Ten Free 3D-Printed Board Games Too Silly for Stores

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Zack Freedman

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@Otzkar Ай бұрын

I still don't get what "playing" hextraction looks like so yes more videos on that

@thirtythreeeyes8624 Ай бұрын

I'm just thinking the table should be huge especially if you're getting into multiple levels.

@bytesabre Ай бұрын

I’m now imagining a live-streamed tournament of this

@3nertia Ай бұрын

Seconded this comment!

@3nertia Ай бұрын

@@bytesabre And this reply! Lol

@eponinesg Ай бұрын

@@bytesabre omg Zack can we have a hextraction tournament?

@thedjsente5858 Ай бұрын

Hi! I am Djsente, 3d playing cards designer here, thanks so much for featuring my cards! Tip on coloring, using PLA Black as face card backing, should eliminate any bleed through. That being said, I’m extremely excited to see my favorite maker KZbinr having printed and featuring my design!

@N0FPV Ай бұрын

Could you make an STL version for the rest of us non bamboozled folks?

@Idontknowhowtoreadandwrite Ай бұрын

@@N0FPV yes do that please :D

@wayneswonderarium Ай бұрын

Congrats for winning some fame points🎉

@thedjsente5858 Ай бұрын

Exporting as STL in print from is not possibly unfortunately. Since, STL doesn’t have color data, is basically be a blank card. The card depends on special overlapping object rules in Bambu slicer, that as far as I know aren’t in other slicers in the same way, for other color systems. If you want the segments, they can be exported as individual parts from Bambu slicer, via export all as STL, you may have to break object assembly first though. Again though, even with that you’d have to figure out a new way to get this to work on a different platform and color system.

@N0FPV Ай бұрын

@@thedjsente5858 could export as compatible 3mf instead.

@alejandradd27 Ай бұрын

I don’t have a 3D printer, but I always thought they’d be a good way to replace all the board game pieces that my kids keep losing

@alext6933 Ай бұрын

Probably would be😊

@Littlebrownchicken Ай бұрын

That’s a perfect use of a 3d printer, I recommend the Bambu Lab a1 mini, as it’s a very reliable machine and it’s only $200 at their website.

@samhale5413 Ай бұрын

Yes. They are. 😅

@occisoft8082 Ай бұрын

Many such cases! half of what I print are things my kids broke

@fpvbuilds2023 Ай бұрын

They work great for that as well as other household items!

@elementalbulldog Ай бұрын

I ran a table of 3 hextraction boards for k-5 at a STEM event night hosted at the school and it was very busy. It got just as much attention as VR. I've been asked to ramp it up to 6 boards this year. For me the kinetic no rules added tiles are just amazing for small children to play

@PhonePhreak3z 2 сағат бұрын

That's awesome!

@rosserobertolli Ай бұрын

Thanks for featuring my Catan Globes! If you are not going to play it, the Polypanel version is absolutely the right choice, but the magnets play soo much smoother and don't rely so much on tolerances. You need some crafting skills though, since I designed it for myself 7 years ago as a nice project. Thanks again for the feature!

@Tardvark Ай бұрын

How do I find the files???

@rosserobertolli Ай бұрын

@@Tardvark A google search does wonders. It's also in Zach's description and I have the files both on MakerWorld and Printables under my profile name Rossero. Good luck!

@hrvstmn31 Ай бұрын

@@Tardvark They're in the friggin description my dude.

@thezfunk Ай бұрын

He missed the ability to declare that, 'The hexagon is the bestagon!'

@PaintedPapaya Ай бұрын

Love your marble machine work!

@calums.6272 Ай бұрын

Quick note for 9:40 3mf files intended for bambu studio can also be opened in orcaslicer allowing for slicing for most printers, not just bambu ones.

@tektrixter Ай бұрын

To add: 3mf is an open format that has existed for almost a decade. Any slicer can add support for it.

@JohnLattanzio98 Ай бұрын

3mf is not made for Bambu, it just also works with it. I actually prefer to use 3mf whenever possible because the files are smaller with the same quality and it has a little thumbnail so I can easily see what the model looks like without opening it

@QualityDoggo Ай бұрын

@JohnLattanzio98I think some slicers add metadata intended for themselves but the models are the same yeah

@randomblock1_ Ай бұрын

3MF files are literally just ZIP files with STLs and metadata inside. You can just rename it to .zip and get STLs out.

