter normally?

[@Poiuytrew.Q]

@ no it’s sold in a plastic wallet flap thing. Very portable. Sprawlopolis might be one that’s nice for a box because of all the expansions.

[@Poiuytrew.Q]

The true question is what kind of handbag. 👜

[@3MBG]

*shrug* Am board game reviewer, not handbag reviewer, lol

[@bootstheory]

I do, I do, I DO like Bananagrams!

[@GregorMcNish]

Do you like other game systems, ie sets of bits that allow you to play many games? I'm partial to looney pyramids and abstracts (a set of discs and a chessboard lets you play so many good games).

[@3MBG]

Can't say i have much experience with them outside the trusty deck of cards

[@tinstargames]

My games always seem to be on the weird side! :)

[@NakedSV650]

Sprawlopolis is competitive? I think you got that one wrong, cowboy.

[@3MBG]

I only ever play it solo. So sure. Cowperson

[@NakedSV650]

@@3MBG same

[@Groegselmaschupp]

problem: my wife‘s handbag is bigger on the inside……

[@3MBG]

They all are. Portable Tardis' one and all

[@Vamsee_K]

Please add timestamps/chaptering.

[@3MBG]

I don't. Doing so utterly ruins your you tube stats. I'd rather people not watch than skip to see each heading and then skip forward, watching 5% of the video and tanking it. Which is what happens when people add chaptering. Don't blame me either, blame you tube for punishing people for doing that.

[@JeremyJohnsonmcmxcAD]

Algorithms are ruining everything. KZbin, Facebook, Kickstarter, etc.

[@Poiuytrew.Q]

@@3MBGfascinating. What happens if a single user watches the video once all the way through, then revisits the video jumping through chapters, but does this a dozen times? Does YT have a “memory” for each user?

[@pinchejuan93]

Can I stuff you in a bag and take you home.....to play some arkham ;) lol

[@3MBG]

Depends where you are and if it means i get to do some travelling afterwards, lol

[@iansutton7416]

Bananagrams does allow players to address that annoyance of Scrabble, where too many tiny words make it difficult to do anything meaningful, though it's still very easy to do so, but that's on us if it happens. I've also enjoyed playing it with the real-time element dialled back, e.g. with people unused to / nervous about gaming, or for whom english isn't their first language. It allows them to have fun with words, without feeling intimidated. Cockroacjh poker has long been an end of evening staple in our gaming group, and on one memorable occasion we invited a random stranger to join us. He looked/dressed like Richard O'Brien, and was a few beers into the evening. Not a gamer, but we explained the rules and then proceeded to target each other until he grasped the flow, and then brought him into it. He loved it, and the overall experience, to the point he was waxing lyrical about it to the bar staff downstairs afterwards. One of those moments where it just felt like we did the right thing and all got enjoyment. Re:Sprawlopolis, there are some other good ones in the series, from ancient realms (solo) to circle the wagons (2 player, but with a multiplayer version imminent). Scout also very popular with our group, and another it's possible to teach to non-gamers, especially if they're used to Rummy. The odd aspect of the game is the game length - super short for 3 players, rather long for 5, partly due to the # of rounds being = the number of players, but also winning by going round the table much harder at 5. Deep Sea adventure / Dungeons of mandom (push your luck), dropolter / rafter 5 / viking seesaw (dexterity) are similarly sized and a lot of fun. 6 nimmt, heckmeck, no thanks all fantastic for non-gamers (but fun for us as well). I guess that's a useful aspect of approachable small box games, that it enables opportunities to drag a box out of a pocket should a situation arise and there's interest from non-gamers to play. Mint works I agree is good - more of a gamer's game in a massively condensed form. I like the clever use of money = workers, and it works so well in keeping the game tiny. One more, but tough to get hold of in the UK, so a huge challenge in NZ: Push It! 4 pairs of chunky wooden pucks, plus a similarly chunky 'jack'. It's essentially lawn bowls in rules, with the pucks being struck by the players (however they like). It's intended as a pub game, that can even be played on the small round tables often found in pubs, and with a wonderful rule, that if any puck hits an object on the table (glass, phone, etc), then that object must stay in place for the round.