Top 10 Fun Games (At Which We Suck!)

Tom and Zee are joined by Dave Luza for this one, recorded in front of a live audience at UKGE 2018. (Disclaimer: The audio quality is exceptional but there were some syncing issues which were beyond our control.)
00:00 - Introduction
03:46 - Dave’s #10
05:36 - Tom’s #10
06:55 - Zee’s #10
08:10 - Dave’s #9
09:00 - Tom’s #9
11:09 - Zee’s #9
12:04 - Dave’s #8
13:11 - Tom’s #8
14:21 - Zee’s #8
16:05 - Dave’s #7
17:54 - Tom’s #7
19:04 - Zee’s #7
20:25 - Dave’s #6
22:10 - Tom’s #6
23:09 - Zee’s #6
24:11 - Dave’s #5
25:13 - Tom’s #5
26:42 - Zee’s #5
28:01 - Dave’s #4
30:56 - Tom’s #4
32:47 - Zee’s #4
34:05 - Dave’s #3
36:57 - Tom’s #3
38:14 - Zee’s #3
39:46 - Dave’s #2
40:33 - Tom’s #2
42:47 - Zee’s #2
44:56 - Dave’s #1
47:22 - Tom’s #1
49:49 - Zee’s #1
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[@zocknroll7162]

Dave seems to be a great father, big cheer to the passions of multiple 2 h-games with kids

[@coltonbeadz3002]

First time seeing this video. I loved watching all the games that were new that Tom and Zee didn’t know especially quacks is hilarious. Since quacks is so big at the moment.

[@kchorst5037]

This was fantastic! Worth the wait. Thanks for posting, definitely something fun to watch after a hard day.

[@almsthvn]

"the little skeletons that could"... oh gosh Zee, you crack me up!

[@rubenzaldana3135]

I'm so glad this was uploaded, It was soo fun to see a top 10 live. I'm actually the off-camera voice that sucks at Hive! I think it's great that you guys come to UKGE, as an American living abroad it's great to get a taste of home.

[@lautapelaaja]

I so feel your pain. My wife also beats me at Hive every time. And the worst part is that I kinda knew it when I bought the game 😂

[@JKArcade]

Man Zee was in rare shape for this list. He's so naturally funny off the cuff.

[@lylejackson645]

This was easily one of my favourite top 10’s ever. Super funny!

[@oldschooloverlord]

UKGE represent! I was queuing for food just besides Tom immediately before this, but didn't muster the courage to talk to him. He seemed a bit tired, but they all brought their "A" game to this show - what a pro!

[@roundtuit2587]

Gravwell. I know there's a deeper level of strategy to choosing which cards to play. I can see it in my mind. I can even teach it. But when it comes to my turn, I may as well play a random card for all the good it does.

[@frabac72]

Loved every second of it, thanks!

[@eVanDiesel]

This was awesome, get Mr. Luza on more of these!

[@ripwolfe]

THANK YOU, Zee for mentioning Small World as being problematic for you. I do the exact same thing.

[@supersamuraisunday685]

I am always last or second to last in Dixit (and we play with 8-9 people). Hilarious top 10. Thank you guys!

[@gaillardlionel]

So funny, great top 10, made me feel so much better about losing so often, thank you!

[@tinstargames]

Dave's thing about Civ is EXACTLY HOW I LOSE EVERYTHING. Bless you Dave.

[@GabChiasse]

Ideas that would be nice: - Top 10 worst expansions - Top 10 “good looking on the table” games - Top 10 “Push your luck” games

[@susanjohnson318]

Excellent!

[@mattgaffney8430]

In tears over this one. Funny stuff

[@classicsubmarineguy5477]

Looking good Sam! that clean shaven look really suits you.

[@clumsydad7158]

Sam, we miss you too, come back !!! (-:

[@22gjreyes]

Sam lost a lot of weight

[@smoothcriminal28]

Bro.....lol

[@coonbits4093]

The chess guy is hilarious, starting at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="3328">55:28</a> with the climax on <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="3380">56:20</a>... So funny :). Thx for the video guys!

[@WeAreIndividuals]

That line about the quack doctor is probably the funniest thing I've heard all year. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1739">28:59</a>

[@mgk2020]

Zee was in top form on this one.