@Landmark-tq2qt Ай бұрын

Yeah that was confusing me. Surprised he's not familiar with Orcaslicer

@ees_br549 Ай бұрын

My wife walked in while I was watching this video. Guess who now has several large printing projects assigned to him.

@thedoctor16 Ай бұрын

Is it Frank?

@Dlutheran Ай бұрын

Awesome 👍

@cateyenebula Ай бұрын

Is it your wife?

@wayneswonderarium Ай бұрын

The hero you deserve

@ClaudiuTudoras Ай бұрын

Do we have the same wife?

@pixel_vengeur391 Ай бұрын

I would LOVE to see a lightly edited full game of Hextraction. It would really help put it all together, maybe with different sets of tiles for each round, different board sizes, house rules, whatever :D

@Major_plumpudding Ай бұрын

Yeah there's a lot of Hextraction parts/options/info to sort out. For the board I went with the Super Fancy Remix by Inaudable (on Thangs) because it's easy to pack and carry, and sets of tiles by DomPerignon on Makerworld.

@Major_plumpudding Ай бұрын

Check out the "Super Fancy Remix of the Hextraction Game Board" by Inauble on Thangs, and Domperignon has a many collection of tiles on Makerworld.

@thefinaldegree Ай бұрын

In New Zealand we have Christmas during summer, so the beach cards are perfectly fitting for us 👌

@HavokTheorem Ай бұрын

I came to say this :)

@wilkgr Ай бұрын

For real, I had to do a double take when he said that. It's summer in the entire southern hemisphere! :)

@pseudotasuki Ай бұрын

Excellent point!

@ChristoBoshoff Ай бұрын

Another vote for the other half of the world who celebrate the season on the beach. Those cards are the right vibe. #SouthAfricanChristmas

@justinbanks2380 Ай бұрын

@@thefinaldegree rub it in! (I'm from Midwest in the states. It's always cold. 🥶

@MakerofThingss Ай бұрын

Zack. I was watching this on my TV. With surround sound. THE SIDE. Thanks for the heart attack.

@longwing Ай бұрын

I just shipped off a copy of Hextraction to my nephew for Christmas today. My least favorite part of the game is that there's SO MANY TILES that I want to print and haven't printed yet.

@ExplosiveDisregard Ай бұрын

fun fact playing cards have a thin layer of graphite in the middle to make them un see throughable. which is great till someone puts a card onto a damp drink ring and the edge of just that one card is permanently blackened and stands out wherever it is in the deck. not that common or annoying unless you are doing close up magic at a restaurant, which is why I know this lol.

@madengineer9072 Ай бұрын

The best part about gifting and playing Catan is you don't have to worry about giving any gifts next year. That game is one of the few that was banned from my friend group during grad school...for reasons... justified reasons.

@inventor121 Ай бұрын

A friendly stabbing? At one point my colleagues came up with the rule that if you were going to fight over a tile you had to do it in a joust. Granted there was plenty of booze that was flowing that night and some previously unwise decisions were made. Such as the robber not only taking tiles and a card but also 10 bucks from the schmuck who got robbed that would stay with the player doing the robbing. The other unwise decision of the night was having to chug a beer for every wheat tile you spent and action done (card usage, building anything, trading, etc) I found several of my colleagues drunkenly pushing eachother on shopping carts wielding broom handles and trash can lids on a collision course for eachother while several had clearly managed to knock eachother out.

@oasntet Ай бұрын

Battleship is a commercialized version of a game that used to be played on nothing but paper for decades before MB came along and decided to cast a version in plastic. I could see showing up to a boardgame night with a Settlers Globe, just for the reactions alone...

@bartz0rt928 Ай бұрын

I used to play pen and paper battleship with classmates and we thought we were very clever for having come up with that :D

@grahamturner2640 Ай бұрын

@@bartz0rt928 I remember a class in high school where my teacher had people play that during class.

@smooticus 12 күн бұрын

I need to make an official Battleshots board...

