100 Funny Jokes About Board Gamers

This book is for the person who cites page numbers mid-game, keeps the official errata PDF saved to their phone, and once spent 45 minutes reading a rulebook aloud only to forget the one rule that decided the whole evening. It's for anyone with a Shelf of Shame groaning under unplayed games still in shrink-wrap, who has nonetheless just backed another all-in pledge that will arrive 18 months late. If they have ever dismissed a game as 'too random' because it had dice in it, or taken a perfectly lit overhead photo for Instagram before anyone was allowed to touch a meeple, they are exactly who we had in mind. Perhaps you're the partner who has watched a dining table vanish under a game with tremendous table presence, or the friend who sat silently through an entire round of Pandemic while the Alpha Gamer played your turn for you. Maybe you're the sibling who still doesn't understand why sleeving the cards took longer than playing the game. Either way, this is the perfect gift for gently mocking someone you love, without having to sit through another teach. And if you're the one logging every play on BoardGameGeek, tracking your H-index and quietly panicking about your 10x10 challenge, this book is for you too. You know you've said 'sorry, I have AP' while everyone else stared at the ceiling, and you know you've argued about euro versus Ameritrash with near-religious conviction. Go on, have a laugh at yourself. It's quicker than setting up Twilight Imperium.