[@bradm3783]

He is always on in front of a crowd. Must be his theatre background.

[@scottgrummert3312]

Zee is always in top form😂

[@p4wel1sko]

@@scottgrummert3312 It's sort of the same thing as playing with Jason which they mentioned. You play to be the second one... Zee is always on fire

[@scottgrummert3312]

@@p4wel1sko Exactly😂

[@polettix]

He's so hilarious 😂😂😂

[@sanethoughtspreader]

love the film and TV series references! May not know all these games, but so interesting and fun to watch :)

[@clumsydad7158]

Tom, "I won by playing the game", truer words were never spoken, kudos on the sentiment !

[@Naru-Maki]

Oh my gosh i absolutely loved watching this! I need more of these kinds of videos!

[@snakeqc]

Guys you just have to desync your audio by 13 frames back and it will be all synced. Just dowloaded the video, tried it on premiere and it took me 10 seconds to fix it.

[@RadeTcg]

snakeqc hire this man.

[@kylebraby2357]

Yep not a hard fix at all. Red flag for your editor and why your content will hit a ceiling for quality. Aka he will hold you back. He does great work but you can only get as good as your knowledge and abilities....

[@KabukiKid]

Almost positive they don't use Premiere. Not sure if what they use can do what you say, but I would sort of hope so.

[@chayashida]

Did they fix it? or am I not just seeing what you're talking about? Watching on a PC, not a mobile device...

[@snakeqc]

Wasn't implying my comment was a workaround, but more of a fix for them to use and maybe reupload. :P

[@remcodelouw1968]

Seen it live. Was a great top 10!

[@Son0fAggression]

Zee is hilarious in this one. Great video :D

[@BentDoorFrame]

Hey guys, I was feeling blue and this video actually helped!! Thanks and lol ;)

[@DrakkanWoW]

I agree so much with Tom's discussion of Space Base.... In Dominion the Mine is my favorite card, but as i am using my 4 gold cards to buy my first province, it's pretty much the last one and I get demolished... "I'm playing the long term game" Also, I have purposely lost a couple games to my wife to keep her liking a game a little more...

[@TheBrokenMeeple]

The audio syncs itself up eventually. But yeah for the first part, it's a bit off. Loved this list as I was watching it live ............ well obviously I was, but yeah it was so much fun! Even though the camera was fixed and therefore you can't see any of us when we come up.............. :P Lol the magic of filmmaking!

[@clumsydad7158]

omg, here it is... i was wondering when this would be out, or if i missed it ,,, ty !

[@mgk2020]

Dave did Top 10 Fun Games (At Which We Lose)

[@hanseathl]

It was hilarious to see/hear Dave explaining "Die Quacksalber von Quedlinburg " in particular been German! I would have the same issues and problems to explain the parts and Knallerbsen...😀🤣 And thank you Zee for easing me on Arkham Horror the Card Game. We played multiple games but never got beyond the entry level ... and probably never will... still a great game but we... well... we suck at it!

[@fabipeter]

Yes same for me! It's always fun to hear someone spell complicated German words in an english video

[@then8mac]

Board Game Day: A new movie starring Zee Garcia where he must play the same bad mass market games every day over and over until he lets someone win to break the cycle. I'd watch it :)

[@nicksbordone5271]

Dave did well filling in for Sam's role of "the guy with very questionable choices". Good job!

[@TheHappyLuza]

Nick Sbordone ha yes! Thanx?!?

[@nicksbordone5271]

@@TheHappyLuza 👍

[@johntessier8064]

I loved Tom's "Teachable Moment" story! I have been right there with you. "So what did we learn today, Kids?" Uhh.... that maybe you should let Mom talk to the police instead of you Dad!

[@keel1701]

Are we back to weekly Top Tens?!?! Woohoo!!!

[@marcopaladino3305]

one of the funniest top 10

[@JosephFlemming]

Judging from the watch numbers vs thumbs up this is a really underrated video! Hilarious.

[@apertotes]

Really fun episode!

[@clumsydad7158]

Tom, "Der Quacker Spiel" ?? omg... classic ... can't wait to see who the nominees are for that next year (-:

[@nicklitzow5118]

Love that Zee is particular about not ending a sentence with a preposition.

