This is the traditional weekly thrift and bargain finds list.
These lists may start empty but as always: add your items.
Put in what you consider a bargain, tell us how much you paid and the place you got it from. Bargains can be thrift store finds or any second-hand purchases or discounted games bought new.
Our GeekGuild: The Ancient and Loyal Order of Thrifters. Please mind the stacks of games. Don't mention the musty smell and try not to sneeze, thank you. Be sure to bow before our King, EvilTimmy I, and pay your due respects to last year's King, Blackwind I. http://www.boardgamegeek.com/guild/193
The Thrift Store Irritant Squad Okiedokie's wants your thrift finds and he'll stop at nothing to get them. Read horror stories about his cruel and unusual tactics here. http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/26051
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I wasn't familiar with this one, but it had nice-looking bits, plastic spaceships, & about a million little plastic saguaro cacti. Everything was still in the original bags except some of the cacti had been taken off the sprues. When I got home I looked it up, and apparently this game REALLY sucks as it is rated 2.8! $2.99 at Goodwill (might end up returning this one though!)
Finally, an old blue-box first edition D&D box set with the mangled-looking D4, looks unplayed but somewhat yellowed with age. Nostalgia got the better of me & I forked over the $10.00 they were asking.
A bit late to the party, but a few weeks ago at PentaCon, I picked up a copy of Car Wars Compendium, 2nd ed, black boxed set edition for $5, from the flea market.
Some other guy picked up a complete, very nice copy of Dawn Patrol for $3.
I had a doctor's appointment downtown today so I stopped at a few of the DIs I don't visit as often.
First I found this a like-new condition of this. Looks to be complete but I haven't done a complete count yet. There are no pictures of this in the database. I mean to correct that great injustice and then trade/ebay/throw away the game before my house becomes cursed for having two copies of Monopoly in it.
$2.00 at DI. Complete (I think) and in great condition.
I also found a copy of this, which I had previously added to the database based on an advertisement for it which I had found in another game. There was no price tag on it so I took it up to the register and the clerk asked an unbelievable $3.00 for it. I didn't want to make a fuss or haggle so I payed that ridiculous sum. I hope I can get a lot of pictures in the database to justify that cost! Maybe some Mormon collector will pay top dollar for it on eBay.
$3.00 at DI. Haven't counted to know if it's complete yet. Box is pretty thrashed but components seem okay.
Found this sitting on an end cap on the game aisle. Thought it looked pretty cool though the box on this was was also heavily trashed and taped.
I did a count and found it to be incomplete. I'm missing the following: 2 Light Brown Anti-Tank Guns 1 Dark Brown Anti-Tank Gun 5 Light Brown Flags 4 Dark Brown Flags 1/2 of the Bottom of a Light Brown Tank (The female side). The "Number 5" for the light brown tanks.
This has obviously been well played. The box is filled with little slips of paper that were used to mark the locations of mines.
I used to have this game when I was a wee one and enjoyed it, though I doubt I would now. I don't know what happened to it. Possibly gremlins. Or maybe the Thrift Store Irritant Squad is branching out and making our childhood treasures disappear, too.
I agree with you Drew, this is sort of llike a military-oriented Stratego.
I still have my complete copy from when I was a kid.
What I think is cool about it is that the Ammo Dump, Fuel Dump, and HQ are targets one must legitimately aim for.
There is an aspect of bluff in the movement because you know your opponent has six movement points, you just don't know how he's going to divide them up among his tanks. But grab his Fuel Dump and you reduce this to four, making it a bit easier to predict the movements.
Likewise, take out the Ammo Dump and you reduce his potential shots each turn to the number of tanks he has left. Finally, taking out the HQ removes the mines.
All of this adds a cool layer to to the basic Stratego-like mechanism.
On my way back from the doctor I stopped at the Sugarhouse DI. There were two very large women sitting on the floor of the game aisle counting the pieces for children's games. This game sat on the shelf nearby. The women eyed me carefully as I picked this up like I might be taking something they'd want but they quickly went back to counting trivia cards and whatever other crap they were looking at.
I was pleased to see how highly this game ranks when I got home. Looking forward to trying it out.
Also ignored by the two ladies was this. A did a quick scan in the store and noticed that rules were missing, but based on the components list on the box, everything else seemed to be there. I've already printed a copy of the rules from the Hasbro site so that's taken care of but I haven't done a detailed inventory yet. The components are in nice condition and neatly bagged. This one sounds sort of fun but I think its destined to be traded or ebayed in the long run.
