"What is the silliest game you ever played?" Topic

What is the silliest game you have playest? Was if fun? Was it horrible and boring? Did you play it again? Or would you?

Fury of the Norsemen – a metgaming Microgame.

Every time I played this I ended up ROFL. Literally. One game I was laughing so hard all the counters got blown off the board.

I really enjoyed playing it. I'm smiling right now just thinking about it. Best £3.00 GBP I ever spent (probably!).

JUNTA – Diplomacy done better. Lowbrow and Cutthroat.

If it has to be a sillier premise – Kung Fu 2100

Men against glasses – a sniper game we came up with in the pub. Got the girls on the next table to notice us……..not in the right way though

Bunnies and Burrows. Watership down RPG.

The Awful Green Things from Outer Space

Or

The Creature that Ate Sheboygan

Nearly 40 years ago, when my friends & I played a lot of D&D, 1 of us who took his turn as DM had the brilliant idea of having us play in his dungeon as "the Orc Clean-Up Crew". Each of us had a low level Orc warrior & a few Goblins; our job was to reset traps, corral errant beasts & capture lost adventurers. He also threatened us with encountering our own D&D Heroes who were at least 6th level. We had a blast! We never did it another time though.

Duck Duck Goose. My teacher made me

Dogsled race game,hazards included penguins,a walrus,a submarine conning tower popping up through the ice,etc..

A second vote for "Bunnies and Burrows". A very silly game. We were all field mice warriors out to stop the Goliath FOO-FOO from terrorising the garden. We failed and Lordy-Lord it was bloody. I still have night-terrors about the horror and carnage of that gruesome night. Shudders and looks pale and shaken.

Junta and Kremlin also get honourable mentions.

Cheers.
Rod Robertson.

I ran a game once with flying saucers getting involved with the Irish War of Independence.
The saucers were not prepared for Lewis guns.

I played a game at a Little Wars many years ago where there was a UFO that landed just outside Mayberry. I got to be Barney Fife with a pistol and one bullet. The aliens were coming to get Aunt Bea and her pies. We were able to save the town, but it wasn't easy. I had a lot of fun.

"Black Death"….quite a good little board game of the black plague in Europe…..you design your disease wrt virility and mortality and play against others. He/she who racks up the largest population death wins…..

Gilligan's Cthulhu Island: convention RPG game, tongue in cheek. I, a guy, played Ginger… I turned on the trademarked Ginger charm on one cultist NPC, and I thought the GM was gonna vomit! It was hilarious! Well, for me, anyway. The groans from the other players, as well as the GM, was priceless: I put my hand on my hip, and wiggled as I did my Ginger impression… They will never get rid of that image from their heads. ;-) Cheers!

PS: Also loved playing Junta (deciding when to start shooting, was quite challenging -- and fun!), and Nuclear War! Killing millions, with the ultimate goal of ending all life, except the cockroaches, on planet Earth… What could possibly go wrong?

Flames of War. Crazy man.

Monster Squash, a long time ago at the University of Akron. You get a big blob of clay, roll up a monster on a chart (one body part at a time), build it, then fight the monsters built by the other players. When your monster dies, the GM whacks it with a big wooden hammer. It was a big blob of silliness and fun.

Play Dough war or "Clay-o-rama"… Really, you use play dough to create your "fighting blob" and attack or collect other PD parts…. biggest blog wins. Event held at Strategicon conventions three times every year. A young kid "smash" hit…. but the parents are drawn like moths to dough.

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Sounds like the same game Irishserb mentions with different title.

P.S. Second vote for Junta…. bonus… play Junta in a real banana country. The locals watching. Was fun explaining the game in spanish.

Star Frontiers rpg: we were running an inter-species daycare. Preventing toddler yazirians from using baby dralasites as baskettballs, etc.

Honourable mention to Tank Girl rpg.

Plenty…
Where you politely ask your light cavalry to kill themselves on cuirassiers to do some casualties there. Works like meat, one has to make it tender…
Cavalry die in droves you know in melées, all the time.

Where fast tanks rush in front and past of slower ones to shoot them in the back. Yeah the BT5 or L6/40 best tanks in their campaigns. Sure.

Where a stand of 100 javelinmen stop a phalanx of 5000….

Where cavalry move in columns paralel to your front and deploy on your flank " because you already played your move".

And of course so many where cavalry barely moves faster than 1.5 the speed of an infantry column, in open space.

Where your guns in ww2 only range out three times the length of your ship.

One of the best: napy artillery could only shoot to front, and not if turning, and so never ever could shoot any cavalry at all. Worse than medieval bombards. The funniest part, none of the 12 players found it weird.

I've never found any war game silly, though some have been pointless.