[@DinobotTM2]

"The Vasel strategy of having as many children as possible"... Tom admitting his dream of making his very own soccer team...

[@clumsydad7158]

If the Love Hut is a rockin'.... don't come a knockin'

[@rmcunningham3874]

It's the dubbed foreign film edition of The Dice Tower, from the Criterion Collection vault!

[@wroot_lt]

It was enough for me to play Russian Points Salad Railroads just once :D Oh, and Marco Polo is a puzzle. I only like the contracts fulfilling part of it and don't get the traveling. It feels to slow and complicated and you don't have enough turns to finish it.

[@clumsydad7158]

A Black Mirror reference... props !

[@clumsydad7158]

My God, how can people play up to 14 different races in Gaia Project, it's hard enough to figure out just one... mind blown.

[@Cujo8600]

I want a Garcia Law T-shirt!

[@clumsydad7158]

Zee "the little skeletons that could"... ah, Small World, the inspirational story

[@clumsydad7158]

Tom, "clogging it up with victory points bugs me"... somehow I never ever heard that in a review, yet it makes sense in this context (-:

[@clumsydad7158]

Tom "I just have the essence of the game"... and "I can't judge magnetic fields properly", haha, he was dishing out some good straight lines (-:

[@davidpeterson5179]

Great Western Trail is the game for me on this list, I love the game, but I'm not very good at it but still want to play it. Space Base is another game I like, I usually lose that game too.

[@Indiana_Knows]

Don't miss too many shows Sam. This guy was funny!

[@clumsydad7158]

Tom, "I'm winning, I'm winning... and then you wake up and you're in a hospital" !! ... man, so true, if i had a nickel for every one of those nights

[@Chozal]

I feel for you Joseph. I love chess. It's a deep game with rich history and it's truly a game you could play all your life. And I play a lot, sometimes 3 or 4 games a day for a week straight, and I do not get better. But I'll still play. We should draw sometimes !

[@lokihve6591]

Maybe it would be nice to make a brand new video kind of announcement to let everyone know they can vote on their favorite 10 games for People's choice?

[@rlholo]

For me, RFTGalaxy/Trajan, etc. Biggish games I don't play often because they have fiddly bits that must be played in specific ways to optimzie or have strong penalties for missing some interim goal - I always finish the game thinking: "Oh yeah, now I remember how to play." ;-)

[@clumsydad7158]

so, true, that's why i try to stay away from owning fiddly games, i have enuff trouble remembering the rules to the relatively straightforward ones!! (-:

[@thehoogard]

Love Sid Meir's Civ, but rarely get to play it. It's main problem is that it's easy to gett stomped as a beginner.

[@stephenlowman3067]

"Back to the Love Hut!" by Tom Vassal :)

[@Alluvian567]

For me, number 1 would be Blood Rage. Have not played it a TON, maybe 10 times. I think I was LAST PLACE, in 9 of them. I just can't get the tempo going in a way that I can do well in act 3, and the points are so big in act 3. I drop from first or second down to dead last almost every game.

[@TheFamilyShowdownHRKN]

Back to the Love Hut! :)

[@clumsydad7158]

"Love Hut... Baby Love Hut ! "

[@josegodoy8461]

Wow Zee was on fire !!!

[@Mentat1231]

This was great. Lol. My one I suck at is Queendomino. It's a great game, but my wife kicks my butt at it every time.

[@scuba92186]

I'd like to take full credit for suggesting this Top 10 on Tom's live Q&A from a few weeks ago 👍

[@thedicetower]

Nice try, but we recorded this at the beginning of June. :)

[@susanjohnson318]

I will join the Robinson Crusoe support group! I love that game but usually die. The one time we really rocked the game, we realized we were taking wood multiple times from the Mast. Later realized it was a one time deal. Ooops. :D

[@GirlyGamer-BoardGameGran]

"Back to the love hut" LOL

[@Rivercat0338]

The minute Zee said "I don't want to be punished for something I paid for," I immediately thought of Dark Souls :D

[@clumsydad7158]

masochists may apply (-:

[@TylerAndToast]

A game you win even when you lose is the definition of a good game to me!