It was marked at $4.00 but the cashier said, "That's way too high. Most of our games are $1.00 so I'll do that."
$1.00 at DI. Complete (I think) and very nice condition.
Excellent find!!! Play this one. It has some delicious tension in where to play your cards. You want to play everywhere but, you can't. Really easy game to teach too.
Excellent find!!! Play this one. It has some delicious tension in where to play your cards. You want to play everywhere but, you can't. Really easy game to teach too.
Looked kind of mediocre to me (I picked up up in a pack in the 2nd to last math trade - I wanted the other 2 games), but maybe I'll have to get around to trying it =)
Jeez! What a week! Crammed into my daily routine of work and rehearsal I managed a few, brief, UNrewarding trips to the GW.
Closest I came all week to anything decent was on Wednesday, when I found a copy of Scrabble, en Español. I thought it would be amusing to pick up the game to add to my regular Scrabble, since the wife and I both speak Spanish.
No sooner did I get to the registers than the whole system just shut down, leaving them with no way to process sales. Running out of time, I ran out of the store, leaving behind my Scrabble find for someone else.
Today I popped in again. Persistance has it's rewards; and mine is another decent copy of Survive!, the first thing of any value I've spotted on the shelves here in several weeks.
Grabbed it for $2.99, inventory to follow. Just 1 shelf below was:
$2.99 at Goodwill, untouched and complete, crappy dice still in original bag.
I found the original box set that I got back when I was a wee nerd in 1979. Rulebook (and cover) looks like this:
Between this and some random ebay purchases of old D&D books I now have everything I need to time travel. I'm gonna party like it's 1979! (Wait, I need more velour!)
Stopped at a thrift store on my way home from work and found this. In a bit of a rush so I didn't count in the store - unfortunately. Game is slightly incomplete.
Missing one wand and the following number tiles: 1, 6, 7, 13, 14, 16, 18
$3.99 at Thrift Town. Great condition but incomplete.
As an added bonus, it came with a little pink hairbrush for a doll or something and a dried up fingernail clipping.
It's been a good week for me. Totally complete, in excellent condition - some shelf wear on the box but the components look like they have seen almost no play. $1.50
Picked this one up on Friday night for $2.16 at the VV. Game appears to be just Yatzee, but I didn't get it for the game. But $2 for a nice dice tower, albeit a bit small, is a win!
United States Taylors (Greenville/Greer) South Carolina
The French edition. I poached this from fractaloon -- it might actually be his leftovers, but I doubt it because the wooden die and animals and relatively nice components (not to mention the hope of taking a few pictures) normally would have caught his fancy.
Another weekend arrives, and the little girl is fighting her nap. I get the bright idea to bring her along shopping. This usually knocks her out. The trip brings us to three Value Villages with the fruit market and grocery store interspersed. Nothing of interest is seen until I hit the third Value Village.
I'm looking over the games shelf while my daughter is playing with a Barbie car on the floor. There is nothing of interest for me, so I join her on the floor, ready to address her pending protests when I tell her it's time to go.
Hey, what's this on the floor beside her. A bowling game, played with dice. What the heck, it's just a twonie.
Yeah, it's not much of a game. But the mostly blank dice are cool. I'll see if I can find another use for them.
Spare-Time Bowling, edition shown. $2 at Value Village.
After a half-hearted fight where I convinced the little girl to leave the barbie car behind, we walk through the rest of the store. In the electronics aisle, I spot Mind Rings. I passed on this earlier -- it seemed to be another version of Megiddo, which I already picked up earlier. Today, however, the box has already been freed of tape on one side so I can take a look inside. Cool! The rings move! That adds another dimension entirely! It's a completely different game!! And all for Two Dollars!!!! Can I oversell things or what?!?!?!?!?!
It's missing the rules, but I'm sure I can derive the rules from what little is here on the Geek. If worse comes to worse, I'll just have to adapt the rules from another game for this. Say, something totally different like Megiddo.
Of course, the little girl stayed awake through the entire trip, fighting her nap all the way. It wasn't until I pulled into my driveway that she finally gave in. Only to awaken when I brought her into the house. *sigh*.
Mindrings. $2 at Value Village. Missing the rules, but somehow I don't think that will matter.
