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Games That Come in Non-Rectangular Boxes (Extremely Useful Geeklist)
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Drew Spencer
United States
Tucson
Arizona
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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
Canada
Montreal
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Stores nicely in a gun
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Graham Smallwood
United States
Santa Ana
California
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Comes in a big tube, and messes up my shelving system.
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Andrew Snyder
United States
Springfield
Pennsylvania
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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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David K.
United States
Pflugerville
Texas
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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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Kyle Woelfel
United States
Pulaski
Wisconsin
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It's not just a bag, it's a sandwich!
Or, you can get it in...
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Kyle Woelfel
United States
Pulaski
Wisconsin
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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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David Low
Australia
Canberra
ACT
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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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David Low
Australia
Canberra
ACT
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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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Jamie Beu
United States
Orlando
Florida
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Like the pieces, the box is a triangle.
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Peer Sylvester
Germany
Berlin
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Diamond-Shaped Box
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Peer Sylvester
Germany
Berlin
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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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Chris Holm
United States
Albuquerque
New Mexico
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Arrr, a treasure chest!
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Chris Holm
United States
Albuquerque
New Mexico
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Glow in the dark dice. Enough said!
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Bart Miller
United States
Sioux City
Iowa
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Pirateer is in a square-ish tube sometimes.
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Arthur
United States
California
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Circular.
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Carsten ☼ Wesel
Germany
Pinneberg-Quellental
Germany
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You can't see it in the picture, but it's a loog triangle.
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Carsten ☼ Wesel
Germany
Pinneberg-Quellental
Germany
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The box of this small game is the little bag on the left side.
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Carsten ☼ Wesel
Germany
Pinneberg-Quellental
Germany
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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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Allan Brandt
Estonia
Tallinn
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Comes in a cilinder.
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Dave Seidner
United States
Pennsylvania
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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:5.99 Overall Rank:2106]
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Dave Seidner
United States
Pennsylvania
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canvas sack
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Peter Schott
Germany
Nürnberg
Franconia
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comes in a Petri Dish 
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tom moughan
United States
Rochester
New York
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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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Dan H
United States
Portland
Oregon
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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
Shotts
Lanarkshire
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...
Johnson City
Tennessee
Warszawa
EU
I suppose you mean "non-cuboid", rather than "non-rectangular", as rectangle is 2D.
[geometry geek mode off]
:-P
Nobleton
Ontario
Nobleton
Ontario
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.