Boardgames cameos at Movies or TV Shows

Santiago Jiménez

(sajimenez)

Colombia
Medellin
Antioquia

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I was watching one of my favorites TV Comedy Shows when suddenly something very familiar appears for just a second.

I playback the scene and there it is some well known boardgames.

This list wants to received all the cameos that you know of boardgames on Movies or TV shows. I'm not talking about chess or monopoly, i want some eurogames, the ones that the geeks likes.

Please add your own images.

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Posted Fri Oct 5, 2007 6:00 am

1. Board Game: Ticket to Ride [Average Rating:7.49 Overall Rank:74]

Santiago Jiménez

(sajimenez)

Colombia
Medellin
Antioquia

This image was the inspiration to this list.

In the first chapter of the second season of The IT Crowd we discovered that the IT Geek likes to play some games: i recognize Ticket To Ride, Mistery of the Abbey and War on Terror.
I just don't know which games is on top.

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Edited Fri Oct 5, 2007 5:59 am
Posted Fri Oct 5, 2007 5:58 am

M C

(craniac)

United States
Orem
Utah

In episode six of the second season Roy and Moss are playing a game at the beginning but I couldn't tell what it was. It looked Risk-like.

Posted Fri Oct 5, 2007 6:46 am
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Ben Kirman

(Aelf)

United Kingdom
Lincoln
Lincolnshire

craniac wrote:

In episode six of the second season Roy and Moss are playing a game at the beginning but I couldn't tell what it was. It looked Risk-like.

It was War on Terror.

There's more info on this thread: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/article/1684421

Posted Fri Oct 5, 2007 2:15 pm
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Randy Cox

(Randy Cox)

United States
Clemson
South Carolina

1024x768 works just fine - Don't Wide the Site!

The Back Alley gets no respect.

Is this a network show? A cable show? Public access? I've never heard of "The IT Crowd."

Posted Fri Oct 5, 2007 8:33 pm
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Mike Hollihan

(Memphis Mike)

United States
Memphis
Tennessee

Randy Cox wrote:

Is this a network show? A cable show? Public access? I've never heard of "The IT Crowd."

It's a British show that's being "translated" by NBC as a mid-season replacement. The actor who plays Moss (the curly-headed guy) in Britain is playing the character for NBC.

Do a search on YouTube. There are tons of episodes and clips available. It's a pretty funny show.

Posted Fri Oct 5, 2007 8:55 pm
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2. Board Game: Jumanji [Average Rating:4.36 Overall Rank:7691]

Sune Christensen

(Sykokaj)

Denmark
Copenhagen

But it might be a bit far fetched to say that this game is a cameo

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Posted Fri Oct 5, 2007 2:06 pm

3. Board Game: Monopoly [Average Rating:4.50 Overall Rank:7736]

Bernhard von Gunten

(bvongunten)

Switzerland
Täuffelen
Bern

3B RULEZ

Harrison Ford plays Monopoly with his wife and daughter in a hotel room in the movie called "Patriot Games"!

devil

Be a PATRIOT and play this GAME! devil

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Posted Fri Oct 5, 2007 3:02 pm

Marshall Miller

(Mease19)

United States
Medford
Massachusetts

Ok, so the lesson here is: If I play monopoly, Europians will break into my house and try and kill me and my family. I think I'll just stick to Power Grid. Perhaps then Europians will break into my house and play board games with me!

Posted Fri Oct 5, 2007 4:17 pm
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Bernhard von Gunten

(bvongunten)

Switzerland
Täuffelen
Bern

3B RULEZ

Mease19 wrote:

Well, we the swiss would never do anything like that. We're not even part of europe or any other continent. But we sure do like monopoly probably because of the fact that everybody likes to play the Bank and get rich without playing

Posted Fri Oct 5, 2007 10:44 pm
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Jasper B

(Venga2)

Netherlands
Leiden

[
Well, we the swiss would never do anything like that. We're not even part of europe or any other continent. [/q]

HA!

only in your head.

Posted Sat Oct 6, 2007 9:45 pm
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4. Board Game: Risk [Average Rating:5.62 Overall Rank:6166]

Baron von Doom

(Baron von Doom)

United States
Dacula
Georgia

I happened to watch the first episode of "The Brady Bunch Variety Hour" the other day and noticed Mike and Carol playing a modified version of Risk and Monopoly. They kept making clever remarks about landing on East Germany with three hotels. ("That's two more than they really have.")

-d

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Posted Fri Oct 5, 2007 4:13 pm

Phil Shepherd

(captkayoss)

United States
Bristow
Virginia

Be on your guard. There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.

Baron Von Doom wrote:

I happened to watch the first episode of "The Brady Bunch Variety Hour" the other day

What station is airing old episodes of that‽

Posted Fri Oct 5, 2007 7:11 pm
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Will

(frogmind)

United States
Miami
Florida

Don't forget the classic Seinfeld episode where Kramer and Newman are locked into a game of risk, eventually put to an end by an insulted Ukranian on the subway.

Posted Fri Oct 5, 2007 10:53 pm
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Michelle Z

(caesarmom)

United States
Mesa
Arizona

There was a whole Malcolm in the Middle where Malcolm is away for some reason (in the hospital or something?) and the rest of the family bonds over multiple games of Risk.

Posted Fri Oct 5, 2007 11:00 pm
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Baron von Doom

(Baron von Doom)

United States
Dacula
Georgia

I, um.....rented it from Netflix.

-d

Posted Sat Oct 6, 2007 7:12 pm
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5. Board Game: Squad Leader [Average Rating:7.46 Overall Rank:188]

Ed Angleton

(elangle)

United States
Indianapolis
Indiana

The Final Countdown. Sailor's on the Nimitz are playing Squad leader in one scene.

