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The missing shop! My thanks to Richard Breeze, who supplied me with several of his photos that he took when designing TBGGG. This shop is based on one of them.
To print a smaller version set Page Scaling to Multiple Pages per Sheet.
The idea came from my game group. I proposed that it would be fun to create a Charity Shop to place beside the board, and the idea grew, amidst a lot of mirth, in idle chatter as we played. I had already created a player aid, and was in contact with Richard, so I asked him for permission to do a Charity Shop in the style of the game. He kindly sent me some of his photos, and I modelled it on one of them.
The name is a parody of a well known charity and many of the games in the shop are regularly found in UK charity shops. The reason I put Eon's Cosmic Encounter (and at least two others) in there is because I did actually find one in a Charity Shop.
The name is a parody of a well known charity and many of the games in the shop are regularly found in UK charity shops. The reason I put Eon's Cosmic Encounter (and at least two others) in there is because I did actually find one in a Charity Shop.
Which makes it perfect. Every (well many) thrift chop has on occasion a 'grail-find' on their shelves.
Do you use this sideboard in the game in a way other than decoration?
Great job! I love the double Pictionaries and the two versions of Friends. The only ones not familiar here in America are The Weakest Link and Countdown games. As a longtime thrifter I see half the others every shopping trip make (minus Cosmic, of course).
Do you use this sideboard in the game in a way other than decoration?
Yes! In last week's game someone actually placed their game in the wrong shop. When we discovered it, it went off to Boxfan!
That's right: if a player puts a game in a shop that's not within that game tile's price range (you put a 4 game in the 2 shop, for instance), it is removed and placed on the opposite side of the board from the discarded tiles (into the charity shop, now that we have this file.) Then when placing the geek shopper dice, "instead of placing a die onto a game in its same numbered shop, a player may in these circumstances alternatively choose to play any one of their dice onto a tile that is in the charity shop," (rulebook, p. 4). The seller gets no money from the charity shop sale, naturally. The thrift shop is there to dissuade players from deliberately placing games in the "wrong" shops to keep others from collecting them.
Brilliant! ...and naming it Boxfan 
