Showerthought: I spent 45 minutes sorting a game box I hadn't touched in 2 years.

I dug out my old copy of Castles of Burgundy from the closet last night and found the token bag was just a mess of mixed up pieces. It took me 45 minutes to sort them all back into the proper trays by shape and color. Has anyone else spent way longer organizing a game than actually playing it?

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julia_burns923d ago

My buddy Dave once pulled out his copy of Agricola and realized someone had dumped all the resources into one big ziploc bag. He spent a whole evening separating out the grain, vegetables, wood, clay, and reed into the proper little bowls. The sad part is he never even played the game that night, he just organized it and put it back on the shelf. I asked him why he didn't just leave it in the bag and he said it gave him a weird sense of peace to have everything neat again. Have you found yourself doing the same kind of sorting therapy with any of your other games?

xena_rivera6323d ago

That "weird sense of peace" thing is real. Get some small craft bead boxes from the dollar store, they fit most bits better than the original inserts. Saves you from ever having to do that 45 minute sort again.

theas941d ago

Oh man, this is so me! Last month I found my copy of Galaxy Trucker and the little plastic ships were just scattered everywhere in the box like a tiny spaceship graveyard. I spent like two hours rebuilding all the different ship configurations from the manual, even though I knew I probably wouldn't play it for another year. There's something weirdly satisfying about fitting those little pieces back into their exact spots, like solving a tiny puzzle every time you put a lid on a box.

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