Other games:

Monopoly. Enough said, I imagine. Why would anyone invest the time in something so boring? (thus making it very silly indeed).

Simply silliest, a no rhyme or reason game but great fun, Camels Up. Great with the kids because anyone can win, even with the sneaky tactics, and well within the realms of a 'kid's attention span'.

Worse than Diplomacy? A CLS scenario set in 1806 Italy. I commanded the Swedes. The Russian army had diarrhea. Not boring but horrible. NO, I wouldn't play it again. I didn't want to play it the first time.
Oh. Sure I'd play CLS again. But the scenario designer had a rare gift for creating unplayable games. Not rare enough, but still…

Where a stand of 100 javelinmen stop a phalanx of 5000….

Is all ground, and such, displayed on the table? Sometimes the basic math is not the deciding factor in war – chance is sometimes contrary to the expected.

Where cavalry move in columns paralel to your front and deploy on your flank " because you already played your move".

That depends on the rule set. I play a lot of Piquet rules where the unit could move four or five times without you getting to do anything in response. It is simply a matter of choice over what control and foresight should be allowed in a game. Are you the general, or are you every commander on the field? History is literally strewn with units not doing what was required at certain points in a battle.

And of course so many where cavalry barely moves faster than 1.5 the speed of an infantry column, in open space.

Agreed, cavalry is very slow in most games. It can move at 20mph – how wide is your table? In my games cavalry can move 36", or more, in a move and the enemy gets little response, then might move again (perhaps another 36") without enemy response, how do you like those onions?

Where your guns in ww2 only range out three times the length of your ship.

Now that is just silly looking – but might work as a mech.

Spaceman Spiff. Run by the guys from R. Talsorian Games at a convention.

Darkover by the people who made Cosmic Encounter (Eon Games?)

Any of the B-Movie games at RockCon/WhatKhan.

TGerritsen--Was that one like this?

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Or more like this?

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Olicana;)
Sure but mostly in ancient games it is right open, and really 10 guys coming 30m from this huge mass of angry fellows , are not going to linger about much. In a batlle not enough to have the same impact as say 2000.

I now piquet. It has a completly different approach from what you see and what happens, and it works.

My sample is just because of the activation system, with no opportunity charge/ fire etc to offset this kind of anomaly.

A destroyer division in column would be say 3000 y long, it can project its fire maybe well above 10000 around itself. In my example it ends with silly tactics where the last one cannot even shoot much in front of the first one.

There are just things that do not work nor make sense, if no space then change scales… Or do a boardgame.

I don't know what the rules were called but I was once in a Napoleonic game where an entire Bavarian light dragoon unit I had was wiped out to a man by a single volley from a battery of Russian field artillery… at long range. After that I hid my units in woods and behind buildings, not daring to appear in the open.

Another Napoleonic game I played I was told I could not enter or occupy a building, village or built up area, mostly because the rules otherwise would get too complicated. As we all know armies in the Napoleonic never used a building as a strong point!

Devil Bunny Needs a Ham. I was fairly inebriated. Stupid waste of time.

Communist Monopoly. All of us losers pooled our resources and upended the board once the last of us was ousted. Sister Sarah and Brother James, and many others. EXCELLENT fun, the only truly memorable game of Monopoly I've ever been part of.

It was a tie between Flames of War and Bolt Action.

Another vote for The Creature that Ate Sheboygan. We used to play the hell out of that when I was going to 'A' school in Great Lakes back in the 70's.

Snit Smashing. I think I still have it.

Snits Revenge. Loaned it out when I was 20. Looking for a copy again at 57.

The Brompton Banker's "Teddy Bear chariot racing" participation game at Vapnartak a couple of years ago.
Once you get 'em in a chariot, whip in hand, them teddies is some stone cold mo'fos.

For a scenario, a christmas themed warhammer game where santa claus was dropping random magical items around the battle field.
Great fun, complete chaos.

For a game designed t be silly, Hol "Human Occupied Landfill" republished by White Wolf.
Sheer insanity. We played it once, had a great time and never touched it again.

Creature that Ate Sheboygan. Rick designed a monster that moved very fast and gave off a blinding light. It ran all over town flashing but doing very little damage.The National Guards could not catch it. We nearly died laughing. But after this everyone made their monsters faster and the humans could not win again. But yeah, great silly fun from CTAS.

Junta, silly? I got a letter from a woman who obviously had not played the game asking if I would design a game about the holocaust with melting baby dolls. She thought it was serious.

Arrgh Matey pirates game from the Jackson Irregulars.

Some great examples above.

In one of our Sikh Wars games, Queen Victoria (who was there on holiday) beat down several of the hairy brutes with her brolly. Zorro and Pugsley the Cadbury Boy also made an appearance.