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Posted Fri Oct 5, 2007 5:56 pm

6. Board Game: Trivial Pursuit [Average Rating:5.23 Overall Rank:7612]

John Morgan

(TheGameCzar)

United States
Tucson
Arizona

Frank Cross sees his brother James playing Trivial Pursuit, thanks to the Ghost of Christmas Present.

"What was the name of the ship that brought them all to the island in Gilligan's Island?"

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Posted Fri Oct 5, 2007 6:36 pm

Kent Fletcher

(Frankenfletch)

United States
Riverton
Utah

"But existing is practically all I do."

Also one of my favorite Seinfeld episodes involves George playing Trivial Pursuit with the bubble boy and getting into a violent argument over a misprinted card that stated that Spain was invaded by the Moops.

Posted Fri Oct 5, 2007 11:12 pm
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7. Board Game: Risk 2210 A.D. [Average Rating:6.79 Overall Rank:544]

Mike Cooper

(Thosw)

United States
Flower Mound
Texas

Was flipping channels the other day and ran across an older episode of "Intervention" with a guy who had a major gambling problem. (For the record, this guy was pretty pathetic and manipulative.)

Toward the end of the show when he was talking to his counselor, you could see his game shelf with this on it. He also had Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit 90's edition in the tin, and about 4-5 other games, one of which I was almost certain was Carcassonne, but I couldn't make out the title. The box was about the right size and was blue with a yellow game name across the side.

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Posted Fri Oct 5, 2007 7:56 pm

8. Board Game: Heroscape Master Set: Rise of the Valkyrie [Average Rating:7.38 Overall Rank:146]

John W

(reapersaurus)

United States
Sacramento
California

(from HSers)
Heroscape has been on at least a couple shows:

Here's a screencap from the TV show Psych:

The guy who owned the figures was an internet blogger, portrayed as a anti-social internet geek, and a "CON" nerd.

And on Wife Swap, the so-called weird family had a Heroscape map set up on their coffee table. Later on, as the new wife "cleansed" the house, they showed them putting map pieces in the drawer of an end table.

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Posted Fri Oct 5, 2007 9:02 pm

9. GeekList: Games Seen Played on TV Shows

Santiago Jiménez

(sajimenez)

Colombia
Medellin
Antioquia

I add this Geeklist to mine so you can check out all the items there.

Thanks to SubtlyArtistic for the comment.

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Posted Fri Oct 5, 2007 11:55 pm

10. Board Game: Snakes and Ladders [Average Rating:2.74 Overall Rank:7751]

David Heldt

(davepanzer)

United States
Unspecified
Unspecified

The Lair Of The White Worm

Picture this: You're a Boy Scout, drenched to your skin, trying to hitch a ride in the middle of the cold, rainy, Scottish nowhere. At lenghth at hot sports car drives up. The door opens, revealing the even hotter Amanda Donaho at the height of her LA Law lusciousness(and evidently in a hurry; she seems to have forgotten her skirt this morning). She offers you a ride--

OF COURSE YOU ACCEPT!!

So she takes him home. "Get out of those wet clothes!" She dresses him in a nice warm robe and plays Snakes And Ladders with him in front of a roaring fire(not a suprising game selection given that she's the priestess of a cult that worships the title creature). Then she draws him a nice hot bath and--Well, let's just say he never lives to regret it.

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Posted Sat Oct 6, 2007 12:37 am

Germán R. Gómez

(herman_the_german)

United States
Chula Vista
California

Yeah. But what a way to go!

Posted Sat Feb 21, 2009 12:58 am
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11. Board Game: Carcassonne [Average Rating:7.46 Overall Rank:86]

Fisherking

(timsteen)

United States
Hawthorne
New Jersey

Rick Steve: Germany

Watching a DVD of Rick Steves travels...I believe it was 2000s "Best of Travels in Europe with Rick Steves: Germany, Austria & Switzerland". Rick is at an outdoor cafe of some sort, and the camera pans across a group of Germans. I see instantly that they are playing Carcassonne...which is when I realized I really was a gaming nerd. And that Germans really do play these games.

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Posted Sat Oct 6, 2007 1:22 am

Rob Bradley

(Spacehulk)

Spain
Belleville
Wisconsin

In the Showtime show "Weeds" one of the kids was mentined carcassonne.

Posted Sat Oct 6, 2007 3:58 pm
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12. Board Game: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Game (US) [Average Rating:6.69 Overall Rank:817]

Wade

(denverarch)

United States
Pueblo
Colorado

The last episdoe of the Buffy series they are in the basement and while Buffy is speaking on the shelf behind her are 4-5 boardgames, one being Chutes and Ladders!

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Posted Sat Oct 6, 2007 1:50 pm

13. Board Game: Dungeons & Dragons Basic Game [Average Rating:6.77 Overall Rank:1075]

Wade

(denverarch)

United States
Pueblo
Colorado

Again, last episode, Season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. While awaiting the end of the world, Giles, Zander, Dawn and the funny blonde kid are playing D and D and it is quite hilarious.

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Posted Sat Oct 6, 2007 1:52 pm

14. Board Game: Odds And Evens [Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]

Germán R. Gómez

(herman_the_german)

United States
Chula Vista
California

I watched Zatoichi this Xmas season. They play an Odds Or Even gambling game with regular Chinese dice. Not sure about the actual name of it.

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Edited Wed Jan 2, 2008 7:42 pm
Posted Wed Jan 2, 2008 7:35 pm

15. Board Game: Backgammon [Average Rating:6.50 Overall Rank:781]

Briareos

(tiggers)

Australia
Sydney
NSW

I went to see Iron Man last night (which was a lot of fun by the way) and there was not one but 2 game references. The first was and game of Backgammon being played with nuts (as in nuts and bolts) instead of counters. See below for the second...