Oh I'm sure. The first time I brought the wrong kid home was funny. The second time was was silly. After the fifth time, the wife won't let me back into the house until I scan the RFID we have implanted in the little girl's pinky toe.
I'm sure this is a technique kids learn in utero. My son had the same tendencies when he was that age.
Had to get a jump on getting the thrift list up this week. I needed to make sure I beat okiedokie to the punch because I was afraid he wouldn't put a bulletin in the header about his Thrift Store Irritant Squad. Consider yourself warned people! He has eyes everywhere so just be vigilant out there.
Today I found a perfectly good copy of Guitar Hero III for the Nintendo Wii at Goodwill for $29.99. A batch of three of them were sitting in a bin waiting to go out when I asked the stock person how they came to be and what was wrong with them. She said Target dumps them on them and they're perfectly fine, they've just been opened and can't be re-sold. She said her boyfriend has bought many of them and they've worked perfectly. She realized someone else had mis-priced them and she was going to go reprice them at $69 but was happy to let me grab one at $30 if I wanted it.
I have no interest in the game (especially in light of a recent South Park episode) but I have a friend with a Wii who is delighted with my find.
Thanks. This is because I suggested that new England might not be the worst game of all time, isn't it??
No.
Rather, it's because Iain strives to be the ant at the picnic. Instead of just saying "Yes," he could have actually mentioned the game he was thinking of. But lately Iain contributes nothing but snark. It's getting old, man.
Hah. I bet we might actually get along well if we ever meet then (this is, surprisingly enough, not sarcastic.)
citizen k wrote:
Windopaene wrote:
Well one thrifter, who isn't in Dallas, is going to be posting his find of the Settlers of Catan Card game, which he snagged several minutes before I arrived, in my Goodwill. Now maybe, if he wakes up in the morning with the bloodied head of a windmill in his bed, he'll get the message...
Now *that's* a "Family" game !
Hey I'd be all for a Quixotic game! Whoever kils the most windmills by the end of the game wins
MK-Ultra71 wrote:
How about finding a game with 5 different color pawns that you can buy multiple copies of..cheap.
Hmm, perhaps. Most of the stores don't go below a dollar, but it does happen occasionally and might be worth it. I think only one store I frequent does, but I might be able to pick up 3 copies of a Clue over time for 50 cents each...
Thanks. This is because I suggested that new England might not be the worst game of all time, isn't it??
No.
Rather, it's because Iain strives to be the ant at the picnic. Instead of just saying "Yes," he could have actually mentioned the game he was thinking of. But lately Iain contributes nothing but snark. It's getting old, man.
Hah. I bet we might actually get along well if we ever meet then (this is, surprisingly enough, not sarcastic.)
It looks like TriBond has three pawns in five different colors.
Bam! I think this may be the perfect answer. I know I've passed up at least a dozen of these things; probably second only to TP. I'll hopefully be able to pick up sets for ~$1 or so if this is true for most/all versions of TriBond.
Posted Fri Nov 16, 2007 5:30 pm
Midvale
Utah
Seattle
Washington
I have no interest in the game (especially in light of a recent South Park episode) but I have a friend with a Wii who is delighted with my find.
Berthoud
Colorado
Thanks. This is because I suggested that new England might not be the worst game of all time, isn't it??
No.
Rather, it's because Iain strives to be the ant at the picnic. Instead of just saying "Yes," he could have actually mentioned the game he was thinking of. But lately Iain contributes nothing but snark. It's getting old, man.
Hah. I bet we might actually get along well if we ever meet then
Now *that's* a "Family" game !
Hey I'd be all for a Quixotic game! Whoever kils the most windmills by the end of the game wins
Hmm, perhaps. Most of the stores don't go below a dollar, but it does happen occasionally and might be worth it. I think only one store I frequent does, but I might be able to pick up 3 copies of a Clue over time for 50 cents each...
Lakewood
Colorado
Thanks. This is because I suggested that new England might not be the worst game of all time, isn't it??
No.
Rather, it's because Iain strives to be the ant at the picnic. Instead of just saying "Yes," he could have actually mentioned the game he was thinking of. But lately Iain contributes nothing but snark. It's getting old, man.
Hah. I bet we might actually get along well if we ever meet then
Agreed.
Berthoud
Colorado
Bam! I think this may be the perfect answer. I know I've passed up at least a dozen of these things; probably second only to TP. I'll hopefully be able to pick up sets for ~$1 or so if this is true for most/all versions of TriBond.