Need Gifts? 3D-Print 10 Board Games Too Silly for Stores

[@thedjsente5858]

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!

[@Otzkar]

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

[@thirtythreeeyes8624]

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

[@bytesabre]

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

[@3nertia]

Seconded this comment!

[@3nertia]

@@bytesabre And this reply! Lol

[@eponinesg]

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

[@calums.6272]

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]

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

[@JohnLattanzio98]

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]

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

[@randomblock1_]

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]

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

[@alejandracartwright8923]

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]

Probably would be😊

[@Littlebrownchicken]

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]

Yes. They are. 😅

[@occisoft8082]

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

[@fpvbuilds2023]

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

[@rosserobertolli]

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]

How do I find the files???

[@rosserobertolli]

@@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]

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

[@thezfunk]

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

[@PaintedPapaya]

Love your marble machine work!

[@thefinaldegree]

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

[@HavokTheorem]

I came to say this :)

[@wilkgr]

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

[@pseudotasuki]

Excellent point!

[@ChristoBoshoff]

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

[@justinbanks2380]

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

[@elementalbulldog]

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

[@EricSchreiber1]

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

[@thedoctor16]

Is it Frank?

[@Dlutheran]

Awesome 👍

[@Timbit901]

THAT TICKET TO RIDE SLANDER IS UNACCEPTABLE. Great video btw

[@phoneaccount-hc7cz]

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

[@pixel_vengeur391]

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

[@longwing]

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.

[@StormBurnX]

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]

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

[@MakerAventuras]

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]

@@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]

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

[@PendragonDaGreat]

@@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).

[@Feynt]

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

[@NochSoEinKaddiFan]

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!

[@oasntet]

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]

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]

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

[@madengineer9072]

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.

[@gcmprints2060]

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.

[@apollolux]

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

[@MakerofThingss]

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

[@tonybelu]

I chuckled at 17:30

[@devnol]

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.

[@Beefyrulz]

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.

[@masonalbers6657]

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

[@DiscoBallGaming]

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

[@ExplosiveDisregard]

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.

[@TheTexan83]

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.

[@TheStarMachine2000]

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

[@andreafeelsfantastic]

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

[@onerian8178]

id love more videos about hextraction

[@brooksmiller5597]

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

[@Brett_is_Veng]

the wool filament pun is some of your finest work

[@ScytheNoire]

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.

[@AlexSwavely]

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

[@perttipalo7940]

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.

[@R2N2_42]

Catan is one of my favourite games. Surely printing it

[@bosstowndynamics5488]

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

[@lovehansel]

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

[@hellsfirefreedomtube6984]

1:45 You pegged my Battleship. LoL 😝

[@MartinGrider]

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

[@kp-re8so]

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

[@SteveRowe]

Happy Holidays, Zack.

[@spearwy7240]

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

[@Spaxxist]

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 :]

[@Tristishominissomn]

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

[@FunnelAssassin]

Love the 3D print for the playing cards! Great idea! ❤

[@monkhm]

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

[@workshop94]

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… 🤔

[@PutTheKettleOnGromit]

We love you here in Australia Zack! The beach theme cards work as it's Summer in December in Australia

[@strange_mood]

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

[@plugwithapug]

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

[@Kalabajooie]

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

[@thefantawarrior3174]

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

[@sethicusiii7878]

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

[@Co-Bolt]

I still play Hextraction with my family and friends all the time! I would love it if you made another episode about it!!

[@EmeraldOreCreeper]

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

[@Grumskiz]

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?

[@williamfrom6021]

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

[@Lynx86]

I would love a "series" similar to your filament series that talk about new hextraction tiles

[@thomasalsum2012]

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

[@Tesseract_King]

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

[@alexm6193]

How do you make that dual colour background on the party maze? As seen at 4:40

[@renxula]

Looks like the Hilbert curve pattern printed with 2-color filament maybe.

[@clonkex]

The beach playing cards are perfect for Christmas here in Australia :)

[@HmmmmmLemmeThinkNo]

I miss having access to a 3D printer x.x What a great video! I'd love more videos on hextraction!