@Timbit901 Ай бұрын

THAT TICKET TO RIDE SLANDER IS UNACCEPTABLE. Great video btw

@phoneaccount-hc7cz Ай бұрын

I thought he was talking about 18xx games 🤣 TTR is probably a better guess

@serpzero Ай бұрын

I thought he was talking about monopoly 🤣🤣

@wayneswonderarium Ай бұрын

Monopoly is definitely worse

@Jedduh Ай бұрын

As rightly said by Quinns… Monopoly is a global disease. TTR is seasonal allergies by comparison.

@TheDarkNerd Ай бұрын

Wait, Ticket to Ride has something to do with a Voucher for Locomotion?

@apollolux Ай бұрын

The Roman Aqueduct tile had me realize why I like the concept of Hextraction: pinball and Plinko. :)

@thatJoshieJosh Ай бұрын

14:09 As a person who has just finally bought their first 3D printer: YES

@amazingbutno5303 Ай бұрын

YESS

@Beefyrulz Ай бұрын

You know for the battleship one, though it may require a little extra processing beyond print & play, they could adjust it or offer an alternate version without the holes pre-printed and instead swap them for small divits. Then simply take an appropriately sized drill bit and bore out each hole. As well they could make the holes big enough for a given gauge of filament, then simply snip snip as many pieces as you need for your game board. Bonus points if you just mash the handle-end of the bits against a hot-plate to flange the ends for easier grabbing.

@NochSoEinKaddiFan Ай бұрын

15:00 I had to replay that part to hear your wife laugh, because I was laughing so hard myself I didn't hear anything anymore xD Your scripting is just a second level hextraction aqueduct type of genious, consitently and constantly. I absolutely love what you do with image, language, presenting and printing!

@SpydersByte Ай бұрын

definitely lol'ed 😅

@Feynt Ай бұрын

Moar Hextraction! The cards are honestly a mind blow. I didn't think a 3 layer print would work that well.

@gcmprints2060 Ай бұрын

I would love an updated hextraction video. I would also really love if you put together some curated packaged versions of your favorite tiles and things that make the game fun for you. I would really like to just l be able to just download a pack and play, without having to have 40 various printable folders and keeping them organized.

@oscardiggs246 Ай бұрын

“…like being too broke to buy gifts because you spent all your money on a 3d printer.” It’s like you’re holding up a mirror to my soul.

@masonalbers6657 Ай бұрын

Thank you for making this your job. Your really funny and I’m glad we get more of you

@devnol Ай бұрын

Brooke losing it on the "You know what they say part" is a testament to how good this guy's writing is, he even gets his wife sometimes, and that's definitely not easy.

@SpydersByte Ай бұрын

yea the jingle balls and the SHUT THE F#$% UP! had me dying 🤣

@TheTexan83 Ай бұрын

hey, Those beach cards are PERFECT for a southern hemisphere christmas. *he says as he is sipping a bourbon while watching a video on his phone at the beach in New Zealand.

@StormBurnX Ай бұрын

I remember being around over a decade ago for things like MintyBoost and other altoids-tin projects, but I had no idea the rPi was specifically sized for the tin. That's wild.

@LidellFrasier Ай бұрын

Holy crap, MintyBoost. *That* is a blast from the past.

@MakerAventuras Ай бұрын

I never understood how a tin can came to be this typical for electronics projects. You kinda want your project enclosure to NOT be made of conductive metal. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@StormBurnX Ай бұрын

@@MakerAventuras It's pretty easy to understand that you need adhesive pads to hold down your boards and batteries to keep them in place, and that adhesive pads are not conductors. You're not shoving a random PCB directly against a metal tin, you're securing it in place with something. You could 3D print a bracket to hold a chip - that's plastic. You could use electrical tape to hold it in place - that's plastic. You could even use hot glue if you wanted - that's plastic. So many people that say "I never understood XYZ" don't even bother to spend a few seconds to actually consider how something would be done. 🤷🏻‍♂

@rya3190 Ай бұрын

@@StormBurnXI think they just meant the irony of it, not that it isn't easy to get around.

