So I’ve been building up to this (or tearing down, I guess), but here’s what a 10 game collection can end up looking like when you’ve run out of social time and closet space. With the big ol’ caveat that we’ve got a decent little shelf of family games that “don’t count”.
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My modest collection has now been packed into IKEA Drona boxes in my Kallax. Haven’t touched a lot of my games in a long time.
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What are the green hexagons?
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That’s Gravitrax, a modular marble run system (fantastic toy!).
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My “core” collection - a now smaller shame pile not shown. I still own these two 4x2 Kallax shelves.
Not shown because they are either elsewhere or inside other boxes:
- Tigris & Euphrates - c’mon, guys. I’m not selling it
- Pax Renaissance is inside the King is Dead
- blank white box is 1899: China
- MarraCash - it has an insultingly large box, yet it fits with King Chocolate box along with KC itself.
- Santiago - negotiation game that is fitted inside the Rich and the Good
- Paris Connection - inside Bridges of Shangri-La. I love Shangri-La to bits, but its box size is also infuriating.
- Strozzi is inside Gheos
- The small blue box is a Go/Weiqi set
- German Railways and Locomotive Werks are inside their fellow Winsome/Queen Games boxes - Chicago Express and Kansas Pacific
- Imperial and Imperial 2030 are inside the ridiculous Kaivai box on the side of the Kallax
- Rising Sun, Summoner Wars 2, and Napoleon’s Triumph are elsewhere.
I am considering selling more of these. I already sold Mykerinos. Age of Industry, Stella, Battle for Rokugan, Batavia, and 1856 are considered for culling. And might need one more play of Genoa and Owner’s Choice to see if these are a keeper.
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Yes yes yes. I have 3 copies of Race for the Galaxy and a copy of Jump Drive. Yes yes. Two copies of Mottainai, so I can put a compact one if there’s not enough space.
- The plastic baggie is Fealty by R. Eric Reuss.
- The wooden box is a Chess set.
- White box is Spirits of the Forest.
- The blue Carc exp box houses Carolus Magnus - yes it all fits.
- The orange Carc exp box houses Innovation
- The one sandwiched between The Crew and Quo Vadis is Modern Art (Oink edition)
- The Oinks that are facing the wrong way are Scout and Durian
Not shown in these photos here are:
- Voodoo Prince
- Stick Em
- Tindahan
- Haggis
- Maskmen
- 6Nimmt
- Push It!
- Pikoko
- Dois
- Mindbug
I will purge my small box games once I’m done with the big ones.
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Is Tak any good?
Oooh, a copy of The Estates! Jelly.
I’m also on the fence about Battle for Rokugan. I think War of Whispers is similar enough, but kinda… better?
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Because I am a fool! That’s why! I have 3 copies so I can play the 3 different expansion arcs without having to hassle myself with taking out the expansion cards and put in the new ones if I want to switch arcs. I swear, this is not a pillbox manoeuvre
In all seriousness - I probably don’t need BOTH Arc 1 and Arc 2. Arc 3 is just so different that it stands out.
Re Tak - I played with the university edition like 50+ times I think before our meta got stale. But that’s with the uni edition that only has 5x5. I decided to return to it because I want to play with this edition that has a bigger board. I even bought a 8x8 chess mat to play the 8x8. It certainly is more accessible than Chess or Go, but has enough to keep you engage, even with smaller boards. If you want more of these, the GIPF series is nice as well.
Re Rokugan - I need to put it back to rotation to decide what to do with it. I have issues with War of Whispers, but a lot of people enjoy it. Comparing it to Turncoats, Imperial, or the King is Dead, I found that it is too zero-sum for my taste that it lacks the shared incentives that I enjoy with the games I mentioned above.
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Man, I am jealous of that setup!
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The doors make for bad shelfies though.
But considering how dusty some of the boxes were… doors are really nice.
My parents had this filled with books. Most of which we donated. Since I am not sure where else we will put the books we kept I will probably have to keep some shelves for books. Also I will want my very small comics and my equally small hardcover collection here.
I think today is the day we move the last batches of games. And in 3 days we move.
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I actually managed to fit everything into the 1 wall. ( for now) some few are hidden behind doors. it was a several hours of Tetris but all my games are unpacked which is more than i can say for my workspace or my kitchen 
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Gotta do the important stuff first.
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That’s a very impressive board game cabinet!
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I have since learned that my dad designed this cabinet. He had it built of course. But he made the plans. He is quite proud of it. We are considering building another one. When we … uh have money again. There is a room right above this one that will be my office and it is connected via an open „gallery“ to the living room. One could then see both the original cabinet and the new one from the living room if we were to do that. The only problem is, the cabinet is cherry wood which is probably out of our range for a good while. (And other stuff has priority.) So at this moment my 4x4 is adorning the office wall and will probably be joined by a second one as a cheap provisorium.
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I found a “shelfie” of my 2007 collection. I am not sure what is going on here…
I think the only ones I still have are the 2 Scrabble editions (the German one is a printing from the 50s I inherited), Yinsh, Gipf and Carcassonne. Alhambra is currently on the sell pile (our friends have an everything collection if we ever really wanted to play again)
Also there is an unexpected Splotter in the picture (this one resides at my sister’s these days)
edit: Also I will try to list the games because I know some of those further down by virtue of having owned them
- Game of Thrones 1st Ed Expansion in English
- Talisman 3rd (I think?) edition bought it used on ebay for big money
- German Scrabble edition from 1954ish
- Game of Thrones 1st Ed Basegame in German
- Dungeon Twister - a 2 player game I kept winning.
- Ingenious
- Yinsh - signed
- Gipf - signed
- Ubongo
- Die Macher 2nd Edition
- Alhambra
- Munchkin
- Goa
- Scrabble English Edition
- Cannes - the lone Splotter, recommended by a friend who now prefers 18xx, trick-takers and splotters to everything else
It was then that I found out that we have quite different tastes in games most of the time. - Nicaragua (got into the worst fight ever with my partner about upshing him down the falls … everyone remembers it was legendary)
- A lone booster of Magic Cards ? Why? I wasn’t even playing at that point.
- Bohnanza
- Magnetic Chess Set
- Carcassonne Standard Edition
- Carcassonne Hunter & Gatherers
- Carcassone The Castle (?)
- Catan Cardgame
- Shangri-La
- Monopoly
- Die Unendliche Geschichte
I must have owned a few more games. This is not all of it I am reasonably sure there must have been a few more small card games. At least a copy of UNO and Verräter should be somewhere there. I also owned Fürsten von Florenz at the time.
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Old school Talisman. Respect!
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I’ve not got any from that long ago, but these are the oldest that I can find.
Oct 2014
Dec 2015 - significant growth
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I invested in two kallax units over the weekend to properly store my collection rather than the mish-mash of shelving units I had before. The top tv bench unit was perfect for the Fortune and Glory coffin box, and there’s space for a few more games if I move the cat, or more cats when I sell off a few games. The red boxes contain some print and play titles, dice sets, cardboard and plastic mini pawns and miscellaneous gaming supplies.
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I didn’t even see the cat at first, it’s so dark!
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