[@monkeykoder]

Thanks for reminding me about Hextraction. I just got a SV08 so now it's reasonable to print.

[@StillConfusing]

man hate ticket to ride??? the greatest board game there is aside from catan!?!?!?!

[@foldionepapyrus3441]

You can do something very much like those playing cards with a regular laser printer and OHP or opaque plastic sheets for it.

[@Chocomint_Queen]

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

[@trajectoryunown]

10:36 I feel personally attacked.

[@mortyforty8404]

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

[@samb4944]

Hextraction is the coolest board game since sliced bread. More please!

[@EmilySmirleGURPS]

Engagement! I'd love more Hextraction! It's fascinating seeing people's creativity in the format. Also showcases of Gridfinity.

[@StormBurnX]

Bless you for referencing Calvinball. A man of culture.

[@Xer0neX]

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!

[@crosenblum]

I love your show, don't have a 3D printer, maybe someday I will. I definitely want a print of your hex game, it looks fun.

[@alkaline3mc]

My friends and I were discussing making a settlers globe version and someone else got to it first! Good move, def gonna check that out

[@jadenpeterson4881]

Loving the Altoids puns.

[@alksmdlaks]

They position of that knife in your pocket at 5:30 is actually psychopath behavior

[@RCBound]

Very interested in Hextraction

[@OJ_Gaming69]

I would love to see another hextraction video with more featured tiles and an example game!

[@imipishauto1002]

Makes me wish I would have kept some of my altoid cans now!

[@Damann23]

You stop breaking my heart with that Ticket to Ride blasphemy right now, Zack Freedman.

[@nosville22]

4:44 sounds like someone's been playing Tactical Breach Wizards

[@CullenJWebb]

"horseshoe theory of ballistics" 👌

[@DioTheBeastWeMiss]

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

[@DragonKing77146]

Hex traction game play would be good

[@michaelpaluch9267]

I'm going to print out a hextractions board as one of my first projects once I get my printer and am so excited :D

[@YoSpiff]

I recently printed the tetris/jenga game for my daughter and her son. I did the version with a more solid balance base, which is probably more stable and easier for a 5 year old.

[@tnt65822]

I love hextraction, but I think a barrier to entry is a feel like I can't play it with anyone because I think half the fun is finding/designing/printing your own pieces. I'm sure I could probably print enough pieces to give a friend enough to play, but.. idk it just feels like it wouldn't be as fun.

[@sabre0smile]

I was watching this while eating and nearly choked to death at 15:00 Would have died happy

[@gavinknight8560]

Has anyone made logic gates out of those rotating tiles?

[@unusualfabrication9937]

make another video of more hextraction tiles

[@lalit-yadav090j0ow]

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

[@BeardedPrinter]

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"

[@tedpiercy5738]

More Hextraction please, tutorials on the new tiles, gameplay, whatever, its a really fun game! Thank you.

[@pancakelegend]

Was Rossero prototyping Wintergaten MMX mechanisms a few years back?

[@MorganScott82]

I'm with you on Settlers but I enjoy vouchers for locomotion. Not everyone monthly game night, but a few times a year, yeah.

[@stevenfaber3896]

9:36 - you couldn't happen to have a collab or do a video making a version of the stop that, say like a "cease and desist" Card? Think it would work quite well with the theme.

[@SteveArv]

It’s hilarious you say that people just listen to you. I'm living proof! I’ve always been curious: do you actually have a secret script hidden somewhere, or does that brilliance just magically flow straight from your brain to your mouth? My wife is completely lost half the time, but I'm always cracking up. Your humor is out of this world! Seriously, your content is pure gold. You're a comedic genius!

[@RonParker]

"Hidden" wouldn't be very accurate. He's using his optigon (the monocle thing on his face) as a teleprompter. So his script is right where you can see it the whole time.

[@user-Pulse1147]

I actually just designed a physical version of that one fruit dropping game, "Suika Game," and published it on Printables if anyone wants to take a look. The challenge with my version is to fit one of each fruit in the container. :) Just thought I'd share since that's the topic of the video.

[@crazypedia1717]

So many puns, so much word play 😂