Winning Streak

Tales and Trivia of the 40 Most Popular Board Games

by John-Michael Gariepy

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Pub Date May 11 2021 | Archive Date May 14 2021

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Description

Gaming History Meets Bathroom Reader!

Did you ever wonder:

♞ What makes Clue the best movie based on a game franchise?

♝ What does the doubling cube in backgammon do?

♜ How trains are even supposed to operate in Ticket to Ride: Antarctica?

♛ How the designer of the board game Pandemic feels now that he's living through an actual global pandemic?

♚ Whatever happened to the Monopoly game show from the 90s?

Based on Ranker's poll of almost 400,000 votes, these games define us.

From multiple-award winning masterpieces of the past decade, to indestructible classics still going strong after 5,000 years of play, these are the games you must play before you die. Well, except for Sorry!.

That game is a blight upon this list and mankind as a whole. Excuse me.

What I'm trying to say is that I wrote this book about games, and I thought you might like it.

Gaming History Meets Bathroom Reader!

Did you ever wonder:

♞ What makes Clue the best movie based on a game franchise?

♝ What does the doubling cube in backgammon do?

♜ How trains are even...

Advance Praise

"Each game is given its just due with careful examinations of game play, observations, and its place in gaming lore and much more. From easy to learn and play child games to the more challenging and intense strategy games... Serious full time gamers and novices will enjoy this very personal and informative book about board games."

--Boyce McClain's Collector's Corner