@PendragonDaGreat Ай бұрын

@@MakerAventuras Simple: because they are fairly cheap, and available nearly everywhere. To fully understand you need to take another half-step back a lot of the earliest Altoids projects were radio transceivers little portable things that with a length of speaker wire as an antenna and a morse code key could be used by an amatuer radio operator out in the field, then they became voice mode, and the form factor stuck. They're great for radios _because_ they're metal. It acts like a little Faraday Cage meaning the only EMF that gets in or out is controlled. Then as @StormBurnX said you weren't attaching components directly to the case (though it also was used as a ground plane fairly often).

@AlexSwavely Ай бұрын

@17:00 One can buy the "cards and stuff" for catan separately from the whole box set.

@DiscoBallGaming Ай бұрын

you know of all the 3D printing things, I never thought Miami Vice styled playing cards could ever be printed, I really can't believe those work with PLA, that's incredible

@bosstowndynamics5488 Ай бұрын

8:40 As an Australian, beach themed Christmas is totally a thing

@mudawott Ай бұрын

especially on hot ones

@perttipalo7940 Ай бұрын

I feel this is the right time and place to confess that a certain cyborg called Zack has been part of why I once upon a time bought 67 empty Altoids tins... And I feel it was a good investment.

@brooksmiller5597 Ай бұрын

4:40 - send everyone's careful setup *_right out the window_* - tactical defenestration 😂

@Tristishominissomn Ай бұрын

That stacking tetris one is actually a really dumb fun party game. No fancy rules, just stupid moments, perfect stuff.

@TheStarMachine2000 Ай бұрын

You can also print a deck of cards at standard thickness without multicolored filaments by printing 2 layers at the smallest layer height then cutting out only the top layer. It works especially well with a silver or shiny fiilament as the alternating layer lines show the value of the card. It was a project I was working on a while ago and never got to complete

@spearwy Ай бұрын

I feel so called out about the comment of his "Some of you don't watch my videos, you just listen in the background."

@tonybelu Ай бұрын

I chuckled at 17:30

@onerian8178 Ай бұрын

id love more videos about hextraction

@22oreos Ай бұрын

the 'i like my gaming how i like my women, four in a row, themed after naval warfare, and / or reeking of peppermint' caught me so off-guard as a first-time viewer and legitimately made me smile. thank you

@ScytheNoire Ай бұрын

The cards should be printed with at least one layer of black in the middle. Preferably it would be a black layer sandwiched between two white layers, but this would increase thickness. Normal cards for games, the high quality ones, and double-sided signage, have that white-black-white sandwich to get vibrant colours on the surfaces while obscuring the other side.

@haph2087 Ай бұрын

The hard part is making them have enough material to stop seeing through while still being thin.

@Brett_is_Veng Ай бұрын

the wool filament pun is some of your finest work

@kp-re8so Ай бұрын

i minute ago is crazy, i bought myself a printer because of your channel, im very much suprised with how much i love it. Just create something in blender or fusion and i can make it exsist. thank your for your content

@andreafeelsfantastic Ай бұрын

9:36 you could salvage them by spray painting all the backs, then print a stencil to spray paint the back design back on in another color

@BeardedPrinter Ай бұрын

A great game would be one where the winner and loser are obligated to say (respectively): "ez pz lemon squeezee" and "super duper lemon pooper"

@lovehansel Ай бұрын

That hextraction stuff was simply amazing. Thanks zach for the great content as usual.

@strange_mood Ай бұрын

Zach, you are a legend. Thanks for the hard work you put into these videos, never failing to make me at least 20% happier.

@hyperphrog69 Ай бұрын

9:58 I don't see a reason why I can't export the stls and do some fuckery in blender to make them printable on other platforms

@stephdaneliuk6299 Ай бұрын

Okay, so, I am either too stupid or too stoned or probably a combination of the two, but the cleverness required to think up Hexatraction and then MAKE TILES for it just blows my mind. I am in no way shape or form that creative or clever or wise to play or design for a game like that. So... goddamn kudos to everyone.

@jonponton Ай бұрын

I printed the balance Tetris for my kids and it was a hit!! A lot of fun, plenty of laughs and they’ve played again since

@McStebb Ай бұрын

I designed a set of boats to be used as Battleship pieces, but sized up so you can use them to hold shots of liquor... I've withheld uploading them for fear of them immediately getting scraped by print farms and sold on Amazon or Temu, but this video has me inspired to just go ahead and do it.