[@Beltayn7272]

Carcassone. I never ever get the right tile at the right time. Someone else always finishes the castle or whatever because the tile draw is completely random. The only game I would play carcassone instead of is monopoly.

[@Katasunder]

Really good top 10, Zee was really funny as always ˘˘

[@Straddllw]

Sounds like Tom's daughters learned the correct lesson there XD

[@6543dann]

Tip for Robinson Crusoe. Always do your build actions safe and you will win most of the time.

[@adamg4912]

Mine is Sheriff of Nottingham. I LOVE the game but I always come in last haha

[@clumsydad7158]

Awesome topic... and don' t we all feel this way,,, like, why do I suck at this ?!?! (-:

[@brandobond]

Tom, was the game you couldn't think of Gizmos? The problem of getting caught up in cool combos and forgetting to get points sounds like your final thoughts from that review.

[@thedicetower]

It was!

[@clumsydad7158]

Tom should bring his gavel next time when he approves Zee's jokes ; "Attempt at Humor ... Approved!"

[@atomiccritter6492]

a seal of excellence

[@robo3007]

Nice to see Forbidden Stars getting some love (or is it hate?)

[@mattkersplat3353]

I'm with Zee on video games -Easy Mode all the way. Same goes for Arkham Horror LCG.

[@Epicfailgaming001]

It's one of my favorite games, but I'm literally the worst at Lords of Waterdeep. I usually finish with a decent amount of points, but I always, always lose. I don't think I've ever won the game yet. Still an awesome game though.

[@rtmca1]

Arboretum. No matter how great my paths, opponent always trumps with higher end hand.

[@wroot_lt]

"They all move differently???" :'D

[@rc7771]

Dicemasters. I love the game, but I never win, especially when I play in drafts or tournaments.

[@Alluvian567]

I am terrible at Viticulture, but I think it is that the game is very prone to bad luck in those decks. The cards are all good, but not for all playstyles or parts of the game. There are clear parts of the game where you need certain cards and if you don't get them, you just don't get them. Then I get them after I don't need them anymore. I don't even remember the details as I played this twice back to back years ago, got totally screwed both times and never played again. The first place player in game 1 was last place in game 2 which made me think this is not just a 'me' problem.

[@AJ-nc4vr]

Garcia's Law. It is written. :D

[@clumsydad7158]

I like how they answer all the lame questions up front,, it's like a plea to not bore the hell out of them with inane inquisitions ! (-:

[@TheEpinema]

Zee makes Dice Tower for me. Zee + Sam is also win!

[@patrickporter6441]

Is it just me, or does Tom look like Agent Carter from the MCU?

[@classicsubmarineguy5477]

you are quite right, it is mushroom season again

[@1q2w3e4r5t6yx]

Where was this held?

[@peterr6062]

Birmingham, UK

[@1q2w3e4r5t6yx]

Cheers man 👍

[@lystic9392]

:o Maybe Robinson Crusoe is finally a game I am good at? I/We win most of the games of it. My game that I really suck at is Settlers of Catan. Oh and Citadels. And Dominion. I'll stop there.

[@jordyrousse658]

One game I love but suck SOOOO bad at is Through the Ages!!!

[@VinegarAndSaltedFries]

Zee's Law is in the rules now.

[@KabukiKid]

Love hut, baby! Tin roof... rusted! ;-)

[@WuerfelundZucker]

Although I did miss Sam (of course) this show was hilarious! You should definitely get Dave to do another couple of lists with you. Maybe at Essen the next time? 😉

[@GrAlutka]

Been there. Seen it. ;)

[@grantofat6438]

My list would be empty. I fail to see how a game you constantly lose can be fun.

[@TOFWHY]

BWAY

[@ninohernandez]

I was going to say DC Deckbuilding Game, but the title of the video says fun games.

[@JKArcade]

Am I crazy for only getting games in once per week? I don't get 38 games in a single game ever even after years.

[@ticotube2501]

Sooo funny :-)

[@DenaPageIrlen]

Funniest Top Ten ever!

[@ricksleurink5064]

... and then the 'wooden' Tock Tock Woodman piece ends up at the Catacombs game and you are like: "Oooh, a new hero disk?! ... The ents go to war!!!" And whoop your kids!