World's Worst Boardgame
| Designer(s) | Richard Hutnik |
|---|---|
| Publication date | 2011 |
| Genre(s) | Board game |
| Players | 2 |
| Random chance | Extremely High |
| Synonym(s) | W.W.B. |
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World's Worst Boardgame was a board game created in 2011 and was designed to be one of the worst board games,[1] rated a 1.4/10 on BoardGameGeek.[2] The reason behind the creation of World's Worst Boardgame was for it to be published, and for all of the money to go to charity.[3][4]
Description
World's Worst Boardgame is a mathematically long game, determined by luck.[5] Movement is always determined by dice, while the placement of spaces is determined by shuffling.[6]
The game would come with a bonus game inside called Massive Multiplayer Rock Paper Scissors.[4]
Components
World's Worst Boardgame's box came packaged with:
- 2 6-sided dice, with one side having a "5" (the rest are blank)
- 102 cards, 100 of them being labelled from 1-100, while the other 2 cards are labelled "Start" and "Finish".[2][1]
Gameplay
The objective of World's Worst Boardgame is to put your piece at the "Finish" space. When the game begins, the player assigned to go first must roll their die. If they don't land on a 5, the turn is over and the other player must roll their die. If their die lands on a "5", they get to roll again. If their second roll was not a 5, they immediately go back to the start. If their second roll was a 5, they move to the next space in numerical order. (Start would go to the "1" space, and 100 would go to the "Finish" space.) If a piece goes onto a card that has already been occupied by another player via rolling, both pieces must go back to the beginning.[6][1]
Game Setup
Before each game, shuffle up every card, including the "Start" and "Finish" cards, and put each card onto the table. Each player would then put their piece onto the "Start" card. To see who goes first, each player must roll their die. The first person to get a 5 goes first. If both players got a 5, keep rolling until only one person gets a 5.[6]
Variant Rules
In the Rules of Play, there are 3 "variant rules" that try to make the game longer. The first one, called "Longer game", asks the players to add cards 101-1000 to the game. The second variant rule, called "Match Play", says that a player can only win if they win 2 games. Each time a game is played in the Match Play variant, the cards are reshuffled. If playing with the "Use pieces that are of identical shape and color" variant, if a player moves a piece that isn't his, moves both pieces back to the start, and the game restarts.[6] The final variant rule, called "Use pieces that are of identical shape and color", says that both pieces must have the same shape and color. If a player moves a piece that isn't his, the game resets.
Reception
GotGameTesters would leave a review of the game on November 5th, 2013. Jarek, the reviewer of said game would joke about the game by saying "...I don't know, beating my head against the wall, 10 times, would be much more satisfying than having to play this game. Is that a good description?"[4]
Richard Hutnik, creator of World's Worst Boardgame, would upload a tutorial video about World's Worst Boardgame in 2014, 3 years after the creation of World's Worst Boardgame. In the description of said video, he would actively say to give the game a 1/10 on BoardGameGeek.
Several computer programs were run to figure out how long it would take to beat the game. User dragonnyxx would make a program that stopped at card 13 after only 28,794,244,157 turns.[7] Beer Money Engine made a computer program that stopped at turn 35,409,637,192,649 at only card 17 before the simulation crashed at around turn 49,000,000,000,000. An estimation that each turn would take ~5.55 seconds would mean that getting to turn 17 takes approximately 6,171,350 years, 3 months, and 21.97 days.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Game Changer Channel: Classic Games Redefined (2014-11-17). On May Your Die Always Roll 5 and winning W.W.B. Retrieved 2024-10-28 – via YouTube.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "W.W.B". BoardGameGeek. Retrieved 2024-10-27.
- ↑ GotGameTesters (2013-11-05). Comment from @richardhutnik. Retrieved 2024-10-28 – via YouTube.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 GotGameTesters (2013-11-05). WWB (World's Worst Board Game) - Got Game Testers - Episode 21. Retrieved 2024-10-28 – via YouTube.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Beer Money Engine (2024-05-15). The Math Behind... WWB, World's Worst Board Game (Special). Retrieved 2024-10-28 – via YouTube.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Corp, Tabletopia. "W.W.B". Tabletopia. Retrieved 2024-10-28.
- ↑ "Computer Simulation of W.W.B. | W.W.B". BoardGameGeek. Retrieved 2024-10-28.
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