The Worst Game in Your Collection
Champion Eternal
Malaysia
Unspecified
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What is the worst game in your collection? Why is it so? What made you to buy it?
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Champion Eternal
Malaysia
Unspecified
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This is one poor game. I played it about 3 times when I was younger and shelved it due to the extremely basic gameplay (Spin and move).
I remember going to the toy shop several times, looking at the game description at the back of the box and resisting buying it. I probably eventually asked my mum to buy it due to the sheer lack of other available games at that time.
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Ken Bradford
United States
Fayetteville
Tennessee
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Purchased because A.) I'm a fan of Lone Wolf and Cub and B.) it was cheap at KB Toys.
When we first played it, the combat was so busted I thought surely I was misunderstanding it. Of course, in those days there was no BGG, so I had nowhere to turn to find out.
Years later, I learn on BGG that the combat system is indeed busted, and the game ridiculously lethal. Ah, well.
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Doug Iverson
United States
Ripon
Wisconsin
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Just not really playable. If you know where the "event" markers are placed, why do you have to go thru the charade of moving to them. Ambush is such a better game.
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Tim Taylor
United States
Port Townsend
Washington
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Hilarious attempt at game design. The errata are double the length of the rules and raise as many problems as they solve. Since it's a solitaire game, you can make up the rules as you go along, but isn't that what they pay designers for? I'm not proud to admit that I played the hell out of this game before I grew up and wised up. Abysmal.
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Ryan Olson
United States
Topeka
Kansas
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Played once with my son. Brutal. I will play Candyland 100 times a day before I will play this garbage.
Dumbest endgame ever. You have to complete 3 "quests" to win. One involves making 3 oddly shaped cards into a house. It took me and my son 15+ minutes to complete this one, and I cheated and leaned it up against something...
I forget the other ones, but this one was by far the hardest & dumbest.
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❇Ⓢ❈Ⓝ❈Ⓞ❈Ⓦ❇
United States
Columbus
Ohio
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This game has great bakelite tiles. I mean really great.
However, I've never really understood the 'game' hidden in there unless it's just getting the pieces back in the box.
My wife ordered it after reading a newspaper article about the designer. The game has now become something we pour out onto the floor when the younger crowd comes around and want to 'play' with something puzzle-like.
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Aaron Cinzori
United States
Holland
Michigan
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Completely luck based and designed to kill all the players most of the time. My wife loves it.
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Preston Fuller
United States
Ashland
New Hampshire
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Oh, this one is bad, real bad. The concept is fine for the "party Game" idea. The question came out of the 1950's. It was like all women love the kitchen and all men love fixing cars. This is a game that George and Barbra Bush would play while drinking lemonade and watching "Make Way For Daddy", Awful, so many much better games out there in the party format.
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Michelle Z
United States
Mesa
Arizona
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Dude, I seriously would play The Six Million Dollar Man ten times in a row to avoid playing Charlie's Angels once. Yes, I own them both, and gave The Six Million Dollar Man DOUBLE the rating of Charlie's Angels!
If anybody would like to reproduce my experience, both games are up for trade!
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W M Shubert
United States
Portland
Oregon
KGS is the #1 web site for playing go over the internet. Visit now!
Yes, I really am that awesome.
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Now, I like Magic. So why do I call it the worst game in my collection? Because I only ever bought two decks. Do you know how lame magic is when all you and your opponent have is barely enough cards for two hands? And since they are a random assortment of cards, you can't even do any deckbuilding...you always end up with a terrible mana base and mediocre cards that do nothing to work together. Most games, the winner is the person whose land cards actually matched the color of a creature in their hand, letting them beat their opponent to death with a raging goblin or something equally boring.
Ah well. I thought about buying more decks so I could have some more fun with it, but then my common sense told me to save my money and move on to other games. Magic can be fun when you have lots of cards to work with (I know from the few times I've played with people who had more cards), but I just didn't want to develop a habit that expensive.
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Rich S
United States
Phoenix
Arizona
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This would probably fit better in a list entitled "Games you keep around because the wife will not let you get rid of it"
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Tim von Bismarck
United States
God's Country
Maryland
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I was very disappointed in this game. I bought this game in the hope that it would be a nice overview of the Peninsular Campaign. Instead, it has turned into one of the biggest busts in my collection.