@HereBecauseICan Ай бұрын

Been meaning to make Hextraction for a while and finally doing it now for some Christmas Day family shenanigans! Would definitely love to see more videos on it, even if it just helps the YT juices give it more publicity. P.S. I decided to go with the "Modular" modified version because: 1) All the parts are printable on a machine with a build volume as small as 120mm^3 (i.e. Voron V0) 2) Instead of glue, it uses printed nuts to attach the main board pieces, feet, and side gutters (I hate the idea of having to glue 3D prints) 3) It allows for making the main board any shape or size you want, lending to a plethora of brain bending balls (double entendre pun intended 😜).

@MartinGrider Ай бұрын

Some amazing writing here. "gravity-driven bejeweled clone" 😆

@R2N2_42 Ай бұрын

Catan is one of my favourite games. Surely printing it

@SkyfighterZX Ай бұрын

Those cards are the coolest diy cards i've ever seen, you could make the ultimate uno deck to end all your friendships and even create your own sneaky cards

@workshop94 Ай бұрын

Nearly spit out my drink at 11:56 😂😂😂 also, I’m definitely going to have to figure out that playing card print, I have an idea… 🤔

@legoruthead Ай бұрын

I laughed loud enough at "Gravity-driven bejeweled clone" that my wife came from across the house to see what was so funny

@MichaelBehrnsMiller Ай бұрын

This. This is the funniest man on the internet. He is also a good comedian.

@SpydersByte Ай бұрын

*also* a good comedian, is a comedian not a funny man? lol

@tad2021 Ай бұрын

There are 2 version of 2-player Blokus, a smaller version of the board with only 2 colors and just using the regular board and each player using 2 colors. I think the full classic version had rules for a 3 player version, not sure about the newer prints. One of the first useful prints I designed and made on a decent printer was a replacement set of pieces for classic Blokus (a full set was going to match color better).

@EonMon Ай бұрын

I'd love another Hextraction video! I find it absolutely fascinating. Love that it's all open source!

@Spaxxist Ай бұрын

Just binge rewatched all your videos last month, and today appears a new one! Happy holidays and all the best wishes to you and your wife :]

@HauntingSriracha 12 күн бұрын

Dawg PLEASE make more videos featuring your favorite Hextraction pieces those were so cool

@jesperbolopetersen630 Ай бұрын

Regarding the Playing cards. I used to work in the Printing buisness and we used metallic color as a masking layer, so you can’t see true prints from the other side (double side Windows stickers). Maybe the combination of a metallic middel layer, could make some cool effects and also block the graphics.

@monkhm Ай бұрын

We're printing Hextraction for my marble run obsessed kid for Xmas this year :)

@Chocomint_Queen Ай бұрын

"You think Catan and Ticket to Ride suck?" "I do, and I'm tired of pretending they don't."

@ChillinWithTheCapuchins Ай бұрын

If I ever decide to bite the bullet and drive down the 3D printing rabbit hole, it will be because of Hextraction. I love marble tracks, I love table top games of all sorts, and I love modularity and expandability. Hextraction is a game that feels like it was designed specifically for me. That bullet is looking really chewy, and that rabbit keeps taunting me.

@Doc-Holliday1851 4 күн бұрын

I actually have a party coming up with 3 friends I haven't seen in a while so the party maze sounds amazing!

@davydatwood3158 Ай бұрын

I think "sliding down your chimney" may be my new favourite euphemism, and it is quite timely given my weekend plans. So I'll forgive your execrable attempt at French. :p Several very intriguing things in this video, yay!

@jeremyh747 Ай бұрын

Like everyone else says….more Hextraction please! Maybe show some examples of how the more complicated tiles work in practice and how they interact with your rules. Helping us understand how some of these tiles work without having to actually print them would be a huge plus. Thank you for this amazing game!

@Grumskiz Ай бұрын

I was very hyped about Hextraction when you first released it and I have a playable set I printed myself. Gonna be honest, no one I played it with ever seemed excited for more. They just thought it was kinda neat that it was 3D printed and then we moved on to other board games. IME, the hextraction board seems to fill up quickly with annoying/adversarial tile placements. This means playing a ball is quite underwhelming. Mostly it seems they get stuck in useless spots or drop off. Winning moves rarely seem planned. Browsing and printing tiles was most of the fun for me. The basic game board I built works, but is very difficult to take anywhere and breaks relatively easily, but it generally works ok. Overall, I think for me the game needs a bit of tightening in rules and design. Maybe you have some ideas about alternative rule sets? Or maybe there are sets of tiles that are known to work really well and provide an excellent (instead of just "ok") gameplay right out of the gate?

