You NEED to know these Board Game Words! - Board Game Terminology

Board games used to be so simple, until everybody started talking funny. 4X? Orthogonal? Dice? What are you on about?
In this video I break down some of these terms and make sense of it all.
#boardgames #boardgame #comedy

[@JorWat25]

You missed a couple. Here, let me help. Abstract: That section at the start of the rules where it summarizes what the game is like. Quarterbacking: When you and three friends all band together for a Kickstarter pledge. Drafting: Designing a board game, specifically the layout of the board. Action Drafting: Like above, but with more kicking. Action Queue: The line you get in to do more kicking. Single Loser Game: A game that can only play solitaire. Semi-Cooperative: When you play along with either your house or your truck. Trick-Taking: Using sleight of hand to make people think you've picked up a card. Ladder Climbing: How you get all those games you stored in the loft. Collectible Card Game: A deluxe edition of a card game, probably with nicer cards. Living Card Game: A very cruel idea involving tattooing card designs onto small rodents. Frowned upon by almost everyone. Rules Lawyer: The guy you turn to when someone seems to have copied your game idea. Zero-Sum Game: A game without victory point calculations. COIN Game: Like a dice game, but using coin flips instead. Dice Tower: What you construct in Blueprints. Pick-up and Deliver Game: What you say to the guy who brings board games to people.

[@AwesomeBoardGames]

@@JorWat25 These are fantastic, perhaps I'll need to do a second video. 😂

[@JorWat25]

Came up with these a while back for a BGG thread called 'Board game esoterica (but misdefined)'.

[@srupio906]

Youre so funny😂😂😂. Keep up the good work

[@Heppy030387]

To my knowledge, your the first KZbin channel ever that built a tent and set up a boardgame in aforementioned tent for a 1.3s snippet. You should get a prize for that!

[@TheMaskedGaymer]

I... am so impressed...that you can pronounce Orth..Ortho...Ortha...because I never can. Even during a 30 minute argument during too Many Bones with someone who was convinced they could move diagonally

[@AwesomeBoardGames]

Funny you should say that, I have trouble with that word too. I usually say it orth-AG-onally instead of orth-OG-onally as it should be.

[@TheMaskedGaymer]

@@AwesomeBoardGames i usually give up and say ‘the opposite of Diagonal’

[@UmbertoFarese-c3l]

Subbed 👍🏻

[@tabletop_road]

This is my new favourite thing ❤

[@jamesfrith6132]

Loved "Roll & Write" - do you have what you actually wrote during that clip?

[@AwesomeBoardGames]

I do, it is somewhat less than legible :)