The 7 stages of board game addiction
- The newbie:
“Have you played this new board game hotness? It’s like monopoly but has way more strategy! It’s called ‘Catan’”
- The snob:
“Pfft, I categorically refuse to play Munchkin. Such a shallow game, I need something that lasts at least 3 hours and has 5 different types of resource.”
- The collector:
“If I don’t buy it NOW, there’s a chance it will go out of print in 2 years! Now…which of my kids shoes can I throw out to make more shelf space?”
- The strategist:
“Let’s see, James wants to play a deep game, but Jenny needs to leave by 1900. If we play two games of Flip 7 first, then we can pivot to a euro by 1930, except we had a euro last Tuesday so…”
- The excuse-maker:
“No, see honey, if we buy a 3D printer, I can MAKE inserts instead of buying them. We would SAVE money!”
- The Tinkerer:
“Well we COULD play rules as written, but my research on bgg has found a variant with 23 likes that replaces Arcs’ flawed trick taking system with a more refined Snap mechanism. What’s that? Oh no this is my first game.”
- The Enlightened One:
“But of course I’ll play Munchkin. It’s the perfect pub game, cos you can kind of just not pay attention and have some drinks and chat at the same time.”