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Games That Come in Non-Rectangular Boxes (Extremely Useful Geeklist)
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There are some geeklists that are just out there for entertainment or are just very creative. Then there are geeklists that are extremely useful and informative. This is one of the latter. We're talking about games that come in boxes whose corners are not exclusively 90 degree angles. Those games that create anything from a minor irk to a slight annoyance when trying to fit them into your game bag or onto your game shelf. And don't get me started on trying to gift wrap them! Holy crap is this geeklist idea useful. I can't imagine how this critical deciding feature in a board game went uncatalogued for so long. Thumbs and geek gold will surely pour forth from your eager fingers as they click the mouse button in gratitude. Item after item shall be added in an effort to make this list as complete as humanly possible. Together, WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN!
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Posted Sun Aug 10, 2008 11:59 pm
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All your base are belong to us
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Stores nicely in a gun
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Comes in a big tube, and messes up my shelving system.
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Some of the Empire Builder series came in thin plastic tubes prone to cracking. I think all of the current printings are in boxes.
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TP get's little respect around here. I like it because I like trivia in genteral.
This game comes in a pie piece shaped box to mimic the pie shape counters in the game.
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It's not just a bag, it's a sandwich!
Or, you can get it in...
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...the best kind of box -- a lunchbox!
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Board Game: Katuvu
[Average Rating:5.00 Unranked]
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Since I uploaded the image a day or two ago: a game to keep the kids amused on a car trip, comes in a box shaped like a...car.
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This Spiderman "game" (a poor use of the term...) looks like a lunchbox (there's a handle on top), but opens up on both sides to form two flat play areas plus a central vertical city block - just right for the magnetic Spidey and Doc Ock to hang off the walls/ceiling/...
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Like the pieces, the box is a triangle.
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A classical Sockagon-shape
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Now I need to scan it and post it. But, once you take the cardboard off that holds it for display, this game comes in a cloth 'guitar' case.
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Glow in the dark dice. Enough said!
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Pirateer is in a square-ish tube sometimes.
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You can't see it in the picture, but it's a loog triangle.
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The box of this small game is the little bag on the left side.
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The real packing of this game is this big bag.
The box, you'll now get with this game, is the new packing and only a few years old.
Bausack has to be in the "Sack". For sure!
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Some versions of Cosmic Wimpout come in a plastic tube. Others in a suede bag. Some do come in a standard box, too.
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Board Game: Grass
[Average Rating:5.98 Overall Rank:2074]
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comes in a Petri Dish 
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might not fit the easiest on a shelf with a bunch of rectangle boxes!
the box is a hexagon once you scrap the superficial packaging.
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Comes in a zippered banana-shaped pouch. It's so Andy Warhol.
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Posted Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:27 pm
Oh, and tin box games with rounded corners.
EDIT: Oh, and the ones I bought on eBay that were meant to have 90-degree corners, but someone went cheap on packing...
I suppose you mean "non-cuboid", rather than "non-rectangular", as rectangle is 2D.
[geometry geek mode off]
:-P
We did, at least four times before:
Well I'll be damned. Sorry.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/3461 Posted On: 2004-06-27 11:47:39
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/8113 Posted On: 2007-01-22 06:05:47
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/12987 Posted On: 2006-01-28 07:09:18
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/26453 Posted On: 2007-11-21 10:34:44
Don't be sorry, it looks like we need about one a year anyway. Although how you missed both of the lists from 2007 is anyone's guess
Besides, this makes our current job so much easier!
Instead of going to all the trouble of thinking of these entries, or searching for them, we can just go back through the previous GLs and repost the relevant entries on this one.
That way, each year's list becomes more complete and up-to-date.
'Course, those of us who created the previous lists, like myself for the '04 list (Mine's the oldest! I did it first! *pat-on-back* *pat-on-the back*) can just sneak back and add all the relevant entries from the later lists, and make our lists more complete and up-to-date!
(Not that anyone would ever let themselves be caught doing such a thing.