@Gismya Ай бұрын

Another vote for an hextraction video. I’ve extensively looked for cool tiles, and had completely missed the first of the two you showed. I bet there are tons more I've been missing or underestimating

@williamfrom6021 Ай бұрын

Cards you can take to the beach sounds like a perfect stocking stuffer in Australia. Going to the beach on Xmas is common here.

@plugwithapug Ай бұрын

I would love another full video of Hextraction ™️ now that there are more parts and new levels to it.

@Mattggiano Ай бұрын

I need a video series with updates only of Hextraction 🤩 Great ideas ❤

@stephdaneliuk6299 Ай бұрын

I think you have solved boredom forever

@IQof2 Ай бұрын

Watching Zach assemble things is like watching AvE unbox things

@Tesseract_King Ай бұрын

I would absolutely love more Hextraction content. I still play it and im still tinkering with tile designs for it!

@MFPOD Ай бұрын

Hey Zack, Hextraction makes me think of a game I bought my kids years ago called "Turing Tumble". Have you seen this thing? I's marbles traveling down a grid with various parts that switch, alternate, combine, etc. The game is cooperative, and you're trying to configure the thing as a physical computer. You have red and blue marbles, and the playing board is set up to start the next ball when the previous one hits the bottom (via a clever linkage of paddles and rubberband). The challenge might be something like, "start with 6 red and 6 blue in their respective starting spots, and configure the board to mix them into the output so that they go red-red-blue-blue-red-red... etc. The harder challenges are using binary flip-flops to calculate stuff. E.g., set up a series of 8 flip-flops like they were a byte of bits in the 0 position. Start with 2 red and 5 blue, and calculate the product of 2 and 5. The byte should be in the 10 position (00001010) at the end. This kind of mechanical-computer business seems like it could be fairly easily expressed with Hextraction, yes?

@Kalabajooie Ай бұрын

Don't forget, it's summer in the southern hemisphere. Beach-themed cards would be a great choice.

@nuhashhossain5320 Ай бұрын

That Background B roll comment hits home when you realise that you yourself is the one listening to it in the background.

@hellsfirefreedomtube6984 Ай бұрын

1:45 You pegged my Battleship. LoL 😝

@lalit-yadav090j0ow Ай бұрын

W channel, high key and inspiration for my own man glad to see you grow!

@EmeraldOreCreeper Ай бұрын

I would love to see more hextraction videos, more remixing, more booster packs, more tile showcases, give it all to us!

@iakan6937 12 күн бұрын

"I'll plug them when it's funnier" is the greatest

@thefantawarrior3174 Ай бұрын

I think your writing skills are really underrated, this was a really tight script

@BarafuAlbino Ай бұрын

You can use Freecad to easily create models for printable cards out of SVGs or just text.

@DioTheBeastWeMiss Ай бұрын

I wanna see a cut of Zack reading the supporters but 3 or 4 at a time overlapping to match the chaos of his videos

@nodrance Ай бұрын

i am genuinely considering buying a 3d printer just to print hextraction. The game is simply that clever and looks that fun to play with

@mortyforty8404 Ай бұрын

OMG, JFC. I literarily jumped at ''the side'', almost died. it was great

@animatorgeek Ай бұрын

"It doesn't beg the question but it does raise it" 😂😂😂

@thomasalsum2012 Ай бұрын

I just finished my first hextraction board in time for thanksgiving. It was a great hit and would love more content on it

@francisjurksaitis Ай бұрын

I just spent months hand making my prototype boardgame out of maple, suede, mild steel and plywood. It's fkin gorgeous. No true gamemonkey would be satisfied with less. Hurumph.

@sethicusiii7878 Ай бұрын

I do like it when you show off new and exciting hextraction stuff

@Xer0neX Ай бұрын

I'm totally making a hextraction set now. I kept seeing it mentioned when perusing designs online, but i didn't know what it was or that it was one of yours!