Sometimes I want not to solve the ideas of some kodzima with a smart face, but just relax your head: pour tea, make food and get to laugh heartily over some particularly delusional game. And if there is always for PC and consoles Goat Simulator, I am Bread, Genital Jousting, HATOFUL BOYFREEND, Plug & Play And the like, then it is more difficult with the hunks – go figure out which box to choose. And pleasure from them can be received no less! Previously, we already made a selection of 24 cool board games, which can be figured out in one evening, but this time we decided to write about the funny and strange board games. Of course, in our list there are much fewer of them than actually. Add your options in the comments!
Ghettopoly (2003)
Ghettopoly – This "Monopoly" About African American gangsters. Instead of hotels, airports, car dealerships and stadiums, players buy illegal institutions like brothels, casinos, strip clubs and drug sales points. Traditional figures of hats, trolleys and dogs were replaced by hemp leaf, machine gun and basketball, and “bucks” are instead of dollars.
National Association of Progress Progress (NaACP) and the dark -skinned clergy of Philadelphia accused the game of racism and staged a rally near the Urban Outfitters store, where the game was sold. But the author of Ghettopoly David Chang did not want to offend anyone – he says that he only wanted to laugh at the stereotypes: “If we cannot laugh at ourselves, we will live in anger and resentment”.
In 2006, Chang paid Hasbro, which owns the rights to the original “monopoly”, 400 thousand dollars for the similarity of Ghettopoly with their product. True, by that time, David had already earned $ 8.7 million on Ghettopoly – and they continue to sell the game and still.
Big Funeral (1964)
Folk wisdom says: "Prepare the sled in the summer, and the cart in the winter". Big Funeral Not about skiing on a sleigh, but she also teaches to think about the future. In the game you need to prepare for death – and literally dig to your funeral.
Players earn money, exchanging cards and making bets: in order to die with a calm soul, you need to collect at least 50 thousand dollars. The winner receives a beautiful Genie Riches Casino coffin and a tombstone in a good area where he is taken away on a luxurious hearse. And the losers get boxes of oranges and unrealistic mounds.
Capital Punishment (1981)
IN Capital Punishment Players play the role of the judicial system: each participant has four violators of the law under control (thief, arsonist, rapist and killer) and two cunning lawyer liberal. The first should be sent to the death penalty or lifelong opinion as soon as possible; with the help of the second – to prevent the opponents from doing the same with their own prisoners. And there are two ways to win at once: you must either send all your criminals to death, or rescue strangers from prison – then the defendants who returned to the streets of the city will quickly overcome all civilians.
It turns out “you cannot be pardoned”, and even with a clear message in support of “execute”. The guardian was directly called the “propaganda of the right movement, disguised as family entertainment”.
Smokers Wild (1978)
Smokers Wild – Anti -tobacco table. She teaches not to smoke and, as the creators joke on the box, “causes players dependence and harms the health of tobacco companies”.
At the beginning of the game, the participants gain maps of professions – a tomb, doctor, tax collector, psychiatrist and other specialists – and then begin to move around the game field, throwing cubes. On the field there are cells of these professions, bonuses, and also – cigarettes and smoke. In addition, each participant has a health scale. Getting to the site with a specific specialist, the player pays money to the opponent whose hero is drawn on it, or does not pay anything if he has please his own profession. Getting into cigarettes with cigarettes, he puts cigarette cards in his hand. And in the fields of the smokehrust loses health (due to cigarette cards)-and so continues until the tobacco literally takes the hero to the grave. The goal is to resist a bad habit for yourself as long as possible, simultaneously bowing other players to it.
Remember: smoking kills!
Adulty (1969)
Unlike other games from the list, Adultry – Game only for adults. Although it will cause real interest in adolescents, and even then mainly due to erotica: the adjustry cover is that the participants will have to “have a good time with two players of the opposite sex,” and half the illustrations are naked girls.
The rules are simple: there is a game field where tasks are set – for example, to chat with a friend, to greet a new neighbor, to fix the TV and the like. But in fact, all these are just scenarios for a prelude to sex: the creators of Adultery hoped that each "round" would end precisely. Therefore, minutes are written on the tasks – they indicate how long the specific scenario should last. Players twist the top three times, receive tasks and tokens with minutes, and then perform “quests” – they are united in pairs and adultery to their joy. And what is it? The sexual revolution in 1969 was in full swing.
Blacks & Whits (1970)
Another modernized "monopoly" in the list. Blacks & Whits – “Monopoly” about racial inequality. Players are divided into black and white, and black start with ten thousand dollars, and white – at once from a million. Black can buy only certain real estate (for example, areas in the suburban zone are not available to them), but all buildings are open for the whites. And finally, black players receive ten thousand dollars for passing a circle, and white – fifty.
The game was developed by the chairman of the Department of Psychology of the University of California in Davis Robert Sommer. He wanted Blacks & Whits, the middle -class white people were able to put themselves in the place of the black and imagine how much heavier is the more difficult. But in the original version of the sommer's table, the blacks could not win in principle – and so that the game had a little greater sense, the editor of the magazine Psychology Today David Popoff partially changed the rules. Updated version of Blacks & Whits, in which the black players still had a chance to win, became a free application to the March release of Psychology Tuday in the 1970.
Don’t drop the Soap (2017)
According to the developer of the game Martin Bruna Pedersen, in Don’t drop the soap You can’t win – just lose. And yes, it is also banned for children – at least until they find out why it is so important to hold the soap in their hands firmly in the prison shower.
At the beginning of the round, participants choose a player with the most cool ass – it is he who gets an additional “soap” card that promises defeat. And all the simple mechanics partly resembles the game in the card “peak lady”: the goal of Don 'Drop the Soap is to lose all your cards as quickly as possible and – most importantly – get rid of that same “soap” if it suddenly came to you From the opponent. For this, the cards can be dropped, tossed to other players or exchange them. And he loses how easy it is to guess, the one who is the last to stay with soap in his hand.
Exploding KitTens (2015)
Exploding KitTens She was a record holder for collection on Kickstarter in January 2015: the game raised $ 8.7 million despite the fact that the developers initially asked for only 10 thousand. And if there is only a loser in Don’t drop The Soap, then in Exploding Kittens the opposite is true: only the winner is important. The game resembles a Russian roulette, but instead of a bullet there is a “explosive kitten” card – who pulled out, he lost. Other cards allow you to neutralize the cat, peep into the deck and mix it or let it go. And the purpose of the game is, of course, to substitute all rivals for explosions and hold out for yourself as long as possible.
The Crazy Cat Lady Game (2008)
Game for those who believe that there are no cats: in The Crazy Cat Lady Game They need to be assembled, rightly tearing off the mustachioed-striped from under the nose of other players, and do it as soon as possible. In a word, we have a meme about the “forty cats”, embodied in the form of a full -fledged table.
Players twist the top and move around the marked field. On some cells they find new cats, and on others (with warnings “Caution, the dog!"Or" The cat chased after a butterfly ") Lost or take pets from other players. If you please the “wild cat” on the cage, you need to take a red card and complete the task written in it: for example, transfer all your pets to an opponent or send them to a shelter. Well, of course, the one who collects as many meowing trophies as possible wins.
And what other strange tables do you know? Write in the comments!
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