10 Board Games You Need To Start A Collection
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These 10 games are the perfect start a board game collection. And they will give you three games to play at every player count from 1 to 8 players.
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1️⃣ Heat: Pedal to the Metal –
2️⃣ Avalon –
3️⃣ Iberia –
4️⃣ Just One –
5️⃣ PARKS –
6️⃣ Cascadia –
7️⃣ L.L.A.M.A. –
8️⃣ Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest –
9️⃣ Carcassonne –
🔟 Sushi Go Party –
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Edited by Joaquin Reinoso
B-roll videography by Andy Cook
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You should do a list of games to play with people that can’t read english. I’m from Mexico, and my family only plays games that are in spanish or that don’t have reading at all ,since not everyone knows the english lenguage. Ticket to ride, seven wonders and carcassone are some of our favorites.
Great video and very helpful, thank you
Board games are meant to be fun and your channel brings out the fun just talking about them. Love the ads, i lol'd at the non-lol joke! Could you do a video about how you'd bring out the fun with teaching kids (to help them to deal with losses and enjoy the experience)? I know that experience is incoming for you 🙂
A very useful video, except for the likes of me with way more games than I could play in a year. I can vouch for every recommendation in this list, except for Cascadia. To me it's just another draft and play a tile game in a saturated space that has the largest decision space with the longest playtime of them all. I'd recommend Azul, one of the Ticket to Ride games or even Catan over it. Everyone I've introduced those games to has really enjoyed them.
Banger video concept!
As I'm not working, I'm playing Carcassonne with my mom nearly daily. Each game is different. I also own Sushi Go Party!
Can’t wait to try Cascadia and Libertalia 😂 they totally match my personality
I have been in the hobby for 3 years. I do heavy research to make sure when I bring a game into my collection it is likely to stay. I own 36 games currently. That, to me, is a tight collection. 5 of my games are on this list. Two of the games are on my radar to buy soon. That being said- these are creme of the crop games.
Yo this was the bleakest pitch for Heat Pedal to the Metal
Wow so helpful! Next step is to find friends!!!
please make a tutorial on that…
I'm struggling to remember what games even started my collection. I think it was:
Catan
DC Deck Building Game
Cartoon Network Deck Building Game
Exploding Kittens
Machi Koro
Smash Up
Raiders of the North Sea
Pandemic
Forbidden Island
Ticket to Ride
Several games there that if my collection were atomized and I had to start over, I'd likely not buy again, or at the very least, not the expansions.
Thanks to you I bought cascadia ❤
THE KING IS BACK HOLY SHOT MMMHHHH YUMMY YUMMY GAMES TY TY I AM ONE WITH THE BOARD YUM
Your mom is kinda cute. Is she single?
Good list!
I have some of these. Cascadia is wonderful, thinking about buying Parks. Also played a lot of Sushi Go and have Sushi Go Party unpacked. Also looking to buy the Ticket to Ride and Pandemic Legacy games
I actually love that his studio is not cluttered. Many channels that talk about board games have a wall of games behind them, which is distracting for someone who loves board games 😅 I pay attention a lot better to these videos.
Proud to say that I own more than half of the board games in this video thanks all your awesome recommendations! Thank you for all your hard work John 🫡 God bless.
As always, it's a joy to watch your videos! Keep them coming!
Absolutely fantastic picks
That seems like a great list, even tho I'm not starting a collection, I'm not a "veteran" with 100+ boardgames. From that list, I've never played Heat, Libertalia and Llama, and they seem really fun, specially Llama and Heat.
I would add as a great game that 99% of ppl have a blast and you should own: "That's not a hat". Super easy to learn and teach, it's one of those games that doesn't sound that fun but when you start playing… it's hilarious. It's guaranteed fun at parties, pub, family gathering, etc., with gamers and non-gamers; and it's just a simple deck of cards, you can carry at all times, just leave in the car or the bag, like that "Llama".
A great worker placement game for anyone starting a collection is "Everdell" (great @ solo, duo or up to 4). It holds a special place because it was what really got my wife into boardgames, it never leaves our collection and we still play it very frequently, 100% our favorite couple's game.
Just one is a game I always play at game night,love it. Cascadia is also lots of fun. I like forest shuffle too.
Hard disagree on the Carcassonne logic of losing points to your neighbor. I love sharing points with my neighbor (which happens in a tie). Having two players work on the same project (be it road, city or farm) means you double the odds and turns of getting the needed pieces. Love it when I get to cooperate with each player on a project and they don't cooperate between themselves.
Pacifists win Carcassonne
That wrong discard pile when cooling in 1:38 tho. Poor car :B
Thanks for the recommendations
Me existing: 😮💨
Me after playing Heat: 😎
Always excited to see Parks get recognition – it's a beautiful game, albeit on the lower end of complexity. But that's a plus for me, it's easy to quickly play out a game on a weekday.
I miss Ticket to Ride… May changed It for Carcassonne. For the rest, I have to agree that this is great collection to start
Great video! Avalon looks like a great time! Also Libertalia look very fun, I'll have to try that out for sure! Thank you!
Carcassonne is the first "adult" board game I bought, and I think it's still my favourite. It just doesn't get boring.
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Thanks!
Even the ad break is entertaining
I wish you could have your own TV show ❤
Another great video!
This video has heat for sure.
I just laughed out loud, acrually, due to that ad bit. 👏 Well done.
Parks sounds a lot like Tokaido. 👍
I love all four of the Sushi Go games!
Stamp Game Title Amazon
0:30 Heat: Pedal to the Metal (1-6, 10+, 60m) $ 74.49
3:24 The Resistance: Avalon (5-10, 14+, 30m) $ 23.99
7:37 Pandemic: Iberia (1-5, 8+, 45m) $ 49.99
10:18 Just One (3-7, 8+, 20m) $ 31.84
13:10 Parks (1-5, 10+, 60m) $ 47.69
15:23 Cascadia (1-4, 10+, 45m) $ 38.54
17:28 Don't L.L.A.M.A. (2-6, 8+, 20m) $ 11.28
19:21 Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest (1-6, 14+, 45m) $ 59.99
22:05 Carcassonne (2-5, 7+, 45m) $ 33.99
24:32 Sushi Go Party! (2-8, 8+, 20m) $ 21.99
10 Game Total: $ 393.79
Love that you did not reused and reused and reused old videos for this one! great work 👍
Great content as always. Funny, entertaining and informative. I specifically like that the games more at the lighter sie and not have to be the newest thing. My personal list had some matches:
Hive Pocket
Carcassonne
Ticket to ride
Azul
Pandemic
Scout
Camel Up
Just One
Hitster
Deception Murder in Hong Kong
Cuts right through the fluff. 10 no-nonsense recommendations that are an excellent starting point for any collection.
Might be cool to see a video showing recommendations on where to go next based off these 10 games.
Fantastic list Jon!
Yay!!! We are so very glad that you are back. My entire collection is thanks to you. You are so talented. I don't just watch for games recommendations, I watch for pure laughs and entertainment. You have conflicting priorities with a young family now…but please keep doing this – so very talented. Sponsorship is a given now days, you even make that funny. Your channel alone got my family onboard too…they will stop and watch you and this helps me get the games out more often. Just so happy for you and your audience right now:)
I so love his videos! Even his paid promo was fun to watch. So good! Not only favorite board game YouTuber but in my top five of all genres.🎉
Great to see you’re still going!
Man I gotta pick up Heat
You cant go wrong with any of these. Rock solid list.
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