I don’t know about you, but I have a soft spot in my heart for board games. Sure, they’ve been outmoded and outpaced by the development of games consoles, but there’s something soothing about settling down on a Sunday night with a good game of Rummikub or something else with the family.

It brings people together. In fact, I have friends who partake in board game night once or twice every month, having a good chat and being super competitive as they roll the dice.

That’s the good side of board games.

But there are a lot of sham games out there that you might think look good, but actually are dreadful. See, people like to fool consumers into buying something they won’t like: such as these five terrible excuses for board games.

15 – Love

A tennis board game sounds like a match made in heaven. A game that’s boring to watch on TV but fun to play in reality should translate into a board game. In fact, the case looks fantastic: it tells a lucid story about hustling and sports, and the attempt to make it to the top on a shoestring. But then you open the box, and it sucks. You roll dice to take a shot, and someone eventually misses. This can go on for hours.

The Backbone

This looks cool. It’s suave, sophisticated, and James Bond-esque (all three of those are quasi-journalistic terms for “holy shit there’s a naked woman on the box”). Hell, even the languages it comes in are multilingual! But then you realise that it’s not, because it’s none of those three things. It’s dull.

I’ve played games with the same principle before, but they have some sense of chase or contest. This is just colored toys moving around a boring board.

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