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Board Game: Caramba
[Average Rating:4.00 Unranked]
Morgan Dontanville
United States
Brooklyn
New York
Plate of Shrimp.
Here we are folks, the dream we all dream of.
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With the awesome pieces and and that crazy mexican dude, how bad can it be...
What is worse is that I was looking for this for about a year. I finally found it on German Ebay and paid the crazy shipping and handling for it.
Sometimes, I'm an idiot.
Easily the worst game I still own.
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Kevin H
China
Xiangtan
Hunan
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Why is it so:
It's what I like to call "A game of Group Go Fish for an HOUR AND A HALF"
"Anyone got any bushes? Okay...throw that down then.
Anyone got any handshakey things? No? Oh darn...that will be bad then when we flip this or roll that"
*yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwn*
What made me buy it:
You people. I blame you.
"One of the most important and wondrous achievements in gaming history. An enduring masterpiece of blahblahblah..."
It's crap. There are no decisions. There's no point. You win, you lose, who cares. A complete waste of time.
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Scott A. Reed
United States
Lawrence
Kansas
Yes, Scrofula, it sucks.
I just wasted 100 :gg: on this.
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I think by now, most everyone knows of my disdain for this game.
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Karl Fritz
United States
Rochester
Minnesota
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very lame.. worse than Fluxx.. might be interesting if they actually explain the remedies.. I hate it!
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Burke Glover
United States
Unspecified
Delaware
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Well I got this as a present. Its only value was in getting a few geekgold for taking pictures of it. A terrible excuse for an educational game. Flip a card over and race your opponent to tie the knot pictured. Get an arbitrary number of points per knot. Too bad there's no hangman's noose card, that would be pretty useful for bringing the game to a close.
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Spencer Romney
United States
Salt Lake City
Utah
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Bought (actually requested for Christmas) before I knew about the geek, otherwise I would have known better. The cards are funny; if only there were an actual game that went along with them.
Oh, and to those that complain about box inserts: at least most games actually come with them.
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Random Access
United States
Unspecified
Unspecified
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Less a game than a box that had a board and a few counters shipped in it. Oh, and a sheaf of rules. It's very educational. You learn that if you ever get lost in the wilderness you shouldn't worry because you'll probably die of thirst before a bear or a deer(yes!) eats you. I bought it because it was about five dollars and I thought it would be funny to have the worst game AH ever made.
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Isabel D.
Canada
Montréal
Québec
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Ughhh. Forget astronaut or big business in this one. You get to choose careers such as "supermom" and "fashion designer". Sample question: tell us the names of your 8 children. Very disturbing.
Plus, all the rules are dumbed down. Now that I think about it, I should torch it before someone finds out I own it. Might get kicked out of the OIQ.
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Stephen Sanders
United States
Henderson
Texas
25% Scottish, 25% Dutch, 18% English, 15% Irish, 9% German, 5% French, 3% "Black Dutch" (?) = 100% American!
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Yeah, this is an incomplete game marketed simply for profit before the complete game (called the Trilogy Edition) was published. I played this with my pilot friend who loves Risk games, and he was ticked off because the game ended so prematurely on such a random end game element. We never played it again. I did pay again to get the Trilogy Edition (fool me twice...) and was much more pleased.
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Micah Collinsworth
United States
Edmond
Oklahoma
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I think maybe I got this one for $1 at a going-out-of-business sale.
At those prices, it's not surprising they went out of business. 
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23.
Board Game: Kuk-Nuk
[Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]
Alfred Wallace
United States
State College
Pennsylvania
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Who sat down and said, "You know, I like Chinese Checkers and all, but I wish the game took three hours to play." Whoever it was designed this game...
(Some people find Flat Top in thrift stores, I find Kuk-Nuk.)
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T M
United States
Longview
Texas
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What a total bomb! I was really looking forward to this one, but it is almost impossible to actually kill anyone. Stay away from this dud!
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Kent Reuber
United States
San Mateo
California
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This game is billed as a Risk expansion, but it doesn't use risk mechanics. Really, the reason is that it doesn't include any pieces, and you need Risk to play it. But let's say you have the Risk artillery, infantry, and cavalry. What do you end up with? ACW with pieces wearing tricornes. Blah!
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I don't honestly think this is a game.... but it is an excellent math instruction tool. Tessellations, patterns, etc.
Clearly you fail at being a woman if you hate this game.
